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Xander Richards

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Content Editor at The National (Scotland)

Content editor for https://t.co/AxoYN2YhLU. Owner of one corgi and one golden retriever. Often camping. DMs always open (Surname is Elliards, was Richards)

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  • 1 day ago | thenational.scot | Xander Richards

    When the quite literally loyal-to-a-fault Tory minister Nadine Dorries was asked that question about her prime minister Boris Johnson in 2022, she said: “If he went out and kicked a dog, I would probably withdraw my support for him.” Dorries was known as one of Johnson’s most fierce allies, defending him even after his ignominious downfall finally played out following an exodus of ministers from his UK government.

  • 1 day ago | inkl.com | Xander Richards

    When the quite literally loyal-to-a-fault Tory minister Nadine Dorries was asked that question about her prime minister Boris Johnson in 2022, she said: “If he went out and kicked a dog, I would probably withdraw my support for him.” Dorries was known as one of Johnson’s most fierce allies, defending him even after his ignominious downfall finally played out following an exodus of ministers from his UK government.

  • 2 days ago | thenational.scot | Xander Richards

    The Labour administration in Westminster has received a letter signed by the Scottish Parliament’s Social Justice and Social Security Committee, the Northern Ireland Assembly’s Committee for Communities, and the Equality and Social Justice Committee at Senedd Cymru raising concerns about its handling of planned welfare cuts.

  • 2 days ago | inkl.com | Xander Richards

    The Labour administration in Westminster has received a letter signed by the Scottish Parliament’s Social Justice and Social Security Committee, the Northern Ireland Assembly’s Committee for Communities, and the Equality and Social Justice Committee at Senedd Cymru raising concerns about its handling of planned welfare cuts.

  • 2 days ago | thenational.scot | Xander Richards

    Speaking during a live recording of the Holyrood Sources podcast in Edinburgh on Wednesday evening, the polling expert also warned it is “not inconceivable” that Nigel Farage’s Reform UK win an outright majority at Westminster at the next General Election. Hours earlier, Electoral Calculus had published a Multi-level Regression and Post-stratification (MRP) poll of 5400 UK voters which projected that Reform UK would win 31% of the vote and 377 Westminster seats – none of which were in Scotland.

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Xander @xanderescribe
5 Jun 25

RT @laura_pollock_: Aaaaand it has begun! Live blog will be running throughout the night for all the latest ‼️ @LauraEWebsterr and @xand…

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Xander @xanderescribe
5 Jun 25

The polls are still open for a couple of hours yet - but we are up and running and will bring you all the updates from the Hamilton by-election as they happen here 👇 https://t.co/CaFDwLBvhF

Xander
Xander @xanderescribe
4 Jun 25

Poor judgment or … well no ‘or’ really. Just poor judgment this. What justification is there for the BBC to provide this ‘balance’ the night before a by-election? And why has Labour lord and donor Willie Haughey had his political affiliation hidden? https://t.co/NPpgHIq6fr