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Having lived through
#Coronavirus
can I assure everyone that at no time during the seven days we were in isolation at home did we even once have to face a secondary crisis and run out of loo roll. 🧻
Thanks for so many good wishes. It’s been pretty rubbish but I hope I’m over the worst of it now. More worried about my 84yo mum who is staying with me and began with the cough today. She is being tested tomorrow. Keep safe and keep washing those hands, everyone.
If you want to know how low a journalist can go,
@DailyMailUK
on my doorstep in the middle of my trying to deal with everything else. He opened the gate, knocked on the door, rang the bell. I hope he washes his hands.
#Coronavirus
Heard a noise outside, clock is slow. I opened my front door to the sound of my amazing neighbours whistling, cheering and shouting, ‘come on Boris.’ I’ll admit, I cried.
For the boss, and everyone everywhere in hospital battling
#COVID19
get better soon
#ClapForBoris
I’ve written about our Coronavirus journey. Our household has recovered and we are so grateful for all the lovely comments and the support we received during the past week.
One person was elected by the British public with a manifesto and a mandate until January ‘25.
If Liz Truss is no longer PM there can be no coronation of previously failed candidates.
MPs must demand return of
@BorisJohnson
- if not it has to be leadership election or a GE.
Journalists should stop asking about an ‘exit strategy.’ There is only one way we can ‘exit’ full lockdown and that is when we have a vaccine. Until then, we need to find ways we can adapt society and strike a balance between the health of the nation and our economy .
#COVID19
No I haven’t Piers! What a ridiculous interpretation.
I said society needs to adapt.
It would be more helpful to talk about ‘relaxing lockdown’ than constantly demanding an ‘exit strategy.’ My point being, some of you guys need to start asking more intelligent questions.
BREAKING: Health minister says UK will be in ‘full lockdown’ until there is COVID-19 vaccine - which experts say will be at least 18 months. Astonishing break from other Govt statements. 👇
4/4You told others that PM and Gov would swiftly collapse on back of Brexit and you would swoop in. You told me as much in Victoria St after GE. If you had been leader you’d have handed the keys of No10 to Corbyn. You’ve been wrong about almost everything, you are wrong again now
1/4 On afternoon of 23rd July 2020 when I was health minister you telephoned me to tell me that we had to handle the pandemic following the example set by the East/China. That people testing + should be removed from their homes and placed into isolation hotels for two weeks.
Anyone who believes our country is stronger, fairer & more prosperous when led by Conservatives should reflect that the consequence of not changing will be to hand the country to others who do not share those values. Today’s decision is change or lose. I will be voting for change
What I’ve learnt about working from home. Folk work longer hours and harder but, are happier. Better for the environment. Enables keeping pets, reduces stress, saves money. We should have trusted people long ago. Nine to five M-F in an office block is so last century
#Dontgoback
I’m staggered as to the extent the ‘establishment’ will go to to attempt to discredit and bring down
@BorisJohnson
due to his commitment to deliver
#Brexit
He will not resign and anyone attempting to occupy No10 in the name of ‘unity’ is in effect, plotting a coup.
Most who have been as poorly as
@BorisJohnson
with
#Covid19
and a patient for a week in intensive care, would be off work for least three months to fully recover their strength and repair their immune system.
Our PM is back after just three weeks.
Good luck boss.
For balance, my friend…The Prime Minister is WRONG not to go to COP. Global warming is the biggest crisis facing our planet and net zero creates many 1000s of jobs which is good for the economy. COP in Glasgow was most successful ever… but don’t expect media to report that
People in London are working in cafes, not at home. One cafe owner tells me that takings have shot up to over double usual daily amount
This is not social distancing, it is irresponsible behaviour and the price to pay for such selfishness will be severe for us all
#coronavirus
The boss is back. The man who broke the Brexit deadlock, delivered the first Covid vaccine, supported Ukraine when no one else would. The one person Labour fear the most is Boris Johnson
#BringBackBoris
This licence fee announcement will be the last. The days of the elderly being threatened with prison sentences and bailiffs knocking on doors, are over.
Time now to discuss and debate new ways of funding, supporting and selling great British content.
There is no unity candidate.
No one has enough support.
Only one MP has a mandate from party members and from the British public - a mandate with an 80 seat majority.
@BorisJohnson
The choices are simple - back Liz, if not bring back Boris or face a GE within weeks.
Knowing how hard everyone across government is working to tackle
#Coronavirus
makes it very difficult to hear people like Emily Thornberry criticising and carping from the sidelines in the name of political point scoring.
#bbcqt
When I read articles written by journalists which are deeply personal, mean and nasty, I wonder how much love + happiness they have in their own personal life?
The PM almost died. He has fought with every ounce of strength he had to recover. Let him have a flamin’ holiday!
