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Political Correspondent @mirrorpolitics . Find me on TikTok @soph_husk . Email me tips and stories: sophie.huskisson @mirror .co.uk

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1 year
Lucy Bronze collects her medal but chooses not to shake the hand of FIFA boss Gianni Infantino - imagine this has something to do with him telling female players to "convince us men" in the ongoing fight for equal pay...
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There aren't many photos that can truly embody the historical significance of this week, but this is certainly one of them
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Rishi Sunak’s campaign event in Wiltshire interrupted by a GP who says the “NHS is disintegrating” under the Tories
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💥 I asked Nigel Farage: “You’ve announced you’re standing to become Clacton MP. This is despite you previously saying, and I quote: ‘Do I want to spend every Friday for the next five years in Clacton?' What’s changed your mind?”
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Keir Starmer took multiple questions from broadcast and print journalists today Meanwhile Rishi Sunak is in hiding
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Just had a huddle with Rishi Sunak - every newspaper got to ask a question except the Mirror Thanks to lobby colleagues who are equally outraged at such a blatant exclusion
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9 months
EXCLUSIVE: Jetsetter Rishi Sunak takes VIP plane to event despite train taking just two hours "Jetsetter Rishi Sunak has started 2024 as he ended last year - by taking a private plane to an event that could easily be reached by train" - by @DaveBurke12
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9 months
It is disappointing to see people trying to turn Starmer saying Sunak "simply does not get Britain" into a race row when he was clearly talking about his wealth and the cost of living crisis Things like this make it so much harder to call out actual racism in Westminster
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Jonathan Ashworth just shredded the Tory manifesto at a hastily organised press conference “The truth is the money is not there in the Tory manifesto. Their manifesto lies in tatters,” he says
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🚨 Uh oh, siren’s out… I’m so delighted to say I’ll be joining the inspirational and formidable force that is the @DailyMirror next month as a Political Correspondent! My DMs are always open for stories/coffees/drinks! 📲☕️🗞
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2 years
More than 60 MPs have demanded "action" against Jeremy Clarkson over an article in which he said he "hated" the Duchess of Sussex The cross-party group demanded an “unreserved apology” is issued to Meghan “immediately”
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I ask Shadow Health Secretary @wesstreeting some of your burning questions on the topic of food… including, of course, what his Nando’s order is
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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper tells MPs there is a “responsibility on social media companies” to monitor what takes place on their platforms amid misinformation being spread about the Southport attack
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Keir Starmer says he’s “fed up” of people saying antisocial behaviour is low level He says he has heard teenage girls say they don’t feel safe walking down the high street “in the middle of the day” He and Yvette Cooper setting out Labour’s plans to tackle crime in Essex
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1 year
EXC: Blow for King Charles as Jamaica presses on with plans to cut UK monarchy ties A pleasure to interview Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness, who made clear he wants to ditch the royal family Here’s us joking about me posing with my notepad…
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3 years
I'm delighted to say that I will be joining the @DailyMailUK as a trainee reporter on the Stephen Lawrence scheme on Monday! Thank you @TheVoiceNews for the most amazing 9 months - I've been given endless opportunities and support and will miss you all so much❤️
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An incredibly poignant and moving moment as Sir Martin Moore-Bick ends his statement by reading the names of the 72 lives lost in the Grenfell Tower fire The room is silent - it comes minutes after he says the public inquiry has concluded the deaths were "all avoidable"
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Jeremy Clarkson's Sun article in which he said he was 'dreaming of the day' when Meghan was made to 'parade naked through the streets' while crowds 'throw lumps of excrement at her' has now become Ipso's most complained about article - with more than 17.5K complaints
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#Breaking Jeremy Clarkson’s Sun newspaper column, in which he said he “hated” the Duchess of Sussex, has become the Independent Press Standards Organisation’s most complained about article, with more than 17,500 complaints
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NEW Keir Starmer says he was "surprised" by poster and brands it "desperate" “I think it underlines the difference between the two campaigns now... They’re running a very negative campaign, nothing about the future of the country."
