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Mar 22 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The row over @BorisJohnson's remarks about Ukraine and Brexit lays bare just how keen he is to win back lost Leave voters.

'No regrets' one No.10 source tells me.

inews.co.uk/opinion/compar…
Here's why the PM wants to go back to talking about Brexit:
📉the Tory Leave vote has DROPPED by 21% since 2019
📈Labour's Leave vote has gone UP by 10%.

(Figures via @UKandEU and Prof John Curtice)
One voter in East End of London recently told a Tory canvasser: “Boris is a liar, a cheat and a serial c***. But I’m still going to vote for him."

Others may not be so sanguine if #Partygate reignites with police fines before the local elxns

inews.co.uk/opinion/compar…
One short term consequence of the row:

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Mar 21
The row over @BorisJohnson's remarks about Ukraine and Brexit lays bare just how keen he is to win back lost Leave voters.

'No regrets' one No.10 source tells me.

Tonight's #WaughOnPolitics is in your inbox
inews.co.uk/opinion/compar…
Here's why the PM wants to go back to talking about Brexit:
📉the Tory Leave vote has DROPPED by 21% since 2019
📈Labour's Leave vote has gone UP by 10%.

(Figures via @UKandEU and Prof John Curtice)
Also, 'Remain' and 'Leave' identities are still amazingly strong nearly SIX years on.
Among referendum voters, the figures are even more stark: 69% held a Brexit identity at the end of 2021.

People identify more strongly as 'Remain'/'Leave' than they do as Lab/Tory voters
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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.
Uncanny.
"These are probably not words I would use myself." Ardent Brexiteer and ex Cabinet minister Theresa Villiers on @BorisJohnson comparing Brexit vote to war in Ukraine.
@BBCRadio4 #BroadcastingHouse
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Mar 18
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

Tonight's #WaughOnPolitics is in your inbox

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…
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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

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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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