#Karma
1/2 At Blair’s last PMQs when he had just been ousted by Labour MPs led by
@David_Cameron
from the opposition benches, we stood and applauded his achievements.
Today the behaviour of Lab MPs shows how far
@UKLabour
has fallen. Graceless
In July, when Sunak, Conservative MPs, and ministers orchestrated their first coup, we were 5 points behind in the polls had an 80 seat majority and
@BorisJohnson
was our PM.
This poll doesn’t show us losing an election, it condemns us to extinction.
What *that*
@RedfieldWilton
poll could look like in a General Election:
LAB: 515 (+313)
LDM: 47 (+36)
SNP: 42 (-6)
CON: 22 (-343)
PLC: 4 (=)
GRN: 1 (=)
Labour Majority of 380.
Changes w/ GE2019.
Labour MP just told me that they have been warned, if they vote for a deal, regardless of how good it is for the country, they will not be allowed to stand as Labour MPs again.
Fascinated by number of Labour MPs using
#PMQs
to raise issue of bullying.
Not one of them uttered a peep during the
#Bercow
allegations. Not only were they totally silent,
@jeremycorbyn
has nominated Bercow for a peerage.
Sickening, double standards.
Really Beth? You think they should both have been in isolation weeks ago, because apart from wearing PPE, that is the only way to deliver what you suggest should have happened.
This tweet is below you. Try sending them your best wishes for a full recovery instead.
Quite extraordinary in moment of national crisis both PM and his right hand man in this battle Matt Hancock have tested positive for
#coronavirus
. Obvious questions as to why those leading country weren’t better protected in order to ensure they were fighting fit to protect us
Many with
#COVID19
are felled by fatigue/temperature and use isolation to sleep+recover.
Boris has risked his health & worked every day on our behalf to lead the battle against this vile virus
Lets do our bit for him and
@carriesymonds
now. Send them our love
#getwellsoonboris
It’s taken me a while to get through the post in my Parliamentary office. Just opened this letter from David, in his true style, asking me to make Southend a city. It happened David, it happened.
#RIP
Please everyone, do this. If you’re one of my trolls or haters or critics, pretend this tweet isn’t from me. Just put the dish of water out and if you have any, some cat or dog food.
🦔 are on the red list.
Let’s find at least one thing we can agree on?
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 Let's make this viral - hedgehogs are dying of dehydration - please please share this post and offer some shallow bowls of water for wildlife (pop a few pebbles in to make sure insects that fall in can escape) 🦔 💧
🎥 Paul Bunyard
MPs circulating a smorgasboard of names re who should replace Truss as PM are not taking into account the fact that they cannot foist upon the British public another Prime Minister that the public have not voted for. A totally untenable position.
#backliz
The police have made clear they are taking no action against Mr Cummings over his self-isolation and that going to Durham did not breach the regulations. Case closed.
Let’s now focus on how we get out of lockdown and support
#TestTrackAndTrace
#COVID19
#InThisTogether
Those absurdly called grandee MPs (men) agitating to remove Liz Truss are all Sunak supporters.
They agitated to remove
@borisjohnson
and now they will continue plotting until they get their way.
It’s a plot not to remove a PM but to overturn democracy.
#BackLiz
Many
@UKLabour
MPs read the polls and they know, they are about to lose their job. They are remain MPs in leave seats. Their vitriol and anger isn’t about the use of the word, surrender or humbug. It’s not even about
#Brexit
. It’s bcse they got it wrong and they are losing, again
I was there. The only finger jabbing and raised voice came from Jess as her friends photographed and filmed it. The PM could barely get a word in and was embarrassed and bemused as Jess shouted. But then again, I suppose she does have a book to sell.
MP tells me that Johnson had an
‘angry meltdown’ in voting lobbies. Am told that
@jessphillips
personally challenged him as did others . MP tells me PM saw a group watching through the doors & then started jabbing his finger towards us all
3/4 Your pandemic preparation during six years as health secretary was found wanting and inadequate.Your duplicity right now in destabilising the party and country to serve your own personal ambition, more so.
PM won 80 seat majority, delivered Brexit, drove testing/vaccine delivery prog, introduced furlough, removed all COVID restrictions opening our economy, first leader to assist Ukraine + has delivered lowest unemployment since 1974. Every big decision bang on. He 💯 has my vote.
Whatever your position on Cummings is, I think most sensible people can agree, the harassment of his wife and 4yo child alone in the house, baying media, loud and aggressive abuse, threats of violence is inhumane. Let’s get on with fighting
#Covid19
not terrifying a small child
May has capitulated to every single EU demand. She’s abandoned NI, and now Gibraltar. At no time does she push back. As Barnier said, they have given May the deal she asked for and she has given them everything they have asked for. It’s almost beyond words how bad this is.
The PM’s priority is to stabilise the government, set a clear direction for the country and continue to deliver on the promises he made and the British public voted for.
