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Chief Political Correspondent for @TheSun in Westminster

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Jack Elsom
3 months
EXCL: Sir Keir Starmer is ditching his flagship pledge to spend £28billion a year on green projects, The Sun can reveal. The mission will stay - but insiders say the massive figure has become "an albatross around our neck" and is being dropped.
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Sobering moment on @LBC as a single mum calls into Rishi Sunak to tell him rising prices means her boiler is currently off, the lights are always off, and it's sometimes so cold that she can see her own breath
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If the price of beer had risen at the same rate as gas, a pint would now be £25… sobering stat from Octopus CEO Greg Jackson on Today
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It's kicking off in Tory WhatsApp groups... Several MPs are fuming after CCHQ bungled their campaign literature - even getting their constituencies wrong! Wrexham's Sarah Atherton says she's a "laughing stock" after all of her content focused on Gloucester...
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🚨EXCL: Mega row in the ERG Tory WhatsApp as Mark Francois tells MPs to support Liz Truss - but others would rather back Kemi Badenoch
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Ouch... source on Truss campaign: "I sincerely hope no young women hoping to go into politics are watching this tonight - the only message Rishi is delivering is that he thinks shouting down and patronising women is acceptable"
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Kemi Badenoch interview with the Sunday Tel is absolutely bursting with red meat - Obviously cut taxes - Whitehall far too woke - Keep a closer eye on Bank of England - Online Harms Bill = "legislating for hurt feelings" - Blasts 2050 Net Zero target
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BREAKING: Keir Starmer has just been bundled into a police car outside Parliament after a mob of protesters swarmed him.
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All giggles on the Labour frontbench over cops breaking up the National Conservatism conference
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1 year
Peak south west London: a chap hangs his Hackett suits on the District Line handholds
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2 years
🚨New three-word slogan klaxon Boris Johnson told Cabinet: "Crime crime crime is what we want to focus on."
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2 years
Labour spokesman confirms Nadia Whittome was told to delete this tweet, and is currently in talks with the party Chief Whip about what happens next. Spox didn't deny possibility of the whip being suspended.
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Now deleted.
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7 months
Angela Rayner leads Labour conference in a moment’s silence for Israel. You could hear a pin drop in the hall.
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7 months
Amazing from Angela Rayner talking about the protester on LBC: "I thought I was going to do a full John Prescott at one point. Although Rachel was nearly beating me to it. She's Leeds - I've never seen her be so angry."
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Jack Elsom
2 years
If you thought Partygate and Beergate was mad - check out the "Nokiagate" saga unfolding in the Netherlands. For years Dutch PM Mark Rutte has been using a Nokia brick which only has room for 20 texts at a time, sparking a row about him deleting old messages
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2 years
All very nasty - heard some of the protesters shouting about Jimmy Savile. Scuffles with police followed after Starmer was rushed away.
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Jack Elsom
2 years
BREAKING: Keir Starmer has just been bundled into a police car outside Parliament after a mob of protesters swarmed him.
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2 years
Happier times
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Rt Hon Nadine Dorries
12 years
A great performance by Jeremy Hunt on Marr. Strong candidate as future leader, decent, principled, intelligent, compassionate, real.
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2 years
The Green Party is focused on the big, existential issues
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Jack Elsom
1 year
Ex Tory Chair @nadhimzahawi tells the #BritishKebabAwards : “Four weeks ago I was dealing with the donors. Now I’m dealing with the doners.”
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Jack Elsom
9 months
The cock-up is even more of a headache as these are the party's "80/20" seats - i.e target constituencies they want to defend at the next election. CCHQ is paying to have tens of thousands of leaflets distributed in these marginals.
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Jack Elsom
9 months
Virginia Crosbie - the MP for Ynys Mon - has neighbouring Aberconwy on her literature. Jane Stevenson doesn't have her freepost address on hers... MPs saying they asked to see drafts but didn't. Deputy Chair Matt Vickers trying to calm people...
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Jack Elsom
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This is nice - Rachel Reeves has just donated to Jeremy Hunt's marathon run.
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2 months
BREAKING: Clerk of the House is OPPOSED to the Speaker’s decision to allow a vote on the Labour amendment
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3 months
Not quite the scandal the Lib Dems seem to be looking for...
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EXCL: Prices for resale concert tickets will be capped under Labour to stop greedy touts ripping off fans. Keir Starmer will announce the policy package tomorrow. Details still being fleshed, but assumption is a cap of just 10% above the original price.
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Jack Elsom
1 year
"As I was saying before I was interrupted...", says Michael Gove as he addresses DLUHC staff for the first time since returning.
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2 years
NHS spends £40m a year on diversity staff
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Tim Loughton asks Suella Braverman, hypothetically what would happen if he established a group called "Just Stop Just Stop Oil" and glued himself outside the homes of eco zealots.
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Jack Elsom
2 years
Blimey Ed Davey's had his coffee this morning: “The Prime Minister famously said he was going to “f” business - the least he could do is to deliver a decent f-ing speech.”
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Jack Elsom
10 months
Sky News reporting that Keir Starmer "got a bigger applause" from NHS staff than Rishi Sunak when he walked into Westminster Abbey...
