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1Jun 8, '24Boris Johnson today calls Starmer “Sir Keir Schnorrer” (see attached). “Schnorrer” is the Yiddish word for beggar and scrounger. It is pretty offensive. It was part of the lingua f13.9×5M14k3.4k623
2Dec 31, '23As a Jew, I have become increasingly worried that the charge of antisemitism is being levelled to silence legitimate and important debate. Antisemitism is on the rise, but there is10.2×3.7M15k3.2k1.2k
3Mar 7, '23Look what is written by @SuellaBraverman on the face of the Illegal Migration bill - that this legislation may not be compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights9.9×3.5M13k4.4k214
4Mar 10, '23Gary Lineker was pulled off air by the BBC because he refused to issue a public apology for his tweets criticising the government’s Illegal Migration Bill, according to sources clo9.9×3.5M19k2.6k241
5Jan 10, '23I've rarely read legislation so lacking in underlying coherence and logic as today's bill from the government that would significantly restrict the right to strike - and I quote - 9.7×3.5M15k4.4k246
6Jul 12, '23This was what I say at the start of #Peston tonight. It's on ITV at 10.45. As a journalist I have spent more or less my entire career weighing up stories by whether they are truly 9.6×3.4M11k928198
7Mar 10, '23Labour: “The BBC’s cowardly decision to take Gary Lineker off air is an assault on free speech in the face of political pressure. Tory politicians lobbying to get people sacked for8.9×3.2M45k7k118
8Jun 19, '23MPs vote by 354 to 7 that Boris Johnson is an intentional and serial liar. No former prime minister has ever suffered quite such an indignity8.6×3.1M18k3.3k97
9Mar 1, '23If this wasn’t a real conversation between a PM and his scientific and political advisers about a lethal pandemic, it would be funny. Sadly it is real and thoroughly depressing. Is8.1×2.9M12k3.1k643
10Mar 5, '23Is it time to reform the honours system?7.1×2.5M20k3.2k96
11Jun 19, '23Theresa May: "I also want to say to members of my own party that it is doubly important for us to show that we are prepared to act when one of our own - however senior - is found w6.9×2.5M13k1.8k68
12Jun 1, '23It is very odd that Boris Johnson’s old mobile phone has - he says - not been switched on since April 2021. It is the phone that contains all the WhatsApps and messages relevant to6.6×2.4M11k2.7k109
13Feb 15, '23That was a truly remarkable resignation statement by Nicola Sturgeon. Whether or not you back her ideas and convictions, she has been one of the most important politicians of this 6.6×2.4M20k2.1k72
14Jan 21, '23It’s extraordinary and unprecedented that @nadhimzahawi negotiated his multimillion pound tax settlement with @HMRCgovuk while Chancellor of the Exchequer. See attached. I am stagg6.1×2.2M14k4.6k113
15Oct 3, '23This is not a great look for the party of free speech. I’ve seen heckling in my time and I am not sure this meets the threshold6.0×2.2M14k2.9k176
16Jan 29, '23The number of times that Nadhim Zahawi breached the ministerial code of conduct over more than 18 months is breathtaking. Really quite extraordinary. It is almost comic that he did5.5×2M14k2.7k84
17Oct 9, '23Mark Carney, the Bank of England governor George Osborne chased across the world to recruit, has just endorsed Rachel Reeves to be the UK’s next chancellor. Remarkable5.4×1.9M11k2.2k117
18Feb 1, '22Buried on page 199 of the Department of Health and Social Care’s annual report published yesterday is the shocking disclosure that it has incurred £8.7bn of losses - £8.7bn ! - on 4.5×033k14k554
19Jun 9, '17Senior Tory MP: "We all f***ing hate her. But there is nothing we can do. She has totally f***ed us".3.8×023k15k2
20Oct 4, '23Mordaunt keeps saying Labour wants to return the UK to the disaster of the 1980s. I am finding this quite confusing. Because that was Thatcher’s heyday.3.7×1.3M19k3.4k86
21Oct 12, '22A member of Truss's own cabinet tells me Truss's and Kwarteng's governance is so dire that some Tory MPs would vote against her in a confidence vote, preferring even a general elec3.2×031k6.7k183
22Apr 12, '22For the Prime Minister and Chancellor to be fined while parliament is in recess and cannot be held to account by MPs is extraordinary. The Met Police are literally a law unto thems3.2×034k6.1k115
23Mar 8, '18This makes me want to retire as a journalist, because I have been desperate to put Brexit in a simple nutshell, and the bloomin’ PM of Luxembourg has done it perfectly. Impossible 3.1×025k12k33
24Dec 9, '19It is completely clear from video footage that @MattHancock's adviser was not whacked by a protestor, as I was told by senior Tories, but that he inadvertently walked into a protes2.9×015k5.4k57