That was a very typical
#bbcqt
audience. Hostile to
@BorisJohnson
He is never afraid to answer the toughest questions, always polite and unlike Corbyn, never loses his temper. He did amazingly well. Well done, boss.
#BackBoris
#bbcqt
The same lady who on an interview on TV last week said something along the lines of ‘I just hope we can all be a bit kinder and a bit nicer to each other now.’ I’ve never heard
@BorisJohnson
say a bad word about anyone, not even those who strongly oppose him
#Thebetterperson
Left wing snowflakes are killing comedy, tearing down historic statues, removing books from universities, dumbing down panto, removing Christ from Christmas and suppressing free speech. Sadly, it must be true, history does repeat itself. It will be music next.
If Rishi Sunak were to win, the focus of the privileges committee I am absolutely certain would move straight onto Rishi Sunak and what he knew - in order to embolden Labours call for a general election. With Rishi we will be in general election territory within weeks.
The person Starmer doesn’t want to face at an election is Boris Johnson who secured the biggest Conservative majority since 1987 and the highest share of the vote (43.6 per cent) of any party since 1979, with 14 million votes. Time to get back to the job of governing.
No such thing as a confirmatory referendum. It’s a 2nd Referendum. If the result the first time had been remain, it wouldn’t be happening.
Same pig, new lipstick 💄
#Brexit
"Be sensible... What do you want? A full handbook to tell you what to do?"
Plumber Ryan Price says the government guidance on returning to work is clear enough for the public.
I cannot imagine there’s one G7 country which thinks we’re worthy of a place at the table.
The removal of one electorally successful PM, the disgraceful plotting to remove another by those who didn’t get their way first time round is destabilising our economy and our reputation
1. Journalists and media need to be more balanced. Testing, is not a cure, it won’t cut the number of deaths, it won’t make people feel better or stop them catching
#coronavirus
it will only tell you if you have or have had it There is no cure. Tests will allow
So, when people in an office buy a cake in the middle of the afternoon for someone else they are working in the office with and stop for ten minutes to sing happy birthday and then go back to their desks, this is now called a party?
You will hear lots of remainers today repeating the same line, ‘we accept, Brexit is happening’ and in the next breath argue a position that would do anything but allow us to
#Brexit
successfully
Marr just refusing to let
@BorisJohnson
answer a single question or to speak for more than a few words before interrupting.
He’s making the interview about him, trying to score a hit or claim a scalp rather than allowing the country to hear the PM.
#Marr
#BackBoris
I appealed personally to Boris Johnson to act to enforce social distancing earlier today & so I welcome his announcement tonight.Let’s now all work together on the detail of how this will be implemented effectively,which workplaces remain open & financial support for all affected
I have dyslexia, which means that when I speak I often run my words together and say things that sound like the words I’m trying to say.
Dyslexia affects people differently. For me, it affects my speech more than my writing, which is why I find solace in writing. (1/5)
2/4You said yr wife’s family had experience of this during SARS. I said that British people would never tolerate being removed from their homes and loved ones at which point you demanded I show you the evidence for that. Your handling of the pandemic would have been a disaster.
Has everyone forgotten that the first MP to call for the removal of the veil was the Labour MP Jack Straw?
Sometimes I’m fairly horrified at the sheer weakness and pathetic hand wringing from my fellow MPs in Westminster.
Wow, Ann Widdecombe on
@BBCNewsnight
We have the worst PM since Eden
The worst leader of the opposition ever and the worst Parliament since Cromwell
#SaywhatsonyourmindAnn
We are expected to believe that a curry and beers arrived for about 30 people at 10pm, and this was a break for a work meeting?
No reasonable person believes Labours story, so why do Durham police and what were they told?
the ‘desperate, perverted smear’ was actually a story told by Angela Rayner herself, about herself. The language the PM condemned as ‘appalling, sexist, misogynist tripe’ was Angela Rayner’s language. The claim the Speaker condemned as ‘misogynistic and offensive’ was her own.
Reading about backgrounds of Labour leadership candidates. I lived on a council estate for first 20 years of my life I was a nurse, married a coal miner my mum trained to teach when my bus driver dad became ill. I’m more working class than every single one of them
@Conservatives
Will men in masks making threats turn up at Rosies home? Crowds of Remainers screaming abuse in the street, left wing press pack? I sincerely hope not.
The teacher who called the police on DC had broken lockdown, travelling 250 miles- the 2nd witness now admits, he made it up.
I didn’t hear a squeak out of those Labour MPs when John McDonnell urged a crowd to ‘Lynch the bitch’ when talking about a female Conservative MP.
#Doublestandards
You are accusing me of being authoritarian? Really?! You hardly let anyone else speak, or answer any questions on
@GMB
@susannahreid100
is a saint for putting up with it. You keep chasing ratings. I’ll keep chasing solutions.