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Jack Elsom
1 year
Gray's appointment looks in serious doubt, as set out by Jeremy Quinn: "The rules state that approval must be obtained prior to a job offer being announced. The Cabinet Office has not as yet been informed that the relevant notification to Acoba has been made."
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Jack Elsom
7 months
Buses minister Richard Holden is responding to the HS2 UQ instead of rail minister Huw Merriman. Some might say a rail replacement bus service...
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Jack Elsom
2 years
On blanket mandatory vaccination, Sajid Javid says he'll "never support them in this country"
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2 years
Christian Wakeford MP defects to Labour with a stinging letter to Boris Johnson heaping praise on Keir Starmer
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2 years
🚨🚨🚨Neither Wendy Morton nor Craig Whittaker are resigning. Steve Baker tells me he has seen the deputy chief whip tonight, who reassured him neither are quitting tonight.
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Jack Elsom
5 months
Under the new binding treaty, the UK will also take some of Rwanda's refugees.
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Jack Elsom
4 months
NEW: Spotlight on Starmer re Post Office. In the Commons, Justice Minister Mike Freer confirms the CPS can take over a private prosecution, and "may end or discontinue a prosecution if it does not believe it should brought in the first place."
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7 months
HS2 might NOT run to central London after it was revealed Rishi Sunak’s conference pledge relies on unconfirmed private sector cash. Just yesterday the PM promised that the line would run from Birmingham to a new station at Euston.
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@JackElsom
Jack Elsom
6 months
Beyond chuffed to be @TheSun 's new Chief Political Correspondent! Looking forward to getting stuck into the role with our superb team. 🗞️
@MrHarryCole
Harry Cole
6 months
📣🗞️ Congratulations to @JackElsom who is @TheSun ’s new Chief Political Correspondent Delighted @martinabettt will be coming over to our Lobby team shortly — joining @hoffman_noa in stepping up as our new Political Correspondents. Busy day for it! 👑
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Jack Elsom
1 year
Didn’t see that on the side of a bus 😳
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1 year
Here is the Home Affairs cttee praise for Sir Keir Starmer he raised at PMQs. Govt response “noted” the committee’s remarks.
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How many Tories does it take to fix a pothole? This whopper still hasn't been fixed a fortnight after it was pointed out by the PM! Then/Now
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Jack Elsom
3 years
Dehenna Davison MP trolls Dominic Cummings with a Barnard Castle eye-test on the wall as she speaks in the Commons this morning... 👀
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Jack Elsom
2 years
Exclusive: Not the best optics for Boris Johnson, who we reveal hosted a champagne bash for donors at Claridge’s on Thursday night - hours before families were clobbered with a cost of living bomb
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Speaker Hoyle caught on mic: "What a day"
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EXCL: Ninja swords would be banned under Labour as part of dangerous knife crackdown Starmer: “I, like Sun readers, am horrified by how easy it is to get hold of a weapon that can end lives.”
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Jack Elsom
1 year
More people now blame Mick Lynch's RMT than ministers or Network Rail for the train strikes, according to @YouGov
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Jack Elsom
3 years
Delighted to share that in a few months I’ll be starting a new job as political reporter at The Sun. The last two years at MailOnline have been an absolute blast, but I can’t wait to get stuck in at Westminster!
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10 months
Starmer says scrapping two-child benefit cap is NOT Labour policy. Came after his shadow work and pensions secretary Jon Ashworth called it “heinous” and suggested Labour would scrap it.
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2 years
The best intro I never had. This was cruelly subbed out of today’s paper.
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9 months
🚨EXCLUSIVE SCOOP 🚨 Understand the Lib Dems are set to demand Parliament be recalled to legislate for pubs to be opened early for the World Cup final. Recess is saved.
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Jack Elsom
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Just three weeks left of recess and @LibDemPress are yet to demand Parliament is recalled. Tick tock...
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🚨Stephen Flynn has said the SNP will vote for the Labour motion Live on @SkyNews
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💥Rwanda debate💥 Suella Braverman hits out at "foreign courts". Stella Creasy intervenes, asking "what does she think NATO is?" Braverman hits back: "NATO is not a court... I'm slightly embarrassed I have to make that clear to the hon. lady. That's elementary politics."
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1 year
Jeremy Hunt is crowdsourcing policy ideas for the Budget. Yes and ho!
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2 years
EXCL Nadhim Zahawi blasted Whitehall cautiousness for blocking attempts to boost Britain's energy supply. On a call with Tory MPs earlier he tore into civil service machine for "trying to shackle" long-term projects.
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One Tory MP texts: “It’s brought shame to the position of Speaker, and it’s hard to see how any other party than Labour can retain confidence with him in the Chair.” 😬😬😬
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Jack Elsom
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Labour's Jim McMahon overheard saying: "We've been made to look like twats"
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So in an excellent piece of Commons chicanery by the Government, they just forced Labour to abstain on their own opposition day debate, essentially preventing Labour MPs from backing a motion calling for reduced sewage discharges
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2 years
Conor Burns on his infamous "ambushed by a cake" defence: "It's not often you get to write a line in your own obituary live on national television"
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Jack Elsom
2 years
Could have set my watch to this
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The New York Times
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In Opinion "We should not romanticize her era," writes Maya Jasanoff, a professor of history at Harvard, in a guest essay. "The queen helped obscure a bloody history of decolonization whose proportions and legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged."
