Exclusive interview with Liz Truss
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£7.15 London Bridge. We’re over the £7 pint threshold. Horrific scenes.
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Thoroughly shocking report on Eastwood prison in Gloucestershire.
"The cells were appalling, dilapidated and covered in graffiti, one was blood-splattered, and some had extensive scratches on the walls."
Prisons just another huge crisis that has fallen out of the news.
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Lib Dems got 22% and 62 seats (!) in 2010 at the height of short-lived "I agree with Nick" Cleggmania.
Tories currently polling at 24%.
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This week's poll of voting intention by @YouGov for @thetimes
CON 24 (-2)
LAB 48 (+3)
LIB DEM 9 (-1)
GREEN 6 (-1)
REFORM 6 (=)
Best PM:
SUNAK 22 (=)
STARMER 32 (-2)
Fieldwork 31st January-1st February. Change on 24th-25th Jan.
It never ends. Brexit Continuity faction, almost 7 years on from the referendum, still arguing that true Brexit has never been properly tried.
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New: Members of the ERG including Jacob Rees-Mogg and John Redwood have teamed up with the DUP to send a warning to Rishi Sunak over Brexit. A sign of the political difficulty ahead… 1/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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Twittering increasingly feels like shouting into a bin.
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Punishment from the gods as self-improvement.
Also I genuinely don't know who is and who isn't joking on the internet any more.
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Everyone should have to bear the psychic damage I did when I saw this video twitter.com/seungylee14/st…
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Almost a year apart
Five years since Matt Hancock (the person) launched Matt Hancock (the social network. Game-changing.
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I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of [Twitter bots] suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 
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"You can't build new houses without infrastructure to support them"
"OK, how about some infrastructure?"
"No."
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There is limited success in arguing about the economic loss from Brexit when a sizeable proportion of Leave voters priced that in and voted for "sovereignty" anyway.
Remain still bringing fact checkers to a culture war.
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Commentators in 2033: "We're almost talking Truss Zone of unpopularity."
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This part of the (un)favourability graph shall now be known as the Truss Zone
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Things aren't looking too great for Rishi Sunak.
His net approval rating stands at -19.0%; no party leader elected since 2010 has reached this low so quickly other than Liz Truss.
electionmaps.uk/polling
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No idea how much Brexit was a factor but why Putin waited until 2022, given the annexation of Crimea 8 years earlier, remains an interesting question.
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Former Belgian PM Guy Verhofstadt suggests Brexit emboldened Putin to invade Ukraine, telling @LBC: 'a united Europe, certainly on defence matters, would make an enormous difference. I think maybe without Brexit, maybe it was no invasion.'
Done*
* Discussions with EU over Northern Ireland Protocol: ongoing
* Plan to "bonfire" 1,000s of pieces of EU legislation: ongoing
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We got Brexit done.
We’re seizing the opportunities of Brexit to deliver on your priorities. 
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Brexit may not be the sole cause of Britain's economic problems but to say it's not had a major effect seems perverse to say the least.
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FIVE POINT PLANS ….
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How the war in Ukraine met the culture wars ft.com/content/8e8d0f --> interesting parallels with GOP politics and Orban in Hungary.
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That this is still topical 8 months on, ‘cept they are defending Sunak. Oh M8.
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Junior ministers being lined up to do the rounds of the breakfast shows tomorrow to defend Boris Johnson
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Reminder - yet again - the last general election was won with the slogan Get Brexit Done.
What a bizarre lexicon this sport has given us
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"Today, according to new UnHerd polling, not only does a clear majority think the decision to leave was wrong, but a majority in every constituency in the country — bar one — feels the same"
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Labour is winning the Brexit revolution.
My latest for @unherd on the “loser’s premium” now shaping British politics. Are we witnessing the beginnings of what happened in Scotland after 2014? If so, the Tories only have themselves to blame. unherd.com/2023/01/labour
I'm going to leave the politics to others. The tax part of the Zahawi story, and therefore my role, feels over. But I wanted to sign off by correcting three takes which we’re going to hear a lot of, and I think are wrong.
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Is Carol Vorderman the government now?
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Zahawi doesn’t apologise but criticises the press in his resignation letter. After threatening the journalists who uncovered his HMRC fine.
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Sign reads: "Hi there Russia! We are delivering *only* because America is delivering too. In case of escalation, please retaliate *directly* to Washington." Via #Scholzing
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there should be a site where these rejected wiki pages can exist, an alternate Reject Wiki of nacho recipes and people's cats.
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Emily's Famous Nacho Recipe
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👀 Was interviewing Ukrainian President when he received news Germany has agreed Leopard tanks can be used in battle against Russia
Also:
🇺🇦What makes him laugh and cry
🇬🇧 Boris or Rishi
🇷🇺 What would happen if he were alone in a room with Putin
Sky News from 7am #kayburley
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There has to come a point where the Conservative response to political attacks doesn't involve Corbyn, who stood down almost three years ago.
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It's an interesting argument for Sunak to keep - again - arguing that he has principles because he resigned from the reigning Conservative government #pmqs
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New survey shows 'disturbing' lack of Holocaust awareness in the Netherlands nbcnews.com/news/world/sur via
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You'd all like me more if I got a dog.
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Well done to the people who have already figured out the For You tab and how to game it.
Being an "influencer" is just understanding machine learning and writing for an algorithm.
This tweet will not "do the numbers."
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You're 23 (twenty-three) times more likely to be prosecuted for benefit than tax crime, even though tax fraud and error costs an estimated £20bn a year compared to £2bn in benefit fraud and error. (h/t )
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"Bring back the sexy chocolate cartoon character mascots" people are apparently saying 🤷♂️
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