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Sam Bright

@WritesBright

1 year

The full collection. Fortress London is out in paperback today.

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Sam Bright

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1 year

35% of UK prime ministers have been educated at one school: Eton. This was an entrance exam question set by the school in 2011.

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Prince Harry should tell the press he’s urgently flying back to London. Would properly fuck with everyone

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If you’re shocked about the Michelle Mone story, wait till you find out that a firm owned by the finance manager of Michael Gove’s 2016 Tory leadership campaign won £170m in PPE deals. After being referred to the PPE VIP lane by the office of… Michael Gove.

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BREAKING: Carole Cadwalladr wins libel case against Arron Banks

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Gosh this is awkward

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If you want to know where power lies in modern Britain: new records show that Liz Truss's first external meeting as PM was with the CEO of News Corp, Rupert Murdoch's firm that owns the Sun, the Times etc.

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Zinger from Private Eye

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If Johnson and Javid had to commute on a packed 8am Tube, instead of in a chauffeured car, I very much doubt they would be telling us all to bin our masks

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“We are proud to be British” says #GBNews founder Andrew Neil. Every single one of GB News’ major shareholders is based outside Great Britain

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It’s this simple.

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Harry and Meghan have done a remarkable, brave thing in calling out our rotten tabloid press. They should be celebrated for it.

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Sam Bright

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The Met Police won’t be telling the public about new partygate fines until after the local elections. In other words: the Met is suppressing information that could swing voters against the Conservatives. Another institution that seems to hold voters and democracy in contempt.

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Here’s the video in which Vote Leave promised shorter A&E waiting times once we left the EU. Now, six and a half years after the referendum, the number of people waiting for more than four hours in A&E is the highest on record.

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My BBC app homepage is currently showing a story about Kim Kardashian’s wealth but not a story about the riots in Northern Ireland. I generally try to be supportive of the BBC - but that is mind-boggling.

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3 years

Genius.

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Sam Bright

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2 years

Etonomics.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg says opposition to fracking in the UK is being funded by Putin. In other news, the Conservative Party has received £5 million from Russian donors since 2012.

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Keir Starmer "doesn't understand aspiration" says Liz Truss at #PMQs . Starmer is the son of a toolmaker who went to Oxford, became Director of Public Prosecutions and leader of the Labour Party.

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Sam Bright

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10 months

I don’t like to share GB News but this is honestly one of the most (accidental?) Partridge clips I have ever seen

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Remember: Tory MPs aren’t trying to oust the PM to pay some sort of moral debt to the nation. They’re trying to dump him because the party has tanked in the polls and they’re trying to save their own skins.

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1 year

Hunt claims that 90,000 students would drop out of private school system if tax relief was ended. I've found the source of the stat – the Independent Schools Council, the lobby group that represents private schools.

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Sam Bright

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4 years

So I used to run the social media accounts of a BBC political debate programme. This post blatantly violates BBC editorial guidelines

BBC Question Time

@bbcquestiontime

4 years

“We should completely close the borders … enough is enough” This audience member says the number of people ’flooding in’ to the UK is costing public services too much. #bbcqt

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3 years

The Cambridge Union last night voted by 362 votes to 309 to approve the motion “this House believes lockdown was a mistake”. This is why the country is fucked. Just because you got 3 A*s at A-level doesn’t mean you’re not an idiot

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Boris Johnson is so patriotic that he appointed the son of a KGB spy to the House of Lords and is now refusing to tell you what the security services said to him beforehand.

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2 years

One of the worst aftershocks of Brexit has been the Americanisation of British politics. The stupid culture wars, the dark money, the toxic polarisation – all of it has been imported across the Atlantic by right-wing opportunists who won a vote they had no idea how to implement

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Tory claim is that corruption was justified because we needed PPE. I spoke to a PPE supplier on Sunday who’s been supplying the NHS for years. He said existing suppliers were ready but were ignored by the gov. This is a story of corruption AND incompetence

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There’s something sickening about Boris Johnson - who gets luxury holidays donated by his pals every couple of months - telling NHS staff that they are not overwhelmed

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3 years

Boris Johnson and Priti Patel were clearly betting on the fact that the England team wouldn’t directly call out their culture war race baiting. How gloriously wrong they were.

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The Conservative Party has swung aggressively to the right, and its leader nearly refused to leave office, yet the bulk of the media still presents its ideas as rational and sensible – a 'safe pair of hands'. Could not be further from the truth.

