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Liam Thorp

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Political Editor, Liverpool Echo. 3 x Regional Press Specialist Journalist of the Year. Paul Foot award & Orwell Prize nominee. IPA fan. Also on Bluesky.

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1Mar 15, '24Historically a good time for a comeback33.3×2.9M50k3.1k513
2Feb 17, '21So I’m not getting a vaccine next week - was feeling weird about why I’d been selected ahead of others so rang GP to check. Turns out they had my height as 6.2cm rather than 6 ft 230.1×0173k13k1.4k
3Aug 11, '24Me when the bed has fresh sheets on28.5×2.5M57k5k1.7k
4May 9, '24It’s the way he bends his run to stay onside27.5×2.4M27k1.5k730
5Dec 30, '22In an A and E department of a Liverpool hospital, people are lying in pain on the floor, waiting hours to be seen by a doctor This is a daily reality of the NHS crisis (thread)26.9×2.3M7.8k3.5k193
6May 6, '23Literally arrested for unloading some signs. This is scary stuff.25.6×2.2M10k1.2k51
7Jan 4, '23In a hospital in Liverpool, a 92-year-old woman has been lying on a trolley in a chaotic corridor for 33 hours She’s so distressed she’s asked her family to let her die This is ano19.5×1.7M6.9k2.9k108
8Jun 22, '23Andrew, hi, just to remind you that average weekly wages in this country are the same level as they were in 200518.1×1.6M12k1.5k76
9Sep 21, '24My parents are in Portugal and have just paid 24 Euros each for a first class, 314km train journey between Lisbon and Porto. We are so painfully treated for rail services in the UK18.1×1.6M26k1.5k374
10Oct 28, '24BREAKING: Liverpool-based Home Bargains has pledged an incredible £2.5 million to save baby hospice Zoe's Place - taking the campaign to keep this vital service in the city to the 18×1.6M12k1.7k69
11Mar 22, '23Genuinely embarrassed for everyone involved in this front page13.6×1.2M9.8k74631
12Jul 30, '23Total chaos on this train back to Liverpool which is just two to small carriages long. People arguing, everyone totally squashed and we’ve paid loads for the privilege. The rail sy13.6×1.2M5.5k46140
13Aug 3, '24Every time I check Twitter now I’m seeing black and Asian people being attacked by gangs of thugs in towns and cities around the country. We need to hear urgently from the governme11.3×984k13k2.7k251
14May 11, '22Lee Anderson MP, who today said poor people forced to use foodbanks 'cannot cook or budget properly' claimed £222,000 in expenses in 2020/21 - including £4,100 on travel and 'subsi11.1×044k13k247
15Aug 2, '24Don’t mess with Scouse nans10.4×906k28k2.2k248
16Aug 2, '24Incidentally, while far right thugs continue to target mosques following Monday’s tragic events in Southport - Muslims in the region have raised and donated £5,000 to help the fami9.2×804k18k2k238
17May 4, '24In London the Britain First candidate was beaten by a guy with a bin for a head whose main policy is to reinstate Ceefax Bravo8.9×775k23k2k198
18Jul 31, '24"This is the only thing that I will write, but please stop the violence in Southport tonight. “The police have been nothing but heroic these last 24 hours and they and we don't nee8.0×699k6.9k1.6k100
19Oct 2, '23When I met Stephen Smith, he had been denied benefits for 2 years and declared fit for work despite weighing just 6 stone and being unable to walk 20 metres He died before the mone6.9×597k8.1k2.5k98
20Nov 8, '24BREAKING: Zoe's Place baby hospice in Liverpool has officially been saved after an incredible campaign which raised a staggering £5 million in just 30 days What an unbelievable ach6.8×587k7.5k1.1k36
21Jul 30, '24This is who we should be thinking about this evening.6.6×573k17k1.9k35
22Nov 4, '24Is that near Clacton?6.5×561k17k57683
