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deputy political editor at the @guardian 📧 jessica.elgot@theguardian.com #lufc

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1Jan 5, '23Others had the chicken575×8.9M100k5.4k890
2Mar 3, '23Matt Hancock admits in this message to Simon Case that he helped cover up rising cases in key areas during Eat Out to Help Out. Strikes me as potentially the biggest revelation yet197×3.1M10k3.8k326
3Sep 27, '24Just found out that, unless you know exactly the half hour when a theft occurs, it’s effectively legal185×2.9M7.6k483352
4Mar 7, '23This is one of the most unintentionally baffling pieces of government comms I have ever seen177×2.7M12k1.2k218
5Mar 1, '23Source close to Hancock claims Oakeshott broke an NDA to publish the trove of WhatsApps. She publishes a long public interest defence. Quite extraordinary he chose the journalist w104×1.6M2k22559
6Jun 16, '23No one puts the counter argument better than Frank McCourt - in one of my favourite ever letters93.7×1.5M12k2.1k572
7Mar 14, '23Another exc from us tonight - Leaked emails from inside the BBC reveal extent of pressure journalists came under from No10, inc asking BBC to avoid using ‘lockdown’ at start of pan88.3×1.4M3.8k1.7k107
8Mar 10, '23Going to war with Match of the Day and David Attenborough in one afternoon strikes me as a strange electoral tactic but there we are57.1×884k13k1.5k36
9Mar 5, '23Every meeting ever54.2×841k7.6k884234
10Jun 6, '24Tory MP texts tonight in total disgust about PM leaving the D Day commemorations early. Said when they saw the picture of Cameron with the other world leaders at the ceremony, they52.4×813k3.9k69692
11Jun 12, '24Huge exclusive from @PippaCrerar Rishi Sunak’s closest aide placed bet on election date days before announcement £100 bet placed in Montgomeryshire – the constituency of Craig Will49.4×766k1.4k52045
12Apr 23, '24Extraordinary moment in the press conference just now where Sunak deliberately blocked NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg from answering @PippaCrerar's question about the next election.49.3×764k1.2k37636
13Apr 9, '23Starmer breaks silence on attack ad - and doubles down despite discomfort in his party. “I make absolutely zero apologies for being blunt about this. I stand by every word Labour h43.1×668k53410518
14Sep 1, '25Kemi Badenoch has told multiple interviews she gained a place at Stanford medical school - or pre-med - aged 16, but her parents couldn’t afford it even with a partial scholarship.37.2×577k6.6k1.8k184
15Feb 4, '23I thought it was the bond markets but they are basically the same I guess32.7×507k5435311
16May 27, '24The logic of this is that parents can be fined for something their grown-up children do (or don’t do) - which would be an extraordinary new legal principle32.5×504k1.7k31632
17May 22, '24Things can only get wetter24.1×374k6.2k73992
18Mar 17, '23New - We reveal Tories pressured the BBC not to describe Johnson’s Jimmy Saville jibes against Keir Starmer as false. In this case, editors did push back.23.1×358k2.5k88930
19Jul 29, '23Clearing out my grandparents flat this weekend and coming across these treasures - thank you cards from Denis Healey and Leeds MP Joe Dean - my grandfather made their suits. He was22.5×349k9734844
20Sep 8, '25EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files - a trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson. It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in 22.4×347k3k1.3k193
21Jul 4, '25Lots of people piled on Gabriel last night for doing the very basic journalism of checking out a story. And he was right.21.3×330k9737854
22Jun 24, '25The welfare rebellion in full - here are the 108 names on the reasoned amendment21.1×326k1.5k452136
23May 8, '25🚨Disability benefit cuts impossible to support, 42 Labour MPs tell Starmer MPs from across the party call for a pause and rethink. Full list of names here20.2×313k2.4k700160
24Oct 8, '24Johnson tells LBC he has no donors paying for his suits…”you're on a perfectly good salary from the government anyway. And, you know, that looks greedy, right?” He must have forgot19.2×298k3.4k71320
25Feb 10, '25You wouldn't know it from the front pages... but Labour's workers' rights reforms are probably the most popular thing the government is doing. Huge support including 65% of Reform 18.9×294k2.2k543100
26Jun 23, '25BREAKING - I understand a large number of MPs - potentially 80+ and including select committee chair are signing a reasoned amendment to the welfare bill which declines to give it 18.5×286k1.6k403111
27Feb 28, '23Huge respect to @SteveBakerHW for this interview and for the way he has talked so openly about his mental health in recent months and how the turmoil of the last few years has take17.8×276k5586339
