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Cometh the hour, cometh the Assistant to the Prime Minister
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Well, that was an hour of television that has happened and we have watched it.
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Sir John Curtice: Do local election results point to a hung Parliament? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-6…
Somewhere in the multiverse there’s a universe where Susan Hall won London. In it, @SBarrettBar blocked me and hid my post asking if he’d have posted this if Sadiq Kahn had won and what his concerns about postal votes are.
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Truss: “There is a divide between those in the M25 and those on the ground.”
Reader, she lives in a conservation area in Greenwich. That is very much inside the M25 and very much not 'on the ground' #popcon
🧵Interesting from @PME_Politics @ @YouGov on THAT #Telegraph hypothetical Tory leader poll. But for me, the most interesting bit of this is that if you include 'Not Sures', ZERO seats would pick Sunak as best PM:
Not sure: 508
Starmer: 67
Sunak: 0
Full breakdown below 👇 (1/4)
A brief note from us here at YouGov on what today's polling released by the Telegraph does and does not say, and how we need to interpret and caution findings from hypothetical, thought-experiment polling such as this: yougov.co.uk/politics/articl…
East Ham (33k Lab maj) – Starmer: 37%, Not Sure: 47%
West Ham (32k maj) – Starmer: 39%, Not Sure: 47%
Birmingham Hodge Hill (28.6k maj) – Starmer: 33%, Not Sure: 48% (Ladywood and Hall Green also both Not Sure)
Ilford North (24k maj) – Starmer: 29%, Not Sure: 46%
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So clearly this will not be an election where the leaders are the deciding factor – no Boris or Tony here. There's no time to achieve what this hypothetical Tory leader has done in the q anyway. I, but I'm not convinced changing will make a difference #ukpolitics #polling (4/4)
The nation likes The National Trust far more than it likes Jacob Rees-Mogg. (source: @YouGov)
Yes. Those policies will definitely win back all those seats who intend to elect a party that - *checks notes* - doesn’t advocate any of those things.
The Tories need to realise they need to actually be appealing to people who aren’t themselves.
I've written in the @Telegraph this evening on the latest dreadful polling for my party, and what we need to do to head off the looming disaster.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
“This went through on Labour votes.” @andreajenkyns telling porkies.
It isn't cos they're not... #potholes
I wonder how long until the @ukhomeoffice travel advice page for #Rwanda is updated to be a bit more effusive and positive gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice… #rwandapolicy
When @redditchrachel's replacement as Housing Minister is confirmed, there will have been as many Housing Ministers in 2 years (since Nov 2021) as there were in the entirety of the last Labour government (1997-2010) - 8.
Being homeless is never a “lifestyle choice”. Actively trying to become the worst person in the world absolutely is.
Be better.
A superbly detailed (& highly entertaining) demolition of one of the thickest conservative voices on housing (Simon Jenkins) by one of the most rational and intelligent (@rcolvile). We need more voices like this on the right of centre need to get anywhere on housing
Only two things are truly infinite. The universe, and the errors and hypocrisy of Simon Jenkins when writing about housing and planning. Yes, he's done another column. Let's dive in. (1/?) theguardian.com/commentisfre…
"Normally only countries have constitutions"
Literally every local authority has one. And that well known 'country' the Conservative Party public.conservatives.com/org…
Best thing about this is that he'll have had to use the app, connected to his debit card, to get in. So he paid twice.
Absolutely moronity here from Piers Corbyn. Plus there's literally a Sainsbury's in the background that takes cash.
I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever seen or read or heard anything by Lord Frost that isn’t thick.
Not quite John Redwood levels, but I honestly don’t understand why anything he says is taken seriously.
David Frost, "Rising temperatures (from climate change) are likely to be beneficial.. We can adjust to the perfectly manageable consequences of slowly rising temperatures."
Frost also says the cost to mitigate climate change is 1-2% of GDP. Brexit now costs the UK 5.5% of GDP. So if we rejoin the EU, we can spend that extra on helping save the planet. Win-win.