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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 10d

Keir Starmer has attacked Reform UK’s plan to deport thousands of people already legally living in the UK as “racist” and “immoral”, as he said that Labour had a generational struggle ahead with the populist right 👇🏼

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Keir Starmer attacks ‘racist’ Farage plan to deport people settled in the UK

Prime minister says Reform proposal to abolish indefinite leave to remain could ‘tear this country apart’

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UCL Policy Lab @uclpolicylab.bsky.social · 11d

A special Guardian Podcast Live with @andyburnham.bsky.social. Hosted by @pippacrerar.bsky.social and @kiranstacey.bsky.social.

In partnership with @moreincommonuk.bsky.social.

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 10d

Hello Liverpool! A beautiful morning for an early run 🏃🏻‍♀️ @uklabour.bsky.social

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · Sep 3

"There is not a free speech crisis in the UK. Keir Starmer has not shut down GB News," Ruskin says. Farage seems "most at home with the autocrats and dictators of this world", he adds. If he's serious about the Online Safety Act, he should be in parliament, he says, not here.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · Sep 3

EXCLUSIVE

Angela Rayner admits she underpaid stamp duty on her seaside flat - refers herself to the standards commissions

Story by @pippacrerar.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Angela Rayner admits underpaying stamp duty on £800,000 seaside flat

Deputy PM refers herself to ethics adviser as confirmation puts her position under threat

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Jun 16

Very thoughtful analysis on Keir Starmer's response to - and subsequent U-turn on - calls for a national grooming gangs inquiry - by @peterwalker99.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer makes U-turn mid-air over grooming gangs inquiry

PM forced to cave in to clamour for statutory inquiry despite earlier dismissing them as amplifying far right demands

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Jun 10

UK places sanctions on two far-right Israeli government ministers over “monstrous” comments about destroying Gaza and using violence to gain control of West Bank settlements.

Full story by Patrick Wintour

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK places sanctions on two far-right Israeli ministers over ‘monstrous’ Gaza comments

Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich face travel bans and asset freezes as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway also impose measures

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Jun 9

Downing Street says the Spending Review is now settled, with the last to hold out - the home office - agreeing its settlement today despite concerns over police funding.

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Jun 9

🚨New podcast!

Rachel Reeves’s U-turn on winter fuel payments: will it be enough to undo the damage done?

Plus, spending review as negotiations & what’s going on with Reform UK?

Join me & @kiranstacey.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...

Winter fuel U-turn and spending review standoff – Politics Weekly Westminster

Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss the U-turn on winter fuel payments. Plus, they look ahead to this week’s spending review. And after its chair dramatically quit the party only to return 48 hours ...

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Jun 9

BREAKING: All pensioners with income of £35,000 or less will have winter fuel payment restored in full.

New threshold means 7.5m pensioners who didn't get it last year now will.

Paid to all and then clawed back from wealthiest via HMRC as revealed by @theguardian.com

Winter fuel payments threshold to rise to £35,000, Rachel Reeves announces

Change means about 7.5 million pensioners in England and Wales who lost out on payment will have it restored

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 5

Trump suggest that Elon has "Trump derangement syndrome"

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Jun 5

Worth rereading this excellent profile of Zia Yusuf from @ecourea.bsky.social last year 👇

www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

Reform’s new chair Zia Yusuf: a man intent on making Nigel Farage PM

Former leftwing student defends leader’s Southport comments and insists party stands for British values

www.theguardian.com

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Jun 5

Thursday’s @theguardian.com front page: Chaos fears over return of winter fuel payments
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Jun 4

Rachel Reeves confirms that adjustments to winter fuel payments will come in time for *this* winter.

"People should be in no doubt that the means test will increase and more people will get a winter fuel payment this winter."

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Jun 4

White House announces overnight that UK to get reprieve from 50% tariffs slapped on steel & aluminium imports into US, and will remain at 25% for now.

But could yet increase to 50% in July if Trump feels UK has not adhered to parts of yet to be implemented US/ UK trade deal.

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Jun 2

🚨 And we're back! Join me and @kiranstacey.bsky.social as we discuss whether the UK really is "battle ready", how extra defence spending will be paid for, and the thorny issue of next week's spending review 👇

www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...

Is the UK ready for war? – Politics Weekly Westminster podcast

Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss the government’s strategic defence review and ask: is the UK really ready for war? Plus, they look ahead to next week’s spending review.

www.theguardian.com

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Jun 2

But at his press conference in Govan, Starmer says he's "100% confident" the UK will reach the 3% target by the end of the next Parliament - but still describes it as an "ambition" and won't put a date on it.

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Jun 2

…how we can make good on that commitment, because I don’t believe in performative fantasy politics, and certainly not on defence and security.”

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Jun 2

Starmer defends not yet committing to date for lifting defence spending to 3% of GDP - which remains simply an ambition.

“I am not… going to make a commitment as to the precise date until I can be sure precisely where the money is coming from…

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Jun 2

Keir Starmer defends decision to cut winter fuel payment - but hints u-turn could come as soon as next week’s spending review.

“If we want to look again at which pensioners are eligible, then the sooner we have clarity on that, the better,” PM tells #Today.

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · May 24

If you read one thing today, please read this. Heart-breaking but beautifully written, deeply moving and - ultimately - full of hope.

‘The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max’ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max

It was, we were told, a case of sudden infant death syndrome interrupted. What followed would transform my understanding of parenting, disability and the breadth of what makes a meaningful life

www.theguardian.com

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · May 24

EXCL: Hundreds of thousands of children with special needs could lose their legal entitlement to extra support in schools in England under plans being considered by ministers - @alethaadu.bsky.social reports www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Children with special needs in England may lose legal right to school support

Exclusive: Schools minister declines to rule out replacing EHCP documents as part of plans to change Send system

www.theguardian.com

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · May 24

Saturday’s @theguardian.com front page: Thousands could suffer as child poverty plan delayed www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · May 23

What is Angela Rayner up to?

Great read fr @jessicaelgot.bsky.social & @kiranstacey.bsky.social who reveal her supporters conducting focus groups to see how she'd perform in a leadership campaign.

Meanwhile, Wes Streeting has been courting new backbenchers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Is Angela Rayner positioning herself for a Starmer succession race?

Whoever leaked deputy PM’s memo to the Telegraph, some believe it will have helped her leadership chances

www.theguardian.com

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · May 23

EXCL: Nigel Farage claimed with great fanfare last year to have “bought a house” in Clacton – but it turns out the property is owned in the name of his girlfriend
@rowenamason.bsky.social reports 👇
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage said he’d ‘bought a house’ in Clacton – it’s actually owned by his girlfriend

Reform UK leader said he’d ‘exchanged contracts’ to buy property last November, but it’s in name of Laure Ferrari

www.theguardian.com

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