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Noah Keate @noahkeate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Lib Dems are divided on scrapping the triple lock — but largely agree that debate should happen privately. However, frustration about Ed Davey's response to Andy Burnham tweaking state pensions means that's risen to the surface ... leading to grumblings. My @politico.eu Playbook PM reporting👇

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🌪️ IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 📰 Packed Fri with help from Isabel Lousber ... @charliecooper8.bsky.social ... & @noahkeate.bsky.social 📹 Big interview lines via @nickeardleybbc.bsky.social (Polanski/Israel) ... @lisemcnally.bsky.social (Kemi/No.10 North) ... & Lucy McDaid (Rhun's Welsh army)

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Second Lib Dem MP criticizes leadership approach to triple lock

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🍮 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 📹 FULL rundown of newslines in the Andy Burnham broadcast interviews ⛓️ How Nigel Farage will fight Burnham on Brexit (via @samblewett.bsky.social) 🛥️ One-in-one-out deal on small boats is over

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🌹 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🌹 James Purnell has been telling Labour insiders the first three months are about introducing Burnham to the nation 🌹Labour left teeth-gnashing at Burnham approach (via @isabel__loubser) 🌹 ALL the govt announcements at conference so far

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🗳️ IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🗳️ Burnham kills all the SW1 snap election babble 🗳️ That and ALL the other key lines from the PM's mammoth regional interview round in the newsletter

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🤳 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🤳 SCOOP: Ex-Starmer ministers plan new Commons grouping — "project second term" 🤳 Westminster has been on the MRP catnip again

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 24/09/2026

Please excuse me while I scream into a cushion at the thought of ALL the articles I had to write on the "UK productivity puzzle" in the 2010s www.ft.com/content/c819...

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🫣IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🫣 Burnham about to appear on camera with Trump amid AI row 🫣 PM also expected to gripe to EU over manufacturing protection plan 🫣 SCOOP from Isabel Loubser on Scottish Labour hopes to end internal briefing

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🐦 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT (FROM LIB DEM CONFERENCE IN BRIGHTON) ... 🐦 Ed Davey grappling with stagnant Lib Dem polls and coalition questions 🐦 Trans row threatens to overshadow Brighton conference 🐦 Kemi in Piddington dispatch from Sam Blewett

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🤳 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... ❤️‍🩹 Cooper pledges to address damning failure to implement NHS scandal fixes post-Letby review 💰 Why allow overseas donors a £100,000 allowance to interfere in British politics? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Reform in Wales appears to be coming apart at the seams

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🤳 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🪦 How the assisted death war was won and lost 🤵 Zack Polanski's "serious MP" makeover (via my colleague Isabel Loubser) 🎙️ Tories quip that Kemi saw Emma Barnett off

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📊 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 📊 "Moment of reckoning" for pollsters as @estwebber and co reveal more apparent rule breaches 📊 One pollster warns the sector needs to shape up or risk government regulation 🗳️ PLUS: Kemi Badenoch talks snap election plan with top team

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Amazing building in Westminster where Kemi Badenoch is delivering her defence speech: London Scottish House

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🪡 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🧵 Burnham takes Hastings MP campaign to Bayeux Tapestry unveiling 🪤 Diane Abbott tested the new "HR" whipping regime 🗳️ Committee and Tribune election season

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

More select committee chair runners ... MHCLG: Catherine West and Abena Oppong-Asare JUSTICE: Mary Creagh WOMEN AND EQUALITIES: Liv Bailey

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🧑‍⚖️ IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🍾 Labour MPs head for No.10 drinks after feel-good Burnham address 👑 How the Sovereign Grant "cut" is not a cut ❓ Commons written questions are out of control

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Making it easier for homeowners to build granny flats and loft extensions could make a big dent in England’s housing shortage. So long as politicians hold their nerve when inevitable objections from angry neighbors rear their head." www.politico.eu/article/labo...

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Labour’s new housing model comes from California’s backyards

A quarter of all homes approved in California in 2025 were so-called granny flats, according to analysis.

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🪶 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT: All points in the screen-grab, plus ... 🦊 George Freeman in trouble with Commons over fox pics 🛌 Claims hotel migrants are filling up HMOs are overblown, @migobs.bsky.social suggests 🍹 David Jason (aka Del Boy) spotted emerging from No.10 last night

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yep. An answer which isn't a proper answer but at least acknowledges the question will be less frustrating than an answer that ignores the question and parrots the lines.

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

One difference between Burnham and Starmer is Burnham at least acknowledges the Q he's been asked. Starmer would go straight to 'special relationship' talking points in answer to this Q (from C5 News) and ignored the substance. Burnham gives talking points *and* a response

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🍕 Our Hannah Roberts writes in that Italian PM Georgia Meloni did NOT advise Kemi Badenoch against a pact with Reform, officials insist. 😶‍🌫️ Original claim (via the Tories) has now been scrubbed from the Times website.

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

💸 Expect lots of raving and babbling from political parties and the media when the UK passes £3 trillion in national debt in the coming months. BUT DOES IT MEAN ANYTHING?? 👇 The rational take, from London Playbook PM last night, with help from @niesrorg.bsky.social

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Good example of how politicians pick and choose statistics to push their argument (and bamboozle the public) and how top broadcasters like @kamalimelbourne.bsky.social should handle it.

