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Political Editor, The Guardian || Political Journalist of the Year pippa.crerar @theguardian .com

London, Scotland, Burnley

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Joined April 2010

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🚨If you wish to contact me about a story please use: 🐦Twitter DMs 📱Signal/ Whatsapp 07824 537227 📨 pippa.crerar @theguardian .com 🕵️‍♀️ guardian.politics.desk @protonmail .com 🐌 The Guardian, 90 York Way, London, N1 9GU I always protect my sources

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Emmanuel Macron: “The United Kingdom is a friendly nation, regardless of its leaders, sometimes in spite of its leaders”.

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Health Sec Steve Barclay confronted by angry member of public over beleaguered ambulance service: “Twelve years. You’ve done bugger all about it”.

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Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby: “Those who serve will be loved and remembered longer than those who cling to power and privilege are long forgotten”.

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Keir Starmer kicks off his Queen’s Speech response by congratulating Boris Johnson on another first: “He’s the first resident of Downing Street to be a constituent of a Labour council.”

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There’s always an article

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Boris Johnson has just claimed a historic first - the first sitting British prime minister to have broken the law.

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Nicola Sturgeon quotes Suella Braverman who said it was her “dream” to see an asylum flight take off for Rwanda. She adds: “*My* dream is that we live in a world where those fleeing violence and oppression are shown compassion and treated like human beings, not shown the door.”

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They could’ve at least changed a couple of words 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Absolutely thrilled to have won Journalist of the Year at the @londonpressclub awards. Such an honour. It isn’t always the easiest job in the world, but my god I’m lucky to do it. 🙏🏽

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Dominic Cummings: "Tens of thousands of people died, who didn't need to die." And there it is.

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👀Labour has bought up all the advertising on the Conservative Home website - the Tory members’ online bible - over the next few days and this is what readers will see…

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Desk cleared, last story published, clocking off from @MirrorPolitics for the final time. It’s been a massive privilege. 🙏🏽

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EXCLUSIVE: Extraordinary image of raucous Christmas party thrown by Tory aides at party HQ during coronavirus restrictions last year. Party hats, drinks, an entire buffet - while we were all banned from meeting just one other person socially indoors.

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Picture shows 'raucous' Christmas party thrown by Tory aides in lockdown breach

Our image shows 24 people crowded together in a room in the Tories' Westminster HQ for an event organised by Shaun Bailey’s mayoral campaign - Mr Bailey tonight quit as chair of the London Assembly’s...

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Wow. Kwasi Kwarteng attended private champagne reception *hours* after delivering mini-budget where hedge fund managers (who would gain from crash in pound) urged him to double down - scoop from ⁦ @ShippersUnbound ⁩ & ⁦⁦ @Gabriel_Pogrund ⁩

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Kwasi Kwarteng’s ‘budget day’ cocktail party with financiers who may have profited from crash

Kwasi Kwarteng attended a private champagne reception hours after delivering his mini-budget where hedge fund managers who would gain from a crash in the pound

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This is an explainer and a half! #ECHR

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EXCLUSIVE: No 10 staff held ‘wine-time Fridays’ throughout pandemic with Boris Johnson regularly witnessing the gatherings. Sources say PM encouraged aides to "let off steam" despite indoor socialising being banned under lockdown rules.

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Boris Johnson's 'wine time Fridays' - No10 staff drinks every week in pandemic

EXCLUSIVE: Downing Street held yet MORE parties throughout the Covid pandemic with events taking place every Friday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson encouraged staff to "let off steam" even though...

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NEW: Boris Johnson has watered down the ministerial code - allowing ministers to break the rules without resigning - and blocked a bid to give his ethics advisor the power to investigate him…

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Boris Johnson waters down ethics code and blocks new powers for watchdog

Just days after the damning Sue Gray report, Boris Johnson has watered down the punishments for breaking the ministerial code, and blocked a bid to grant his ethics advisor the power to launch his...

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EXCL: Police have a photo of Boris Johnson holding a can of a beer at his lockdown birthday party in June 2020 - taken by his taxpayer funded official photographer.

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Bombshell pic shows Boris Johnson holding beer at lockdown birthday party

Sources said that pictures taken by the official No10 photographer have been handed over to Scotland Yard for their investigation into the Downing Street parties - including one of the PM with a can...

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Tory MPs already texting to say they think that Liz Truss's press conference has actually made things worse.

