Kate Andrews
@KateAndrs
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Economics Editor, @Spectator. Columnist, @Telebusiness.
Joined September 2011
‘The public sector is the illness.' . My @Spectator interview with @JMilei for our Christmas magazine, out now.
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Until women are recognised - not for the successes of men around them - but for their own mass-murdering achievements, we will never be equal 🙌.
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It took 29 days for the EU to erode the Northern Ireland Protocol. Let it never be suggested again that the EU is the 'good faith' actor. Let's not pretend it's the party that cares about relations between NI and the Republic. Or that it values contracts, law or institutions.
EU temporarily overrides section of Northern Ireland Brexit deal as part of Covid vaccine export controls
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It was called the Benn Act. You voted for it.
The French President has more influence over the length of our extension than the British Prime Minister. Brexit is not taking back control, it's giving it away.
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The PM suggests we could soon be in a situation where doctors and nurses would have to decide who to treat. The truth is Government made this decision back in March, when non-Covid patients had their operations and treatments cancelled. And it's happening again.
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David Lammy has suggested that the #BrexitDeal could lead to conditions seen "in the south side of Chicago." This June 52 people were shot in Chicago, 8 fatally, in one weekend alone. This is not a legitimate or helpful comparison. And it is certainly not thoughtful either.
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Just to make sure I'm understanding the complaint here:. - Migrant X does 3-year degree.- X gets a job in sector with mass vacancies.- X works/pays tax for 5 years.- X gets Leave to Remain.- X waits 12 months, gets citizenship. X does 'whatever they want' after a 9-year process.
Deliveroo visa scandal latest:.-Come as a student.-Flip to care worker.-Get citizenship.-Do whatever you want.
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Those praising the person who recorded their neighbours fighting, citing safety for the woman, *and then gave the recording to the Guardian*, have not stopped to consider how they would feel if this were done to anyone besides Boris Johnson. Or, indeed, themselves.
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XR aren't just ruining the lawn at Trinity College. They are ruining decades worth of well-meaning environmental activism, which got us all thinking about our footprints and how we can live a bit more green. Vandalism does not sway hearts and minds - it closes them.
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Surreal listening to the Health Secretary question why anyone would need to travel abroad for medical reasons when we have the NHS 'here at home'. What does he make of the 4.5 million waiting list that now exists in England? Urgent cancer operations being cancelled yet again?.
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To be very, very clear: the NHS did have space. Lots of capacity, it turned out. This became clear within weeks of the height of lockdown. It was a decision to keep cancer patients away then. And it is a choice now.
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This story should stop everyone in their tracks. This happened on a London bus. Last month. May, 2019. Sickening, horrifying, misogynistic and homophobic violence. Here's hoping they catch these awful men.
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IF ONLY there had been a Tory leadership campaign recently, where anti no-deal/remain MPs could have put themselves forward and been democratically selected to be PM.
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#Brexit has always been about exiting EU institutions. Now it’s about something bigger. It represents the simple & critical question: when I cast my vote will they listen, will the mandate be upheld?. Clearly lots of MPs don’t want to answer this. Especially not w/ another vote.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has failed to achieve the required number of votes for his motion for a general election.
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.@NSoames: “I think my grandfather’s reputation can withstand a publicity-seeking assault from a third-rate, Poundland Lenin." . 🔥🔥🔥.
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Why not borrow £10trillion then? Or £20trillion? Or £100trillion? If investment always pays for itself?. Because *of course it doesn't* 🤪. The debt the Labour party would burden young people with to spend in the short term is, in my view, unethical.
Now Kate Andrews is lying about @UKLabour borrowing plans. The borrowing is for investment in the economy, which will produce a return of its own - taxpayers won't be paying it back. Disgusting that these liars get space on #PoliticsLive.
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"It's not my job as the Mayor to censor the views of Londoners". delivered with a straight face, no less. The Mayor has been happy to censor views that he doesn't like. #Marr .(reposted sans typo!).
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Once you accept the principle — of trading the details of one’s health status for access to public life — it only goes in one direction.
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The latter half of @darrengrimes_ statement to @BBCNews today, after winning his appeal in court. Darren, against the odds, stood up to the regulator and cleared his name. His bravery has blown me away.
