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Bookmark my hour-by-hour guide of how to watch the local elections like a pro — as featured in this morning's Playbook.

Packed with exclusive insights and analysis 🍿

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Tom Hunt explains: “I'm a dyspraxic MP … one of the top characteristics is unfortunately we just tend to lose things from time-to-time … when you've got a complicated life split between two places it makes it challenging.'

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Humza Yousaf's tenure lasted 8.1 Liz Trusses

(Plus however long it takes to find a successor)

You read it here first 😎 from Playbook PM on February 19th

Farewell Klute, the best nightclub outside Moscow, after working there dealing with SW1 felt like easy mode.
Few know my dad & uncles named it after watching the classic 70s film, watch it if you never have
(Maybe The Startup Party should buy the building for our northern HQ...)

Is lifting of viral news from social media fuelling loss of trust in journalism? pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analys…

Latest in the world of attention-seizing fundraiser emails: Pass-agg clickbait?

“Rwanda is a different country to Congo, isn’t it”

Sad news about the death of Frank Field. He was a kind man who was interested in people - whether they were ‘important’ or not. I always thought he had this look in his eyes that gave you the impression he was just about to tell a really funny joke.

NEW: German police have arrested an Alternative for Germany (AfD) aide who works in the European Parliament over accusations he spied for China.

“Jian G. is an employee of a Chinese secret service,” the German Public Prosecutor said this morning

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Which minister left secret Rwanda plan lying around?

❌ Michael Tomlinson just told Nick Ferrari it wasn’t him
❌ Victoria Prentis told Playbook it wasn’t her

No word yet from Andrew Mitchell who sat in front of Steph Spyro who found document 🤔

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