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Ben Fuller

@politicsastar.bsky.social
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News & debate especially for A-level politics students. I'm Head of Politics at the leading, academic, co-ed boarding school in the north of England. Insta & Twitter too

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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Today was officially my final day at St Peter’s, York! Thanks to all the wonderful Politics students, Cliftonites, debaters, supporters of the Public Lectures & colleagues who have made the last 16 years so rewarding.  To all about to start a new year, good luck! XX
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Sorry to hear of the sudden death of Ann Widdecombe Retirement brought her ✍️ 📚& 💃🪩to add to her politics (& more politics with Nigel Farage) Principled, direct & engaging she gave St Peters York & York Literature Festival an entertaining evening in 2017 talking to Mrs Wright #SCD #AnnWiddecombe
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Telling that at 1pm🕐 on BBC R4 WTW the Farage Cottrell story is ONLY mentioned briefly because @libdems.org.uk & @joshbabarinde.bsky.social have complained to Standards Commissioner Odd. Not in headlines. No analysis piece later in the programme flagged #NigelFarage #ReformUK #PoshGeorge
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/07/2026
🤔 Will Ed Miliband be your Chancellor or will it be Martin Lewis? 🇬🇧 Will Jude Bellingham take on culture and sport or will Wes Streeting? 🫵 And which high office will Gemma Collins or Louis Theroux find themselves? Take your pick! bestforbritain.org/fantasy-cabinet
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Is the BBC still soft on Farage? Only 4 tweets on @bbc-politics.bsky.social this AM Yet this⬇️is the only one about Farage & George Cottrell, even after Jenrick appeared on #bbclaurak (where he couldn’t deny the facts of @gabrielpogrund.bsky.social story) #NigelFarage #PoshGeorge #ReformUK
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Presumably on the same basis that she is leaving Twitter, Lisa Nandy does not watch GB News? She knows improper things are happening there, with Ofcom has totally failed to regulate it – so would rather ignore it entirely. #LisaNandy #GBNews #OFCOM #skynews #r4today
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The BBC & the papers have always been reluctant to follow up on scrutiny of Nigel Farage when it’s in The Guardian or Mirror Now The Times👏👏 is looking at his huge property portfolio (“I’m skint”🤔) will they pick it up? #NigelFarage #ReformUK #r4today #skynews
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The BBC & the papers have always been reluctant to follow up on scrutiny of Nigel Farage when it’s in The Guardian or Mirror Now The Times👏👏 is looking at his huge property portfolio (“I’m skint”🤔) will they pick it up? #NigelFarage #ReformUK #r4today #skynews
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
“Guns or butter”? Today 🇬🇧 it seems to be neither! £5bn short on the guns in the DIP & another pay rise for teachers that’s not fully funded. TWO funding gaps! This is under Labour, but just the same as under the Tories🤦‍♂️ #DIP #Defence #education #schools #skynews #C4News
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
US Supreme Court strikes down Trump Executive Order & upholds 14th Amendment Birthright Citizenship in Trump V Barbara, a 2nd blow to Trump after Learning Resources V Trump threw out tariffs #SupremeCourt #BirthrightCitizenship #UVIPolitics #r4today #skynews www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US supreme court upholds birthright citizenship in blow to Trump agenda
Court rules against Trump administration on policy that people born in the United States are citizens
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
As Andy Burnham & Manchesterism refocuses a North:South ➗, @aliceTTimes points out the deprivation in the South West & the importance of the SW & East of England to Labour in their 🥊with Reform #Manchester #AndyBurnham #NigelFarage #Devon #Cornwall #r4today #skynews
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
“I see the Treasury is now using drone technology” 😂😂 Matt on the Defence Investment Plan & its missing £5bn #Defence #KeirStarmer #AndyBurnham #r4today #skynews
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
What I don’t understand* about the Farage £5m is that it’s for his security but he hasn’t spent any of it🤔 Surely he’s needed security for the last two & a half years?? #BrexitBrokeBritain #BBCBreakfast #C4News #skynews #NigelFarage #ReformUK *actually, one of many things
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Andy Burnham may not just save Labour - he could save the Tories too. This is very good from @stephenkb.bsky.social
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
How can Andy Burnham succeed? Historian of the premiership Anthony Seldon advises him to have a clear, optimistic narrative for🇬🇧but avoid trying to be popular in favour of honesty #r4today #LVIPolitics #AndyBurnham #KeirStarmer #Labour #skynews
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
From bendy bananas to £350m for the NHS – how many Brexit promises actually came true? What were the big Brexit promises & what became of them? @guardianheather.bsky.social analyses 10 years on 🗳️ #r4today #skynews #NigelFarage #BorisJohnson #KeirStarmer www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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From bendy bananas to £350m for the NHS – how many Brexit promises actually came true?
Leaving the EU was supposed to solve Britain’s border issues, slash bureaucracy, revitalise the health service, even supercharge vacuum cleaners. How much control did we really take back?
