On days like today I’m reminded of this clip.
John McCain defending Barack Obama:
“No Ma’am.
“He’s a decent family man & citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues.”
“You must be furious with whoever signed up to a deal this bad?”
Boris Johnson wants to make reforms to the Northern Ireland Protocol,
@PGMcNamara
asks the prime minister why he signed it in the first place?
The roof of the
@SpursOfficial
football ground is currently pulsating up and down in the wind!
(Turn your phone landscape and look at the suspended lighting rigs)
#StormEunice
My word.
Sir John Major has written to Sir Graham Brady:
"For the overall wellbeing of the country, Mr Johnson should not remain in Downing Street”
This is an incredible intervention from a former Conservative Prime Minister about the current one.
I’m from North London, just like
@DavidLammy
.
My family are immigrants, just like David Lammy (albeit mine from Ireland).
Yet people never jump to “you’re not even English” with me, unlike with David Lammy (and many other BAME Brits).
I wonder what the difference could be...?!
NEW
@theSNP
has reported Rishi Sunak over a potential breach of the ministerial code by accepting a £1,000 bet that the first plane to
#Rwanda
will leave before the next election.
Ooof - that didn’t take long…
Two
@Conservatives
backbenchers telling me “on principle”
@RishiSunak
should resign as this is his second fixed penalty notice.
#Breaking
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been issued with a “conditional offer of fixed penalty” by Lancashire Constabulary for failing to wear a seatbelt while filming a social media clip in the back of a moving car
A poll to chill the bones of any holidaying Conservative MP...
11,000 voters asked by
@findoutnowuk
&
@electcalculus
how they would vote were an election imminent.
Result:
#Labour
landslide
New polling - given exclusively to Channel 4 News - shows a Labour landslide victory with around 460 seats and the Conservatives reduced to 90 seats - if there were an imminent general election.
Poll by
@FindoutnowUK
and
@ElectCalculus
.
@PGMcNamara
has more details.
"It's been the greatest privilege of my life to bring you the news."
@jonsnowC4
signs off from Channel 4 News for the very last time after presenting the programme for 32 years.
#BREAKING
@RishiSunak
TO ANNOUNCE LARGEST-EVER MILITARY AID PACKAGE TO
#UKRAINE
ON VISIT TO POLAND
💷£500m boost for Ukraine
💷400 vehicles
💷1,600 munitions
💷4 million rounds of ammunition
🚨Shamelessly self-indulgent tweet alert…
I’ve just been made Senior Political Correspondent for
@Channel4News
.
Over the moon about a permanent home in SW1 (after years bouncing around covering pretty much every Whitehall department!).
Hit me up with your stories!
NEW
Labour sources tell me they are making more money from corporate sponsors and exhibitors at this years conference than at any time since 2007.
Party says they’re a Government in waiting…it would appear big business thinks they might be too.
#LabourConference
MISSING CHILDREN IN SOUTH LONDON
- abduction of three children from their foster home
⁃ any info: contact police immediately on 07942 599 374
⁃ or anyone anonymously on 0800 555 111 quoting crime reference number 6143/20AUG20
Former PM
@BorisJohnson
has reportedly warned
@RishiSunak
it would be a mistake to ditch the Northern Ireland
#Protocol
Bill.
Here’s what Mr Johnson had to say about the deal he signed when I asked him about it last year…
#NIProtocol
“You must be furious with whoever signed up to a deal this bad?”
Boris Johnson wants to make reforms to the Northern Ireland Protocol,
@PGMcNamara
asks the prime minister why he signed it in the first place?
Another Tory MP texts: “Sh*t indeed”
This result has had quite an impact on backbench morale among MPs I’m chatting to…and their morale was already pretty low.
#RutherglenandHamiltonWest
🚨MASSIVE win for Labour in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election
🔺Labour majority: 9,446
☹️SNP majority in 2019: 5,230
⚖️That’s a huge swing of 20.4%
🥶Conservative vote collapsed from 15% of the vote in 2019 to 3.9%
😱A Tory MP texts simply: “Sh*t”
Yesterday we spoke to:
- Major supermarkets: said shops won't shut
- Global distributors: said NO problem with supply lines. Empty shelves are short term because of panic buyers
- A SINGLE MUM: she cannot afford to bulk buy. Panic buyers mean she can't get her bare minimum
I understand Suella Braverman’s editorial WAS sent to Number 10 prior to publication.
BUT…
She was asked to make changes described as “not minor”.
Those changes were not made.
🚨BREAKING
Suella Braverman’s article in The Times was NOT cleared by the Prime Minister or his team
When asked, the PM’s spokesperson said:
“No. It was not approved by Number 10.”
Big question: was it ever sent to No 10 in the first place?
Spokesperson wouldn’t go into that
Anger flying off in all directions now.
Another Tory MP texts:
“Lee’s always been a bloody liability.
“The fact Rishi promoted him to Deputy Chairman tells you all you need to know about his judgment.
“He gave Lee publicity and more of a platform
“I’m beyond angry right now.”
#BREAKING
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace confirms to me that the UK WILL be supplying
#Mastiff
vehicles to Ukraine.
More tonight on
@Channel4News
at 7pm…
Wondering who Rehman Chishti is?
Here you go.
We chatted in 2018 after Jamal Khashoggi was murdered - Mr Chishti had previously earned £46,000 from a Saudi think tank while an MP.
I stuck to “yes or no” questions…not many answered.
