Kevin Schofield
@kevinschofied.bsky.social
Labour client journalist and member of the right-wing MSM, apparently. Also political editor of HuffPost UK.
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Labour Fighting For Survival After Keir Starmer's Latest Week From Hell
The prime minister returned from Brazil to a government engulfed by controversy
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Keir Starmer has flown back from the COP30 summit on saving the planet - but can he save his premiership after yet another week from hell?
"The mood among MPs is sulphurous," says one backbencher.
The HuffPost UK weekend political read 👇
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"The mood among MPs is sulphurous," says one backbencher.
The HuffPost UK weekend political read 👇
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That Nigel Farage investigation into claims of Russia links to Reform, in full: "I’ve asked everybody: 'have you ever taken money you shouldn’t have taken from anybody', and no one said yes.”
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Farage Mocked After Giving Bizarre Reason For Not Investigating Reform Russia Claims
"I haven't got a police force".
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November 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
That Nigel Farage investigation into claims of Russia links to Reform, in full: "I’ve asked everybody: 'have you ever taken money you shouldn’t have taken from anybody', and no one said yes.”
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Labour MP Goes Viral After Using Custard Creams To Explain The UK's Ballooning Debt
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Labour MP Goes Viral After Using Custard Creams To Explain The UK's Ballooning Debt
Gordon McKee used chocolate bourbons, too.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Labour MP Goes Viral After Using Custard Creams To Explain The UK's Ballooning Debt
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Asked why he won't launch an investigation into whether anyone else in Reform UK has links to Russia, Nigel Farage said: "I haven't got a police force."
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Farage Mocked After Giving Bizarre Reason For Not Investigating Reform Russia Claims
"I haven't got a police force".
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November 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Asked why he won't launch an investigation into whether anyone else in Reform UK has links to Russia, Nigel Farage said: "I haven't got a police force."
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This morning's HuffPost UK splash
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
This morning's HuffPost UK splash
'No Answers Nigel': Farage Says He Never Racially Abused Anyone 'In A Hurtful Or Insulting Way'
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'No Answers Nigel': Farage Says He Never Racially Abused Anyone 'In A Hurtful Or Insulting Way'
The Reform leader has been accused of anti-semitism when he was at school.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
'No Answers Nigel': Farage Says He Never Racially Abused Anyone 'In A Hurtful Or Insulting Way'
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Scoop: Labour MPs are being offered tours of 10 Downing Street as Keir Starmer seeks to repair relations with his backbenchers.
One MP said: "I did wonder if it was a ploy to learn the names of the Parliamentary Labour Party."
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One MP said: "I did wonder if it was a ploy to learn the names of the Parliamentary Labour Party."
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Exclusive: Labour MPs Offered Tours Of No.10 As PM Tries To Repair Relations With Backbenchers
"Has anyone asked if the PM wants to visit one day too?"
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November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Scoop: Labour MPs are being offered tours of 10 Downing Street as Keir Starmer seeks to repair relations with his backbenchers.
One MP said: "I did wonder if it was a ploy to learn the names of the Parliamentary Labour Party."
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One MP said: "I did wonder if it was a ploy to learn the names of the Parliamentary Labour Party."
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Tories finally respond to the Kevin Hollinrake Reform/Nazi row.
Spokesman: "Reform need to get off social media and explain why they’re so cozy with Russia and want more welfare."
Not sure it's Reform who need to get off social media, tbh
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Spokesman: "Reform need to get off social media and explain why they’re so cozy with Russia and want more welfare."
Not sure it's Reform who need to get off social media, tbh
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Tory Chairman Sparks Row With Tweet Comparing Reform To The Nazis
Kevin Hollinrake has now deleted the post.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Tories finally respond to the Kevin Hollinrake Reform/Nazi row.
Spokesman: "Reform need to get off social media and explain why they’re so cozy with Russia and want more welfare."
Not sure it's Reform who need to get off social media, tbh
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Spokesman: "Reform need to get off social media and explain why they’re so cozy with Russia and want more welfare."
