Jessica Elgot
@jessicaelgot.bsky.social
I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster
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New statement from the MoJ just dropped (never great if you are still having to clarify at 9pm)
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
New statement from the MoJ just dropped (never great if you are still having to clarify at 9pm)
ok fine here's the one outside No10 (there were just more MPs in the other picture)
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
ok fine here's the one outside No10 (there were just more MPs in the other picture)
Clearly a campaign that resonates but it’s interesting how MPs feel they have to literally hold up signs outside No10 to signal what they want from the Budget. Don’t recall this ever happening before when a party is in government…
November 4, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Clearly a campaign that resonates but it’s interesting how MPs feel they have to literally hold up signs outside No10 to signal what they want from the Budget. Don’t recall this ever happening before when a party is in government…
How does this timid quote tally with what Keir Starmer said in his speech - and in his interviews - just a fortnight ago?
October 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
How does this timid quote tally with what Keir Starmer said in his speech - and in his interviews - just a fortnight ago?
Not really the main point for these witnesses statements but this is unbelievably low grade stuff to be passing on.
Tugendhat did not in fact get a cabinet job and Jeremy Hunt endorsed Rishi Sunak. Did the Chinese realise how crap all this intelligence was?
Tugendhat did not in fact get a cabinet job and Jeremy Hunt endorsed Rishi Sunak. Did the Chinese realise how crap all this intelligence was?
October 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Not really the main point for these witnesses statements but this is unbelievably low grade stuff to be passing on.
Tugendhat did not in fact get a cabinet job and Jeremy Hunt endorsed Rishi Sunak. Did the Chinese realise how crap all this intelligence was?
Tugendhat did not in fact get a cabinet job and Jeremy Hunt endorsed Rishi Sunak. Did the Chinese realise how crap all this intelligence was?
Good write up for the PM in the Indian press - he won’t want to leave
October 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Good write up for the PM in the Indian press - he won’t want to leave
Hello from Mumbai where Keir Starmer is meeting India’s prime minister Modi tomorrow with a huge business and culture delegation.
This is the road from the airport - imagine around 1000 of each of these signs along the entire motorway into town
This is the road from the airport - imagine around 1000 of each of these signs along the entire motorway into town
October 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Hello from Mumbai where Keir Starmer is meeting India’s prime minister Modi tomorrow with a huge business and culture delegation.
This is the road from the airport - imagine around 1000 of each of these signs along the entire motorway into town
This is the road from the airport - imagine around 1000 of each of these signs along the entire motorway into town
Today at Tory party conference there is a Rally for Liberty featuring many shadow ministers railing against assaults on civil liberties including the tobacco and vapes bill and the police crime and sentencing bill which curtailed protest rights
October 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Today at Tory party conference there is a Rally for Liberty featuring many shadow ministers railing against assaults on civil liberties including the tobacco and vapes bill and the police crime and sentencing bill which curtailed protest rights
I suppose it doesn’t “require a proper national debate” after all
September 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I suppose it doesn’t “require a proper national debate” after all
The split in Your Party has broken into the open.
Jeremy Corbyn urges supporters not to donate to the link promoted by Zarah Sultana. Sultana responds calling it a "sexist boys club."
Jeremy Corbyn urges supporters not to donate to the link promoted by Zarah Sultana. Sultana responds calling it a "sexist boys club."
September 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The split in Your Party has broken into the open.
Jeremy Corbyn urges supporters not to donate to the link promoted by Zarah Sultana. Sultana responds calling it a "sexist boys club."
Jeremy Corbyn urges supporters not to donate to the link promoted by Zarah Sultana. Sultana responds calling it a "sexist boys club."
In a long list of extraordinary things that have happened today, this strength of this statement by Andy Burnham's new movement is something else. A proper shot across the bows.
September 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
In a long list of extraordinary things that have happened today, this strength of this statement by Andy Burnham's new movement is something else. A proper shot across the bows.
Guys it’s been like three days
August 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Guys it’s been like three days
Starmer’s letter in reply is quite brief
August 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Starmer’s letter in reply is quite brief
Cracking column from @willhaycardiff.bsky.social on the Welsh Tories
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July 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Cracking column from @willhaycardiff.bsky.social on the Welsh Tories
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July 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This doesn’t pull many punches
July 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This doesn’t pull many punches
These new bars around the Palace of Westminster are certainly one of those things nodded through Parliament without much thought - but *my god* it looks terrible. And it symbolically and physically enforces that separation between politicians and people - which is very bad in the current climate
July 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
These new bars around the Palace of Westminster are certainly one of those things nodded through Parliament without much thought - but *my god* it looks terrible. And it symbolically and physically enforces that separation between politicians and people - which is very bad in the current climate
Seven years since this gem on BBC News
July 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Seven years since this gem on BBC News
Quite a bold move to do this just before playing Glastonbury
June 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Quite a bold move to do this just before playing Glastonbury
Love this euphemism in the NYT
June 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Love this euphemism in the NYT
The welfare rebellion in full - here are the 108 names on the reasoned amendment
June 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The welfare rebellion in full - here are the 108 names on the reasoned amendment