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Sam Bright

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3 years

You can see why Andrew Neil thinks conservatives are under-represented in the UK, given we only have the Sun, the Express, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Times, UnHerd, ConservativeHome, LBC, talkRADIO, IEA, ASI, CPS, Taxpayers’ Alliance, and an 80-seat-majority Tory government

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2 years

Someone seriously needs to explain why GB News is given so much airtime on the BBC. It represents a tiny, reactionary fringe of the population, and is only able to survive thanks to a few multi-millionaire backers. There’s zero public interest in giving it a wider platform.

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Extraordinary video this. @adilray notes that there are currently no legal routes to asylum for Afghans and Tory columnist Quentin Letts has a minor meltdown, protesting that Adil is being unfair for *pointing out the facts*

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The CEO of BP literally admitted yesterday that a windfall tax wouldn't jeopardise any of the firm's investments in the UK. It's not that the Tories can't do more to help people, it's that they don't want to.

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Sam Bright

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4 months

Prickly Sunak meets member of public. Patronises them, laughs at them, and then walks away halfway through encounter. A genuine sign of contempt from PM towards ordinary voters.

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"This guy stinks in the nostrils of decent people". John Bercow eviscerating Boris Johnson on @GMB ...

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Sam Bright

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2 years

One of the best Labour ads I've seen in a loooong time. And all the material delivered by Conservatives.

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2 years

They’re wallowing in their own mess.

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1 year

One of the absolute worst things about the Zahawi story is that he threatened legal action against the first journalists to raise these entirely legitimate questions about his tax affairs. A senior minister practicing lawfare is seriously not ok.

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1. You’re literally an aristocrat. You’re the descendant of a banking dynasty. Your father is an Eton-educated peer 2. Kids are naturally dejected by poor pay, few prospects and a regionally ruptured country, while all the opportunities are hoovered up by a Bullingdon Club elite

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The government has written off £8.7 billion in PPE that can't be used or was bought at inflated prices – almost exactly the same cost as the pay rise for nurses that the government says it cannot afford.

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2 years

Matt Hancock keeps saying that Labour donors also won PPE deals. I’ve been studying PPE deals religiously for 20 months and remember *maybe* one or two deals linked to Labour donors. By contrast, dozens of deals worth £3.5 BILLION have been awarded to Tory mates and donors.

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Rishi Sunak, the person in charge of our public services, uses private health, private planes and went to a private school. The privatised Prime Minister.

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Another big story that should be given a lot more coverage... The Tories held their summer party last night, an event where big donors pay for access to party grandees and ministers. Tickets cost between £20k and £12.5k. A dinner with Johnson, May and Cameron sold for £120k.

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It’s obvious, but also needs to be said - Boris Johnson is not returning because he wants to fix the economy or improve our lives. He’s returning because he wants to heal his massive, bruised ego

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A reminder that the basic MP’s salary is 30% more now than in 2010 (up from £65k to £84k)

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Sam Bright

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3 months

Richard Tice is a millionaire, privately educated property asset manager from Surrey

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Reform leader Richard Tice: “Labour aren’t the party of the workers, they’re the party of latte and Islington — we’re the party of the workers”

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I don't care about Prince Harry's actions in Afghanistan decades ago or how he lost his virginity. What I care about is how our oligarch-owned press operates *today* – how it manipulates the public and harasses its detractors. That's what we should be talking about.

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2 years

Remember the Nightingale Hospitals? They cost £500 million and by April 2021 had treated just 384 COVID patients (£1.3m per patient), according to King's Fund data. Eye-watering.

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That Reform Party political earthquake put into perspective...

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Sam Bright

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3 years

So the EU was blamed for everything wrong in Britain: bendy bananas, the power of vacuum cleaners etc. etc. But Brexit is apparently not responsible for labour shortages, food shortages or accentuating the energy crisis. Sometimes it feels like Britain is a fact-free zone.

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Sam Bright

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4 months

Ian Hislop is dead right - there is something hopelessly wrong about the way that politics works in modern Britain, where problems are only addressed after they become front page media scandals

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Sam Bright

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Dan Wootton has just spent five minutes on #GBNews broadcasting conspiracy theories about coronavirus being a “scare story”. I’m old enough to remember an hour ago, when Andrew Neil promised that his new network wouldn’t spread baseless fake news

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Sam Bright

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8 months

Westminster is run by ex hedge fund managers, financiers and corporate consultants. They have been bred to strip assets - to aggressively cut costs to deliver short term profits for big money shareholders. And that’s exactly how they’ve run the country

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2 years

I asked Andrew Neil to apologise to Carole Cadwalladr. He blocked me. Nice guy.

