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Polyglot and culture vulture. Love literature, art, cinema, music and gardening. A moderate water colourist.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Interesting take from @privateeyenews.bsky.social on what may have first attracted Farage to the idea of recruiting Jenrick… Because, let’s face it, it wasn’t his patriotism or his sparkling personality…
JENRICK'S BEAR HUG
BLAMING the Conservatives as well as Labour for "breaking" Britain, Robert Jenrick told his new Reform UK colleagues that "it has pained me to reach" the conclusion because "I've been a member since I was 16, served it most of my adult life".
The Tory cause isn't the only one that ardent patriot Jenrick has served. Before politics, there was a stint in the Moscow offices of US law firms including Skadden Arps, known for its work for Putin-connected oligarchs such as Roman Abramovich. Although Jenrick's time in Russia predated Putin's 2014 annexation of Crimea, much of it was after Putin had sanctioned the 2006 murder of Alexander Litvinenko on British soil - and of course the extortion behind the oligarchs riches was known to all.
Jenrick left the law to become
an "international managing director" of Christie's while it was targeting those same wealthy Russians for sales. The art company would later be found by the US Treasury to have been used by Putin's associates Boris and Arkady Rotenberg to evade US sanctions.
There's no suggestion Jenrick was personally involved in anything untoward - but it's hardly the most patriotic career path. And with Nigel Farage under pressure to sever any Reform UK links to Russia after former Welsh Reform leader Nathan Gill was jailed in November for accepting bribes from a pro-Kremlin agent, Jenrick's arrival is less than ideal.
PS: Jenrick's appeal to Farage - and to Reform treasurer Nick Candy - could be something to do with the ex-Tory's connection with one mega-rich donor.
Jenrick's 2024 Tory leadership campaign was
funded by £70,000 from Ukrainian-born billionaire Len Blavatnik via his Access Industries….group. It so happens, the Mirror reported in 2024, that the MP's wife, lawyer Michal Berkner, had advised companies connected to Blavatnik and associates, in particular on the sale of BP's share of an oil venture to a Russian state-owned company in Moscow.
Blavatnik's company also gave £1.3m to the Conservative party centrally in 2024 - but Jenrick is the only one he has backed personally.
Might the moneybags also be persuaded to transfer his allegiance?
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Gerri McGerriface @messmonstergigi.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
As former UKIP MEP denies accepting Russian bribes, a reminder that #NigelFarage was "thick as thieves" with another Brexiter who was convicted of that crime. @goldbergradio.bsky.social with @peterjukes.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
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Podcast Episode · Byline Podcast · 06/10/2025 · 17m
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 80,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this weekend. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 27/11/2025
Nigel Farage on Russia Today before the 2014 European Elections talking about the European Union: "They are fanatical and, and I believe the most dangerous people we've seen in Europe for 70 years." Make of this what you will.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Quick analysis of The Times today: Wall to wall negative coverage of Labour’s budget. An editorial that tuts about lack of growth but takes no responsibility. And a double page ad to join Farage/Reform. Absolutely no analysis on how rightwing ideology - including Brexit - has been utterly ruinous.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 25/11/2025
“Leaving it to Mr Farage to investigate Russian interference is like asking the fox to guard the henhouse.” #leedsforeurope letter in this mornings Metro.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 19/11/2025
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
UK and Norway won nature's lottery in 1970 - found oil/gas in the North Sea. UK squandered wealth, appeased corporations. Norway levied 78% tax, took direct stake in companies. Norway now has $1.8 trillion sovereign fund. UK has public finance crisis. UK Govts still appeasing corporations/rich.
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How sparsely populated Norway amassed $1.8 trillion | Fortune Europe
Launched in the early 1990s to invest mostly in bonds, the fund has grown to become the largest of its kind by acquiring small equity stakes in thousands of companies across the world.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Taking Back Control of Remembrance - why war memorial selfies, Nigel Farage's moody wreath vignettes and giant plastic poppies risk obfuscating what we were told to never forget. My Letter from London for @noosphere.app www.noosphere.app/taking-back-...
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Taking back control of Remembrance
Get news direct from reporters you trust.
