Aletha Adu
@alethaadu.bsky.social
I write about politics for the Guardian. Also gym rat, musician and amateur yogi
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Mandelson has been sacked as ambassador to US, MPs told - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Starmer under fresh pressure to sack Mandelson as MP claims parliamentary party ‘100%’ against letting him stay – UK politics live
Andy McDonald, a shadow cabinet minister under Jeremy Corbyn and under Starmer until 2021, said Peter Mandelson ‘should go immediately’
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September 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Mandelson has been sacked as ambassador to US, MPs told - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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It'll be interesting to see how Reform handles the Mandelson / Epstein story
Here's what Farage told Harriet Symonds and Tom Scotson in their recent interview...
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Here's what Farage told Harriet Symonds and Tom Scotson in their recent interview...
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September 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
It'll be interesting to see how Reform handles the Mandelson / Epstein story
Here's what Farage told Harriet Symonds and Tom Scotson in their recent interview...
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Here's what Farage told Harriet Symonds and Tom Scotson in their recent interview...
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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EXCLUSIVE - 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 the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.
It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?
Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned
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September 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
EXCLUSIVE - 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 the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.
It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people
Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people
Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country’s military junta, the number of vast complexes such as KK Park on the Thai-Myanmar border has doubled since 2021
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September 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people
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I joined Zack Polanski for a walkabout around Clacton, where he talked to Nigel Farage supporters and said other parties must do more to battle the prospect of a “far right-adjacent” Reform government.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘We have to tell an alternative story’: Green leader Polanski chats to Nigel Farage’s constituents
Visit to Clacton-on-Sea part of social media strategy that Zack Polanski feels can rebut Reform’s rhetoric
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September 8, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I joined Zack Polanski for a walkabout around Clacton, where he talked to Nigel Farage supporters and said other parties must do more to battle the prospect of a “far right-adjacent” Reform government.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Excl: Labour figures from the left & centre including Andy Burnham are launching Mainstream, a new soft-left network designed to change Labour’s direction & will inevitably influence the deputy leadership contest
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour insiders form new centre-left network in bid to change party’s direction
Exclusive: Andy Burnham-backed Mainstream group will inevitably influence looming deputy leadership contest
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September 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Excl: Labour figures from the left & centre including Andy Burnham are launching Mainstream, a new soft-left network designed to change Labour’s direction & will inevitably influence the deputy leadership contest
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
In Louise Haigh’s first interview since being effectively sacked as transport sec, she tells me Starmer must avoid a “simplistic and naive” response by lurching to the right after Reform UK’s success in the locals… 👇🏾
Very pleased she spoke with me
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Very pleased she spoke with me
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Labour must avoid ‘naive’ lurch to right after Reform success, Haigh warns
Exclusive: former transport minister criticises party’s direction and calls on Starmer to focus on issues like taxation and welfare reform
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May 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In Louise Haigh’s first interview since being effectively sacked as transport sec, she tells me Starmer must avoid a “simplistic and naive” response by lurching to the right after Reform UK’s success in the locals… 👇🏾
Very pleased she spoke with me
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Very pleased she spoke with me
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NEW - No10 told there could be ministerial and other resignations over the welfare cuts as MPs pressure government to drop any PIP freeze. Comes after cabinet ministers voiced their own fears earlier this week.
Huge pressure coming from PLP.
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Huge pressure coming from PLP.
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MPs tell No 10: frontbenchers could quit over disability benefits plan
Labour MPs suggest backlash means PM cannot push ahead with freeze on some personal independence payments
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March 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
NEW - No10 told there could be ministerial and other resignations over the welfare cuts as MPs pressure government to drop any PIP freeze. Comes after cabinet ministers voiced their own fears earlier this week.
Huge pressure coming from PLP.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Huge pressure coming from PLP.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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🚨 @newscientist.com SCOOP: I've exclusively obtained Peter Kyle's interactions with ChatGPT using FOI laws - in what I believe may be a world-first transparency release. The chatbot said "Lack of Government or Institutional Support" slowed UK AI adoption www.newscientist.com/article/2472...
Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice
New Scientist has used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT records of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary, in what is believed to be a world-first use of such legislation
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March 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
🚨 @newscientist.com SCOOP: I've exclusively obtained Peter Kyle's interactions with ChatGPT using FOI laws - in what I believe may be a world-first transparency release. The chatbot said "Lack of Government or Institutional Support" slowed UK AI adoption www.newscientist.com/article/2472...
Labour MP Kim Johnson calls for a public inquiry into historic scandal which saw black children incorrectly labelled “educationally subnormal” & sent to schools for physically & mentally disabled pupils
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MP calls for inquiry into labelling of black pupils as ‘educationally subnormal’
Kim Johnson tells parliament lessons must be learnt from poor treatment of children at institutions in 1960s and 70s
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March 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Labour MP Kim Johnson calls for a public inquiry into historic scandal which saw black children incorrectly labelled “educationally subnormal” & sent to schools for physically & mentally disabled pupils
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Ever since ministers began to put the “moral case” for cutting spending on UK benefits, emotions have been running high among Labour MPs.
The argument – that Labour is “the party of work” – has left some furious, & others angry at those who are furious.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The argument – that Labour is “the party of work” – has left some furious, & others angry at those who are furious.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘There is no moral case’: Labour divided over prospect of benefit cuts
Some feel the party is moving away from the working class, but others argue ministers must show new Labour voters the system can work
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March 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Ever since ministers began to put the “moral case” for cutting spending on UK benefits, emotions have been running high among Labour MPs.
The argument – that Labour is “the party of work” – has left some furious, & others angry at those who are furious.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The argument – that Labour is “the party of work” – has left some furious, & others angry at those who are furious.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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EXCL: Keir Starmer faces biggest rebellion yet over welfare cuts with dozens of angry Labour MPs threatening to vote against freezing disability benefits.
Many concerned that Rachel Reeves could go further than former Tory chancellor George Osborne who, despite deep benefit cuts, kept PIP rising.
Many concerned that Rachel Reeves could go further than former Tory chancellor George Osborne who, despite deep benefit cuts, kept PIP rising.
March 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
EXCL: Keir Starmer faces biggest rebellion yet over welfare cuts with dozens of angry Labour MPs threatening to vote against freezing disability benefits.
Many concerned that Rachel Reeves could go further than former Tory chancellor George Osborne who, despite deep benefit cuts, kept PIP rising.
Many concerned that Rachel Reeves could go further than former Tory chancellor George Osborne who, despite deep benefit cuts, kept PIP rising.
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EXC: Ministers discussing a range of options for changing (but not removing) the 2-child-benefit cap.
Exempting parents of under-5s, exempting parents in work, higher child benefit payments, all in play.
Story with @alethaadu.bsky.social
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Exempting parents of under-5s, exempting parents in work, higher child benefit payments, all in play.
Story with @alethaadu.bsky.social
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Parents of under-fives may be exempted from UK’s two-child benefit limit
Exclusive: Ministers considering options to bring down child poverty without removing rule entirely
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February 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
EXC: Ministers discussing a range of options for changing (but not removing) the 2-child-benefit cap.
Exempting parents of under-5s, exempting parents in work, higher child benefit payments, all in play.
Story with @alethaadu.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Exempting parents of under-5s, exempting parents in work, higher child benefit payments, all in play.
Story with @alethaadu.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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EXCL: Keir Starmer planning drastic cuts to Britain’s international aid budget to help pay for a boost to defence spending, the Guardian has been told www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer planning big cuts to UK aid budget to boost defence spending, say sources
Exclusive: PM expected to confirm boost in military spending to at least 2.5% of GDP by 2030
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February 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
EXCL: Keir Starmer planning drastic cuts to Britain’s international aid budget to help pay for a boost to defence spending, the Guardian has been told www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK-EU youth mobility scheme key to better EU relations, says top diplomat
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UK-EU youth mobility scheme key to better EU relations, says top diplomat
Germany’s ambassador to UK suggests Starmer will have to agree concessions in order to secure economic benefits
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January 6, 2025 at 8:29 AM
UK-EU youth mobility scheme key to better EU relations, says top diplomat
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...