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6 months

She’s ruled out a May election

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3 months

This is a way bigger crowd than Corbyn ever got

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2 months

Just normal towns.

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Karim Palant

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11 months

Labour got just 25,500 votes in the two by-elections last night. Compare that to the 10.2 million votes Labour got in 2019, or the 14million the Tories got. Terrible night for Starmer.

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Karim Palant

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3 months

What is the most centrist dad moment in television history and why is it this

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4 months

BREAKING: Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell has resigned.

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4 months

Absolutely delighted for local schoolboy @SamCoatesSky that he has won the spelling bee

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6 months

One of the truly great community notes:

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

4 months

Europe wide public vote (in order) Croatia - 337 Israel - 323 Ukraine - 307 France - 227 Switzerland - 226 Ireland - 136 Italy - 104

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

3 months

You can be as snarky as you like but I’ve done my national service and it really really toughened me up. Back in the mid/late 1990s France allowed those with dual citizenship living abroad to do their compulsory service voluntarily. That meant you could more or less pick ..

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Karim Palant

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3 months

I also realise I described these utterly anachronistically as PowerPoint presentations. They were, of course, on acetate, and had a special painful brightness to them.

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

2 months

Rishi Sunak has the opportunity to do the funniest thing possible

Ladbrokes Politics

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2 months

Who will win tonight's BBC Leaders' Debate? (According to @YouGov snap poll) Keir Starmer - 2/5 Rishi Sunak - 7/4

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Karim Palant

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2 months

An important pointer for the make up of the French Parliament and the next Presidential elections…. **within** the left coalition it is a doubling of moderate Parti Socialiste MPs which is driving the rise of the left coalition. Melenchon hasn’t made many gains at all.

Frédéric Says

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2 months

Ce soir, qui gagne et qui perd ? (en nombre de députés par groupe politique, par rapport à 2022) - RN : +58% - Renaissance : -42% - Modem : -27% - Horizons : -13% - LFI : stable - PS : +109% - EELV : +47% LR : stable (Source : Législatives 2022 / estimations IPSOS ce soir)

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Karim Palant

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2 months

So it’s ‘Kamala’, like Comma - la but you have to say Comma in an American accent so it sounds a bit like Camma-la to a Brit so we Brits all have to try to work out whether comma-la or camma-la sounds more like the US ‘Cawmalla’ or try putting on the accent.

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Karim Palant

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11 months

@rcolvile You’re obviously not in standard class then there’s barely enough space to put legs never mind houses

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Karim Palant

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16 days

If Taylor Swift **is** the surprise guest at the DNC tonight I really really hope she comes in on a giant mock up of a boat with John Kerry.

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

1 year

I’ve known Bridget 20 years and I would say … underestimate her at your peril. What a fantastic profile.

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

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Karim Palant

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9 months

Tony Blair would have won the 1997, 2001 and 2005 elections if only he’d listened to Kate Hoey on the hunting issue.

Calgie

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Keir Starmer told to end 'war on countryside' over Boxing Day Hunts to win election

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Karim Palant

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3 months

Forget toolmakers, My dad was killed in action trying to destroy a Death Star

Jordan Tyldesley

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3 months

Me trying to become PM “My father was a club singer” (Bloody good one too)

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Karim Palant

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4 months

I thought this was a fairly safe gag but pondering it…: there must be a non zero chance a decent number of people don’t know that is not the name of the current DWP secretary…:

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Karim Palant

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2 months

Lovely stuff

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Karim Palant

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2 months

That is exactly how Rishi will feel when the exit poll shows a hung parliament on Thursday

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

3 months

The irony of course is despite this formative and toughening experience I have never actually had sufficient backbone to confront the French bureaucracy to actually get my French passport.

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

2 months

There’s a lot of ‘what to expect as the night progresses’ previews but this is the most user friendly. I genuinely haven’t felt like this since Christmas Eve when I was about six.

Sam Freedman

@Samfr

2 months

Final post of the day What to look out for tomorrow night by me and @Beyond_Topline And a bunch of sites and resources to help you interpret the results. (£/free trial)

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

4 months

Big prize for the first no10 staffer who briefs that Andy Street’s problem was that he distanced himself too much from no10

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

3 months

Ed Davey needs to be careful. Stunts like this might seem like a good idea but it’s a slippery slope.

ITV News West Country

@itvwestcountry

3 months

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey is visiting Somerset today as part of his election campaign. The rain didn't seem to get in the way as he tried out the 'Ultimate Slip N Slide' in Shepton Mallet. He's just been told he is not allowed any more goes.

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Karim Palant

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3 months

I was - and remain- vaguely interested. Like, had this content been set out in a twitter thread by an amateur enthusiast I’d have read it. But this was absolute torture. This was in the days before widespread Pret.. I didn’t even drink coffee in those days.

