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SpAd Movements: New No.10 and DCMS Hires
A few changes to our SpAd List this morning – Guido hears Karen Bradley’s adviser Aidan Corley has been promoted to Number 10. The Culture Secretary has brought in two new SpAds to fill her team:...
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Friday Caption Contest (On Your Bike Edition)
Entries in the comments… The post Friday Caption Contest (On Your Bike Edition) appeared first on Guido Fawkes.
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Steve Baker ‘Minister For No Deal’
The government has just announced publicly for the first time that DExEU minister Steve Baker has been given responsibility for “contingency planning”. DExEU sources say he has held the brief since...
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Juncker: Thanks For Saving Us in The War, Now You Must Pay
Jean-Claude Juncker today: “If you are sitting in a bar and if you are ordering 28 beers and then suddenly some of your colleagues is leaving and he’s not paying, that is not feasible. They have to...
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May & Corbyn Behind ‘Don’t Know’ for PM
The British public have come to a wise conclusion about who should be Prime Minister. None of the above… The post May & Corbyn Behind ‘Don’t Know’ for PM appeared first on Guido Fawkes.
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Tom Brake’s Epic Legatum Whinge Backfires
Guido knows poor old Tom Brake has been driven mad by Brexit. But this letter he has written to David Davis complaining about meetings between DExEU officials and the Legatum Institute is hysterical...
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Sheffield Hallam MP is Neighbour from Hell
Guido just spoke to George Morton who was very coy about his neighbour, Jared O’Mara MP. George is a fan of music, in fact he is the principal conductor of the Sheffield Rep Orchestra, he just isn’t...
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Hammond Calls Brussels “The Enemy”
“The enemy, the opponents, are out there on other side of the table.” Slip of tongue or intentional from @PhilipHammondUK to @EdConwaySky? pic.twitter.com/Qxo9ItC82W — Mark Stone (@Stone_SkyNews)...
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Sadiq: “I’m an Uber Man”
Today Sadiq Khan said he’s never “knowingly” taken an uber but told us in 2015 he’s “a black cab and an uber man” @VictoriaLIVE @BBCNormanS pic.twitter.com/8jJ3Dh7fiF — Louisa Compton...
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Miriam Forgets She Wrote the Book on WTO Regulation
Miriam Gonzalez Durantez said “there is nothing in the WTO about regulation”. But she wrote a book on WTO regulation https://t.co/LsWa13ued2 pic.twitter.com/BfnxVK2lHw — Henry Newman (@HenryNewman)...
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Tory MPs’ Two Nicknames For Hammond
Tory MPs have been texting each other using their two favourite nicknames for Philip Hammond this week (see the i for more). Remember when Nick Robinson accidentally called the Chancellor “Spread Sh*t...
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Saturday Seven Up
This week 183,974 visitors visited 626,432 times viewing 987,966 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were: Whip Withdrawn From Tory MEPs Who Voted Against British Interests “Whoops” Livid...
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Salmond and Tasmina’s Boozy City Break
The Daily Mail has a great hit on the extra-curricular activities of Alex Salmond and Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh. They’ve been caught on a three day jolly to Strasbourg enjoying “three-and-a-half-hour...
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Young Labour: Leave NATO, Abolish the City and Reject Two-State Solution
Young Labour’s weekend conference gave us a taste of what things will be like in the People’s Republic of England in 2048. The cream of the party’s future gathered in Warwick to call for the...
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Pidcock’s Post Office Post Returned to Sender
Latest from the Labour brains trust. Friendly Corbynista Laura Pidcock reckons the “real issue” with the Post Office is that it is privatised and that “we need public ownership” to “serve public...
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Sir Cover-Up, Sir Craig and the Curious Case of His Memoirs
The rules for a former Special Adviser wanting to write a book on their time in government are very clear: Sir Jeremy Heywood must give his personal approval. As the Code of Conduct for SpAds states:...
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Alun Cairns’ Tippy-Toes Pose
It was always going to be a tall order for the pint-sized Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns to be photographed next to the statuesque Chris Grayling. The tippy toes made up the difference. Turns out Cairns...
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Is Statue Keith? ‘Vaz and Rent Boy’ Sculpture Unveiled
Guido likes to keep his cultured readers abreast of the arts: you may have missed this new sculpture, entitled “Keith Vaz MP and his Rent Boy”. The work, by London-based artist Wilfred Wood, went on...
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Freedom-Hating Obesity Charity: Ban Sugar
Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum is addicted to banning. He wants to ban chocolate bars containing more than 250 calories, because he has decided that is a “quite sufficient snack for anybody“. A...
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Mr Rayner’s Alternative to Badger Cull
Since badger killing is in the news at the moment, worth taking a look at the Corbynista view of the cull. Angela Rayner’s husband Mark, a top trade union official, suggests an alternative plan on his...
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