Andrew Johnson
Assistant Editor, Politics at The i Paper
Assistant Editor (Politics) @theipaper. Portugal project: https://t.co/fx550I1gkR… thy head is a casket of the cool jewel of thy mind
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1 month ago |
inews.co.uk | Andrew Johnson
For the past decade, successive Conservative leaders have had a shared experience: a politician by the name of Nigel Farage outflanking them on the right. David Cameron promised an EU referendum vote partly down to pressure from his own MPs who feared Farage’s Ukip party could cost them their seat. As Prime Minister, Theresa May found the Tories in fifth place in European elections as they ceded votes to Farage’s Brexit party. It was a key factor in her demise.
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1 month ago |
inews.co.uk | Andrew Johnson
On Thursday night in Hull, there were political fireworks – literally. As pyrotechnics flared on stage, Nigel Farage announced to 2,000 Reform UK supporters that the party’s candidate for the inaugural mayoralty of Hull and East Yorkshire – the former Olympic boxer and gold medallist Luke Campbell. “I have been excited about this announcement for weeks,” said a Reform source. The crowd lapped it up.
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Dec 27, 2024 |
inews.co.uk | Andrew Johnson
“Unlike Nigel Farage, I was brought up in a working class community and still live in a working class community.” Like the rest of the UK political elite Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC, is exercised by the insurgent force headed by the new MP for Clacton. Nowak points to polling evidence that he says shows improving workers’ conditions and rights, the so-called ”make work pay” agenda, is popular with Reform UK voters – but opposed by Farage.
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Dec 17, 2024 |
inews.co.uk | Andrew Johnson
Peter Prinsley was so sure he wasn’t going to be elected to Parliament he went to bed after the exit poll showed the Conservatives on course for 131 seats. “I had thought that if the Tories got more than 100 I wouldn’t make it since it was their third safest seat,” says Labour’s unlikely member for Bury St Edmunds. He beat Will Tanner, Rishi Sunak’s former deputy chief of staff who was parachuted into the seat late in the campaign and, he says, expected to be “appointed, not elected”.
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Nov 28, 2024 |
msn.com | Andrew Johnson
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