Bethany Dawson
I write half of London Playbook everyday and sometimes chat on your radio/tv. Generally found furiously scribbling
- What a pleasure to be asked on Pod Save the UK!
- Farage is upstaging Labour with promises to reverse cuts to winter fuel payments and scrap the two-child benefit cap. Politico reporter Bethany Dawson weighs in with @MrNishKumar.bsky.social and @cocobyname.bsky.social. Listen to the full conversation now. #PodSaveTheUK #Politics #Trending
- after the last 48 hours i am going to get EHRC and ECHR tattooed on each of my hands so i stop muddling them up
- 👀 The EHRC has extended it's consultation period following the Supreme Court ruling, citing "the level of public interest, as well as representations from stakeholders in Parliament and civil society." It will launch on May 19 and close June 30. www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
- NEW — A crossparty group of staffers have written to Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to get clarification on the use of single sex spaces on the estate, and have also asked if there are any “forthcoming initiatives” to support trans staffers." www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...
- Not only this, but my thoughts *always* with this kind of thing at PMQs are ... what do you expect? Starmer is hardly going to say "yeah fair enough, you got me." It looks good for a twitter clip and is a waste of the 30 minutes of holding the government to account
- NEW — A crossparty group of staffers have written to Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to get clarification on the use of single sex spaces on the estate, and have also asked if there are any “forthcoming initiatives” to support trans staffers." www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...
- This comes after we revealed this morning that the LGBT+ Labour group are going to petition to EHRC to change their guidance following the ruling. www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...
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- Horrible scoop in today's Playbook — at least five MPs are thought to have received letters with "offensive content" that were "covered in excrement." A 65-year-old man was arrested in connection with the letters last week and has been released on bail.
- Start your engines, Dan Bloom and I have got the date for the all important welfare cuts vote. Plus some information on the growing rebellion from me politico.eu/newsletter/l...
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