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Senior Political Correspondent @Daily_Express . YIMBY. Tip-offs: DMs or christian.calgie @reachplc .com.

SW1 ⎸ N. Yorks ⎸ Kennington
Joined November 2010
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Why does Matt Hancock sit down like Woody in Toy Story when a human enters the room
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You come to me, on the 2nd January, with an email?
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The dream team
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Absolutely lost it at this battle between Elmo and Corbyn’s security
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Love this
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In 2015 David Amess was awarded a knighthood for political and public service. How did the newly-knighted Sir David celebrate? He got dressed up and released this brilliant photo
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Someone at Sky is currently getting the bollocking of a lifetime
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Happy Christmas, Westminster
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Absolutely unforgivable
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2 years
If I lost my mum in full glare of the global media, and had to spend every waking hour meeting hundreds of people and delivering countless emotional speeches, I’d be amazed if my only slip up was getting angry at a broken pen
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Get ready for 3 days of this
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Sitting in the kebab shop with your mate after the club trying to get the menu to stop spinning
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2 years
Absolutely incredible Theresa May content.
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Military action in Yemen by the UK & US government is a reckless act of escalation that will only cause more death and suffering. It is utterly disgraceful that Parliament has not even been consulted. When will we learn from our mistakes and realise that war is not the answer?
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Me ordering my Sunday roast at a toby carvery
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He's a'comin
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NEW: Liz Truss has announced she will scrap diversity and inclusion jobs in Whitehall, making sure civil service officials actually start to focus on delivery
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Goosebumps: Incredibly powerful speech from Jewish MP Andrew Percy. Must watch.
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How is this image not AI generated
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3 years
If only Ricky Gervais had been hosting the BRITs...
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Today programme spends 10 minutes asking Grant Shapps about a cake. Not a single question on Russia or new travel rules. Feel like I’m going mad…
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8 months
Installing USB A sockets onto trains in 2023. Perfect metaphor there for Britain’s absurd infrastructure
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USB sockets, coming to a class 345 Lizzy line train near you soon!
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Does Italy's singer realise this is being live broadcast across an entire continent?
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"plus you'll get a free Parker pen just for enquiring"
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President Macron reportedly called the leader of our country a "clown” and a “knucklehead", so forgive me if I ignore the FBPE pearl-clutching over Liz Truss's diplomacy last night
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Compare and contrast: the way the BBC reports Hamas' claims, versus the way they report Israel's denial
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1 year
Jesus this is so gross and insulting
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This is just nasty and unbecoming. Meghan looks like a school bully.
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We have had the holiday from Hell
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British couple on quarantined cruise test positive for coronavirus
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Harry and Ron are looking rough
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BBC News presenter getting quite emotional as she announces Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release
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Femi we went to the same school... it cost 15k a year. “Never seen the inside of a university” my arse.
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Free Movement allowed me and young people who'd never seen the inside of a university to work in a hotel in France. We got to ski for months while adding to our CVs. It kick-started my career and because I don't drink I actually come out financially ahead.
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3 years
Sturgeon's already doing the Thick of It
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1 year
At least he's not dressing up as a fake priest eh
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Does Zelenskyy not own a suit anymore, or does he have to wear that tracksuit as part of his merch deal?
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Putin deciding his opponents’ results in the election
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2 years
I thought I'd seen the worst of social media over my last three years in this job but my god the sexism and body shaming directed at Thérèse Coffey really is the pits
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Boris: Labour-run Hammersmith Council spent £27,000 on EU flags Maria Caulfield:
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‘My beard was like a shield for my anxiety’ my god Harry’s therapist has absolutely rinsed him 😭
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700 years of human evolution and progress
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This week, we have opened a new multi-faith area in the free waiting zone. Located just off the Silver Zone roundabout, the new area provides customers with a private space to reflect and pray whilst waiting to collect friends, family or loved ones.
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Anna Soubry invited onto Sky to talk about North Shropshire in her capacity as an expert at losing seats
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Bake Off’s impeccably-timed take
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By the way, Penny Mordaunt's absolute mauling of Angela Rayner at the dispatch box last year was by far our most read article of 2021, and our 7th most read since our site redesign a few years ago. That's already pretty big endorsement.
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2 years
Bloody hell the whips aren't messing about
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WE’RE TAKING TOUGH DECISIONS TO BRING DOWN INFLATION
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4 years
HUGE shoutout to the The Thick of It Quotes on Facebook for this brilliant take on Boris's Broadcast last night
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1 year
Can we now stop pretending Sturgeon merely quit because she nobly thought she didn’t have anything left in the tank?
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Pissing myself at this BBC News vox pop in which a voter says he thinks Liz Truss can survive before being informed she'd resigned. Amazing TV.
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BREAKING: live scenes in Westminster this evening
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Penny Mordaunt: "I had wrongly assumed that the appalling Willy Wonka experience in Glasgow had been laid on by the SNP, given its high cost, poor return and the fact that the police were called"
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This is an astoundingly beautiful statement.
