Jack Elsom
@JackElsom
Political Editor of @TheSun
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NEW: Chancellor John Healey has appointed trade union boss Paul Nowak as a director of the Bank of England
@TheSun just in …genius 🌒
Thursday's front page:
EXCL: A Labour MP has been accused of raiding a historic cafe’s fridge on a trip to Normandy to mark the anniversary of D-Day.
Amanda Martin is said to have started helping herself to food at the Café Gondrée, the first place liberated by the Allies during the landings in 1944.
Portsmouth’s Ms Martin was one of two Labour backbenchers hauled in by Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle after Parliament’s Armed Forces Scheme’s visit last June.
Samantha Niblett was also spoken to over her behaviour after missing the ferry over to France and then reportedly clashing with the organisers.
Both MPs are understood to insist the respective incidents are “misunderstandings”.
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Watch the full interview with me for @TheSun here….
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage guesses the price of fish and chips in Clacton
Nigel Farage is quizzed by @JackElsom on how much fish and chips costs in Clacton...
Catch the FULL INTERVIEW here →
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🚨 NEW: Greggs has renamed its Sausage, Bean & Cheese Melt after Andy Burnham called it a "thing"
"Sales have gone through the roof, cheers Andy"
WATCH as Nigel Farage is interrupted by hecklers whilst being interviewed by Sun Politics.
EXCL: “None of them have got the balls to actually deal with this.”
Nigel Farage calls out PM Andy Burnham, Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson for telling the public “what they want to hear” while failing to tackle the migration crisis.
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EXCL: "If you had your time again, would you take that money?"
@JackElsom asks Nigel Farage whether, knowing all the controversy it has caused, he would still take the £5 million.
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EXCL: Nigel Farage says he’d still take the £5million donation even now and has no regrets.
He also gets ahead of a possible recall petition by saying a second by-election would be “silly”.
“If I get the result I want, if Standards decide that they want to do it again, well, I think they’d look rather silly.”
Nigel Farage says he’d STILL take £5m crypto donation despite investigation ahead of by-election
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Full interview coming later 👀
Nigel Farage plays "Keep or Ditch?" if he was Prime Minister with Political Editor @JackElsom
Nigel Farage slaps down Reform ally Zia Yusuf for calling ex Defence Secretary a ‘traitor’ to Britain
Political Editor @JackElsom has this exclusive
The Sun splash tomorrow spills over onto the back page to fit the picture of the mega-dinghy
Andy Burnham is kicking off his cost of living tour with a pledge to end “subscription traps” - first announced by Labour in 2023 and set in train earlier this year by Keir Starmer before his resignation.
Press releases, then and now…
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Tomorrow's front page: Jet bomb plotters 'free in weeks'
EXCL: Keir Starmer personally stepped in to stop FIFA bringing forward England’s kick-off last night as he feared Mexico were trying to gain an advantage.
The PM told the FA they were not to accept moving the match.
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Apparently there was a bit of afters between Kemi Badenoch and Bridget Phillipson.
Tory source says that on the way out of PMQs, Phillipson made some barb to Badenoch.
Badenoch is said to have shot back: “ I will never stop fighting you. You are destroying children’s lives.”
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