Emilio Casalicchio
@ecasalicchio.bsky.social
POLITICO London Playbook PM Editor. Writing the latest from Westminster in a 5pm(ish) newsletter Mon-Fri. ecasalicchio@politico.co.uk
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London Playbook PM: It wasn’t McSwee
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November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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⚽️ PLUS PLUS PLUS ...
⚽️ Labour MP on two-child cap lifting plan: "So we’re going to be taking more working people’s money and spending it on welfare ... We’re writing Tory and Reform leaflets for them."
⚽️ No.10 stonewalling on hiring football regulator who donated to Starmer
⚽️ Labour MP on two-child cap lifting plan: "So we’re going to be taking more working people’s money and spending it on welfare ... We’re writing Tory and Reform leaflets for them."
⚽️ No.10 stonewalling on hiring football regulator who donated to Starmer
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
⚽️ PLUS PLUS PLUS ...
⚽️ Labour MP on two-child cap lifting plan: "So we’re going to be taking more working people’s money and spending it on welfare ... We’re writing Tory and Reform leaflets for them."
⚽️ No.10 stonewalling on hiring football regulator who donated to Starmer
⚽️ Labour MP on two-child cap lifting plan: "So we’re going to be taking more working people’s money and spending it on welfare ... We’re writing Tory and Reform leaflets for them."
⚽️ No.10 stonewalling on hiring football regulator who donated to Starmer
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London Playbook PM: The home of great drama
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November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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⚖️ Conclusion: Yes news is focused on this second & third release in a short period (bad for Labour)
⚖️ But stats show this mistaken release issue (when not a specific story about asylum seekers) is nothing new (bad for Tories)
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⚖️ But stats show this mistaken release issue (when not a specific story about asylum seekers) is nothing new (bad for Tories)
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London Playbook PM: Who screwed up worse?
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November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
⚖️ Conclusion: Yes news is focused on this second & third release in a short period (bad for Labour)
⚖️ But stats show this mistaken release issue (when not a specific story about asylum seekers) is nothing new (bad for Tories)
⚖️ Full newsletter here: www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...
⚖️ But stats show this mistaken release issue (when not a specific story about asylum seekers) is nothing new (bad for Tories)
⚖️ Full newsletter here: www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...
⚖️ Stats show fast uptick in mistaken releases since Apr 2022 to March 2023 — coz prisons/courts got so fucked
⚖️ (Side note: politico.eu/article/insi...)
⚖️ Then huge rise when Labour came in and prisons were so full there were early releases (and lots of mistakes in the process)
⚖️ (Side note: politico.eu/article/insi...)
⚖️ Then huge rise when Labour came in and prisons were so full there were early releases (and lots of mistakes in the process)
Inside Britain’s broken justice machine
Leaky ceilings, mounting backlogs and burned-out barristers — can the government fix the courts?
politico.eu
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
⚖️ Stats show fast uptick in mistaken releases since Apr 2022 to March 2023 — coz prisons/courts got so fucked
⚖️ (Side note: politico.eu/article/insi...)
⚖️ Then huge rise when Labour came in and prisons were so full there were early releases (and lots of mistakes in the process)
⚖️ (Side note: politico.eu/article/insi...)
⚖️ Then huge rise when Labour came in and prisons were so full there were early releases (and lots of mistakes in the process)
⚖️ Yep still terrible. But look at the stats
⚖️ In their best year in office (April 2011 to March 2012) Tories oversaw almost 1 mistaken release per week
⚖️ In their worst year (April 2023 to March 2024) it was more than 2 per week
⚖️ Stats here: data.justice.gov.uk/prisons/addi...
⚖️ In their best year in office (April 2011 to March 2012) Tories oversaw almost 1 mistaken release per week
⚖️ In their worst year (April 2023 to March 2024) it was more than 2 per week
⚖️ Stats here: data.justice.gov.uk/prisons/addi...
Releases in error - Justice Data
Providing at a glance data on services provided by the Ministry of Justice, using quality assured and published data.
data.justice.gov.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
⚖️ Yep still terrible. But look at the stats
⚖️ In their best year in office (April 2011 to March 2012) Tories oversaw almost 1 mistaken release per week
⚖️ In their worst year (April 2023 to March 2024) it was more than 2 per week
⚖️ Stats here: data.justice.gov.uk/prisons/addi...
⚖️ In their best year in office (April 2011 to March 2012) Tories oversaw almost 1 mistaken release per week
⚖️ In their worst year (April 2023 to March 2024) it was more than 2 per week
⚖️ Stats here: data.justice.gov.uk/prisons/addi...
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London Playbook PM: Rental Reeves
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October 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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London Playbook PM: Changing the Change promise
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October 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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🛢️ ON RUSSIAN OIL: Minister confirms UK got US permission for Turkish jets deal — but swerves question on whether Russian oil imports were discussed.
🛢️ Conservative MP Mark Pritchard: "Kyiv would be surprised and disappointed" if issue not raised.
🛢️ Conservative MP Mark Pritchard: "Kyiv would be surprised and disappointed" if issue not raised.
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
🛢️ ON RUSSIAN OIL: Minister confirms UK got US permission for Turkish jets deal — but swerves question on whether Russian oil imports were discussed.
🛢️ Conservative MP Mark Pritchard: "Kyiv would be surprised and disappointed" if issue not raised.
🛢️ Conservative MP Mark Pritchard: "Kyiv would be surprised and disappointed" if issue not raised.
🫣 ON TORY IMMIGRATION WARS: “This shambles makes Reform look like a model of competence,” one aide said after Badenoch appeared to confirm U-turn on deporting migrants with indefinite leave to Remain.
🫣 Philp now in damage control after outrage: x.com/CPhilpOffici...
🫣 Philp now in damage control after outrage: x.com/CPhilpOffici...
Chris Philp MP on X: "Contrary to reports, there has been no change to our ILR policy set out in February. It remains as reported in this piece at the time: https://t.co/0Jza4Yf8Wj -Time until ILR doubled from 5-10 years -No ILR for those who have criminal records or claimed benefits -Applied to" / X
Contrary to reports, there has been no change to our ILR policy set out in February. It remains as reported in this piece at the time: https://t.co/0Jza4Yf8Wj -Time until ILR doubled from 5-10 years -No ILR for those who have criminal records or claimed benefits -Applied to
x.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
🫣 ON TORY IMMIGRATION WARS: “This shambles makes Reform look like a model of competence,” one aide said after Badenoch appeared to confirm U-turn on deporting migrants with indefinite leave to Remain.
🫣 Philp now in damage control after outrage: x.com/CPhilpOffici...
🫣 Philp now in damage control after outrage: x.com/CPhilpOffici...
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October 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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