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Norfolk boy. Former cook, theology student, English teacher and international wanderer. Now Political Editor.

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David Maddox
3 years
My wonderful Mum who gave me my love for politics, nature, history, books & much more, was kind & generous to the end, sadly died this morning aged 77 after a struggle with cancer. In 2018 ago I got her on the Daily Politics to talk about a famous political event she attended.
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BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics
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“Only afterwards that the full impact really hits you” Jennifer Paddock who heard Enoch Powell deliver 1968 speech “I was very surprised when I saw the Sunday papers the next day. I really did wonder if had been at the same speech because it was extremely, well graphic” #bbcdp
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4 years
Tony Blair, the man responsible for the Iraq War, complains that the current prime minister's foreign policy is "illegal"...
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3 years
Any chance of tackling knife crime?
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Met LGBT+ Advisers
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We stand with Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic #LGBT + people & Queer People of Colour in the fight against racism. We are part of the @LGBTpoliceuk #intersectionality working group to amplify their voices within @metpoliceuk & across our communities #PrideMonth2021 #PoliceWithPride
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Wonder where the BBC should begin making savings...?
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Public have not taken Welby's intervention on the Rwanda scheme well...time for Bishops to lose their 26 seats in Parliament.
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3 years
Just remembering when the BBC was fueling the push to shut down the News of the World over phone hacking...maybe the same solution should be considered for the BBC...too big, too unaccountable, too powerful, corrupt
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3 years
Why does the BBC hold the Union Jack and Queen in such contempt? @DefundBBC
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Mark Wallace
3 years
What a bizarre thing for the BBC to sneer and snigger at. What’s wrong with ministers of the British government having the flag and the monarch on display?
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3 years
Has the BBC sacked the journalist who thought "Hitler was right" about the Jews yet? Or is it still funding antisemitism with taxpayers money?
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2 years
What I don't understand with Starmer's excuse about Saville (he wasn't the reviewing lawyer), is why as DPP he did not bother to review serious charges against a very high profile individual...wasn't that an abrogation of responsibility? Neglect of his duties?
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Huge ovation for @IvankaTrump at #CPAC2020 . She tells the audience how free enterprise has seen 73% of new jobs going to people on the fringes of the economy who did not even feature in unemployment figures. Also more women working in America now than men.
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Thinking of my friend @calvinrobinson today as he begins living out his calling to serve God with his ordination. Blessings be with you Calvin 🙏⛪
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4 years
All the contempt and disdain the left has for Britain contained in one front page.
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3 years
Conservative MPs write to BBC director general Tim Davie demanding action against BBC Breakfast presenters being "disrespectful" to the Union Jack and the Queen. Letter organised by @Bren4Bassetlaw supported by 16 colleagues
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4 years
The danger of moving from CDs to streaming services has been highlighted by Netflix, BBC, Britbox, HBO & others removing content like Little Britain, League of Gentlemen, Gone with the Wind...they're deciding what we should be ALLOWED to watch now, taking away our right to choose
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2 years
Brexit sent us a message - we really need this change, writes @KemiBadenoch
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1 year
Two adverts on the Tube this evening: Making eye contact is sexual harassment...but there's an app for it. (Picture courtesy of my observant son)
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Irony = a pensioner who tripled student fees after being elected to abolish them now accusing older voters of "shafting" young over Brexit
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4 years
At what point do heads roll at the Electoral Commission? Or the discredited organisation is replaced? Throughout this saga as well as pursuit of @darrengrimes_ there have been concerns it was biased & not relying on evidence not least because key figures were active Remainers.
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Leave.EU
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The Electoral Commission is forced to eat humble pie. Click the thumbnail to find out more 👇.
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The leader of the free world tweeting my @Daily_Express article from his hospital bed...that's definitely one for the CV
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Donald J. Trump
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A shot across the bows for the @metpoliceuk from the Home Secretary in their appalling decision to pursue at @darrengrimes_ .