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Karim Palant

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3 months

What can you do if you catch your MPs by surprise by calling an election? In 2007 Gordon had indicated he wasn’t going to have an early election after he became PM. But heading into Late September and Party conference season this changed. At Party conference senior staff …

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

10 months

End of an Eh Re Ah

Joe Pike

@joepike

10 months

NEW: Schools Minisiter @NickGibbUK has left govt. Served in the role under Cameron, May, Johnson and Sunak. Quite the run.

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

1 year

Britain blaming geo-political reputation for poor performance every year whilst Israel consistently overperforms is one of the small niche Eurovision pleasures.

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

2 months

Hmmmm. I’m beginning to think my plan to actually have a nap before the exit poll, after the exit poll and at 5am on Friday - ie managing to fall asleep 3 times - might be quite challenging given how wired i am tonight and there is literally not a single result for 24 hours.

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

3 months

I think this is one of my favourite political photos in years

Stefan Rousseau

@StefanRousseau

3 months

Phot du Jour GE2024: (In a rare departure, it's an upright). Labour leader @Keir_Starmer and shadow chancellor @RachelReevesMP visit Southampton docks. By Stefan Rousseau/PA

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Karim Palant

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8 months

@thhamilton He wrote two op Eds, one In favour of burning the Christmas tree and one against. The problem is this time he wrote them both at the same time.

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

2 months

Whoever wins England v Switzerland next weekend should get to cherry pick one EU trade regulation to exempt themselves from.

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

8 months

I was a student somewhere not far from bottom left of this graph. There were - some, not many- peers who were vocal about the fact that they felt it was now ‘easier’ for state school applicants to get into unis because of prejudice against public school. So this is a lovely sight

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

5 months

Harold Wilson might feel like ancient history but he’s the fourth most recent Labour PM …. Which makes him the equivalent to…

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

3 months

Blair with Flares

Rachel Wearmouth

@REWearmouth

3 months

Farage calls Starmer "Blair without the flare" Pointing to Rayner: "The real leader of the Labour Party is here tonight on the stage, at least she's got some personality" Rayner not impressed with a backhanded compliment calls him a "clown personality" & likens him to Johnson

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Karim Palant

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6 months

All I can say is if past outcomes have anything to do with future performance some of these - presumably students - will be on the Labour front bench in the next ten or fifteen years.

Adam Langleben 🇺🇦

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6 months

Labour Party organisers. Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear chicken suits.

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2 months

I’m just sad about it really. It’s just really really sad.

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

7 months

@MichaelLCrick Looks more like a doorstep script. Hard to hand someone a card over the phone.

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Karim Palant

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7 months

I first met my future father in law in a hospital waiting room when my now wife was recovering from a major operation. The major - only - topic of conversation was the traffic he had encountered around the Runcorn bridge on the way to the train station. This is totally relatable.

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Karim Palant

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5 months

At least last time the Resolution Foundation ran the country we actually built stuff

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Karim Palant

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4 months

The ex Corbyners tweeting explanations of why Starmer is on track to lose in the general elections are going to **keep doing this*** year on year until Labour does - inevitably- lose. The only way they can be proven wrong in this game is if Labour retains power permanently.

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Karim Palant

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1 month

And they say media studies is a Mickey Mouse degree…. So much to unpack here

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Karim Palant

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3 months

But … if I fell alseep would I be sent to some military base for a year? Who knew? This whole system was new. We had no idea. With thanks to the anonymous ex pats who got me through it, after lunch I was able to crawl back to my Dad’s in Kensal rise. Where I slept like a baby.

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Karim Palant

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3 months

I think after the last few days I can say with certainty that my grandfather would not have voted for Rishi Sunak. He was, to be fair, a lifelong communist so it would have been a long shot.

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

5 months

Well that was worth doing thanks

Election Maps UK

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5 months

Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 41% (=) CON: 25% (=) RFM: 11% (=) LDM: 10% (=) GRN: 8% (=) SNP: 3% (=) Via @OpiniumResearch , 3-5 Apr. Changes w/ 20-22 Mar.

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Karim Palant

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10 months

If Man City - as I assume they will based on today’s ruling - face a 1150 point penalty is it not a bit unfair that they get to take that all in one season and only get relegated once? Surely it should be 80 odd points a season for 14 seasons until they’re playing Sunday league?

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Karim Palant

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3 months

This was hardship enough. But I somehow managed to organise matters so I was expected to attend my 18th birthday party in Liverpool on the Friday night, and get to the French Consulate in London at 9:30 am.

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Karim Palant

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3 months

I Then had to sit, at the back of a dark conference room, whilst a French military attaché talked me and about 50 18 year olds - how many ships the French navy had, the upcoming completion of the Charles De Gaulle aircraft carrier and some of its features.

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Karim Palant

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3 months

Instead of a full year, young French could attend an information and citizenship course. This became my new obligation. I would have to travel down to London shortly after my 18th birthday and attend a series of PowerPoint presentations.

