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Parliamentary sketch writer for Guardian. Writer of Digested Read. Contributor to GQ. Author

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@JohnJCrace
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2 years
Perhaps Durham police would also like to re investigate Dominic Cummings’s drive to Barnard Castle
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2 months
Personal News. I had a heart attack at the gym on Friday night. Been in hospital ever since. Not knowing what's wrong terrifying. Today had angiogram and dodgy artery now mended. Thank you so much to all the staff at St George's. You could not have cared more.
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3 years
Your reminder that Nigel Farage and Michael Gove were the first UK politicians to visit and laud Donald Trump
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2 years
Dominic Raab balmes the Tiverton defeat on people not voting Conservative. Where do they find such intellects?
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4 years
Boris apparently livid that the Daily Mail disclosed his Scottish holiday location. Imagine how livid he’s going to be when he discovers exam results mess, the failing track and trace system and the lack of progress on Brexit negotiations
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2 years
We have a chancellor whose wife pays £30K a year not to be British. Imagine
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4 years
Priti Patel expertly proving why the government has been so careful up till now to keep her invisible
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2 years
It’s amazing how fucked Rishi Sunak thinks the economy got in the three days he hadn’t been chancellor
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2 years
PM now calling Rwanda one of safest countries on earth. He’s now taking the piss
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4 years
Stay home. Protect the NHS. Drive 250 miles to Durham. Pretend you're at home. The new catchy government slogan
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5 years
Amazed that so many Brexiters who insisted the prorogation was nothing to do with Brexit are now adamant prorogation being declared unlawful is an attempt to stop Brexit
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2 years
New Tory MPs who say they are angry at ‘having put their integrity on the line’ for Owen Paterson seem to have missed the point. By voting with govt they have rather proved they have already parted company with their integrity
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4 years
Dominic raab busy thanking all the people Priti Patel wants to exclude from the country
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2 years
Amazing that John Terry has turned out to be exactly who everyone thought he was
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2 years
So... I applied to be accredited to Rishi launch and was told venue full. Someone who applied after me has been allowed to go. You might think that Rishi isn't keen on free speech
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2 years
The markets seem oddly reassured by polls suggesting a Tory wipeout
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2 years
Always so reassuring to discover the chancellor’s wife is an expert in tax avoidance
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2 years
This is what happens if you let Therese Coffey dole out large quantities of prescription drugs
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4 years
Just imagine if he was a serial liar, refused to disclose how many children he had and was repeatedly unfaithful
@MoS_Politics
MoS_Politics
4 years
Sir Keir's backyard riches...
Tweet media one
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2 years
Now we know why Boris Johnson and Oliver Dowden were so sure Simon Case investigation would find no evidence of wrongdoing
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2 years
Rishi Sunak has just told Treasury select committee that change in trading relationship was always going to have negative impact. Not sure that was part of the Brexit sales pitch
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1 year
So Number 10 staff destroyed Partygate evidence. Who would have guessed?
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2 years
When is Dom going to leak the season finale?
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1 year
So, if Zahawi sacked for breaking ministerial code, why not Suella Braverman?
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2 years
Rees Mogg latest excuse for Boris. The measures in place were too harsh for people to be expected to obey them. Seriously
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4 years
So Boris skipped 5 COBRA meetings, ignored scientific warnings and took time off. We have no effective government.
