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Freddie Hayward
2 years
Fury among Tory MPs. “It could be tonight,” one says.
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EXCL: Mick Lynch says the “EU provoked a lot of the trouble in Ukraine” Says: “There were a lot of corrupt politicians in Ukraine…. there were an awful lot of people [in Ukraine] playing with Nazi imagery” @NewStatesman full story here:
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Stewards handing out the lyrics to the national anthem at Lab Conference in case members can’t recall
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New: - Shadow cabinet will meet tomorrow to receive their marching orders - Labour parliamentary staffers have been seconded to HQ - Source: "We’re going to be really, really aggressive. [The Tories] have got a huge price to pay for what they’ve done, and we’ll make them pay.”
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Starmer confirms he will make Angela Rayner deputy prime minister if Labour wins the next election
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NEW: Senior Tory, with influence over the rules, tells me the plan is to have two final leadership candidates set 21 July Says no need for vote of confidence on Tuesday now there’s a leadership election. But admits there’s a worry Johnson seems himself as a candidate…
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Kwarteng: "We reversed that story of national decline," after 12 yrs of Tory rule. "The path ahead of us was one of slow managed decline," after 12 years of Tory rule. Which is it?
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One senior Tory tells me the 1922 committee was “funereal”, another says it was a complete “disaster”. A third says anyone with a majority less than 10k is toast. This is not surprising - they laughed at her at PMQs. There’s a sense of inevitability about Truss’s demise.
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🗞🚨 Personal news👇 I’m thrilled to start as a political reporter for the @NewStatesman today. I’ll be interviewing MPs, writing Morning Call (alongside @PronouncedAlva and @harrytlambert ) and reporting from Westminster
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Here’s my piece from Tony Blair’s conference for progressive centrists @NewStatesman
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NEW: a senior Tory MP tells me there’s a “50/50” chance of the PM’s fate coming to a head next week.
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Disbelief among Tory MPs Johnson ever had the numbers. One senior Tory texts: “I’m sure he never had the numbers.”
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NEW: Keir Starmer confirms he has ditched the 2019 manifesto in a move that will enrage his critics on the left of the party: “What we've done with the last manifesto is put it to one side. We're starting from scratch. The slate is wiped clean." #NSPoliticsLive
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EXCLUSIVE: Lord Cameron could be asked to take questions in the Commons. - Procedure Committee will recommend the foreign sec be called to the Bar of the House in an upcoming report - Extraordinary move: the mechanism was last used in 1957
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Labour started talking about growth before Truss. There's an irony in her quoting Starmer then putting him in the "anti-growth coalition".
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In July, Keir Starmer gave a speech in which he said his three priorities were “growth, growth and growth” – a phrase the Prime Minister appropriated yesterday. @freddiejh8 reports
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Aaron Bell asks whether there’s any truth to reports that Johnson tried to suppress the Sue Gray report. Johnson does not deny it.
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Keir Starmer says the Labour Party is planning to be a two-term government, confirming comments from Wes Streeting #NSPoliticsLive
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The police have turned up at the National Conservative conference in Brussels where Farage is currently speaking. Organisers said they have been given fifteen to stop the conference. Suella Braverman arrived about 30 minutes ago.
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This is not 1992. H/t @BNHWalker
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Keir Starmer refuses to deny that the Labour Party is in talks with Conservative MPs who are considering defecting #NSPoliticsLive
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Exclusive: George Robertson, former Nato secretary general, tells me EU expansion explains Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Because EU membership “fundamentally and permanently” changes countries on Russia’s border
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In January, Keir Starmer said on the £28bn that "this is a fight I want to have." The only conclusion can be that he lost.
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Labour’s 2029 general election strategy is already set: “we said it would take ten years of national renewal, let us finish the job”.
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Freddie Hayward
3 years
Can the Northern Independence Party succeed? @FreeNorthNow I spoke with their new candidate for Hartlepool @Thelma_DWalker and @Philip_NIP : @NewStatesman
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A short profile of the Speaker Lindsay Hoyle and the plot to oust him:
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Sunak’s constant interruptions shows he hasn’t learnt from his poor performances against Liz Truss. Makes him look irritable and impolite.