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ben Jennings very clever with the 10 year Brexit Anniversary - & the enduring #BrexitChaos #BrexitBrokeBritain #r4today #skynews #NigelFarage #BorisJohnson #KeirStarmer
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“We’re not blaming your constituents, we’re blaming you!” Philip Collins holding Victoria Atkins to account as she equivocated over #Brexitchaos one of the highlights of a vintage @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social last night! #BrexitBrokeBritain #Newsnight #r4today #skynews #NigelFarage #BorisJohnson
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
10 years on from the Brexit 🗳️ it’d be good to see Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson et al held to account for the damage they’ve brought to 🇬🇧 Instead, they’re invited on #bbclaurak, #bbcQT etc to grandstand 😱 #BrexitBrokeBritain #BrexitChaos #r4today #skynews #NigelFarage
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“He’s not the Messiah, he’s just a very naughty boy.” Andy Burnham is being built up to impossible heights by Labour MPs & the media Presumably the media will wait until after he’s in No10, then smash him up?😢 #r4today #LVIPolitics #AndyBurnham #KeirStarmer #Labour #skynews
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Nigel Farage, the man who’s failed to win the last FIVE by-elections, calls for a general election🤔😂 Bluff #r4today #NigelFarage #AndyBurnham #KeirStarmer #Labour #skynews
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This is Burnham’s problem: Can he offer enough that’s different to please Labour MPs & supporters let alone Reform voters? Finances & room to manoeuvre are as limited as they were for Keir Starmer #r4today #LVIPolitics #AndyBurnham #KeirStarmer #Labour #ReformUK #skynews
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Ben Quinn @benquinn75.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
‘Rome is saved’ shouts Tory MP Desmond Swayne as Andy Burnham is sworn in as an MP again
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It’s a long time since the swearing in of a by-election victor was this momentous! #LVIPolitics #AndyBurnham #KeirStarmer #Labour #Makerfield #skynews
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Wes Streeting concedes: he’s not fighting Andy Burnham. A coronation 👑 now almost certain, with Burnham PM by July 10th “Having spoken at length with Andy” - what’s the deal? Chancellor, back to Health? #LVIPolitics #AndyBurnham #WesStreeting #KeirStarmer #Labour #skynews
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Keir Starmer will go down in history as the leader who transformed the Labour Party in record time, to win a landslide His failure to grapple with systemic 🇬🇧problems is one shared with May, Sunak & soon, I fear, Burnham #LVIPolitics #AndyBurnham #KeirStarmer #Labour #skynews
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
For soon to be PM Andy Burnham, winning Makerfield was the easy bit. The really hard choices & decisions will soon be upon him. #r4today #skynews #Makerfield #AndyBurnham  #NigelFarage
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Regretting not staying up for #Makerfield now 😂⬇️ Thangam V Pochin was obviously the 📺🥊 of the night! #r4today #skynews #Makerfield #AndyBurnham  #NigelFarage x.com/supertanskii...
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Supertanskiii on X: "“You only care about violence against women and girls when it’s committed by a brown person” I’m living for Thangam Debbonaire losing her shit after being incessantly interrupted by Sarah Pochin and then utterly bodying her. No notes. https://t.co/AfiN2Tcz4g" / X
“You only care about violence against women and girls when it’s committed by a brown person” I’m living for Thangam Debbonaire losing her shit after being incessantly interrupted by Sarah Pochin and then utterly bodying her. No notes. https://t.co/AfiN2Tcz4g
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Sometimes I have a nagging feeling that The Times can be just the Daily Mail with a smaller headline font … (Thank goodness for the FT & The Guardian) This is not good⬇️ #EdMiliband #TheTimes #r4today #skynews
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This is an excellent night for Andy Burnham AND Kemi Badenoch, a terrible one for Reform Each has won a seat, but it’s still not clear either can win #GE2029! #r4today #skynews #Makerfield #AndyBurnham #KemiBadenoch #NigelFarage
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“Rather than tackle the economic & social basis of that disaffection, Westminster left it to Farage to turn it into ethnic resentment” @chakrabortty.bsky.social on Brexit 🇬🇧10 years on #r4today #Brexitdisaster #NigelFarage #Makerfield www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ten years on, we’re living with the ghosts of Brexit. Reform and Restore know that – the rest are playing catch-up | Aditya Chakrabortty
Starmer’s EU reset is aimed at the conference room. Meanwhile Farage and the hard right mine ethnic resentment on the streets, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Brexit ⬇️ 🇬🇧 exports to 🇪🇺 by 12% shows new @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social study😫& 🇬🇧 has missed out on big new EU services opportunities BUT just rejoining the Customs Union would fix only a little of this #r4today #Brexitdisaster #NigelFarage #Brexitbrokebritain www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Rejoining customs union would not fix damage caused by Brexit, research finds
Exclusive: Economists find Brexit caused 12% depression in UK exports, most of which is due to leaving single market
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Russian warship fires warning shots at British yacht in English Channel 😲 Morten Morland on today’s Makerfield by-election & the expected battle for No 10 between Andy Burnham & Keir Starmer #r4today #skynews #Makerfield #AndyBurnham #KeirStarmer #Labour
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“Which ones are the proper loonies?” Matt on today’s Makerfield by-election where there’s been a bitter battle for hard right votes between Nigel Farage’s Reform UK & Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain 😂😂 #r4today #skynews #Makerfield #NigelFarage #ReformUK #RupertLowe #Restore
