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37 phrases that sum up a wild 2024 in British politics

37 phrases that sum up a wild 2024 in British politics


As the mud settles on one other wild one, let POLITICO enable you reminisce by rattling via, in no explicit order, the 37 phrases on each extremely-online political kind’s lips this 12 months.

TWO-TIER JUSTICE: A giant speaking level of comeback child Nigel Farage and his followers. They argued that the British justice system handled white and far-right individuals extra harshly, a principle described by one prime cop this 12 months as “nonsense” and an indication that “individuals don’t wish to hearken to the info.” Welcome to the 2020s, pal.

ELON: The Musk man Farage desperately wished to woo — and Prime Minister Keir Starmer desperately wished to mute on X. A famous scholar on the finer factors of the British justice system.

GAMBLEGATE: Member of a deeply unpopular party heading for electoral oblivion? May as properly make *checks notes* £500 on the best way out.

STORM SHADOW: An enormous and severe debate about deepening U.Okay. involvement in Ukraine centered on missiles with a Bond villain identify. Allowed numerous boring political journalists to really feel like they have been in a movie for a bit of bit.

SUPERMAJORITY: Known by normies as a “working majority,” Sunak tried out this one to terrify pensioners about an unchecked, rabidly Marxist Starmer on the unfastened.

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