Sebastian Salek
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· Oct 31
Clear the Lobby
Sebastian Salek explains the laws MPs are voting on this week.
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The NHS just had a record summer.
That’s despite resident doctors striking in July. But no one is talking about it!
4 impressive stats:
That’s despite resident doctors striking in July. But no one is talking about it!
4 impressive stats:
October 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The NHS just had a record summer.
That’s despite resident doctors striking in July. But no one is talking about it!
4 impressive stats:
That’s despite resident doctors striking in July. But no one is talking about it!
4 impressive stats:
Labour can completely win in 2029.
Strangely, the path to a second term is buried in the Caerphilly result.
Here’s a simple explainer:
Strangely, the path to a second term is buried in the Caerphilly result.
Here’s a simple explainer:
October 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Labour can completely win in 2029.
Strangely, the path to a second term is buried in the Caerphilly result.
Here’s a simple explainer:
Strangely, the path to a second term is buried in the Caerphilly result.
Here’s a simple explainer:
Labour has a lot to celebrate this week.
Not all of it made the papers, but there was plenty of good news for progressives.
8 important changes:
Not all of it made the papers, but there was plenty of good news for progressives.
8 important changes:
October 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Labour has a lot to celebrate this week.
Not all of it made the papers, but there was plenty of good news for progressives.
8 important changes:
Not all of it made the papers, but there was plenty of good news for progressives.
8 important changes:
It was a great week to be Labour.
There’s plenty of good news to celebrate as members head to conference.
7 highlights:
There’s plenty of good news to celebrate as members head to conference.
7 highlights:
September 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It was a great week to be Labour.
There’s plenty of good news to celebrate as members head to conference.
7 highlights:
There’s plenty of good news to celebrate as members head to conference.
7 highlights:
Foreigners aren’t coming here to live off benefits.
We have the stats to prove it.
So let’s kill this MYTH once and for all.
We have the stats to prove it.
So let’s kill this MYTH once and for all.
September 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Foreigners aren’t coming here to live off benefits.
We have the stats to prove it.
So let’s kill this MYTH once and for all.
We have the stats to prove it.
So let’s kill this MYTH once and for all.
There’s no limit to who Farage will come for.
First it was asylum seekers, now it’s legal migrants like my parents.
I don’t want to know where this ends.
First it was asylum seekers, now it’s legal migrants like my parents.
I don’t want to know where this ends.
September 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
There’s no limit to who Farage will come for.
First it was asylum seekers, now it’s legal migrants like my parents.
I don’t want to know where this ends.
First it was asylum seekers, now it’s legal migrants like my parents.
I don’t want to know where this ends.
Growth is so back.
Labour has secured *£150 billion* from some of America’s biggest companies.
Here’s who’s investing (and where the money is going):
Labour has secured *£150 billion* from some of America’s biggest companies.
Here’s who’s investing (and where the money is going):
September 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Growth is so back.
Labour has secured *£150 billion* from some of America’s biggest companies.
Here’s who’s investing (and where the money is going):
Labour has secured *£150 billion* from some of America’s biggest companies.
Here’s who’s investing (and where the money is going):
London is getting measurably safer.
As Trump visits our capital, new stats prove crime there has PLUMMETED over the last year.
4 facts to celebrate:
As Trump visits our capital, new stats prove crime there has PLUMMETED over the last year.
4 facts to celebrate:
September 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
London is getting measurably safer.
As Trump visits our capital, new stats prove crime there has PLUMMETED over the last year.
4 facts to celebrate:
As Trump visits our capital, new stats prove crime there has PLUMMETED over the last year.
4 facts to celebrate:
Nigel Farage is the king of the U-turn.
He changes his mind so often, it's easy to think he'll say anything for attention.
9 telling reversals:
He changes his mind so often, it's easy to think he'll say anything for attention.
9 telling reversals:
September 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Nigel Farage is the king of the U-turn.
He changes his mind so often, it's easy to think he'll say anything for attention.
9 telling reversals:
He changes his mind so often, it's easy to think he'll say anything for attention.
9 telling reversals:
Reform’s polling lead is astonishingly brittle.
The headline numbers may look impressive, but the underlying data reveals a fundamental weakness.
4 major headaches for Farage:
The headline numbers may look impressive, but the underlying data reveals a fundamental weakness.
