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Wonderful to see all the hideous black iron railings removed for the Kings visit tomorrow. Yes there has to be security but it has more recently become a barrier to normal public viewing
Kate Hoey
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Kate Hoey
@CatharineHoey
MP for Vauxhall 1989-2019 Now Baroness Hoey of Lylehill and Rathlin in the County of Antrim PM’s Trade Envoy to Ghana Sept 2021 to June2024. #DitchtheFramework
Joined March 2013
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#OTD 17 June 1922, the Altnaveigh Massacre. An IRA unit of 30 rampaged through the South Armagh Protestant hamlet murdering six. Many others managed to escape the attackers by hiding or fleeing. At least twelve houses were burned or bombed. No one was convicted
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One uncomfortable consequence of political longevity is seeing the facts prove some of one's most confident forecasts wrong. As the trade secretary overseeing Britain's entry into the single market in 1992, I claimed it would wonderfully boost our exports. As I outline in my
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Labour MP Kim Leadbeater on Radio 4 this morning bemoaning the polarisation in Britain and arguing that the "forces" trying to "divide us" need to be "challenged more". I'd pay a bit more attention if she had spoken out a bit more forcefully against the extremist forces in her - Kate Hoey repostedThe witch-hunting of Reform-supporting firefighters is shameful. My latest piece. ⬇️
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Replying to @CatharineHoeyIs it true you gave Geldorf’s vessel the “Hot Galley” on the rise Kate? LOL You would’ve made a great Northern Irish Pirate back in the day Kate !
00:00 - The event that helped win the referendum. Shouting abuse at fishermen and women was rather typical of Remainers snobbery.
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BBC News had a good run, inoculated from market forces and producing news - increasingly aimed, not at customers - but newsroom peers and awards judges. In recent years, most notably its coverage of the 2015 migrant crisis, Brexit, Trump and Israel, BBC News showed itself to beBBC News to Lose Hundreds of Jobs in Cost-Cutting Drive order-order.com/2026/06/15/bbc…
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Roy Hattersley, former Deputy Labour Leader, has died at 93. Here he is as a Cabinet minister, campaigning in the 1978 Hamilton by-election for George Robertson, Labour's candidate. Margo MacDonald stood for the SNP. The 1978 World Cup was around the corner, and Scotland had
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Hypocrisy from the RC Church which, for 62 years from 1908>1970, used its "racist" discriminatory diktat of Ne Temere to force any member of its church marrying an Irish Protestant, to raise their children as Roman Catholic. This is real legalised discrimination endorsed by theArchbishop Eamon Martin: Racism a ‘grave sin’ that Christians ‘must stand strongly against’ irishnews.com/news/northern-…