28May 16, '24This is - by some measure - the most impressive event this Labour leadership has ever assembled. Guests inc CEO of Boots, senior counter terror officer, a terminal cancer patient..15.9×247k1.2k27152
29Apr 11, '23Just as a point of genuine interest, why can’t anything be done in this situation?15.2×235k6347220
30Jul 22, '24NEW - HMT is starting process for Reeves to appoint Covid corruption tsar with instructions to claw back billions Appointee expected within weeks and will re-examine Covid contract14.5×224k90826417
31May 28, '24This is a stone cold classic14.3×222k7275430
32Jun 10, '24Sarah Olney is not loving this14.3×221k6325838
33Sep 6, '23When I go back to work it will be £1050 for my younger boy for four days. It was £750 for his elder brother, so a massive increase. This is *with* the current system of tax-free re14.1×218k58211819
34Jan 29, '25Theresa May did exactly the same when I went to Saudi with her in 2017…14×216k3.2k15982
35Jun 27, '24In a bizarre election twist, all three main UK party leaders are doing some form of pottery today… No work and all clay 🥁12.3×191k1.3k9953
36Apr 20, '23👋Personal news - It's my last day before maternity leave & the brilliant @peterwalker99 will be covering as deputy political editor. I'll miss this lovely team a lot. Last tim12.3×191k875362
37Jun 10, '24Sunak was visiting Horsham to campaign today Conservative majority 21,127 It’s 68th on the Lib Dem target list12.2×188k55511214
38Nov 26, '24NEW - Final asylum seekers have now left the Bibby Stockholm. The barge will be dismantled and be moved out of the Dorset port by January.11.9×185k76117126
39Oct 23, '25BREAKING from @geraldine_mck - Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if @jessphillips REMAINS in post. They say Phillips has “devoted her life to hearin11.7×182k1.8k52242
40Jul 10, '25Quite a strange way to describe a seat that had been Tory for 99 years until last year11.4×176k4.7k36146
42Mar 22, '24What’s been so depressing about this whole affair has been seeing people I thought were quite serious political commentators - especially in the US - openly mocking a women who was11.1×173k4.1k29554
43May 23, '24Labour are counting on voters hearing the Tories “Keir Starmer would take us back to square one” message and thinking “yes please”10.7×167k4807414
44Jul 7, '24Two new calls by @Keir_Starmer today - to Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu and to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.10.6×164k51411147
46Oct 28, '24Sorry but the last time when big measures were not briefed, it was such a shock to markets that it caused a run on sterling and the BoE had to save pension funds from collapse. Pit10.2×159k7379046
47Jul 5, '24Also personally happy to see one MP go who was deeply inappropriate to me in my first few weeks in the lobby… funny how so many of us have these stories. I can only hope that they 9.9×154k72410313
48Jun 9, '24Tories available for broadcast interviews are now basically just Mel Stride.9.8×152k87913412
49Jun 27, '24New - Starmer tells me Labour activists *should* campaign in Clacton against Farage. "We're not backing down in Clacton... We've got an excellent candidate there.. I'm very support9.1×142k1k22524
50May 21, '25Pretty stark reminder how some MPs think of state schools - no bright futures or opportunities there...9.0×140k2.3k31544
51Aug 27, '25Exc - Lib Dem leader @EdwardJDavey to boycott the state dinner hosted by the King in honour of Donald Trump. Davey will miss the banquet in protest over Gaza8.9×138k78517413
52May 4, '24Astonishing that a hung parliament and Susan Hall mayoralty were taken seriously by a fair few people on here over the past 24 hours8.9×137k1.9k19331
55Feb 5, '23Had not clocked this before but is that… Che Guevara dressed as Nelson?8.3×129k583388
56Jun 7, '24Ok, the itinerary was set weeks ago. That in many ways make the decision even more incomprehensible8.3×128k9231297
57Oct 30, '24The proper Budget rabbit Income tax thresholds WILL be unfrozen from 2028 and uprated in line with inflation - will genuinely save people significant money.7.8×121k88413117
59Feb 2, '23British Gas says “this isn’t how we do business” which is a strange thing to say when this is how they have been doing business.7.7×120k1.1k27812
60Jun 27, '24The prime minister posting a picture of a child with his hands in the air as if he’s about to be shot. Grim.7.4×115k1.8k24123
61Nov 20, '24Breaking - the two most long-serving MPs Diane Abbott and Edward Leigh have issue an unprecedented joint call against assisted dying. The Mother and Father of the House are v diffe7.2×112k76418722
