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Matt Chorley

@MattChorley

7 days

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Matt Chorley

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7 years

Bring your child to work day

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The wine on the wall. The vomit. The fight. The early morning exits. All good colour from Sue Gray. But the most damning parts of the report is that they knew that what they were doing was wrong. Dodging cameras, leaving by back doors, changing invites. THEY KNEW

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Did Neil Parish watch the full tractor porn film or just look at the trailer?

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BREAKING: Thousands of angry fans gather outside the Line of Duty stadium

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Every time I hear a Tory MP complain about £5 million or £50 million being spent on asylum seekers I remember that they spent £120 million on the Festival of Brexit which included putting an old empty oil rig on display in Weston-super-Mare

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3 years

BREAKING: David Cameron is lobbying the government demanding that Aston Ham be included in the Super League

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6 years

THIS. IS. NOT. NORMAL

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The price of a pint of beer in Wetherspoon pubs is being slashed by an average of 20p with the company accidentally giving an example of how prices can be reduced while still in the EU customs union.

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The price of a pint of beer in Wetherspoon pubs is being slashed by an average of 20p with the company citing it as an example of how leaving the EU customs union can reduce prices.

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Matt Chorley

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2 years

Excellent mouthing of “bollocks” on Question Time

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Matt Chorley

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7 years

Sadiq Khan has "more important things to do" than respond to Trump's tweets, says an aide

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2 years

The thing I don't understand is (you'd like to think) the country is run by the brightest and best. What absolute moron sends an email to 100 people inviting them to a lockdown breaking piss-up? And how have ALL of those 100 people kept quiet about it since?

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I have been no cheerleader for Keir Starmer's oratory, but that was a quietly damning, eviscerating attack on Boris Johnson, as prime minister and a person. There are *loads* of Tory MPs who will quietly agree, even if they lack the courage to say so publicly

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4 years

Hang on, this means Meghan can play Meghan in The Crown, doesn’t it?

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1 year

Typical

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It would be a fitting end to the pandemic if the entire government was brought down by a Zoom quiz

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3 years

I didn’t think it was possible to love Elton John more than I already did

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A senior Tory gets in touch: “That performance was so wooden. Getting rid of her wouldn’t be regicide, it would be deforestation.”

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4 years

This might be the most powerful ad ever

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2 years

Anyone else planning to get absolutely suitcased this weekend?

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Boris Johnson: “If people are leaving, I think it is right to thank them.” Not in person in a pandemic on the piss, it wasn’t. Millions of people didn’t do this. We had leaving dos on Zoom.

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Nadine Dorries is repeatedly shouting “you’re boring” at Keir Starmer

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💥LABOUR LEAD BIGGEST EVER RECORDED BY YOUGOV. EVER. 17 points, highest since 2001.

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That’s page three of the Mail On Sunday sorted

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💥 What a story from @patrick_kidd

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5 years

“Remember when people said... that wind turbines would not pull the skin off a rice pudding” Which people might that be Mr Johnson?

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5 years

I can’t seem to find the second page of Raab’s letter where he sets out, based on his experience in four months of negotiations, what deal he would have got that would have been better

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Remember when David Cameron said he bought a pasty from a shop and it turned out the shop had shut down ages before and we thought “ooh the big liar”?

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PJ: “My eyes!” Duncan: “He cannae see Geoff!” Geoff: “Let’s get him to drive to Barnard Castle so we can be sure.”

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5 years

Eric Pickles going absolutely wild for Liz Truss’s speech

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1 year

Genuine question: what would happen if every player in all the teams just wore the armband? Fifa isn't going to collapse the entire tournament, is it?

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I mean, it’s not great if inflation is outpolling the prime minister

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Tory MP texts: "It's happening. We are in the end game."

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5 years

Dare I contradict a top colleague: being slightly more fun while not answering a question would be fine on Have I Got News For You. Instead this drivel is diverting attention and airtime from the fact Johnson has no better plan or answers than May

Paul Brand

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Whatever you think of Boris Johnson, his press conferences are 100 times more engaging than Theresa May's. He might not always fully answer the question, but he does at least engage with it.