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Boris Johnson teases Angie Rayner for having aspirations to Labour's top job. But she replies: "I heard on the grapevine there may be a vacancy for PM soon, so maybe I *should* have aspirations".

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That was an excoriating response from Keir Starmer. The silence with which Tory MPs listened to it speaks volumes.

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🚨Today is my first day in new job as Political Editor of @guardian . Excited to get going! As ever, my DMs are open and I'm on Signal if you'd like to get in touch. I always protect my sources 📩📄📸

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Whether you agree with her or not, this woman has a right to protest. Nor is this an isolated example. Police need to be careful not to over-step the mark.

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🔴An anti-Royal protestor holding a poster with the slogan ‘Not my king’ has been pictured being led away by police 👇

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Mark Drakeford is usually a very gentle man.

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"What sort of world do you belong in?" Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford loses temper with Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies

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I'm not sure the families of the 954 people who have died from Covid in the last week will agree with Sajid Javid that death rates are "mercifully low".

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When we first revealed Downing Street parties in November last year, one source told me there had been “many social gatherings” in No 10 while the public faced restrictions. I’m not sure I quite realised how many they were meaning...

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EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson accused of personally breaking Covid laws by hosting a Christmas quiz in No10 last year - and we've got pictures 👀

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Boris Johnson pictured hosting Number 10 Xmas quiz ‘in breach of Covid laws’

Boris Johnson faces more questions over a Downing Street Christmas quiz he hosted while London was under strict Tier 2 "no mixing" restrictions - as staff knocked back Tesco booze

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Keir Starmer describes working from home critic Jacob Rees-Mogg as “sticking notes on people’s desks like some overgrown prefect”.

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🚨 If you’re one of those Downing Street staff who Boris Johnson has just thrown under a bus, my DMs are open and my sources are always protected. 🚨

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Job news! I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be rejoining The Guardian as Political Editor this summer, taking over from the inestimable @GuardianHeather . Very excited about working with the brilliant politics team to hold politicians and power to account.

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I’m delighted to announce that @PippaCrerar is to join the Guardian as political editor. Pippa has a remarkable track record of exclusives and has set the political agenda time and again. She joins us later this year

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🚨Kwasi Kwarteng announces govt is scrapping 45p additional rate of income tax - paid by richest 629,000 who earn more than £150,000. An unashamed budget for the rich.

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BREAKING: Tory MPs now claiming that chief whip Wendy Morton and her deputy have both resigned - after fracking vote shambles. Total chaos engulfing govt.

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EXCL: Tory peer Michelle Mone secretly received £29m from profits of PPE business awarded large government contracts after she recommended it to ministers - incredible investigative journalism from @david_conn

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Revealed: Tory peer Michelle Mone secretly received £29m from ‘VIP lane’ PPE firm

Documents suggest husband passed on money from PPE Medpro, which secured £200m contracts after Mone lobbied ministers

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Boris Johnson says he has "no idea" why Labour wants a no confidence vote in the Government. Commons Speaker forced to remind him: "It's actually the Government that has put it down for today".

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BBC appears to have lost the dressing room on this one #MOTD

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BREAKING: Good Law Project to sue Met Police over failure to properly investigate Boris Johnson over Partygate. They want to know why Scotland Yard didn't issue questionnaires and further fines for three No 10 gatherings when others received fines.

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💥Hearing that staff in No 10 have been told that Boris Johnson IS resigning and his letter has been prepared. 💥

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Boris Johnson is *explicitly* asked: "Did you deliberately mislead the House at the Despatch Box?" PM replies: "No". 🔖Bookmark it.

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BREAKING: Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner cleared by Durham Police over Beergate

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PM: Your majesty. Charles: So you've come back again PM: It's a great pleasure. Charles: Dear oh dear. Anyway...

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NEW VIDEO: King Charles holds the first of his weekly audiences with Prime Minister Liz Truss. It happened today at Buckingham Palace

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Boris Johnson admits he "probably did" meet ex-KGB agent Alexander Lebedev *without* officials when he was Foreign Secretary on a 2018 trip to Italy.

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Urgent question in HoC. Labour leader Keir Starmer begins: "To ask the prime minister..." Penny Mordaunt stands up. She then offers apologies to House as Liz Truss is "detained on urgent business". Starmer: "I guess under this govt everybody gets to be PM for 15 mins".

