Sam Coates Sky ✓
@SamCoatesSky · London · joined 27 Feb 2009
Sam Coates, Deputy Political Editor, Sky News 📺📰🎙️ Politics at Sam and Anne’s podcast🎙️TV by @JoeCookJ
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@SamCoatesSky Andy Burnham is Keir Starmer part 2.
More failed socialist ideas, with a huge dose of deception and lies.
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@SamCoatesSky Is that your exclusive/scoop? "Labour govt changes leadership team but continues with the manifesto it was elected on?"
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Exclusive:
A massive leak from the heart of Downing Street reveals how much Andy Burnham appears to have borrowed from Keir Starmer's plans since entering Number 10. I've obtained a 50 page bundle of presentations, strategy ideas and policy submissions drawn up in April in an
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Lee Anderson, the chair of Reform UK, is speaking to Sky News this morning.
Asked about the report last night on Channel 4, appearing to show Reform officials James Orr, the party's head of policy, and Dan Jukes, a close aide to Nigel Farage, arranging for a US company to fund
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Just how close the Greens ran Labour in the Holborn and St Pancras constituency at the last election https://t.co/GqzcjkGhBg
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Exc Full Kemi Badenoch interview - she justifies spending £10bn today even tho economic red lights are flashing. 4 mins.
https://t.co/8C5MGU8BDX
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Kemi Badenoch today announced she found £10b+ of savings (from welfare) to spend (on defence).
But given the global red flashing economic warning lights, I ask: is it wise to be spending more at this time? And how worried is she about the economy?
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EXC: I interview Kemi Badenoch on global economic instability and rising borrowing costs - and her own economic choices
** Badenoch on global borrowing rise: “In very worried about the economic situation”
** But why in today's announcement spend the savings (on welfare) she's
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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch tells @SamCoatesSky that she's "very worried about the current economic situation".
She was speaking as government borrowing costs reached their highest point since the global financial crisis. https://t.co/tQq4lkcWhf
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In your feeds, Monday to Thursday, by 8am. Search for "Politics at Sam and Anne's". Everything about the day ahead in British politics in 20 minutes. In your podcast app, now in vision on YouTube too https://t.co/AZQmdIGPRE
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As part of the new visualised version of Politics at Sam and Anne's, we will be sharing charts and data on screen while we talk.
Today, Ed Conway's screen early on (at 3:00) , then after 19:00 watch the analysis of the local election 2026 results in the wards in the Holburn and
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YouGov / Sky / Times weekly voting intention
RefUK 23(nc)
LAB 23%(+1),
CON 20%(nc)
GRN 13%(nc)
LDEM 12%(-1)
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What’s actually different about Andy Burnham? Watch to find out my answer: https://t.co/CzRqwxGzvX
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Sky’s election analyst Rob Ford with his snap assessment of the Holborn and St Pancras byelection:
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@SamCoatesSky This is how the #BurnhamCOUP worked !
Now we have the 1st oligarchical government with one leader in control of everything including the DIP budget.
Healey should resign.
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@SamCoatesSky A reminder...
https://t.co/WYGiXR2Msp
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@SamCoatesSky 😂 very principled 3% spending on defence or I walk gets Starmer out to get the second biggest job in politics from Burnham than “what 3%” Labour through & through!
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EXC: Chancellor John Healey’s start of term interview.
He tells me:
- Burnham is running a “continuity” government. This is “continuity of a Labour government with a change of leader”
- Asked about funding Burnham’s big vision outlined when he ran for leader Healey said it’s
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@SamCoatesSky @JoeCookJ 'what could it be like.'
😂😂😂😂😂
So called journalists who only ever deal in gossip.
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@SamCoatesSky @JoeCookJ So now you’ve decided that for us, how long before you turn around and start attacking him in the same way you did his predecessor?
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@SamCoatesSky @JoeCookJ Oh so you’ve decided he will just be given the job? Is that how our democracy works now?
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Now we know Andy Burnham will be the next PM, what could it be like. Here’s our film on Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism
A @JoeCookJ documentary. 18m.
https://t.co/XEOAlD3I0B
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Against accounts of the same size
19 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views14 431this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %5.79%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.25%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 14 431 | 5 983 | 2.41× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 5.79% | 1.49% | 3.88× |
| Engagement rate | 0.25% | 0.93% | 0.27× |
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
14.4K1 Sep
47.8K2 Sep
14.8K
9.4K3 Sep
98.9K
8.4K
27.9K
33.2K
11.2K4 Sep
41K
1.5M17 Sep
13.2K
6.5K
4.3K
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
0.36%1 Sep
0.67%2 Sep
0.12%
0.12%3 Sep
0.19%
0.17%
0.15%
0.09%
0.36%4 Sep
0.25%
0.20%17 Sep
2.61%
3.38%
4.52%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes55.2%3 477 in total
Reposts13.6%860 in total
Replies11.1%697 in total
Quotes4.6%290 in total
Bookmarks15.5%977 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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