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Peter Walker

@peterwalker99

2 years

A round of applause, please, for the Guardian colleague who wrote the headline to this story of mine.

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6 months

🧵 Nigel Farage makes his I'm A Celebrity debut tonight, where he will be presented as a purveyor of robust but mainstream rightwing views. A pre-show reminder that he's not: he has regularly aired conspiracy theories linked to antisemitism & far right beliefs. Here's a sample 1/

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7 months

Fantastic line in Mark Drakeford's speech to the Labour conference.

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1 year

Rishi Sunak was in Dorset yesterday afternoon and Cornwall today. But rather than stay overnight, he took a helicopter back to London and a jet to Cornwall this morning. Man doesn’t like trains.

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2 years

Without wishing to be a bore about this subject, a serving home secretary describing asylum seekers as “an invasion of our southern coast”, and in the Commons, is really striking. It’s the sort of language that a decade or so ago would have been the preserve of the far right.

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1 year

Whatever your views on the monarchy, these pictures should chill you.

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1 year

Republican protesters being arrested and their placards confiscated ahead of the coronation.

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2 years

Kwasi Kwarteng refuses to discuss the plunge in the pound, saying that as chancellor he cannot discuss "market movements". Really?

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8 months

Rarely in human history has a protest which involved maybe 250 people maximum attracted such media attention (in some quarters).

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2 years

I was about to listen to Therese Coffey discuss health & social care policy at the Tory conference… but she’s suddenly not appearing, nor is any other health minister. Not the smoothest day so far for the government.

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2 years

I didn't properly clock till just now that Kit Malthouse is the fifth UK education secretary *in the last year*. That's really quite something.

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7 months

You know you’re at Conservative conference when the posh French Champagne doesn’t come by the bottle, or the case, but by the trolley-load.

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2 years

On the new Kuenssberg BBC1 show, Emily Thornberry is asked what she felt was Liz Truss's strong point when she faced her over international trade. Long pause. Thornberry: "She's very thick skinned."

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1 year

NEW: Remember this photo of the apparent party in Tory HQ amid lockdown in Dec 2020? Met police say the investigation is over and *no* action was taken against anyone, including mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey - who is now in line for a peerage.

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2 years

Claire Fox says she can’t remember a democratic choice for net zero. Well, apart from the fact that every single major UK party had it in their manifesto in 2019.

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5 months

Notable that neither Downing Street or the local Tory MP* have condemned the attack on a Ulez camera with an improvised bomb. Look at these pics (via @BexBitchley ) - someone could easily have been killed. A de facto terror attack in a London suburb would normally merit comment.

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Peter Walker

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2 years

That Jeremy Hunt statement was, basically, a very polite coup. He might as well have delivered it after disembarking from a Chinook in the No 10 garden. Liz Truss is no longer the prime minister.

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1 year

Look who turned up at the Lords yesterday evening to make their oath to the King, a full year and two days after their last formal involvement in House of Lords business.

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2 years

Yet another curiosity of the 45pm U-turn – it was done *after* Liz Truss did a round of ITV regional interviews, but *before* the embargo on the interviews, meaning we now get to watch a series of TV clips of the PM defending a policy she has abandoned.

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2 years

"NO" - what the PM @trussliz told me just hours ahead of u-turn on the 45p tax rate when I asked her if she would change the plan @itvanglia

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Peter Walker

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2 years

Ed Miliband making mincemeat of Jacob Rees-Mogg's lifting of the fracking pause in the Commons. Calls it a "charter for earthquakes" and a breach of the Tories' 2019 manifesto.

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Peter Walker

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1 year

All these endless, 'Who's in the right?' cycling videos, like the current fuss about the 5yo lad getting close-passed, miss the key point: it doesn't matter. Even if a pedestrian/cyclist is acting illegally or with *utter* stupidity, your first duty in a car is to not harm them.

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Peter Walker

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2 months

More libel news: Tory peer Jacqueline Foster pays "substantial" damages to a University Challenge contestant for claiming her team's octopus soft toy mascot was chosen as an antisemitic symbol.

Tory peer pays damages after alleging University Challenge mascot was antisemitic

Jacqueline Foster apologises to Melika Gorgianeh after claiming octopus was chosen as hate symbol

www.theguardian.com

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8 months

Islington is famous for the fact that *no one* from an immigrant background has ever lived there.