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Rishi Sunak slammed for 'surrender' poster showing child with hands raised
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3 years
I had my first spread in the Irish Daily Mail - and in the Saturday paper too! These are some of the derelict buildings rotting across Ireland and all when a housing crisis with a lack of supply of properties and soaring prices is out of control These could all be homes
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Not the Lib Dems photo bombing Rishi Sunak’s pool clip hahahaha They know they’ve smashed it with Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper’s graciously iconic wave at the end too @libdemdaisy
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4 years
Today marks exactly one year that I lost my wonderful Dad. I entered 2020 knowing it was going to be the hardest year of my life, notwithstanding everything else it was to throw at us. Here’s a thread of some thoughts I want to share (1/12)
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Cat's out the bag with this huge pic of my face... I have started my new role as a Health Reporter @DailyMailUK alongside the brilliant @shaungw This means no more hot desking rather my very own desk with drawers I can make a mess <3 Email in bio - add me to your mailing lists!
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Daily Mail names health reporter @MailOnline @soph_husk
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EXC: Simon Clarke has suggested doctors shouldn’t complain about pay as he could be earning £400,000 in the private sector but chooses not to And he defends the decision not to pay nurses more...
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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt spends the morning claiming taxes would increase under Labour - and we’ve got a 19-page dossier on it Asked if the Tories - who have overseen the tax burden rise to its highest level since WWII - will cut taxes, he says he doesn’t have a “crystal ball”
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4 months
Rishi Sunak’s £2,000 attack line absolutely blowing up in his face this morning Lies never stand up to scrutiny
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2 years
My first Mirror splash - the PM has received a second fine in less than a year after not wearing a seatbelt in a car - he was also fined during the partygate scandal last April👇🏾
@TmorrowsPapers
Tomorrows Papers Today
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Saturday's Mirror: Another fine mess #TomorrowsPapersToday #DailyMirror #Mirror
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Rishi Sunak asked 'how can anyone trust you' after Partygate fine by man who lost mum Nick Fox told me he wanted to “look him in the eye” and tell the PM what his family have been through as he partied in No10 - and that he doesn’t accept Sunak’s apology
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So pleased to be launching a new politics show for the Mirror! Watch Party Games every Monday at 6pm on the Mirror’s Youtube page Starting April 29 - join me for some fun and games!
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2 years
Absolutely delighted to have been shortlisted for Young Journalist of the year at the @PressAwardsuk for my work as a general news reporter and health reporter! Time to take on politics now...
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The Tories’ media appearances are going great this weekend… their party chair’s interview has just descended into chaos As for Rishi Sunak, he’s totally avoided journalists
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Oooft Holden mauling on Sky News just now as advisor steps in to complain about the questions
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2 years
Break My Soul is my top song of the year - and tomorrow is my last day at my job Beyoncé really told me to quit my job and I did 😭😭 I think I know what I’ll be playing in my earphones as I walk dramatically out the building tomorrow
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So chuffed to be shortlisted as Young Journalist of the Year for the @EditorsUK awards - thank you! 🥳
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Well if this doesn’t sum up the Tory campaign I don’t know what will “This post has now been deleted”
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1 year
EXCL: I sat down with Keir Starmer today to discuss campaigners' demands for killers to be forced to appear in court for sentencing He told me the Government could "easily" change the law and called on them to "get on with it" Read the story here:
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3 years
Later this week is the two-year death anniversary of my wonderful Dad. Dad, not only is your girl front page today but she’s writing about football in a national newspaper! I’m channelling you into everything I do and I love seeing the ways you’re influencing my life❤️
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My Dad would always say how England hadn’t won a major tournament since 1966, the year he was born. We’d always watch women’s football together and it makes sense that the first big comp after he’d pass - THEY’D FUCKING WIN Here’s to 2022 Dad🥂🥂🥂🥂 I’M CRYING ❤️❤️❤️
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NEW: Huge exclusive out from our Crime Editor Rebecca Camber Police are today digging on the Moors for murder victim Keith Bennett for the first time in 35 years - and nearly six decades after the schoolboy was snatched by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
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My first solo splash byline - a very proud moment, especially for my mum! As waiting times hit new record highs, MPs ask where the money is going… They said problems in the NHS were not down to funding but bureaucracy and management
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1 year
BREAKING: MP Andrew Bridgen expelled by Tories for comparing Covid-19 vaccines to Holocaust
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🚨Exit poll wrong again on Reform UK predictions... Labour has won Hartlepool with an almost 8,000 majority
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Football will always have a special place in my heart because it was a space I shared with my wonderful Dad who I lost in 2019. In these moments, I think of him - I know you would be absolutely loving this Dad❤️
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Huge standing ovation for Nathaniel Dye who tells his terminal cancer diagnosis story on the Labour stage - he says how long waits for treatment have "cut my life in half" Read my interview with Nathaniel from Labour conference here👇
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Woo what a lovely surprise! Chuffed to be shortlisted as Young Journalist of the Year @londonpressclub awards
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Shortlisted for Young Journalist of the Year: Joe Bromley of @EveningStandard ; Sophie Huskisson of @MirrorPolitics @soph_husk ; Eirian Prosser @eirianJprosser of @MailOnline and Katie Tarrant @KatieTarrant_ of @thetimes #pressclubawards #journalism
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Absolutely devastating news. I remember when I met Zephaniah not long after my dad passed away. He spoke to me about grief and told me people only die when they are forgotten - may his legacy live on.
