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Deputy Political Editor @mailonline . DMs open for tips and hate mail. #LFC legacy fan. Spelling errors due to fat thumbs

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@DavidTWilcock
David Wilcock
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late contender for photo of the election campaign
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Hilary's Mantel
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New: Downing Street confirms part-time Women and Equalities Minister Liz Truss will not be attending a meeting of the Crime and Justice Taskforce this evening to discuss 'violence against women and girls'. Neither will anyone else from Government Equalities Office.
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The Queue (2024) - Dir Richard Curtis: Mildly eccentric middle class couple ( @hughbon , Olivia Coleman) spend 36 hours snaking through London while stressed King Charles (Hugh Grant) overcomes fountain pens and other slapstick obstacles to start his reign. Gently warming comedy
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Amid the concern for the Queen's health, she looks positively spritely next to the Duke of Kent, who is a mere 86 years old. #platinumjubilee
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David Wilcock
2 years
Understand Lisa Nandy sought and was given permission by Keir Starmer to attend this picket line. Difference with Sam Tarry that she didn't do a full round of unauthorised interviews and make up party policy while there.
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Carl Webb - #joinaunion
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Thanks @lisanandy for taking the time to visit the @cwugmersey Wigan picket line this moring to speak to #TheCWU BT & Openreach members on strike and show solidarity @CWUnews @DaveWardGS @CWU_AndyKerr
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4 years
Not sure now is the time for an Oasis reunion
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4 years
Latest 'head in sand' news: Downing Street spokesman tells reporters: 'I am not aware of anything to suggest that tests aren’t available in some parts of the country.' Comes after @MattHancock accused journalists of making up stories of areas where people cannot access them.
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'This line of attack is not working,' Boris Johnson tells Keir Starmer at #PMQs - and he my have a point.
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David Wilcock
2 years
Suella Braverman arrived at Manston migrant camp today by Chinook after visiting Dover.
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2 years
Liz Truss came to the Commons to vote in fracking motion that was billed as a confidence vote on her leadership, and then abstained.
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1 year
@AvaSantina How dare she pay all the bills with no regard to his poetic muse.
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1 year
Ex-CX George Osborne tells Tories at Northern Research Group conf to stop complaining about 'the blob', says party has been in power since 2010 and is 'in charge of our destiny', must 'stop blaming others'. No applause.
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2 years
NEW: No10 says Boris Johnson will NOT intervene in cost-of-living crisis this summer. Spox says he won't make 'new fiscal interventions' before leaving and it's up to successor to make policy. It means there will be at least another month of inaction.
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2 years
As someone else who worked at McDonalds in the mid-late 1990s, there was no burger flipping as grills were double-sided, and also no minimum wage.
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The Telegraph
2 years
🗣️Kemi Badenoch: I know what it's like flipping burgers at 16, on minimum wage, and then watching my pay slip away to taxes. What I want to do is cut fuel duty but we need to look at why the cost-of-living is rising and the problem is inflation
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'And he threw it all the way back to John Stones, from there. Madness.' 'I know, we completely lost momentum.'
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David Wilcock
8 years
Paul Mason calls for "100 new MPs" - deselection hint
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David Wilcock
5 years
Picture of the day from @StefanRousseau
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David Wilcock
3 years
This morning No10 said Boris only needed to declare his Marbella holiday in ministerial register because property is owned by another minister. But Lord Goldsmith's own Lords register entry suggests it is owned by a family trust, other members of whom are not ministers
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6 years
Peter Bone calls on May to quit following 200-117 confidence vote win: “If you have got more than a third of your party voting against you and you have a payroll vote of more than 150, how on earth can you stay on?“
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1 year
With his red card overturned, Gary Lineker maintains his record of never having been sent off in his professional career
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David Wilcock
7 years
Poppy petals, one for each of the soldiers remembered on the Menin Gate, fall from the roof #Passchendale100
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David Wilcock
6 years
Found that gif we’re all going to want later everyone. #brexit
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2 years
New high bar for 'take your child to work' day #Queenspeech
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7 years
@GaryLineker Perhaps you could have a word with Walker’s regarding their plastic crisp packets?
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David Wilcock
2 years
Hard to think of anything more British than paying tribute to the Queen with a massive queue
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9 years
Benedict Cumberbatch relents: gives a strong defence of his Hamlet tirade against politicians over refugee crisis
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David Wilcock
7 years
Also a lovely primer on the importance of the apostrophe.
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Steve Hawkes
7 years
Tomorrow’s Sun. Peter Bone’s secret affair
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David Wilcock
4 years
Matt Hancock confirms new PHE replacement to be led by Dido Harding, after her success with track and trac... well her success leading TalkTal... ok then her success at the Jockey Club, which runs the Cheltenham Festiv....oh.
