Matt Hancock - I'm really glad that we can send out free school meals when schools are out.
Piers Morgan - If you're that glad... why did you vote against giving free school meals?
#GMB
Rishi Sunak - Have they looked after you?
Hospital patient - They always do, but it's a pity you don't pay them more
Rishi Sunak - We're trying
Patient - No, you're not trying, you need to try harder
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - "I don't agree with Richard on thanking the Foreign Secretary, because I have seen 5 Foreign Secretaries over the course of the 6 years.. I was told many times that we're going to get you home, but that never happened.. I'm not going to even trust you"
Carol Vorderman rips into Rishi Sunak on
#ThisMorning
.
"Rishi Sunak co-founded a hedge fund... that invested ยฃ1b in Moderna shares... & he has refused to say whether he holds assets in the hedge fund & therefore Moderna... so are we talking about insider trading."
Jonathan Gullis(Tory MP) - 3% with modernisation is a very good offer..
Mick Lynch(RMT) - Jonathan should apologise for talking nonsense, as none of that is true... I can't settle this dispute with a backbench MP who is just reading of a script.
#PoliticsLive
Naga Munchetty - People in Wales will be wondering why the restrictions haven't been eased like in England?
Mark Drakeford(FM Wales) - We do things in line with the science.. we are a govt that doesn't need to grab headlines to distract attention..
#BBCBreakfast
Ed Miliband rips into Rishi Sunak over a windfall tax. ๐ฅ
"The dude from Silicon Valley blames the IT system for the massive cuts to benefits... it's all turned out to be one giant Ponzi scheme"
Piers Morgan rips Andrew Bridgen a new one for not understanding his own government's rules.
"You have just told me to do something that I'm not allowed to do."
#GMB
John Bercow - "I'm sorry to say it, but I've known 12 Prime Minister's in my lifetime & by a country mile Boris Johnson is the worst... this guy stinks in the nostrils of decent people"
#GMB
Tim Loughton(Tory MP) - I'm a 16 year old orphan, from an East African country, escaping a war zone & religious persecution, & I have a sibling legally in the UK... what is a safe & legal route for me to come to the UK?
Suella Braverman flounders badly
Liz Truss can't say she wasn't warned that her plan was a fairy tale.
Rishi Sunak(former Chancellor) - "We have to be honest. Borrowing your way out of inflation isn't a plan - it's a fairy tale."
Nicola Sturgeon rips into Suella Braverman over her I have a dream comments
"My dream is that we live in a world where those fleeing violence & oppression are shown compassion & are treated like human beings, not shown the door & bundled onto planes like unwanted cargo"
Dominic Raab accuses Victoria Derbyshire of being partisan after she point out that the govt haven't got all the big calls right.
Raab: Your usual partisan self about all of this..
Victoria: Just because I ask you questions that you don't like, doesn't mean I'm partisan ๐
Gary Neville - "I don't want anyone living in No.10 or No.11... thinking about bankers bonuses... it's not right & it's immoral.. it's a tired, failing government & they've had their time.. & Keir Starmer would make a very good PM compared to what we've got now.. "
#BBCBreakfast
Rory Stewart: "They won't make basic decisions... as the whole of Downing Street is about one thing, which is the survival of Johnson, they are sacrificing everything... to try to keep this monstrous ego floating around in No.10.. our country feels like Berlusconi's Italy"
#GMB
Steve Coogan - The future of the country is at stake... & these right-wing Tory fundamentalist politicians, who pray on people's prejudices, need to be hobbled.
#GE2019
#fridgegate
Gary Neville: "I have a different belief around exams. I don't believe you should work for 16 years at school & college & then it all depends on a 2 hour assessment... I think that's prehistoric... it needs ripping up & you should be judged over your body of work."
#BBCBreakfast
Emily Maitlis - "We are seeing politicians move in directions that are deeply & clearly deleterious to basic democratic government...it's about people in power who are prepared to test the very limits of the constitution to achieve their aims..."