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5 years

Come on then Johnson tell us what you would do you cowardy custard.

Boris Johnson

@BorisJohnson

9 years

Come on then Miliband tell us what you would cut you cowardy custard. #leadersdebate

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4 years

No sand paper. The toilet roll shortage has taken a dark turn

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Absolutely brilliant ending to the BBC Six O'clock News tonight #ChocksAway

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Magnificent @GabbyLogan : “Think it’s all over? It’s only just begun.” No you’ve got something in your eye

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5 years

MAY RESIGNS

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@FinancialTimes

5 years

Just in: Patisserie Valerie CEO Paul May has resigned. The café chain is currently the subject of a rescue deal, after it was rocked by revelations of material accounting irregularities in October

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3 years

I just don’t know what Boris Johnson has got against the standards commissioner who found he broke the rules by having no idea who was paying for his £15,000 holiday to Mustique

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Matt Chorley

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3 years

They are

Nigel Farage

@Nigel_Farage

3 years

25 years ago they all laughed at me. Well, they’re not laughing now.

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4 years

"I'm not an expert on international PPE procurement," says Chris Whitty. Unlike everyone on Twitter

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Matt Chorley

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4 years

It's just a bit of a surprise to see anyone sacked for anything tbh. Strangely retro

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Matt Chorley

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2 years

On the night a Tory MP comes out as trans, Boris Johnson starts his speech with a joke: “Good evening ladies and gentleman, or as Keir Starmer would put it, people who are assigned female or male at birth.”

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💥 Tory MP Scott Benton offered to table questions, leak a confidential policy document and lobby ministers on behalf of gambling investors who proposed paying him thousands. Incredible undercover reporting by @billykenber for @thetimes

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Matt Chorley

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4 years

I’m not Jewish. I wouldn’t pretend to understand the Jewish faith. But if you want to tell me the Chief Rabbi doesn’t know what he is talking about, is taking things out of context or part of a Tory Blairite conspiracy you can f*** right off. This is shameful...

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EXCLUSIVE: Here is Rabbi Mirvis’s unprecedented intervention in the election campaign

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💥 Conservative minister: “The incompetence is another level. Is this a deliberate destruction of the Tory Party? People only vote for us because they think we don’t care, but are competent. Lose the competence and we’re fucked. We’ve lost the competence. And we are fucked.”

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2 years

I’m no economist, but won’t cutting stamp duty just fuel demand for homes while doing nothing to increase the supply of housing stock, driving up prices?

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BREAKING: New No10 team revealed Director of communications: Carrie Head of policy: Dilyn the dog Polester: Jennifer Arcuri Chief of staff: Peppa Pig

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Matt Chorley

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4 years

Chris Whitty warning that Tier 3 might not be enough. Leading to... Tier Four Fears

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2 years

“He was ambushed with a cake”

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Matt Chorley

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2 years

If you’re confused about the Brexit protocol chat, here is 8 seconds which makes clear whose fault it is

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5 years

He will be unveiled as a Lib Dem MP in the morning

Ben Riley-Smith

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5 years

BREAK: Beto O’Rourke has dropped out of 2020 Democrat race. Widely tipped at turn of the year after soaring into spotlight in 2018. Has been lingering in single digits for months now in national polls.

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4 years

No Netflix series has a twist this good

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4 years

good morning

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Matt Chorley

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1 year

We live in the fifth richest country in the world and we can’t even buy fucking eggs Me for @thetimes

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Matt Chorley

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2 years

It sounds pompous, but it’s the total disrespect for the office. You are working in Downing St ffs. For the actual prime minister. Get dressed properly and do some bloody work. Instead it’s all skinny jeans and trainers and shitposting and vanity photographers and piss-up.

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Matt Chorley

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If you believe Boris Johnson will win a 140-seat majority against Jeremy Corbyn, I've got a leather-bound collection of Theresa May's 2017 polling leads you might like to buy.

