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Author of Gimson's Presidents; Gimson's PMs; Gimson's Kings & Queens; Boris - The Making of the Prime Minister. Contributing editor to ConHome.
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Badenoch stands up for the taxpayers Starmer forgot

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By Andrew Gimson Verified
| ConservativeHome
Sir Keir Starmer cut a forlorn figure as he hung about yesterday on the station platform, waiting for the train which will carry him into exile in Kentish Town. It was difficult for the small party which had gathered to see him off – Kemi Badenoch, Sir Ed Davey, Nigel Farage, a few hundred other MPs whose names do not immediately spring to mind – to know what to say to the poor fellow, for frankly everything had already been said during the two years he has been taking Prime Minister’s Questions.
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It is just possible Burnham has learned something from the hash Starmer made of welfare reform

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By Andrew Gimson Verified
| ConservativeHome
Pundits lament that Andy Burnham will be the seventh Prime Minister in the past decade, or to be strictly accurate in the past decade and one month. They are wrong to be so gloomy. Our idea of liberty includes the right to sack any PM of whom we have had enough. The House of Commons can usually tell when the PM of the day has become insupportable. MPs register popular discontent with a sensitivity born of the fear that they themselves will be thrown on the scrapheap if they sustain a useless leader.
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In the Brexit referendum, loud voices masked secret uncertainties

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By Andrew Gimson Verified
| ConservativeHome
The Brexit Effect 2016-2026 edited by Anthony Seldon “On no question of this period,” Hugo Young remarked in 1998 at the start of This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair, “did more people in British public life change their minds than on Europe.
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