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2 years
That was a car crash. Almost as if Truss doesn't have a clue what she's done. Hats off to 8 radio presenters
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4 years
Michael Gove has gone awfully quiet about 'the easiest deal in human history',
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2 years
35 years off clean and sober today. Big thank you to the many people who saved my life
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4 years
Boris effectively silencing Whitty and Vallance. Unbelievable. This really is banana republic stuff. The CMO and CSO should be embarrassed
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2 years
James Cleverly is absolutely right. It's totally normal for the son of a KGB agent who has done bugger all for UK to become a peer
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2 years
Imagine if the only two people to defend you were Nadine Dorries & Jacob Rees-Mogg. The shame
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2 years
So now Liz Truss can’t be arsed to do BBC interview tomorrow. And she complains of lazy workers
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5 years
Boris Johnson is really struggling here. It’s as if his own MPs have just woken up to the fact he’s a bit shit
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4 years
Well I for one am astonished that Boris Johnson lied about not having an affair with Jennifer Arcuri
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2 years
Help us. The Tory members barely wanted Truss. Tory MPs didn’t want her. the country didn’t want her. But somehow she’s PM
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3 months
When the father of a murdered child calls on the PM to apologise, then the game is up
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2 years
Let’s get this straight. Rishi Sunak loves this country so much he’s become an American. Just like his wife who happens to be Indian. Or am I missing something?
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3 years
Gavin Williamson says he never wanted to be in this position. Nor did the rest of us want him to be in it
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2 years
All this ‘I’m sorry, I only grope people when I’m shit-faced’ isn’t quite the excuse the Tories seem to think it is
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2 years
Just 4 Tory MPs in chamber for debate on standards in public life
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2 years
What would it take for Tory party to decide it has had enough of Johnson? So far he has broken the law, cosied up to oligarchs, insulted Ukraine and EU, repeatedly lied and raised taxes. Yet still no one seems that bothered
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4 years
sending out Robert Jenrick who made an unscheduled visit to his third home in Shropshire to defend Dominic Cummings trips to Durham and Barnard Castle is a bold move
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2 years
Still not quite sure why Carrie was at the party if the guest list was just people Boris had been working with
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3 years
Boris appears to have unintentionally failed to sack Priti Patel
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4 years
Gavin Williamson writing in DT “Increasing the A Level grades will mean a whole generation could end up promoted beyond their abilities". Presumably from personal experience
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3 years
Police violence against women peacefully protesting about violence against women. WTF?
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Very impressed that Boris includes Carrie in his work meetings
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2 years
Two thoughts from the Mumsnet interview 1. Boris thinks no one had it harder during lockdown than him 2. He’s never read his kids a book
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2 years
I can see why the Tories have been keeping Michael Gove away from TV recently
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5 months
My daughter will no longer be able to come back from America and live with her US husband in the UK Thank you @RishiSunak The UK government: keeping families apart
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4 years
Apart from being a bit useless, it's not a great look for Helen Whately to do interviews when she's on the toilet
@KayBurley
Kay Burley
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Me: "You can't stick this on the scientists." Health Minister @Helen_Whately : "Well I can." The minister quickly backtracks after initially blaming scientists for mistakes made in managing #Coronavirus in care homes. MR #KayBurley
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2 years
Rishi Sunak losing £11bn of taxpayers’ money seems somewhat careless.
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3 years
'She's a brilliant home secretary,' says Matt hancock of Priti Patel, after being bullied into finding something nice to say about her
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2 years
Can’t think of anyone better to be head of NATO than someone who gets so pissed with KGB spies he can’t remember a thing
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Seems like some MPs are so dim they think the ECHR has something to do with the EU
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Lord Geidt appears worried that the Ministerial Code will become an object of ridicule. That ship has already sailed
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Boris Johnson appears to have been interviewed by Sue Gray when he was 'isolating'.
