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@RosaFPrince
Rosa Prince
2 years
Feels great to finally be able to confirm I’ll be taking on the most exciting job in political journalism in the new year as editor of ⁦London Playbook, heading a fantastic lineup of ⁦ @elenicourea ⁩ ⁦ @danbloom1 ⁩ and ⁦ @e_casalicchio ⁩ in the pm
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@RosaFPrince
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My take on Mumsnet and Flora: incl how the plant-based spread's owner upfield appears to have a base in Uganda, which last week reimposed the death penalty for homosexuality @telegraph @telecomment @mumsnettowers @flora @upfieldglobal via @telegraphnews
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This International Women's Day, it is our honour to feature @Kate_M_Proctor 's interview with the person who has done more than perhaps anyone else to advance the cause of women in and outside of Westminster in her generation, @HarrietHarman
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2 years
On my way into ⁦ @POLITICOEurope ⁩ for my first day as editor of London Playbook. Thanks for the warm welcome from ⁦ @elenicourea ⁩, who along with @danbloom1 ⁩ will be sharing the morning duties while e_casalicchio⁩ launches a new pm edition this afternoon 🥳
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@RosaFPrince
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Read Lord McDonald's absolutely fascinating account of how he became the straw that broke the camel's back, leading directly to Boris Johnson's departure. Now live on @TheHouseMag and in the next edition of the mag. @SimonMcDonaldUK
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@RosaFPrince
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9 years
Standing ovation in Southampton for @corbyn4leader before he even begins speaking. #jeremycorbyn http://t.co/iisJqkvh5X
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2 years
After exactly two years to the day as editor, today is my last at ⁦ @TheHouseMag ⁩ HQ in The Shard. I’m going to miss it!
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@RosaFPrince
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9 years
Final #generalelection result: Conservative 331 Labour 232 SNP 56 Lib Dem 8 DUP 8 SF 4 Plaid 3 SDLP 3 UUP 2 Green Party 1 Ukip 1
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@RosaFPrince
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8 years
First rat sighting on the new 2nd Ave subway? Must be worth a prize. #nycsubway
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@RosaFPrince
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9 years
Wait, what?
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@RosaFPrince
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5 years
Ten years ago I answered the phone in The Telegraph's Westminster office. A voice at the other end offered me to show me the secret expenses of every MP in the House of Commons. A decade to the day since the expenses bombshell exploded, here's the full story. @Telegraph
@MatthewBayley
Matthew Bayley
5 years
10 years ago today the Telegraph started something pretty extraordinary. So we made a film:
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1 year
Heading into my first London Playbook with ⁦ @Jack_Blanchard_ ⁩’s survival kit. Westminster: send me what you got
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6 years
It's a week of firsts for me: My piece for @cnni - If Jeremy Corbyn were American, his career would be over @CNNI
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@RosaFPrince
Rosa Prince
9 years
Charles Kennedys son will keep a copy of Hansard in his "treasure box" after watching tributes http://t.co/XTxuBVwc5e http://t.co/DmdLpBLkYI
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@RosaFPrince
Rosa Prince
9 years
Paddy Ashdown has been forced to eat his hat! http://t.co/V4heFAPYE2 http://t.co/hRPdwrPD7g
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@RosaFPrince
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6 months
After exactly a year in what is officially the best and worst job in political journalism, I’m cancelling my coffee subscription and walking blinking into the light. So happy to be working with ⁦ @Jack_Blanchard_ ⁩ and the team as Deputy UK Editor for ⁦ @POLITICOEurope
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@RosaFPrince
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4 years
Really thrilled to be joining @aljwhite and the team @theHouse_mag Such an institution and now with exciting plans for the future. Thanks to @SirGrahamBrady and @DodsGroup for entrusting it to me
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Alan White
4 years
🎉 Delighted to announce that @RosaFPrince is the new editor of @theHouse_mag : she starts in February and I couldn’t be happier we’ve managed to sign such an awesome talent 🎉
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@RosaFPrince
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9 years
We're minutes away from the final declaration in the Irish gay marriage referendum #marref http://t.co/sbAo9fOA1M http://t.co/iF4YPmu2rF
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@RosaFPrince
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2 years
Out now! The latest edition of @TheHouseMag featuring cover star @RhonddaBryant and, in an act of sheer indulgence, devoted to the topic of History
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We at @TheHouseMag are honoured that @Mariia_Doc has written this illuminating, heart-rending and, yes, hilarious diary for us about life in Kyiv as the Russian assault continues Mariia's Diary — inside life in Kyiv during the Russian invasion
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8 years
