Coverage for our #PoliticsHub event in Grimsby

“Sunak lacks charisma and I’m more Reform than most Reform candidates, Tory MP says” - Telegraph

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Breaking news Sophy Ridge is very happy at the moment

Patrick, the owner of one of the earliest fish smokers in Grimsby tells Sophy Ridge he thinks the town is 'often dumbed down'.

Instead he says the town is doing well, adding: 'All the major fish processing companies are thriving, they're successful.'

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'A word that springs into your mind when I say Rishi Sunak?' - Sophy Ridge

'We didn't vote for him,' says one audience member.

Listen to the other answers👇

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'If I say Keir Starmer, what word pops into your head?' - Sophy Ridge

Listen to what the live Politics Hub audience thought👇

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Watch how we build the Politics Hub set👇

Sophy Ridge will present Politics Hub from the Grimsby Central Hall and will be joined by residents to talk about the state of politics in the UK.

⏰ Tonight at 7pm
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On my way up to Grimsby 🚂 (can you tell I haven’t brushed my hair yet 😂)

If you’re free at 7pm this eve do join us for #PoliticsHub - I’m really excited about our special live show

We’ve got new polling showing a collapse in trust for politicians & we want to find out why

🗳️ Target Towns like Grimsby and Cleethorpes will help decide who wins the next election.

Join Sophy Ridge for a Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge special programme live from the key constituency prized by both Conservatives and Labour.

📅 Tonight
⏰ 7pm
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Conservative source: “It’s not down the back of the sofa. It’s fully costed from r&d and civil service headcount counts that we’d announced”

'I'm really not sure how it's possible to find £75bn down the back of the sofa''

Sophy Ridge shares her thoughts after the UK government promised to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2030

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👀Shadow cabinet members goes further than Keir Starmer earlier.....

Labour’s Steve Reed tells me Labour would want to match the Conservative commitment to 2.5% of GDP on defence by 2030

“Just to be crystal clear, you would like Labour to commit to saying that you'll spend 2.5% of GDP on defence by 2030?”

“That's right”

Full interview 7pm…

Coming up on the #PoliticsHub at 7pm…

The Conservatives have today committed to spending 2.5% of GDP on defence by 2030, at an extra cost of £75bn

Just to give a sense of the size of that commitment - the annual schools budget is £60bn

📢 Coming up on #PoliticsHub with Sophy Ridge…

🔴 Former armed forces minister Rt Hon James Heappey MP
🔴 Labour MP Steve Reed
🔴 Baroness Sayeeda Warsi
🔴 Former home secretary Jacqui Smith

⏰ 7pm
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🗳️ Target Towns like Grimsby and Cleethorpes will help decide who wins the next election.

Join Sophy Ridge for a Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge special programme live from the key constituency prized by both Conservatives and Labour.

📅 Thursday 25 April
⏰ 7pm
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'You can put your sleeping bags away for the night' - Sophy Ridge

Sky's Jon Craig breaks down how the vote on the Rwanda bill will be carried out in parliament tonight.

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Which former PM was seen vomiting behind the Speaker’s chair after three bottles of port?

Test your knowledge of Parliament’s late night sittings in our #PoliticsHub quiz 👇

.Danny Kruger says that 'there's a bigger story here than the Rwanda Bill - membership of the ECHR is incompatible with our democracy and we need to leave it - it will be a big battleground of the next election.'

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