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Fiona Parker

@FionaParker66

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Ex-Mirror letters editor/writer, Labour Party campaigner. Former candidate for the West End ward by-election. All views my own.

London, England
Joined October 2012
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@FionaParker66
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#BorisJohnson wanted to stay on as PM. Now he refuses to assist on the #CostOfLivingCrisis . Stop shirking, man, & do your duty. Shameful.
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Damage is done despite Kamikwasi's humiliating U-turn on the 45p tax rate. Truss's govt is dead in the water. We need a #GeneralElectionNow
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As backbench Tories vote for their freedom to get infected by #Omicron , the Govt is busily preparing to shred the Human Rights Act. Terrifying. #r4today #Tories
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So #BorisJohnson has ruled out an emergency budget & Sunak & Truss are still squabbling over tax. They're living in a parallel universe to rest of us #CostOfLivingCrisis #C4News
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It's been an extraordinary week for anyone who thinks the #ToriesUnfitToGovern and who wants a #GeneralElectionNow . I'd love to reach a magic 3,000 followers so please if give me a follow and I'll follow back as much as I can #FollowBackFriday
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I'm from Durham. Still have family in some of the former mining communities. The area has been forgotten since Thatcher. It'll take more than a flimsy Tory White Paper to turn things around #LevellingUp #C4News
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Would really like to get to 1000 followers so plse give me a follow if you think we need to do everything we can to get the #ToriesOut #followbackfriday .
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Fed up with the men in suits telling us we're going to have to put up with worse living standards. Are they? Course not. It's #Tory economic failure that's making this crisis so much worse #CostOfLivingCrisis #r4today
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Surely we can't wait 2 years for the next election? Can't imagine how much damage to people's lives & the country #Truss & Co could do in that time #TrussMustGo #GeneralElectionNow
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At last some acknowledgement that Bexit is in large part responsible for the present state of UK politics. Saddled with a bunch of second rate Brexit-supporting politicians #r4today
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I'm blown away by your response to the shout out for followers. Thank you. I guess there are lots of people out there who really want rid of this rotten govt which is heartening #GTTO
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2 years
Thank you @lisanandy for clarifying the difference between @Keir_Starmer 's curry & the Tories serial, industrial scale partying. Fed up with @sophieraworth pushing this narrative on #SundayMorning
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I'm with @AngelaRayner . It's shocking when people are interviewed on TV & say we should move on from #Partygate & PM is doing a good job. What are they on? #r4today #NoConfidence
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2 years
I really appreciate all the follows & hope I've managed to follow most of you back. Enjoy your Sunday despite the Tory omnishambles #ToriesOut
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Fiona Parker
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I've been proud to be the #Labour candidate in the West End by-election Disappointed to lose but we can hold up our heads for running a positive and decent campaign against relentless negativity from the Tories. Huge thanks to all who supported 🌹
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I've always loved the story of how the Manchester mill workers stood in solidarity with the freed slaves in the US Civil War despite the huge suffering it caused them #BlackHistoryMonth2024
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To mark #BlackHistoryMonth2024 , I took a group of amazing students from @RCDivineMercy on a tour of our city-centre to learn about how, in 1862, the humble cotton-workers of Manchester took a stand and refused to handle slave-picked cotton.👇🏻
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Thanks again for the follows, lovely twitter folk. There are so many good people out there who despise what this Govt is doing. Let's work together to kick the #ToriesOut #GTTO
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2 years
#Zahawi finally sacked. What took them long? The Tories no longer capable of governing. We need a #GeneralElectionNow #Ridge
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2 years
The Tories are imploding. Truss is incapable of governing. There has to be a #GeneralElectionNow
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2 years
This Govt is the pits. First #Truss blocks an energy saving campaign. Then @ConorBurnsUK is sacked after misconduct claims #EnoughIsEnough
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3 years
More proof if it was needed #DowningStreetParties
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Pippa Crerar
3 years
This looks very much like evidence of the May 20, 2020 party... when outside gatherings were still banned in England...
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Chatting to a lovely old chap in my street, he said, "Why do I still like, Boris despite everything?" Nor did he know #KeirStarmer was son of a toolmaker & nurse. Put him straight but there must be millions like him #ToriesOut
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2 years
Complete overreaction to peaceful anti-monarchy protests with people being arrested under the #PublicOrderAct #TheQueen
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2 years
Predicted 13% inflation, Bank of England raising interest rates again, about to enter a deeper recession than the Great Depression & we currently don't have a functioning Govt #C4News #CostOfLivingCrisis
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Fiona Parker
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So excited to be the @WestminsterLabour candidate for the West End ward by-election on 19th September. Can't wait to get started!
