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Tim Shipman
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Tim Shipman
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Political Editor, The @spectator. Ex-Sunday Times, Mail, Sun Tel, Express. Author of the Brexit quartet. Order No Way Out and Out here: lnkfi.re/oCRrDT
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    Tim Shipman
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    Nov 3, 2025
    OUT is out in paperback on Nov 6. Order it here: amazon.co.uk/Out-Bestsellin…
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    Tim Shipman
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    Oct 25, 2022
    Suella Braverman did not mistakenly leak a meaningless document. She endlessly consulted a maverick. She deliberately emailed a policy doc not yet agreed to her pvt email. Then she sent it to John Hayes and someone she thought was his wife. Then lied to PM about when it was sent
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    Tim Shipman
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    Feb 25, 2022
    As a Liverpool fan, I would like to see them take on the Roman Abramovich XI in the league cup final wearing yellow shirts and blue shorts
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    Tim Shipman
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    Oct 19, 2022
    I’ve been doing this job for 21 years. I’ve written millions of words about the last six years in which British politics descended into psychodramtic crack dream. Today may be the most batshit day of the lot
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    Tim Shipman
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    Nov 10, 2024
    NEW: Queen Elizabeth II thought Boris Johnson "better suited to the stage" than politics and two days before her death, after he resigned, she told a senior courtier in jest: "At least that idiot won't be organising my funeral." 1/
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    ‘Can the Queen sack a PM?’: how Boris Johnson prorogued parliament
    The inside story of how he rammed through Brexit can finally be told — how aides feared police would raid No 10 and royal anger brought out Elizabeth’s unvarnished views
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    Tim Shipman
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    Feb 25, 2024
    The Liverpool end at Wembley strikes up a chant of "fuck the Tories" and the Chelsea end fights back with a chant of, er, "fuck the Tories". Look away now prime minister
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    Tim Shipman
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    Mar 8, 2021
    Oprah seems unaware that several of the Queen’s grandchildren are not even HRHs. Pity
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    Tim Shipman
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    Mar 23, 2019
    🚨BREAKING: A full blown cabinet coup is under way tonight to remove Theresa May as prime minister 🚨
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    Tim Shipman
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    Oct 25, 2022
    Politics is a rough trade and Rishi Sunak needed Suella Braverman's support at the weekend, but receiving several 🤮 emojis from MPs that someone sacked as a security threat 6 days ago is now walking back up Downing Street. Hard for Sunak to rabbit on about integrity now
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    Tim Shipman
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    May 20, 2022
    More unbiased reporting from our German colleagues. I don't know a single British reporter who would tweet something like this
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    Annette Dittert 
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    May 20, 2022
    Everyone in Britain still acts as if this was a normal government. Instead it is a project of deliberate destruction, of laws, of institutions, of anything that stands in the way of a PM who just doesn’t want to be held to account.
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    Tim Shipman
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    Oct 23, 2022
    Those FIVE Zahawi u-turns in full: Serving Boris “He’s got to go” Chancellor, yes please Letter: Actually you should resign I’m backing Boris We must support Rishi
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    Tim Shipman
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    Dec 4, 2018
    BREAKING: the government
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    Tim Shipman
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    Jun 25, 2020
    The question mark over Keir Starmer is not competence but whether he can do politics. He has just: 1) Shown he means business on antisemitism 2) Made Boris look indecisive 3) Offloaded a Corbynite 4) Helped the hard left Twittersphere reveal itself as ridiculous Good day’s work
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    Tim Shipman
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    Apr 10, 2021
    NEW: Boris Johnson will not attend the funeral of Prince Philip. He was due to but the guest list is limited to 30 people and the PM has stood aside to give more space for family and friends
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