Piers Morgan - How did you vote, in June 2017, when there was a vote to increase
#NHS
workers pay?
Helen Whately(Care Minister) - That was game playing by the opposition.
#PiersMorgan
- It's not actually a game... you voted against the pay cap been lifted..
#GMB
Alex Scott - "You are not gay. You will never understand travelling to a country where you are fearing for your life, because of who you choose to love..."
#BBCWorldCup
Jack Monroe: A basic food shop has nearly doubled since 2012.. benefits & wages haven't doubled in that time.. so people are having to make decisions about missing meals in order to feed their children.. it's shocking to talk about this in 1 of the richest economies in the world
Yvette Cooper - Why does it always take the Home Secretary to be dragged into the HoC to make basic changes to help vulnerable people.. her response has been a total disgrace... if she can't sort this out, frankly, she should hand the job over to somebody else who can.
Nice introduction Krishnan Guru-Murthy ๐
Jacob Rees-Mogg flew to Scotland to get the Queen's approval for unlawfully proroguing Parliament...
#eyebrows
#C4News
John Bercow schools Nigel Farage on the brexit disaster.
"To date brexit has been a grotesque blunder... but Nigel wants to blame someone else... it's nonsense on stilts... just admit people are poorer & wages are down... "
Ian Hislop - When Boris Johnson says optimism.. he means he hasn't got any ideas. When he says we need to be positive.. he means he has no plan. When he says it's very simple.. he means he hasn't read any of the detail.
#PeoplesVote
#PMQs
#FinalSay
#NotMyPM
Dan Wootton - Science has forever used herd immunity in order to deal with coronavirus
Chris Bryant - You're a nutcase.... you're a complete & utter nutcase & you're dangerous as well.
Keir Starmer - "The only time he ran in a competitive election, he got trounced by the former Prime Minister, who herself got beaten by a lettuce... so why doesn't he call a general election"
#PMQs
#bbcqt
audience 1 - When are we going to start talking about rejoining the single market?
Victoria Atkins(Tory MP) embarrasses herself.๐คฆ
#bbcqt
audience 2 - I'm not interested in Trading with Australia or NZ.... brexit is a disaster..
Ian Hislop - The current cabinet are only in post because of their views on brexit... & it shouldn't be any great surprise that they're crap, because they were only chosen just to agree with Boris Johnson.
(video
@PoliticsJOE_UK
)
Hancock - we should be thanking my team
Piers Morgan - You & your team have presided over a woeful handling of this pandemic that's lead to us having the worst death toll in Europe.. so I'm sorry that I'm not thanking you & your team for your brilliant handling of the pandemic
Ed Miliband rips into Jacob Rees-Mogg over the lifting of the fracking ban.
"We will hang this broken manifesto promise around the Tory Party's neck.... between now & the next general election"
Nazir Afzal(former chief prosecutor NW England) - When Keir Starmer left the CPS we had the highest conviction rate for child sexual abuse in our history... that's his legacy. Boris Johnson said investigating child sexual abuse was money spaffed up a wall..
#BBCBreakfast
Rev. Tim Daplyn: "It's been termed a pro-Palestinian demonstration, but I think it's a pro-peace demonstration... old soldiers, on Armistice Day, calling for Armistice.."
Gary Neville - Boris Johnson is divisive & he loves division, so does Gove, so does Rees-Mogg & so does Patel, they thrive on fear, control & division, it's everything we're not.
Rory Stewart -
#PartyGate
should be the last nail in Boris Johnson's coffin... Johnson was manifestly unsuited to be Prime Minister from the beginning, & it's very, very disturbing that a great country, like Britain, should have chosen somebody so unsuitable for the role.
Yvette Cooper rips into Suella Braverman over her reappointment.
"Is she such a novice that she didn't know exactly what she was doing... because she was tired... there are suggestions, while she was AG, she was investigated for a leak... relating to the security service..."