Not sure it's Reform who need to get off social media, tbh
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Asked about Hollinrake comparing Reform to the Nazis on GB News, Tory shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith plays dumb.
"I haven't seen the thing you talk about. I'm sure it's not quite as you say."
Aye right, as we say in Scotland.
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"I haven't seen the thing you talk about. I'm sure it's not quite as you say."
Aye right, as we say in Scotland.
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Tory Chairman Sparks Row With Tweet Comparing Reform To The Nazis
Kevin Hollinrake has now deleted the post.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Asked about Hollinrake comparing Reform to the Nazis on GB News, Tory shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith plays dumb.
"I haven't seen the thing you talk about. I'm sure it's not quite as you say."
Aye right, as we say in Scotland.
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"I haven't seen the thing you talk about. I'm sure it's not quite as you say."
Aye right, as we say in Scotland.
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A senior Tory told HuffPost UK: “This is fucking insane. Am I to meant to believe the Conservative Party’s position is that Reform is akin to the Nazis?”
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Tory Chairman Sparks Row With Tweet Comparing Reform To The Nazis
Kevin Hollinrake has now deleted the post.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
A senior Tory told HuffPost UK: “This is fucking insane. Am I to meant to believe the Conservative Party’s position is that Reform is akin to the Nazis?”
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The HuffPost UK Monday morning splash
November 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
The HuffPost UK Monday morning splash
Tory Chairman Sparks Row With Tweet Comparing Reform To The Nazis
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-c...
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Tory Chairman Sparks Row With Tweet Comparing Reform To The Nazis
Kevin Hollinrake has now deleted the post.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Tory Chairman Sparks Row With Tweet Comparing Reform To The Nazis
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-c...
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🔥 "We need her to succeed because if she flops then we end up in a doom loop".
How Labour MPs hope this week's Budget will save the government.
The HuffPost UK weekend political read 👇
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How Labour MPs hope this week's Budget will save the government.
The HuffPost UK weekend political read 👇
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How Rachel Reeves' Budget Could Make Or Break Her Career
The pressure is on the chancellor to repair the economy as well as Labour's poll numbers.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
🔥 "We need her to succeed because if she flops then we end up in a doom loop".
How Labour MPs hope this week's Budget will save the government.
The HuffPost UK weekend political read 👇
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/will-t...
How Labour MPs hope this week's Budget will save the government.
The HuffPost UK weekend political read 👇
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/will-t...
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Trump's alleged deal with Russia to resolve the Ukraine war – without any input from Kyiv – seemed to drop out of the sky earlier this week. It's not suprising some experts think the timing is suspicious...
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Trump's 'Meaningless' Ukraine Deal Stunned The West – But He May Have Had An Ulterior Motive
Experts suggest the US president could be looking for a distraction right now.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Trump's alleged deal with Russia to resolve the Ukraine war – without any input from Kyiv – seemed to drop out of the sky earlier this week. It's not suprising some experts think the timing is suspicious...
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Michael Gove on the Covid-19 report: "If we had locked down earlier I think that would have been wiser and I did say so at the time."
But says it is a "leap" to say 23,000 lives would have been saved as a result.
But says it is a "leap" to say 23,000 lives would have been saved as a result.
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Michael Gove on the Covid-19 report: "If we had locked down earlier I think that would have been wiser and I did say so at the time."
But says it is a "leap" to say 23,000 lives would have been saved as a result.
But says it is a "leap" to say 23,000 lives would have been saved as a result.
"Boris Johnson should be hauled into Downing Street for one last Downing Street press conference to apologise to the whole country and he should be banned from holding public office ever again."
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BBC Question Time Audience Applaud At Call For Boris Johnson To Apologise For Covid Deaths
A damning report showed 23,000 lives could have been saved if the former PM had locked down earlier.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:41 AM
"Boris Johnson should be hauled into Downing Street for one last Downing Street press conference to apologise to the whole country and he should be banned from holding public office ever again."
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The Department for Education posted an ironic "apology" on Instagram boasting about its successful policies.
It did not work out well for them.
Top scoop by @katenicholson.bsky.social
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It did not work out well for them.