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3 years

“And that’s where I put the camera”

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4 years

PM makes clear that Cummings isn’t going anywhere. Which makes a nice change.

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2 years

I'm going to stick my neck out here and say no normal person will have any idea what "anti-growth coalition" means

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4 years

Bad news for S Club 7

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Matt Chorley

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2 years

Sue Gray right now

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Matt Chorley

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4 years

McDonnell won't be able to nationalise Virgin Media. He will never be able to get through to the right person.

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4 years

John McDonnell suggests Labour could nationalise Virgin, Sky, TalkTalk ‘We will come to an agreement ‘If necessary they can come within the ambit of British broadband itself’

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Boris Johnson's motorcade going the wrong way down a one-way street. He's not big on the laws, is he?

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7 years

Parliamentary rules mean I can't post a photo of Labour backbenches. But it's basically this: 😬😶😐😱😬😶😶☹️😣😠😳😵😕😣😡😱😱😓😬🤔🤕😒😒😞😟😖😖🙁😠😠😯😵😵😳😮😧😱😨😬 #PMQs

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Matt Chorley

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4 years

Voters don’t mind strong government. Voters don’t mind government u-turns. Voters often don’t even mind if governments do things they don’t like. But they do mind if the government starts to look incompetent. And appearing to be completely bloody useless is difficult to shake off

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BREAKING: I’m hearing that it is possible that the number of no-confidence letters has breached 54 or will do imminently or soon or at some point but worth remembering that it might not and only Graham Brady and my imagination really knows. STAND BY

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Matt Chorley

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2 years

I’m no expert but on the day of double-digit inflation the likes of which a generation have never seen, is it wise that your priority seems to be calling workers lazy and suggesting they put licence plates on bicycles?

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Matt Chorley

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4 years

Corbyn bows out as Labour leader with a five-point plan. Which includes two point fours. And two Prime Ministers in the address. It's that attention to detail that we'll miss

Jeremy Corbyn

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I've written to the Prime Minister with a plan for immediate action to improve the safety of our NHS and care workers - with full PPE and testing, for the protection of themselves and the public.

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Matt Chorley

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4 months

Obsessed with the weeping XL Bully graphics circulating in dog groups in response to the law change

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Matt Chorley

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5 years

Tells you something that Johnson and Hunt both got closer to calling Corbyn antisemitic than calling Trump racist

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Matt Chorley

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2 years

It may be apocryphal but it is a story worth telling anyway. A young journo has turned up at the Telegraph to do a shift to find half of the staff in tears because the Royal Yacht didn’t win Strictly. It might not be true but it certainly is believable.

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Matt Chorley

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4 years

To be clear: you can now go to the park to meet a parent but that parent must be Dominic Raab

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Matt Chorley

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2 years

OK this is completely potty from the Mail. The "anti-Boris obsession" is brought to you by those well-known Remainers David Davis, Andrew Bridgen, Andrea Leadsom, Anne Marie Morris, John Baron, Alicia Kearns, William Wragg and um... Steve Baker

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Matt Chorley

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5 years

Boris Johnson was five when Ken Clarke first became an MP. This is like me kicking Zippy off of Rainbow

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Matt Chorley

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5 years

“There will be trouble.” Jesus Christ. Is this where we’re at now? Paid Boris cheerleaders threatening journalists who ask questions he doesn’t like?

Allison Pearson

@AllisonPearson

5 years

@bbclaurak The “jeers” at Boris’s launch were for Sky News’s Beth Rigby and her editorialising question. Much like yours, shamefully biased. If @BBCNews continues to distort and withhold information from viewers there will be trouble.

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Matt Chorley

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5 years

THE. PEOPLE. DID. NOT. VOTE. TO. LEAVE. ON. MARCH. 29.

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Matt Chorley

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3 years

Full time food lobbyist Owen Paterson says he will no longer do his MP work on the side

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5 years

Is there a more annoying word in the English language than "webinar"?