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- Tough six weeks ahead: one staffer remembers McSweeney saying, “this is the campaign in which we have to learn to cry alone” - But understand McSweeney is delighted the election is on. One source: "This is what he was made for. He's an election organiser par excellence"
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Freddie Hayward
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Today’s chart for Morning Call shows public support for railway strikes has grown H/t @BNHWalker
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I wrote this week’s @NewStatesman politics column on why Labour will be more radical in office then they make out:
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- Two senior aides I've spoken to had to cancel holidays after booking them this week. - Concerns around burnout could worsen if Lab get into government.
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“It would have been better in retrospect if we’d left Saddam there.” I spoke to Jack Straw about the Iraq war and why Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe wasn’t released earlier 👇
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"Barely three years after Britain formally withdrew from the EU, it is Europe that is lurching to the right."
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Freddie Hayward
2 years
Eh? This is becoming a complete free for all
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Suella Braverman says she was in favour of the 45p tax cut “I am disappointed by the subsequent reversal” “I am disappointed that members of our party staged a coup and undermined the PM in an unprofessional way”
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NEW: Ed Davey will say Labour's plans for Lords reform without electoral reform is like "changing the tires when the cars on fire" in a speech later today. @NewStatesman
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Freddie Hayward
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No one is winning. Therefore Starmer is.
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2 years
No 10 confirmed to me on Thursday that the PM had resigned as party leader *that day*
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No 10 confirm the PM has resigned as Conservative party leader today - for anyone unsure whether he would resign in the coming days. The Conservative party is currently leaderless.
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"People were lied to, and they believed the lies.” I spoke to Sadiq Khan about Brexit, levelling up and why he thinks the EU is like a tennis club @NewStatesman
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New Savanta MRP polling has Labour taking the seats of Ben Wallace, Grant Shapps, Steve Baker and Boris Johnson Gives Lab a >50 seat majority
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Here’s my piece on PMQs with a quick look at the evolution of Keir Starmer’s recent foray into comedy @NewStatesman
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The Chancellor’s speech was riddled with contradictions. @NewStatesman
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Farage is doing a media tour. He’s compared the situation to Soviet Russia. He said: if anything has convinced me about leaving the EU it’s the events of today
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Freddie Hayward
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MPs are voting on whether to sit in private. If passed it means the press and public would be ejected and the TV streams would be switched off, according to a door keeper.
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Police have now left after one said he didn’t want to cause a scene. Organisers are challenging the decision in the courts.
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Rishi’s ratings aren’t good. Today’s Morning Call chart. H/t @BNHWalker
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Truss would've been better off not doing that press conference. Any credibility she may have gained from replacing Kwarteng with Hunt has been completely overshadowed.
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Freddie Hayward
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I spoke to @Philip_NIP and @Thelma_DWalker about the Northern Independence Party and the north-south divide:
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Freddie Hayward
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For all the noise, this is an election about fundamentals: fourteen years of misgovernment, rising immigration, the failure of austerity and broken public services.
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Opinium's 20pt lead likely a reversion to mean from two weeks ago (Lab lead +18). Noise of last week's +14 makes this look all that a little more dramatic. At any rate, no change in the Lab lead overall. +22 acc to @BritainElects
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Very happy to have joined @NewStatesman as a trainee journalist. Here's my first piece on Orwell and vegetarianism:
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George Orwell may have regarded vegetarians as sanctimonious but he was repelled by cruelty to animals, writes @freddiejh8 .
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If the Lib Dem’s become the third largest party in parliament, with more questions at PMQs and seats on committees etc - as they’re projected to - Davey would become a much more important figure in British politics.
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Caring isn’t just my family's story, it is the story of millions, caring for each other, dealing with tough times, and keeping going with love. Sharing our story hasn't been easy, but it's important. It's time to bring carers' experiences into the light.
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EXCL: MPs have sent a letter to the Speaker demanding Keir Starmer be referred to the Privileges Committee over allegedly pressuring him to select the Labour amendment on Gaza. Privileges committee has the power to call witnesses.
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Robertson said: “He’s bothered by the European Union. The whole Ukraine crisis started with the offer of an [EU] accession agreement to Ukraine [in 2014].”
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Starmer now speaking in front of the Union flag and a giant picture of the Queen, leading “our tribute” to her
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*sees, of course
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Reform UK are picking up 9% of Tory 2019 voters But 0% of Labour's vote Reform is currently a much bigger threat to the Conservatives.