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Black British Book Festival
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We're deeply saddened by the loss of Benjamin Zephaniah, a pioneering Dub Poet and Author whose energy, vibe, and unapologetic work paved the way for Black British Writers. We're forever grateful for his contributions and commitment. He’s legacy will live on forever. /1
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New government, new No10 profile pic
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Savage question from Labour’s Sir Chris Bryant to Rishi Sunak: “What’s worse, losing your WhatsApp messages as a tech bro, losing £11.8billion to fraud as Chancellor, presiding over the biggest fall in living standards in our history, or desperately clinging onto power when
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14 years of the Tories. 14 years of the Mirror holding them to account 👇🏾
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“We have to save our pubs,” says Keir Starmer at Mirror HQ Can’t say he doesn’t know how to appeal to a newsroom
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2 years
Investigation of the year at the Press Awards goes to the @DailyMirror for its reporting on Partygate ‘Don’t stop the Party’ by Pitbull aptly playing in the background as the award is collected
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4 years
No big deal BUT I researched and co-wrote a documentary! Here’s the preview in the Daily Telegraph. I am so grateful to have been involved in such a great project. Both parts are being aired tonight from 9pm on Sky History - tune in if you can!
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@dotunadebayo ⁩ tells this story of resistance Sunday
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Full Starmer quote: "If you point out that the view on the ground is very different to that from his private jet, he says that you are talking the country down. He just does not get it. He does not get what a cost of living crisis feels like. He does not know any schools where
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Today was the day I had my first experience of interviewing an MP – and in front of more than 50 @cityjournalism students! Thanks for the opportunity @Meg_HillierMP and, as always, to @jopayton for organising these interviews!
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3 years
So delighted to get my first byline in yesterday’s Saturday edition of the Mail! Had the most wonderful first week reporting for the diary - and fantastic to be back in beautiful Northcliffe house!
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2 years
So, we’re marking the three-year anniversary of losing my dear Dad today. Everything I wrote in this thread remains true, but here are some more thoughts two years on:
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4 years
Today marks exactly one year that I lost my wonderful Dad. I entered 2020 knowing it was going to be the hardest year of my life, notwithstanding everything else it was to throw at us. Here’s a thread of some thoughts I want to share (1/12)
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Guys this is pure insane... Priti Patel is sending out Xmas cards of her as a fairy on top of a tree magicking up deportations And Boris Johnson sits at the bottom of the tree as a bare-footed gooey-eyed toddler playing with a present - story👇🏾
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My first DM front page byline is on the worrying story of HRT shortages Pharmacists are experiencing shortages across the country and are having to give women their prescriptions back Women have been left feeling suicidal as their health is once again ignored @lizhull @colin_gram
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It’s a Tuesday morning. We’re in our third national lockdown, nearly a year into a global pandemic. My shorthand teacher asks me to spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious The end is nigh
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1 year
Local Elections 2023: TikTok update part 2
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1 year
It was a pleasure to talk to @DawnButlerBrent & @MarshadeCordova ahead of the 75th anniversary of Windrush tomorrow about their families' experiences of moving to the UK from Jamaica Read both pieces below for a journey through the racism and struggles plus the love and laughter
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Pleased to say I am now a verified news source despite my icon making it look like this is a football spam account I thought one of the requirements might be that icons have to be a head shot of you in a suit and tie, but alas apparently this is a choice
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Absolute shambles... Rishi Sunak has now made a massive U-turn and is saying the comments "were racist" after refusing to admit it all day Is Kemi Badenoch now in charge?