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Fiona Parker
2 years
RIP #OliviaNewton -John. I've been a fan since I was 11 when Grease came out. So sad she's gone.
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Mirror Breaking News
2 years
BREAKING: Grease legend Olivia Newton-John has passed away
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3 years
An alarming statistic: There are now more food banks in Britain than branches of McDonald's @r4Today #CostOfLiving crisis
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2 years
A massive thank you to everyone who followed me. I now have more than 1000 followers 🙂 I'm amazed
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3 years
Listening to Delia Smith on #r4today , we need leaders who represent the best of us, not the worst #StandWithUkraine #RefugeesWelcome 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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“Every time I hear a political speech or read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.” Albert Camus #ToriesOut
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Fiona Parker
2 years
Who is PM #Hunt or #Truss ? Where was she? This Govt has no mandate. We need a #GeneralElectionNow
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2 years
@johannthors Beautiful. I saw them back in September near Borganes. Mind-blowing.
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3 years
Keir Starmer right to accuse Govt of "industrial scale" partying In response to Sophie Raworth grilling over him drinking ONE beer while at a constituency meeting. No comparison #SundayMorning
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3 years
So now it's not hospitalisations that are the benchmark it's how many in ICU. Changing the goalposts all the time @nadhimzahawi #SundayMorning
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Fiona Parker
2 years
@bluemoonjules @ShirlieDuckNip @jessphillips He was rude & dismissive of all Labour questions. Arrogant beyond belief.
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Fiona Parker
3 years
Boom! @DavidLammy giving no quarter to Grant Shapps. Great to see some real passion from Labour #bbcqt
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Fiona Parker
2 years
This is just fantastic! @coldwarsteve
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Cold War Steve
2 years
Out tomorrow! ⁦ @NewStatesman ⁩ Summer Special. Cover by me xxx
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2 years
Thank God @NadineDorries confirmed she'll never run for PM. Can she now please just go away? She's the most uncultured Culture Secretary ever #r4today
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2 years
How about going after the £16bn lost to Covid fraud & restoring the £20 UC uplift to help the pooret @Jacob_Rees_Mogg ? What part of not doing enough does he not get? #andrewneilshow
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Fiona Parker
3 years
@IanLaveryMP @recklesstrev @UKLabour Membership not the most important thing. Winning elections is.
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2 years
If Truss & Co start slashing benefits for the most vulnerable to pay for their tax cuts for the richest I hope people will take to the streets to demand a #GeneralElectionNow .
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2 years
Oh dear @nadhimzahawi . Stop defending the indefensible. She really us going to have to go isn't she? #SuellaBraverman #r4today
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2 years
Lovely to see students supporting teachers & uni lecturers striking for fair wages. Gives such hope for the future #strikes #strikes #C4News
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2 years
Welcome report by #C4News on the right to protest & Bank Holiday closures instead of just the usual blanket obsequiousness #RightToProtest
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2 years
Yup!
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David Yelland
2 years
If a Labour Prime Minister and Labour Chancellor were on holiday during an economic crisis like this the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Express, Sun et al would have helicopters with cameras over their vacation homes.
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So Chief Whip & Deputy Chief Whip are still in post. Are you keeping up? Truss isn't running the country, she's not even running the Tory Party. Time to go #GeneralElectionNow
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2 years
So @BorisJohnson who works from home tells us #WFH doesn't work because we all faff about taking ages to make cups of coffee etc. Says more about him than anything else methinks.