Look in the Mirror, Piers.
If I felt that I no longer shared the values of my Conservative colleagues and people who voted for me, I would stand down and call a by election with immediate effect. Not one of the three amigos holds a shred of principle between them and are now political takers and imposters
Prayer mats should be banned in non religious schools along with the hijab.
It’s time for the government to take a stand.
In my
@DailyMailUK
column today ⬇️
Since I became a minister, I have inherited the hugest number of nasty trolls, with numbers in their profile name and hardly any followers. Wonder where they come from?
I’ve spoken to
@BorisJohnson
+
@carriesymonds
I am totally stunned at the level of harassment they have had to endure. Hate mail, left wing protests outside their flat, eavesdroppers. The stress is immense, more than most could endure.They are together, strong and united.
Tonight, the Tory rebels have put a spring in Labours step, given them a taste of winning, guaranteed the party a weekend of bad press, undermined the PM and devalued her impact in Brussels. They should be deselected and never allowed to stand as a Tory MP, ever again.
The feeling out here on the streets is very strong. I’ve never been stopped as often as I have today and asked to tell the PM that the public are behind him. That came from remainers too. I’m not sure it’s going to keep as fine for
@LibDems
as they think it is!
The more Boris is denounced as an extremist for making basic points that most people agree with, the more it helps him. My
@telegraph
column about the battle for public opinion:
If she had been carrying a knife? A man is in prison for plotting to murder an MP Jo Cox was murdered We all receive death threats and jump when a stranger calls out our name in public. We live in strange times He acted instinctively, he is not trained. His instincts were right.
'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
Having originally trained as a nurse, I am thrilled to have been appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State to
@DHSCgovuk
by
#PM
@BorisJohnson
excited to be working with
@MattHancock
& team. Let’s get started!
#NHS
💪
Parliament isn’t sitting from mid September until mid October due to conference. What
@BorisJohnson
is doing is entirely in keeping with what every PM has always done, ever which is to pirogue one week before a Queens speech. Not as undemocratic as Corbyn imposing himself as PM!
Sad to have just received this letter.
I will not be silenced by
@UKLabour
MPs who continue to dismiss the contributions of those who don't conform to their view of how ethnic minorities should behave.
The nation tuned into daily press briefings and saw journalists at their very left leaning, gotcha worst. They failed to adapt and behave appropriately in a crisis. Regarded it as a political event to trip up the gov trying to keep people safe. Big mistake.
New polling for
@SkyNews
shows really low levels of trust in journalists among the public.
- 72% don't trust newspapers on the issue of Coronavirus, just 17% do
- 64% don't trust TV journalists on the issue of Coronavirus, just 24% do
He’s not on SAGE, he’s at SAGE. Just like any PMs advisor ever would have been in a crisis.
This public will see right through this fabricated sensationalism.
Have just spoken to Sir Bob Kerslake, former Head of the Civil Service. He told me that if Cummings is a full member of SAGE: “it’s both surprising and concerning. The risk is the government is leading the science when it’s supposed to be the other way round.”
Why did Labour deny that Raynor was there, for three months? What were/are they hiding. And, I’ll ask this again, what convos has the PCC or the Dep PCC had with anyone at all, inc CC and investigating officers about this pre arranged, by invitation only party and quiz.
The PM is calling for a national effort for ventilator production. We have received many offers to make ventilators and parts.
If you can manufacture, call the BEIS Business Support helpline on 0300 456 3565.
A dedicated team to receive your calls will start at 10am tomorrow
There were far, far more cheers, but that doesn’t make a good headline does it.
Queen’s thanksgiving service: Boos and jeers for Boris Johnson outside St Paul’s
I’ve switched comments off on my feed and it will stay that way. I wouldn’t invite 92k people into my garden to scream abuse at me, so I won’t be having it on my phone either.
It’s the reason so many female MPs won’t touch Twitter. I think this is a good compromise.
Twitter is a disturbing place to be right now. If you are feeling negatively affected by current events and you feel out of control. Disable your feed, switch off the news, list positives to achieve in your day, sleep and eat well and visit
#EveryMindMatters
website for guidance
Once again the media are amplifying the wrong perception just to attack the Gov.
A nurse to me today -
‘I was disappointed to get 1pc but more relieved that my husbands furlough extended until the autumn. Still two wages coming into our house and I’d rather that.’
If you’re born a male, and go through puberty as male, your body develops natural physical advantages over a woman’s. That makes you stronger and faster.
‘I’m setting a very clear line, competitive women’s sport must be reserved for people born female.
God, that poor dear horse is utterly terrified. They are left wing activists who do not care a jot about George Floyd or injustice and hijack any demonstration in order to destabilise the government. It is sickening. They always deface monuments- animal cruelty is a new low