Personal account of Rt Hon. Jim Murphy, CEO @ArdenStrategies and lots of other things.
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🧵What does it feel like to be elected as a new MP as part of a landslide victory?
Here are 17 lessons and tips for the new MPs arriving in Westminster today, based on my memories of being elected unexpectedly for the first time in that 1997 win.
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Labour MP Graeme Downie says cyber attacks, sabotage and other hostilities linked to Vladimir Putin’s Russia are costing the UK taxpayer at least £2 billion a year.
Watch the full video now 📺 trib.al/jPjOCq6
Arrived at Sky for the rehearsal for tonight’s live show of the War Game Aftermath.
Sharing a changing room with the ‘PM’
This week I make my TV drama debut.
It’s the Wargame on Sky.
There was no script for the show, it’s entirely spontaneous across the four days of filming - and the four episodes.
It’s a low likelihood, huge impact scenario. No plot spoilers.
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At last, the final one of my videos on understanding Andy Burnham.
This one’s on his foreign policy approach.
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Will Andy Burnham stick to the fiscal rules?
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Andy Burnham will be the first social media literate PM in our history. But…
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Is Andy Burnham more left wing than some of his Labour predecessors?
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What is Manchesterism?
Will it survive being in government?
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This is Andy Burnham’s irreducible core?
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There are four things in Andy Burnham’s cultural and emotional hinterland.
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Andy Burnham is the most French of British politicians.
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10 things to know about Andy Burnham as PM
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Five things he to watch out for in the Defence Investment Plan
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This was fun and challenging to film.
And was enjoyable being on the same side as @NicolaSturgeon for only the second time in our lives (Remain)…
No plot spoilers. 4-part drama to run for 4 consecutive nights in September.
Just a sense of sadness that is what I feel.
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Here’s why the current Labour leadership disputes will make ministers bolder.
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