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Alan White
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Editor in Chief @politicshome / @TheHouseMag. Former Lord Chief Justice of Twitter. Listen to The Rundown podcast: https://t.co/0fDyLc1QVA
Aug 25, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Three pars into Sunak’s ‘bombshell’ lockdown interview and the vibes aren’t great.

Eg unless it says something different (doesnt sound like it) he could always print it out from the publicly accessible Sage minutes Of course, *Sage* took all the decisions. Must have imagined the multiple press conferences where Boris Johnson told us to enjoy Christmas while Vallance and Whitty shifted uncomfortably at their podiums.
Jan 15, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
last year’s Tory party conference was incredibly revealing. A party drunk on power, with no idea what it wanted. Every fringe I attended felt like people going through the ideological motions. People queued round the block to hear the PM deliver a speech with no policies at all. The party apparently never wanted that awful spiv Cameron. They didn’t want unionism and traditional conservatism in the form of May. The likes of Rory Stewart became outcasts. Now they all hate Johnson, the encapsulation of every other rejection. What’s left to stand for?
Jan 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Bloody hell. In retrospect, not all that covert. thesun.co.uk/news/2782575/t… Incredible: Gardiner received more donations than *any* other MP in 2018 theredroar.com/2019/01/raking…
Dec 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
great question from @PippaCrerar on why Boris keeps over promising: "do you realise it causes confusion and undermines public confidence?" "we can certainly look forward to a very different world from Easter onwards... it's very realistic" replies Johnson

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Oct 12, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I think we might be in shitshow territory. Definitely some problems.
May 13, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Overwhelmed by the things people have said about BuzzFeed UK News on here tonight. Quite apart from the scoops and the great writing, I think these things matter: 1. Unlike newspapers at the time we generally treated things happening on social media with the seriousness they deserved — we understood things that happened online weren't just an "internet story", they had to be treated with the rigour we'd report anything else.
Feb 1, 2020 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Here we go, my top 10 moments of Brexit madness. THREAD. 10. Krishnan Guru-Murthy introduces Ben Bradley on C4 News
Aug 9, 2019 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Thread - I have now read most of Dominic Cummings' blogs (for my sins) and think this: Probably the most important thing he wrote is not online any more, it was on his (now deleted) twitter. It was this exchange with @davidallengreen web.archive.org/web/2018092515… @davidallengreen at least important as far as Brexit goes, which is what we're all thinking about. For Cummings, deal, no deal, EEA, EFTA - none of these things matter half as much as reforming the institutions that will enact whatever comes to pass