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Peter Walker

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3 months

Interesting in PMQs as Rishi Sunak launches into a pre-scripted jibe about Keir Starmer 'not knowing what a woman is', when Brianna Ghey's mother is in the Commons gallery. A clearly furious Starmer responds: "Of all the weeks to say that - shame. Parading as a man of integrity."

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Peter Walker

@peterwalker99

2 months

Exclusive: review of LTNs ordered by Rishi Sunak last year in a seeming attempt to block new ones has actually concluded they are generally popular and effective - so officials discussed burying it.

Rishi Sunak’s report finds low-traffic neighbourhoods work and are popular

Exclusive: Downing Street initially buried study, which Tories had hoped would strengthen arguments against traffic-reducing measures

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Walker

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10 days

Wes Streeting’s reaction to Chris Philp having to ask a Question Time audience member if DRC is a different country to Rwanda is a level of side-eye I’ve not seen since Harry Hill was last on TV.

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Peter Walker

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2 months

After hearing and then writing down those comments, I'm not sure how else you could describe them except as fairly openly racist.

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2 years

NEW: Labour conference has voted overwhelmingly for the party to replace first past the post voting with a form of proportional representation. Huge cheers in the hall as it is passed.

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1 year

It is quite something to make £750,000 in a single month from speaking engagements and *also* continue to accept free accommodation worth £3,500 a month from a rich mate.

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2 years

NEW: Commons standards committee recommends Tory MP Andrew Bridgen is suspended for five sitting days over a “careless and cavalier attitude" towards rules on lobbying.

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1 year

That was quite an interesting #PMQs in that every question from Keir Starmer was trying to get Rishi Sunak to concede something that the entire public knows it true but that the PM can never admit: that the NHS/ambulance services are in crisis. Was effective.

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2 years

I'm strongly in favour of politicians' family members giving us the real story behind reshuffles.

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2 months

NEW: it seems that *taxpayers* covered the cost of Michelle Donelan's false accusations. Her department says a "nominal" sum was paid, "subject to all the usual cross-govet processes, & aims to reduce overall costs to the taxpayer that could result from protracted legal action."

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Peter Walker

@peterwalker99

3 months

I was in Wellingborough earlier this week - story has yet to run - and if you want a visual metaphor for the Tories’ lacklustre campaign, directly outside their candidates’ town centre HQ is this long-abandoned car, all four tyres flat, the interior filled with rubbish.

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Peter Walker

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1 year

James Cleverly makes it plain that Steve Barclay will not meet nursing unions to discuss pay, despite unions' offer to pause strikes if he does. Cleverly indicates the government can't overrule the independent pay review body (which is nonsense, as they just make recommendations)

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Peter Walker

@peterwalker99

7 months

What a visual metaphor for the ongoing war-for-the-motorist: a Conservative advertising truck protesting against 20mph limits which is completely blocking a pavement.

Ian Barnes

@Ianbarnes2001

7 months

@AndrewRTDavies You might want to tell them to stop blocking the pavement Andy. Have some thought for the visually impaired and those using wheelchairs and pushchairs.

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Peter Walker

@peterwalker99

2 years

Slight echoes of this still-remembered 2005 Guardian headline.

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7 months

On Radio 2, a slightly tetchy Rishi Sunak is refusing to accept some of the post-HS2 list of projects he listed to happen with the money were mistaken/old/already done. The list was “a range of illustrative funding” to give people a sense of what was happening, he says. Hmmmm.

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Peter Walker

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2 years

Downing Street are so far declining to say when and how this legal opinion from Lord Pannick on the standards committee report into Boris Johnson will be published, or who commissioned it, or why. Yet somehow it was briefed to two friendly newspapers overnight.

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Peter Walker

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1 year

Rachel Reeves: “The mess we are in is a result of 12 weeks of Conservative chaos, but also 12 years of Conservative economic failure.” This will be the message for the next two years, and it's quite a resonant one.

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Peter Walker

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1 year

You could argue it's a slightly cynical tactic, but Keir Starmer using his last #PMQs question to ask about the Strep A outbreak meant Rishi Sunak had to be serious and mournful, and not use any of his final pre-prepared jibes and attack lines.

