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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Huge turnout for Jacob Rees Mogg at the Reform party conference

Crowd gathered to watch Jacob Rees Mogg event at the Reform conference

Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Reform chairman David Bull a little late arriving for his welcome speech at the party conference – can imagine he's writing up a reaction to the Rayner news

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Unfortunate comma placement for Reform's chairman in the conference agenda

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Last weekend, two men in homemade English flag balaclavas were filmed running around Walsall in the West Midlands, painting red crosses on white surfaces. On social media, they were called 'absolute idiots' by some - but others said they were 'saving the country'. (Pics from SWNS)

A picture of a man in a blue T-shirt wearing a homemade balaclava painted with the St George's Cross and holding a paint roller covered in red paint. It is beside another picture of the same man with another who is wearing a white T-shirt and a similar head covering.

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump announces he will present Michael Crawford, best known as Frank Spencer from Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, with a Kennedy Center Honor later this year.

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Israeli leader of the opposition (and former PM) Yair Lapid tells the Foreign Affairs Committee "I don't know if we'll ever know for sure" how much damage the US bombs did to Iran's nuclear capabilities, and says "some" uranium was "smuggled" away before strikes

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

EXCLUSIVE: There are no plans to make a waxwork of Keir Starmer at Madame Tussauds – because they can't be sure he'll be relevant for long enough metro.co.uk/2025/06/04/n...

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No Tussauds waxwork for Starmer over fears he won't be relevant in five years

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Have a look at my thoughts from today – and why I reckon Reform actually are here to stay metro.co.uk/2025/05/02/r...

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Reform's rise isn't just a protest vote - it might be permanent

Will Reform be able to take advantage of its success?

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Quite a few seats remaining in the arena where Nigel Farage is launching the Reform UK local election campaign

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

We're now running 50 minutes late at Reform UK's big local elections campaign launch – I'm told it's due to protesters outside

The Arena Birmingham, where Reform UK is launching its local elections campaign.

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Writing in Metro, Jeremy Corbyn has slammed the government's decision to boost defence spending "To me, what they really mean is that taxpayers' money will be paid directly to arms companies. These are the only victors of war." metro.co.uk/2025/03/05/j...

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Jeremy Corbyn: Keir Starmer says there's no money - I don't believe him

The government cites 'difficult choices' when they are harming the most vulnerable, but increasing defence spending is apparently easy.

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Happy St David's Day – why not mark it by reading my interview with Lord Kinnock for Labour's 125th birthday? Also featuring two other Welsh giants of 20th century politics in Nye Bevan ("the best of the human race") and Roy Jenkins ("impressive but self-indulgent") metro.co.uk/2025/02/27/n...

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Neil Kinnock spills the beans on 125 years of Labour Party history

The former Labour leader spoke to Metro about Keir Starmer, Aneurin Bevan, and the worst moment in Labour history.

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Seems Starmer managed to contradict both Trump – saying European countries won't be repaid their Ukraine support – and Vance – saying the UK is proud of its tradition of free speech – with very little pushback

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The prime minister himself will be making a ministerial statement in the House of Commons at 12.30pm today – quite an unusual sight. The topic is defence and security, so we can probably expect Ukraine to come up ahead of his Trump visit later this week. But we'll have to wait an hour to find out

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

BREAKING: Donald Trump has lashed out at Volodymyr Zelensky, calling him a "dictator" and a "moderately successful comedian" in a post on Truth Social "I love Ukraine, but Zelensky has done a terrible job"

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

John Healey at the IfG on the US backstop in Ukraine: "It is only the US that can provide the deterrent to Putin that will prevent him attacking again." Says the detail is "being developed", but he won't go into it as "the one thing I don't want to do is make Putin any wiser"

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Government spox responds to group of Labour MPs calling for four-day week to be included in the Employment Rights Bill: "We have no plans to manage a four-day work week for five days' pay – not in government nor in any other sector. (cont'd)

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Wouldn't mind a job as the newly announced Canadian fentanyl czar – stop a kilogram every three weeks or so and you're dandy

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Ach, David Lynch. I'll try to track down Dune tonight, which will mean I've watched every movie he's made. I'll miss the way he saw the world.

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

BREAKING: Tulip Siddiq is OUT as economic secretary to the Treasury and city minister

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I spoke to human rights activist Laila Soueif yesterday about her most personal and difficult campaign yet – a hunger strike outside Downing Street, calling for the PM to ramp up pressure on the Egyptian government so they will free her son from prison. metro.co.uk/2025/01/14/i...

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'I will keep up Downing Street hunger strike until my son is free or I collapse'

Laila Soueif is 107 days into a hunger strike calling for the release of her son, British citizen Alaa Abd El-Fattah.

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Labour MP Jess Asoto has called out Reform MPs for not turning up to today's debate on violence against women and girls Says Jess Phillips "has done more for abused women than anyone at X, or anyone in the party opposite that does not appear to be here today".

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

There's a lot of heat around yesterday's vote on the Children's Wellbeing Bill – I tried to explain why it's more complex than it may appear in my latest Alright Gov newsletter. Subscribe here: metro.co.uk/newsletters/...