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Ken Clarke leaves religious fanatic Kruger’s Reform UK looking like total idiots. “Some resigned because they didn’t want time off work, most had no clue what councils do. They promised to cut waste and tax, then hiked it to the max. #ukpolitics
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
There's lots you can and should criticise the BBC for. But it's our BBC - and it's important. Great to speak to CNN - Donald Trump shouldn't have his hands anywhere near our public services.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
spot on
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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
"These estimates suggest that by 2025 Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time." New NBER report is quietly devastating about the impact of Brexit on the UK economy. We need to cut away the drag anchor of Brexit. We need to rejoin the EU!
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 27/10/2025
“Privatisation was the experiment — and it’s failed. We have water companies pumping sewage into our rivers and charging us extra for the privilege.” Zack Polanski says it’s time to bring water back into public hands on #BBCPoliticsNorth.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 27/10/2025
Farage: epic grifter
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
NEW: The cleavage shot no UK tabloid will print. If you want to understand how truly ignorant and absent the British media is on Russian interference, read on. A Kremlin spy scandal, a trove of bikini shots....and still nothing but tumbleweed. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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The cleavage shot no UK tabloid will print
Want to understand how deeply weird the British press is on the subject of Russian interference? I have a bikini shot to show you...
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Starmer outspends Johnson on levelling up in first year! Investment in the North East will be seven times higher than under Boris Johnson & five times higher in the North West & Yorkshire and Humber by the end of Parliament.
Starmer hits the ground running for levelling up funds
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Starmer's government has already committed funding the equivalent of 70% of the entirety of Johnsons 'Levelling Up' allocation in just 14 months in office! #Labour #KeirStarmer
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Exclusive: Starmer outspends Johnson on levelling up in first year
Labour invested £2bn more on Levelling Up in its first year
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago. So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year? Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share! 1/
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 18/10/2025
Worth a read. Why does it so often seem that the UK govt for so long has been complacent about the levels of Russian meddling in UKs politics than other nations Like with Brexit, it’s foreign govt’s & their security services that seem to be the ones finding wrong doing.
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Snowden Bishop @snowdenbishop.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
“This isn’t some tinpot scandal of bent (politics or dodgy dealing). It’s a portal into a network… seeking to destabilise (Ukraine & US elections). …That UK’s oblivious to (its import & why it matters) fills me with a new wave of alarm.” @carolecadwalla.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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We need to talk about Russia
So, yes, that means we also need to talk about Nigel Farage
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 12/10/2025
Good thread. The UK certainly did avoid many calls for further information / investigations into Russian interference before and after the heavily redacted Russia Report was published
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Royal Dutch Blue 🇳🇱 @dutchannie.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
It is heart breaking 🥲
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Patriots don't peddle for Putin. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Farage's top aide in furious BBC Question Time clash over Russian bribe MEP
Reform UK's Zia Yusuf clashed with Green Party leader Zack Polanski on BBC Question Time over the conviction of ex-Reform Welsh leader Nathan Gill, who took Russian bribes
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Polanski expertly dismantling the "rich people will move if we tax them" narrative, while Denham nimbly demonstrates how very patriotic such people are.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 08/10/2025
The numbers are clear. Most Britons now believe leaving Europe was a mistake. The next generation knows our future lies in cooperation, not isolation.
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Did the Chairman of Reform UK, former MEP Bull, also take bribes from the terrorist state Russia - just like his fellow Refuk's Kremlin r🐀t, former MEP Gill, who cozied up to the Kremlin’s money and propaganda machine? 🇷🇺💸 #ukpolitics
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Whose old enough to remember when Farage was in the news for allegedly avoiding £44K Stamp Duty re his £850K Clacton house❓ It was days after Angela Rayner had to quit after being relentlessly pursued by MSM, Farage etc re stamp duty.. It’s up to us to stop them burying it so you know what to do 👍🏼
Headline from Guardian about Farage and his dodgy property dealings in Clacton and potentially swerving stamp dutyHeadline from BBC, who for five minutes, had to join the pack and report Farage’s dodgy clacton house deal and potentially avoiding stamp duty which as we know if your Angela Rayner, you should be sacked for but if you’re Farage…
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/10/2025
🇪🇺 With the EU looking to protect their steel industry - it is imperative that the UK finds a way to avoid such tariffs by going further and faster on Europe. ⭐ Closer relations, deeper alignment, protecting jobs. inews.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-ro…
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Brexit row looms over 'devastating' EU steel tariffs
Proposals for 50 per cent tariffs on all steel sold into the EU would land a fresh blow on British industry
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 08/10/2025
The headline should read: Since 2020, Brits could be banned from the EU due to Brexit removing our status, freedoms, and opportunities as European citizens. Now it will be harder to cheat the 90/180 rule. Also another example of the UK tabloids hating it when the EU takes 'control' of its borders
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Brits could be banned from holiday homes under EU's 90-day rule
The EU has ordered member states to apply the 90/180-day rule 'rigidly', meaning Brits who overstay could be hit with hefty fines of up to £8,700 and even ten-year bans from entering the bloc.