Had 2015 Labour leadership been run on Tory rules it would've been @YvetteCooperMP v @andyburnhammp & I reckon Lab would've had woman leader
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4 years
He had hoped to make this election about the economy or law an order; anything other than coronavirus. But Trump's diagnosis has turned this into a Covid election. My latest for @Telegraph @TeleComment
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@RosaFPrince
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10 years
Obama on #RayRice says ending domestic violence is bigger than than football: http://t.co/FghC7niYWZ
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@RosaFPrince
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4 years
This is why every Democrat I know is wracked with nerves today. My latest for @Telegraph @TeleComment : Why the polls could be wrong – and Donald Trump may be about to win a stunning victory over Joe Biden
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@RosaFPrince
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3 years
So excited to present the - beautiful - Creative Industries edition of @theHouse_mag featuring @MelBOfficial @tony_mortimer @crispinhunt @tasminlittle @edvaizey @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @SharonHodgsonMP @OliverDowden plus a fascinating interview with @JoStevensLabour
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3 years
I was with @D_G_Alexander on this visit to #Afghanistan . Despite all the challenges it seemed a place of hope and, as he says, the girls we met there wanted and deserved more than the oppression they will now receive from the #Taliban
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Douglas Alexander
3 years
Today I’m thinking not only of the service of British forces but the girls in classrooms in Lashkar Gah, Musa Qala, & Kabul who told me of their hopes for the future: One told me she wanted to be a pilot, another a doctor. They were just like kids anywhere. They deserve better.
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1 year
Blue skies in California as Rishi Sunak arrives at Point Loma sub base, San Diego, for a trilateral with Joe Biden and Anthony Albanese to launch the latest stage of the AUKUS pact. Read all about it in tonight’s Playbook, which I’m again writing with ⁦ @elenicourea
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4 years
The Republicans must reject Trump - but can the US heal after these shameful scenes? My take for @Telegraph on what the storming of the shining city means for Trump and his party
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6 years
What does it say about our future when we want McDonald’s to look like an Apple store? My latest for ⁦ @SpectatorUSA
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@RosaFPrince
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7 years
So it's Theresa May the enigma v Comrade Jeremy Corbyn in just 7 weeks time. Read all about em in my biogs.
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@RosaFPrince
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4 years
There's a lot we don't know yet, but some things we do: there will be no Biden landslide - and the polls were flat wrong. Take #3 for @Telegraph @TeleComment The polls were wrong, there will be no Biden landslide
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1 year
I'm on Playbook duty as Westminster returns from recess tomorrow - here for all your news, views and reviews.
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@RosaFPrince
Rosa Prince
9 years
Results of the Irish equal marriage referendum coming in fast now. Follow along here: http://t.co/sbAo9fwYDc #MarRef http://t.co/RmFSO9dkoS
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@RosaFPrince
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6 years
Favourite memory of Tessa Jowell: flying back from Beijing Olympics on PM's plane she eschewed sleep, red boxes and the company of G Brown to play V drunken & v raucous game of charades with travelling press @PippaCrerar @Pwebstertimes @DPMcBride @CFMHigginson @benedictbrogan
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@RosaFPrince
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1 year
Hello from 35,000 feet. I’m on my way to San Diego with the PM so @elenicourea and I are sharing the Monday PLAYBOOK honours. 👩‍💻👩🏻‍💻
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3 years
Here's @Kate_M_Proctor 's interview with our cover star @lisanandy - in which she discusses the toxic experience of running for the Labour leadership as a woman and rules out standing again as a result. All this and more in the latest @TheHouseMag out today
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4 years
OK, if parents can't have a date for school reopening, at least the government should provide some clarity. My latest for @Telegraph @TeleComment Desperate parents need some concrete information on when and how schools will reopen
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1 year
Taking a break from Playbook tonight while I rub shoulders with the great and good of Washington DC at the fabulous @politico brunch - @elenicourea is holding the fort into Monday
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3 years
The Women's Edition - guest edited by @carolinenokes With interesting, absorbing and intriguing articles by some great women writers: @Kate_M_Proctor @georginaebailey @SalMacLennane @TanyaGold1 @AyoCaesar @radhikasanghani @ameliargh and Rebecca Reid
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The House magazine
3 years
The House Magazine out 8 March: The Women's Edition - guest edited by Caroline Nokes
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2 years
Thanks are to you @DavidGHFrost - I recommend everyone read down to the end...