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Peter Walker

@peterwalker99

2 years

I suspect they also intervened in this paragraph.

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Peter Walker

@peterwalker99

1 year

Welcome to the National Conservatism conference - aka NatCon London 2023. Despite speakers including Suella Braverman and Jacob Rees-Mogg, this isn’t a Tory party event. It’s a moveable annual gathering of low tax populist nationalism run by a US think tank.

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Peter Walker

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2 months

Tory MP Lee Anderson discussing Sadiq Khan on GB News: “He’s given our capital city away to his mates”: “I don’t actually believe that the Islamists have got control of our country, but what I do believe is they’ve got control of Khan, and they’ve got control of London."

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2 months

Lee Anderson has arrived for #PMQs and has sat comfortably on the Tory benches, next to Andrea Jenkyns. It’s like his loss of the Tory whip was a Dallas plot twist-like shower dream.

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Peter Walker

@peterwalker99

3 months

The government has published a list of new peers at about 6.30pm on a Friday in recess. It’s almost like people are a bit ashamed of the way the House of Lords works.

Political Peerages 2024

The King has been graciously pleased to signify His intention of conferring the following Peerages of the United Kingdom for Life.

www.gov.uk

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Peter Walker

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11 months

This is billed as a "landmark study", but it is not published or peer reviewed. It is a report for the IEA written by three economists, all of whom have been very publicly critical of lockdowns. Lockdowns may or may not have been a good idea, but this report tells us nothing.

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Peter Walker

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1 year

This is a much-made argument, but worth noting that post offices accept as ID: bank cards cheque books bank statements utility bills and lots of other commonly-held items which will *not* allow you to vote.

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1 year

NEW: unprecedented letter to Suella Braverman from 60+ organisations & experts, including NSPCC, warns that “inaccurate or divisive claims” about child sexual abuse & grooming gangs undermine tackling the crime & almost certainly make children less safe.

‘Inaccurate’ grooming gang claims putting children at risk, Sunak and Braverman told

Exclusive: Joint letter from organisations and experts says singling out British-Pakistani men draws attention away from other sources of sexual abuse

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Walker

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1 year

Junior minister Rachel Maclean tells the Commons that voter ID is required because of the "absolute fiasco" in places like Tower Hamlets. But that was *postal voting*, not in-person voting. Sounds like she doesn't understand the basics of her own policy.

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Peter Walker

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2 years

I keep seeing *loads* of those @forduk Ranger pick-ups around London, the hideous US-style trucks. You might just as well get, "I'm a wanker" tattooed on your forehead than drive one in a city. Two tonnes, massively high bonnet. If it hit a kid – or me – they'd be toast.

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6 months

Farage has been repeatedly condemned by leading Jewish groups, eg Board of Deputies, for using antisemitic-linked tropes, eg about a 'new world order' and the threat of a 'globalist' government. He has often singled out Goldman Sachs and George Soros as threats 2/

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1 year

Once again: much as @MarinaHyde is brilliant when she's being funny, she is perhaps better still when she's being serious.

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4 months

NEW: The Department for Transport shifted to prioritising driving over cycling and walking in part due to worries about ‘15-minute cities’ based on conspiracy theories, documents seen by the Guardian show.

Ministers prioritised driving in England partly due to conspiracy theories

Exclusive: Documents show shift in transport policy influenced by unfounded fears about loss of freedom of movement in ‘15-minute cities’

www.theguardian.com

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@peterwalker99

7 months

Worth listening to Evan Davis grilling junior minister Andrew Bowie on R4 on this bit of Mark Harper's speech on 15-minute cities. Bowie was asked to name a council proposing what Harper vowed to oppose. He could not, but said such things are “coming up in discussions online”.

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Peter Walker

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4 months

Of all the arguments against inheritance tax, the "it's a double tax" one seems most baffling. If a bit later I go and buy a coffee, I'll be paying VAT on a purchase financed by money already subject to income tax and NI. What's so special about IHT?

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6 months

Farage has been happy to associate with highly prejudiced far right conspiracists, not least Alex Jones, whose web radio show he appeared on six times. Jones is the man successfully sued by bereaved parents for saying the Sandy Hook infant school massacre was a government hoax 7/

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2 years

Shown a chart illustrating the way the NI reduction will benefit the richest people by £1,800 a year, and lowest-earners by £7 a year, Liz Truss is asked if this is fair. She says: "Yes, it is fair." Another line for the Labour attack books.

