Phil Duckworth

Grinning northerner with jackal like laugh..

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Notice how everything is an ‘establishment hit job’ for Nigel Farage?

…almost like ‘the establishment’ is what he calls anyone who asks him a question he doesn’t want to answer.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

Nigel Farage did not declare gifts and benefits provided by George Cottrell - a crypto entrepreneur who has previously been convicted of fraud.

Reform leader accepted staff, private security, transport and accommodation - including in townhouse near Buckingham Palace - from his close friend.

Farage claimed they were personal gifts provided before he became an MP and so did not need to be declared. Such forensic & detailed reporting from @Gabriel_Pogrund & team 👏

[Suzy Quiquero 🏆 @suzyquiquero]

Keir Starmer using The Pixies' music on one of his TikToks is quite possibly, the coolest thing he's ever done.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

You asked me about this government’s achievements over the last two years.

Here they are.

[Luke McGee @lukemcgee]

Absolutely extraordinary story from the Sunday Times that is going to be very hard for Farage to deflect.

"Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal"

https://t.co/i5mefjIwtA

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

It's almost as if Coutts were entirely justified in giving Nigel Farage a wide berth

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Russian intelligence started tracking Boris Johnson while he was an Oxford student in the 1980s.

The Kremlin called him "likeable but not trustworthy," said he had "no principles" and "could be easily manipulated," The Telegraph. 1/

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

FWIW - the Sunday Times were about to publish a similar exposé to the Farage one, about Cameron's involvement in HSBC fraud cover-up. The editor Camilla Cavendish killed it, Cameron got re-elected, Cavendish got a job at No10 & then a peerage.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

250 years after July 4, 1776, the successor of King George III pays taxes and publishes his returns. The successor of George Washington does not. https://t.co/CbIXDe8UQY

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

Your entire party is funded by criminals.

Pipe down.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Across the big issues, this country is in a better place than when I inherited it two years ago.

[Ruth Davidson @RuthDavidsonPC]

I took ages to work out why Farage didn't declare the £5million late, once the standards inquiry started. It's public anyway.

But if he cedes the principle, he'd have to declare ALL donations for the 12 months before the GE. And perhaps there's so much more we DON'T know about.

[Stuzi 🐝🐝 @stuzi_pants]

Hats off to Camilla Tominey for doing what #bbclaurak failed to do
Doesn’t give Jenrick an inch, and makes him look like a gibbering idiot as he labels the Telegraph as part of the left wing media with an agenda against Farage…
He’s a failed human

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

It seems surprising up until now Farage has not been in receipt of what’s called an unexplained wealth order, which requires an individual or an organisation to explain how they obtained a property or other assets.

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

Farage was always master of the grift.

Remember 10 years ago when @carolecadwalla and I revealed his Leave EU team were in and out of the Russian Embassy in the run up to Brexit, looking for Kremlin gold and diamond deals?

Farage must have known, and approved.

Ten years ago

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Sun Times story is the gamechanger we need. But this is a decade-long story that was ignored by papers like Sun Times - as was Farage - for years. Because…Brexit.

Cottrell was central in both Brexit & building Brexit Party in years after
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[Royally Sage @sage1411]

My brother posts this every year in the family chat on the 4th. Still hilarious.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Bravo to the @Gabriel_Pogrund & team. This is the story in plain sight that needed to be nailed. Congrats are in order for getting it over a difficult line.

George Cottrell has operated with impunity at highest levels of UK politics for more than a decade
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[Sam @SamCKx]

Reform is now funded by 3 billionaires.

Christopher Harborne - a tax exile living tax free in Thailand under their special tax regime

Ben Delo - a tax exile living tax free in Hong Kong under their special tax regime

Sasan Ghandehari - a tax exile living tax free in Switzerland under their special tax regime

The party of the people.