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Jacob Reid @JacobReid02

Studying a political science master's at Sciences Po, starting at Bloomberg News next year. Data!

Joined March 2021
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Alex Wickham
@alexwickham
May 22
Great piece on the ground in Makerfield by @JacobReid02: bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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🗳️🇪🇺With the US election looming, what about the far right on this side of the pond? It was fun helping @andretartar and @TomFevrier with their piece for Bloomberg @business Three takeaways⤵️ bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

Europe’s Far Right Has Roadmap for a World in Which Trump Wins

While it’s had success from Italy to Hungary, the many shades of the far right have limited its impact

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2. There are many shades of far right. They are united on immigration and social issues - but split over the economy, EU and Russia @ches_data @JanRovny
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3. Likewise there are different far right playbooks - some have moderated while others have become more extreme
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4 Nov 2024
Europe’s far-right holds clues as to how the potential return of Donald Trump to the US presidency might play out trib.al/F19xmOB

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Alex Wickham
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28 Sep 2024
— @JacobReid02 has shown the UK’s party system is now more fragmented, suggesting it’ll be hard for the Tories to win as they’re fighting on multiple fronts — in 2019 more than 2/3 of seats were straight Tory-Labour fights — in 2024 that was under half as Reform and Greens rose
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Ellen Milligan@EllenAMilligan
28 Sep 2024
New: Labour MPs want strategists to borrow the Democrat playbook on JD Vance by painting Robert Jenrick - frontrunner for the Tory leadership - as “weird” why the Tories are daring to believe they have a path back to power w/@alexwickham @JacobReid02 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Starmer’s Wobbles Have Given Beaten Tories a Glimmer of Hope

As Keir Starmer’s Labour Party stormed to a landslide election win in the early hours of July 5, officials at Conservative headquarters prepared for lives outside of UK politics, their party’s defeat...

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Alex Wickham
@alexwickham
28 Sep 2024
Our weekend story with @EllenAMilligan @JacobReid02 >>>
Alex Wickham
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28 Sep 2024
NEW: @BloombergUK Saturday read Starmer’s early wobbles have let some Tories think the unthinkable: that they might just have a path back to power in 5 years The first glimmers of hope in the party are returning ahead of their conference in Birmingham bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Our take on @Ole_S_Hansen's great spot that gold had fallen every September since 2017...
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31 Aug 2024
Gold investors returning from their summer holidays will be eager to see whether the precious metal can sustain its record-breaking rally, or if it will succumb to the curse of September trib.al/KwVJ7mn
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31 Aug 2024
Gold investors returning from their summer holidays will be eager to see whether the precious metal can sustain its record-breaking rally, or if it will succumb to the curse of September trib.al/KwVJ7mn

Will Gold’s Tailwinds Be Enough to Overcome September Curse?

Gold investors returning from their summer holidays will be eager to see whether the precious metal can sustain its record-breaking rally, or if it will succumb to the curse of September.

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Write about the gold market, they said bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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11 Aug 2024
Olympic gold medals are worth more than ever at this year’s Paris games trib.al/BMdWAuo

Olympic Gold Medals Are Worth More Than Ever After Cost of Metals Surged

Olympic gold medals are worth more than ever at this year’s Paris games, with the raw materials that go into them having the potential to fetch about $900 each.

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose@rodriguez_pose
5 Aug 2024
Will Nigel #Farage's Reform #UK be able to capitalise on gains it made in the North of #England? The revenge of the places that don't matter in this @Bloomberg article by @JacobReid02 doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsx024 bnnbloomberg.ca/business/pol…
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Bloomberg UK
@BloombergUK
29 Jul 2024
Six candidates will battle to replace former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as leader of the UK's Conservatives, with the task of resurrecting the party from its worst ever electoral defeat trib.al/jkndTTM

Conservative Party Runners and Riders: The Six Candidates to Lead Britain’s Opposition

Six Members of Parliament will battle to replace former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as leader of the UK Conservatives, with the task of resurrecting the party from its worst ever electoral defeat.

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Euston station last night. Please note: we're not expecting any delays!
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🧵Nigel Farage says he's coming for Labour, but looking at the data and speaking to people in the North East suggest a different story: maybe he just peaked bloomberg.com/news/articles/… @BloombergUK

Why Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Faces Hard Task ‘Coming For’ Labour

When Brexit architect Nigel Farage announced he was standing for Reform UK in the July 4 general election, he was clear where his votes would come from. The Conservatives had betrayed the trust of...

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(2) Some Reform voters bluntly said they don’t like foreigners - but most linked immigration to house prices and difficulties seeing their GP. So if the new govt can address house prices and NHS waitlists, maybe that will reduce the salience of immigration.
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@ProfSobolewska: “If the economy public services improve under Labour, it almost doesn’t matter who they are trying to win votes from because they will get more votes… The fundamental truth of electoral politics is that voters will reward a successful incumbent.”
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