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Priti Patel MP
4 years
Decisions of the police to investigate particular cases are clearly an operational matter for them which I can't comment on, but as a general principle, it's important the law protects freedom of speech.
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Just been with a group of British journalists at the Israeli embassy watching incredibly gruesome footage from the Hamas October 7 attack. There were a number of senior BBC journalists there and I wonder how in all conscience they can continue to refuse to call it terrorism.
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David Maddox
2 years
He was not wrong
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Justin Pulitzer
2 years
I know CNN & MSNBC never aired this, so I figured I would. Spot on, don't you think?
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3 years
#Marr this morning showed how the BBC ensures Sturgeon gets an easy ride...Marr said her performance to Holyrood committee was "extraordinary bravura", BBC Scotland's Sarah Smith said "she was across nearly all of the detail"...let's remember Sturgeon said "I don't know" 50 times
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4 years
Spot the difference with BBC headlines at the same time tonight: "Crowds gather for Trump rally despite virus fears" "Black Lives Matters Protests held across England" Only rightwing rallies pose a health risk, leftwing 1s have no chance of spreading coronavirus #BBCBias
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What "undermines science" is scientists with wildly exaggerated claims which turn out to be wrong and scientists who say everyone should be in lockdown and then break the rules themselves. Some might suggest scientists like that are just charlatans.
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When #Marr asked Priti Patel "will the BBC survive this [Diana interview scandal]?" she noticeably didn't say it would..."The BBC needs to reflect..." @DefundBBC
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It sounds like Boris' chief scientific and medical advisors have not only persuaded the prime minister into a gross over reaction on a new lockdown but now handed the EU an excuse to blockade food and goods coming over in revenge for Brexit. #shambles
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1 year
They could have just sacked Gary Lineker to save that money instead...
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Christopher Hope📝
1 year
😞 BBC drops Masters TV coverage to save more than £1m
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2 years
Is it distilled from the bitter tears of Remainers?
@Nigel_Farage
Nigel Farage
2 years
My brand new Farage gin is bottled by hand in Cornwall, comes in patriotic flavours and is made with local spring water. 🚨 Click here to buy:
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Strangely enough not a word about the pro-Palestinian thugs chanting antisemitic slogans, carrying racist signs, supporting terrorism, attacking a government minister, intimidating poppy sellers and generally rioting...
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Mayor of London
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Hate will never win. My statement on events in central London today:
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3 years
Why is the BBC so anti-Britain? @DefundBBC
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BBC News (UK)
3 years
Aukus: US and UK face global backlash over Australia defence deal
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David Maddox
3 years
But fraud allegations in the US are false the BBC has told us...
@fleccas
Fleccas 🇺🇸
3 years
Turns out 118 year old “William Bradley” voted via absentee ballot in Wayne County, Michigan. William Bradley died in 1984. How long has this been going on? Try it for yourself:
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4 years
Government to introduce tougher prison sentences for people who desecrate places of worship and graves...great work by @abridgen who proposed the changes to Priti Patel last week
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2 years
One key stat: Rishi Sunak interrupted Liz Truss 22 times in the first 12 minutes. #leadershipdebate
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ITV to go woke...or more woke
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Following the Rittenhouse trial has been a reminder of why we rightly have such strict rules on reporting on court proceedings in the UK, particularly of minors (he is 17). Allowing a trial to become a major political circus is bad for justice and politics.
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David Maddox
4 years
Will the authorities please stop persecuting this 27 year old man for the non-crime of not being a leftwing Remainer
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Tim Stanley
4 years
Darren Grimes is being investigated by police on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred over his controversial interview with David Starkey
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3 years
Cressida Dick allows BLM protesters to rampage through the centre of London, desecrating statues and attacking police officers who are ordered to kneel...but she then sends the heavies in to sort out women at a vigil...maybe she's not the right person for the job...
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Priti Patel MP
3 years
Some of the footage circulating online from the vigil in Clapham is upsetting. I have asked the Metropolitan Police for a full report on what happened. My thoughts remain with Sarah’s family and friends at this terrible time.
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Starmer making an impression in the red wall...
