Nikki Powell

Really?

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

On my way, Clacton.

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

In response to the amusing if bewildering accusation I’m a Labour stooge, please do pass this on to the following comrades:

— Keir Starmer and Waheed Alli, whose gifts of suits and spectacles to the PM was a story I broke

— Jeremy Corbyn, who furiously denounced a book I cowrote as “tittle tattle”

— Matthew Doyle, whose association with a convicted paedophile I exposed

— Tulip Siddiq, whose housing deals I examined and formed part of the inquiry leading to her resignation

— Keir Starmer (again), who said the thesis of a second book I wrote was “bollocks”

— Morgan McSweeney, whose group’s £750,000 of unlawfully undeclared donations I exposed

— Labour Together, which paid a US lobbying firm tens of thousands to investigate my work

— Ann Limb, who had her Labour peerage deferred after I revealed she made up part of her CV

— Joe Docherty, who was suspended as a Labour peer after I revealed his workplace sexting

— Angela Rayner, whose trip to New York alongside her boyfriend I revealed was funded by Waheed Alli

I recall many Reform figures vigorously agreeing about the public interest in those stories. Some have even referred to them in order to highlight the wrongdoing of the left since yesterday.

But also, it isn’t “my” story, it’s the Sunday Times investigation team, Insight’s story. It could not, would not have happened, without the whole paper, especially @ManuMidolo @venetiamenzies @GeorgeGreenwood whose revelations were indispensable and who have not to my knowledge (yet) been accused of being Labour activists.

Moreover the Sunday Times isn’t a Labour paper, or paper which exists to serve anyone or any party other than its readers and, to the best of our abilities, the public interest.

[John McGinn @jmcginn7]

Scotland days at school, kids faces painted in saltires at nursery, the excitement and togetherness that this tournament brought to everyone in our country means so much to us all.

No one wanted to progress more than us players, and as much as the experiences and memories we’ll share will last forever, that doesn’t take away from how much this still hurts.

What the gaffer has given this group, on and off the pitch, has been immense. Not only by taking us to major tournaments but by how together we have felt as a squad and as a nation. Representing Scotland means everything to us and to him I’ll be forever grateful.

I hope the generation of young Scots who experienced this World Cup grow up believing that seeing Scotland on this stage is the new norm.

Thanks to everyone in the stands and in the streets of Boston and Miami, and to everyone back home for the incredible support.

Proud to be Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

[The Independent @Independent]

Sir John Major has slammed "ragbag" Reform UK for its scapegoating of Muslims and migrants, claiming the party has nothing positive to offer Britain.

[Scotland National Team @ScotlandNT]

🧤 Getting ready to go in New Jersey.

#BOLSCO | #FIFAWorldCup

[Nikki Powell @nikcpowell]

RT @FraserNelson: It's not just the exploitation of a tragedy.

JD Vance's picture of Britain - where migrants have led to a crime surge -…

[Jeremy Vine | Here, on Tiktok, Insta & Facebook @theJeremyVine]

I have such respect for this lady — the MP @carolynharris24 — who communicates unlike so many others in Parliament

[Mike H @mikoh123]

‘I’d rather have a career politician than a plumber who is a sexist.’
#bbcqt

[David Gauke @DavidGauke]

I didn’t vote for either of the winners of the last two General Elections but “traitors” for whom a “reckoning is coming”? Really? This very excitable, angry & hyperbolic man should be nowhere near a position of responsibility in a political party that aspires to power.

[Nikki Powell @nikcpowell]

@forwardnotback Pickled beetroot and salad cream sandwiches..

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

I urge people to read Hope Not Hate article, though they'll find it shocking - maybe the most astonishing sexual fantasy ever publicly described by a British politician. If Hope Not Hate have got it wrong, and it's a mistake or fake, then Kenyon & Reform should say so at once.

[Prosper UK @Prosper_UK_]

The Conservatives cannot rebuild by chasing the 2019 coalition.

That coalition has gone.

The question now is simple: who is the party for?

If the answer is angry populism, it gets smaller.

If the answer is economic competence, serious government and broad centre-right values, there is a route back.

[Nikki Powell @nikcpowell]

@forwardnotback Love these polls Tim - thanks!

[Nikki Powell @nikcpowell]

@forwardnotback Thank you for being a wonderful Twitter friend Tim, sending you very best wishes.

[Prosper UK @Prosper_UK_]

Prosper UK supporters are being drawn to a pragmatic centre-right offer focused on growth, enterprise, jobs and opportunity.

They come from across the political spectrum, reflecting a clear gap in UK politics and a common view that the current debate isn’t delivering.

Sign up today: https://t.co/t0jAlA1FOm

[Harry Cole @MrHarryCole]

“For Badenoch it’s time, now the nutters have gone, for an olive branch towards men like Kenneth Clarke, Michael Heseltine, David Gauke, Dominic Grieve”

https://t.co/LmkaSuFhBY

[Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

PETITION: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party

When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their elected official.

https://t.co/jvRQlJnJOV

[Tim (still totally unremarkable) @forwardnotback]

About 18 months after being elected as the tory MP for Newark Jenrick has decided the tories are not in a position to govern the UK
Perhaps he should have thought about before asking voters to vote tory

[Times Politics @timespolitics]

Michael Heseltine: Reform is fascist. We must stop Nigel Farage https://t.co/2AjplVFwGq

[Nikki Powell @nikcpowell]

@forwardnotback Love your food quizzes Tim, almost as much as the Sunday night ones - thanks!