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'I have been taking part in Queen's Speech debates for 25 years and I have never seen a government minister at the despatch box afraid to take questions from her opposite number' Yvette Cooper attacks @pritipatel 's 'astonishing refusal' to take questions in a Commns debate
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'He's disgraced. He doesn't enjoy the confidence of this House and if he simply tries to prevent the House coming to that decision, it's because he's a coward' @RhonddaBryant attacks @BorisJohnson for rejecting a vote of no confidence in the government
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'I think it's time we stop this general bout of self-recrimination and wetness' @BorisJohnson gives his view on the row over over the playing of Rule Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory in the Last Night of the Proms
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'How many Britons died because of Brexit? Zero' Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko tells ITV News that @BorisJohnson should 'please' avoid comparing the Ukrainian resistance to Brexit
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'I turned round to see that my every move had been watched very carefully by Her Majesty the Queen.' Former PM @theresa_may reduced the whole House ofΒ CommonsΒ to laughter with a story about the Queen and some dropped cheese during a weekend at Balmoral.
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'What has the government got against young people?' Labour MP Clive Betts questions why his Older Persons' Bus Pass is accepted as voter ID, but a younger persons' equivalent is not
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Education secretary Gillian Keegan is recorded on camera saying others β€˜have been sat on their a***s’ on schools Raac crisis and shares frustration about not being thanked for doing β€˜a f***ing good job’
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Rishi Sunak attempts to attack Sir Keir Starmer over how Labour 'defines a woman' as the mum of Brianna Ghey, a trans teenager who was murdered, was sat in the Commons listening to prime minister's questions A shocked Sir Keir replies: 'Of all the weeks to say that... Shame'
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Watch as former PM @Theresa_May refuses to join every other Tory MP in applauding @BorisJohnson The ex-prime minister also appeared reluctant to stand as Mr Johnson left the chamber after his final #PMQs
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'When you see a bully you challenge them and that's what I was doing and I challenged her' Andrew Boff, who was removed from @SuellaBraverman 's speech, tells ITV News she was 'bullying trans people and the LGBT community'
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Kwasi Kwarteng walks out mid-interview after being asked about @BorisJohnson 's meeting with Alexander Lebedev It comes after the PM admitted meeting the ex-KGB agent without officials while foreign secretary
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'Forgive me, forgive me, forgive me' @BorisJohnson appears to lose track of his notes as he delivers a speech to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
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Labour leader @Keir_Starmer poses with a can of Brewdog's 'Barnard Castle Eye Test' beer which was created after @BorisJohnson 's aide Dominic Cummings made his infamous trip to Durham
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'I don't understand why @Arron_banks , frankly, isn't on the list' Labour MP Chris Bryant welcomes the latest sanctions against Russia but questions why more names aren't on the list
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'Northern Ireland is in the unbelievably special position - unique position in the entire world - in having privileged access not just to the UK market… but also the EU single market' 'Nobody else has that. No one. Only you guys, only here’ Rishi Sunak hails his Brexit deal
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'Instead of booking 50 people on each flight to Rwanda, book 250 people on it then when they stop half of them from travelling you still have a full flight - come on, get on and send them' Tory MP Peter Bone says 'lefty lawyers' have blocked Rwanda deportations
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'10 Downing Street was indeed party central... If a minister knowingly misleads MPs, under British conventions, they have to resign' Political Editor Robert @Peston explains why today is 'serious' for @BorisJohnson
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'Palestinian statehood is not in the gift of a neighbour, it's the inalienable right of the Palestinian people' Labour leader @Keir_Starmer hits out at Israeli Prime Minister @netanyahu
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Exclusive: Senior Downing Street staff joked about holding a Christmas party in Number 10 just four days after event is alleged to have taken place last December Watch full video here:
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'She is not a bully, that is categorical' Kane Blackwell, who worked for Priti Patel in her Parliamentary office, exclusively tells @PaulBrandITV she was a 'compassionate' boss He claims there's a 'concerted effort in the establishment' against her
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'Bring your own booze': An email shared exclusively with ITV News proves Downing Street staff held drinks party during height of lockdown. Boris Johnson and wife Carrie were among those who attended, ITV News understands.
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The King has held the first of his weekly audiences with Prime Minister Liz Truss at Buckingham Palace. The details of their meeting and what was discussed will, as always, remain private between the pair.
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Gavin Williamson, twice sacked as a minister, has been given a knighthood One Labour MP said 'presumably it's for services to failure in managing two sets of exam results?'
