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Very curious to know whether @CCHQPress and @KemiBadenoch are comfortable with a Conservative MP using "Yookay" to describe people who have British citizenship but somehow aren't quite really British. Is there an easy way we can spot these people?
The fact that the state has also given 81% of these social tenants born abroad Yookay citizenship (as well as a million quid of lifetime rental subsidy) isn’t really the counterpoint you think it is.
Yesterday's SKETCH was filed before we got the Cabinet appointments, but there were already hints of the weirdest thing about the Coming of Burnham: the self-congratulation of the Labour Party at its defeat of its ancient enemy, the Labour Party. thecritic.co.uk/burnhams-begin…