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Asa Bennett
@asabenn
Comms @GoFundMeUK. Ex-No10, FCDO and DIT speechwriter. Erstwhile Telegraph, Express and HuffPost hack.
London
Born May 14
Joined March 2009
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    Replying to @robfordmancs
    Trump's Hamilton spat is a distraction, as @robfordmancs notes, but it's working. Overshadowed Trump University in US as soon as he tweeted
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    Been sent this spectacularly timed shot of a Brexit bus zooming onwards despite the road ahead being closed
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    Barnier tells French radio: "No-one has been able to show me any added value in Brexit, not even @Nigel_Farage, when I met him in my office at his request and I asked him."
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    Replying to @asabenn
    A look at the last 4 hours on Google shows how fast Trump forced his Hamilton spat to the top of the agenda instead of Trump U @robfordmancs
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    After more than five years at @Telegraph, I'm delighted to be joining @tradegovuk as chief speechwriter from mid-October. Looking forward to joining @trussliz and her team next month to help fly the flag for Global Britain
    GIF
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    Bercow: "Order! Responses from the Prime Minister will be heard!" MP: "That's you Jeremy!" *laughter erupts in Commons* #pmqs
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    "We Eurosceptics have fought for years to live in a free country", write @SteveBakerHW and his ERG deputy Mark Francois for @Telegraph. "Woe betide any MP who tries to stop that"
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    Bernard Jenkin tells @adamboultonSKY Switzerland is doing "fine" out of the EU, insisting you "can pretty well drive through" its borders AB: "Not if you're a lorry driver" BJ: "There are plenty of areas you can" AB shuts him down by suggesting he goes and asks a lorry driver
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    Matt has already nailed it again #GE2017
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    Replying to @asabenn
    Bemused by Soubry hectoring Gove for "HIS CUTS" to legal aid, when she consistently voted for them...
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    Broadcaster @Nigel_Farage defiant after police visit over his trips out amid coronavirus lockdown to make local reports on immigration
    The fact is that more than 1,000 illegal immigrants have passed through Dover already this year and there has been almost no public debate about this until I started filming. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/…
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    Maverick outsider Figel Narage enters the Ukip leadership race
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    "The plan was to do it without publicity", says Grant Shapps, who has been talking to Radio 5, The Times, Bloomberg, BBC, ITV & Sky about it
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    Brexiteers to be recruited and departments moved to regions in huge Whitehall shake-up, @Telegraph reports