John Roberts
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Here are the trade facts👇
The EU has become a smaller proportion of UK exports as the rest of the global economy has grown faster.
Rejoining is a metropolitan liberal fetish not supported by the facts.
Although, given how useless this Labour government is, it is no surprise some cabinet ministers would rather be governed by Brussels.
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@TomBaldwin66 @McGoohanAgain @NickCohen4 Let's hope he's better than the useless, lying tw@t who's in no 10 now. Likely to be even worse, if that's possible.
(Don't cry, Tom. Your man is on borrowed time).
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@McGoohanAgain @NickCohen4 They will very likely choose the new prime minister.
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Two weeks ago, polls showed 4/5 of Labour’s 2024 vote - and an even higher proportion of party members - want to rejoin the EU. This debate was only ever going to go one way. observer.co.uk/news/opinion-a…
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@Telegraph Disappointing to see a @Telegraph reporter, @JacobAD82 , referring to this person as "they".
Pandering to trans activists is not a good look.
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🔴 The loophole that means trans MSP did not break immigration rules
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/1…
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@PolitlcsUK Natalie Fleet?? The bottom of the barrel has been scraped.
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🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer has appointed new Ministers, aides and whips
- Nesil Caliskan as Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Housing Department
- Natalie Fleet as Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Home Office
- Catherine Atkinson as Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Justice
- Preet Kaur Gill as Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Health Department
- Gen Kitchen as Comptroller of HM Household (Government Whip)
- Deirdre Costigan as Junior Lord of the Treasury (Government Whip)
- Shaun Davies as Assistant Whip, House of Commons
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@AntonSpisak Correct. It wasn't about Europe, it was about the EU. Don't equate them.
The 'system' we were dissatisfied with was one where we ceded sovereignty and control to foreign powers.
We knew what we were voting for.
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Ten years too late, we might realise that the Brexit referendum wasn’t really about Europe, but about the dissatisfaction of a large swathe of voters with the state of the country and ‘the system’.
The tragedy is that an entire British political class used that disenchantment for its own political ends. They promised voters one thing, delivered another, and never took responsibility for any of it.
Fraser Nelson@FraserNelson
A decade on, Brexit is still shaping UK politics. The data shows a clear trend: the higher the Brexit vote in 2016 the more likely a big Reform UK vote now. My column:- times-comment.com/elections
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@BBCPolitics Talk is cheap, and that's all he does.
All mouth and no trousers.
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PM Keir Starmer warns Iran that attempts to incite antisemitism in Britain "will not be tolerated"
bbc.in/4umVdKy
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@BBCPolitics This problem won't be solved until the main source of the problem is recognised. order-order.com/2026/05/05/pol…
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On Tuesday’s #PoliticsLive
Rachel Blake MP, Labour
Ben Spencer MP, Conservative
Munira Wilson MP, Liberal Democrats
12:15pm BBC Two bbc.in/42eAqNm
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@BBCPolitics The threat posed by the far right is insignificant compared to Islamism.
Mentioning the far right just dilutes the response to Islamism because it won't be specifically targeted. It's cowardice.
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“Both of these ideologies [far right and Islamist extremism] do pose threats to us”
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander expresses concern about extremism but says the government will protect “freedom to protest and of expression”
#BBCLauraK bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
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@BBCPolitics Why does @RhunapIorwerth have to mention 'Islamophobia' when he's asked about the antisemitic attack on Jews?
The antisemitism on the left and their refusal to recognise the threat from Islamism warps their entire world view.
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On Thursday's #PoliticsLive
Barry Gardiner MP, Labour
Lord Vaizey, Conservative Peer
Samara Gill, Talk TV presenter
12:15pm BBC Two bbc.in/4uiG9gY
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GIF
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@IsntWorkingPod @UniofOxford Why do men like this think that normal women all walk around with their breasts falling out of their clothes 🙄
It’s just astonishing and andamn insult to women !
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Suffer from 'imposter syndrome'? So does this @UniofOxford lecturer... but not for the reason you might expect. Can we help with his workplace dilemma? And who wants to point out the elephants in the room?
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@BBCPolitics Why does the BBC persist in having Cox on politics programmes? He's so consumed by hatred for anyone right of centre that his opinions are worthless.
And who cares what actors think about politics anyway?
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“The King should not go”
Actor Brian Cox says the state visit to the US should not be going ahead because of Donald Trump’s “insults” to the UK, including his comments about NATO troops in Afghanistan
#BBCLauraK bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
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@jk_rowling It's alarming and depressing in equal measure that this thicko is responsible for legislating.