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
“Andy Burnham will have a one off opportunity to break out of the impasse that has destroyed the Starmer premiership” @WilliamJHague on why Burham has no choice & must move quickly after #Makerfield #r4today #LVIPolitics #AndyBurnham #KeirStarmer #Labour #skynews
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
In the weapons V welfare debate @pollytoynbee.bsky.social wonders why the right never ask about the pension triple lock (the big DWP💰escalator) or defence procurement waste, just cuts which will push children & the poor deeper into poverty #Defence #G7 #r4today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The right wants money for defence. It should start with MoD wastefulness – or even the pensioner triple lock | Polly Toynbee
There is nothing left to be squeezed from disabled people or families, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Former Defence Minister Al Carns repeatedly shocked by unbelievable waste at MoD🤯 Does kinda make the Treasury case for going long & slow on the DIP🤔 Alan Clark MP was saying the same THIRTY FIVE years ago! #defence #G7Summit #KeirStarmer #r4today www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Unbelievable’ waste and inefficiency at MoD, says ex-defence minister Al Carns
Exclusive: Carns, who quit last week, says he was angered by unwillingness to confront sunk costs of legacy programmes
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
“Since social media is banned, I’m off to do some brass rubbing and then go for a walk” Matt wonders if we can turn the clock back? Will the social media ban for under 16’s work? #socialmediaban #education #r4today #skynews
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"What would Farage say now" asks Lord Sugar⬇️ Unbelievable that Farage is in contention to win #Makerfield - even be PM - after the disaster of Brexit. 4% GDP hit! Why is he not held to account? Why is his next fantasy solution not dismissed? #BrexitDisaster #r4today #skynews #NigelFarage
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Assisted Dying is back as a Private Members Bill, after Lauren Edward's success in the ballot, but though her Bill will be the same as Kim Leadbeater's there’s uncertainty as to whether the Parliament Acts would apply #LVIPolitics #AssistedDying #r4today www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Attempt to reintroduce assisted dying bill sparks new Labour civil war
Rochester and Strood MP Lauren Edwards will reintroduce Kim Leadbeater’s highly controversial Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill which would allow assisted deaths in England and Wales
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Kemi Badenoch’s just a Lib Dem leader now😲😂 She’s not going to win #GE2029 so the only Q is on deals & coalitions Hint she’ll allow Reform into No 10 harms her in 🔶🌳seats, she won’t will drive more 🌳🗳️to🩵 Can’t win! #KemiBadenoch #NigelFarage #ReformUK #r4today #skynews
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
It’s getting harder and harder to argue with the idea Kemi Badenoch is a good leader of the Conservative Party, as long as you ignore questions like “what is the electoral performance of the Tory party under her?”, “where was the Tory party polling when she took over?” and “what is the party for?”
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We’ve been promised the Defence Investment Plan for MONTHS Flurry of briefing this week that it was imminent - part of Keir Starmer’s legacy John Healey gets the Plan, it’s not enough (just 0.08% of GDP extra ‘27-30) & resigns 😱 #JohnHealey #defence #wato #KeirStarmer
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“You have been unable & the Treasury has been unwilling to commit the resources the nation needs to defend the country” John Healey a hugely respected figure beyond Labour (& an Old Peterite) This resignation a clarion warning call & body blow to PM #JohnHealey #defence #wato #KeirStarmer
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Gungajin @gungajin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I've been warning about this for quite a while. Trump is a loose missile. Vance is a guided missile. The former is more scary, the latter much more dangerous.
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Vance’s broadsides against 🇺🇸 allies are strategic and consistent, where Trump's are scattergun. He'll be the person to fear as a threat to the 🇬🇧 political system in the run up to #GE2029 says @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social #Vance #PeteHegseth #HenryNowak #r4today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Let this be a warning – if Europe worries about Trump, it has even more reason to fear JD Vance | Gaby Hinsliff
His toxic Henry Nowak intervention fits a pattern. Vance has hard-right views, a disdain for European society – and he may yet become president, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Can you handle the hate? Perceptive from @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social on Andy Burnham, the Mayor who wants to be liked, & the hate that’s inevitably coming if/when he’s PM (see Keir Starmer, Boris Johnson &c) #r4today #LVIPolitics #AndyBurnham #KeirStarmer #Labour #Makerfield #skynews
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Morten Morland on Trump’s approach to peace & war in the Middle East 🤦‍♂️😂😂 #Trump #IranWar‌ #Israel #Lebanon #Netanyahu #r4today #skynews
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Can anyone think of any reasons why Suella Braverman & Reform UK might be siding with big tech rather than the online safety of children?🤔 #r4today #skynews #NigelFarage #ReformUK #Makerfield x.com/Haggis_UK/st...
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Ben Fuller @politicsastar.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
@thebulwark.com explains how the Trump racket works: Sue IRS for $10 bn Settle for a $1.7 bn fund AND an end to IRS audits & enquiries into Trump family & businesses 👌😘 #Trump #IRS #TrumpLies #UVIPolitics #r4today #skynews
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