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David Frost
2 years
Thank you to @TheHouseMag for letting me review "Inside the Deal" by @StefaanDeRynck - a much more measured & fairer read than some earlier reviews suggest. And @rcolvile gets a cameo mention for showing why we should never make jokes on Twitter!
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@RosaFPrince
Rosa Prince
5 months
RIP Lord Cormack. He was such a lovely, kind and generous man - hearing his wisdom over a weekly cuppa in the Lords was one of the highlights of my time at @TheHouseMag (which he founded nearly 50 years ago.) As @aljwhite says, a great public servant.
@aljwhite
Alan White
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I am beyond heartbroken at this news. He was a model public servant, who did so much for us among so many others - and he will be so greatly missed.
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2 years
Well, @Tobias_Ellwood 's call in the next edition of @TheHouseMag for the UK to rejoin the single market has certainly caused a stir! Read the full piece here and in the next print edition of the magazine, in Parliament from Monday
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The House magazine
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"Given the gargantuan economic challenges ahead, we must dare to assess how Brexit, the biggest geo-political decision in a generation, is faring." ✍️ @Tobias_Ellwood
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6 years
Just sent off the final proofs for the fully updated new (third!) edition of Comrade Corbyn, out next month. Here's the handsome new cover. Thanks @BitebackPub
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2 years
We are so excited that @TaliFraser is joining @TheHouseMag . She wowed us with her enthusiasm and ideas and will be a great addition to our small but growing team. Welcome, Tali!
@TaliFraser
Tali Fraser
2 years
✒️Some work news🖋 I’m very excited to say that I’ll be moving into Westminster full time, writing for @TheHouseMag (I start just in time for our new PM and, as always, I’ll be around for coffees/drinks - DMs are open!)
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7 years
From my biog Comrade Corbyn
@rcolvile
Robert Colvile
7 years
Corbyn: 'I never met the IRA'. Just convicted members of it, while victims of the Brighton bombing were still unburied.
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6 months
Heading into my last Playbook shift before I hand the baton to @Stefan_Boscia and @BlewettSam (with @danbloom1 keeping it real as lead writer.) It’s been a blast but not sorry to be getting my nights back! As ever, subscribe here:
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1 year
So long San Diego!
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2 months
California dreaming! Great collab between colleagues from @POLITICOEurope and @politico , helmed by @emilyrs , on what awaits Rishi Sunak should he flee for sunnier climes Rishi Sunak's California escape hatch: His $7.2 million beach home via @politico
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6 years
What if she stays? My latest for @POLITICOEurope - why Theresa May may not be going anywhere fast
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3 years
It's always a pleasure when @siennamarla writes for us. Here's her assessment of the state of the Labour Party as it gathers for its first in-person conference since Keir Starmer's election
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Rosa Prince
3 years
Here's @patrick_kidd on what many are saying is the most impressive Lords maiden speech for a generation Maiden Voyages: the Bishop of Chelmsford
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2 years
Meanwhile, @TulipSiddiq writes in praise of the women of Iran, @DavidAltonHL says the protests in China could be the beginning of the end for the CCP, and @aarif_abraham and Dr Anton Korynevych call for a special tribunal to prosecute Russian war crimes
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1 year
Heading to the British Embassy in Washington DC for the battle of the Playbooks 🇬🇧 v 🇺🇸, pitting @kate_day @Jack_Blanchard_ and me against @rachaelmbade @EugeneDaniels2 @RyanLizza chaired by @JamilAnderlini Not. Nervous. At. All.
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@RosaFPrince
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6 months
Contrary to reports by @e_casalicchio , I have the honour of writing London Playbook into tomorrow. Pray for me another politician doesn't pop up and commit news at 1 a.m. Oh, and subscribe here:
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Rosa Prince
3 years
Such a powerful piece from ⁦ @mariacaulfield ⁩, an MP dealing with death and grief on a Covid ward, in latest edition of ⁦ @theHouse_mag ⁩ Returning to the NHS frontline has been physically and mentally exhausting
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8 years
So pleased to be writing @theresa_may biog. The last 20 days have been extraordinary. What a story.