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Fiona Parker
2 years
Thank you for the follows lovely Twitter people. Heartening to know there are many like-minded folk who want to get this morally bankrupt Govt out #GeneralElectionNow
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2 years
Arrggh! I just want to shout & scream at @MattHancock & #JeremyHunt . Taking no responsibility whatsoever for the carnage the Tories have created. Why should the public pay for their disasters? #GeneralElectionNow # @BbcLauraK
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2 years
#JeremyHunt comparing the nation's economy to a household budget is just plain wrong & another way of saying ordinary people have to bear the brunt of the Tories' mismanagement of the economy @RidgeOnSunday
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1 year
Yikes #EltonJohn . Wasn't it Ashley Beedle who did the remix honours on Are You Ready For Love, not Fatboy Slim? But we'll forgive you #glastonbury2023
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What the heck? #PennyMordaunt to take questions on the economic statement. Things are moving fast. Is #Truss history already
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Fiona Parker
2 months
20,000 steps walked. 100s of leaflets delivered and doors knocked. Thank you to everyone who came to support tonight's session for the #westend by-election, inc @JSmallEdwards #Labour #winning
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Almost the entire audience of #bbcqt wants an election. Pressure is building #GeneralElectionNow
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Beautiful evening for the final canvass before the #westend by-election tomorrow. Thank you to @RNBlake @KarenPBuckQP @SocialistSocs and to everyone else who had joined me on the #Labourdoorstep . It's been a brilliant campaign 🙌 🗳 ❎️ 🌹
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What a man.
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Omid Djalili
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This is Captain Behnam Zarei, a police officer called to a scene in #Iran by a pro-regime woman insisting he arrest another woman for not wearing Hijab. A brave man. Hopefully thousands like him joining the people tomorrow. #Feb16 #IranRevolution #OpIran
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Not #SuellaBraverman back at the Home Office. I feel sick. That means Rwanda policy is still on. Disgraceful #Reshuffle #GeneralElectionNow
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3 years
"Mis-chararcterised these events" for people who were working "incredibly hard" @BorisJohnson says about the rule-breaching parties. The people who are working incredibly hard are the NHS whom you don't deem worthy of more than a 3% pay rise. #downingstreetparty @DailyMirror
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Deluded to the end. Not a shred of humility #BorisJohnson #itshappening
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I knew #Orgreave was bad at the time but not this bad. What an extraordinary doc #Channel4 Battle for Britain #MinersStrike1984
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@Keir_Starmer looking so much more prime ministerial than Johnson at the #Cenotaph #RemembranceSunday
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Fiona Parker
2 years
People dying as they wait for cancer treatment, no action on energy, this #ZombieGovernment is leading us into the abyss. We need a #GeneralElectionNow #r4today
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Fiona Parker
2 months
Another fabulous turnout for the #westend by-election on September 19th. Great response for #Labour on the doorstep @RNBlake @w9maidavale @PDimoldenberg @ormsby_ellie @CllrPLilley @NafsikaT @220_d_92_20
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3 days to go to the #westend by-election and another fantastic reception on the #Labourdoorstep . On 19th September vote to move forwards with #Labour @RNBlake @josephpowell @Hamza_Taouzzale @CllrPLilley
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🌹Less than 24 hours until the polls open in the crucial #Westend by-election 🌹Vote to move forwards with #Labour who have delivered: 🌹Free school meals for primary children 🌹Food waste recycling 🌹More truly affordable housing
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Govt advocates pay restraint for staff. What about restraint on shareholders' dividends & obscene corporate profits? #r4today #RailStrikes
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Rain didn't stop play today for the #westend by-election. Great session and great response for #Labour 🌹 🌹 🌹
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2 years
I'd like politics to become boring again with politicians who want to serve the public not themselves #NoConfidence #BorisMustGo
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Fiona Parker
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Brilliant lunchtime session on the #Labourdoorstep in Soho for #westend by-election on 19th Sept. Let's keep going to make this another Labour hold @PDimoldenberg @w9maidavale @DenisMacShane
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Fiona Parker
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Was there any Downing Street dept that wasn't having a party last year when we were all in lockdown? #downingstreetparty
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Fiona Parker
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Round 2 on the #Labourdoorstep for the #Westend by-election on 19th Sept. Thank you for your support @LDNYoungLabour @RNBlake @ormsby_ellie @cll
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Fiona Parker
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Imagine being at a vax centre & @BorisJohnson pops up 😳 Don't know what I'd say...Good manners & job aside I can think of a few things I'd like to say #C4News
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2 days to go to the #westend by-election and another positive session on the #Labourdoorstep . Lots of strong support for #Labour from residents in Fitz @RNBlake @AdamHug @JSmallEdwards @w9maidavale
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Fiona Parker
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Great to be part of the team supporting @Georgia_Gould for @MayorofLondon visit to Little Venice today #GE2024 #Labour .