There are plenty more like her in the Commons and we've got them for another 3 years. God help us.
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When you stop and think about it, assisted dying's a bit like salted caramel ice cream or shuffle dancing, because they're choices, too. Or Lynx Africa body spray - use it, don't use it, nobody else's business.
Genevieve Holl-Allen@genevieve_holl
Kim Leadbeater MP has just likened the legalisation of assisted dying to legalising gay marriage On Sky News: 'It is a choice, it's a bit like gay marriage isn't it? Marry who you want to marry, love who you want to love. It's nothing to do with anybody else'
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@KennyEdw @KonstantinKisin This is what happens when you grow up steeped in socialism. You lose the ability to think things through.
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@KonstantinKisin Do billionaires create wealth for anyone but themselves? Show me a billionaire who hasn’t made his money by robbing the public purse. I’ll wait.
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I do wonder if anyone on the left will ever realise that driving millions of people (including billionaires) who used to vote for you away with lunatic policies and then implying they're bad people for not voting for you is not a winning strategy?
Most tech oligarchs were compliant little wokeists or at best silent and complicit objectors until very recently. Same with many in business.
As it was in the UK where wealthy people were standing in line to give money and support to Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson.
If you don't want media platforms to be owned by wealthy people who support your opponents, don't complain - give them someone better to vote for!
Melanie D'Arrigo@DarrigoMelanie
Trump’s billionaire allies will now control: CNN, Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post — plus 450 local TV stations, including news, in 95% of U.S. markets. X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth and Twitch. Plus Gemini, ChatGPT and Grok. They’ll make sure Trump’s lies are legitimized and the truth is always questioned.
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@BBCPolitics .@hzeffman destroyed @jamesmurray_ldn 's (and by extension, Starmer's) argument.
The govt is saying Robbins followed the correct process but was sacked for not deviating from it.
Sounds like a good basis for a claim of unfair dismissal to me.
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On Wednesday's #PoliticsLive
Chris Ward MP, Cabinet Office Minister
Richard Holden MP, Shadow Transport Secretary
Joe Powell MP, Labour
Sarah Bool MP, Conservative
Sonia Sodha, Journalist and broadcaster
11:15pm BBC Two bbc.in/4cznojD
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@CamillaTominey Fair play to @TomHayesBmouth. In a very crowded field, from the smorgasbord of uselessness that entered Parliament as Labour MPs in 2024, he's the most objectionable, arselicking, arrogant bellend of the lot.
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Truly desperate stuff 🤦♀️
-I was asking you about the PM, not Tice
-Tice tax claims are the subject of legal action
-I asked Jenrick about Tice anyway
-Anyone who has ever seen me interview Tice knows I’m far from a snowflake
-The definition of a snowflake is a serving MP who posts this sort of hatstand and then switches off replies.
Tom Hayes MP@TomHayesBmouth
I enjoyed her cancelling me for bringing up Tice’s tax affairs after answering her questions directly. The best thing was her defence of Tice and insistence that she was a journalist. What a snowflake! ❄️ What a carcrash interviewer, just letting good GB News viewers down 🤯
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@GBNEWS Yet another example of a useless, low-grade MP from the 2024 intake.
@TomHayesBmouth made a complete fool of himself here. Like a petulant child.
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‘Are you for real?!’ Labour MP handed brutal slap down in attempt to DODGE Keir Starmer grilling in explosive GB News row
gbnews.com/politics/peter…
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@BBCPolitics @alexmclabour needs to be told to stop talking across people.
He could also buy a shirt with a collar that isn't 4 inches too big for him.
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On Monday's #PoliticsLive
Alex McIntyre MP, Labour
Wendy Morton MP, Conservative
Faiza Shaheen, Tax Justice UK
12:15pm BBC Two bbc.in/3O2GN2V
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@BBCPolitics @BBCOne @BBCiPlayer Always good to see an actor on your show. Is there a prize for guessing his political inclination?
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also joining #BBCLauraK
Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartlidge
Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey
Actor Peter Capaldi
Sunday 9am @BBCOne @BBCiPlayer
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@DanielJHannan You ignore the problems caused by Islam in this country: terrorism, hate marches, the Batley schoolteacher, the Wakefield koran schoolboy and many others.
Many Muslims don't show the tolerance to other religions and customs that you advocate. We should not indulge them.
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