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RIGHT JABS
Ex-vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi insisted his new leader Nigel Farage didn't think the Tories failed on Covid – but Farage's own words say otherwise.

BREXIT WOUNDS
A Commons business select committee hearing has heard the harsh realities of post-Brexit exporting, with trade numbers down and red tape very much up.

LOWE PRESSURE
Rupert Lowe MP loves to pose as a protector of women and children, but when there was talk of banning X over Grok's nudification he sided with the platform.

PETER'S CONVERSION
Lord Mandelson's attempt to rehabilitate his image could hardly have gone worse. If only he were on good terms with a strategic advice company…

CALLED TO ORDURE
Junior Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons was selected as the government's punchbag to answer a Tory urgent question about the U-turn on digital IDs.

TRAFALGAR FARE
Labour peer Lord McNicol, who was found to have breached the Lords' code of conduct last year, has been hired as a "strategic adviser" by Trafalgar Strategy.

NET ZERO SUM GAME
The Institute of Economic Affairs has claimed transition to net zero could cost the UK more than £9tn – but its numbers are way out.

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Code of silence
How Samaritans bosses shut down dissent

Mullah lite
The Guardian's Iran problem

Moscow rules
Robert Jenrick, Reform UK and Russia

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