Political leadership research and policy development (UK, US, Europe). Worked for ministers and MPs. Snooker loopy nut. Views own. RT not endorsement.
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I currently have some extra capacity for consultancy on policy, research and strategic planning. I cover UK politics, as well as the US and Norway. Do reach out to me directly if you or your company are looking for support, consultancy or capacity enhancement in the coming weeks.
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Getting ready for tonight's service to celebrate 30 years of @CAPuk! 30 years of this amazing charity helping the most in need and celebrating meaningful moves into work and out of debt.
Wish us well for the next 30 years!
#DeliveryForEveryoneInNeed
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Harry & Meghan are not news. No-one really cares what they have to say, nor what they do. They're self-serving and lack any credibility. Stop giving them puff pieces in the news (at least, without pushback/fact-checking on their lies).
#harryandmeghan #harry #MeghaninNottinghan
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Just saw the PCS demands on Civil Service pay and call for a 4-day working week. Lacks credibility, harms productivity at a time when it needs to be vastly improved and is totally against the core principles of public service. #StraightReject #CivilServices #PCS #4DayWeek #SayNo
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Found out today that I'll be going to Labour Party Conference. Anyone here going and want to meet up?
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This is excellent and is what rewiring the state SHOULD mean in practice!
No. 10 has just announced a secondment programme from the civil service to 18 mayoral authorities — 5-10 civil servants in each one for 6-9 months
Cabinet statement from July 31 appears to aim much bigger, though, talking of a "smaller and more strategic civil service" overall
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This whole sequence of clips is unbelievable. Do the rules of the road, and basic courtesy, not apply to cyclists who bomb over crossings (including whilst texting and almost hitting pedestrians)?
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@ArchbishopSarah speaks for me, Richard. Her love, hope & charity are values of faith and far removed from the hate, fear & division that you sow.
If you want to portray yourselves as "the right kind of Christian", you should stop @RobertJenrick talking about "Psalm Sunday".
Did you thank Jesus for giving great courage and vision to the British for abolishing the slave trade, spending vast amounts of money and sacrificing brave Royal Naval sailors in the process?
As a Christian, you don’t speak for me, nor millions of other Christians in the UK
Why should we donate to the Church of England for you to waste it on woke virtue signalling?
I'm pretty impressed with @andyburnham so far (as you'd expect me to be, given my policy interests & advocacy for devolution).
I have one minor quibble. Online interviews are a hidden positive when you're facing redundancy and can't afford travel to them. Please don't ban them!
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I've worked with several people who have worked/campaigned with @aliciakennedy07. All of them speak very highly of both her insights and tenacity. Louise Haigh is hiring serious and good staff!
EXCL: Louise Haigh is hiring the long-time Labour fixer and peer Alicia Kennedy as her chief of staff, three people with knowledge of the appointment tell @9andrewmcdonald & me
Kennedy was an aide to Ed Miliband and Tom Watson before leading Generation Rent
Details in Playbook
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I could yet be wrong, and he could go to Home Office or return to Defence, but I've been predicting Healey as Chancellor for over a year...
John Healey - the first senior figure to walk through the doors of Burnham’s Number 10 - recently met with Andy Burnham to discuss using defence bonds to pay for increased defence spending which he argued could be used to re-industrialise Britain. He’s an ex Treasury minister under Gordon Brown. Join the dots & he could be Chancellor. Pure guesswork which could be proved wrong very quickly but very interesting that he’s first through that door
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