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Jacob Rees-Mogg on why he lost his seat & the need for 'PROPER conservatism'

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My life as a trainee civil servant

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In 1987, when I was 19, I started at my first ‘proper’ adult job. This was as a lowly civil service clerk, or administrative officer – filing, basically. It was a post within the Lord Chancellor’s Department – as it was known then – but which today is called the Ministry of Justice, which doesn’t

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John Sturgis

Proper football fans don’t chuck pints

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Keir’s reformation

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Starmer must move fast without losing his head

When Keir Starmer’s Labour party gathered on Monday to celebrate their election victory, the difficulty was finding a big enough venue. There were so many MPs that aides had to abandon Labour’s usual meeting room on parliament’s committee corridor, and instead head for Church House, where Tony Blair met his party after the 1997 landslide.

Starmer must move fast without losing his head

When Keir Starmer’s Labour party gathered on Monday to celebrate their election victory, the difficulty was finding a big enough venue. There were so many MPs that aides had to abandon Labour’s usual meeting room on parliament’s committee corridor, and instead head for Church House, where Tony Blair met his party after the 1997 landslide.

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Completely batty: Vampire Therapist reviewed

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Grade: B+ Looter-shooters, match-three games, dragons and spaceships… Sometimes you despair of video games doing the same thing again and again – and then a lone developer gets a severe bump on the head and produces something completely batty.  Vampire Therapist is a comedic adventure-story therapy-simulation starring a vampire, except he’s also a cowboy, and

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Bernie

‘‘I’m sorry Rishi, but the “ex-Tory prime minister after-dinner speech” market is saturated.’’

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Paul Wood

‘‘It’s all Jacob does since he lost his seat’’

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Olivia Potts

How to make perfect scones

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