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Inside CCHQ when the exit poll was announced

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Matt Chorley

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Nick Robinson: "Thank you for that party political broadcast..." Sajid Javid: "You may mock it." Robinson: "Well I will mock it." @BBCr4today

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Matt Chorley

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7 years

If he carries on like this, Sadiq Khan's popularity will soar to the point he becomes prime minister

Donald J. Trump

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Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who had to think fast on his "no reason to be alarmed" statement. MSM is working hard to sell it!

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Matt Chorley

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2 years

I see we’re at the “well you can’t expect the government to help Ukrainians unless you’re willing to let one sleep in your kids’ beds” stage

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Matt Chorley

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8 months

Wow. The Tory parliamentary researcher arrested on suspicion of spying for China is Chris Cash, the director the China Research Group co-founded by the security minister, Tom Tugendhat. Full Times scoop 👇

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Matt Chorley

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Am I being dim? Labour is launching a LOCAL ELECTIONS campaign based on nurses’ pay? Which is nothing to do with local councils?

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Matt Chorley

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A Conservative MP gets in touch: “Why on earth did Rishi ever make him Deputy Chair, raise his profile and prominence, and force MPs to defend some of the mental comments he made? What does it suggest about Rishi’s political judgement?“

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He degrades everything, all of the unwritten and written rules that make the system work; a thin-skinned, pathetic, lonely, underwhelming, unimaginative, disloyal, friendless narcissist. This isn’t an anti-Tory rant. Every Tory should be ashamed of what’s been done in their name

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Matt Chorley

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2 years

Well I think it was nice for Shaun Bailey to invite all of the people who voted for him to attend his party

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Matt Chorley

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5 years

This by @Tsar_Nicholas has exploded today. Everyone in the Tory party should read it. "The Conservatives are no longer a party of pragmatism, of science, of the economy, of opportunity. They’re now the party of ideology, of liars and cheats."

I’m leaving the Conservative Party and other liberals should join me

In October I wrote that the Conservatives risked losing moderates like me, that it was only a matter of time until a large number of members and voters, attracted to a party that drove through the...

www.thetimes.co.uk

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@MattChorley

4 years

Haven’t we suffered enough

Jack Rosser

@JackRosser_

4 years

Mrs Brown’s Boys Live will replace Match of the Day on BBC One tomorrow night.

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EXCLUSIVE: Barbara Winton, daughter of Sir Nicholas Winton, criticises Theresa May for not matching words with actions on child refugees

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4 years

Dominic Cummings is now self-isolating. Imagine what he will look like after two weeks of letting himself go.

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Matt Chorley

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2 years

Or “an early finish” as No10 staff call it

Priti Patel MP

@pritipatel

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We have extended pub and bar opening times until 1am over the Jubilee weekend as we come together to raise a glass to toast Her Majesty’s incredible service to our country over the past 70 years. Long may she reign! #PlatinumJubilee 🇬🇧🥂

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Matt Chorley

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6 years

The sandwich fridge in the Tory conference media room gives us a good idea of what No Deal will like

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Matt Chorley

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4 years

Mood among Tory MPs is seriously bad. Even those who think this is the right thing to do now are dismayed that it’s come to this. “Shambolic. Rudderless ramblings. constituents getting in touch furious or in tears.” “Grim grim grim” “I think it could be his Suez”

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2 years

12 years. And in 12 days another lot of nothing will start all over again. Me for @thetimes

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5 years

Somebody’s going to be in trouble. The front page has gone out with the gibberish dummy text still in the headline box

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Rory Stewart asked on @BBCr4today about the moment he had the whip withdrawn. "It came by text." Classy

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BREAKING: Massive drone spotted in Westminster capable of causing travel chaos

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Andrea Leadsom confronted on C4 News about Max Hastings saying that Boris Johnson “would not recognise the truth, whether about his private or political life, if confronted by it in an identity parade.” Leadsom: “That’s just words from a person.”

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