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Jon Craig @joncraig

Chief Political Correspondent, Sky News. Reporting politics at Westminster since January 1982. Asian Voice Journalist of the Year 2019.

Joined March 2008
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Sophy Ridge@SophyRidgeSky
Jun 8
Going to have to buy @alexrogerssky a blue & white striped shirt now
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I love the audacity of @alexrogerssky to be repping @SheffieldUnited colours in front of @SophyRidgeSky who is a @swfc fan 😂 @RidgeandFrost has football rivalries going on as well as political commentary
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Sir Keir Starmer snubbed suggestion by Peter Mandelson shortly after 2024 election (revealed in last week’s Mandy files) that he should invite “interesting & thoughtful” Sir John Major “for a chat”. “It never happened,” former PM told me after speech on cricket history at Oval.
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RT @SkyNews: BREAKING: The family of murdered student Henry Nowak has left Downing Street in the last few minutes following their meeting w

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Politics latest: Under-16s to be banned from social media, Keir Starmer announces

The prime minister has announced a ban on under-16s accessing certain social media sites. Watch and follow the latest.

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 due to speak!
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Darren Jones has arrived to address PLP! “It’s a shame you can’t come in!” he tells me. Absolutely! Ministers named in Mandy files - David Lammy, Pat McFadden - also here. Popcorn at the ready! (Steve Reed also sue to speak.)
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Lord Kirkhope
@LordKirkhope
May 29
Yes a very good and appropriate service recognizing Derek who many of us knew and worked with for a long time. Nice to see present and former colleagues paying their respects. @joncraig @Lordspeaker
Jon Craig@joncraig
May 29
Good turnout of Tory grandees, ex-ministers, past & present MPs & peers for funeral of popular former govt whips’ office enforcer Derek Conway in Warkworth, Northumberland.
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Good turnout of Tory grandees, ex-ministers, past & present MPs & peers for funeral of popular former govt whips’ office enforcer Derek Conway in Warkworth, Northumberland.
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Pleasure to meet @almurray again (I interviewed him in Downing St on VE Day last year) after his brilliant @bananacabaret show in Balham in aid of @finleystouch charity for families of children with cancer.
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 & here’s Orlagh snoozing in a drawer because the pram that was ordered hadn’t arrived. She looks very comfortable, though.
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Four days after Orlagh’s pram was ordered, she’s still waiting & sleeping in a drawer. @Argos_Online sent wrong pram to Balham Sainsbury’s on Sunday. Come on @ArgosHelpers sort it out please & send Orlagh the pram we ordered!
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Hot dog! Never has a wet tea towel been so appreciated!
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RT @SkyNews: Sir Keir Starmer has said a rape case in which two teenage boys were spared jail is "appalling" and it is "right that law offi

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Here’s proud mum Sophie Donnelly, my step-daughter, with baby Orlagh, born on Tues at 7lbs, in St Thomas’s Hospital. Glad Orlagh’s getting an early view of Parliament!
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Karl Turner MP
@KarlTurnerMP
May 24
Big congrats, Jon. đŸŒđŸ‘¶
Jon Craig@joncraig
May 24
“We have become a grandmother.” Mrs Craig with granddaughter Orlagh, who’s visiting this weekend after arriving on Tuesday weighing 7lbs

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Karl Turner MP
@KarlTurnerMP
May 24
I was born in drawer. With an outside toilet. Don’t start me off, Jon. đŸ€Ł
Jon Craig@joncraig
May 24

 & here’s Orlagh snoozing in a drawer because the pram that was ordered hadn’t arrived. She looks very comfortable, though.
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“We have become a grandmother.” Mrs Craig with granddaughter Orlagh, who’s visiting this weekend after arriving on Tuesday weighing 7lbs

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Jane@Jane45533797
May 20
Thank goodness for @joncraig on @SkyNews for some much needed balance @annabotting @jennykleeman @MattWallace888 Supermarkets do make billions pa and the tax payer already subsidises a lot of their staffs low wages too Glad Jon pointed out that Stuart Rose is a Tory Peer too
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RT @SkyNews: BREAKING: Five people arrested on suspicion of local election fraud offences in Tameside Sky's chief political correspondent

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Anthony Bonney@AntBonneybwfc
May 14
Replying to @joncraig
@joncraig knowledge is absolutely amazing! 👏 @skysarahjane
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