25Mar 10, '23This is not going well for the BBC2.9×1M15k1.6k23
26Mar 31, '20.@michaelgove said just now that the difficulty in increasing number of #COVID19 tests was due to a shortage of the relevant "chemcial reagents". Well I've just talked to the Chemi2.8×014k9.6k275
27Sep 8, '22Respect for the late Queen Elizabeth from the EU. Flags at half mast2.7×034k3.3k111
28Feb 4, '20The Irish leaders’ debate is really quite shocking. The three leaders have a detailed grasp of complex welfare and tax issues, they are polite and courteous, they admit mistakes, t2.5×024k5.2k109
29Oct 3, '22Why did @KwasiKwarteng and @trussliz drop the abolition of the 45p top tax rate? Because super wealthy donors to the Tory party told them “we don’t need the money, we don’t want th2.5×027k4.7k159
30Jan 12, '22Of course @BorisJohnson could have asked his wife, Carrie Johnson, who was with him and drinking (gin, I’m told), whether they were at a party, if he wasn’t sure2.4×026k4k48
31May 20, '22In Downing Street there is a sense of injustice and considerable upset that the 126 Partygate fines have been levied disproportionately on women and junior officials. One source sa2.1×018k4.6k168
32Apr 12, '22The police have today concluded that the PM, the Chancellor and the PM’s wife all attended illegal parties, that breached Covid laws written by the PM. This is most serious for Bor2.1×021k4.3k185
33Dec 8, '21Just to be clear, it would be nonsensical for @AllegraCOP26 to have resigned if the Downing Street party had never happened, and she wasn't conspicuously making light of it. So she2.1×023k3.8k70
34Oct 19, '22Wow. @trussliz has now over-ruled @Jeremy_Hunt and pre-committed that the state pension will rise in line with 10.1% inflation. This really is a car crash. “I’ve been clear we are 2.0×019k4.2k126
35Jan 31, '22Theresa May absolutely savages @BorisJohnson on Downing St parties. The moment of the day2.0×025k2.1k38
36Sep 24, '19A trio of extraordinary women have today changed the course of British politics in a fundamental way: Gina Miller, Joanna Cherry and Lady Hale. Wherever you stand on Brexit or John2.0×018k3k20
37Feb 1, '19It is eight weeks till we leave the EU. And we don’t know anything about what kind of Brexit it will be. I cannot really believe I wrote this and I am not dreaming.2.0×018k5.1k20
39May 3, '22.@susannareid100 asks Boris Johnson what he would do to help pensioner Elsie who can’t afford to stay at home because keeping heating on is too expensive and travels round London o1.9×017k3.5k92
40Jan 12, '21Twice now @pritipatel has been asked why these latest lockdown rules are not as tough as those in the first lockdown. Twice she has spoken at length and not engaged with the questi1.8×016k2k29
41Feb 9, '22No one in or around SAGE and Nervtag is aware of any scientific advice given to the PM that the requirement to isolate for those infected with Covid19 should be terminated from end1.7×013k4.5k97
42Mar 26, '19Should MPs change the Brexit default from no-deal to “revoke article 50”? What do you think. It would mean UK automatically staying in EU rather than leaving without deal, in event1.7×016k2.7k15
43Dec 7, '21It is the “secret Santa” detail in the Times about the Downing St party last 18 Dec that is a serious problem for the government. Because that would indicate it was properly planne1.7×014k4.4k89
44Jan 20, '22I understand Sue Gray has found the email from a senior official to PM’s principle private secretary Martin Reynolds warning him the 20 May party should not go ahead, as per Cummin1.6×013k4.2k179
45Jun 10, '20In case you missed, @neil_ferguson didn't simply say that locking down a week earlier would have saved 25,000 lives, he also said that while the policy was always to protect the el1.6×013k5.1k74
46May 27, '22The ministerial code, revised today by the PM, seems to say that so long as the PM continues to have confidence in himself, he would not have to resign, even if he has breached the1.6×014k3.6k112
47Dec 7, '21You know that Downing Street Xmas party that the government party denies ever happened, well @itvnews has exclusive footage of a mock Downing St press conference four days after in1.6×012k4.2k168
48Jun 23, '20It is slightly odd that the daily press conferences are being abolished, as of today, when the appalling economic phase of this crisis is only just starting1.6×013k2.6k22
49Feb 25, '22This recent argument between @Tobias_Ellwood and @BorisJohnson is absolutely jaw dropping, and shows how little the prime minister and his advisors understood Putin and his ambitio1.6×013k4.4k362
50Sep 28, '22Tory minister: "Kwasi is toast"1.6×017k2.1k56
51Jul 7, '21Gary Neville says standard of leaders in this country has been poor over last two years, and that Southgate is a true leader.1.6×018k1.8k31