23Mar 10, '23Gary Lineker forced to withdraw from his job because of claims of impartiality over his views on the government's asylum system BBC chairman Richard Sharp has continued in his job 6.4×555k12k2.8k38
24May 5, '24Even the most cursory google could show you that the vast majority of this is complete and utter bollocks But I guess that’s too much to ask of one of the richest people in the wor5.1×445k6.2k595129
25Jun 25, '24Reminder that it would cost £1.3 bn to scrap the two-child poverty cap and instantly lift 250,000 kids out of poverty5.0×431k9.9k2.4k126
26Jun 15, '20To those shouting 'poor kids don't usually get meal vouchers over the summer holidays' 1. They should 2. These are far from usual times 3. Why are you leaping in to argue that kids4.8×024k4.6k38
27Jul 5, '24I'm still a little bemused by some of the analysis going on here. So much focus on Reform, who have four seats, yet I have heard basically nothing about the Lib Dems winning a huge4.7×407k6.2k70953
28Sep 1, '22Just get a new kettle kids and you’ll save a tenner on your £7,500 energy bills Visionary gibberish from the outgoing PM4.4×017k3.2k230
29Jan 24, '22I’m old enough to remember when Boris Johnson said there were no parties whatsoever in Downing Street4.4×025k2.8k30
30Aug 7, '24Absolutely enormous numbers out in Liverpool to defend an asylum charity from the threat of far-right violence Updates -4.3×372k7.8k1.2k51
31Mar 14, '21Anyone else feeling utterly depressed about this country?4.2×025k1.4k23
32May 25, '24Rishi Sunak had a terrible start to his campaign, took an unscheduled day off to work with his team and came up with the single worst policy of modern times. Fair play.4.2×363k8.9k92781
33Jan 13, '22The Andrew Formerly Known as Prince4.0×023k2.2k68
34May 16, '24Gordon Brown is that rare thing in a former Prime Minister in that all of his interventions are about trying to help the most vulnerable. A hugely important voice on child poverty.4.0×350k5.8k83673
35Oct 20, '20What Burnham is doing goes way beyond Greater Manchester He's standing up for local government that has been battered and criminally underfunded for the past 10 years3.8×020k3.1k20
36Feb 17, '21A headline I never thought I would write3.8×020k2.1k198
37Sep 28, '22Anyone else a bit sick of living through constant crisis?3.8×021k1.5k20
38Oct 28, '20My word this is a satisfying watch @JuliaHB1 put straight time and time again on her dangerous nonsense3.5×014k3.3k398
39Sep 21, '23It’s been quite the week. Our little man arrived in the world on Monday night amid some pretty scary moments. I can’t really put into words how happy we are and how grateful we are3.3×288k5.4k1352
40Apr 21, '24Well that shouldn’t be an issue3.3×284k10k23029
41May 20, '22Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t it these guys who did 14 straight front pages demanding the police investigate a takeaway curry?3.3×017k2.3k33
42Feb 6, '20Government: 'Fly this flag to mark the 60th birthday of Prince Andrew' Liverpool: 'No'3.3×015k2.6k36
43Dec 21, '23So the Health Secretary either has no idea what a junior doctor is or is going out of her way to insult and belittle 50% of the doctors we have3.1×267k5.6k89927
44Aug 3, '24Worth noting that while Suella Braverman labelled protests calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East ‘hate marches’, she has said absolutely nothing about violent racist mobs atta3.0×265k7.2k2k71
45May 25, '22Hard to imagine even 10 years ago a scandal like this, a PM fined by police and then brutally admonished in a report like that one and not a single cabinet resignation, just a few 3.0×015k2.5k33
46Jul 7, '24Those young French footballers have done crucial, crucial work2.9×256k7.5k35474
47May 4, '24Fox and Wootton both pledging to leave London. Londoners owe Sadiq Khan a debt of gratitude.2.9×253k12k1.1k29
