Pippa Crerar ✓
@PippaCrerar · London, Scotland · joined 06 Apr 2010
Political Editor, The Guardian. Host of Politics Weekly podcast. Co-presenter @itvpeston Political Journalist of the Year 2026 @pressawardsuk
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@PippaCrerar @guardian It’s meaningless because they will have bankrupted the country long before this and reality will require the total abandonment of this absurd folly.
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@PippaCrerar @guardian When your energy bills go sky-high this winter, you can freeze easily knowing that it was the vanity project known as Net Zero that led you to that situation.
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@PippaCrerar @guardian There won’t be a UK left in 2050 at this rate..
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EXCL: The UK must fully commit to reaching net zero by 2050, Andy Burnham argues in the @guardian. In his strongest comments yet, he says it's no longer possible for Brits to believe they're not already affected by climate change.
The UK must “believe in itself”, he says, as he
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@PippaCrerar Social security in this context means the cohesion, stability and trust that holds a society together.
That’s not the same as welfare or benefits.
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@PippaCrerar Translation: I can't do a f***ing thing with these Economically illiterate idiots behind me.
Bond Market 👎 https://t.co/XtwNm4DCY0
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@PippaCrerar No @PippaCrerar you missed out the part we have all known but he fluffed his lines and said in terms
"National security cannot come at the expense of social security"
Er....yes it can fella, its the prime duty of the state to defend its people
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NEW: Andy Burnham appears to rule out cutting welfare to fund defence spending - as the Tories have suggested. (He says their plans to cut £4bn from housing allowance would create homelessness).
“Yes, we do everything to support our national security, but it can't come at the
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Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film -
our @rowenamason’s take on a remarkable story 👇
https://t.co/MA1rjqowsk
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@PippaCrerar @Channel4News https://t.co/6LS3k3fjvD
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@PippaCrerar @Channel4News They spent a bloody year filming meetings with Reform and only came out with a 30min report with 20mins of edited quotes! Have a word.
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@PippaCrerar @Channel4News Why is the Electoral Commission not investigating? When do the police start their criminal investigation? Farage and Orr need to resign. Disgraceful greedy con artists.
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“It worked, boom” - Nigel Farage
Very problematic for Reform UK… worth watching in full
@Channel4News
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🚨We're back! @kiranstacey and I discuss:
Can Zack Polanski win Keir Starmer’s old seat? The inside track on whether local Green party will back him - and what it all means for Andy Burnham.
What does Nigel Farage need from his annual conference - with Reform slipping in the
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NEW: Zack Polanski confirms he *will* put his name forward to local Green members to run in Keir Starmer’s old constituency.
Local members are supportive of their party leader running, our @LexyTopping reported yesterday, with no clear local activist with significant support
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@PippaCrerar A step up from recent PMs.
Confident & punchy. He unpacked some of the self inflicted ‘structural problems’ that have held us back - many dating back to decisions made in 1980s.
Such as the privatisation and a lack of investment eg in the regions, jobs, justice, s
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@PippaCrerar I thought he was brilliant ,nearly 3 hours and had a good solid answer for anything that got thrown at him
He handed both @TiceRichard and @KemiBadenoch their arses ..and I feel quite hopeful for the future after hearing him
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@PippaCrerar ‘Change begins with honesty’.
I’m surprised people didn’t fall off their seats laughing.
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Andy Burnham, in his first Commons appearance as PM, says British people want "much more substantial change" on biggest issues facing country.
"That is what I will bring. Britain is not where any of us would wish it to be. Things are not working as they should."
He says UK has
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Holborn & St Pancras will be a tricky first byelection test for Andy Burnham in a seat where the Greens will fancy their chances.
Green party spox: "Zack has always made it clear he would like to be a London MP. London has been his home for over 20 years."
Polanski told
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@PippaCrerar Who can blame him? Shocking from the likes of you, Pippa, but mission accomplished eh?
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Starmer tells his local paper @NewJournal he feels it’s the “right time” to leave the House of Commons and focus on international affairs, after his ousting as prime minister by Andy Burnham.
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BREAKING: Keir Starmer announces he is standing down as an MP, prompting a byelection in his North London constituency.
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@PippaCrerar @hettiewagtail And you idiots campaigned relentlessly, together with the rest of the media, to bring him down. The man who put Britain back on the global stage, repaired our relationship to EU, and did a lot of good stuff back home which is now bearing fruit.
Fucking
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@PippaCrerar This is so special & deserved for our PM Keir Starmer. It's wonderful that President Macron appreciates Keir Starmers dedication & rewards his hard work with this special award.The "coalition of the willing" is a great legacy for Keir Starmer & our UK/European relati
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@PippaCrerar Weak man presents weak man with an award. How fitting. What a shame @Keir_Starmer wasn’t too bothered about securing our borders and ensuring every British woman and girl was safe during two years in power.
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EXCL: Keir Starmer has become first UK PM to be presented with Légion d’honneur by French president, in recognition of his work on security of Europe.
Emmanuel Macron awarded the historic honour to Starmer for his l'ship in setting up coalition of the willing at a critical
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@PippaCrerar A real one-off, a great journalist and a lovely guy. Very sad.
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@PippaCrerar A brilliant reporter and a lovely man
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Very sad to hear that the great David Hencke has died.
A brave reporter who never shied away from holding power account - cash for questions and the Peter Mandelson loan scandal were just two of his many history-defining scoops.
He was also a lovely man: generous to
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Against accounts of the same size
23 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.
Median views1 981this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %0.41%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %2.79%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 1 981 | 5 983 | 0.33× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 0.41% | 1.49% | 0.27× |
| Engagement rate | 2.79% | 0.93% | 3.01× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
20.3K3 Sep
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90.9K9 Sep
791
239
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.12%3 Sep
2.11%
2.79%
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8.75%
2.91%
0.62%9 Sep
4.55%
5.44%
12.00%
0.29%17 Sep
13.44%
9.04%
9.63%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes69.7%19 160 in total
Reposts12.3%3 393 in total
Replies12.6%3 467 in total
Quotes2.3%633 in total
Bookmarks3.0%829 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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