Top scoop by @katenicholson.bsky.social
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Exclusive: Ministers Slammed Over 'Tone Deaf' Social Media Post Amid Soaring Child Poverty
"This is not the time for the government to be patting itself on the back."
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November 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The Department for Education posted an ironic "apology" on Instagram boasting about its successful policies.
It did not work out well for them.
Top scoop by @katenicholson.bsky.social
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
It did not work out well for them.
Top scoop by @katenicholson.bsky.social
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Keir Starmer in trouble? Must be time for an Andy Burnham intervention ...
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Labour Civil War As Andy Burnham Hits Out At Shabana Mahmood's Immigration Crackdown
The Manchester mayor said it would leave people "in limbo".
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November 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Keir Starmer in trouble? Must be time for an Andy Burnham intervention ...
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Exclusive: Tory MP's Bizarre Question About Gender Neutral Toilets Slapped Down By Minister
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Exclusive: Tory MP's Bizarre Question About Gender Neutral Toilets Slapped Down By Minister
John Hayes has bombarded every government department with the same query.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Exclusive: Tory MP's Bizarre Question About Gender Neutral Toilets Slapped Down By Minister
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This morning's HuffPost UK splash ...
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
This morning's HuffPost UK splash ...
Exclusive: Labour MP Calls For Welfare Bill To Be Slashed By £20 Billion
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Exclusive: Labour MP Calls For Welfare Bill To Be Slashed By £20 Billion
Chris Curtis said the government had not been "ambitious enough" when it failed to shave £5 billion off the bill.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Exclusive: Labour MP Calls For Welfare Bill To Be Slashed By £20 Billion
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NEW: Writing for HuffPost UK, @zackpolanski.bsky.social says Labour has "lost its soul" and vows to go after every one of its MPs who don't oppose the government's asylum crackdown.
"If Labour can’t stand up for the many then we’re here to replace Labour"
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"If Labour can’t stand up for the many then we’re here to replace Labour"
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Zack Polanski: 'Labour Has Lost Its Soul On Immigration, Their Silent MPs Should Be Ashamed'
Writing for HuffPost UK, the Greens leader says only his party will stand up to the powerful and defend the 99%.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
NEW: Writing for HuffPost UK, @zackpolanski.bsky.social says Labour has "lost its soul" and vows to go after every one of its MPs who don't oppose the government's asylum crackdown.
"If Labour can’t stand up for the many then we’re here to replace Labour"
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"If Labour can’t stand up for the many then we’re here to replace Labour"
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Kemi Badenoch In Embarrassing PMQs Gaffe As She Suggests Budget Has Already Happened
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Kemi Badenoch In Embarrassing PMQs Gaffe As She Suggests Budget Has Already Happened
Keir Starmer had to remind her it is next week.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Kemi Badenoch In Embarrassing PMQs Gaffe As She Suggests Budget Has Already Happened
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BREAKING: UK defence secretary says a Russian spy ship called Yantar has entered British waters off the Scottish coast and is mapping undersea cables.
"If the Yantar travels south this week, we are ready."
"If the Yantar travels south this week, we are ready."
November 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
BREAKING: UK defence secretary says a Russian spy ship called Yantar has entered British waters off the Scottish coast and is mapping undersea cables.
"If the Yantar travels south this week, we are ready."
"If the Yantar travels south this week, we are ready."
Former Tory PM Brands Brexit 'An Act Of Collective Folly' In Outspoken Attack
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Former Tory PM Brands Brexit 'An Act Of Collective Folly' In Outspoken Attack
John Major said "our enemies celebrated and our friends despaired" at the vote to leave the European Union.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Former Tory PM Brands Brexit 'An Act Of Collective Folly' In Outspoken Attack
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'Disgusting': Donald Trump Slammed For Defending Saudi Prince Over Journalist's Murder
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'Disgusting': Donald Trump Slammed For Defending Saudi Prince Over Journalist's Murder
The US president reacted angrily to Mohammed bin Salman being asked about Jamal Khashoggi's death.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
'Disgusting': Donald Trump Slammed For Defending Saudi Prince Over Journalist's Murder
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