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A £9 Greek Salad in the Qatar World Cup fan zone Cracking story by @MartinLipton
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Understand Durham Police won't be making any Beergate updates today. Keir Starmer and Angela are Rayner expected to learn of their fate first week of July.
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Churchillian President Zelenskyy in an historic address to MPs: "We will not give up, and we will not lose. We will fight to the end. On the sea, in the air. We will fight for our land whatever the cost. We will fight in the forests, in the fields, on the shores, in the streets."
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Eyebrows raised at SpAd school tonight when Dan Rosenfield told aides: "So the big story of the week has been crime week."
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Yvette Cooper's team confirm Labour would scrap the Rwanda plan if elected
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Shehab Khan ITV
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Labour Shadow Home Sec refuses to tell me if Labour would scrap the government's Rwanda deportation scheme:
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Labour’s new shadow culture, media and *sports* secretary reveals she’s never been to a football or a rugby match in her life…
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Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge
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🎵Mozart or Miley?🏉Football or rugby? Shadow culture secretary @ThangamMP answers @SophyRidgeSky 's quick fire questions, choosing the Barbie film instead of Oppenheimer. #PoliticsHub 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Jack Elsom
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Not that it matters now, but 1922 secretary Bob Blackman confirms to me that Boris Johnson DID have the required proposer, seconder and 100 supporters to stand.
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Harry Cole
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Nigel Adams: Bob Blackman MP, Joint Secretary of the 1922 Committee…has independently verified the nomination paperwork and confirmed to me that Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP was above the threshold required to stand for the Conservative Party leadership in this leadership election.”
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If anyone can sort out the mess, it's this man. Sheridan Westlake - "super Spad" - enters No10.
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Breaking: Govt smoking review recommends increasing the smoking age by one year every year - until nobody can buy fags
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Former de facto deputy PM Damian Green says many of his Tory colleagues would regard Emily Maitlis as "an active Labour agent" within the BBC during her time
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Tory MP Bernard Jenkin - of Liaison and Privileges Committee fame - is being investigated by Parliament's Standards Commissioner. Follows questions over a birthday bash held in the Commons for his wife during lockdown...
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Labour not happy with the PM flying to Lancashire this morning… Spox: “Jetting around the country on taxpayers money like an A-list celeb rather than catching a train like the rest of us is simply absurd.”
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Self-styled "coke addict" Rishi Sunak arrives in Northern Ireland with his rider
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Penny Mordaunt says the govt is pulling its amendment and will play no part in tonight's votes. She says the Speaker has "regrettably" been dragged into Labour's internal political row on Israel-Gaza. The Labour benches look incensed at this suggestion.
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2 years
"I'm this fucking close Emmanuel"
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An ally of Liz Truss tells the Times she holds “half a hope” she can lead the Tories in opposition 🤯
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Blackpool South byelection writ being moved tomorrow ahead of recess. Means it can be held on the same day as the local elections on May 2.
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Maths lessons with Boris Johnson via @Telegraph
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And the first “PM connect” is underway
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🤢Some parts of Parliament are infested with dangerous bacteria Some rooms have been shut after "low levels of legionella bacteria" were identified as part of water safety checks
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2 years
"There he is, there's the Chancellor! Not a happy face..." Peerless @SamCoatesSky just now
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3 years
Photo op for the man the Tories call Captain Hindsight 😬
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BREAK: A British security guard at our embassy in Berlin has been charged with nine offences under the Official Secrets Act relating to the collection and communication of information useful to the Russian state
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Nadine Dorries says Putin is now in a "social and sporting Siberia of his own making" after reading out a (frankly staggering) list of events/firms/bodies that have frozen out Russia
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Boris Johnson: "It is surreal to discover the (Privileges) Committee proposes to rely on evidence culled and orchestrated by Sue Gray, who has just been appointed Chief of Staff to the Leader of the Labour Party."
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BREAK: Rishi Sunak paid half a million in tax last year. Tax returns show the PM paid £508,308 in the year 2022/23
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2 years
Speaker grants a UQ to Angela Rayner... To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if he will make a statement on the mechanisms for upholding standards in public life.
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2 years
All new public buildings must have both male and female toilets - rather than just gender neutral toilets - the Housing Dept has announced.
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2 years
@tomhfh Think we can probably lose the last one…
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1 year
£1.49 a pint in central London! Shame it’s Dry Jan.
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Starmer's full quote to @TheSun was: "We are going to put up taxes, we've already said that, in relation to the VAT on private schools, the non-dom tax status, some of the loopholes that we've identified... we do not want to see increase on tax for working people."
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Conservatives
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Conservatives: Cutting taxes. Labour:
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Labour activists calling for Keir Starmer to campaign to abolish the monarchy within hours of the Queen's funeral...
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