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

📳 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🤳 SCOOP with @samblewett.bsky.social and Sam Francis: Mobile no's for THREE cabinet ministers (including defense sec) were in public domain on web. 🤳 Comes after @samblewett.bsky.social revealed this morning that Andy Burnham responded to fake Susie Wiles.

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🧑‍🎄IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT (Lord emoji. not Father Christmas) ... 🧑‍🎄 Screenshot points below, plus ... consultation culture not dead ... Labour dumps docs (incl aid cuts) before recess to avoid scrutiny ... and (💌 Scoop) Darren Jones leaves papal letters in Cabinet room

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

SCOOP: Hayden Munro will be Andy Burnham's political director in No.10. The former campaign director for New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern has been working for Labour vet Jim Murphy's firm Arden Strategies. He was drafted in to co-ordinate the Burnham leadership campaign.

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Richard Hermer @richardhermer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

That’s no way to talk about the House of the Lords, Playbook!

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

⚽ IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... ⚽ EXCL: PM tells campaigners he will fight injustice "while I have breath in my body" post-No.10, before Hillsborough bill clears Commons ⏱️ SCOOP from @estwebber.bsky.social and @danbloom1.bsky.social on possible new attendance rules for Lords

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🚔 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🛃 Home affairs news chaos: Widdecombe/Ahmed/IRGC/Hillsborough etc 🗞️ SCOOP: The government news grid has gone digital (and AI)

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...

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Noah Keate @noahkeate.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Rachel Reeves let Nigel Farage resign despite Ed Davey wanting the Clacton by-election delayed. But two Lib Dem MPs tell me concerns were raised at a parliamentary party meeting that blocking a contest would set a worrying precedent which made it harder to back a future contest.

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🗳️ IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🗳️ Nigel Farage tries to wrest the narrative back with Clacton election gambit 🗳️ But other parties could boycott 🗳️ And standards probes continue regardless

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

⚽ IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... ⚽ SW1 in two minds about Trump meddling in the World Cup ⚽ Should Starmer be outraged ... or do the same? 📑 PLUS: Miatta Fanbulleh hands Burnham his finished plan for govt. Top scoop from @charliecooper8.bsky.social

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Can the Burnham approach to media continue in government? 🤳

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

📰 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT 👾As Burnham starts his Reddit Q&A ... can he continue his distant approach to MSM in government? 🌭 Thoughts from Boris DoC @MrLeeCain, Starmer DoC @James___Lyons, ex-govt comms chief Alex Aiken ... and more! 🖇️ Link in next post

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🚨 Kemi Badenoch rubbishes Donald Trump's Iran deal. She tells me at a press conference the war "definitely was not worth that deal." Said Trump "clearly" had no exit plan. Said paying to use the Strait of Hormuz leaves us "in a worse position" than before the war.

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🏅 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🥇 Keir Starmer insists he's been a good prime minister. We ask the experts 🥈 Are his own core targets on track? 🥉 Is the economy stronger and stable-r?

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Graham Lanktree @glanktree.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

SCOOP: Chinese commerce minister to visit UK as legal fight over British Steel looms w/ace Caroline Hug www.politico.eu/article/chin...

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Chinese commerce minister to visit UK as legal fight over British Steel looms

Wang Wentao will travel to London from June 30 to July 2 for the annual Joint Economic and Trade Commission.

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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The story of social media’s problem with news, in two posts (these are from X)

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

✍️ IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🗣️ PMQs spills into stand-up row in Commons 👩‍⚖️ SCOOP with @estwebber.bsky.social on the new Commons clerk 📊 Tories get ANOTHER stats watchdog telling off

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Noah Keate @noahkeate.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Peerless London Playbook PM from the mighty @ecasalicchio.bsky.social full of fascinating fly on the wall colour on how we got here. Tonight's newsletter also includes a rather long timeline by yours truly documenting the outgoing Labour leader's busy premiership ... sneak preview here.

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🤳 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🍮 Burnham in SW1 and expected to be PM in weeks after Keir quits 😪 What Starmer told aides inside No10 📞 How Wes folded in weekend calls, via @danbloom1.bsky.social

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🚧🚧🚧 Taps sign: Tories who lived through their own prime minister-swapping chaos have advice for Labour as it teeters on the edge of the same crisis 👇

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🤔 TORY CHAOS VETERANS ADVISE LABOUR ... Ex-chief whip: "Labour MPs need to understand it can’t happen over and over again ... They have to accept the next leader is the person who takes them into the next election, even if they end up not being very good." Plus ... 👇

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The Burnham post-election event at Ashton FC football ground

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 18/06/2026

Just hours of voting remain in the Makerfield by-election. Despite the huge implications for PM Keir Starmer, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and the future of British politics, the mood on the ground is chaotic but pleasant, @ecasalicchio.bsky.social writes👇 Live: www.politico.eu/article/make...

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

🤦 Three dispatches from Makerfield in London Playbook PM this week — illustrating three problems widespread in Britain that make its governance look inept ... 🌊 1. The flooding risks that STILL haven't been solved

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

🗳️ IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🗳️ All the chaos on the Makerfield streets as the election races towards 10pm 🗳️ PLUS: How a historic abandoned pub in the seat illustrates British planning woes

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