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2 years
MPs leaving 1922 room after about 30 mins of PM, one quips to hacks through gritted teeth: ‘I’m going to get drunk.’
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David Wilcock
8 years
Not the worst thing to ever happen to a senior US politician at the theatre, to be fair.
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Donald J. Trump
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The Theater must always be a safe and special place.The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize!
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Best of luck enforcing the military aspect of National Service across Northern Ireland, lads.
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2 years
@hughbon Also starring Lily Collins as a St John's ambulance volunteer and Tom Hardy as Bernard
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5 years
Extinction rebellion @XRebellionUK protester currently climbing Big Ben dressed as Boris Johnson
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2 years
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David Wilcock
3 years
Piers Corbyn has now addressed protesters who targeted Keir Starmer earlier
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David Wilcock
4 years
"And that was Crocus of Hope with their new single, 'Gloomster'."
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David Wilcock
2 years
You feel Saka could be disembowelled by a French tackle and the ref would wave play on. #ENGFRA
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2 years
@BenKentish 'Huge goal at Anfield, but which way's it gone, Jenny Harries?'
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3 years
New: Downing Street confirms Boris Johnson will sidestep fallout from Sue Gray report by travelling to Ukraine tomorrow for talks with president Zelensky in the face of Russian military build-up on the border
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2 years
NEW: Liz Truss has spoken the the King this evening and was informed of the Queen's passing at 4.30 this afternoon. She will met senior Cabinet ministers in Downing Street later tonight.
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1 year
The full quote, thanks to @PA as ever: "There are some Conservatives who blame 'the blob' and the civil servants and the establishment. We've been in office since 2010, we're in charge of our country's destiny, and we should stop blaming others if we don't get things right."
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@twlldun If only someone had tried this before.
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David Wilcock
3 years
No10 denies that Boris Johnson is referred to as 'Big Dog' by staff, or by himself, disappointingly
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3 years
Keir Starmer takes issue with Tory MP who shouts 'Labour member' when he mentions Tyrone Mings' criticism of Priti Patel for her attack on taking the knee #PMQs
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David Wilcock
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Simon Steven’s sidestepping @PippaCrerar question about whether NHS staff would like a bonus for their hard work like
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3 years
Ukraine statement in the Commons being taken so seriously no one has groaned at SNP's Ian Blackford
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David Wilcock
4 years
It comes as 82% per cent of schools tell @NAHTnews they have kids isolating at home because they cannot access covid tests that would allow them to return to class following a negative result
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David Wilcock
2 years
There is a fine line in speeches between 'wide-ranging' and 'scattergun'
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2 years
@AdamBronkhorst I do indeed mean that Dover
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David Wilcock
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Cumberbatch: "If, because I'm in public eye because of my work, I can damn well make sure I use that potency to do good for other people."
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David Wilcock
7 years
Mrs May has now waded into the real big issue of the day: "It can't be right for Big Ben to be silent for four years"
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David Wilcock
2 years
Michael Gove says Liz Truss is ‘no way’ like a Tory Jeremy Corbyn, adds that ex-Labour leader is an ‘eccentric fringe figure with unsavoury friends and bonkers views’.
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David Wilcock
2 years
As has been pointed out in my mentions, CWU is affiliated to Labour, the RMT is not.
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David Wilcock
8 months
Shout out to the press officer who ended our phone conversation earlier by saying 'cheers babes'.
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David Wilcock
7 years
Half a tonne of cocaine worth more than £50m discovered on a flight from Bogota to Farnborough, cunningly hidden in big suitcases full of drugs, Border Force says. Two Brits among five men arrested.
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David Wilcock
1 year
Vindication of Jeremy Hunt's efforts to get pensioners back into work
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PA Dugout
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#Breaking Crystal Palace have announced the appointment of Roy Hodgson as manager until the end of the season.
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Simon Case tells @CommonsPACAC that there is no probe into claims Carrie Johnson was put forward for top FCDO job when Boris ran it - as only PM can trigger investigation. 'Is he not keen?' asks @william_wragg
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David Wilcock
4 years
New @SavantaComRes poll on Boris's approval rating suggests this might not just be a bubble story. PM now in negative territory
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David Wilcock
6 years
Heavily pregnant Labour MP @TulipSiddiq , who has delayed a caesarian in order to vote, is now in Commons chamber in a wheelchair.
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David Wilcock
4 years
I mean, anyone who does their Christmas shopping on Oxford Street is totally insane anyway.
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David Wilcock
3 years
Here it is: Sue Gray report is ... 12 pages
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David Wilcock
7 years
New year, old problems @SouthernRailUK
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David Wilcock
7 years
My timeline is a curious mix of escaped wolves and Buzzfeed reporters going freelance.
