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Robert Jenrick
@robertjenrick· Reform UK· Aug 18, 2026

Those who need them, under a Reform government, will continue to receive them but those people who are shirking, who are taking advantage, they will be reassessed and they will be helped back into the workplace.

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Bayo Alaba
@bayoalaba· Independent· Aug 18, 2026

I've referred myself to the Labour Party's investigations process on the matter and I'll cooperate fully.

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Bayo Alaba
@bayoalaba· Independent· Aug 18, 2026

There has been no attempt to avoid my financial obligations, and I am wholeheartedly committed to ensuring that the liability is met in full.

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Bayo Alaba
@bayoalaba· Independent· Aug 18, 2026

Like many businesses and entrepreneurs, I accessed financial support during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Lilian Greenwood
@liliangreenwood· Labour Party· Aug 18, 2026

The change was an indefinite commitment rather than a short-term policy.

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Tim Hodgson
@timhodgson· Liberal Party of Canada· Aug 18, 2026

Given what’s going on in the world right now, that we’re in a more dangerous world, we’re in a more volatile world, we’re staring down the barrel of unfair and unjust tariffs designed to hurt our economy… I can’t understand in that…

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Jenny Kwan
@jennykwan· New Democratic Party· Aug 18, 2026

(Candidate screening) does not become a vehicle for racial or ethnic profiling.

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Jenny Kwan
@jennykwan· New Democratic Party· Aug 18, 2026

The government needs to conduct a comprehensive review of how this individual was vetted and cleared for a sensitive NATO posting, including the role played by Global Affairs Canada, CSIS and the RCMP,

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Dane Lloyd
@danelloyd· Conservative Party of Canada· Aug 18, 2026

Canadians are, rightly, very concerned, when we’ve seen multiple cases in the past number of years, related people who have been given national security classifications who have been found to be committing acts of espionage,

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Pierre Poilievre
@pierrepoilievre· Conservative Party of Canada· Aug 18, 2026

It’s time for Mark Carney to keep his promise that he would negotiate a win and get the tariffs off Canadian softwood lumber.

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Dominic LeBlanc
@dominicleblanc· Liberal Party of Canada· Aug 18, 2026

Nous allons continuer à travailler; notre travail n'est pas encore terminé.

We're going to continue working; our job is not yet done.

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Richard Tice
@richardtice· Reform UK· Aug 18, 2026

When it’s a bit warm, let’s enjoy it. And if it means that English wine and sparkling wine gets better and better, fantastic,” he said. “That means we can take on the French — fantastic.

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Richard Tice
@richardtice· Reform UK· Aug 18, 2026

“Climate change has always happened. It always will. Maybe the smarter thing to do is to adapt to it than think arrogantly that you can stop it,” Tice said at a press conference Monday.

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
@volodymyrzelenskyy· Aug 18, 2026

And it is equally important that our partners also complement our just kinetic responses with their own actions to put pressure on Russia and support Ukraine.

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
@volodymyrzelenskyy· Aug 18, 2026

This morning, the Russians launched a brutal attack on a busy intersection in Pechenihy, Kharkiv region – a location with a post office and stores, surrounded only by residential buildings.

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Nick Smith
@nicksmith· Labour Party· Aug 18, 2026

It certainly is going to have to be more than that.

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Itamar Ben-Gvir
@itamarbengvir· Jewish Power· Aug 18, 2026

There are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn't live. They're not even people.

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