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Try to imagine the level of disdain you’d need to have for successful entrepreneurs to respond this way to a huge charitable donation.
That’s 0.09% of your net worth. Just pay your taxes.
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Vaccine passports must not be shelved with a sunset clause, hovering over us as a 'Plan B' option in future. MPs should push for a vote to scrap them for good.
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Beat to it by @GuidoFawkes, but an update from me: after nearly four wonderful years at @iealondon, I’m joining the @spectator in January as their Economics Correspondent. ✏️📈🥳.
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A reminder from @MrSteerpike: when two women were accused of breaking the law for going on a walk (socially distanced) with takeaway coffees, Matt Hancock backed the police. 'Every time you try to flex the rules,' he said, 'that could be fatal'
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Using South Africa's Omicron hospitalisation trajectory is deeply misleading. 30% of residents in South Africa have had their first jab. In the UK, it's near 70% (97% of adults!). To say South Africa is seeing '300% increase on hospitalisations' does not translate.
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Just cancelled 3 restaurant reservations which have all been rendered illegal from Sat because they involve additional households. Let's not pretend Tier 3 is the only killer for hospitality. Businesses have been struggling the whole way through. Tier 2 is damning for them.
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I instinctively hate people's personal lives being made public. Including politicians - their business is their own. The obvious problem here is Hancock pushed for crude laws (instead of gentle guidance) around the most intimate aspects of our lives - and then didn't follow them.
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Labour haven’t learned a thing from 2019, have they?. This crass form of gender baiting won’t do anything to win back vital votes that went blue last December. And as an aside - perpetuating this deeply flawed idea that women can’t win if men are in the race is just the pits.
Labour leadership challenger @jessphillips has urged men to "pass the mic" on the top job, telling #Ridge it would "look bad" if Labour failed to elect a woman. More on the @RidgeOnSunday interview:
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Cases are surging, no doubt. But 78,000 Covid cases were confirmed today, not 780,000 as the PM just said.
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I really don't care what people do in their private lives. That's their business. I do care when they stop other people from living their lives, in the name of public safety, and don't bother to do the same.
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For people who left the country because they allegedly wanted to escape media attention. they really do love media attention.
NEW: In a Sunday night letter, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have written to editors of the four major British tabloids - The Sun, Daily Express, Daily Mirror and Daily Mail - promising never to work with them again, barring all access into the future. The letter in full:
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The Green Party lambasts changes to the net-zero timeline, yet hasn't even bothered to do a rough calculation of what it might cost to hit targets. Their co-leader was given 4 minutes to put a figure on their policies. We never got one. Full segment👇.
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Earlier this year Nadhim Zahawi told Sky News that ministers ‘have absolutely no plans for vaccine passporting’, branding the concept ‘absolutely wrong’. On BBC, he angrily dismissed talk of a dystopian world of vaccine passports as fantasy. They’d be ‘discriminatory’, he said.
NEW: From the end of September, entry to nightclubs and "other venues where large crowds gather" will be limited to those who are fully vaccinated, Nadhim Zahawi announces. Proof of a negative test will no longer be enough. Medical exemptions will be allowed.
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Actually this isn't me. This is a man, named @ShankerASingham. Easy mistake to make!. And not to nitpick, but it was Newsnight, not Sky News. In March, not yesterday. Small details though. Overall, fantastic tweet!.
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Too many politicians have this awful attitude - that if people disagree with them, they *must simply be confused*. No lessons learned in over 2 years since the #Brexit vote. The biggest mistake now would be to not deliver on the result at all.
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We can confirm tonight what many of us have known for years: people voted for Trump - not because of Russian bots - but because they wanted to vote for Trump. This might be worth remembering going into 2020.
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MPs had one job to do. We excused them on other major policy fronts, like housing and healthcare, to get Brexit done. We don’t need weeks to debate the #Brexitdeal. They should have spent more time reading, less pontificating, and gotten Brexit over the line.
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Mervyn King: 'If I were to blame anyone, I would blame the economics profession for encouraging (central banks) to print money (like) it didn’t matter.’.