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4 years
When you think of all the MPs, broadcasters, newspapers & websites who repeated these false claims against @Arron_banks @andywigmore & @LeaveEUOfficial as fact to undermine the #brexit vote but there has been silence since they were cleared...
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2 years
If the best defenders of the BBC can do is find a piece of its licence fee propaganda from 1985 (when there were only 4 channels and no internet) then they must be running out of arguments.
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Adil Ray OBE
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What has the BBC ever done for us?
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When I was 16 the Soviet Union was collapsing and western democracy was in ascendency, 30 years later my son is 16 and western democracy is in full retreat...what went wrong? My piece for today's #sundayexpress
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Writing in today's #sundayexpress after returning from opening trade talks in India, @trussliz talks about the huge potential of the deal which will result from the talks with a country set to be the second biggest economy in the world by 2050...
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Everyone: Labour's reputation can't get any worse. Jennie Formby: Hold my beer
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It seems like people in the BBC are briefing against Robbie Gibb which means he must be doing a good job tackling their innate bias. @DefundBBC
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Influential group of Tory MPs demand National Trust gets no public funding until it apologises for insulting Churchill
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3 years
Care workers forced to have the jab or lose their jobs...now vaccine passports for the pub... Boris Johnson describes himself as a libertarian, I would hate to see what an authoritarian looks like.
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2 months
As @Nigel_Farage told me when I got the postal vote numbers out of Rochdale Borough Council on Friday...
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Howard Cox
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This stinks and needs investigation.
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3 years
@jasonmackenzie BBC are taking even the smallest stories to work up panic to justify end of lockdown. They are in the Ferguson fanatics camp.
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4 years
Well that stunt didn't last long...
@paulhutcheon
Paul Hutcheon
4 years
JUST IN: SNP Government announces end to free university tuition fees for EU students
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7 years
Both May & Corbyn exceeded expectations but May won because she was clear & honest & Corbyn's past caught up with him #BattleForNumber10
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3 years
I wonder if Remainer MPs who made similar smears about Arron Banks in the Commons under Parliamentary privilege will be taking the opportunity to correct the record...
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Carole Cadwalladr
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On 22 Oct 2020, I tweeted that Arron had been found to have broken the law. I accept he has not. I regret making this false statement, which I have deleted. I undertake not to repeat it. I apologise to Arron for the upset and distress caused
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MPs back challenge to Boris Johnson on vaccine passports signing #TogetherDeclaration with church leaders, businesses and around 110,000 members of the public #sundayexpress
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The truth about the EU...not the bastion of human rights that the remainers insisted it was...and shock horror a German and Austrian want to dispense with a humanitarian code brought in to prevent a repeat of Nazi atrocities...you literally could not make it up.
@michaelpsenger
Michael P Senger
2 years
Shortly after Austria became first country to make COVID vaccines compulsory, EU chief Ursula von Der Leyen calls for dispensing with the Nuremberg Code and making vaccination mandatory across Europe. Here’s Ursula last month with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla
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"America's back" ...turned on Afghanistan
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I see @JohnnyMercerUK is back where he belongs... minister for veteran affairs and the first one to be attending cabinet, which is quite an important move symbolically. At least @mercer_felicity will be pleased.
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It says a lot about the Church of England that it refused to ordain a devout man like @calvinrobinson as a priest but wanted someone who unrepentantly caused misery to others to be Bishop of London.
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Darren Grimes
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People power.
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The political equivalent of asking the Grim Reaper to run a care home...
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11 months
Great to see @DonaldTrump reads @ExpressUSNews after our launch this week with polling from @PatrickBashamDI and the Democracy Institute showing only he can beat Biden. More on that to come... @JasonMillerinDC
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2 years
Thornberry has just claimed Starmer will not be fined over beergate...if that is true then there are reasonable grounds to be concerned that the police are treating politicians differently depending on which party they are in.