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Kate McCann
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NEW: PM spox: “The comments allegedly made by Frank Hester were racist and wrong. He has now rightly apologised for the offence caused and where remorse is shown it should be accepted… 1/2
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Rishi Sunak today gushed about how he wants all kids to study maths up to 18 But he failed to mention how he will tackle any of the issues the education system is facing now… teacher shortages and potential strikes might need addressing first
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In a speech at Middle Temple, Shadow Justice Sec @SteveReedMP slams Tory disregard for the law as he lists Boris Johnson’s “unlawful” attempt to dissolve parliament, his breaking of laws during lockdown, and threatening to breach international law in breaking the Brexit deal
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EXC: Had a wonderful day in the North East with Shadow Policing Minister Sarah Jones, who was exploring how local projects are trying to stop kids getting involved in crime Labour wants prevention to be "at the heart of what we do", @LabourSJ said
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9 months
Tomorrow’s Daily Mirror - Rishi helps the rich get richer
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4 years
Had a brilliant first day reporting for @TheVoiceNews . Super excited to get some experience at such a brilliant publication this week. Any leads on stories for or about the black community - my DMs are open!
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The Voice Newspaper
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Halo Code: UK’s first Black hair code aims to protect employees from discrimination:
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My story for @TheVoiceNews on Missing People's call for evidence re black children going missing. The charity has prev heard how families have experienced discrimination from the police and/or media, and is now looking for trends and similarities Results to be shared in July
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Why are black children going missing? County lines trafficking, criminal and sexual exploitation, difficulties at school or home, could all be causes.
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Nigel Farage says Keir Starmer spoke with a great deal of “passion” in his speech on defence today This man really hates the Tories 👀
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Ed Davey, as he holds a giant jenga, gives a hint to the Lib Dems' next stunt: "It's gonna be blue and it's gonna come down"
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Ed Davey has just been interviewed on the BBC News Channel whilst holding a giant jenga
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I’m most excited for my mum’s reaction about my story being posted on the Home Office’s twitter account
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Home Office
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🗞️ @NimkoAli spoke to @TheVoiceNews about the importance of women of colour having their voices heard in the Government’s Violence Against Women and Girls consultation. #VAWG 👇
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3 years
What a tournament, what a team, what joy they brought to all of us. It’s only the beginning for them. Bring on the World Cup
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3 years
Ah touchdown! I’ve had the most amazing 3 months in Dublin at @irishdailymail covering a whole host of topics I’ve learnt the Irish are obsessed with the weather and that they themselves agree Irish spellings make no sense. Here’s a few splash highlights Onto the next chapter!
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My story on today’s Daily Mirror… I'm A Celebrity viewers warned not to vote to keep in 'poisonous' Nigel Farage
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𝙵𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚝 𝙿𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 𝚃𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚢 📰
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🇬🇧 Get Him Out Of There ▫ITV I'm A Celebrity viewers warned not to vote to keep in 'poisonous' Nigel Farage ▫ @soph_husk ▫ 🇬🇧 #frontpagestoday #UK @DailyMirror
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@BenJamminWalker Hello, Sophie from the Daily Mirror here. Would you mind dropping me a quick DM please? Thanks v much
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EXC One in 10 NHS staff quit last year with burnout and low pay to blame - it means almost 150,000 left the health service "Even though recruitment has been strong, staff numbers have not kept pace with need," @instituteforgov report says
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Keir Starmer tells the PM: "They've obviously found their donkey for the nativity. The search for three wise men might take a little longer"
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4 months
First major gaffe of the campaign... sublime
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Tom Larkin
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Rishi Sunak taking a brave approach to small talk at a brewery in Wales. He asked workers if they're looking forward to 'all the football'. One quickly pointed out that Wales haven't qualified for the Euros 😬
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Take a read of my latest piece for @TheVoiceNews ! One year on from last summer's BLM protests, I spoke to a number of corporations who made promises to address diversity to see whether they'd followed through – then I asked race equality experts if they thought it was enough...
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The Voice Newspaper
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- last year a number of corporations signed a letter pledging to tackle “racism”. One year on.. @soph_husk talks to race equality experts to see if anything has really changed...
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So pleased to be launching a new politics show for the Mirror! Watch Party Games every Monday at 6pm on the Mirror’s Youtube page Starting April 29 - join me for some fun and games!
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Big victory in the battle to fix the HRT shortage - with pharmacists given the power to prescribe alternatives Still a way to go in this fight but glad to see government are making moves to address it @xanthaleatham @menonotmad @katietaylorbaum
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