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The digested resignation speech. 'Fuck the lot of you. I'm the best you're ever going to get'
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4 years
You'd have thought that Boris might have learned by now that it's a good idea to have done some preparation before facing Keir Starmer #PMQs
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4 years
The list of new peerages is utterly shameless. The People's Government is a total joke
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3 years
Boris Johnson giving a press conference from self-isolation to mark 'Freedom Day' is the perfect shitshow
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2 years
According to Jacob Rees-Mogg, whether Boris broke the law is ‘just fluff’. Other suspects in criminal cases will be much reassured
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2 years
Incredible that Oliver Dowden has reached his shame threshold. No one knew he had one
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Kevin Foster refusing to apologise in Commons for suggesting Ukrainian refugees become fruit pickers. Not the best of looks
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1 year
Kind of Jeremy Hunt to say ‘everyone will need to make a contribution’ to fix the problem the Tories created
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4 years
So looking forward to all those cabinet ministers who excused Cummings first trip to Durham trying to explain his second one
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4 years
Given that matt hancock thinks we did right thing at right time, the rest of Eurpoe must be thrilled to have done the wrong thing at the wrong time #marr
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4 years
If Boris manages to evade doing @afneil then the BBC are going to have screwed up on impartiality
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The Nadine Dorries who is defending the 1% pay rise for nurses is the MP who bunked off parliament to earn £82K in 'I'm a Celebrity, Get me out of here'
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Priti Patel hanging out in Poland telling BBC news there are no barriers for refugees is the limit
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As of now Boris is no longer The Suspect. He is The Convict
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Ending free tests is a brilliant way of ensuring the number of people with Covid goes down
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Sunak tells Tory conference his plan is ‘to keep cutting taxes’. Someone might like to point out to him he hasn’t actually started yet
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4 months
Now that Paula Vennells has handed in her CBE, maybe it's time to move on to other discredited honours. Starting with those awarded by Boris Johnson and Liz Truss
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Rishi just boasted that the whole of Britain is a mess. And the Tories cheer wildly. Just weird. #pmqs
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Boris has said at least six times that people should move on. That will come as a huge relief to families of 60,000 who have died
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2 years
Are you honest. Prime Minister? Yes. Less than a minute in and Boris Johnson has told his first lie
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Natalie Elphicke who has twice voted against fire and rehire legislation seems bewildered by what is going on in her constituency of Dover #PMQs
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Imagine Boris’s astonishment today at finding out there were parties after all
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So now it's the French who are to blame for Brexit. Was wondering when it would get to this
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For someone who claims to be 'straight talking', Liz Truss does seem to get 'misinterpreted' on a regular basis
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Now I see it and I'm really sorry. By having a heart attack I have let my country down. More importantly, I have let Rishi Sunak down
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Matt Hancock seems unexpectedly chipper this morning on day UK achieves world beating coronavirus death rate
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Grant Shapps saying we should judge PM ‘as a whole’ isn’t really helping. He’s lied repeatedly about almost everything
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One thing we can guarantee. Whatever Boris says at PMQs, it won’t be the full truth. Neither will it be sincere
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Gavin Williamson. Now Sunak is just taking the piss
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A justice secretary unable to tell the truth is not a good look
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Imagine creating an environment that was too hostile for Theresa May
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Prince Edward is turning out to be a Royal Family success story
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It seems that Sue Gray never got round to investigating the party in Boris's flat. What a surprise!
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Truss giving a peerage to IEA boss Mark Littlewood who pioneered the art of crashing the economy We are being taken for mugs
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The letter? What letter? Oh that letter! No, I totally forgot to ask what was in it. Above my pay grade. I’m only deputy prime minister Dominic Raab this morning
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Boris knows he’s fucked without Dom so Number 10 will do everything to defend him. But it’s clear he broke the guidelines.
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Boris has just spoken to Zelenskiy again. The Sue Gray report must be worse than he thought
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Not sure Boris is quite the person to advocate personal responsibility
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Someone tell Nadine that Netflix and Amazon aren’t free to air
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Rt Hon Nadine Dorries
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Channel 4 rightly holds a cherished place in British life and I want that to remain the case. I have come to the conclusion that government ownership is holding Channel 4 back from competing against streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon. 1/3
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Moving piece in the Times about how Boris is struggling to get by on £150K. The levelling up agenda can’t come too soon
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Schrodinger's parties. Legal for some, illegal for others
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While Rishi Sunak was making his Trans joke, we should not forget that health secretary Victoria Atkins thought it hysterically funny
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