Pippa Crerar
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Political Editor, The Guardian || Political Journalist of the Year [email protected]
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🧵In our focus group in Hitchin for The Guardian we heard from voters genuinely torn between conflicting instincts on how to vote: their usual conservative tendency, fury at the mini budget, a desire for change but also worry about the 'unknown' of Labour. theguardian.com/politics/artic…
Angela Rayner often described as Prescott to Starmer’s Blair. But she won’t be following his campaign strategy.
“I don’t have any plans to punch anyone,” she jokes. “But I hope nobody assaults me with an egg. If we keep to the rules, no one will get hurt”
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BREAKING: Former Tory MP Mark Logan defects to Labour, telling BBC Politics party could 'bring back optimism into British life'.
Logan, who represented highly marginal Bolton NE until Parliament was dissolved, is standing down but says application to join Labour is in today.
NEW: Faiza Shaheen, blocked by Labour from standing in Chingford & Woodford Green, announces she'll challenge decision in courts, claiming she has faced campaign of racism, Islamophobia & bullying. By Heather Stewart
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