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Craig Munro
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Politics man for the UK's biggest newspaper, Metro. You can get in touch with me at craig.munro@metro.co.uk

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Huge turnout for Jacob Rees Mogg at the Reform party conference
September 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Unfortunate comma placement for Reform's chairman in the conference agenda
September 5, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Last weekend, two men in homemade English flag balaclavas were filmed running around Walsall in the West Midlands, painting red crosses on white surfaces.

On social media, they were called 'absolute idiots' by some - but others said they were 'saving the country'.

(Pics from SWNS)
August 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump announces he will present Michael Crawford, best known as Frank Spencer from Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, with a Kennedy Center Honor later this year.
August 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Quite a few seats remaining in the arena where Nigel Farage is launching the Reform UK local election campaign
March 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We're now running 50 minutes late at Reform UK's big local elections campaign launch – I'm told it's due to protesters outside
March 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Wouldn't mind a job as the newly announced Canadian fentanyl czar – stop a kilogram every three weeks or so and you're dandy
February 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
There's a lot of heat around yesterday's vote on the Children's Wellbeing Bill – I tried to explain why it's more complex than it may appear in my latest Alright Gov newsletter.

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January 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Who could Musk have in mind for the next Reform leader? Surely not the man whose videos he's been retweeting the last few days, and who he wants to see released from prison...?
January 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Quite a way to welcome 2025 in East Lothian.
January 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
That'll be Labour MP Zarah Sultana posting a pic of Starmer's new US ambassador Peter Mandelson with Jeffrey Epstein
December 20, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Impressive spot sent over from the Metro pictures team – the Number 10 Christmas tree features a (maybe ill-advised?) farmer Santa on a tractor bauble

Appears to be this one: www.adandishop.co.uk/products/far...
December 16, 2024 at 3:23 PM
NEW: The full membership of the committee that will be scrutinising Kim Leadbeater's assisted dying bill. Includes Danny Kruger of the Conservatives, who was one of the legislation's top opponents in the House of Commons
December 11, 2024 at 5:04 PM
An interesting insight into how the apparently successful Syrian rebel group has governed the areas it has controlled so far, from the New York Times interview with its leader al-Julani earlier this week
December 8, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Another revelation in the booklet: Labour now has three foundations to go with their five missions, six first steps and six additional milestones announced today
December 5, 2024 at 10:46 AM
NEW: Looks like the government's latest Plan for Change does actually mention the target of delivering the highest sustained growth in the G7, after much chatter to the contrary...
December 5, 2024 at 10:33 AM
I've read that Trump values people who 'look the part' very highly when making his cabinet picks. Which explains Pete Hegseth – he looks like the US Defence Secretary in a Paul Verhoeven movie
November 15, 2024 at 10:01 AM