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DAN HODGES: What Labour insiders are telling me about Ed Miliband’s ‘furious’ reaction to Burnham’s ‘U-turn’ on Chancellor
Ed Miliband is angry. News of the former Labor leader’s sacking as Andy Burnham’s chancellor has apparently turned Red Ed…
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DAN HODGES: Farage is learning that when voters are shouting at you, it’s bad. When they’re laughing at you, it’s over…
‘I will accept Nigel Farage’s request to be appointed Steward and Bailiff of Northstead Manor. This is a farce and…
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DAN HODGES: Insiders tell me Starmer is in a ‘volcanic rage’ over Burnham ‘betrayal’. He’ll only listen to his wife now – and this is what Lady Starmer’s telling him to do…
Here we go again. Another weekend of Keir Starmer barricaded in Checkers with his loyal advisers. Another weekend where close…
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DAN HODGES: I’ve long warned the Mandelson affair was descending into a cover-up. Today we finally see why…
So where are the Mandelson/McSweeney emails? As The Mail on Sunday reported today, the Metropolitan Police and Downing Street are…
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DAN HODGES: When Britain needed a leader to articulate our pain, disgust and despair, Keir Starmer was missing in action. Kemi stepped up – and spoke like a real Prime Minister
All successful politicians have their Moment. A moment when national events, public moods and political instincts came decisively into alignment.…
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The secret ‘Trojan Horse’ plot to save Keir Starmer. Ministers have told me all about the new strategy… and it’s the PM’s final chance to save himself: DAN HODGES
Keir Starmer is about to be given one last chance to save himself. Next week, Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham will…
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DAN HODGES: This old pit village is Labour to its core. If Starmer is routed here by Farage, he’s really in a giant hole
David and Rob collect rubbish in their old wheelbarrows. But they want something a little more permanent. ‘Do you have…
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DAN HODGES: I saw Angela Rayner drunk on Monday night – and it wasn’t an aberration. Those who care about Britain – and her well-being – must make sure she’s never Prime Minister
I don’t know for sure what the process that will lead to Keir Starmer’s dismissal from Downing Street will be…
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DAN HODGES: Sir Keir will survive tonight’s vote, but victory will prove a pyrrhic one. Next week, the voters get to deliver their own verdict on the Prime Minister…
Stylistically, they couldn’t be more different. Sir Phillip Barton is a calm and careful career civil servant. And Morgan McSweeney,…
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DAN HODGES: Starmer is playing Russian roulette. Every time he refuses to answer a question, another chamber of the gun rotates
So Keir Starmer finally came clean and revealed to the House of Commons who was responsible for the appointment of…
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