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This is great and very welcome.
One of the reasons anti-immigration rhetoric took over so disasterously in this country is because no-one - right-wing, left-wing, liberal, whatever - was prepared to stand up for it.
Politicians and commentators simply weren't prepared to refute the lies. That went all the way through in Labour, from Blair to Corbyn, who did the same. It's very pleasing to see them put out something out like this - clear, engaging, smart.
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One the best interviews I've seen during this campaign from @C4Ciaran. Relentless, unflustered forensic questioning
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This is remarkable. Just watch the opening statements. No lies, no sloganeering. Just two valid positions being intelligently expressed in a way that anyone could understand.
Even the set is better. Although I'm not entirely sure what that phone is doing on the floor.
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Quite right to ask what kind of regulatory systems could be in place to make sure Tories can't get away with what they did last night. But this does seem a rare welcome case of when a gambit backfires so spectacularly it discourages people trying it again.
The number of Twitter users actually thinking the Tory press office was a fact-checking service will have been minimal, but the general pick up, esp on TV news, is quite substantial, giving general impression of Tory dirty tricks.
Plus journos particularly outraged, as they can see how it threatens to discredit their own fact-checking operations, making relations with Tory press office more strained than they needed to be.
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