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Harry Yorke
@HarryYorke1
Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord @GenGJenkinsRM | Royal Navy
London, England
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    Harry Yorke
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    Dec 18, 2025
    Some personal news: after more than a decade in journalism, I’m delighted to be joining the Royal Navy from March as the Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord I want to thank @GenGJenkinsRM and his team for giving me this incredible opportunity. 1/3
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    Harry Yorke
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    Mar 7, 2022
    Boris Johnson says it is “simply incorrect” to say he intervened in Lebedev’s peerage after Holac’s initial rejection based on a security assessment. His denial is at direct odds with the multiple sources The Sunday Times spoke to, and later those who confirm story to @Peston
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    Harry Yorke
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    May 29, 2022
    EXCLUSIVE: The Sunday Times has seen messages from Carrie Johnson, appearing to show she had a gathering in No11 flat on evening of PM's 56th birthday They are the first hard evidence of a gathering in flat - and for the first time, no1 is denying 1/ thetimes.co.uk/article/unseen…
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    Harry Yorke
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    Mar 19, 2022
    EXCLUSIVE: PM attended a secret Tory fundraising dinner attended by at least one donor with Russian links on the night Putin invade Ukraine He told the approx 75 attendees he needed to leave early to deal with the crisis. Gove and Wallace also there thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-…
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    Harry Yorke
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    May 20, 2023
    EXCLUSIVE 🚨: Suella Braverman asked Home Office civil servants to help her avoid a speeding fine and points on her licence by arranging a private one-to-one driving awareness course Serious Qs over whether she may have breached ministerial code 1/4
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    Suella Braverman: No 10 has ‘full confidence’ despite row over speeding course
    Suella Braverman asked civil servants to help her avoid a speeding fine and points on her licence by arranging a private one-to-one driving awareness course. Th
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    Harry Yorke
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    May 26, 2020
    Having spoken to a few Labour contacts today, clear Sir Keir Starmer's strategy on Cummings is to keep quiet and let Conservative MPs do all the talking. Told that when asked who was doing the broadcast round for the party this morning, one official replied: "Michael Gove".
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    Harry Yorke
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    Oct 22, 2019
    John Mann chuckling away in the background as Anna Soubry says a general election "will solve nothing". "It would get rid of you," he quips.
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    Harry Yorke
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    May 28, 2022
    There is more to come on partygate… Make sure you pick up a copy of The Sunday Times tomorrow 👀
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    Harry Yorke
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    Apr 12, 2022
    Just spotted Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 committee, in Parliament Wonder what he's doing here during recess (coincidence?)👀
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    Harry Yorke
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    Mar 13, 2022
    Striking feature of our Lebedev report is how officials around Johnson have been raising eyebrows for a decade - several from City Hall say he should have known of MI6 concerns - one from Foreign Office said they were alarmed at trips to Italy - No10 aides objected to peerage
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    Harry Yorke
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    Apr 5, 2025
    Exclusive: Russian sensors attempting to spy on Britain's nuclear submarines have been found by the British military in UK waters The discovery was deemed a threat to nation security and has never been made public - until now 1/5
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    Revealed: Russia’s secret war in UK waters
    Russian sensors trying to track nuclear submarines have been found in a campaign of ‘greyzone’ warfare that also targets our energy and internet. Even oligarchs’ superyachts are in on it
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    Harry Yorke
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    Jan 7, 2024
    Exclusive: Alan Bates became so exasperated with Ed Davey (when post office minister) he stopped engaging with him He told Davey in 2011: "having nailed your colours to [Post Office's] mast...there was little point in continuing a dialogue with you" 1/
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    How Ed Davey and ministers shrugged off warnings about Post Office scandal
    Correspondence between the campaigner Alan Bates and Ed Davey and his successors reveals how they continued to toe the line on Horizon
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    Harry Yorke
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    Oct 31, 2022
    Sir Roger Gale, the local MP at Manston, says that originally he thought the Home Office had found it difficult to find new hotels to transfer migrants. This morning he tells BBCR4T he’s been told it was a deliberate policy decision not to book hotels
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    Harry Yorke
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    Jan 22, 2019
    James Dyson, the business face of Brexit, has announced that Dyson will move its corporate head office to Singapore. Unbelievable.