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Assistant editor, digital politics, Sky News 🏳️‍🌈

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Joined March 2009
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Sky News is hiring a political reporter, come work with me sky.talent-community.com/pro…
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Ramzy is the best editor I’ve ever worked with. Utterly baffling to ever want to lose him. Everyone should be fighting each other to hire him quickly
Sad to say I've been laid off by openDemocracy, along with several of my incredible colleagues in the UK. It's one dark day of many for British journalism, but I'm immensely proud of everything we achieved together. Here's some of the best. 🧵
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Thrilled to be joining @SkyNews as assistant editor, digital politics, in the summer. Always proud of @HuffPostUK
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Ministerial code: ‘All major interviews and media appearances, both print and broadcast, should also be agreed with the No 10 Press Office.’ No.10 on Suella Braverman’s Times article: ‘No it was not agreed by No.10.’
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Rachel Reeves tells me the two moments which made her think Labour could win the next election were Keir Starmer winning the leadership and his ‘big decision’ to remove the whip from Jeremy Corbyn after the EHRC report
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Rachel Reeves says of the glitter protest: ‘It really angered me. ‘You saw the measure of the guy [Starmer] today. It must have been pretty terrifying.. he just got his stuff together and cracked-on.’
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Labour NEC member says of Suella Braverman: 'It's like she is on some sort of personal driven mission to be the most racist brown person in UK politics in a personal quest for far-right acceptance' huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/s…
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Steve Baker tells fringe: ‘When somebody says multiculturalism has failed, that seems to convey the idea that someone else’s choices about how they live, which are doing no harm, are somehow unacceptable to the speaker and I think that’s wrong.’
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Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson tells @ConHome event: ‘Keep the ship calm, we’ll be fine, I think we’ll win next year.’
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Anderson says ‘no’, Nigel Farage would not win a Tory leadership race. Adds: ‘Nigel has stood many times for Parliament and not won.’
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‘Penny! Penny! Penny!’ Etc
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Jeremy Hunt speaking at @Policy_Exchange drinks: ‘We are going to win the election next year because we go to the British people with a plan.’
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Jake Berry asks ‘New Conservatives’ rally why taxes go up, someone shouts: ‘Jeremy Hunt’
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Nigel Farage lurking at Liz Truss’ big #cpc23 rally, says the ‘real battle’ here is who will be the next Tory leader but ‘I honestly don’t know’ who the best choice is
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Kemi Badenoch speaking at #CPC23 criticising Stonewall for examining the government’s record on equality: ‘We are the government, we should be marking our own homework.’
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Tory MP Miriam Cates tells #cpc23 there needs to be a ‘truth and reconciliation’ commission about lockdown. ‘We got it wrong. We shouldn’t have closed schools.’
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Keir Starmer asked if there will be a reshuffle: 'We will not announce anything on air about anything to do with reshuffles now or any other time.'
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As it's that silly part of an election night, senior Tory source on Uxbridge and South Ruislip: 'It’s *close*.'
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