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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 3d

Been to Manchester central complex many times for conferences and rarely has the main hall been so light on outside exhibitors. Lots of padding with empty stands put up by central party

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Sascha O'Sullivan @saschaosullivan.bsky.social · 5d

We talk about this in the pod! In fact one guest said it might - like Tony Blair - take two terms to figure out what it is

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Sascha O'Sullivan @saschaosullivan.bsky.social · 5d

🎙️NEW ep 🎙️ Postcard from Liverpool: is Starmerism is already over?

w/ Deputy PM David Lammy
Lucy Powell
@alistrathern.bsky.social
@stephenkb.bsky.social
@peterhyman.bsky.social
@morganwild.bsky.social
@noahkeate.bsky.social & @ecasalicchio.bsky.social

www.politico.eu/podcast/west...

Postcard from Liverpool: is Starmerism over already?

Host Sascha O’Sullivan goes behind-the-scenes of Labour Party conference in Liverpool, talking to senior politicians and advisors as she tries to hunt for Keir Starmer’s ideology – once…

www.politico.eu

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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 6d

Not the greatest backdrop to a make-or-break party conference ...

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-c...

Tory Civil War Erupts As Theresa May Slams Badenoch's Plan To Scrap Net Zero Target

The former prime minister joined other senior Conservatives in condemning the party leader.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Sarcophagus Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 6d

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

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Sascha O'Sullivan @saschaosullivan.bsky.social · 13d

A small reminder of where original story of swans/migrants came from… a 2003 story later corrected to admit there was no evidence

www.theguardian.com/media/2003/d...

No PCC probe into 'swan eating' story

4.15pm: The Press Complaints Commission has been branded 'disgraceful' after deciding not to force the Sun to apologise for claiming asylum seekers had poached and eaten swans. Ciar Byrne reports.

www.theguardian.com

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James Heale @jaheale.bsky.social · 13d

Liz Truss is now dunking on Andy Burnham

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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 15d

My favourite variant of this is when you add in queerness:

“He spend 50 years living in a remote hut with his close friend, where they preserved and catalogued the most extensive collection of ferns ever assembled in Britain”

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 15d

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 15d

Fundamentally, the headbanging Right doesn't believe Autism (or ADHD) exists. Or in so far as it does exist, a human conspiracy has created it.

We're back to their core outlook that 'It didn't exist back in the good old days so can't exist now.'

'It must just be some modern woke Marxist nonsense'.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16d

It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 16d

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

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Sascha O'Sullivan @saschaosullivan.bsky.social · 17d

Farage claims he can save *£230bn* by excluding foreign nationals from welfare bill

Did Dr Evil come up with this number

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Sascha O'Sullivan @saschaosullivan.bsky.social · 18d

Sure! We do an episode every week on different ones

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Sascha O'Sullivan @saschaosullivan.bsky.social · 18d

🎙️ NEW ep🎙️ Who’s actually in control of the Channel crossings— and can Shabana Mahmood get a grip of it?

@jamescleverlymp.bsky.social
Andrew Harding
Ex Home Office DG Glyn Williams
Hannah Guerin
@nicolakellywrites.bsky.social
Joe Middleton KC
& more

www.politico.eu/podcast/west...

Inside the fight to stop migrants crossing the Channel

Just this week, Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, has made a fresh effort to remove migrants arriving from the English Channel with the Government’s one-in-one-out agreement with France. S…

www.politico.eu

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 19d

🎧 I'm on this week's 'Westminster Insider' @politico.eu @politico.com
talking about the mess the Home Office has made of the asylum system, alongside none other than... James Cleverly.

www.politico.eu/podcast/west...

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Inside the fight to stop migrants crossing the Channel

Just this week, Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, has made a fresh effort to remove migrants arriving from the English Channel with the Government’s one-in-one-out agreement with France. S…

www.politico.eu

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 20d

What's going on with Your Party?

@meganekenyon.bsky.social joins me on today's @newstatesman.com podcast to explain, as does Ethan Croft, making his NS debut as we try to untangle the split between Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTn4...

Has Your Party split before it started? | UK Politics | The New Statesman

YouTube video by The New Statesman

www.youtube.com

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Sascha O'Sullivan @saschaosullivan.bsky.social · 20d

Actually quite a beautiful moment of Donald Trump saying he “doesn’t know” Peter Mandelson

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Sascha O'Sullivan @saschaosullivan.bsky.social · Sep 5

🎙️NEW ep 🎙️Can Britain have a proper Green Party? How the party had changed from early days of campaigns on camels & dog poo💩

🌳 & Zack Polanski’s efforts to make his party serious

@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@elliechowns.bsky.social
Natalie Bennett
Jonathon Porritt

www.politico.eu/podcast/west...

Can Britain have a proper Green Party?

Zack Polanski, the self-confessed eco-populist, won the leadership of the Green Party in a landslide this week. So Westminster Insider Host Sascha O’Sullivan finds out why the Green Party hav…

www.politico.eu

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · Sep 6

I don’t think any of us expected him to say that.

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Sascha O'Sullivan @saschaosullivan.bsky.social · Sep 6

Former deputy labour leader Tom Watson calls for… deputy leader post to be abolished

tomwatsonofficial.substack.com/p/angela-ray...

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Jack Pannell @jackpannell.bsky.social · Sep 5

With Rayner stepping down we have hit 10 minister's who have oficially resigned from this government. Make sure you are following @paddy-mcalary.bsky.social @timdurrant.bsky.social @rebeccamckee.bsky.social meganbryer.bsky.social for what Starmer will do next with his minsiterial team.

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Tim Durrant @timdurrant.bsky.social · Sep 5

From no reshuffle to a No10 reshuffle to losing the DPM and a potential cabinet reshuffle - what a first week back

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · Sep 5

We now expect her resignation to precipitate quite a significant reshuffle of the cabinet.

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Sascha O'Sullivan @saschaosullivan.bsky.social · Sep 5

can't believe we've lost two people's princesses in our lifetime

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Sascha O'Sullivan @saschaosullivan.bsky.social · Sep 5

🎙️NEW ep 🎙️Can Britain have a proper Green Party? How the party had changed from early days of campaigns on camels & dog poo💩

🌳 & Zack Polanski’s efforts to make his party serious

@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@elliechowns.bsky.social
Natalie Bennett
Jonathon Porritt

www.politico.eu/podcast/west...

Can Britain have a proper Green Party?

Zack Polanski, the self-confessed eco-populist, won the leadership of the Green Party in a landslide this week. So Westminster Insider Host Sascha O’Sullivan finds out why the Green Party hav…

www.politico.eu

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Tim Durrant @timdurrant.bsky.social · Sep 4

Just had to correct this live on the radio too... clearly someone at the BBC has got their briefing note wrong!

Andrej @tepid.meme · Sep 4

Er… I’m not sure the BBC is what it used to be 🫤

From BBC News article:

Who decides Rayner's future in government?
In her capacity as housing minster, it'll ultimately be the prime minster who decides if Rayner can stay in office. That being said, the prime minster cannot sack Rayner as deputy PM. That's because she was elected into this role through a member vote, so only she can give that up.

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