52Jun 20, '19This is so upsetting. The climate-change protestors were, according to the police and friends who were there, wholly peaceful. Why on earth does Field react with such ferocity? The1.6×011k3.4k35
53Sep 28, '22I am going to try to explain why the Bank of England has gone into the market to buy up to £65bn of UK government bonds with maturities of 20 years or more, including £1bn today. I1.6×011k2.9k2.7k
54Nov 8, '21Quite striking that only 46 out of 365 Conservative MPs have turned up for this important debate on the standards to be followed by MPs and how they are enforced1.6×015k3.1k44
55Apr 28, '21I’ve had an identical email asking me to leave poor Boris Johnson alone from five “different people” (well five different email accounts). Subject line changes, body of email ident1.5×015k2.5k49
56Jan 28, '22In many eyes, the reputation of Cressida Dick and the Met Police will be significantly damaged by the timing of her decision to investigate. There was plenty of prima facie evidenc1.5×015k3.1k66
57Feb 22, '22What I simply don’t understand about the graduated approach to Boris Johnson’s sanctions against Russian banks and oligarchs is anyone who thinks they will be targeted will now be 1.5×012k2.4k53
58Sep 26, '22Abolition of top rate of tax by @KwasiKwarteng is opposed by 72% of voters, including 69% of Tory voters, says @YouGov for @thetimes. Similar proportions oppose scrapping of banker1.5×015k3.3k96
59Aug 2, '18We’ve got an official opposition tearing itself apart over antisemitism, the founder of the EDL running rings around the judiciary and a government negotiating a Brexit plan that i1.5×012k4.1k10
60Aug 1, '22Jarring moment at Exeter hustings was when Sunak said Truss’s Australia free trade deal was bad for GB farmers but he wouldn’t renegotiate because it would be wrong to rip up an in1.4×015k3.3k68
61Jul 6, '22PM is not denying he said “all the sex pests are supporting me”. This is painful1.4×016k2.5k144
62May 13, '22Public servants, Whitehall, being told by PM that 91,000 are surplus to requirements and a pay rise of 3% is sufficient when inflation is heading for 10%. They’re also being told t1.4×014k2.1k59
63Dec 15, '21I‘ve been banging on for months about how unsatisfactory it is that daily Covid19 infection figures exclude re-infections. Today’s record 78,610 STILL EXCLUDES re-infections, even 1.4×013k2.9k77
64Sep 14, '20.@Ed_Miliband in the Commons just now, opposing the PM and his attempt to legislate to over-ride the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, has given one of the most compelling speeches I ha1.4×016k2.5k39
65Oct 20, '22As I said just now on @itv, deep concern that rapid electronic voting by Tory members for new leader brings risk of overseas bad actor, like Russia, hacking the poll and choosing B1.4×011k2.3k61
66Mar 23, '19Two things. 1) These are not petitioning-signing bots. They are very passionate people. 2) They want to revoke Article 50 and stay in the EU. Unsurprisingly there are no Brexiters 1.4×013k3.5k23
67Aug 16, '20As a matter of logic, the A level and looming GCSE mess is either the fault of the Secretary of State or of the PM and his chief adviser. So who will take responsibility? @GavinWil1.4×013k3.2k16
68Oct 25, '22Do prime minister’s choose their podiums? Look at the difference between Truss’s and Sunak’s1.4×014k863234
69Mar 29, '19Big shout of “you’re a wan**r Peston” after my live broadcast outside parliament. Great to get the recognition I deserve1.4×017k1.3k5
70Jun 11, '19.@RoryStewartUK electrified this tent. He delivered the most coherent and lyrical launch speech of any candidate. On this showing the Tories have found a proper star. But they will1.4×012k2.8k24
71Sep 23, '22According to @TheIFS analysis, the only people benefiting from the combination of tax cuts and frozen tax thresholds are those earning more than £150,000 a year.1.4×011k4.1k72
72Oct 19, '22Government announces the fracking vote is no longer a confidence vote - because of the scale of the expected rebellion by Tory MPs. Truss could not afford to expel them. It is no l1.3×013k2.6k103
73Aug 2, '22It turns out Liz Truss willfully misrepresented her own public sector pay proposals1.3×011k3.5k111
74Jul 6, '21The projection from @sajidjavid that infections could surge to a record 100,000 a day in a few weeks, as all social distancing and mask-wearing regulations are removed, is especial1.3×011k3.1k109
75Oct 24, '22Super wealthy private-equity investor Guy Hands says the British economy is “frankly doomed” unless the government succeeds in fundamentally changing the Brexit negotiated by Boris1.3×011k3.1k245