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Sam Bright

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3 years

Corruption in Britain – in three stories. You won't find much clearer evidence than this.

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Without a shred of self-awareness, Robert Jenrick stood up in Parliament today and slammed Liverpool city council for "the awarding of dubious contracts" and "a failure of proper and due process." The brass neck.

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A former Brexit Party MEP has been recruited to co-ordinate Liz Truss’s grassroots campaign, which tells you everything you need to know about the current membership of the Conservative Party

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“Brexit will reduce red tape” has got to be one of the biggest political lies of the 21st century

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The rank hypocrisy of the Conservative Party telling us to be more patriotic while attacking the BBC and stopping a million people from voting.

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Sam Bright

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Oh just a reminder that Penny Mordaunt recently accepted £10k from the director of a climate science denial group. But apparently she’s good at holding a sword.

Tory MPs Accept £20,000 from Director of Climate Science Denial Group

Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt and Conservative MP Liam Fox have each received £10,000 from companies owned by a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – one of the...

www.desmog.com

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This is the next stage of the Tufton Street agenda: privatisation and the splintering of the state. Tea Party Tories trying to sell off our national inheritance

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A thread of some of the shocking stats emerging from the budget... Someone earning £1 million-a-year will be receiving a £55k tax cut – twice the average UK salary

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Once again perplexed by the rules of British politics, that dictate Matt Hancock loses the Tory whip for going on I'm a Celeb, but not for overseeing tens of thousands of needless deaths during the pandemic

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Our institutions of power - Downing Street, the police, Parliament, the media - have each been caught up in accusations of gross wrongdoing (criminality, sexual abuse, racism, corruption) in recent months. We need a total reboot. Britain is broken.

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Sam Bright

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I really don’t understand Sunak and Braverman’s game. Britain is a decent, tolerant country and their hate-based politics is appealing to about 20% of voters. It’s politically stupid and morally repulsive.

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Punchy line from Peter Kyle and Labour: “Previous generations have delivered peace in Northern Ireland while the Tories can’t get a prawn sandwich across the Irish Sea”.

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On top of being an MP (and now a cabinet minister), Sajid Javid currently earns some £400,000 a-year from corporate jobs. It's ridiculous and shocking that we still allow this

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Extinction Rebellion has taken over Tufton Street.

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The PM partied in lockdown and has been threatening to strip local funding from MPs who called him out. So kids in poverty are paying the price of Boris Johnson and his pals getting pissed while we all isolated. Absolutely vile.

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In the last week, Sunak has done a major interview on Talk TV - a platform virtually no one watches - while Truss has launched her ‘comeback’ through a (paywalled) Sunday Telegraph article. Conservatives aren’t talking to the country anymore - just to a small right-wing fringe.

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Man who appeared on the BBC this morning without being cancelled or censored says that he would be cancelled or censored if he appeared on the BBC

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🗣️ John Cleese has told the BBC that he would be “cancelled or censored” if he appeared on the BBC

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I can’t believe we’re taking lectures in productivity from Jacob Rees-Mogg - a man who seems to want to live in the era before electricity

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Dawn Butler ( @DawnButlerBrent ) has been kicked out of the Commons for calling Boris Johnson a liar. It’s an affront to democracy that you can be ejected from the chamber for simply telling the truth.

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If COBRA was attended by Tory donors you can guarantee that Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak would be there.

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Bombshell from Dominic Cummings at the COVID Inquiry. He claims that there were concerns in Downing Street of "possible corruption" surrounding Boris Johnson "funnelling money" through George Osborne to the Evening Standard (owned by Tory peer Evgeny Lebedev) during the pandemic

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Ironically, Allegra Stratton's (forced) resignation is surely an open acknowledgement that the party did happen. If it didn't, she was caught joking about a fictitious party, which is silly but not a sackable offence.

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🔴 NEW 🔴 A Tory MP has taken a second job with an energy firm worth £46,000 (for 18 days of work a year)... In the middle of an energy-driven cost of living crisis

Tory MP Takes £46,000 a-Year Second Job With Energy Company

bylinetimes.com

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Imagine if you went to the pub and the barman took away your pint, waited half an hour, replaced it with half a pint and called that ‘progress’. That was Rishi Sunak’s budget after 11 years of austerity.

