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Matthew Holehouse

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British politics correspondent at The Economist

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As the Scottish National Party tries to fight off a resurgent Labour, Humza Yousaf is tilting to the left as its leader econ.st/3tVWKhh 👇

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Also given (i) the target is for 29/30 financial year so the £13bn headroom is the figure as that’s 28/29, won’t see 29/30 on scorecard til the autumn and (ii) OBR say 0.5% productivity improvement = £59bn increase in headroom. Labour only need a third of that.

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MoJ resisted this for ages on the grounds that stealing is already illegal. (Theft Act = 7 years rather than 5.) Still, a victory for banning things harder.

MoJ resisted this for ages on the grounds that stealing is already illegal. (Theft Act = 7 years rather than 5.) Still, a victory for banning things harder.
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Anderson owes so much to influencer culture. The social media monologues. Very emotionally-driven, very main character. Quite lucrative.

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“Pyrrhus said to one who was congratulating him on his victory, 'If we are victorious in one more battle, we shall be utterly ruined.' For he had lost a great part of the forces with which he came, and all his friends and generals except a few.”

economist.com/britain/2024/0…

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We've all done the Rwanda/Brexit parallels pieces... but this is very late May era. Reminiscent of squeezing a 'best endeavours to negotiate expeditiously' out the commission

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This is really interesting on how far the small Con-Ref UK switcher group is way out of kilter with the public at large (all = ~30%) on immigration salience.

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This seems like a really odd use of MRP. If only 42% of voters support a policy, you can't ram it through a constituency-based first past the post model in order to then claim that 'ministers are out of touch with the views of the electorate'.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

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