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David Wilcock
5 years
Trump says he doesn't know where the rumors started that the US wanted the NHS to be part of trade talks. Possibly forgetting it was him saying it at a press conference with Theresa May on his last visit.
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David Wilcock
3 years
We're going to need a bigger bus.
@ShippersUnbound
Tim Shipman
3 years
Under a bus so far: Boris, Hancock, PHE, Sedwill, Carrie, the dog
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David Wilcock
3 years
Senior Tories taking potshots at Douglas Ross (minor figure/not important because he’s not in London) will have @NicolaSturgeon chuckling tonight. Free campaign quotes for the next election
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David Wilcock
3 years
It's not really a dead cat if the effect is to make the Tory backbenches explode like a Chernobyl reactor.
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2 years
@MattChorley hangovers that were over by lunchtime the next day
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6 years
Opposition parties lining up to say no-deal must be ruled out before cross-party talks go anywhere, No10 saying May's priority is leaving on March 29. Hard to see where the movement comes from right now.
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NEW: The mystery of Labour by-election candidate's changing accent: Damien Egan's pronunciation has also gone west after mayor of Lewisham was chosen to stand in Gloucestershire's Kingswood constituency 120 miles away - compare here
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Amid the gloom, some small positive parish news: Delighted to say I'm stepping into @jrmaidment 's (very expensive) shoes to become Deputy Political Editor at MailOnline from next week
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David Wilcock
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New No10 pics acting as a metaphor for how Rishi's day is going
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David Wilcock
6 years
Andrew Adonis introduced at People’s Vote rally as “the politician who went from Bambi to Rambo”.
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David Wilcock
3 years
@REWearmouth that's ... that's not how football works...
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David Wilcock
2 years
@WJames_Reuters Es are good, says finance minister
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David Wilcock
7 years
Several hundred people now marching in silence for #GrenfellTower victims
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David Wilcock
8 years
. @duranduran 's Simon Le Bon performing Let's Dance with the London Community Gospel Choir #CelebratingDavidBowie
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David Wilcock
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Mick Lynch furious that RMT members might have to work until they are 65.
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David Wilcock
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Tremendously meta broadcasting as Sky News shows a live feed of BBC News channel showing a live feed of BBC Radio 4 interview with BBC DG
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2 years
I’m not a rebel leader, I’m just a backbencher, Gove adds
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David Wilcock
7 years
Chants of "no justice, no peace" at end. Survivors of Grenfell plan to repeat silent march every month on #GrenfellTower anniversary
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David Wilcock
7 years
@RoyalAlbertHall @PoppyLegion Duchess of Cambridge joins the Queen/Philip/Charles at @PoppyLegion @RoyalAlbertHall #FestivalofRemembrance but no William or Harry.
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9 years
Beama the corgi is searching for a new home, if only there was someone visiting @BDCH who is a fan... http://t.co/bWBygFVPWq
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David Wilcock
4 years
Tony Blair says Keir Starmer is reaching 'people who had given up on Labour, voters as it were'.
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David Wilcock
3 years
@BenKentish Yep. Nicholas Winton was successful with the Kinder Transport *despite* the UK government, not because of it.
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David Wilcock
2 years
My local town has cancelled a gin festival. Because the Queen famously hated gin.
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David Wilcock
1 year
@AnfieldWatch tedious click bait
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David Wilcock
2 years
Every time Sunak says 'not my words ... ' my brain finishes his sentence with '...the words of Top Gear Magazine.' #pmqs @AccidentalP
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2 years
@twlldun Glad finally someone is highlighting her term as a sniper in Sarajevo in the mid 90s
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2 years
@AdamBienkov Not sure reminding viewers of Liz Truss's time in office and that she is still around is doing the Tories a massive favour
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David Wilcock
4 years
Rather than Dominic Raab telling us what Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance have said, wouldn't it be better to have them at the press conference to speak for themselves?
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David Wilcock
6 years
Signing off as a PA news reporter/news ed. A week off and then I'm joining the @PA Lobby team as a political correspondent.
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David Wilcock
3 years
Of course as all middle-class kids growing up in the shires in the 1990s know, there is only one Big Dog
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David Wilcock
7 years
"But enough war David, what is Kate wearing?" I hear you cry. It's a cream ensemble by Alexander McQueen AND she's worn it before!
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1 year
Huge decision ahead now, who takes Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds and who takes Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?
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David Wilcock
6 years
There is no adrenaline rush quite like trying to catch copy calling the DUP leader Arlene Fister before it is transmitted on the wire.
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4 years
@twlldun 'Ladies and gentlemen, still touring and producing new music, it's Proud Boys.'
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David Wilcock
7 years
Flowers at the cordon by @wabbey tonight #LondonAttacks
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