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The former editorial director of GB News - the overtly anti-‘woke’, anti-BBC broadcaster - has now been hired as the BBC’s director of news programmes. What a farce.

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UKRAINE LITERALLY WANTS TO JOIN THE EUROPEAN UNION YOU BRAINLESS HAYSTACK

Fury as Boris Johnson compares Ukraine fight to Brexit vote | ITV News

Boris Johnson suggested the invasion of Ukraine was motivated by Vladimir Putin’s fears about a revolution against his autocratic rule. | ITV National News

www.itv.com

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Oh I feel the Tories are straying into dangerous territory with the Labour Just Stop Oil repayment. People will soon be demanding that the Tories repay the British people for the billions wasted on crony COVID contracts. In fact…

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"She's a proper Eurosceptic", Jacob Rees Mogg says about Liz Truss, a former Liberal Democrat who backed Remain

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The Daily Mail is basically a con dreamt up by rich people to trick poor people into defending their own poverty.

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It can’t be an accident if hundreds of experts were warning you of these exact outcomes

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The people saying this is a “hit job” on Brand have zero understanding of how UK defamation law works. Defamation law favours those with deep pockets, and Brand can clearly afford the best lawyers. This investigation will have been meticulous

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The country faces a “decade of decline” under Starmer, according to Simon Clarke. What exactly does he think has happened over the last 14 years?

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As the husband of Boris Johnson's press secretary and the best mate of Rishi Sunak, I don't think that you're the most objective judge here mate

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Liz Truss has been elected PM with just 80,000 votes and the initial support of 50 MPs. Time for a general election.

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Jeremy Hunt says he would look to expand the illegal Rwanda asylum programme, would slash corporation tax, and would appoint Esther McVey as deputy PM. He’s not a ‘moderate’ (just ask the junior doctors)

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“Three months ago I was brought in to fix those challenges”. Sunak making it sound like he was headhunted to be UK CEO, rather than the fact that he was desperately shoved into No10 by Tory MPs after his predecessor set the economy on fire.

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I fact-checked the 'Benefits of Brexit' report – a document that (as you might expect) is totally and shamelessly divorced from reality.

Fact-Checking the ‘Benefits of Brexit’ Report

bylinetimes.com

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The PPE disaster was one of the most galling examples of corruption and waste in British political history. Not only did we funnel billions in contracts to Tory donors, paying way over the odds, a lot of the equipment was faulty and arrived too late. A national disgrace.

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“To reduce Universal Credit payments at this moment in time is brutal”. Gary Neville absolutely bulldozing Edwina Currie is a must-watch 👇🏻👇🏻

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The Conservative Party more resembles a pyramid scheme than a political party now. If you donate a few hundred grand you’ll get a Covid contract. If you donate £10m a minister will defend you from accusations of racism on live TV.

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Breaking the law; having affairs; giving jobs to your pals; handing billion-pound contracts to party donors; causing thousands of needless deaths. None of these are sackable offences in the moral vacuum of Boris Johnson's modern Britain

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TalkTV has no viewers. GB News is haemorrhaging money. Yet both still exist because they’re propped up by right-wing billionaires. Welcome to the Tory free market, where bad businesses don’t go bust so long as they’re bankrolled by bigots

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🚨 BREAKING / EXCLUSIVE 🚨 The Government has been forced to release private messages sent between Matt Hancock and Owen Paterson about Randox (the firm that won £600m+ in COVID contracts, that Paterson worked for). It's pretty explosive stuff...

Government Releases Private Messages Between Owen Paterson and Matt Hancock Over Randox Contracts

The Government has released a series of explosive documents revealing more details about the COVID-19 contracts awarded to Randox

bylinetimes.com

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This should be plastered on the first page of the public inquiry

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Rory Stewart should use this video in every campaign he ever runs. His views on coronavirus on 12th March.

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A super rich guy being able to randomly splash £150k on a treehouse for Boris Johnson shows why we need to tax obscene wealth. And shows why the Tories never will.

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Punchy from the Fire Brigades Union this morning: "Firefighters are at the forefront of the climate emergency. The demands of the job are increasing but our resources have been under attack by government cuts... 11,500 firefighter jobs have been slashed since 2010."

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