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3 years
Fascinates me how Remainers are: 1. Fixated on the past not the future 2. Don't understand that when you remove trade barriers trade grows 3. We have a deal that keeps our trade with the EU but now we can make deals with the rest of the world. 4. EU economic growth is stagnant
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Phil Aisthorpe 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🔶 💚
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@DavidPBMaddox @trussliz Trade with the EU last year: £294billion. Trade potential with India: £23billion.
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7 years
Great slap down to #Remoaners by Jeremy Hunt: "I was a Remainer until June 23 and after that I became a democrat."
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2 years
@Kinsellas @Jacob_Rees_Mogg Actually I think it is good to see a politician celebrate his Christian faith publicly instead of be embarrassed about it. For us Christians Easter Sunday is the greatest day of joy and salvation for the world not one for miserly political point scoring.
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At @thereclaimparty presser with @LozzaFox introducing @ABridgen as his party's new MP... says Bridgen was "cruelly cancelled" by the Conservatives.
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4 years
From Romford to Morley Brexit Britain partying on Friday as we leave the EU...also George Michael's former saxophonist @Edthejazzman will lead rendition of God Save the Queen at the @LeaveMnsLeave party in Parliament Square
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4 months
Another warning from Margaret Thatcher which came true.
@alvinfoo
Alvin Foo
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Margaret Thatcher certainly had a much better understanding of illegal immigration than current politicians.
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David Maddox
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In the middle of a cost of living crisis @SadiqKhan is forcing people in the poorest boroughs of London to sell their cars or be whacked with a massive tax of £4,562.50 a year.
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City A.M.
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BREAKING: @SadiqKhan has pressed ahead with his decision to expand the ultra-low emission zone ( #ULEZ ) London-wide from next August.
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For those angered by the revelations in the Telegraph today re the Tory candidate's office, I refer you to my article in 2022...this scandal has been long in the making and consistently involves one man...
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3 years
Twitter going after Trump supporters? Andy Wigmore's @andywigmore account suspended on pretext that he was making"violent threats" when in fact he was criticising violent threats by Democrats...
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2 years
If he felt strongly enough about it, Hamilton would boycott the Saudi Grand Prix.
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Sky News
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Lewis Hamilton has said he does not feel comfortable about racing in Saudi Arabia's grand prix this weekend, as he expressed concern about human rights in the kingdom
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There's another way to think of the minutes silence @LozzaFox @JuliaHB1 @calvinrobinson
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When I join pause for a minute's silence at midday, I'll be thinking about my mum & the thousands of cancer patients who died or will die unnecessarily because of lockdown. Thanks to @EstherMcVey1 @VarietyGB @mariecurieuk @Daily_Express for pushing #nationaldayofreflection
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Donald Trump made it clear to me that Prince Harry won't be getting any more protection in the US, legal or otherwise when he becomes President...'he'll be on his own' for the way he betrayed the Queen. @ExpressUSNews @Daily_Express
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BORIS JOHNSON is to be given his marching orders tonight by "the men in grey suits" led by 1922 Committee chairman Sir Graham Brady or risk being forced out of office in ignominy, sources have claimed.
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David Maddox
4 years
Given that the head of Channel 4 called Boris a "known liar", it was not unreasonable for the Conservatives to expect it would not be conducted in a fair and balanced way.
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Louisa Compton
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Gutted we’ve had to cancel a planned Leaders debate on @Channel4 for this Sunday. @jeremycorbyn had agreed to take part but, after many weeks of intense discussion, we were unable to secure agreement from @BorisJohnson team. @krishgm wld have presented 1/2
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This is ridiculous...Swing Low is a negro spiritual written by a freedman Wallis Willis based on the story of the prophet Elijah going to Heaven with references to the underground railway to freedom...it was not written by or for slave owners...
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Metro
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The Rugby Football Union has confirmed that it is reviewing the ‘historical context’ of the song because of its ties with slavery.
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Scotland under Sturgeon and the SNP is rapidly becoming the most authoritarian state in Europe. Only staying in the UK is protecting individual liberty.
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James McEnaney
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New and exclusive for @FerretScot SNP health minister wanted to stop freedom of information during Covid-19
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