@BitebackPub
Biteback Publishing
8 years
We're delighted to announce #TheresaMay : The Path To Power by @RosaPrinceUK , coming Jan 2017
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Rosa Prince
6 years
My latest for the @SpectatorUSA why @therealroseanne isn't queer enough for (some in) the trans lobby Roseanne Barr: the trans lobby’s latest target
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1 year
Heading into Monday's Playbook with these babies to sustain me. Send me your bank holiday news, views, tips and takes. And if you haven't already, subscribe here: London Playbook – Newsletters – POLITICO
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2 years
I'll be forever grateful to @aljwhite for taking me on and being a great friend and ally. And will very much miss top team: @siennamarla @harriet_symonds @SalMacLennane @TaliFraser @sophiealichurch plus the PolHome and Parlimag gang: @laurasilver_ @adampayne26 @johnjohnstonmi ...
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Rosa Prince
7 years
I'm on @bbcthisweek at 11.45 talking leaders and leadership with @afneil @edballs and M Portillo. There appear to be astronaut suits...
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7 years
Me for @POLITICOEurope : what if Britain were - literally- divided? Brexit Partition:
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4 years
So just what makes the handsome young chancellor giving away billions of pounds quite so popular? My latest for @Telegraph @TeleComment It's crunch time for Sunak – Britain needs a strong chancellor, not a popular one
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I’m a Remainer but a second referendum would be a terrible mistake. My latest for @TeleComment The last thing we need at this point is a second referendum via @Telegraph
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Rosa Prince
3 years
Thanks to @tony_mortimer for his wonderful account of reading his first novel during lockdown - now he's writing his own book to help fill the gap in literature aimed at boys @TheHouseLive East 17’s Tony Mortimer: my love of literature during lockdown
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7 years
Just landed - latest book in my series of interviews with MPs as they stand on the cusp of leaving Parliament. Out Thurs
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2 years
I’ll be on the @BBCNews with @BBCJoannaG from a muddy College Green in a few mins, ahead of what is likely to be a deeply gloomy autumn statement
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I’ll be on @BBCNewsnight later to discuss four years of this guy with @TomBaldwin66 and @KirstyWark
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2 years
Out today - the very beautiful Islands Edition of @TheHouseMag
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3 years
We have a tribute to the late Ernie Ross by @GeorgeFoulkes , @annaturley raises a scandal involving phone masts, and @abenaopp and @myah_sherae write about #BHM and the teaching of black history in school
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@RosamundUrwin
Rosamund Urwin
2 years
Congratulations to a brilliant journalist and lucky Politico for such a good hire
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4 years
Even something as seemingly innocuous as postal voting is toxic in polarised America. My latest for @Telegraph @TeleComment Chaotic postal voting has become a toxic issue in America
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Thinking today of my brave grandfathers, Harold Freeman and John Prince, who were both in service on this day in 1944. #DDay
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5 years
Wilson loved the Scilly Isles, Churchill the Med and Brown and Thatcher couldn't bear to go at all. Now Boris is in Mustique. But what does a PM's holiday destination say about their leadership qualities? My latest for @telecomment via @Telegraph
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Rosa Prince
2 years
Finally, thanks to @kate_day for trusting me with Playbook - it's an honour. Big shoes to fill: @Jack_Blanchard_ and @alexwickham plus stand-ins @estwebber and @anna_dickins0n . Look forward to hearing from many of you in the new year with gripes, gossip and above all scoops
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Out now - the bumper #LabourConference22 edition of @TheHouseMag , featuring our cover star @AngelaRayner . Available in Conference venues and in Parliament and to subscribers as usual
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7 years
Next up in my retiring MP series, @GiselaStuart on falling out with her party over Europe: @Telegraph @BitebackPub
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5 years
For Corbyn the battle has always been to ensure Corbynism outlasts him. Never has that been clearer than in his departure. My latest for @politicoeurope Corbynism will outlast Corbyn
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6 months
Heading into the Beeb for R4’s Westminster Hour - tune in in 10 minsfor discussions on housing, by-elections, the Rwanda bill and much more with @scullyp @elliereeves @Madz_Grant and our host @BBCBenWright
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