Andrew Griffith - The German rate of inflation is 11%
Naga Munchetty - I don't care about the German rate of inflation.. the German rate of inflation doesn't affect the triple lock. ๐
#BBCBreakfast
John Barnes - "We don't hear language about Ukrainians being rapists & murderers, but we hear it about the Iraqis & Syrians.... we need to be talking about the worthiness of everybody,... "
#Ridge
#bbclaurak
Charlie Stayt: Have you spoken to the Prime Minister in the last 24-hours?
Nadine Dorries - Why are you asking me that question
Charlie Stayt: I'd like to know
Nadine Dorries: we've communicated
Charlie Stayt: I'm really confused, is that a difficult question?
#BBCBreakfast
Feargal Sharkey - "Yesterday morning, dumping sewage into rivers & onto beaches was illegal... but by yesterday afternoon the govt had legalised the dumping of sewage... this is probably the greatest act of violence against the environment I've ever witnessed... "
#BBCBreakfast
Mhairi Black(SNP) - "I thank Oliver Dowden for his kind words. We did join this place at the same time, & I'm pretty sure we'll be leaving at the same time" ๐คฃ
#PMQs
Ed Miliband: "Frankly, it would be a global embarrassment, for Britain, if Susan Hall was elected as the Mayor of London... it would empower the flat earth brigade... "
Q: You're not calling Susan Hall a flat earther?
Ed Miliband: I absolutely am...
Richard Bacon(Tory MP) on non-doms - "You're surprised people think there are one set of rules for the rich people & one set of rules of someone else... no wonder people are pissed off"
John Major - "I think the whole country knows that the government has broken the law... if our law & accepted conventions are ignored... then we're on a very slippery slope that ends with pulling our constitution into shreds.... " ๐ฅ
Paul Whitehouse - "It's still astonishes me that water companies are legally allowed to dump raw sewage into our waterways... & I can't believe that is policy... there's a groundswell of support to do something... it's time water companies were taken to task."
#BBCBreakfast
Paul Merton - "Why did Dominic Cummings feel the need to go back to work... is it too difficult to bully people on Zoom?" ๐คฃ
Ian Hislop - "Why is a political aid making decisions about vaccines?
#hignfy
Manchester United fan travelling to Wembley on a rail strike day.
"I'm not going to criticise them for going on strike, because I do believe in fair pay & conditions for everybody... I won't criticise the strikers... "
#BBCBreakfast
Simon Calder on Dover chaos.
Brexit took effect at the start of last year, but it's only this weekend that we're seeing the really significant problems... as it's simply taking a lot longer to carry out the post-brexit border checks.
#BBCBreakfast
Watch Susanna Reid tear Suella Braverman's 100 million people coming to the UK argument apart.
"On what planet is that likely & how is that not inflammatory language?"
#GMB
Powerful intervention by Peter Kyle on asylum seeker children going missing
"If 1 child went missing, who was related to one of us, the world would stop, but in my community a child has gone missing, then 5, then 12, then 50 & currently 76 are missing & nothing is happening.. "
#KayBurley
- Rachel Maclean told me that people just need to work more hours & then they wouldn't be poor
Liz Truss - That's a miss characterisation of what she said
KB - How is it a miss characterisation when she told me that twice?
Liz Truss - I didn't see the interview.. ๐คฆ
Boris Johnson walks out on Chris Bryant.
"I hope the PM can just stay for a brief moment, as it relates to what he said about Roman Abramovich. I don't think that's a courtesy to the house when the Prime Minister leaves in that way... "
Bet Rigby - Do you have a mortgage?
Liz Truss - I do
Beth Rigby - Have you had an issue with remortgaging?
