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Adam Payne

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Adam Payne

@adampayne26

Editor of @politicshome. Sometimes on TV & radio and our weekly podcast, The Rundown. Contact me: [email protected].

North London via Cumbria

Joined June 2012

Adam Payne
@adampayne26
Oct 17, 2018
The petition to make Margaret Thatcher the face of the £50 note has currently got 11,259 signatures. The petititon to get England and Leicester centre back Harry Maguire riding an inflatable unicorn on the £50 note has 15,807.
Adam Payne
@adampayne26
Mar 30, 2022
“I don’t know where he’s been for the past two years,” says the PM of Starmer “Not at your parties” shouts a Labour MP
Adam Payne
@adampayne26
Sep 26, 2022
This piece from August, which accused Sunak of “desperate” warnings about what Truss policies could do to the £, is doing the rounds among Conservative MPs, I’m told. Tory source: "Those who only backed Liz for their career are quickly realising the consequences of their actions”
Adam Payne
@adampayne26
Nov 21, 2023
a hasty edit
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Adam Payne
@adampayne26
Jul 9, 2020
New: More major UK supermarkets join Aldi and Waitrose in pledging to never stock chlorinated chicken and hormone-injected beef M&S, Sainsbury's and The Co-op all tell me they will not sell these products, regardless of any UK-US free trade deal
UK supermarkets promise to never sell chlorinated chicken in blow to a Brexit trade deal with Trump
From businessinsider.com
Adam Payne
@adampayne26
Mar 25, 2021
Laughter from MPs as Michael Gove says: “Transparency drives everything this government does”
Adam Payne
@adampayne26
May 3, 2019
Jess Phillips to Diane Abbott just now: "As much as we want an election, I want to be a size 10 but I keep eating cake. You don't just get what you want. An election is not what's in front of us. Brexit is the thing that is in front of us. We have to show courage & leadership."
Adam Payne
@adampayne26
Apr 12, 2022
A senior Conservative MP who hadn’t submitted a letter to Sir Graham Brady despite their concerns with the PM, now has, they tell me
Adam Payne
@adampayne26
Jun 1, 2022
Senior Tory MP Tobias Ellwood says government should mitigate the cost of living by rejoining the single market (Norway model) Brexit isn't what "most people imagined" & "sector after sector" is "strangled by the red tape we were supposed to escape from" politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…
Adam Payne
@adampayne26
Mar 1, 2022
Christ Big Jet TV feels about four years ago doesn’t it
Adam Payne
@adampayne26
Jun 5, 2022
Tory MPs who want Johnson out have this weekend been circulating a briefing document setting out why. It warns the party is on course to lose the next election & concludes “the only way to end this misery, earn a hearing from the British public… is to remove Boris Johnson as PM”
Adam Payne
@adampayne26
Nov 3, 2021
Rachel Reeves shouts "what have you done to this place?" at Tory MPs as the Lindsay Hoyle announces that Leadsom's announcement has passed
Adam Payne
@adampayne26
Oct 19, 2022
I'm told Wendy Morton walked into the corridor shouting "I'm no longer the chief whip" moments before the fracking vote took place, with Liz Truss just metres away
Adam Payne
@adampayne26
Apr 20, 2022
The PM is visibly fuming after Starmer, referencing his reported criticism of Justin Welby and the BBC, says he will “slander decent people in a private room, let the slander spread, without the backbone to repeat it in public” #PMQs