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Jennifer Williams
@JenWilliams_FT
Northern correspondent, Financial Times. Ex-Manchester Evening News. ‘Cynical’ - Boris Johnson. Also find me on Bluesky. [email protected]
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    Jennifer Williams
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    Aug 31, 2023
    A year ago, I started following how the cost of living crisis was playing out at an Oldham school, checking in with the fantastic @NewmanRC_Head every few weeks. I ended up learning a lot about the British state, and its education system, to boot. on.ft.com/3KYWPWv
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    Jennifer Williams
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    Jan 13, 2022
    Once you realise Number 10 were all drunk all of the time, 2020 starts to make more sense
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    Jennifer Williams
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    Oct 30, 2019
    This is so great.
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    Jennifer Williams
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    May 24, 2020
    ‘I came on your programme to talk about transport matters,’ says Shapps, ‘as my expertise lies in transport.’ ‘Well since your expertise lies in transport, did Dominic Cummings stop off anywhere between London and Durham?’ 🔥 #marr
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    Jennifer Williams
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    Apr 8, 2020
    Happy Wednesday, or whatever the hell day it is
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    Jennifer Williams
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    Mar 4, 2021
    To the cold caller who managed to defraud my very sharp mother out of £350 when she was sick: I'm going to take you down. Good luck.
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    Jennifer Williams
    @JenWilliams_FT
    Feb 1, 2022
    Er yeah sooo... personal news? After eleven and a half years, hundreds of council meetings and what I'm pretty confident has been literally millions of Andy Burnham press conferences, I'm waving goodbye to the wonderful Manchester Evening News, to join the FT as northern corr.
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    Jennifer Williams
    @JenWilliams_FT
    Jul 6, 2022
    This feels like that day where British productivity was put on hold because everyone was watching planes trying to land
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    Jennifer Williams
    @JenWilliams_FT
    Oct 7, 2020
    For the millionth time: there are 15m or so people in the North of England. It isn’t good enough to brief vaguely about ‘people in the north of England’. Which people Where What Do better. I’m trying not to swear or cry
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    Jennifer Williams
    @JenWilliams_FT
    Oct 26, 2022
    I lost my lovely mum two weeks ago, the most deeply compassionate, calmly determined (zero messing) person I’ve ever met and a secretly incredible writer. My normal service may be sporadic for a while, but otherwise I’ll carry her in everything I write x
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    Jennifer Williams
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    Apr 7, 2020
    A few years ago mum started feeding a pregnant cat that had gone it alone from a local farm. A dynasty began. Each morning she now opens the door to a polite queue. Anyway last wk a hedgehog appeared with them...today, he had already risen in stature to the front of the queue 🦔
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    Jennifer Williams
    @JenWilliams_FT
    May 15, 2020
    Don’t want to put current/future journalists off, but I think it’s important to be honest that when you write a story govt could shout at you about, it makes you feel sick. Wobbly, panicky, paranoid. Govt behaves how it does (atm) because it knows it works. And it does. 1/
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    Jennifer Williams
    @JenWilliams_FT
    Dec 12, 2021
    Govt really needs to stop with the ‘but we were working all hours to save the country’ excuse. The NHS were working all hours, social care, local govt, logistics people, vaccine manufacturers, the list goes on. It’s *not a good argument, stop saying it*
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    Jennifer Williams
    @JenWilliams_FT
    Nov 15, 2021
    Tomorrow's Manchester Evening News. We're doing (another, because it's necessary) pan-northern campaign tomorrow with other titles, ahead of the govt rail plan.
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