62Jul 8, '24It's the new parliamentary Labour party - and there is a lot of them!6.9×107k8168642
63Oct 1, '24New Ipsos poll finds two thirds of voters (64%) do not care who becomes Tory leader. It includes almost a third (32%) of those who *voted Conservative* in July. Starmer leads Baden6.8×105k99427524
64Mar 14, '23Looks like @GaryLineker has a new profile pic…6.7×104k1.2k1172
65Aug 5, '24Genuinely how was this allowed to happen?6.6×103k7857919
66Jun 23, '25UPDATE - I’m told there are 99 signatures6.2×96k95221639
67Jul 5, '24First big miss for the exit poll - Dan Jarvis comfortably holds Barnsley North by 8,000 votes. Exit poll predicted Reform victory 🫣6.1×94k1.3k15823
68Jul 16, '24Exc from ⁦@PippaCrerar⁩ - Rishi Sunak was warned by senior civil servants a week before he called the election that he was at risk of breaching his legal responsibilities if he fai5.7×88k66129117
70Jun 5, '24I think Keir Starmer does try to raise the permanent secretary's letter in the debate... he just gets cut off before he can do it. Watch here -5.5×85k50410740
71May 30, '24Ed Davey’s first week of the election campaign has been like a half term holiday camp.5.4×84k8654114
73Oct 10, '24There’s clearly a story here in how the police protection came about. But there’s also the alternate universe headline… Taylor Swift cancels Wembley dates after Labour REFUSED extr5.4×83k87110314
74Jan 24, '23This is an absolutely breathtaking story with very very serious questions for people in government at the time.5.2×81k1k51619
75Sep 9, '25Exclusive Boris Johnson approached Elon Musk on behalf of London Evening Standard owner Lebedev, we can reveal Former PM’s private office forwarded business proposal from peer to o5.1×79k1k65262
76Mar 9, '23Just three male MPs in the chamber to hear this5.0×77k6881594
78Aug 7, '24Perhaps it’s time to take the concerns of these protesters into consideration?4.6×71k1.4k24915
79Mar 10, '23Labour source: “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 sa4.6×71k6781404
80Jun 2, '24EXC - Labour launches first major attack on Sunak on his time at a hedge fund during financial crisis @darrenpjones says Sunak should have been cross-examined about deal that regul4.5×70k82132120
81Mar 8, '23Having a tweet by a football pundit lead the News at 10 seems like quite an odd decision…4.5×70k892722
82Apr 17, '23Angela Rayner makes the key point about the investigation into Sunak - the underlying issue is the complete failure to update the rules or publish a register of ministers' interest4.5×69k6131271
83Mar 15, '23Jess Phillips opens PMQs by talking about women she worked with who were illegally brought to this country, trafficked, and repeatedly raped - asking will they now be denied help. 4.4×69k6301112
84Jul 5, '24After all that, it looks like the Greens will get as many seats as Reform…4.2×65k93411913
85Jun 27, '24Mugs made at Keir Starmer’s pottery visit3.5×55k5704110
86Jul 5, '24⚡️ Lib Dem source very confident they will take Gillian Keegan's seat in Chichester3.4×52k444488
87Jun 7, '24Feels like a very big moment in the campaign here - not a gaffe but a deliberate choice3.2×50k476745
88Oct 2, '24Jenrick: "The country just voted for change, all we've got is more managed decline." Not sure this works because it implies the Tories were already doing managed decline...3.0×46k1.1k1525
89Jan 30, '23New @IpsosUK polling finds 70% think the Conservatives have done a poor job in government and 66% think it is time for a change at the next election. Net satisfaction rating for Su2.9×45k4821102
91May 26, '24The “national service pledge” is somehow a particularly awkward idea for this new generation who are incredibly politically engaged and socially responsible and care deeply about t2.7×43k462779
92Oct 9, '24Labour MPs are cheeriest they've been in a while2.6×41k579466
93Jun 25, '25PM, deputy PM and disability minister all on record today saying vote will go ahead. The plan seems to be to work on the rebels to get numbers down. Very hard when names are now ou2.6×40k57820313
96Mar 4, '25A random country where hundreds of soliders were killed and thousands injured in wars led by the US - the only nation to trigger NATO's Article 5 in its history. Strange Vance didn2.4×37k1.1k17520
97Oct 30, '24Reeves slaps a big tax on private jet use, at least £450 per passenger (they can find that if they turn out their pockets on the way up the stairs...)2.3×36k592643
98Sep 24, '24Tough retort from Keir Starmer on the last week of noise. “The bad faith advice from people who still hanker for the politics of noisy performance. “It's water off a duck's back. M1.9×30k532963

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