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Male Tory MPs Got Most Social Media Abuse
Broken down by party and gender, male Conservative candidates were the group who received the highest percentage of abuse in their mentions, followed by male UKIP and Labour candidates, and female...
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Vaz-Pants Councillor Suspended from Vulnerable Kids Contract
A scandal-hit taxi-driver and Labour councillor who is said to have boasted about having “Keith Vaz in my right pocket” has been suspended from working on a public sector contract to transport...
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Sir Keir Joining Mishcon: Paid £18,000 For 24 Hours Work
The Lawyer reports Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer is joining Mishcon de Reya as a legal adviser. Mishcon are ultra Remainers – they were behind a big business legal challenge to Brexit and...
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100% Inheritance Tax: Stupid or Evil?
Abi Wilkinson in The Guardian has a “utopian idea”, a 100% inheritance tax. Guido thinks that sounds more like a dystopian idea, against human nature, and a totalitarian idea in breach of our most...
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IPSO Throws Out Baroness Scotland’s Complaints
What remained of Baroness Scotland’s credibility lies in tatters after the IPSO press regulator threw out a litany of complaints she made about stories exposing her expenses shame. Last year the Mail...
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Greens’ Frequent Flyer Tax Slippery Slope
A tiny number of people take the vast majority of flights. We need a frequent flyer levy. Simple and fair. pic.twitter.com/uOfM1oYS91 — Green Party (@TheGreenParty) 21 July 2017 Green co-leader...
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Paul Mason’s Play in 60 Seconds
Paul Mason’s play – starring Paul Mason – was televised by the BBC at the weekend (Channel 4 must have been busy). Just in case you were out on Saturday night, Guido presents a boiled-down version in...
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Corbynistas DID Tell Students “Vote Labour” to Get Debts Written Off
Corbynistas are disingenuously claiming they never let students believe their policy was to write off debts, and that the whole furore is an MSM smear. The above tweets from Shadow minister Sharon...
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Shadow Minister: Every Existing Student Will Have All Their Debt Wiped Off
Let this put an end to the Corbynista spin that they never pledged to wipe out student debt. Here is Shadow Justice minister Imran Hussain speaking in a campaign video during the election: “Just this...
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Starmer Forced to Turn Down Mishcon Second Job
Sir Keir Starmer has bowed to pressure and been forced to reject a lucrative second job at anti-Brexit law firm Mishcon de Reya. A win for Tory MP James Cleverly who wrote to Starmer last night...
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Commonwealth Nations Ask: How Much Longer Can Baroness Scotland Continue?
News of Baroness Scotland’s abject humiliation with the IPSO press regulator yesterday has travelled quickly around the Commonwealth. Caribbean News Now has published an editorial today headlined:...
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Chorley Not That Long Ago
Westminster’s favourite wit Matt Chorley writes in his Little Read Box email this morning: “Next month it will be 13 years since I joined Twitter.” Odd since Twitter was only founded 11 years ago and...
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Momentum Activists Threaten and Jeer Councillors Over Antisemitism Motion
This is the moment hard left activists backed by a London Momentum branch threatened, heckled and jeered Haringey councillors as they voted to adopt a standard definition of antisemitism. The...
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Team Jez: Labour Frontbenchers Were Mistaken
George Osborne’s Evening Standard has splashed on Guido’s student debt scoop from this morning. Team Corbyn have a new line: that frontbenchers Imran Hussain and Sharon Hodgson were “mistaken” about...
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Amazon, Mini, EasyJet in Brexit Good News Hat-Trick
A hat-trick of #DespiteBrexit good news today, as three major employers strengthen their commitment to Brexit Britain. EasyJet has announced its largest ever intake of new cabin crew, recruiting an...
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BBC Making Foreign Office Documentary
The BBC has commissioned a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the inner workings of the Foreign Office, Guido hears. The Beeb has wanted to produce a behind-the-scenes film revealing the inner workings...
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Gove: No to Chlorine Chicken
Michael Gove flatly ruled out chlorinated chicken in Brexit Britain’s supermarkets on the Today programme, hours after Liam Fox insisted there was no health issue with US-style chemically washed...
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A Classic of the Genre
Yesterday’s hat-trick of Brexit good news is covered the only way the FT knows how… The post A Classic of the Genre appeared first on Guido Fawkes.
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Sock-puppet “charity” the IEA slapped down by regulator for general election...
Somehow, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) enjoys charitable status, which means they are not required to disclose who funds them. This allows the IEA to carry out its work of lobbying for...
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GDP Would Need to Collapse 5% in Next 12 Months to Meet Osborne’s Treasury...
Worth reading the new growth figures in the context of the Treasury’s pre-referendum projections. HMT warned that in the two years following a Leave vote, the UK would enter recession with GDP falling...
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