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'To my mind there is only one way to describe those marches: they are hate marches' @SuellaBraverman labels the huge pro-Palestinian rallies which have taken place in London as 'hate marches'
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'I've always felt quite intimidated. Women from my background do, we always think 'they're important, they know more than me' - and then you get in the room and realise, actually, they don't' @AngelaRayner talks to @lorraine about a controversial Mail on Sunday article about her
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'You’re coming to Poland, you're not coming to Kyiv... because you're afraid' A Ukrainian reporter breaks down as she begs @BorisJohnson for a no-fly-zone over Ukraine - the PM rejects her plea as it would see the UK 'shooting down Russian planes'
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'There are too many people in this country who are of working age, who are of good health, and who are choosing to rely on benefits' Tory leadership contender Suella Braverman tells ITV News Political Correspondent @carldinnen that the UK spends 'too much on welfare'
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Tory councillor who was in the year below @Trussliz at school tells @Peston he has a different recollection to her 'You have to be honest... I don't believe in stepping and treading all over your past and the people that've helped you get where you are, for political gain'
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Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg received Β£16,800 in severance pay for just seven weeks of work as business secretary He accepted the lump sum despite previously advocating for civil servants to have their redundancy packages cut
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'It's the first time in the history of our country that a PM has been found to be in breach of the law, and then he lied repeatedly to the public about it... they have to go' @Keir_Starmer says @BorisJohnson and @RishiSunak should resign after being fined
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'It's extremely regrettable that he won't say sorry... we're in a very desperate situation where we have a prime minister who people simply don't have trust in' Tory MP Caroline Nokes calls on @BorisJohnson to apologise for his Jimmy Savile slur
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Sir Keir Starmer's speech at the Labour Party Conference is interrupted within seconds by a protester who storms the stage and covers him in glitter
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'This is a really dark day for Parliament' Chris Bryant says is 'morally offensive' that Tories voted to reject Owen Paterson's recommended suspension and overhaul the standards watchdog 'That happens in Russia, it shouldn't happen in Britain', he added
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'Do you condemn Hamas?' Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refuses to say if he condemns Hamas but insists 'obviously all attacks are wrong' when questioned in Liverpool
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"It's not a party, it's colleagues getting together" On the day the Met said it's issuing 20 fines over partygate allegations, Tory MPs met for dinner and drinks. Outside, campaigners who lost loved ones to Covid shouted β€œoff to another party are we?”
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'Steve Barclay may get a legal win today, but what he has done is he has lost the public and he has certainly lost nursing' RCN general sec Pat Cullen speaks outside the High Court as the govt takes legal action against the upcoming nurses strike
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. @RLong_Bailey tells @PaulBrandITV she would give @jeremycorbyn 's leadership of @UKLabour a '10 out of 10' and says he was 'one of the most honest, kind, principled politicians'
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'The staff are laughing, they are joking - arguably in the faces of those who were adhering to the rules at the time.' Watch @PaulBrandITV 's analysis of the leaked media rehearsal concerning the Christmas party No10 later denied Watch full video here:
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'Priti Patel is an excellent home secretary' New ERG chair Mark Francois backs @patel4witham amid bullying allegations and asks for 'balance', pointing to @JeremyCorbyn 's peerage recommendation for John Bercow, who is also facing allegations of bullying
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'I don't know what he's toasting because the rest of us were all devastated, losing relatives' @AngelaRayner says @BorisJohnson knew he'd broken Covid rules and it's 'astonishing' he wasn't fined over the November 13, 2020 gathering
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"Neither the PM nor the Home Secretary seem to understand the seriousness of this vile crime" Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary @YvetteCooperMP has criticised Rishi Sunak after No 10 said he considers the matter of James Cleverly’s date rape joke β€˜closed’
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'I don't think he knows the difference between truth and falsehood' Axed Tory Dominic Grieve says he doesn't take anything @BorisJohnson says 'at face value'
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'I will not be hectored by out of touch lefties... I won't be patronised on what appropriate views someone of my background can hold and I will not back down' @SuellaBraverman says it is 'irresponsible' to claim her Illegal Immration Bill is bigoted
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In a letter handed to ITV News and the Mirror, the Good Law Project has threatened the Met Police with legal action if it does not launch an investigation into the May 2020 party in No 10 It says a decision not to investigate may be 'unlawful'
