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27 May, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Let's have a look at the man Boris Johnson is welcoming into Downing Street
Described refugees as “Muslim invaders” politico.eu/article/viktor…
Used antisemitic tropes in his political campaigns theguardian.com/world/2020/dec…
Clamped down on academic freedom by seizing control of the countries state-run universities economist.com/leaders/2021/0…
Undermined democratic integrity, degraded political rights and civil liberties osce.org/odihr/elec…
Will Boris Johnson challenge the Hungarian PM on his appalling track record? I wouldn’t hold my breath

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21 Apr
18 months after receiving the Russia Report, the government still hasn’t implemented any of its recommendations

In that time, the Tories have taken more than £1m in donations from Russia-linked sources

The report called for action to clean up dirty money & protect our democracy
Alexander Temerko has given more than £700K to the Conservative Party.

He ‘forged a career at the top of the Russian arms industry and had connections at the highest levels of the Kremlin’ and spoke of how he would ‘plot’ with his friend Boris Johnson:

reuters.com/investigates/s…
Temerko’s company Aquind has donated more than £470,000.

Former Business Secretary Alok Sharma dined with executives from the company whose energy project he was due to approve, before eventually recusing himself.

mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
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16 Mar
The Integrated Review is riddled with inconsistencies and contradictions. There is a yawning gap between this government's words and its action
Russia: the government says it’s the most acute threat to Britain’s security, so why has it failed to implement any of the recommendations of the Russia Report?

Saudi arms sales: The government is the ‘penholder’ for Yemen, responsible for drafting UN resolutions to support the peace process, so why is it continuing to sell arms to Saudi Arabia? theguardian.com/world/2021/feb…
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13 Jan 20
I have spoken for many years about declining high streets in our towns. A declining high street is a visible symbol of a town's relative prosperity and people feel that decline very deeply. @BBCPanorama
If the local population is ageing and/or struggling to make ends meet, the high street responds accordingly by replacing flagship retailers with discount stores.
Many of our towns are ageing rapidly. They are thus being stripped of the spending power required to sustain a vibrant mix of high street retailers. Which is one of the reasons why I've been passionately advocating for our towns.
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19 Dec 19
I have just read the PM's Brexit plan, and it has changed…. For the worse. Here are the big changes.
1) Workers rights binned: the key protections in clause 34 now dropped entirely. No clarity on when or what rights workers will have in law by December next year.
2) New December 2020 cliff edge enshrined in law. The new Clause 33 sets a new one year cliff edge for our manufacturers and jobs, damaging our economy.
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3 Nov 19
Today’s Guardian editorial focuses on a rapidly aging nation and work from @centrefortowns which shows the division this has caused between our towns and cities theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
One major (and growing) crisis this has created is in health and social care. In recent years politicians and NHS commissioners have chosen to concentrate those services in major cities, but the older people who most need them don’t live there centrefortowns.org/reports/the-co…
Another is housing. There are 2 million more over-65s in towns than there were in 1981 and this is set to grow. But, as @RIBA and @centrefortowns have shown, we’re building the wrong housing in the wrong places amp.theguardian.com/society/2019/j…
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1 Apr 19
Take a look at where the Revoke Article 50 petition has got the fewest and most signatures. These are two Englands with differences in experience and outlook that run much deeper than the current divisions over Brexit
Views on major issues have been diverging in rural and urban areas and it’s been happening unnoticed for decades, as @drjennings and Gerry Stoker first wrote back in 2016
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…
These areas have had very different experiences of globalisation over recent decades. Towns have lost good jobs and young people have moved away. It’s an aging story as @election_data and @centrefortowns showed here centrefortowns.org/reports/the-ag…
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