Tom Peck

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Tom Peck is The Independent's Political Sketch Writer. He has also worked as a Political Correspondent, Sports Writer and Olympics Correspondent.

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Tom PeckThe PM’s going to put Covid-19 ‘back in its box’ – glad that’s settled

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Tom PeckAmerica has declined the opportunity to atone for the last four years

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Tom PeckBoris Johnson’s Covidiot army won't take yes for an answer

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Tom PeckLen McCluskey is threatening Labour with electoral defeat

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Tom PeckHow could this have happened to Corbyn, the least racist person ever?

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Tom PeckPriti Patel’s record makes ‘prayers’ for drowned migrants meaningless

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Tom PeckHas the ‘Northern Research Group’ done much research on Boris Johnson?

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Tom PeckGiving Rashford an MBE has come back to bite the government on the bum

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Tom PeckFor Rishi Sunak, the blindingly obvious has ‘now become clear’

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Tom PeckNo tricks from Boris Johnson at PMQs – he truly didn’t have a clue

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Tom PeckWe’ve seen Boris at his most inept. Here he was at his most malignant

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Tom PeckIn three months, Gove will be even more shameless than he is now

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Tom PeckOn coronavirus, Boris Johnson is a prisoner of his own artless drivel

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Tom PeckThe ‘ingenuity of science’ best hurry up for Matt Hancock’s sake

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Tom PeckJohnson accusing Starmer of ‘opportunism’ is pure desperation

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Tom PeckThe virus is out of control, and only a pasty can save us now

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Tom PeckBoris launches new ‘tier’ system. Chris Whitty says it won’t work

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Tom PeckCan Allegra Stratton make No 10’s farcical briefings fit for TV?

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Tom PeckBoris Johnson wants to spread his failures around, but they’re all his

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Tom PeckBoris laughs off his past stupidity, but we’re stuck with it – and him

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The chemist’s son who may have found the formula for leadership

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Tom PeckMatt Hancock isn’t a failure, he’s a victim of his own success

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Tom PeckPriti Patel’s Ascension Island asylum plan is the best she can do

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Tom PeckThe PM has been reduced to making direct appeals to Covid-19 itself

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Tom PeckWelcome back, Gavin Williamson – anything to say for yourself?

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Tom PeckDacre and Moore are yesterday’s news. They offer nothing but fear

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Tom PeckRishi Sunak’s Job Support Scheme took two minutes to unravel

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Tom PeckWe’re taking back control of our borders and putting them around Kent

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Tom PeckBoris blames coronavirus on the people, for loving freedom too much

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Tom PeckBoris has found a way to reassure the nation – by not turning up

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Tom PeckThe rise and rise of Angela Rayner

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Tom PeckThere are 4,000 positives to take out of Harding serving her country

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Tom PeckBoris doesn’t avoid questions – he gives every single answer possible

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Tom PeckDon’t worry, Matt Hancock will sort out testing ‘in a matter of weeks’

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Tom PeckBoris’s humiliation was the culmination of a lifetime of EU lies

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Tom PeckBoris Johnson faces four Brexit rebellions – one of which is his own

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Tom PeckHancock’s strategy is aim high, blame everyone else when it fails

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Tom PeckJohnson has an answer to the latest crisis – the experts quite another

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Tom PeckThere is one rule for government lawbreakers and another for Bolton

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Tom PeckBrexit was always a fantasy and the truth is finally emerging

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Tom PeckMatt Hancock’s car crash interview buried yet another terrible idea

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Tom PeckMatt Hancock’s Sky interview is so horrifying, it could be a strategy

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Tom PeckCummings’s ‘mission control’ scheme is serving government of chimps

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Tom PeckGavin Williamson 'can only apologise.' It's literally all he can do

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Tom PeckThis was the hardest Trump has fought to reduce America to his level

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Tom PeckPence tells America you ‘won’t be safe’ under Biden

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Tom PeckMelania Trump really did just say America deserves ‘complete honesty’

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Tom PeckThe tedious Proms ‘culture war’ is a warning of worse to come

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Tom PeckThe government doesn't want us to believe its own planning documents

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Tom PeckThe PM's ‘oven-ready’ Brexit deal has passed its use-by date

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Tom PeckThe BTEC farce puts thousands of careers on hold, but not Williamson’s

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Tom PeckWilliamson won't resign for being useless. It's why he was appointed

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Tom PeckAppointing a cabinet of demonstrable idiots comes with consequences

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Tom PeckChris Whitty has quietly stepped off the Boris bluster carousel

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Tom PeckMatt Hancock sees coronavirus not as a threat but as an opportunity

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Tom PeckPiers Morgan vs Rylan Clark-Neal: who will speak for Boris now?

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Tom PeckThe Olympics didn’t inspire a nation to get fit. Nor will Boris

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Tom PeckGrant Shapps has set the record straight: it’s worse than we thought

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Tom PeckCoronavirus must end the crushing misery of the tactile greeting

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Tom PeckA year of Boris: worse than the wildest of nightmares

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Tom PeckRobert Jenrick can’t have done anything wrong, or he’d resign

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Tom PeckThe Russia report knows nothing and neither do we

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Tom PeckWe are sleepwalking into a cold war with China

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Tom PeckIt'll be over by Christmas says Boris, as long as you wish hard enough

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Tom PeckThe PM’s logic is bulletproof – support him or the mistakes are on you

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Tom PeckThe face mask has slipped. These people are simply idiots

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Tom PeckThe message is go back to work. The guidance is stay at home. Clear?

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Tom PeckThe way ahead is clear: Rishi Sunak pays for everything forever

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Tom PeckThe Brexiteer ex-ambassador set to become national security adviser

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Tom PeckBoris Johnson's press briefing might as well have been a shrug

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Tom PeckAt PMQs today, Boris Johnson demanded praise for his failures

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Tom PeckBoris Johnson's recovery plan might be even more inadequate than he is

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Tom PeckGove is not the doctor tending to the nation's ills, he is the disease

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Tom PeckGavin Williamson will reopen all schools in September, somehow, maybe

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Tom PeckMeet Dominic Raab, the man who is never on the right side of history

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Tom PeckJohnson is back to his worst – and he’s dragging Starmer down with him

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Tom PeckJohnson doesn’t care about the world’s starving children, or the UK’s

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Tom PeckI won’t download the NHSX app. This government can’t be trusted

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Tom PeckHow will we understand Nigel Farage without his phone-in radio show?

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Tom PeckIt’s not ‘too early’ for Boris to say he got it wrong – he’s a coward

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Tom PeckBlack lives only seem to matter when they're censored

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Tom PeckThe latest futile Brexit negotiations are a throwback to simpler times

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Tom PeckBoris Johnson is blindly driving the country to Barnard Castle

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Tom PeckMPs spent hours waiting to say their own name, and then got it wrong