76Sep 23, '22A Tory ex minister: “what worries me is never again will we be able to accuse Labour of being fiscally reckless or believing in the magic money tree. This better work, or we are in1.2×013k2.1k67
77Oct 26, '22If Sunak over-ruled advice of cabinet secretary Case when re-appointing Suella Braverman as cabinet secretary, as believed, serious constitutional issues are raised, especially the1.2×012k3k125
78Sep 27, '22This from IMF is humiliating for Kwarteng and Truss: “Given elevated inflation pressures in many countries, including UK, we do not recommend large untargeted fiscal packages at th1.2×012k2.8k95
79Sep 3, '20.⁦⁦⁦@elashton⁩ reports that minutes after addressing 50 Tory MPs in a room with a notice saying capacity was 29, ⁦@BorisJohnson⁩’s office tweeted that meeting in groups of more tha1.2×010k3.9k64
80Dec 13, '22Pay growth for the private sector was 6.9% Aug to Oct, and 2.7% for the public sector, says @ONS. The rejected pay offers to nurses, teachers and the rest are nowhere near private-1.2×011k3.5k98
82May 25, '20Shadow attorney general ⁦@LordCFalconer⁩ makes whithering attack on attorney general ⁦@SuellaBraverman⁩ for defending Cummings on Twitter, saying she committed a “serious constitut1.2×010k3.8k80
83May 23, '22Important additional detail about @itvnews scoop pictures of the PM drinking at Nov 2020 leaving do for his director of comms: the police have fined some who were at the party. It 1.2×011k2.8k43
84Jul 9, '19Out of interest, why is almost no Tory MP or minister pointing out how completely inappropriate it is for the US head of state to launch personal attack on serving British head of 1.1×010k2.7k6
85Sep 29, '22Imagine handing £150bn to British businesses and people in a single year in energy subsidies and tax cuts - the biggest giveaway in history - and then seeing your party’s popularit1.1×012k1.5k54
86Mar 5, '22One of Buffett’s most famous aphorisms is “only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked”. This applies in spades to the many members of the political and f1.1×011k2.4k85
87May 5, '22You really should not complain about the quality of our politicians if you are too apathetic to vote. I know it is a cliche that people died winning us our democratic rights. But i1.1×012k1.4k27
88Feb 2, '22“Nobody wanted Allegra [Stratton] to resign. I was very sad when she did” says @BorisJohnson. So why on earth did he lay into her at #PMQs after @itvnews showed the press conferenc1.1×012k1.8k38
89Jan 31, '22Andrew Mitchell: “he no longer enjoys my support”. A Tory ex chief whip on Boris Johnson. This is turning into a disaster for @BorisJohnson1.0×012k1.5k16
90Oct 2, '22The prime minister saying a fall in the price of government debt is not the same as a rise in interest rates is bizarre. It is by definition a rise in interest rates. On @bbclaurak1.0×011k1.9k63
91Jun 6, '22Tory confidence vote result. 211Tory MPs have confidence in Boris Johnson. 148 do not have confidence. This is a bad result for the prime minister. He is not supported by 41% of th1.0×011k1.6k29
92Mar 8, '22Poland not only hands over all its MiG fighters to the US for transfer to the Ukraine airforce but calls on all other countries with comparable jets to also transfer them. This is 1.0×012k1.5k47
93Jul 6, '22This is amazing. Boris Johnson is refusing to commit to Bernard Jenkin he won’t dissolve parliament to save himself. This is quite astonishing.1.0×010k1.6k66
94Sep 15, '20Unless - presumably - the families are wearing Barbours and carrying shotguns1.0×011k2k12
95Oct 20, '22Inevitably after Truss’s resignation, all the talk is of @BorisJohnson running again and how popular he is with Tory members. But this is to forget that he is still to be in effect1.0×011k1.6k56
96May 9, '22Starmer: “I believe in honour, integrity and the principle that those who make the laws should follow them…if the police decide to issue me with a fixed penalty notice I would do t1.0×012k92919
97Feb 9, '22Thank you Wordle for helping me understand with dazzling clarity what it is to be British. I solved you, but I felt cheapened in the process. I think I am done with you1.0×013k43448
98Oct 23, '22Am not quite sure what to say about this.1.0×011k71945
99Jan 12, '22PM in a nutshell: “I’m sorry for going to a party that I could not see was a party and ‘technically’ may not have been. I take full responsibility but I am waiting to hear from Sue0.9×010k1.8k31
100Oct 19, '22Now that it is over, I can say I have never known a say of such chaos and confusion in UK politics. Just crazy0.8×011k71645
101Jul 11My neurodivergent self is super happy with this review in @thetimes by John Dugdale of my new thriller, The Kill Switch, which will be published on Thursday 16 July: “In this enthr0.3×115k679812

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