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Statement on the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (1/3)
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Matt Hancock’s lawyer pops up on GB News, is introduced as such before having a massive rant that he explicitly said he didn’t want that mentioned. Host then pulls up the email showing he said he DID want it mentioned… he’d missed out the “not”
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🚨NEW: Boris just concluded meeting of 80 or so Tory MPs following Sajid and Rishi's resignation. Am told he said: "I know you’re all avidly in favour of tax cuts and tonight’s events might make that a bit easier to deliver"
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Possibly the award for the single most awkward silence in any political interview ever?
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Once again, it's so lovely to see political differences put aside in times like this
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"Is it true the Oxford vaccine is only 8% effective?" "Nein" "Well that's hardly any better"
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Dominic Grieve complaining about the PM corroding standards in public life - give me a break. His three-year attempt to block Brexit and quash the democratic voice of 17.4 million people was the greatest corroder of public trust in politics since the expenses scandal.
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Not saying the PM’s birthday cake is being overhyped but the leaders of the free world put out a joint statement in the wake of a Russian annexation with Ukraine 8 minutes ago and I’ve not seen any hack tweet it yet…
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In case you missed it, please revel in the Channel 4 audience reaction to the exit poll
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British tofu lovers everywhere
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Tell you what I want to see - every one of the 196 people who got fined £10k for breaking lockdown either having the charges dropped or reimbursed if already paid.
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Beautiful No. 10 display put up ahead of tomorrow's Ukraine Independence Day celebrations
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South Park does Harry and Meghan
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Late photo of the day: Boris returning to No. 10 after the birth of his son
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Chris Bryant made untrue allegations of bullying against Tory secretaries of state, and broke commons rules by taking a photo in the division lobby and posting it to twitter. This guy’s chair of the committee on standards.
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@nytimes Your journalists are a global embarrassment just FYI
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@DominicWaghorn How dare you. How DARE YOU.
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Some really lovely photos of Downing Street today
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Holly Rigby - a Labour activist who is a teacher - is currently on TV moaning about funding pressures in schools. Maybe pressures would be relieved if she actually turned up for work rather than taking the day off to appear on Daily Politics
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Truss calls Sir Keir a “patronising plastic patriot”
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Sorry but Lee Anderson inviting a left-wing person onto his show and forcing them to sit over in the corner like some plague-riddled loner is a hilarious bit and the fact guests continue accepting the invitations is just too funny
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Boris asked what shampoo he uses and answered it as only Boris could
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Anyone actively wanting to hear anything from their PM between the 24th and 27th December must be having a depressingly crap Christmas
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MIRROR: Where’s the PM? #TomorrowsPapersToday
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Chris Moyles being genuinely upset at being beaten by Matt Hancock is very funny
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Can't wait to finally find out what Emily Maitlis's political views are after all these years of scrupulous neutrality
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Theresa May isn't remembered for being a great parliamentary performer, but I've just remembered she was responsible for one of the most jaw-dropping PMQs moments I've seen
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@JMPSimor Please shut up for one minute you miserable bore
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British public react to Boris saying these restrictions will be in place for 6 months
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Keir Starmer this morning
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Not being funny but how does Anna Soubry qualify as a question time panellist. She’s basically audience material now
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WHERE'S IT COMING LADS
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This guy was in prison, worked as a prison cook, made an audacious heist and wound up in a posh part of London? This is just the plot of Paddington 2
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At some point we need to have a proper conversation about how to heal the mental health of FBPEers. It can't be right that we have a good 5/6% of the population who look at Union Jacks in Regent Street and serious believe comparisons to Nazi Germany are correct or appropriate.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg’s opposition to lanyards has resulted in this astonishing sight
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Sir Roger Gale saying he'd resign the whip if Boris becomes Prime Minister. 'We need unity not division' - I mean Gale departing as a Tory MP would do a lot for party unity...
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That’s their college fees sorted
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Funny double standards from Channel 4 here. Says Gove can’t debate because whilst he is ‘a’ leader his is not ‘the’ leader. Which is funny because last time I checked the set-up of the Green Party, Sian Berry is also ‘a’, not ‘the’ leader...
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Michael Gove and Boris Johnson's father, Stanley, appear at Channel 4 News before tonight's #ClimateDebate .
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50% off vouchers at participating restaurants Monday to Wednesday?
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I sometimes drink a second bottle of wine on a work night when I get carried away, I don't tank the fucking pound
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Kwasi Kwarteng says he got carried away as chancellor
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Spot the difference @piersmorgan
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Frankly we just need a comms head of no. 10 who’s willing to point out that Dominic Cummings is a c*** and most of the country know it.
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Boris saves his greatest Commons performance for the Queen’s memorial tributes. Moving, funny, memorable.
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Guy Verhofstadt is on stage getting applauded for saying the world of tomorrow will be one of empires. How do these people dare call themselves progressive? Guy’s done a great job of reminding me why I voted Brexit in the first place.
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Tory MP after last night's anti-Suella briefings to Sky and the BBC: “It’s amazing how out of touch some of the wet MPs are within the Party. The vast majority of our voters and members agree with the bulk of what Suella has to say”.
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John Major says he "Hasn't noticed an extra £350m a week" being given to the NHS, which itself is an untrue statement during his absurdly pious speech
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Goodness. That's something
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