Keir Starmer speech: Here is my plan

Daily Mail Journalist: Do you have a plan?

How to show you're not listening at a press conference.

I have had a truly productive week. And tomorrow I am visiting a lovely friend in Hastings. Dinner and a walk by the sea. What more could a girl ask for?

It is pronounced hy-per-boll-ee right? I'm not going mad?

North Yorkshire it is!

ICYMI on difficult defections, party management and when clever tactics create strategic problems softleft.substack.com/p/on-defections

This happens too often and it doesn’t matter who is doing this it needs to stop

Have you ever stalked someone? Worried you might get caught/have a docudrama made about you?

Have we got the ap for you?!

God this place gets worse and worse.

I miss the days when the people trying to send me messages on Instagram were pretending to be Keanu Reeves or suitors who were also US Army vets. Now they're all trying to sell me more Instagram followers. Which I want even less than a foreign-based army boyfriend (or fake Keanu)

ICYMI on difficult defections, party management and when clever tactics create strategic problems softleft.substack.com/p/on-defections

This is good from Emma Burnell on the ripples from Elphicke’s defection softleft.substack.com/p/on-defections

If you want another well argued view on the issue I recommend this by Emma Burnell
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On Natalie Elphicke's defection, on why Starmer and team have done it and why it might be storing up trouble in other areas in the future: softleft.substack.com/p/on-defections

This is a mistake. It’s also macho bullshit. I outline why here.

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Go Ayesha Hazarika !

I've written a newsletter special on the Elphicke defection. Why this is probably tactically smart but might cause Labour strategic problems in the future open.substack.com/pub/softleft/p…

What strikes me about the (ever-growing) list of Tories standing down at the election is how many grandees they're losing.

A new generation might be a good idea, but some greybeards (is there a non-sexist term for those people) are a good idea too.

I've written a newsletter special on the Elphicke defection. Why this is probably tactically smart but might cause Labour strategic problems in the future open.substack.com/pub/softleft/p…

30 point lead. 30. Thirty. Points.

Let's say the polls do narrow closer to the election as expected. What are they going to narrow to? 20?

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So following my ' Is Emmerdale in North Yorkshire (where it's set) or West Yorkshire (where it's filmed) confusion let's settle this with a poll.

Are TV shows/films based in:

This is absolutely how the vast majority of voters will see this. Which is why it's been welcomed by LOTO more enthusiastically than by many activists.