And what a legend.

Best wishes for the next adventure 😃

Tory plotters are still plotting. They’re just doing it slyly.

My latest The New Statesman column.

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“The first time in history that (and I'm not joking) the dumped party is whooping far more than receiving party.”

- One Nation group Conservative MP on the defection to Labour of Hard Right Natalie Elphicke.

Leaves the field with dignity after a short innings 👏

Shockingly Right-wing Tory MP Natalie Elphicke has defected to Labour.

Is she a

This is awks 👇

'A Tory MP who attacked free school meals campaigner Marcus Rashford can 'f*** off', says Rachel Reeves.
'The Shadow Chancellor blasted Natalie Elphicke, who last year said the England forward should spend 'more time perfecting his game and less time playing…

Is defector Natalie Elphicke a Tory MP too far for Labour?

She took a cheap shot at Marcus Rashford, daftly blamed the EU for Brexit chaos and demonised boat people.

Labour is almost certain to win Dover and Deal. Which presumably is why she's standing down.

Walsall Council Tory leader Mike Bird suspended then barred from office only a few days after he claimed 'the woke agenda has got to go down the drain.”

I wonder what his offence was. He and they aren't saying.

Hmmm...

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Discussing Andrew Pierce’s emotional, extraordinary search for his birth mother with him at Leicester Square Theatre on 12 June.

Tickets here leicestersquaretheatre.com/show/andrew-pi…

And we’ll have our one of our usual no-holds barred political discussions. He can suck that up.

And this is what the UK Government has done about(admittedly much, much smaller) arms sales to Israel: 0⃣

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When 270,000 WASPI women have died already and the toll rises every 13 minutes the delay smacks of official foot-dragging to save money by denying justice. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

I think it’s called wanting it both ways

Err, Garrick 😃

Perhaps the cops should now investigate Tory oxygen waster Gary Sambrook for wasting police time after they rejected a political accusation from the MP intended to stop Labour's Richard Parker winning the West Mids.

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Bosses hire and fire, possessing much more power than hired and fired workers.

Labour give employers an inch on zero hours contracts and some companies will take a mile.

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Flag-waving plastic patriots are still with us, alas.

Many championed the national self-harm that is Brexit.

'They've got Bob Hope and no hope.'

'After 14 years, people want change.'

Kevin Maguire says Rishi Sunak is just keeping up appearances so his MPs don't sack him, despite a 26% swing away from the Tories.

Mike Parry | Storm Huntley | #StormHuntley

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Talking why the Tories are finished, UK Eurovision hope Olly Alexander saying the Union Jack can be divisive, cats wearing bells and should the Govt pay for weddings - all with Storm Huntley on Channel 5 in a mo.

What’s not to like? 😊

No pay rises for five years and this train dispute heading for a record two years proves the UK Conservative Government is no way to run a railway.

The dad of Molly Russell, who took her own life after viewing harmful posts, calling for better regulation of the net and social media is today’s @DailMirror splash.