Peter Heaton-Jones

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Peter Heaton-Jones

@PHeatonJones

One of those ‘consultants’. Writer @con_soc. Formerly MP, Cabinet PPS, BBC, politics & media in 🇬🇧 & 🇦🇺. “One of the Parliament’s worst jokes”: Private Eye.

Peripatetic 参加日 Şubat 2013

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Peter Heaton-Jones@PHeatonJones·1d

Utterly disgraceful & disrespectful behaviour from the new SNP MP for Arbroath & Broughty Ferry. She added a preamble to the loyal oath indicating she didn’t accept it, then read the actual words holding up crossed fingers, presumably to signify she didn’t believe it. Awful.

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Peter Heaton-Jones@PHeatonJones·1d

Genuine question: now Streeting has withdrawn (& presumably there’ll be no other candidates), could the NEC bring forward the dates? Nominations open this week, close next week, Burnham installed. Would save us from weeks of government vacuum & a lame duck PM.

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SHANE REACTION@imshanereaction·1d

Make every news story ten times more watchable by adding the Neighbours recap music from 2002

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Peter Heaton-Jones@PHeatonJones·1d

Amid all the chatter, the truth is Sir Keir Starmer has been forced to resign for one reason and one reason only: his MPs thought they’d lose their seats at the next election if he stayed.

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Robert Peston@Peston·1d

Larry’s lectern moment

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Peter Heaton-Jones@PHeatonJones·1d

There’s always a Tweet….

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Peter Heaton-Jones@PHeatonJones·2d

No surprise the PM is finished only two years after ‘winning’ the 2024 GE. Remember: there were 48.2 million registered voters. 38.5 million of them didn’t vote Labour. Labour were never popular. They only won because they weren’t the Conservatives. That was never sustainable.

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Peter Heaton-Jones@PHeatonJones·4d

Come on @PostOffice - you should know the correct use of apostrophes. Did this really get through all the checks without anyone picking this up? @PostOfficeNews

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Peter Heaton-Jones@PHeatonJones·4d

Please can we all agree that ‘coronated’ is not a word.

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Peter Heaton-Jones@PHeatonJones·4d

Note he doesn’t say ‘If there is a *challenge…’. This careful form of words gives him wriggle room.

Robert Peston@Peston

Keir Starmer just now: “If there is a contest, just to be clear with you, then yes, I will run, I will stand and I've said repeatedly I'm not going to walk away from that.” So prepare for a contest to choose Labour’s leader and the prime minister, over the summer

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Peter Heaton-Jones@PHeatonJones·4d

There’s a serious question for all sides in politics after tonight. Andy Burnham seems likely to become our seventh Prime Minister in ten years. By contrast, from 1979 to 2007 - 28 years - we had just three PMs. Has Britain become ungovernable?

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Peter Heaton-Jones@PHeatonJones·4d

The Labour/Starmer loyalists on the media tonight know the game is up. They’re courageously trotting out their ‘lines to take’, but you can tell even they don’t believe it any more.

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Peter Heaton-Jones@PHeatonJones·4d

Torrid night for Labour. Pushed down to fourth place in both the Scottish by-elections. And apparently a huge victory in Makerfield for Andy Burnham, who’ll now challenge the PM.

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Peter Heaton-Jones@PHeatonJones·4d

Huge victory for the Conservatives in Aberdeen South. 50% vote share. Of course Makerfield will be the story of the night, but this is very significant.

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Robin Lustig@robinlustig·6d

Very sad to learn that Radio 4's The World Tonight is to be killed off in the latest round of BBC cuts. It has a long and honourable history as one of the more thoughtful BBC news programmes and I am proud to have been associated with it for more than twenty years.

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Peter Heaton-Jones@PHeatonJones·6d

The BBC’s total income in YE 2025 was £5.9 billion (source: HoC Library). 2/3rds of that is from us, licence fee payers. Any commercial organisation given that budget would easily be able to run ALL the current services & channels. I love the BBC, but it’s incredibly inefficient.

Scott Bryan@scottygb

BBC Director General (in email): “We will reduce commissioning spend across Content, News and Nations by around £80 million in 27-28 and review our broadcast TV channels and radio network portfolio as audiences move online.”

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Peter Heaton-Jones@PHeatonJones·6d

Once again, the BBC cuts services when it could save millions elsewhere. But managers on top salaries make these decisions… and guess where the actual savings could be made??

Michael Savage@michaelsavage

NEW: Whole programmes will have to close to meet the BBC’s cuts targets, its DG Matt Brittin has told staff today. Compulsory redundancies will happen - some divisions having job cut numbers revealed today. Story soon…

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Peter Heaton-Jones@PHeatonJones·6d

‘Bakerloo, Northern, and Waterloo & City lines’ would solve all the problems.

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Peter Heaton-Jones@PHeatonJones·6d

Sign at Waterloo station. If you don’t know your tube lines, there’s not a hope of working out what they’re called from this. ‘Bakerloo & Northern Line’ anyone? And our friend the Oxford comma needs an outing. Again.

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Peter Heaton-Jones@PHeatonJones·14 Haz

Perfect example from @politico of a situation in which the Oxford comma could be your best friend.

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