4 major headaches for Farage:
September 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Reform’s polling lead is astonishingly brittle.
The headline numbers may look impressive, but the underlying data reveals a fundamental weakness.
4 major headaches for Farage:
The headline numbers may look impressive, but the underlying data reveals a fundamental weakness.
4 major headaches for Farage:
Reform isn’t a political party. It’s a corporate lobbying firm.
The business model is simple. Wealthy elites pay Farage to push policies that could make them millions.
4 infuriating examples:
The business model is simple. Wealthy elites pay Farage to push policies that could make them millions.
4 infuriating examples:
August 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Reform isn’t a political party. It’s a corporate lobbying firm.
The business model is simple. Wealthy elites pay Farage to push policies that could make them millions.
4 infuriating examples:
The business model is simple. Wealthy elites pay Farage to push policies that could make them millions.
4 infuriating examples:
You know you’ve won when your opponent gives up and just starts reading out insults.
August 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
You know you’ve won when your opponent gives up and just starts reading out insults.
Councils bringing asylum hotel legal cases are failing residents.
Because they're gambling their taxes on one BIG assumption.
And if it goes wrong, it’ll be disastrous: 🧵
Because they're gambling their taxes on one BIG assumption.
And if it goes wrong, it’ll be disastrous: 🧵
August 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Councils bringing asylum hotel legal cases are failing residents.
Because they're gambling their taxes on one BIG assumption.
And if it goes wrong, it’ll be disastrous: 🧵
Because they're gambling their taxes on one BIG assumption.
And if it goes wrong, it’ll be disastrous: 🧵
The Tories have zero credibility left on small boats.
Chris Philp can make all the videos he wants. Everyone is asking the same question:
“You had a decade to solve this. So why didn’t you?”
Chris Philp can make all the videos he wants. Everyone is asking the same question:
“You had a decade to solve this. So why didn’t you?”
August 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The Tories have zero credibility left on small boats.
Chris Philp can make all the videos he wants. Everyone is asking the same question:
“You had a decade to solve this. So why didn’t you?”
Chris Philp can make all the videos he wants. Everyone is asking the same question:
“You had a decade to solve this. So why didn’t you?”
Farage is desperately trying to sabotage Britain's recovery.
Reform tried to block some genuinely transformative laws. The polls would look very different if we talked about this more.
5 examples:
Reform tried to block some genuinely transformative laws. The polls would look very different if we talked about this more.
5 examples:
August 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Farage is desperately trying to sabotage Britain's recovery.
Reform tried to block some genuinely transformative laws. The polls would look very different if we talked about this more.
5 examples:
Reform tried to block some genuinely transformative laws. The polls would look very different if we talked about this more.
5 examples:
Britain is the safest it’s been in decades.
The data backs it up.
But sadly, pretend patriots like Farage and Jenrick only ever talk our country down.
The data backs it up.
But sadly, pretend patriots like Farage and Jenrick only ever talk our country down.
August 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Britain is the safest it’s been in decades.
The data backs it up.
But sadly, pretend patriots like Farage and Jenrick only ever talk our country down.
The data backs it up.
But sadly, pretend patriots like Farage and Jenrick only ever talk our country down.
Labour’s migrant deal is basically a startup.
So if it doesn’t work perfectly first time, that’s OK.
The real test is whether they keep iterating until it does.
So if it doesn’t work perfectly first time, that’s OK.
The real test is whether they keep iterating until it does.
August 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Labour’s migrant deal is basically a startup.
So if it doesn’t work perfectly first time, that’s OK.
The real test is whether they keep iterating until it does.
So if it doesn’t work perfectly first time, that’s OK.
The real test is whether they keep iterating until it does.
Busy day out of the office, chatting to:
• Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 at 12pm
• Jacob Rees-Mogg on GB News at 8pm
Talking about how Rachel Reeves can fix the awful mess the Tories left our country in, among other things.
• Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 at 12pm
• Jacob Rees-Mogg on GB News at 8pm
Talking about how Rachel Reeves can fix the awful mess the Tories left our country in, among other things.
August 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Busy day out of the office, chatting to:
• Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 at 12pm
• Jacob Rees-Mogg on GB News at 8pm
Talking about how Rachel Reeves can fix the awful mess the Tories left our country in, among other things.
• Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 at 12pm
• Jacob Rees-Mogg on GB News at 8pm
Talking about how Rachel Reeves can fix the awful mess the Tories left our country in, among other things.
The most dangerous stat you’ll read today:
“1 in 8 prisoners were born overseas”
It’s being weaponised by far-right figures to stoke fear.
But here’s the crucial detail they’re not telling you:
“1 in 8 prisoners were born overseas”
It’s being weaponised by far-right figures to stoke fear.
But here’s the crucial detail they’re not telling you:
August 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The most dangerous stat you’ll read today:
“1 in 8 prisoners were born overseas”
It’s being weaponised by far-right figures to stoke fear.
But here’s the crucial detail they’re not telling you:
“1 in 8 prisoners were born overseas”
It’s being weaponised by far-right figures to stoke fear.
But here’s the crucial detail they’re not telling you:
London is thriving. And the right can’t stand it.
They talk down our capital constantly, but the city is measurably becoming a better place to live.
6 facts that shatter their doom narrative:
They talk down our capital constantly, but the city is measurably becoming a better place to live.
6 facts that shatter their doom narrative:
July 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
London is thriving. And the right can’t stand it.
They talk down our capital constantly, but the city is measurably becoming a better place to live.
6 facts that shatter their doom narrative:
They talk down our capital constantly, but the city is measurably becoming a better place to live.
6 facts that shatter their doom narrative:
It was a great week to be Labour.
Votes at 16 rightly grabbed the headlines, but there was plenty more good news for progressives.
7 things to celebrate: 🧵
Votes at 16 rightly grabbed the headlines, but there was plenty more good news for progressives.
7 things to celebrate: 🧵
July 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
It was a great week to be Labour.
Votes at 16 rightly grabbed the headlines, but there was plenty more good news for progressives.
7 things to celebrate: 🧵
Votes at 16 rightly grabbed the headlines, but there was plenty more good news for progressives.
7 things to celebrate: 🧵
“That’s *extremely* patronising”
Young people are sick of being talked down to.
Our country is a better place when 16 and 17-year-olds have a say in their future!
Young people are sick of being talked down to.
Our country is a better place when 16 and 17-year-olds have a say in their future!
July 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
“That’s *extremely* patronising”
Young people are sick of being talked down to.
Our country is a better place when 16 and 17-year-olds have a say in their future!
Young people are sick of being talked down to.
Our country is a better place when 16 and 17-year-olds have a say in their future!
The Telegraph is no longer a newspaper.
It’s a Labour attack unit. A hit job every hour, like clockwork.
Tell me you’re rattled without telling me you’re rattled.
It’s a Labour attack unit. A hit job every hour, like clockwork.
Tell me you’re rattled without telling me you’re rattled.
July 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The Telegraph is no longer a newspaper.
It’s a Labour attack unit. A hit job every hour, like clockwork.
Tell me you’re rattled without telling me you’re rattled.
It’s a Labour attack unit. A hit job every hour, like clockwork.
Tell me you’re rattled without telling me you’re rattled.
Experts are warning the economy is about to implode!
Well, that’s what GB news wants you to think. It’s a masterclass in cherrypicking and scaremongering.
Let’s reveal the truth together… 🧵
Well, that’s what GB news wants you to think. It’s a masterclass in cherrypicking and scaremongering.
Let’s reveal the truth together… 🧵
July 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Experts are warning the economy is about to implode!
Well, that’s what GB news wants you to think. It’s a masterclass in cherrypicking and scaremongering.
Let’s reveal the truth together… 🧵
Well, that’s what GB news wants you to think. It’s a masterclass in cherrypicking and scaremongering.
Let’s reveal the truth together… 🧵
There’s a VERY good reason asylum seekers get circus tickets and Amazon parcels.
But the Mail on Sunday was never going to tell you that.
Here’s the crucial detail they left out: 🧵
But the Mail on Sunday was never going to tell you that.
Here’s the crucial detail they left out: 🧵
July 14, 2025 at 9:32 AM
There’s a VERY good reason asylum seekers get circus tickets and Amazon parcels.
But the Mail on Sunday was never going to tell you that.
Here’s the crucial detail they left out: 🧵
But the Mail on Sunday was never going to tell you that.
Here’s the crucial detail they left out: 🧵