Mathew Hulbert 🔶️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 ✝️

A Liberal voice on the airwaves. 🎙
Commentator | Campaigner | Author | Speaker | Live Event Chair | Often on TV/Radio | Co-host, @PolFrenemies.

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🚨 BRAND NEW COLUMN!!!

In my latest Mathew on Monday...

🇪🇺 Prime Minister, it's time to restore our freedom to move across Europe.
🏥 Doctors deserve fair pay, not Government condemnation.
💷 All eyes on Wednesday's Budget.

Read the column here:

https://t.co/nX99TCvg6S

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Catching up with #EastEnders.
Just how many lies is the dreadful Max Branning having to remember he's told at this point?
#BBCiPlayer

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@ashton0609 Cheers, Ashton!

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Home.

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@AuthorSJB Thanks, Stewart.

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@drchrisnewton Thanks, Chris.

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Interesting thread.
#PMQs

[Theo Bertram @theobertram]

I'm doing PMQs on @TimesRadio later so I've been looking at how Burnham has changed style from Starmer. Starmer did almost 60 PMQs and this will be Burnham'a 6th but there are already some observable differences.

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This! https://t.co/KPDJSTz1DV

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@drchrisnewton You're absolutely right, Chris.

[Chris Newton @drchrisnewton]

An absolutely terrible response.
1. They knew about Brand's call to Andrew Sachs and his general vulgar behaviour.
2. It was the social media age. It was 2015, not 1915!
If a Tory responded to a rape conviction like this, the MSM would be all over it.
https://t.co/PBS6YiYfli

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Senator Ossoff 🤝 Senator-elect Talarico

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I was due to be on this edition of Cross Question, but am still in hospital.
Hopefully will reschedule with Iain and producer Corey soon!

[Iain Dale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 ⚒️ @IainDale]

On my @LBC show...

7pm Tories announce welfare reform proposals

8pm Cross Question

9pm Should non white people be allowed to identify as English on the census form? Two MPs want to change the law.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

In this critical moment for the American project, I’ve been thinking a lot about what comes next. Over the past year and a half, I’ve put those thoughts on paper, and they’ve grown into a book I’m proud to share with you.

My latest book, NEXT, is not a policy manual. It’s a look at how our nation got to this point, an argument for why this is the moment to build something better, and a case for the principles that should guide us as we do.

NEXT arrives at your local bookseller and on your favorite audiobook platforms on January 26th and is available for pre-order today. I hope you’ll read it. https://t.co/CVIypCn9YI

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[@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps]

🟠 BURNLEY: remarkably, the former Lib Dem MP Gordon Birtwistle has been selected to fight Burnley again, at the age of 83. Birtwistle was Member for Burnley from 2010 to 2015, when he served as PPS to Chief Secretary and Quad member Danny Alexander. Birtwistle has fought every general election in Burnley since 1992, except 2001.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Such a powerful moment. So depressing it needs to be said. And shows importance of televising key judgments like that.

[Kate McCann @KateEMcCann]

I’m glad the Judge chose to lay bare the disgusting and grotesque nature of Russell Brand’s behaviour as he raped and sexually assaulted women. It leaves no room for any alternative argument. It was utterly grim listening befitting a cold, arrogant man who clearly believed he could do whatever he wanted because of his fame. I hope he and the people around him who enabled his behaviour feel the shame they rightly should. The women brave enough to come forward and grit their teeth through this trial should feel none of that shame and I’m glad the Judge chose to make that clear today too. We need to have a real think about how we pile blame on women - and men - who are abused and assaulted by men like Brand. As the Judge made clear, women have the right to wear what they like, go out, have consensual sex and expect not to be raped. Or, as Brand’s legal team put it, not be subjected to a “momentary total failure to respect consent”. Despicable.

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This!

[Sophie Wilkinson @sophwilkinson]

'Whatever women wear, wherever they go, indeed whatever they drink, they retain the right to say no' - Judge Bennathan

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Tonight's 'Debbie's Angels' ep of #Corrie is beautifully written and wonderfully acted.
A reminder, were it needed, that the women are the beating heart of the soap.

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Thanks to Nicky for lending me these books, as I continue my recovery in hospital.
Can't wait to dive in! 📚

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@exPremiers Many would wish for John Major's six and a half years!

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@SJAMcBride Political parties exist to govern Sam, do they not?
Otherwise, what is the point?