Alexander Brown
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Assistant Political Editor at The Mirror. COYS enthusiast. You can get me at
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*Professional news* Delighted to announce I'm joining The Mirror as Assistant Political Editor. I start in August, but am keen to line up coffees, intros, and gossip immediately. My DMs are open, why not say hi X
9 months ago
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Niche identity question: Jewish pals or those whose families fled somewhere, do you support the country your ancestors came from, or root against them? Mine fled Poland and I am trying to decide if I want them to win at football
3 days ago
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Spurs fans: I feel disconnected from the club, we might go down and I just want to feel positive about Tottenham again Spurs ownership: Hereās a guy who defended Mason Greenwood
4 days ago
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Good morning
4 days ago
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Lisa Nandy tells Matt Forde's podcast that Wes Streeting is the āworst offenderā for seeking free tickets from her, and he really wanted to see the new āHarry Potterā show being made (Via Playbook)
4 days ago
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Lord Malcolm Offord has claimed he'd 'had a bit to drink' before his vile homophobic George Michael joke. He added 'Iām no Frankie Boyle or Ricky Gervais'
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Senior Reform figure 'had a bit to drink' before homophobic George Michael joke
Lord Malcolm Offord explained he'd been drinking when he made a cruel sexual gag about the star's grieving partner Fadi Fawaz at a rugby club dinner, which resulted in a furious backlash.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/senior-reform-figure-says-hed-36922180
10 days ago
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Having to follow through on plans when you've made plans
10 days ago
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Suella Braverman wading in on football is bold given she's best known for going full Roy Keane on a dog
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Suella Braverman's 'toxic politics' slapped down after 'woke' football attack
Cabinet minister Lisa Nandy slapped down Reform UK's Suella Braverman after she branded the Football Associationās ambitious diversity targets 'utter woke nonsense'
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/suella-bravermans-toxic-politics-slapped-36917611
10 days ago
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Co-operative Party
13 days ago
Our newest Community Britain report, Yes in Our Backyard, is out this week - get a first look in today's Sunday Mirror. Community and co-operative housing puts communities in control of housing in their local areas and can get Britain building again. šļø
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Exc: Angela Rayner calls for an increase in community-led and co-operative housing models in fresh intervention. She says: āFixing the housing crisis will take fresh thinking and more homes built for communities and shaped by communities.ā
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Angela Rayner calls for housing change in major intervention
In a fresh intervention, the former Labour deputy leader backed a report from the Co-operative Party calling for an increase in community-led and co-operative housing models
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/angela-rayner-calls-housing-change-36903454
14 days ago
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Labour scathing after Kemi Badenoch says she agrees Iftar event was "domination". Party source "For Badenoch to make these comments just as Muslims across our country celebrate Eid is disgraceful. Badenoch needs to take a long look in the mirror about the sort of party she wants to lead"
14 days ago
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Please enjoy today's Blind Date, featuring one of the most scathing answers I've ever seen
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14 days ago
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Government categorically denies Times report that they are looking at fuel rationing. A DENZ spokesperson said: "Claims on a plan for motor fuel rationing is categorically untrue. The UK benefits from a strong and diverse security of supplies.ā
14 days ago
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Exc: Renters hoping to challenge unfair rent increases will have to pay £47 to do so. Justice Secretary David Lammy overruled officials who pushed for charging more than £100
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Challenging unfair rents will be cheaper than expected under Labour shakeup
Ministers are bringing in a fee to access rent tribunals, which had led to fears landlords could then use it as an excuse to force renters out or even threaten them
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/challenging-unfair-rents-cheaper-expected-36899549
14 days ago
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Big day for Westminster silliness: A Kemi Badenoch "best bits" video didn't load at her campaign launch The Lib Dems demanded a Cobra meeting while it was happening Sarah Pochin says she wanted to wear a "tartan burka" Badenoch said she'd tackle a shoplifter if they weren't too big
16 days ago
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James Cleverly has just introduced a ābest bitsā video about Kemi Badenoch only to give up when they canāt get it to work
16 days ago
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Calling my union to argue working in this weather is exploitation
17 days ago
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Trump repeating his line that Starmer isn't Churchill is a great opportunity for a White House journo to ask if he can name literally any other PM
18 days ago
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Happy St Patrick's Day from Westminster, I need a lie down
18 days ago
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Exc: Spoke to Ed Miliband about keeping energy bills down, fines for petrol companies, and the "reckless" Tory stance of backing action in Iran
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Ed Miliband vows to 'fight' to keep energy bills down
The Energy Secretary warned energy companies the situation in the Middle East was not an excuse to 'rip people off', and that the regulator which can issue fines had his 'full support'
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband-vows-fight-keep-36868160
20 days ago
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Only football could allow me to experience all of my nightmare scenarios at once
20 days ago
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Duncan Hothersall
21 days ago
Extremely niche help request: We have, due to a recent bereavement, a fair number of high protein Fortisip nutrition drinks, all in-date. I am told Ukraine medical charities are able to make use of it. Does anyone know of anywhere in the Scottish Borders that could help get it to them? Ta.