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Starmer very robust in his defence of Jess Phillips after days of attacks from Elon Musk and his followers

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Who could Musk have in mind for the next Reform leader? Surely not the man whose videos he's been retweeting the last few days, and who he wants to see released from prison...?

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Do you know someone who's become a Scottish lord or lady after they were bought a title online? Ever wondered what's actually happening behind the scenes, or whether it means anything? I took a look and found out for you. metro.co.uk/2025/01/04/i...

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Inside the odd online business that offers to make you a Lord or Lady for £30

Doug Wilson is the head of a company that will sell you a title more quickly than you can earn one.

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Quite a way to welcome 2025 in East Lothian.

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I chatted with Ed Miliband about Wes Streeting's recent awards do joke at his expense, and whether he thinks he could gather the Milifandom once again to help him with his climate plans. www.google.com/amp/s/metro....

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Ed Miliband on his climate ambitions and the potential return of the Milifandom

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Feels mad to say the Knebworth sequence of the Robbie Williams chimpanzee biopic deserves to be a proper British pop culture moment, but there you go

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

A nationwide sigh of relief that new Wallace and Gromit was absolutely worth it

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

That'll be Labour MP Zarah Sultana posting a pic of Starmer's new US ambassador Peter Mandelson with Jeffrey Epstein

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

To round things off, the two Lib Dem appointments: Shaffaq Mohammed, the leader of the party's group on Sheffield Council, and Mark Pack, the president of the party since 2020.

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Labour's appointments to the House of Lords include Sue Gray, as expected, as well as Thangam Debbonaire and ex-Welsh first minister Carwyn Jones

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Thérèse Coffey – who was deputy prime minister under Liz Truss – has been handed a life peerage, less than six months after she was made a dame

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

NEW: Writer Toby Young has been made a life peer

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Our festive Fifa clash with Ed Davey was about as bizarre as we were anticipating. Thanks for tuning in if you did. If you didn't, the headline is that Metro came out on top, winning two games to one – no thanks to me. I did score a penalty though. More here: metro.co.uk/2024/12/19/l...

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Ed Davey braces for more bad Christmas single news after Metro wins Fifa faceoff

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

One Christmas you're working the Metro early shift and opening presents between filing stories. The next, you're risking public humiliation by taking on the leader of the Liberal Democrats at Fifa. It's a mad old job. Join us live on Tiktok at 5pm. metro.co.uk/2024/12/19/l...

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Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey prepares to take on Metro in festive Fifa faceoff

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Who here hasn't signed up to my politics newsletter yet? It's free and has been proven to enrich the lives of everyone who gets it. It's only going to get better in 2025 too. Couldn't be simpler to get involved at this link: metro.co.uk/newsletters/...

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Alright Gov

Straight-talking analysis from inside Westminster.

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Impressive spot sent over from the Metro pictures team – the Number 10 Christmas tree features a (maybe ill-advised?) farmer Santa on a tractor bauble Appears to be this one: www.adandishop.co.uk/products/far...

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Metro's story as Yang Tengbo is revealed as the true identity of H6, the alleged Chinese spy who penetrated the top of British society: metro.co.uk/2024/12/16/i...

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Chinese 'spy' Yang Tengbo denies doing anything wrong after being named

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

NEW: Lib Dem leader Ed Davey says he'll do a skydive if his effort at Christmas no 1, Love is Enough, hits 10,000 downloads Ed Sheeran doesn't have to do this sort of thing

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

My chat with Ed Miliband yesterday wasn't all about sandwiches

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Ed Miliband speaks to me about Kemi Badenoch's anti-sarnie stance: "I think she's missing out on what a bacon sandwich can offer." metro.co.uk/2024/12/12/k...

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Chief bacon sarnie eater fires back over Kemi Badenoch's war on sandwiches

The leader of the opposition also criticised Keir Starmer's favourite Christmas film - and revealed her own.

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

NEW: The full membership of the committee that will be scrutinising Kim Leadbeater's assisted dying bill. Includes Danny Kruger of the Conservatives, who was one of the legislation's top opponents in the House of Commons

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I spent yesterday totting up all the miles the PM has travelled internationally since being elected just over five months ago – turns out it's almost the equivalent of twice around the globe

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

An interesting insight into how the apparently successful Syrian rebel group has governed the areas it has controlled so far, from the New York Times interview with its leader al-Julani earlier this week

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Justin Welby just gave a pretty weird final speech as Archbishop of Canterbury in the Lords, referencing the gory beheading of his predecessor in 1371 while addressing his resignation. "It was then the revolting peasants played football with it" metro.co.uk/2024/12/05/j...

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Justin Welby jokes about 'playing football with chopped off head' in last speech

'One of my predecessors in 1371, Simon of Sudbury, had his head cut off, and it was then the revolting peasants played football with it at the Tower of London.'

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Another revelation in the booklet: Labour now has three foundations to go with their five missions, six first steps and six additional milestones announced today

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

NEW: Looks like the government's latest Plan for Change does actually mention the target of delivering the highest sustained growth in the G7, after much chatter to the contrary...

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Craig Munro @crunro.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

You'll be glad to read that I took the time to watch Jacob Rees-Mogg's reality show. It was... hmmm. I've written my thoughts down here metro.co.uk/2024/12/03/j...

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Jacob Rees-Mogg's new TV programme is world's first 19th century reality show

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