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'I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the PM of the UK to tell the people that shooting an unarmed man walking under a white flag is a war crime' SNP's @StephenFlynnSNP asks @RishiSunak to condemn the IDF after @johnirvineitv reported on a Palestinian man's killing in Gaza
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'Richard Sharp's position is increasingly untenable' Labour leader Sir @Keir_Starmer questions 'how on earth' the BBC chairman can remain in position while @GaryLineker was taken off air
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'Labour are borrowing from the @GaryLineker playbook' @PennyMordaunt says Labour is a party of 'goal hangers and the occasional left-wing striker' and 'this country doesn't need goal hangers it needs centre forwards'
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'There's no such thing as gender ideology... this is trash' A heckler is removed from @SuellaBraverman 's speech at the Conservative Party Conference
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'You had the opportunity to kill the Fujitsu project, you chose not to - why not?' Former PM Tony Blair refuses to answer questions from @ITVJoel on the Post Office Horizon scandal
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'I was saying Israel had the right to self-defence... I was not saying Israel had the right to cut off water, food, fuel or medicines' @Keir_Starmer speaks after sparking fury among Muslim Labour members in an interview about the Gaza crisis with @LBC
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'I used the government plane. That is why we have a government plane' @TrussLiz says 'every government decision is based on value for money' after confirming she flew to Australia on the government's private jet - a trip estimated to be worth around Β£500,000
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'She eats more tofu than I do' Yvette Cooper tells the House of Commons she has discovered Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who previously slammed the 'tofu-eating wokerati', is a vegetarian
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'Nobody [on the doorstep] is talking to me about Channel 4, they are all talking to me about the fact they can't pay their bills' @Keir_Starmer urges the government to focus on the cost of living crisis rather than the privatisation of Channel 4
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β€˜This is the scene, right now, in central London. 'Despite the rain, thousands are standing in solidarity with the family of George Floyd’ #BlackLivesMatter protests are taking place throughout the UK today More here:
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Sir Ed Davey has refused to apologise over his position in the Post Office scandal, despite being asked to more than ten times in an interview with ITV News' @PaulBrandITV
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'What do we want? A People's Vote. When do we want it? Now' Labour’s shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry joins chanting pro-EU protesters in Brighton who are demanding a new Brexit referendum
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Two sources who claim Boris Johnson did say he would rather have β€˜bodies pile high in their thousands’ than implement a third lockdown are prepared to speak publicly. If the prime minister continues to deny it, they will speak under oath, says @Peston
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Speaking to Liz Truss is like 'the deaf talking to the blind', says Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov @trussliz received an icy reception from her Russian counterpart before he walked out of the press conference, leaving her behind at the podium
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'Richard Sharp remaining at the BBC is bringing the whole of the BBC into disrepute' Labour MP Chris Bryant puts more pressure on the BBC chairman to resign
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'To have an unelected, foul-mouth oaf at the heart of Downing Street is dangerous' Sir Roger Gale says Boris Johnson's top aide Dominic Cummings is 'in danger of tearing the party apart' and should be 'frogmarched out of Downing Street'
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'To watch these people's lives being destroyed and they just don't care... it should be a landslide' At the party's conference in Liverpool, Labour supporter and singer @willyoung talks about the impact of Liz Truss' mini budget last year
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"It's disgraceful and Boris Johnson should be ashamed" Labour's @AngelaRayner reacts to ITV News' report on an email showing Downing St staff were invited to a drinks party in the Number 10 garden during the May 2020 lockdown
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'You are the daughter of an immigrant, someone who wanted to come to the UK to make a better life for themselves' Suella Braverman tells @AnushkaAsthana it's 'offensive' that people say she should be pro-migration because she is 'the child of immigrants'
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Rishi Sunak did not acknowledge a request from @LizTwistMP to apologise to Esther Ghey, Brianna's mother, over his comments. MPs shouted 'apologise' as the PM sat down
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'14 years of Tory failure - how dare he have the brass neck to stand up and blame someone else' Labour Shadow Health Secretary @WesStreeting attacks the government over the struggling NHS dentistry service
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'Do you have a nurses tree too, as well as a money tree?' These NHS nurses question Boris Johnson on funding shortages
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. @BorisJohnson suggests the UK could pull out of the European Convention on Human Rights to force through Rwanda deportations 'Will it be necessary to change some laws to help us [avoid legal challenges] as we go along? It may very well be', the PM said