Full interview:
I’d argue: It came home
That song came out when I was a kid: all I’ve ever known is national footballing disappointment
Yet for a month the whole country has rejoiced, a nation truly uplifted in times anything-but-uplifting
It’s coming home? These lads already brought it home
🚨MASSIVE win for Labour in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election
🔺Labour majority: 9,446
☹️SNP majority in 2019: 5,230
⚖️That’s a huge swing of 20.4%
🥶Conservative vote collapsed from 15% of the vote in 2019 to 3.9%
😱A Tory MP texts simply: “Sh*t”
🚨RED WALL COMPLETELY CRUMBLES
@Channel4News
&
@JLPartnersPolls
have been tracking the
#RedWall
since 2019…
For the FIRST time the polling now shows:
🦋All 45 ‘Red Wall’ Tory seats would be lost to Labour
🌹Labour are now MORE trusted than Conservatives on the
#Economy
🧵…
Both victims of the
#LondonBridgeAttack2019
have been formally named.
25-year-old Jack Merritt and 23-year-old Saskia Jones.
Both were graduates of the University of Cambridge.
Their poor families. Beyond awful.
💫
@MarcusRashford
during lockdown:
👏 His charity raised £20m helping feed 400,000 children.
🤝 Launched a campaign to help the homeless.
🙌 Learned sign language to judge a poetry event in a deaf school.
🍴 Supplied 3m meals to vulnerable children in the UK.
🙏 Incredible.
🚨NEW COLUMN🚨
I’ve stopped spreadsheeting for two hours and:
❌ We’ve had to add a “SACKED” column to accommodate
@michaelgove
;
💥 We’re now up to 42 resignations and 1 sacking, so…
🦋 43 in total so far flown from Government…
The real star of today is
@Channel4News
cameraman Neil Corbett.
He’s the guy that got *THAT* disposable cup footage AND ever-so-politely doorstepped
@BorisJohnson
.
He’s too modest for The Twitter himself...but you can see him walking backwards in
@bbclaurak
’s report tonight...
The Conservatives have been in Government for 9 years.
There will be some who question how wise it is for them to campaign with the hashtag:
#BritainDeservesBetter
Parliament & Jeremy Corbyn have blocked everything — we need a new Parliament so we can
#GetBrexitDone
and the country can
#MoveOn
to focus on the cost of living, NHS, clean energy, violent crime and higher pay
#BritainDeservesBetter
This is/was a very good interview.
@DavidHarewood
eloquently describing to
@krishgm
why the events of the last week are important.
It’s not long.
I’d recommend watching it...
👀 👀 👀 👀
All eyes on the Scottish Courts as the Prime Minister accepts he may have to ask for Brexit delay, according to documents.
How do we know? Because of legal action taken by
@JolyonMaugham
and his team.
Here’s mine &
@stephidavs
’ report...
#NEW
Labour accuse
@RishiSunak
of “squatting in Downing St”.
@patmcfaddenmp
on news there WON’T be a General Election on May 2:
"Rishi Sunak should stop squatting in Downing Street and give the country what it desperately needs – a chance for change with a Labour government.”
#BREAKING
Prime Minister
@RishiSunak
says there WILL NOT be a General Election on May 2.
Asked by
@itvwestcountry
he said:
“There won’t be a general election on that day.”
🔥
“I thought it was a joke”
Just off the phone with VERY angry and despondent Conservative Red Wall MPs.
“David Cameron? Rishi’s basically given up on the
#RedWall
.
“Jeremy Hunt’s bad enough - it’s like watching 2010 Cabinet reassemble. I’m just waiting for George Osborne."
🚨ANOTHER Conservative MP announces they're not standing at the next election.
@lucyallan
not running for Telford again.
No reason given.
(Majority - 10,941)
On the day parliament was supposed to vote on her deal to leave the EU, here Theresa May gives her reasons for remaining in the European Union shortly before the 2016 referendum.
I love
#TheOverlap
...but this one is exceptional.
Heart was in my mouth listening to Paul Scholes opening up about his teenage son's
#autism
.
The whole interview with
@GNev2
is fantastic, but 18-25 minutes is the section.
Best Overlap so far...
These were given to me at Conservative Conference.
So…when Labour change their minds on a policy: flip flop
When the Conservatives do it, it’s “courage”…?
Those are tricky arguments to square with one another🤷♂️
‘When the facts change you should have the courage to change direction.’
The ‘facts have changed’ on HS2, Rishi Sunak insists to
@TomSwarbrick1
(five times).
A grown man cried to me today at the thought of having to let some of his staff go.
I can’t describe the relief in his face as he watched the bailout proposal - so see for yourself.
Mine,
@nicksp
,
@AndyLeeC4
,
@MillyTeasdale
and Philippa Collins’ report:
Boris Johnson’s resignation statement…it’s long.
Where it began, he believes:
“I am not alone in thinking that there is a witch hunt underway, to take revenge for
#Brexit
and ultimately to reverse the 2016 referendum result.
“My removal is the necessary first step”
I have a 4 and 7 year old.
We’re doing lockdown in a flat.
With no garden.
If sunbathers get the public spaces closed I will be somewhat miffed with them...
#BREAKING
Prime Minister
@RishiSunak
says there WILL NOT be a General Election on May 2.
Asked by
@itvwestcountry
he said:
“There won’t be a general election on that day.”
The President of the United States.
Tweeting out a video of his head Photoshopped onto a president from a film (Independence Day) about fighting aliens.
This is not a hoax.
Whether you are for or against 10,000 extra prison places, or stiffer sentences, I’d recommend reading
@BarristerSecret
’s book.
If you can’t get criminals through the courts because of delays in beleaguered judiciary, it’s very hard to fill all those prison places...