Unless I’m missing something, Badenoch has tweeted herself into a situation where she is either spreading falsehoods about Reform (i.e. Farage may have a case for libel) or she is saying “CCHQ or someone connected to me broke the law”: [Farage and Badenoch trade clai...](

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It's not *surprising* but it is kinda wild that we are 20 minutes into a Commons debate about the future of family farms and the word 'Brexit' has not yet been mentioned.

I am really unconvinced by freeports, but it is fascinating how Brexit has coded a thing that Labour did for longer than the Tories as “rightwing”. (Particularly as I would say my objection to them used to be a thing that marked me out as rightwing) RE:

Bluesky Social

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Labour to announce plans for five new UK freeports in budget https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/25/new-uk-freeports-budget-labour-starmer

Kemi Badenoch’s “we were a bad government because we didn’t dismantle the Blair-Brown governing apparatus” is so funny to me. The Blairite civil service machine didn’t stop Cameron and Osborne dismantling most of New Labour’s public policy legacy or *BREXIT* for goodness’ sake.