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If you read today's leaked documents, Labour's 'evidence' for the NHS being 'on the table' in a US/UK trade negotiation is notably absent. Indeed, the actually seems like the opposite is true.
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What a monumental mistake from the President, to comment like this as the jury deliberates. Terrible for due process, terrible for calming tension in a country close to breaking-point, and possibly a terrible muddling of the trial's outcome.
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I don’t know @LozzaFox but I do know @Bonn1eGreer - this delights me, but does not surprise me. Bonnie loves engaging with people she disagrees with politically and always treats them kindly and with dignity. What a great photo. We need so much more of this in politics.
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Hello Carole. I've been expecting you.
Here’s your reminder that the Institute for Economic Affairs is a funnel for US corporate money & far right ideology into the bloodstream of British political life facilitated & laundered by @bbc.
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As a woman, I am much more interested in protecting the right to free speech than I am in catering to the possibly-offended. If we are raising girls to feel damaged by a photo of a woman in a bikini, my goodness we need to do better.
@KateAndrs That is not curtailing free speech. That is protecting women from psychologically damaging marketing. As a woman, you should know this.
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To summerise: nearly six months on from the start of lockdown, the Prime Minister is talking about people possibly getting arrested if they're sitting as a group of 7 in a park.
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Surprised to see blame for Darroch's resignation placed on anyone but the leaker(s). While it's unfair that he's had to step down, his position was no longer tenable with that information in the public domain. Don't see how any current (or future) PM could have reconciled this.
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The problem with 'the mini-Budget crashed the economy' narrative is that the economy didn't crash. We've always known this -- but today's revised growth figures provide reinforcement.
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Well this is awful. And illegal.
Brexiters were conned - maybe it won't hit home until they get that P45 - thankfully i know at least 3 employers already ensuring brexit voters are laid off first , all employers should follow suit where possible.
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“the first to be banned”. This simply has no place in a free society.
TV adverts by Mondelez and Volkswagen are the first to be banned under new gender stereotyping rules
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Bringing in the new year, advocating for the old normal. It's time to end the UK's failed experiment with vaccine passports. For @Spectator, out tomorrow.
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Happy Independence Day to my British friends who voted to leave the EU. 🇬🇧.Here's hoping the Government catches on any day now. .
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It's worth nothing today's press conference slides showed Covid infections - but not hospitalisations. A reminder just how dramatically the goalpost has shifted: lockdown was originally about creating capacity in NHS. We certainly have it. Yet restrictions are being re-upped.
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Jeez Jo, what a boring take. Brexit is not remotely a gendered issue. Whisper it - but some women want Brexit to happen 😱.
Six white men stuck in the past, conspiring to wreck our future. #StopBrexit.
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Sturgeon is so light on her feet compared to Corbyn before her. A very compelling speaker. Putting all policy proposals aside, there's no denying she's one of the UK's best political operators and communicators. #bbcqt.
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What on earth is “extreme speech”? . Whatever it is, I don’t think I want Merkel dictating its limits.
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Thanks to some remarkable reporting from The @Telegraph and @IsabelOakeshott, we are going to learn in the coming days whether Europe's longest lockdown was the result of scientific evidence, politics, or the ego of a few MPs. I, for one, can't wait to find out.
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The mayor's claim that “the City of London is being hit hard by the loss of trade and talent to our competitors because of Brexit” is not borne out by the numbers.
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The story goes that upon arrival, President Reagan said to the surgeons, ‘I just hope you’re Republicans.’ A doctor is said to have replied: ‘Today, Mr. President, we’re all Republicans.’. Today, we're all MAGA.
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2022 icons.
. Why have you come to Carlisle from Glasgow?. Because there are no restrictions and all of our friends have covid. #bbcnews #ToryCovidCatastrophe
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.@carolecadwalla has a remarkable ability: the more people have their innocence proved, the more guilt she finds!.
Congrats to @darrengrimes for winning his appeal. Nobody ever thought 22-year-old was mastermind of biggest electoral fraud in British history. He was used. He's protected the real perpetrators - including future PM @BorisJohnson. And every single one of them has got away with it
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One day, far in the future, this 11 year old boy is going to be an ‘old white man’. I’m sad he’s been taught that’s innately something to shame. And has any adult bothered to tell him who the DEFRA Sec of State is?.
