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David Powell
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Believer in real, constitutional, democracy and unfashionable truth telling in politics.
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Meanwhile, a grown-up speaks…
Confirming the totally avoidable generational mess we’ve made in this endless brexity fit of prejudiced, ignorant entitlement.
FINANCIAL TIMES "The single market is an ecosystem that can't be picked apart and frictionless access depends on accepting all of its various elements, of which alignment is only one," he added. The government is under increasing pressure from trade groups to deepen engagement with the EU which continues to take nearly half of all UK trade. The Labour leadership has trumpeted the value of its recent deals with India and the US, but government assessments have found the value of those deals to be negligible when set against the costs of Brexit.
January 6, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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If you missed this question to Nigel Farage from The Critic's Rob Hutton – and it was over an hour into the press conference – then it was a particularly good one. The answer was... vague.
“In the last 18 month you’ve taken about £13,000 from X, the social media site. Its new innovation for 2026 is child porn on demand, that kind of thing. I was just wondering – are Reform MPs and you going to continue taking child porn money?”
January 7, 2026 at 11:50 AM