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Queen’s Park and Maida Vale Labour Party
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Thanks to everyone who came out this evening it was amazing hearing from @JSmallEdwards , @AdamHug and our amazing special guest @MayorofLondon who joined in canvassing this evening at Little Venice for @Georgia_Gould great to hear what’s needed locally. #Labour #GE2024 🌹
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Fiona Parker
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So is #JeremyHunt saying there will be more austerity in the form of 'efficiencies'? Sounds like it. What's needed is a wealth tax,not cuts to already struggling public services #GeneralElectionNow #r4today
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Fiona Parker
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Smashing turnout for today's #labourdoorstep for the West End by-election Sept 19. And then on to the wonderful Fitzrovia Fete with @RyanJudeGreen ..
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Really positive response for #Labour on the #Labourdoorstep in Soho this morning. Vote Labour to move forwards in the #Westend by-election on 19th September 🌹
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Surely the inevitable must have already happened judging by the tone of the @BBC coverage? This interminable waiting & speculation is awful #TheQueen
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Ofgem announce an 80% increase in energy bills & silence from the Govt. The thought of #Truss as PM during this national emergency is chilling - literally #EnergyPriceCap #EnergyCrisis
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Fiona Parker
6 months
Great to be part of the team supporting #SadiqKhan and James Small-Edwards in the London Mayoral and assembly elections tonight #LocalElections2024
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Sadiq Khan
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Great to join so many MPs & @LondonLabour supporters in Westminster tonight. A vote for Labour on May 2 is a vote for: 🌹40,000 council homes 🌹6000 rent control homes 🌹1300 more police 🌹150,000 new jobs 🌹Free school meals made permanent #LabourDoorstep #VoteLabour 🌹
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Fiona Parker
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These Tory MPs on #Newsnight are living in a parallel universe 😳. Face it, the game's up. We need a #GeneralElection
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Fiona Parker
2 years
It's quite something when #CriminalBar barristers take to the picket line in their wigs and robes supported by the #rmt . Solidarity with all those who do vital jobs seeking better wages & conditions.
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Jess Hurd
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Striking criminal barristers outside the Old Bailey to Save UK Justice © Jess Hurd
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@Anna_Soubry Can't fathom why they thought he was a worthy interviewee. Disgraceful.
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Fiona Parker
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I've been swimming in our seas more often in the past couple of years. Will now think again after the #Dispatches report. Another example of profit before people by privatised water companies #SewageScandal
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Whatever your views on #PrinceHarry , what he had to say was fascinating. None of them come out if this looking good. #HarryTheInterview
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Fiona Parker
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Great to be a guest on @sohosocietyw1 hour on @sohoradio with @timlord65 and Gabriel from Beasy Bar talking about #westend by-election on September 19th.
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#IMF predicts UK will have lowest growth of the #G7 yet Brexit doesn't get a mention in this? Welcome to downgraded #ToryBritain 2022. How depressing.
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Fiona Parker
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Great to be out on the doorstep in Mayfair for the West End council by-election Sept 19 @NiltonRofficial @CllrPLilley @w9maidavale #labourdoorstep
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So Johnson and Sunak have both been slapped with a fine for the #DowningStreetParties . So, that'll mean a whole new govt then? Not.
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Fiona Parker
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He's getting in a twist...he cannot withstand this level of scrutiny #BorisJohnson #PrivilegesCommittee
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Fiona Parker
2 years
Even @NadineDorries is calling for an election 😂 #GeneralElectionNow
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Fiona Parker
2 years
#RishiSunak has blown any chances of a clean slate with his #Reshuffle . #Coffey at Environment security risk #Braverman back at Home Office useless #GavinWilliamson back in Cabinet. Mind-bogglingly awful #GeneralElectionsNow
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Fiona Parker
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Great news for #WestEnd residents @wminsterlabour gets things done!
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Westminster City Council
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We’re delighted to announce that our newest housing office will be opening in Soho later this month 🏠 We already have 7 housing offices across the city, where residents can speak face-to-face with housing staff about anything from repairs issues to support needs or help
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Tory MPs with any shred of decency should do the right thing for the country & get rid of #Truss & call a #GeneralElectionNow . We can't carry on like this
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Been off grid for a week. Come back to an absolute #Tory horror show. Now the #IMF has criticised the #MiniBudget . The country is in a tailspin. We need a #GeneralElectionNow
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Fiona Parker
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When your local contact for a canvas in your twinned seat in Reading West turns out to be your ex @DailyMirror colleague of 28 years @greenwood100 #Labourdoorstep #GE2024
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So vote of no confidence happening tonight. @BorisJohnson expected to win...hope Tory MPs who are planning to vote for him suddenly develop a conscience #r4today
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