Times Diary

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As suggested by @timesdiary last July

Is James Cleverly plotting a Boris-style path to power?

https://t.co/G0lz17DvEJ

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Another citing of the @timesdiary in the wild

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Today in @TimesDiary, Mark Gatiss revealed what it’s like to play the role of Peter Mandelson after he was asked questions by Times Radio’s @KateEMcCann

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In @TimesDiary today, @KarlTurnerMP’s compliment on @AndyBurnhamGM’s pint drinking abilities and eyelashes is included.

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No summer of sex please, we’re Tory MPs

This morning’s @TimesDiary

https://t.co/niPTsDgz3i

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Also includes news on the government’s timely search for… a new vetting officer

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Keir Starmer chats about the summer of sex, as he and his wife lead attempts to schmooze backbenchers

This and more in today’s @TimesDiary

https://t.co/sX3sHYKCwN

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Glad to see @timesdiary raising chuckles in the tearoom!

[Lee David Evans @LeeDavidEvansUK]

Thrilled that 'Since Attlee & Churchill' is mentioned in The Times' Diary today...

... although I promise the podcast isn't as expletive-laden as this makes it sound - only when justified, and only when quoting other people!

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A lovely story about filming with the Queen and James Bond for the Olympics in today’s @TimesDiary

She had strong opinions on the sketch

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This story generated a dangerous idea in the comments section

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What will Zack Polanski bring to Westminster?

By the looks of things… prickliness

Me in today’s @TimesDiary

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How @jonsopel had more trouble with his expenses then he did with the Taliban

In this morning’s @TimesDiary

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Particularly fond of this Prince Philip story in today’s @TimesDiary

[David Cornock @davidcornock]

Very nice tale from @HackBlackburn @TimesDiary via @philipjcowley and @TheHouseMag about the late Hugh Berrington. I was lucky enough to have taken his @NclPolitics Psychology of Politics course and can still hear him saying those words now (I graduated in, ahem, 1985)

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In today’s @TimesDiary

How Labour whips cocked-up so badly that they had to get MPs to feign illness in the division lobbies

And then got a hell of a bollocking from
the Speaker

https://t.co/uM6MIgWpFY

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And there’s this on the Mandelson Papers

Or should that be Peter Files

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Reform said they were delivering the cheapest fuel in the country

It wasn’t even the cheapest fuel in the county…. or in a 10 mile radius

This and more in today’s @TimesDiary

https://t.co/CxiUzUad7S

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@JAHeale @TimesDiary Total Sweet spot would be if you’d been to Oxbridge and worked in McDonald’s there. That would be the perfect American political résumé.

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Britain now has as many political leaders who worked at McDonalds (Badenoch & Polanski) as went to Oxbridge (Starmer & Davey) via @TimesDiary