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Charlotte Middlehurst @charmiddle

Journalist in London (formerly China). Assistant News Editor @FT

Joined November 2008
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Some personal news to share: After four and half exhilarating years on the UK news desk, I’m joining the @FT’s brilliant print team as Assistant News Editor to help expand and steer our outstanding newspaper coverage.
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Northern councils are moving to shut down a key alternative to asylum hotels - houses of multiple occupancy - citing fears over community cohesion. Report by @JenWilliams_FT ft.com/content/a8be6719-6ef6…

Councils move to close off key alternative to asylum hotels in England

Local authorities tighten controls on houses in multiple occupation amid fears for community cohesion

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“Demonising” asylum seekers, immigrants and lawyers by ministers helped lay the ground for the far-right riots, critics including senior politicians have warned. Reporting by @LOS_Fisher and William Wallis on.ft.com/3YA0OAu
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The FT newsroom on election results day looks like the aftermath of a frat party
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John Burn-Murdoch
@jburnmurdoch
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I just can’t get past Labour winning 65% of seats off 34% of the vote. Absolutely wild mismatch between the headline result and, well, everything else. Britain is now a multi-party system, and first-past-the-post can’t cope.
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Has the effect of Reform’s surge on the Tories’ misfortune been wildly overstated? This graph from @jburnmurdoch tells a story on.ft.com/45PXD9q
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Tory fortunes will be decided by a relative "handful of votes": The collapse of their support means there are apprx 120 "knife edge seats" where the margin of victory is expected to be <5% ft.com/content/113029ff-f2da…
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FT/Ipsos polling shows Rishi Sunak's warning of a Labour "supermajority" is failing to cut through with most Tory voters - 25% said they were supporting Sunak to prevent a Lab landslide vs 28% who fear tax increases. Reporting by @rafeuddin_ ft.com/content/25aafcff-a49f…

Rishi Sunak’s focus on Labour ‘supermajority’ fails to move most Tory voters

Prime minister’s warning message in last days before polls shows campaign has faltered, pollsters say

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The FT endorses Labour: Britain needs a fresh starts ft.com/content/2290c1f7-a4cb…
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This UK election promises change - but it's the one in 2029 that will *deliver* it. Brexit, the pension triple lock and benefits are unmentionable this campaign but will be on the table next time aruond ft.com/content/79f36254-64dd…

Britain’s big election will be the one after this

Rethinking Brexit, the triple lock and other follies isn’t politically viable now but will be in 2029

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The absence of honesty in UK election will undermine democracy itself - important column from Martin Wolf on the dangers of the “politics of evasion” on.ft.com/3RADzSv
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Jim Pickard 🐋
@PickardJE
20 Jun 2024
for some reason this post from yesterday has been deleted
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George Parker@GeorgeWParker
18 Jun 2024
Electoral metaphor disaster as North Devon sheep try to get as far away as possible from @RishiSunak - in spite of the goodies he is offering them
Christopher Hope📝
@christopherhope
18 Jun 2024
NEW Rishi Sunak has trouble attracting sheep on a campaign visit with David Cameron to meet farmers in north Devon. More at @GBNEWS.
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Will ending the VAT exemption for private schools - raising fees by up to 20% - place an unbreabale burden on the state system in England? The answer is: No - according to analysis by @Laura_K_Hughes @amy_borrett
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Voters are kicking up a stink about the failure to tackle sewage in their local areas - with Tories at risk of losing key seats to the Lib Dems in battlegrounds around the South East ft.com/content/0d3b538c-003d…
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Rachel Reeves is breaking cover on Europe. She tells the #FT she would seek closer alignment on deals for City workers and in the chemicals sector. Reporting by @GeorgeWParker @Sam1Fleming on.ft.com/3KNrTbC

Rachel Reeves to seek ‘improved’ UK-EU trade terms if Labour wins election

Shadow chancellor also wants to secure billions of pounds of investment via an international summit

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Greenpeace has spotted a contradiction in this election campaign - that most people do care about #climate and *yet* it’s not considered a key voter issue… Campaigners are swapping militant tactics for door-knocking. Reporting by @henrymance on.ft.com/3VsYFnk

Green activists are knocking on doors in the UK election campaign

New strategy by Greenpeace involves canvassing to establish climate change as leading electoral issue

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SCOOP 🚨 Rishi Sunak has put forward JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon and former Google chair Eric Schmidt for UK honours - reporting by @LOS_Fisher
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Peter Oborne@OborneTweets
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A reminder that Farage has a 53% controlling shareholding in Reform, as per this invaluable Financial Times investigation: ft.com/content/4059c92f-9bb3…

Reform UK’s unusual structure with Nigel Farage in the middle

Farage insists he is not a politician — but within the rightwing populist party, he is kingmaker

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