#BrExit

The appointment of Munira Mirza to lead an inquiry on race is comparable to hiring a wedding singer from the audience at X Factor. The combination of a shallow perceived
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Decades of right-wing tabloids dripping with hateful anti-immigrant bile...Decades of many politicians being too cowardly to make the positive progressive case for immigration...The General Public after decades of an unchallenged
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Words are cheap, @BorisJohnson.If you really are grateful to Jenny from New Zealand, for saving your life, end your government’s hostile environment, that makes her - and all migrants’ -
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The reporting in this article reiterates that the UK government's approach to an #indyref2 campaign could include pressuring the EU to intervene in its favour. Yet, that prospect is less
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I’ve indicated a number of times that I do a bit of leaflet delivery and canvassing. It’s good exercise, in the fresh air, and I get to meet some interesting
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NEW: UK planning legislation to override key parts of #brexit withdrawal treaty and Northern Ireland protocol - a potentially HUGE move in negotiations; major ructions in Whitehall - my latest
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1/11: Before #Covid19 the #geopolitical system was shifting from globalism & multilateralism towards a big power stand-off between #US & #China. The pandemic is accelerating this trend, as all major
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People, I am pleading with you.Don't let hate eat you.In 2016 we lost - by a tiny margin, but we did.Latest polls show that over 60% of the country want
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Mental health in a pandemic- some thoughts in a thread:1. I'm exhausted. It's impossible to switch off, and if you do, it’s very likely you would have missed an important
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Today would have been day two of PPMA Show, but even with the Shows postponement to 2021, we have been busy, working at connecting buyers to suppliers to keep our
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Well, well, well...Russian-British media magnate Yevgeny Lebedev has been appointed to the House of Lords.He owns Britain’s Independent and Evening Standard newspapers. His father, Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev, is co-owner
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Thread on the Internal Market (IM) bill and Brexit. For what it’s worth I think Boris is right with the IM bill. We can argue whether it breaks international law
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NEW: how can the U.K. strike a trade deal with USA while protecting U.K. farmers and consumers? Answer they probably can’t. (And don’t be fooled by specious assurances on ‘chlorinated
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Once upon a time a government proposed breaking the lawThe matter got to the first gatekeeper, the government's most senior legal official'you cannot do that, I will resign'But he government
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#THREAD about Boris Johnson, dead bodies, Brexit, & Andrew Neil's TV Channel & power.The news is full of claims that last year, Boris Johnson said “No more fucking lockdowns: let
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So, my very unsexy opinion about both the A Levels algorithm and the months’ long digital contact tracing farrago is that deploying technology without proper supporting structures and governance is
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