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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"They're all toeing the same line. 'Don't poke the Russian bear. It's the EU and NATO's fault'." #Farage view of #Ukraine invasion - shared with Reform's convicted Russian stooge Nathan Gill @peterjukes.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-podca...
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Byline Podcast: Farage "Thick As Thieves" with Reform's Russian Stooge
Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes joins Adrian Goldberg to discuss the links between Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and the party's former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, who has admitted acce...
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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
"They were thick as thieves" What #ReformUK insiders told @peterjukes.bsky.social about links between Russian stooge Nathan Gill and #Farage @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-podca...
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Byline Podcast: Farage "Thick As Thieves" with Reform's Russian Stooge
Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes joins Adrian Goldberg to discuss the links between Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and the party's former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, who has admitted acce...
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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
#NigelFarage (surprise!) lied about his ties to paid Putin stooge, #NathanGill. Kremlin influence operations just keep turning up around Farage. 🤔🧐 bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t... #ReformUK Article by @peterjukes.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...
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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Time to "face up to reality". www.bestforbritain.org/conservative...
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Conservative voters say Brexit has failed and damaged UK economy
The Conservative Party’s flagship policy - Brexit - has been a failure according to people intending to vote for them at the next election.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
EU Commission adopts guidelines to implement EU law on transparency and targeting of political advertising ec.europa.eu/commission/p... nb the delay in producing these guidelines led to FB and others leaving the market - will be interesting to see if they now come back
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Commission publishes guidelines to support the implementation of the Regulation on the Transparency of Political Advertising
Today, the European Commission published guidelines to support the effective implementation of the Regulation on transparency and targeting of political advertising, which will become fully applicable...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
My Very Dear Ones, I write to you from near the front lines of war ravaged Portland.
Twee fruit
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JamesSmithRF @jamessmithrf.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Genuine sympathy with Office for National Statistics on this. What's happened here is a bog-standard HMRC recording error on VAT which the ONS have been commendably open about. On substance, it doesn't change the outlook much as low VAT receipts always looked erratic.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/10/2025
⚠️ @pimlicat.bsky.social, CEO of Best for Britain, said: “This development is yet another demonstration of the mounting cost of Brexit and Nigel Farage will have to explain to the steel workers he pretends to champion, how leaving the EU has benefitted them." bit.ly/4q1dzPS
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Farage must explain how Brexit has benefitted steel workers
Campaigners have warned that Brexit has left the UK "much more exposed" after reports that the EU is preparing a new 50% tariff on steel imports.
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Sing along everybody! 🎵Any time you're Handsworth way Any evening, any day You'll find us all Doin' the Jenrick walk. Ev'ry little Racist gal With her little Nazi pal You'll find 'em all Doin' the Jenrick walk. Oi!🎵 The old songs are the best! 😊
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I'm old enough to remember the relentless misogynistic yapping of the Tories and the Lügenpresse, something about Rachel from Accounts not knowing her numbers. Where’s the apology, you toxic, macho, old-school, sexist, woman-hating, objectifying Etonian wankers?
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Yup - they most certainly are.
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Mike Galsworthy warns: Protest rights under threat
Mike Galsworthy warns of potential erosion of protest rights amid concerning developments.
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Gary Neville said hurty words to Farage and his Reformorons. Their meltdown is epic. Well done, Gary 👏👏 "The flag was being ‘used in a negative fashion’ by ‘angry, middle-aged white men."
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Our Labour government is investing at least £10.5 billion until 2036 to help protect homes & businesses against flooding. This is a record amount. #Labour
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
🚨A Message from our editor-in-chief Matt Kelly Read full story: buff.ly/dY1tJVa
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday. Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
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