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Anushka Asthana

@anushkaasthana

Deputy political editor, ITV News; #Screeny on Peston; previously Guardian- host of Today in Focus ♥️ and political editor. Get in touch with stories-DM’s open.

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We are 🅻🅸🆅🅴 comment below & share to join the debate Joining Robert Peston & Anushka Asthana tonight 👇 💼@jreynoldsmp 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿John Swinney 🔶Daisy Cooper MP 🔶 🌹Rebecca Long-Bailey 🔵Thérèse Coffey #Peston x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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I’m truly honoured to accept the role of Chief Medical Advisor to MAHA working with an outstanding team I will do all in my power to ensure through open and transparent discussion that the best medical evidence (free from commercial corruption) is translated into health policy👊

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Exc - senior govt figures now convinced they can't win welfare vote without concessions, they weighing up what they can offer. Worst case scenario is winning the vote only because Tories abstain or support itv.com/news/2025-05-1…

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NEW- parliament’s work and pensions committee is tonight calling for an urgent pause on the cuts to PIP and Universal credit - after hearing evidence that could be serious mental health consequences and even suicides 1/ ⬇️

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“WHAT the hell is going on here!?” Starmer’s livid response when he heard about train driver pay deal on the RADIO! Despite No10 knowing. On Winter Fuel Treasury attitude was to “fight, fight, fight”. Sneak preview of my paperback Taken As Red in The Sun👇 thesun.co.uk/news/35062231/…

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1/7 Just returned from a week in Washington with the Defence Select Committee, meeting senior U.S. DOD officials, Armed Forces Ctte members and industry leaders. Here’s a short thread on what we heard — and why the UK’s Chagos Islands agreement is being held up as a model:

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A nice line in Anushka Asthana column: Labour has gone from representing 2 to 30 per cent of the “most rural” seats in Great Britain, according to the Fabians

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In Easter 2024 - the most senior Civil Servants from across Whitehall met to discuss how “access talks” were going and agreed that Labour was wholly unprepared for Govt. In today’s Times and in the updated version of my book Taken As Red out this week ⬇️ thetimes.com/article/98052a…

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Great to see The Fabian Society research quoted in this interesting column from Anushka Asthana Here is the map of the most rural seats in Great Britain - and how they voted Labour went from 2 seats to 40.

Great to see <a href="/thefabians/">The Fabian Society</a> research quoted in this interesting column from <a href="/AnushkaAsthana/">Anushka Asthana</a> 

Here is the map of the most rural seats in Great Britain - and how they voted

Labour went from 2 seats to 40.