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Karim Palant

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7 months

I'm gonna call her on the telephone Have her over 'cause I'm all alone I need excitement oh I need it bad And it's the best, I've ever had

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

3 months

Opinium are saying the majority of this was done before D-Day - echoing Stalin’s take on the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Calum Weir

@CWP_Weir

3 months

Keep a keen eye out for our results at 8pm today 👀

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Karim Palant

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3 months

My 18th birthday party was brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. And, for one reason or another I didn’t get to bed til gone 3:30. Somehow, after 90 minutes sleep I made it to Lime Street. Feeling increasingly green and unpleasant I survived the train trip.

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Karim Palant

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3 months

The pallets on the street on Victoria street. The line at the time of course was that there was not election planed and never had been. So the panic as the several tons of contradictory evidence sat in broad daylight was a sight to behold.

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Karim Palant

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On GCSE results day I went to an off license and ordered ‘one of every alcopop please’ and as this was the peak of the cartoon alcopop boom of the mid/late 1990s I ended up vomiting up pink. Given this, I won’t be providing any life advice to anyone at this time.

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

11 months

Sparkle with Starmer

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

3 months

Labour Party General Secretary. Within months the General Secretary concerned was tangled up in one of the (various) Labour funding snafus of the era and had to resign. The stacks and stacks of leaflets and posters were quietly pulped.

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Karim Palant

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1 year

Ah that sweet sweet sense of wild mood swings based on a single ward worth of data from Sunderland. How I have missed you.

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Karim Palant

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4 months

‘We’re busy.’ .. ‘Can you send a hologram?’ .. ‘Actually the holograms are in London’ .. ‘What do you mean ? The Holograms aren’t real they’re holograms they can be wherever’ .. ‘The. holograms. Are. In. london’ … ‘Here they are! The ABBA holograms! Beamed live from London!’

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Karim Palant

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3 months

I feel like this debate is what happens if you just try to televise ‘The Internet’

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Karim Palant

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2 months

@gabrielmilland This argument is a bit ‘look what you made me do’ tho isn’t it…?

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Karim Palant

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3 months

@VikramDodd No I definitely think they went there to watch Taylor Swift.

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Karim Palant

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2 months

In a fragmented media landscape everyone needs their own client media outlet. The disgruntled local party member convinced they know better than the experienced campaign professionals at Party head office - despite no access to data and massive local bias now have Crick.

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Karim Palant

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3 months

I was not doing well. The young Anglo French lads sat nearby started to seriously worry about me. Also, even if they’d been allowed - nobody owned a mobile phone at 18 years old in 1998. We all had to actually listen.

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Karim Palant

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3 months

Regardless of Party and quite apart from any mild mockery he might deserve regarding his rocky campaigning record amongst other things - @TorstenBell is genuinely a hugely talented guy and would grace parliament in any generation.

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Karim Palant

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3 months

Where you went and what you did. Throughout my mid teens my plan to go and teach English in a Caribbean or South Pacific island looked like coming off.

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

2 months

So delighted for my friend @antoniabance in Tipton and Wednesbury

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

2 months

The French Republic has squeaked through on Le Penalties

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

3 months

Sadly just a year or so before I was due to start rolling out my plan the system changed. If you wanted to keep your French citizenship you could no longer volunteer but you had to do the service. But at the same time French military service was being phased out and replaced

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Karim Palant

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Waugh, Huh, Yeh. What has he stood for? Rochdale again! Waugh, Huh, yeh what has he stood for?

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Karim Palant

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Were asked to go round hiring a general election team including former staffers (like me) to do jobs at HQ. It leaked and BBC broke the news that Labour were hiring for the election. Speculation was running wild.

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Karim Palant

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3 months

Those of us who were avid readers of political blogs in the mid 2000s will by quite emotionally involved with this

Joe Pike

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3 months

NEW: LBC’s @IainDale quits radio to run for Westminster. The 61yo unsuccessfully contested North Norfolk for Conservatives in 2005. He was chief of staff to David Davis in leadership campaign against David Cameron. He’s been broadcasting on LBC since 2010.

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Karim Palant

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5 months

He famously also set off down the freeway in a white Bronco but was overtaken by a speeding Chris Huhne

Simon Alvey

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5 months

I had forgotten my favourite OJ Simpson fact (probably my favourite fact), OJ Simpson was a sprinter before becoming an American footballer, he took part in a race in 1967 won by a British athlete who ran under 10.2s for the second time that year That athlete, Ming Campbell

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Karim Palant

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2 months

This is such a lovely list of people - I think they are all really dedicated public servants who will add real substance to the Lords. How often can you say that?

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

2 months

It’s still incredibly sad.

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Karim Palant

@KarimPalant

4 months

Last time Labour tried this trick it was an Elvis impersonator.

Aubrey Allegretti

@breeallegretti

4 months

Labour is planning a secretive event with Keir Starmer and a “special guest” in Essex on Thursday. I’m told it’s been long in the planning. Sources suggest it’s viewed as a key pre-manifesto moment, with Starmer to flesh out his five missions and launch a 1997-style pledge

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