Liz Truss was stumped at this question & repeated she does have a mortgage
Politico: "Prime Minister, the King has been at
#COP28
for two days & other world leaders are staying into the weekend. You've been here for a matter of hours & you're due to leave again imminently. You've spent more time on a private plane, than on the ground at the summit .. "
Glen Matlock(Sex Pistols) - "Brexit is a nonsense... & the people representing us are just up their own backsides... they're so brazenly corrupt... the people that propagated it all are basically charlatans"
#KayBurley
#BBCBreakfast
Carol Vorderman - "At what point does political negligence become criminal, because what is happening in this wonderful country of ours is morally corrupt... "
#LBC
Keir Starmer: "Think very carefully about what Suella Braverman is committing your government to do... because without a serious Home Secretary, there can be no serious government, & he cannot be a serious Prime Minister..."
#KingsSpeech
Chris Bryant: "I'm delighted that Abramovich has been sanctioned.. but this should've happened years ago.. are we going to tackle people who acted as proxies for oligarchs, like Greg Barker, Arron Banks, Ben Elliot.. the UK sanctioned 7 people today, the EU sanctioned 160"
Jayne Secker - It's been reported that your family has links to Russia... your wife has a steak in the IT consultancy firm, Infosys, that operate in Moscow...
Rishi Sunak - My wife is not an elected politician.. I've nothing to do with that company
#KayBurley
#BBCBreakfast
Ben Elton - "Fanning the flame of xenophobic resentment doesn't help. I'm the son of a refugee... & to try & dehumanize refugees with language like invasion, it's Farage with his poster of Britain is full... I'm upset & disgusted by such language from the Home Secretary"
Yvette Cooper - "Clearly the Prime Minister needs to correct the record, & be clear that crime has gone up & not down... on his watch.. what's the point in having the ministerial code... if the Prime Minister continues to ignore it & does not respond to Parliament... "
Watch Jacob Rees-Mogg get his arse handed to him by Geoffrey Robertson KC over where asylum seekers have a right to claim asylum
JRM: We signed up to people claiming asylum in the 1st safe country?
GR KC: No, they have a right at any point to claim asylum...
Chris Bryant - Do you think UK businesses should still be trading in Russia at all?
Rishi Sunak - UK businesses should be following all the sanctions legislation..
Chris Bryant - You took ยฃ5m from the owner of a company that sold new diggers to Russia,in April, this year..
Lord Ken Clarke: " I always fear... about the risks of moving towards an elected dictatorship in this country. The sovereignty of Parliament has its limits, which are the limits of the rule of law... in a liberal democratic society such as ours."
#RwandaPlan
Dominic Grieve: I was Attorney General when Keir Starmer was director of public prosecutions.. & everyone knew Jimmy Savile was not his responsibility.. & when the PM tells a whopping lie that's put out by fascist right wing websites, that's a disgraceful thing to do
#KayBurley
Chris Bryant: How many additional visas have been given to the ukrainians since the Invasion began?
Liz Truss: No idea
CB: It's 50... are you not ashamed... so you're not ashamed, other countries are taking in 10s of thousands.. passing the buck really doesn't work...
Richard Foord(LibDem) wins the Tiverton & Honiton by-election.
"I served as an officer in the British army for 10 years Mr Johnson... leadership means acting with decency & integrity... & your behaviour makes a mockery of leadership.. you're unfit to lead... so resign"
#bbcqt
audience member has spent the last 30 years as a director in the wine industry & he's experienced 1st hand just how terrible things have become post-brexit... everything has become so much more complicated... people can tell untruths time & time again...
Priti Patel(Jan 2021): "There's a small minority who refuse to do the right thing,.,, No.10 for example.... so we'll be introducing an ยฃ800 fine for those attending house parties.. & this applies to illegal gatherings of more than 15 people"
How did Johnson only got ยฃ50 fine?
Alastair Campbell - One of the reasons why the brexiteers were so keen on brexit was because the European Union was about to bring in moves against tax avoidance... & that's one of the reasons why Rishi Sunak fought so hard for brexit...
#BBCBreakfast
#KayBurley
Lisa Nandy to Jonathan Gullis(Tory MP)
"If he cared one iota for his constituency.... he'd be asking Michael Gove where the missing ยฃ27m has gone. We have heard plenty from him, & it's about time that he listened."