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Michael Gove
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    Michael Warburton
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    Find this and watch this, is my advice. MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER (2024) It’s presented, narrated & exec produced by arguably their biggest fan — MARTIN SCORSESE.
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    Michael Gove
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    10h
    One party after another…
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    David C Bannerman
    @DCBMEP
    12h
    Kemi is failing to cut through Michael. Your polling shows that. Reform has strength in depth now and has become the true Conservative Party.
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    Michael Gove
    @michaelgove
    11h
    Envious
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    Philip Hensher
    @PhilipHensher
    Jun 26
    I'm on my way to Palermo, where the first Ivy Compton-Burnett scholarship is being launched at the Palazzo Butera. I'm thrilled and honoured to have been asked to be a part of this by the Compton-Burnett family. It's wonderful that some very, very distinguished admirers of Ivy
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    Michael Gove
    @michaelgove
    16h
    Leading the conversation….
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    Tim Shipman
    @ShippersUnbound
    Jun 26
    First with the news again. Subscribe to the Spectator
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    Tim Shipman
    @ShippersUnbound
    Jun 25
    All lifted from my piece in the Spectator, of course. Here’s the article new-app.spectator.co.uk/article/671682… Why wait for the papers to rip it off - come and get our agenda setting journalism for yourselves spectator.com/join/default-2…
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    The Telegraph
    @Telegraph
    Jun 25
    A senior Labour source has said Andy Burnham would be Labour’s first female prime minister in “all but sex”. If Burnham is worried about gender optics, @suzanne_moore has the solution ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/2…
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    Can Burnham resist the siren call of the left?
    Power, when it is gained and lost, is transferred in stages: the actual, the visual and the constitutional. The latter took place on Tuesday evening when the prime minister presumptive sent a letter...
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    Michael Gove
    @michaelgove
    Jun 25
    Causing a stir….
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    Tim Shipman
    @ShippersUnbound
    Jun 25
    Is Andy Burnham Labour's first female prime minister. Don't all shout at once now... spectator.com/article/burnha…
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    Michael Gove
    @michaelgove
    Jun 25
    Great Scot!
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    Noa Hoffman
    @hoffman_noa
    Jun 25
    EXCL: Dr Zubir Ahmed has been in talks with Andy Burnham’s team about the possibility of taking up the role of Health Secretary. Ahmed resigned as a minister in May with the intention of backing Wes Streeting for the leadership. While the move clearly backfired at first, he
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    Freddy Gray
    @Freddygray31
    Jun 25
    This piece is so right it makes me want to cry. But then…
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    Adrian Wooldridge
    @adwooldridge
    Jun 25
    The British people who have swapped their stiff-upper lip for emotional incontinence, displayed at its worst after Princess Diana’s death, bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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    Michael Gove
    @michaelgove
    Jun 25
    As ever, if you want to know what is going on, who is going up and when the world will change, you must read @ShippersUnbound
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    Tim Shipman
    @ShippersUnbound
    Jun 25
    🚨Olly Robbins to return under Burnham - favourite to replace Powell as National Security Adviser 🚨Purnell backs PM’s department 🚨Burnham saw how many MPs came to meet him and said: ‘Blimey!’ 🚨Why Burnham is Labour’s ‘first female PM’ 🚨His plan, in short: ‘Levelling Oop’
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    Michael Gove
    @michaelgove
    Jun 25
    How @spectator shaped The Great Republic - on its 250th birthday….
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    Freddy Gray
    @Freddygray31
    Jun 25
    Before America was born, The Spectator was already shaping the nation. George Washington kept 6 of copies of the original Spectator at Mount Vernon. Benjamin Franklin copied & memorised every issue. Jefferson & Adams read it too. It’s no exaggeration to claim that The
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    Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯
    @benedictrogers
    Jun 25
    A superb debate about the international rules-based order at @ARC_Conference 👇
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    The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship
    @ARC_Conference
    Jun 24
    Replying to @ARC_Conference
    “Are we on the side of the apes or the angels? ... I believe that we should be on the side of the angels. Uphold rules, uphold order, uphold alliances.” @michaelgove believes the rules-based order must be defended, despite weaknesses in international institutions today. What
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    Noa Hoffman
    @hoffman_noa
    Jun 25
    EXCL: Some former Tory MPs applying to be candidates at the next election will be rejected by Kemi Badenoch as she seeks a major break from the party of the past. More than 2,000 people have now put their names forward to stand as Conservatives, as the party prepares for the
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    The Spectator
    @spectator
    Jun 25
    By the end of this year, Britain will have had (at least) seven prime ministers in the past decade – and more than 700 recommendations on how to stop the ongoing scandal in NHS maternity services. None of which have – as yet – been implemented. The Ockenden review into maternity
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