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New long read on Westminster response to the bombing of Iran, and why the stance of Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage has given hope to Labour MPs
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'Armchair generals' Farage and Badenoch exposed after Iran flip-flopping
The shift in Reform and the Toriesā position on Iran has left them open to criticism - The Mirror looks back on the week that exposed the parties' vulnerabilities on foreign policy
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-kemi-badenoch-branded-36865279
21 days ago
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The way these people are responding you'd think they were replacing him with a full explainer on the Bengal famine
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24 days ago
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EXC: Keir Starmer has accused Kemi Badenoch of playing āpolitical gamesā over the conflict in Iran. Writing in the Mirror, the PM says opposition parties seek to undermine Britain on the world stage, while he's focusing on delivery
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Middle East conflict needs seriousness, not political games'
'While opposition parties seek to undermine Britain on the world stage, my Labour government is focused on protecting people at home', the PM writes for The Sunday Mirror
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-middle-east-conflict-36831751
27 days ago
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A reminder that Nicola Wells has explicitly asked people to stop sharing the picture of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in United kits, as the family want to reclaim the image for themselves
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Editors agree to stop using picture of murdered Soham girls
Backing for call to prevent continuing upset to bereaved parents
https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2012/jul/27/news-photography-soham
28 days ago
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The crash out continues
29 days ago
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Nigel Farage heckled at a press conference. He responds: "Oh sorry darling are you having a rough morning? Did you get out on the wrong side of bed? You always get the odd screamer at these events. Go back to work. I did say go back to work, but of course she hasn't got a job has she"
30 days ago
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At a Centre For Cities event with Andy Burnham where we've just been told if the question isn't on topic of devolution, we'll be ignored. Really good stuff
about 1 month ago
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The three arrests over allegations of spying for China come just 36 days after the PM set off for a state visit! Bloody hell!
about 1 month ago
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Labour defector to Reform Clive Furness says "I delight in the different colours of people, the different cuisines, the different clothing"
about 1 month ago
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Sir Robin Wales, former Labour Mayor of Newham has defected to Reform, and used his first speech to defend burning the Quran. He says: "The Labour government is trying to enforce a blasphemy law on people who burn Quran. I think a stupid thing to do, by the way, but it's people's right to do that."
about 1 month ago
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Sounds like Mario is in the Commons
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about 1 month ago
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Mel Stride is such good value. Asks "is that it?", says the Government has "given up on the British people", and that this "is not a spring statement, it's a surrender statement". Labour MPs laughing, obviously
about 1 month ago
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Now Palestine Action are no longer considered a terrorist organisation can we give that to the tractors outside parliament instead
about 1 month ago
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When thereās a headline you want regardless of what is said
about 1 month ago
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Sadiq Khan responds to Donald Trump's latest attack. A spokesperson says: "The Mayor is clearly still living rent free in Donaldās Trumpās head. Heās obsessed with him. Sadiq could probably claim squatters rights"
about 1 month ago
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YouGov, Sky and Times poll sees Greens move ahead of Labour into second(!) place RefUK 23% (-1) GRN 21% (+4) LAB 16%(-2) CON 16%(-2) LDEM 14%
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Greens overtake Labour in sensational poll
The Greens have polled higher than Labour in the latest poll by YouGov, which puts them only two points off Reform UK and five ahead of the governing party.
https://news.sky.com/story/greens-overtake-labour-in-sensational-poll-13514420
about 1 month ago
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EXC: Jon Ashworth has called for more awareness around the causes of strokes after suffering one on New Yearās Day. The former Shadow Health Secretary lost some sight in one eye and some movement in left arm, and wants to use the experience to help others
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Former Labour MP calls for more testing after stroke on New Year's Day
Jonathan Ashworth, the former Labour MP for Leicester South, explained an ischemic stroke left him with stiffness in his left arm, and a loss of sight in his left eye
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/former-labour-mp-calls-more-36796009
about 1 month ago
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Josh Simons has resigned! Cleared of breaching ministerial code, but goes saying the scandal had become a "distraction"
about 1 month ago
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Wes Streeting criticises people suggesting Labour should move to the left. He says: "They are just as wrong as the people who argued, in the wake of the Runcorn by-election, that we should shift to the right and try to out-Reform Reform."
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Wes Streeting says Labour must 'give country hope' after by-election defeat
Wes Streeting has claimed only Labour can unite the country after the crushing defeat in Gorton and Denton.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/wes-streeting-says-labour-must-36796682
about 1 month ago
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Tom Watson, as ever, not holding back. He says: "I cannot see a single seat that Labour could hold at a by election in the foreseeable future"
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A party can lose and still learn nothing
Gaza, Sir Oink Alot and the whack analysis.
https://tomwatsonofficial.substack.com/p/a-party-can-lose-and-still-learn?r=5pamy
about 1 month ago
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Labour Party donor Dale Vince tells Times Radio Keir Starmer "needs to shit or get off the pot" if the PM is to retain his support
about 1 month ago
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And so it begins
about 1 month ago
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UNISON general secretary Andrea Egan not mincing her words. She says: āUnder Keir Starmer the party is failing on every count, leaving the Greens to fill the vacuum."
about 1 month ago
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Amid all the anger at Labour, I feel for Angeliki Stogia. She was attacked repeatedly for being an immigrant, had to deal with the Andy Burnham question, and campaigned in backdrop of Labour struggles. She's a dedicated councillor of 12 years, who loves Manchester and wanted to do more for it
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Greens hit out at Nigel Farage accusations of cheating. Party Spokesperson: "This is an attempt to undermine the democratic result and is straight out of the Trump playbook. We've just won a historic by-election by a comfortable margin."
about 1 month ago
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An all-time crash out from Matt Goodwin. He says: āI donāt think the progressives beat us, I think the progressives were told how to vote. Islamists and woke progressives came together to dominate the constituency.ā
about 1 month ago
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Matt Goodwin after reading the result
about 1 month ago
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Fair fucks to the Greens btw, they sent round an op-note inviting people to a Friday press conference with "new MP Hannah Spencer" as well her first constituency surgery timings at *11:00am on Thursday*
about 1 month ago
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Am told the Greens are expecting a win beyond recount territory. Seismic.
about 1 month ago
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