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Rail nationalisation is the latest example of Labour’s tepid economic populism 👇
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Nat Con organisers and their lawyers are apparently upstairs deciding how to respond.
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Understand the organisers won’t leave until the police enter the premises. 3 mins until the deadline ends. Farage is still speaking
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Police have now entered the building.
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Freddie Hayward
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I spent two days with @jordanbpeterson at Oxford and Cambridge. We spoke about sex, religion and free speech on campus 👇
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Sunak's dismal speech mirrored the Tories poor chances in the general election.   Analysis 👇
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I’m told talks are now ongoing about the Prime Minister’s future among Tory MPs. Momentum is building.
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The Tories’ trash-talk is mid-rate and confused. Today’s Morning Call 👇
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"For the past 13 years, Conservative governments have presided over an economy in which owners of capital have quietly enriched themselves while everyone else struggles to maintain their income." Great piece from @harrytlambert
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Freddie Hayward
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Etchingham cannot stop Sunak from highjacking this debate.
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Labour will be reasonably happy with this but Starmer should’ve obviously shut down the tax line earlier. He will next time.
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Who did better on... Cost of living: Sunak 38% / Starmer 51% NHS: Sunak 28% / Starmer 61% Education: Sunak 31% / Starmer 52% Tax: Sunak 53% / Starmer 32% Immigration: Sunak 45% / Starmer 42% Climate change: Sunak 24% / Starmer 48% #ITVdebate
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Excl: the shadow cabinet has been told to have all policy finalised by 8 February. Labour strategists are convinced the national insurance cut means No 10 is planning on a spring poll. Story here👇
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Farage can see what’s happening in Europe and America and he’s determined the same should happen in the UK.
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Keir Starmer did not say Labour would boost defence spending to 2.5% - even though that’s exactly what they’ve promised to do. Another missed opportunity.
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Why is the the fact some MPs are voting in a certain way due to threats not causing more condemnation? “You don’t hear much about it, and I think there’s a sort of collective wish that that’s the case," according to one Labour MP.
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Police are now lining the door, preventing people entering, including MEP Patricia Chagnon.
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Labour conference happily singing the national anthem without any signs of dissent (from what I could tell)
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EXCL: Neal Lawson accuses the Labour leadership of acting like a bully. - He DENIES the allegation that he supports other parties - Says he will reply to the party - The former Brown adviser accuses Labour "focusing on control – over ideas and vision”.
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New: David Lammy has launched an offensive to win over the French political establishment. - He has invested time in Macron allies Clément Beaune and the MP Benjamin Haddad - Met with former French president François Hollande - Now tweets in other languages, incl French.
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“Midway through Widdecombe’s speech an early medieval historian next to me muttered about Magna Carta. He was there because his 14-year-old son was given a detention for calling a non-binary substitute teacher “sir”.” I went to a Reform UK rally 👇
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Stephen Flynn is one of the best performers in the House - not just because he delivers his questions w/o notes.
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Using same lines from previous speeches eg she stood amongst us
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"A 25-year-old told me he thought Israel created Hamas and that the Israeli Defence Force committed the massacre on 7 October at the Re’im music festival as a pretext for invading Gaza." I spent the day with the far-right and pro-Palestinian marchers:
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No 10 confirm the PM has resigned as Conservative party leader today - for anyone unsure whether he would resign in the coming days. The Conservative party is currently leaderless.
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Hearing Theresa May was not offered a job today, in case anyone was wondering...
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Freddie Hayward
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“If this government thinks that it is seen as a bastion for human rights around the world, it is utterly delusional” - @philippesands told me. My piece on the government's claim to be a "force for good in the world":
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“This was supposed to be Johnson’s resurrection, the return of the king.” Today’s Morning Call on Boris Johnson 👇 @NewStatesman
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The two best communicators in each party #heirtoGove
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Starmer calls the govt's Brexit deal a very bad deal. His proposals sound very similar to the EU's proposals to fix the NI Protocol #NSPoliticsLive
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Farage’s decision is a window into British politics in five years time. Not now.
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The big story of the day is that Nigel Farage is on the edge of political irrelevance.
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