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Mar 18 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Will @RishiSunak prove next week the Tories are in touch with the cost of living crisis?

Poss options:

🚗fuel duty cut of 5p
🧑‍🏭NI threshold increase to avoid tax hike for many
💷higher benefits/pensions

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inews.co.uk/opinion/tory-m…
Includes this intel. Sunak privately told colleagues recently: “The public won’t blame us for the petrol rises, but they will blame us for the tax rises.”

But it feels like No.10 hv persuaded him since to cut fuel duty [as well as tweak NI thresholds].

inews.co.uk/opinion/tory-m…
One Tory MP: “He was bragging in the [Commons] tea room about his new home in California...Even some of us MPs are having to cut our cloth because of these massive energy bills, but he sometimes just sounds like an out of touch millionaire.”

inews.co.uk/opinion/tory-m…
Sunak has lots of fans on the Tory backbenches though. Particularly among the 2019 intake, both in 'Red Wall' and safer Tory seats, whom he has worked hard to meet and befriend.
Many see his enterprise-led growth politics as the party's future.

inews.co.uk/opinion/tory-m…
Also in @theipaper Weekend, this exclusive from @HugoGye on why some in Govt think Chelsea could drop out of the Premier League

inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
And this from @singharj on why Ukraine could help @BorisJohnson at the polls.

inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
Meanwhile, the Tory spring conference is still ongoing, and our man @RichardVaughan1 is there:

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Mar 19
He went there. He actually went there.
Meanwhile, here's @BorisJohnson doing for Blackpool what the Jolly Fisherman did for Skegness.
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Mar 17
As P&O become the latest 'bad bosses', it's no wonder other workers are taking strike action to defend their pay and conditions.

Tonight's #WaughOnPolitics is in your inbox

inews.co.uk/opinion/as-po-…
A huge thank you to @HugoGye @janemerrick23 and @RichardVaughan1 for their sterling work in keeping #WaughOnPolitics on the road while I've been off.

My Omicron has not quite omi-gone, but it's on it's way I hope.
Under the radar almost, over the past few months unions have been defeating attempts at 'fire and rehire', while winning pay/pensions fights
A few examples in my piece:

🏫@NEUnion at GDST schools

👞@CommunityUnion at Clarks' shoes warehouse

inews.co.uk/opinion/as-po-…
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Mar 12
In-depth coverage of Putin's war on Ukraine in today's @theipaper Weekend.
Just £1.20 from your newsagent.

Here's some highlights of the impact on the UK's politics and economics, by @ChaplainChloe @HugoGye @katyballs + otheres
Key line from No.10 official on bills: “We’ve set out the package for April + we think that’s going to be enough.”
Tory MP: “It’s a tricky one to think how much money you want to throw at it versus how much misery you will allow"
@ChaplainChloe @HugoGye

inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
Ukraine war provides cover for a quiet reset for Boris Johnson and No 10, by @katyballs

inews.co.uk/opinion/ukrain…
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Mar 12
Priti Patel is under fire for her handling of the Ukrainian refugee crisis, but the buck stops with Boris Johnson

My long read for @theipaper Weekend🧵
inews.co.uk/opinion/priti-…
The piece has some strong defences of the Home Secretary, who has shifted her stance on refugees as the Ukraine crisis has grown.
But it also has some withering criticism of both her and @BorisJohnson.
I've been told that early in the crisis, an email chain in the Home Office contained a memo setting out that the Home Secretary's priority was UK national security.
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Mar 12
Superb piece by @larisamlbrown on the MoD's Defence Intelligence team. The unglamorous, unsung heroes of our intelligence services.
thetimes.co.uk/article/how-we…
DI is now getting the recognition but also the funding it needs.
The extra funding is something the late Dr Brian Jones, the real star of the Hutton Inquiry I was privileged to meet + befriend, always told me he wanted.
Here's a taster of what he was like

independent.co.uk/voices/comment…
And this:
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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Mar 11
“I lost everyone and lost the meaning of life...I want to achieve the maximum repost by the press of my grief." Sergii Perebeinis, whose wife Tatiana and children Nikita, 18, and Alise, 9, were killed by Russian mortar fire fleeing Irpin.

@CSaid reports:
sfchronicle.com/california/art…
Utterly heart breaking account by Sergii. He was in Donbass visiting his mother, who had Covid. His wife and kids had their apartment block shelled so fled on foot. 

This is how he discovered what had happened.
For context, here's the original report by @lynseyaddario of the @nytimes:

nytimes.com/2022/03/06/wor…
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