Ming Campbell beat OJ twice

🚨 SCOOP: Labour rolls back promise to publish anti-leasehold laws in first 100 days.

Insiders argue govt plan is so weak Labour will need more time.

Campaigner Harry Scoffin: 'Yet another U-turn from Starmer’s Labour. The rigged system wins again.'

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kind of sweet that the jigsaw of splintered party politics now necessitates 'tag your four best friends and repost 🌸🌸'

EXCL w/Phil Kemp

Met police were first aware of 'honeytrap' messages late last year.

Parliamentary security were also informed. But MPs weren't warned.

Some were then targeted this year👇

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Really loved going on News Agents yesterday to chat to emily m and Lewis Goodall about how we broke the Westminster 'honey-trapper' story - you can listen here:
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EVENT: Polling shows the public care about ethical behaviour in politics. How can the parties show they are committed to high ethical standards?

Join us on Thursday 25 April with Tim Durrant Nick Thomas-Symonds MP Esther Webber, Sir Jeremy Wright and Hannah White
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DO NOT IGNORE: But British politics is hooked on Trump-style tactics to extract money and time from potential supporters.

But are they risking pushing the guilt, fear and outright manipulation too far?

politico.eu/article/britis…

'Active and lively'

EXC: Harold Wilson had an affair with a Downing Street aide, his closest surviving advisers have revealed after half a century of silence

Joe Haines & Bernard Donoughue say they want to commit the Labour PM’s affair with Janet Hewlett-Davies to history

thetimes.co.uk/article/harold…

Reform UK want to make net zero a central plank of their election bid.

7 in 10 voters back net zero by 2050. Party nonetheless claims it would win a referendum scrapping green goals 'hands down.'

Story by Abby Wallace POLITICOEurope

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psa: I managed to break a bone in my hand last week so apologies if I owe you a reply, typing even slower than usual

normal annoying levels of contact hopefully restored soon

NEW: How Westminster WhatsApp ‘honeytrapper’ targeted party conference season:

“It was almost like they were actually there...It was like they were able to work out who was at [the] conference and who wasn’t.'

politico.eu/article/how-we…

Since Politico's explosive scoop earlier this week that MPs and political staffers had been hit by a Westminster sexting scandal, 17 people have been identified as having been targeted.

There is at least one other person: Me

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LATEST with Dan Bloom in the honey trap scandal that has shaken Westminster politics:
Senior Conservative MP William Wragg has admitted leaking personal phone numbers of colleagues who were later targeted in the honey trap scandal
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Exclusive:

Senior Conservative MP William Wragg has admitted his involvement in a ‘honeytrap’ sexting scandal targeting a minster and fellow MPs.

The Times approached Wragg after speaking to victims who believed he was involved.

Wragg told me he was “so sorry” for providing…

Tory MPs already saying they think William Wragg should resign over his admission to Aubrey Allegretti that he was involved in the honeytrap sexting scandal by handing over colleagues' numbers

Comes after amazing Politico reporting led by Aggie Chambre that brought this to light

NEW with Dan Bloom

A serving government minister is among TWELVE men now known to have been targeted in a suspected 'spear-phishing' scandal enveloping Westminster politics:
politico.eu/article/uk-min…

EXCL with Dan Bloom

“We had a little flirt”

MPs, Westminster staffers and journalists are being targeted with alluring personalized messages and explicit images in what experts believe is a clear attempt to compromise them:

politico.eu/article/uk-par…

Tony Blair was once hired to lobby for a gas pipeline from Azerbaijan that activists described as a “carbon bomb.” Now he wants to help the Baku government run its climate talks.

A piece about old world powers trying to fix new world problems.

politico.eu/article/tony-b…

British Prime Ministers with sheep, a short thread.

Rishi Sunak, 2022- present