11 year old rebel: "I'm here to protest a whole bunch of old white guys deciding my generation's future.".Their future will be decided by our actions today #TheTimeIsNow. #HumansofXR #EverybodyNow
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I was not entitled to know my friends' health status before the pandemic, nor am I entitled to this information during or after. Same applies to strangers. It's a basic right to privacy, and it would be devastating to see this principle undermined.
Would you uninvite friends from social events if they chose not to have a Covid-19 vaccine?.
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Just an insurance policy, huh. #SuperSaturday.
💥 We have won the Letwin amendment! 🎉 This house has NOT approved this terrible deal today. The fight for the #PeopleVote to #StopBrexit continues!!
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So far I've found 14 egregious errors in @carolecadwalla's thread about @iealondon and me. Sadly she doesn’t seem interested in correcting them. Strange, when your ‘thing’ is tackling disinformation. She's right about one thing though. @iealondon had a fantastic week. 1/4.
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But Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore didn’t break the law. And the force is now reviewing its policy because of the appalling way in which these women were treated. Why is a Cabinet minister praising police for aggressively enforcing rules they made up on the spot?.
Health secretary Matt Hancock says he "absolutely will back the police" when asked about the £200 fine issued to two women who drove to a nearby beauty spot in Derbyshire for a walk adding that "every flex of the rules can be fatal".
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If you are offended by 'Mansize' tissues, please find something more productive to be offended about.
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There is no trade deal yet. There is nothing close to a trade deal yet. Why do Remainers (I use that term loosely) rightly advocate for free trade with the EU, but fearmonger about it with everyone else?.
Remember Johnson’s promise of £350 million a week for the NHS?. Well his toxic trade deal with Trump could hand over £500 million a week of NHS money to US drugs corporations. Labour will stop them. Our NHS is not for sale - to Donald Trump or anyone.
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By pursuing my friend @darrengrimes_ the @metpoliceuk are making a mockery of hate crime legislation; insulting victims of theft, abuse & rape who are denied police resources; casting doubt over our rights to free speech & a free press. Unjust in every way.
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So tired of people faking outrage - suspect @GaryLineker didn’t consider duty free products to be ‘propoganda’ until he could use it as an anti-Brexit talking point. I also wish rich people would stop trying to put up barriers to less rich people buying cheaper goods.
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I grew a year older today, yet I still think handing over recordings of a private row to a national newspaper is wrong 🤷🏻♀️.
Grow up. People dob each other in all the time.
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How quickly this movement was hijacked. From a focus on serious sexual assault allegations, to a focus on totally inflated and misleading statistics. It's ALMOST as if modern-day feminism has COMPLETELY lost its way.
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Nice to see @NicolaSturgeon confirm in her opening remarks in the ITV debate that trade talks between the US and UK haven't started yet. Yet another reminder that Labour's claims last week were totally baseless.
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“It comes six months on from the couple stepping down from royal life and moving to California to live away from the media spotlight.” 👀.
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The #Brexitdeal Boris Johnson has secured is a good one. It *does* allow for free trade deals w/ other countries. It puts decision-making back in the heart of Westminster (and Stormont). It's just not no-deal, which is why Farage takes issue with it.
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Why do people act as if Communism is a well-meaning ideology (even if they admit it's devastating in practice)? . Its intentions are deeply sinister. There is nothing fair or noble about stripping individuals of their autonomy and freedom.
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1939 - Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Hattie McDaniel for Gone With the Wind - WINNER. HBO Max has removed the film for which a black actor won an Oscar for the first time in history.
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*Reminder*. The Truss government wants interest rates to rise faster. It's a key part of its new economic strategy. So if market reaction to this mini-Budget forces the Bank of England's hand, that is a design feature, not a design flaw, of Truss's plan.
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Not only will Ardern be remembered as a leader who turned the economy into a basket case, burdened by instability – she then fled the scene once the damage was done, failing to even try to rectify it in any meaningful way.