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2 months

This is astonishingly badly-judged stuff by Rishi Sunak at #PMQs

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6 months

When you hate lockdown so much you decide it’s worth making deeply insulting and vastly ignorant slurs about people with autism/Asperger’s to make a point. Utterly grim.

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5 months

This would potentially feel like an unconvincing explanation, but luckily for James Cleverly, the words "hole" and "MP" sound very similar and are very often mistaken for each other in noisy situations.

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1 year

Interestingly, Rees Mogg calls the imposition of mandatory voter ID a gerrymandering scheme that backfired for the Conservatives as it largely affected older people, who are more likely to vote Tory.

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1 year

Rarely seen a more brutal follow-up tweet.

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1 month

One thing that is perhaps not discussed or remarked on as much as it could be is the way that some mainstream newspaper columnists have completely, utterly, lost any semblance of the plot.

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11 months

A dastardly conspiracy to try and prevent people being killed or maimed.

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10 months

The rate at which London’s teenagers are “borrowing” locked Lime bikes at the end of the school day, some of my local secondaries are heading for near-Dutch levels of cycling modal share.

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6 months

@imacelebrity Farage's more extreme views are one of my niche subjects, and I'd be very surprised if he was challenged on them while in the jungle. But it's always useful to know who someone actually is, not who they are pretending to be. 12/ends

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@peterwalker99

2 months

Lesson: do your research before accusing someone of sympathising with Hamas.

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My statement on recent correspondence relating to Research England’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Expert Advisory Group.

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6 months

After what I can only describe as a very confusing phone call from a government press person, I have added this paragraph to a story. I don't understand the argument either.

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7 months

Brief, slightly nerdy mini-thread on Sunak's BBC interview, where he talked about the 'plan for motorists'. Sunak said he acted because "people wanted to stop making life easy for people to use their cars". Well, yes - because (to an extent) that's been policy for years. 1/

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1 year

Cycling near home a bit ago I had an Audi 4WD wait patiently behind me for ages till it was safe to pass, and then overtake really slowly and carefully. Should I report it as stolen?

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2 months

*Sighs*

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@peterwalker99

2 months

Reminder: there are no "steps" in Downing Street on which prime ministers make statements.

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This is no more a war on motorists than police targeting burglars is a war on people who use ladders.

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6 months

Farage has never disowned these antisemtic-tinged tropes. The only formal response ever given to the complaints from Jewish groups and coverage of this was to (via a spokesperson) call them “pathetic” and “a manufactured story”. 3/

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@peterwalker99

4 months

Wetherspoons pubs also act as a de facto social centre (with beer) for lots of older people, & a low-cost dining option for many families. The chain has also won lots of awards for how it treats it staff. I’m not saying they’re without fault, but they’re successful for a reason.

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Tim Martin’s business offers low prices for consumers and preserves historic buildings for the community. As such he’s probably more deserving of a gong than most other recipients.

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But if you work on the basis of judging someone by who they tell you they are, then @imacelebrity is hosting a a contestant who regularly espouses conspiracy theories linked to the far right and antisemitism, and has never apologised for doing so. Curious. 11/

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2 years

And in a joke which cannot be revived enough times here is Pannick, on the streets of London.

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2 years

Tory MP Lee Anderson: “Does the home secretary agree with me that if the accommodation is not good enough for them, they can get on a dinghy and go straight back to France?” Suella Braverman: “My honourable friend is right.” Blimey.

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1 year

NEW, on low-traffic neighbourhoods: biggest-yet UK study (of 46 London LTNs) indicates they notably reduce motor vehicles within the zone without seemingly increasingly traffic on boundary roads. The latter has been a major objection by LTN critics.

LTNs appear not to push traffic on to boundary roads, London study finds

Exclusive: number of motor vehicles in 46 low-traffic neighbourhoods studied also significantly reduced

www.theguardian.com

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6 months

NEW: Patrick Vallance politely throws Sunak under a bus. Inquiry shown this extract from Sunak's witness statement were he says he did not recall any worries about eat out to help out. Vallance, asked about this, says he would be "very surprised" if Sunak not known about worries.