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Keir Starmer says it's 'totally insulting' that taxpayers were forced to pay Β£15,000 after minister Michelle Donelan falsely accused an academic of supporting Hamas The Labour leader says if he was in power he would 'never allow that sort of thing to happen'
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'It is not the job of the Department for Education' Education Sec @GillianKeegan tells @DanielHewittITV it is not the government's job to look after school buildings, as concerns mount over potentially dangerous Raac
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'Having concluded that [ @BorisJohnson ] is unfit for office, they can't now let him cling on for weeks and weeks and weeks' @Keir_Starmer confirms he will this afternoon lay a motion for a vote of no confidence in the government in a bid to oust the PM
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'I have never ever voted for anybody else bar Labour but not this time' Brexit Party leader @Nigel_Farage finds support in Labour strongholds
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'People are on average over Β£10,000-a-year worse off as a result of the sluggish growth since 2010' @AngelaRayner attacks the Conservatives after data showed 'every corner of the UK' has been 'levelled down' in the 14 years since Labour lost power
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Jacob Rees-Mogg says he's going to church and watching the cricket today, after he was named in a Privileges Committee report as one of the Tory MPs who attacked those investigating Boris Johnson's partygate lies
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'My heart sinks when I hear more from Liz Truss' @Keir_Starmer says the comeback of former PM @trussliz is 'the last thing the country needs' 'She's done more than enough damage to our economy'
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'I have real concerns about Tony Abbott and I don't think he's the right person for the job' @Keir_Starmer says he wouldn't have appointed former Australian PM Tony Abbott as a UK trade envoy amid concerns over his history
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'I would like to draw your attention to a few characteristics of fascism' Protester interrupts @Jacob_Rees_Mogg 's speech on national conservatism The ex minister says free speech means the protester 'can have his national loonies conference next week'
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' @RishiSunak is a smooth operator but he's out of touch... The other day he did a PR stunt that went wrong and he doesn't even understand how to buy things in a shop' ITV News asks Mr Sunak's Richmond constituents for their thoughts after his wife's non-dom status was revealed
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'It gives me no pleasure to say the anti-war movement's warnings were absolutely correct' @JeremyCorbyn , @RichardBurgon and @zarahsultana speak at a Stop the War rally outside Parliament - they urge the government to extend the Afghan resettlement scheme
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Former PM @BorisJohnson , who is said to be studying @RishiSunak ’s Brexit deal, completes the last leg of his jog after being dropped off by his chauffeur this morning He does not answer when ask if he'll back the 'Windsor Framework'
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'We're not going to be in any way deterred or abashed by some of the criticism that is being directed upon this policy, some of it from slightly unexpected quarters' @BorisJohnson defends his Rwanda plan after attacks from the Church of England and reportedly Prince Charles
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Prime Minister @RishiSunak challenged by former NHS worker about long waiting times in the health service The encounter happened during a visit to Winchester
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'Everybody in this country has been fooled by Brexit' Labour MP @stellacreasy gives an impassioned speech on why Brexit, 'oddly enough, has not brought the benefits that we were told'
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'Since coming into office little over two years ago, the PM has been up to his neck in scandal' @BorisJohnson should be 'censured' for 'scandal after scandal', the SNP's Westminster leader @IanBlackford_MP tells the Commons
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, with wife Laura Alvarez, voted in Islington, north London #GE2019
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The Government has failed to deliver any of its promised 200,000 new 'starter homes' despite setting aside Β£2.3 billion for the project, the Whitehall spending watchdog has said
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Would deaths have been lower if @BorisJohnson followed scientific advice on a second lockdown? 'Yes,' says Dame Angela McLean She says ministers were 'making the same mistakes again' by not imposing tighter restrictions in the autumn
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. @RishiSunak says UK and Qatar have 'such a close partnership' The prime minister gave the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, a warm welcome at Number 10 ahead of discussions aimed at 'strengthening' the partnership
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'I think Boris has won in the court of public opinion' @Jacob_Rees_Mogg tells ITV News the former prime minister would win a by-election if triggered after today's hearing, but doesn't believe it will be necessary.
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A Ukrainian reporter broke down as she pleaded with @BorisJohnson for a no-fly-zone over Ukraine 'You’re coming to Poland, you're not coming to Kyiv...because you are afraid, because Nato is not willing to defend, because Nato is afraid of World War III'
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Exclusive: Boris Johnson's most senior spin doctor Jack Doyle made thank you ​speech and handed out awards at Downing Street Christmas party on December 18, @itvnews has been told. Read more:
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