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It does not matter how ugly or vile one's comments are; when a country like the UK bans someone for their speech, it undermines its core principles of freedom and liberalism.
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No, he’s siding with low income families, who are disproportionately harmed by Nanny State interventions. ‘Ordinary families’ want to make their own choices - whether that’s to be on a health kick or to order a Friday night pizza, they don’t need Government’s approval or input.
Boris Johnson is siding with big sugar over ordinary families trying to get healthy. Today I've challenged Health Secretary @matthancock to quit the Cabinet if his drive to tackle obesity is undermined by Johnson.
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Can’t go through all notifications but a quick thanks to all those who tweeted nice things and support around #bbcqt. Thanks for fighting the good fight for liberty every day. And to the ‘go home’ lot, I find most of your tweets very funny. Happy Sunday to you all x.
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You just need to glance this impressive list of countries where socialism created mass prosperity to confirm that Karl Marx was totally right:. 😑
Happy 200th birthday Karl Marx. (BTW, You were right!)
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Lockdowns don't kill the virus, they suppress it temporarily. The pertinent question here is: what is Wales buying this time for? What actions will be taken in the next few weeks to improve circumstances for winter?.
Wales to go into "short sharp" lockdown from Friday until 9 November, with people told to stay home, while non-essential shops among businesses to close.
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I’ll never forget sitting in the court room when the judge delivered his verdict in @darrengrimes_’s case - he tore @ElectoralCommUK apart, finding them wrong in fact & law. Their actions ruined years of Darren’s life - b/c he had the audacity to support Brexit. Some ‘mistake’.
Louise Edwards @ElectoralCommUK tells us that in the Darren Grimes case, they followed the processes fully to the letter, but that they made a mistake in the conclusion they drew in relation to what is an unincorporated association.
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Turns out, the EU's principles extend as far as its immediate benefit, with no greater commitment to norms and international cooperation. Best of luck to Scottish nationalists, who argue they'd be better off in the EU than the UK. Treatment of NI certainly suggests otherwise.
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A fantastic candidate, and an even more fantastic person. Congrats @Fox_Claire.
.@Fox_Claire is standing for The Brexit Party as someone from the left. This isn't about left or right, this is about democracy.
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I've thought for a long time that the party that grasps the nettle on housing will see huge electoral success. Lots of promises made, but Starmer's speech today is a game-changer. Mention of green-belt makes me think a party is finally serious about this. And it's Labour. #LPC23.
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Sad, sad stuff. The idea of Americans trying to hide themselves in *London* is just crazy. This is a tolerant, liberal city open to all kinds of ideas - even ones with which many disagree. We're hitting new lows, and we're hitting them hard. #TrumpUKVisit.
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People commenting on Gavin Williamson's voice - saying it undermines him in his role - aren't talking about his abilities, but rather where he comes from. These are the same people who go on about the Oxbridge domination of politics and lack of class diversity🤷♀️.
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Women in the UK are not earning 15% less on average than men, as Rachel Reeves just suggested in her #LPC23 speech. That number combines full and part time workers, so is deeply misleading (in 2022 part-time female workers earned 3% more on average!)
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Mark Field's treatment of the Greenpeace activist was very aggressive. But the revelation that she was an unarmed protester could only be known after the fact. Someone else hurrying towards MPs and the Chancellor could have had much more sinister intention. 1/3.
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Politics is rancid. Otherwise smart and reasonable people cannot engage on the issues. Worse, they tweet out things they know to be factually incorrect, thinking its justifiable b/c they're on the 'right side'. Top tip: if you're not reporting facts, you're on the wrong side.
It’s ‘based’ around the corner and is part of the nexus. We both understand this. You’re pretending not to. My tweet’s quite clear. You lobby & you boast about providing access to ministers while seeking donations. Jog on.
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'This is not a prediction' is not cover for publishing a graph like this without taking questions, and essentially laying out further restrictions on the public's liberties that are expected to be formally announced by politicians imminently.
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Not all heroes wear capes.
“I’ve not got that many years left of me and I’m not going to be fastened in a house.” . Here’s how one 83-year-old in Barnsley reacted to the news that tier three restrictions will be introduced in South Yorkshire from Saturday. See more here:
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