48May 25, '22Absolutely no messing here2.9×014k2.7k45
49May 31, '24Did they mean to make her look cool and powerful? Because they nailed it2.9×248k5.8k21837
50May 29, '24Farage has had wall to wall coverage from the major broadcasters since an election was announced that he is not standing in. It’s bizarre and unjustifiable.2.8×246k5.8k87719
51Dec 6, '19Former Tory leader John Major is telling people not to vote Tory Former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson is telling people to vote Tory Just let that sink in2.8×010k4.4k26
52Aug 7, '20"Liverpool is a humanitarian city and it will always be a humanitarian city and we would much rather see refugees here than Nigel Farage"2.6×013k2.2k38
53Jun 28, '22Just today we’ve had a Tory MP suggest women should not be able to make decisions about their own bodies, we’ve had a protestor the government doesn’t like apprehended by police an2.6×011k3.2k43
54Jun 14, '20If this is your best defence, then urine denial2.6×015k1.3k28
55Feb 2, '22Quite amazing to hear Conservative ministers today talking about their mission to ‘save forgotten communities’ as if we live in a parallel universe where they haven’t spent the las2.6×013k2.5k37
56Jan 13, '21This is one of the most painful responses I’ve seen in some time It’s brilliant interviewing by @piersmorgan2.5×011k1.7k169
57Aug 17, '22Exhausted train passengers scaling huge fences to get home, pensioners waiting 15 hours for ambulances under makeshift tarpaulins, foodbanks running out of food and millions about 2.2×09.7k2.6k37
59Jun 18, '21Why is my timeline not full of London journos heading to Buckinghamshire to speak to locals about what this crushing defeat means for the future of the Conservative Party?2.1×011k1.3k27
60Aug 23, '22It’s a simple choice2.0×09.8k1.8k25
61May 10, '20Is anyone else finding being a resident of this country completely and utterly exhausting?2.0×011k85014
62May 9, '22Man who hasn’t been fined and party that didn’t go ahead currently getting more heat than man who has been fined and loads of parties that definitely happened2.0×010k1.6k12
63Aug 12, '21Your regular reminder that nearly 40% of those claiming Universal Credit ARE IN WORK1.9×09k2.1k44
64Jan 8, '21Posted without comment on the day the UK records it’s record daily number of covid deaths1.9×07.7k2.3k96
65May 23, '22The police looked at this picture of the Prime Minister with booze in hand at a party during a strict national lockdown and thought it warranted no action Deeply alarming1.8×08.7k1.6k18
66Oct 24, '22Absolutely outstanding once again1.8×010k1k93
67Aug 10, '22Martin Lewis destroys Liz Truss’ economic plans: ‘Let’s be clear, tax cuts will not help the millions of the poorest people who will be choosing between heating and eating and drop1.8×08.4k1.9k38
68Nov 1, '20Getting angrier the more I think about it. When @AndyBurnhamGM was taking a stand it was because he knew low paid workers in the north couldn’t survive on 67% furlough. Gov has now1.7×08.8k1.5k16
69Nov 22, '19My rankings for #bbcqt 1.Corbyn 2.Sturgeon 3. Guy who kept shouting about Russia report 4.Fiona Bruce saying ‘bum boys’ in a posh voice 5. The fact Sheffield is now Scotland 6.John1.6×07.6k1.5k31
70Oct 9, '20‘But look at Swede....oh’1.6×06k2k317
71Nov 14, '20How can it be more believable that all the world’s governments got together to concoct a fake pandemic in order to microchip us all using vaccines - and only Denise Welch and the g1.5×07.2k1.3k29
72Apr 25, '2020,000 people have officially died from coronavirus - in reality it’s many, many more Why do people keep telling me and others to stop questioning the government’s handling of this1.5×06.8k1.4k15
73Mar 9, '22Orwell couldn’t have dreamt this one up1.5×06.1k1.7k42
