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This account will soon be deactivating. If you want to follow the diary, follow @HackBlackburn and @EdHalford1
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Pretty confident this is an all-time @TimesDiary record
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Great diary story in @HackBlackburn’s @TimesDiary today.
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Normally, by this time of the morning, the @timesdiary has garnered a few dozen comments Today’s lead is on @RhonddaBryant saying that he’s given up correcting people on the difference between less and fewer. And, well….
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The (I hope) definitive update on what Binface can wear in the Commons is in today’s @timesdiary
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I’m shocked - SHOCKED - to find that Andy Burnham was plotting a coup a year ago From last July’s @timesdiary
The MP at the centre of Andy Burnham's Westminster comeback reveals she's been planning it with him for a year. Former transport secretary Louise Haigh tells @BBCNickRobinson's Political Thinking that Burnham's team has a plan for the first 100 days. Listen here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002yv…
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Burnham wants to take the power from London and spread it up North. To which we say “go for it mate, take the fucking lot, as long as you take our traffic and our house prices and our tourists and our airports and our cost of living and our £10 pints…” thetimes.com/article/efdeefb…
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Michael Dobbs, author of House of Cards, has found a hidddn door in the House of Lords
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Matt Goodwin and Rupert Lowe’s fracas over fizz at the @spectator party In today’s @TimesDiary
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Ten years since my first appearance in the @timesdiary
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The Gambling Commission issued killjoy guidance on World Cup sweepstakes Which came as a bit of a shock to the department responsible for the commission, where civil servants had unintentionally broken the rules In this morning’s @TimesDiary
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How big government stopped Jacob Rees-Mogg saving his pub with a yard of ale In this morning’s @TimesDiary
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Keir Starmer’s premiership all went wrong at breakfast as ministers grumble over measly meals In this morning’s @timesdiary
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Graham Brady was in No 10 for innocent reasons, but his spectre haunts Keir Starmer In this morning’s @TimesDiary
Graham Brady just walked into Number 10
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Seb Coe on the importance of brevity in political speeches And on being chaperoned by the Soviets In this morning’s @TimesDiary
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Today in @TimesDiary, Mark Gatiss revealed what it’s like to play the role of Peter Mandelson after he was asked questions by Times Radio’s @KateEMcCann
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