Lara Spirit @lara_spirit
Red Box Editor, The Times thetimes.co.uk/article/newsle… Joined February 2018-
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My column in this morning's Times – on Labour's asylum puzzle and the question some around Starmer are now asking: are ID cards the answer? thetimes.co.uk/article/asylum…
Great column by @lara_spirit on Labour’s internal ID card debate 👇
Great column by @lara_spirit on Labour’s internal ID card debate 👇
Labour lead at 25 points in this week's YouGov poll for The Times CON 20 (-1) LAB 45 (+1) LIB DEM 9 (+1) REF UK 13 (-1) GRN 7 (-1) Fieldwork 23 - 24 April
Given that @lara_spirit discusses it in today's @timesredbox I thought it was a good moment to re-up (which is how children say repost) this by @danielbeland and me: ukandeu.ac.uk/is-the-conserv…
🟥Local elections are nine days away — which ones should we be looking out for? For @timespolitics @timesredbox Today, Bristol 👇
🟥New series on @timespolitics @timesredbox: council of the day. Local elections are next week. But the morning after can feel like a sea of thousands of councillors and confusing metrics. To make life easier, these are the ones to watch. Today, Dudley 👇
Exc: Understand Labour has written to Lancashire police to call for an investigation into allegations of fraud and misconduct in public office by Mark Menzies More in @timesredbox this morning
🟥POLITICS WITHOUT THE BORING BITS PMQsUnpacked: Lettuce vs Lawyers "It's Weetabix with crack cocaine on top" @ShippersUnbound and I watch a decent Commons clash, @lara_spirit rounds up the best of the rest. 🎧 Listen shorturl.at/CIMV1
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Excl: 15yo Lily was first sexually abused by her father at the age of four. It would cost her £6,000 to find out what he said about her in court. Lily (not her real name) wanted to tell her story under her real name, but is unable to until she is 16. thetimes.co.uk/article/2a626a…
Excl: Britain has entered talks to replicate the Rwanda migrant deportation scheme with Armenia, Ivory Coast, Costa Rica and Botswana. Leaked documents reveal the government’s extensive search for additional third country deals: thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-tal…
Exc: More than 6,000 children *under five years old* are being referred to the NHS for mental health treatment each month And more six to ten-year-olds are being seen for mental health issues than any adult age group
Labour lead at 26 points in latest YouGov poll for The Times CON 19 (-1) LAB 45 (+2) LIB DEM 8 (=) REF UK 15 (-1) GRN 7 (-1) Fieldwork 10 - 11 April
EXC: Harold Wilson had an affair with a Downing Street aide, his closest surviving advisers have revealed after half a century of silence Joe Haines & Bernard Donoughue say they want to commit the Labour PM’s affair with Janet Hewlett-Davies to history thetimes.co.uk/article/harold…
YouGov Westminster voting intention (Scotland, 25 Mar - 2 Apr): Labour are now ahead of the SNP for the first time since the independence referendum Labour: 33% (+1 from Oct) SNP: 31% (-2) Con: 14% (-6) Lib Dem: 7% (+2) Reform UK: 7% (+5) Green: 5% (=) yougov.co.uk/politics/artic…
Labour needs a clearer sense of its defining mission in government, a Starmerite think tank aiding the party’s preparations for power has said Fascinating report on the 2010 Cameron transition by @phil_tinline published today thetimes.co.uk/article/think-…
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Great column by @lara_spirit on Labour’s internal ID card debate 👇
My column in this morning's Times – on Labour's asylum puzzle and the question some around Starmer are now asking: are ID cards the answer? thetimes.co.uk/article/asylum…
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My piece in @guardian about St George's Day, efforts by @Keir_Starmer to plant Labour's flag on patriotism, and my new book written with @mds49 being published this week: "England, Seven Myths That Changed a Country -and How to Set Them Straight." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
🧵Happy St George’s Day. To mark the launch of @mds49 and @TomBaldwin66 new book @Moreincommon_ and @UCLPolicyLab looked into what Englishness means to the English. As you might expect the monarchy, tea and the weather are top of mind, but there’s much more too…
Just as I hit a decade(!) at the @NewStatesman I'm now off on maternity leave - trusting my colleagues to continue giving Britain a heavy edit while I'm away. See you when I'm back!
This, from @lara_spirit in @timesredbox is outrageous. What can be more fun than bicameral conflict resolution procedures?
I’ll be on Sky and GB News later to talk about my new book No Way Out, published on Thurs. Here’s the piece I did for the Sunday Times about some of the new material thetimes.co.uk/article/741301…
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Very proud to win this Press Award for the Times British Gas investigation, and to work somewhere that properly invests in investigative journalism. The judges said it was “classic investigative journalism” which “stood up for people who are often overlooked or marginalised”
Congratulations to The #PressAwards Investigation of the Year category winner British Gas / @thetimes
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Bravo! 🥳
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