74May 6, '22Let’s be clear on Starmer, whatever happens, and I’ve said he should probably resign if he is fined, he is being judged by a far higher standard than the man elected to be the Prim1.5×08.2k80722
75Aug 10, '22Whether it’s Gordon Brown or Martin Lewis, every morning we are hearing people outside the government making urgent warnings and offering emergency proposals for this looming disas1.4×06.8k1.3k9
76Sep 12, '21Sajid Javid: "I've never liked the idea of saying to people you must show your papers or something to do what is just an everyday activity" What, like voting?1.4×07k1.2k18
77Dec 10, '19.@allisonpearson chooses to block a respected regional newspaper editor rather than admit she spread dangerous fake news - sounds about right1.3×05.3k1.8k17
78Oct 24, '20Imagine you work in a bar in Liverpool, you work hard every day then suddenly, through no fault of your own, the bar is closed and you are given just 2/3 of your wages - how are yo1.3×06.3k1.3k9
79Sep 5, '22There’s nothing like a trip to Europe to remind you of all the things we just don’t have in the UK. Been in Denmark and Sweden where there is superb, cycling infrastructure everywh1.3×06.4k90537
80Dec 3, '21Good lord this is painful1.3×05.2k1.1k162
81May 9, '22Make your minds up lads1.2×06.5k78132
82Nov 3, '21The maddest thing about the Owen Paterson situation is that the punishment they are trying to overturn - a 30 day suspension for an "egregious" breach of rules - is ridiculously le1.2×05.9k94713
83Jun 6, '22Anyone else finding this repeated narrative of ‘Johnson got the big calls right on covid’ increasingly infuriating?1.2×06.2k4677
84Feb 21, '22Rishi Sunak has had quite the journey from ‘we will do whatever it takes’ to ‘sorry your poverty-stricken nan is going to have to pay to find out if she’s got covid’1.1×05.5k1.2k12
85Jan 12, '21When asked if the rules are clear enough Priti Patel says yes and this has been proven by the fact there have already been 45,000 fixed penalties issued I would humbly suggest this1.1×06.1k78913
86Feb 12, '21If Anthea Turner, Right Said Fred and Laurence Fox are on your side about things, is it time to have a rethink?1.1×06.5k57011
87Jun 17, '20On Sky just now Matthew Paris asks 'So do we now want all deprived children to always receive meal vouchers over the summer?' Erm, yep1.1×06.3k6195
88Jul 5, '21Turns out it was dates rather than data1.1×05.9k8137
89Nov 17, '21Since Sunday’s terror attacked in Liverpool the Home Secretary has not bothered to hold a press conference, she didn’t bother to come to Parliament to answer questions on the event1.1×05.3k1k12
90Apr 14, '20Anyone else perturbed by how often they are agreeing with Piers Morgan at the moment?1.1×05.6k5209
91May 9, '22Conservatives and right wing press: 'Starmer should do the decent thing' 'Oh wait, shit, no, not that thing - that doesn't work for us'1.1×05.9k74810
92Nov 14, '20Edward Jenner discovered vaccines in 1796 At no stage since have they been used to inexplicably and impossibly insert microchips into people But suddenly you think that’s deffo goi1.0×05.2k85310
93May 25, '22My prediction for today, Tory MPs who have spent months hiding behind the ‘we must wait for Sue Gray’s report’ line, will see a report that is hugely critical of the Prime Minister1.0×05.2k76511
94Jun 11, '22When did it become a rule that if you disagree with something the government does you have to leave the country?1.0×05.2k37010
95Jul 18, '21ICU doctors or Right Said Fred…1.0×05.4k57512
97Jul 30, '20I love pubs more than most people, but the idea that they are safer than people’s gardens is amongst the stupidest things I’ve ever heard0.9×05k6608
99Apr 19, '22Wait until this fella finds out who is the Chancellor0.9×05.1k5714

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