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Robert Hutton
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Robert Hutton
@RobDotHutton
Political sketches and film columnist for @TheCriticMag, co-host of classic cinema love-in @WarMovieTheatre. Only posting updates here. Find me on Bluesky.
- The best bits in the Boris Johnson memoirs are the unintentional revelations. Here, we learn that the Queen read government briefings, and he didn't.
- BREAKING: My sources are telling me that there has not - repeat not - been a general election overnight.Nigel Farage is on course to be the next prime minister, according to a seat-by-seat YouGov poll which reveals the scale of Conservative implosion. Full story from @SamCoatesSky ⬇️
- Robert Jenrick: off sick the day they taught law at law school.The public had a right to know the truth straight away. I am seriously concerned that facts may have been withheld from the public. Keir Starmer must urgently explain what he knew about the Southport attack and when he learned it.
00:00 - If Louise Haigh wanted a new phone, she should simply have peddled a get-rich-quick scheme under a false name.🚨NEWS ALERT gone missing? Whenever a Conservative minister resigned there was always a BBC news alert. Yet Starmer loses his first Cabinet Minister and somehow the BBC doesn't think it's relevant enough to send out an alert!Readers added contextThe BBC News app sent out a news alert around 7am stating that Louise Haigh resigned. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
- I can't believe we're all playing along with the idea that, even if he had the questions in advance, Boris would bother to prepare any answers.
- Replying to @RobDotHutton"In retrospect, I should simply have lied much harder."
- If there was one thing that English football was known for in the 80s, it was the good-natured, fun-loving quality of the supporters.Something has fundamentally changed in Birmingham. And Britain, too, has changed with it. Consider football: the rough and tumble of our national game is nothing new for the West Midlands. Growing up in the eighties, my Dad took me to more than a few matches at Villa Park in the
- The two tiers here being "people who plead guilty" and "people acquitted by a jury".It is astonishing that Labour councillor Ricky Jones, who was caught on video calling for throats to be slit, is let off scot free - whereas Lucy Connolly got 31 months prison for posting something no worse. The development of two tier justice is becoming increasingly alarming.
- Replying to @RobDotHuttonYep, if there's one way I would describe Johnson being dragged out of Downing Street yelling "You'll want me back! You've never had better! You total bastards!", it's "general lack of bitterness".
- OUTSTANDING work from Chris Philp this morning telling Laura Kuenssberg that he had "done my bit towards cleaning up British politics" by resigning from Boris Johnson's government in 2022. The mystery of how Johnson got there in the first place persists...
- "I don't discuss my conversations with the Queen," says a man who reveals details of her health in his forthcoming book. #Classy‘Do you regret apologising to the Queen?’ @BorisJohnson explains to ITV News why he thinks apologising for Partygate was a mistake Watch @tombradby’s full interview with the former prime minister on ITV at 7pm itv.com/news/2024-10-0…
00:00 - BRILLIANT strategy here to keep lockdown breaches in the news. Can't see any way that reminding voters of lockdown, and high-profile breakers of lockdown, could backfire on the party and imposed lockdown then partied through it.Prime Minister runs away from questions about an alleged lockdown breach by his ‘key worker’ acting coach. What is he hiding?
