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👇Great Financial Times piece by Lucy Fisher on the UK's struggle to enforce its Russia #sanctions regime. Includes quotes from our evidence to Treasury Committee's ongoing inquiry into this important issue.

NEW: Treasury committee chair warns western sanctions against Russia are failing to hamper its economy, as campaigners urge enforcement officials to take a tougher stance on blacklisted entities

Harriett Baldwin talks to Financial Times about improving sanctions 👇

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Tory rebels threaten leadership coup if party suffers heavy losses in local elections

Plotters boast of a grid of interventions to destabilise Sunak and a whipping operation to drum up 'no confidence' letters from MPs

My story with @georgewparker

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Epic FT Lunch with the Pet Shop Boys by Janine Gibson

Including how George Osborne sought the duo's advice (on behalf of him and David Cameron) about how to avoid falling out

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'One can imagine a negotiation will happen — and that that doesn’t mean the UK accepting the full package.'

🗣 David Henig 🇺🇦 via Financial Times on the likeliness of an EU-wide YMS deal.

Read the full article by Peter Foster, Lucy Fisher and Andrew Bounds ⬇️
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“If it looks like a politician, and quacks like one, then it’s probably a politician.” Which is a problem for a broadcaster during an election

Fascinating piece on Reform UK's unusual structure by Rafe Uddin

Nigel Farage insists he's not a politician — but within the rightwing populist party, he's kingmaker... Company fillings show he owns a 53% share!

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Major thanks to Home Secretary James Cleverly for stepping in at the eleventh hour to address the Parliamentary Press Gallery lunch yday

Lots of headlines today off the back of his speech, which also contained some sizzling jokes 😎

NEW: Sadiq Khan says UK should agree a youth mobility scheme with EU, in a sharp break from Labour's frosty response to the EU Commission's proposal last week

In interview with Financial Times, London mayor rejects Labour/govt remarks likening YMS to free movement

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What's that? A 'pint sized' jibe at PMQs about the petite PM? Another chance to punt my piece on mistaking physical substance for political heft? Well if I must ... on.ft.com/4baIb9m

German guards of honour are the only ones (I've come across, at least) in which personnel follow the passing 'principal' with their eyes, rather than staring straight ahead...

It's a strange, Mona Lisa-style effect as they stand perfectly still and ramrod straight

Heh... I'm told Liz Truss's nickname for Tim Barrow was... 'Deep State'

This was an affectionate sobriquet for her national security adviser, apparently