Christopher Hope
Political Editor, Head of Politics and Co-Host, PMQs Live at GB News
@GBNEWS Political Editor; @Telegraph Columnist. "He's got such a nice face, he's smiling, but watch - he'll ask a totally killer question.” - Donald J Trump
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2 weeks ago |
gbnews.com | Christopher Hope
A week is normally a long time in politics; in Nigel Farage's Reform UK party, just 48 hours feels like a lifetime. It was on Thursday evening at around 5.30pm when Zia Yusuf quit as party chairman, a day after criticising a call by his party's new MP for Runcorn Sarah Pochin, to ban the burka with a 54-word statement on X. He said then: "Eleven months ago I became Chairman of Reform.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Christopher Hope
Peterborough diary columnJustin Welby, former Archbishop of Canterbury, has finally left Lambeth Palace, I can disclose, months after formally standing down as Church of England primate. Welby resigned on January 6 over an alleged cover-up, but was allowed to stay at the palace as he did not own another home in the UK. He finally moved out last month. The two favourites to succeed him are Guli Francis-Dehqani, the Bishop of Chelmsford, and Graham Usher, the Bishop of Norwich.
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3 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Christopher Hope
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3 weeks ago |
gbnews.com | Christopher Hope
This was an expectations defying win for Labour in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election over the SNP, after winning the seat with a 602 majority. It is a huge boost both for PM Sir Keir Starmer - who did not campaign in Hamilton - after a brutal 11 months and for Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar ahead of next year's Holyrood elections. And a big blow to the SNP, which had been expected to hold the seat as it had done since 2011.
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3 weeks ago |
gbnews.com | Christopher Hope
Former Conservative Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg could return to Parliament in a possible by-election North Somerset for Reform UK "if he sees the light", one of the party's leading figures has said. Arron Banks - who was dubbed one of the "bad boys of Brexit" after he helped to fund one Nigel Farage's Brexit campaign at the 2016 European Union referendum - also said that Farage had a 2/1 chance of being Prime Minister after the next general election.
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