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Some of these views go into very full-on conspiracy theories. Farage has argued: • the Bilderberg group is plotting a global government. • Banks and politicians are working “hand in glove” to disband nation states. • Climate change is a "scam" intended to create this goal. 4/

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2 years

This story is quite genuinely jaw-dropping.

Kwasi Kwarteng’s ‘budget day’ cocktail party with financiers who may have profited from crash

Kwasi Kwarteng attended a private champagne reception hours after delivering his mini-budget where hedge fund managers who would gain from a crash in the pound

www.thetimes.co.uk

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@JuliaHB1 Setting aide whatever you may or may not think about Greta T, I’m curious why you’d want to support - even jokingly - a proud misogynist who openly discusses hitting women & rape, and who has been investigated over alleged human trafficking? Genuinely puzzles me.

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2 years

I wonder if there are any ashen faces inside the IEA or TPA, as with some Vote Leave types in 2016, now they realise their somewhat quixotic personal theories are about to be implemented by an actual government.

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Blimey. Buried in the Mark Harper statement on HS2 is an announcement that of £710m promised on active travel in 2021, only £100m more will be spent. £230m is spent so far. That's a *£380m cut* - more than halving the spend on walking & cycling amid climate and health crises.

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It’s particularly striking as it comes just a day after what might well have been a suicide terror attack on a migrant centre on that very same southern coast.

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Among those attending today’s Oxford anti-traffic measure protests: - far right racists Patriotic Alternative - increasingly odd ex-Ukip culture warrior David Kurten - Piers Corbyn - Laurence Fox - lots of people who dispute global warming/Covid vaccines (1/2)

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Full story coming soon. In the meantime, it adds to the longstanding confusion as to how the police - especially the Met - investigated alleged lockdown breaches, and why some people received fines and others didn't.

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Andy Street, the Tory W Mids mayor, very brutal on HS2 at a Conservative fringe event: "If you tell the international investment community you are going to do something, you had bloody well better stick to your word."

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6 months

Farage has also argued: • The EU is “the prototype for the new world order”. • “Globalists have wanted to have some form of conflict with Russia as an argument for us all to surrender our national sovereignty and give it up to a higher global level”. 5/

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In a move that will probably come as a surprise to no one, the Met police have just announced that the Republic protesters arrested before the coronation will have no action taken against them, and that the supposed "locking on" items were connected to their placards.

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6 months

Many of these conspiracies are associated with the far right. Farage has also indulged other far right ideas, for example saying immigration will “imperil the future of our civilisation”, an idea resonant of the so-called Great Replacement theory. 6/

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Farage has also been interviewed least six times by a far-right, antisemitic American pastor who used his web radio show to say Donald Trump’s impeachment was a “Jew coup”. 9/

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You will have spotted that a lot of this happens in the US: Farage has been careful to go more completely off piste in US interviews, to try and maintain his (relatively) more mainstream UK image. But he has never disowned or apologised for any of these things. 10/

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1 year

It might look very much like a party - glasses raised, Xmas hats and jumpers, buffet. But Met police say there was "insufficient evidence to disprove the version of events provided by attendees" - so presumably Bailey et al denied it was a party.

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6 months

Worth noting that Farage has, to my knowledge, never apologised for being interviewed six times by Jones. 8/

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3 months

Asked about this story on Sky, migration minister Michael Tomlinson says he "simply hasn't seen" it, even the headline. It's on the front of one of the biggest-selling Sunday papers and Tomlinson is the minister on the Sunday broadcast round. I really don't think that's credible.

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2 years

In the same debate, Tory backbencher Edward Leigh used the phrase, "send them back". As a reminder: these are people who are claiming asylum, for which they may or may not be entitled.

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2 months

Rishi Sunak has just arrived at a meeting of the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers to a tumultuous and lengthy banging on the desks in the committee room. Going by my usual PMQs metric that the louder the shouts from MPs the more worried they actually are, he’s in trouble.

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9 months

Rishi Sunak can sometimes be surprisingly peevish, even charmless, and that was very much on show with his Good Morning Scotland interview just now. Began with a whinge, complained about questions, talked over others, and ended after five mins by more or less hanging up.

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Peter Walker

@peterwalker99

11 months

Reader comments under Boris Johnson's Mail article are being pre-moderated, and in the near-hour since it was published, precisely four have made the cut.

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