Financial Times Political Correspondent. Formerly FT Investigations and Energy Editor. Still dabbles in what makes the world go round.
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What led to the fall of the house of El Husseiny on.ft.com/4ixRCnM via @ft
Not-so-subtle signalling from the Lib Dem press office ahead of Daisy Cooper’s speech this morning.
Gail’s comfortably winning with the feral lobby hacks, though Gregg’s handicapped in the pastry-off by a lack of sausage rolls
David Sheppard retweeted
No, Sally Rooney’s books are not ‘banned’ from the UK: "The next time you’re having a cry-read of Intermezzo in the bath, the odds of Home Office officials showing up at your door remain, as before, zero." as.ft.com/r/4ea59fbd-8a20-49… via @financialtimes @OilSheppard
Filling in for Stephen Bush today on ‘Inside Politics’.
Chose an uncontroversial topic to ease me in
Sally Rooney’s books are not ‘banned’ from the UK ft.com/content/42eb2851-ddc2… via @ft
It's difficult to see how Reform can outflank Restore on the right
(Lowe has tweeted this while Farage is giving a speech detailing how a Reform government would suspend the asylum system for five years)
David Sheppard retweeted
Asking in the group chat to see who is free to make it to a Tuesday night Nations League game at Hampden in October.
The group chat:
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Quite right. Edinburgh is the second city of the UK, Glasgow of the empire.
Edinburgh?? What is the second city @KemiBadenoch - clue: you are there this weekend for your party conference! @ITVCentral
All figures 2021-26:
Triple-lock state pension up 34.4%
CPI Inflation up 24.3%
Average wages exc. bonuses up 29%
Double-lock state pension (if it had been in place) up 27.3%
Going to be hugely disappointed if the answer isn’t “don’t announce it until it’s a bit icy outside”.
Pensions minister Torsten Bell not letting his beef with Jim Ratcliffe go, telling a fringe event at Labour’s conference:
“I'll tell you what if I was if I was running Manchester United, I wouldn't be talking about anybody else being on the slide.”
The US supplies about a third of the UK’s diesel exports.
Despite this, the PM did not raise the issue of a potential diesel export ban with Trump when they had their first meeting in NYC on Tuesday, according to people familiar with the matter.
ft.com/content/68173e02-88e8… via @ft
Reform UK says it would halve size of civil service in radical overhaul ft.com/content/199de3fd-2a7a… via @ft
Tackling centuries of “western bias” by proposing this as the new world map
theguardian.com/science/ng-i…
Reform UK’s mega-donor backed a friend’s libel claim. Now he controls her home ft.com/content/21aa563b-2cd1… via @ft Me with @BondHack
David Sheppard retweeted
This ‘back to school week’ in Westminster has been so busy we’ve had to record *two* episodes of Political Fix!
In the latest, we discuss Reform battling scandal - again - with @OilSheppard, who brought us the latest from their conference in B’ham
Plus, @GeorgeWParker and @Sam1Fleming fresh from their interview with Chx John Healey
open.spotify.com/episode/7M0…
The Restore Britain backer who once gave money to the Lib Dems, and never wants to be viewed as a "psycopath or a bully"
ft.com/content/3d2590e0-b166… via @ft