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💥Astonishing. Suella Braverman - home secretary of a government that has been in power for 12 years - admits: "The system is broken. Illegal immigration is out of control."

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I'm always in awe of journalists who walk into danger, when most people would rather be anywhere but. Huge kudos to all the foreign correspondents out in Ukraine, so we at home can know what is going on.

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EXCL: New bombshell image shows Boris Johnson with open bottle of bubbly at No 10 Christmas quiz

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New bombshell pic shows Boris Johnson and open bottle of bubbly at No 10 quiz

The image shows the Prime Minister flanked by three members of staff, one wearing tinsel and another a Santa hat, at the event on December 15, 2020

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Rishi Sunak talking about importance of first 1000 days of a child’s life as though he’s the first to think of it. If family hubs are so important - why did they shut more than a thousand Sure Start centres? 🧐

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Labour leader Keir Starmer appeals to the PM to "look in the mirror and see whether he has the trust and authority to lead this country". I assume he means @DailyMirror ? #PMQs

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Boris Johnson blames the last Labour government for lack of new nuclear power stations. But Gordon Brown gave the go-ahead for new sites in 2009. Under the Conservatives none have yet got up and running.

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Three in five Brits say Boris Johnson should resign after publication of Sue Gray's report, according to a snap @YouGov poll. And 74% believe that the PM knowingly lied about breaking lockdown rules, including a majority of Tory voters.

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Striking fr Tory MP @timloughton on lack of legal asylum routes. “I’m a 16yo orphan from an African country escaping a war zone & religious persecution. I have a sibling legally in UK at moment. What is the safe & legal route for me to come to the UK?"

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Liz Truss said several times in her radio round that no family would pay more than £2,500 this year for energy bills. This is just *not* the case - and here’s why 👇🏼

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Pls share to stop confusion. THERE IS NO £2,500 CAP ON ENERGY BILLS. Instead the new 1 Oct guarantee, like the old caps, limits - Daily charge (28p gas, 46p elec) - & Unit rates (10p/kWh gas, 34p/kWh elec) So use more, pay more. £2,500 is just what someone with avg use'd pay

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🚨BREAKING: Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe has been released. Reuters reporting two detained British-Iranians - Nazanin and Anoosheh Asoori - on way to airport to leave Iran - lawyer

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BREAKING: Boris Johnson has blocked Labour's bid to hold vote of no confidence in Govt tomorrow Senior Labour source: "It's just another example of them ripping up the rules to protect their own side. They're saying he's going anyway but they're clearly frightened of losing".

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If ever there was a case for House of Lords reform...

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Boris Johnson's former aide, Charlotte Owen becomes a peer. She is 30, and as the oath says her peerage is literally "for her life", she could be in the Lords for SIXTY YEARS.

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You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide ☎️

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“ Hello, this is @PippaCrerar calling, I just wanted to ask you about…” must be the most terrifying sound in all of British politics right now.

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Grim mood in Downing Street. No 10 insider says "lots of tears" in building. "Writing on the wall now. The working assumption is that it will be today".

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This is an astonishing breach of diplomatic convention from our current foreign secretary, let alone our next PM.

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Liz Truss says that 'the jury's out' on President Macron. She says she'd judge the French leader on "deeds not words" if she becomes PM.

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EXCL: Boris Johnson and wife Carrie are planning big wedding bash at Chequers within weeks - with sources saying it's part of reason he wants to stay as caretaker.

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Boris Johnson and Carrie to host lavish Chequers wedding party as he clings on

Senior Tories claim Boris Johnson is clinging to power in part so that he and wife Carrie can host lavish bash at Chequers to mark their marriage, which took place in May 2021

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To put it another way, that's substantially more than the £3.2bn a year the BBC gets from its licence fee income.

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Treasury writes off £4.3bn of public cash stolen by Covid fraudsters

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Important reminder that Vladimir Putin doesn't represent all Russian people

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Pushkin Square, maybe less than 1000 meters from Red Square and the Kremlin, is the cite of a significant protest. These people know the risks of challenging the regime. They’re on the street in-spite of major personal costs.

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BREAKING: Gavin Williamson out

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(Just in case you missed this bit - Boris Johnson is currently under investigation for breaking the ministerial code)

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Gavin Williamson will pick up £16,876 in severance pay for lasting exactly TWO weeks in government (plus £2,589 in gross pay). As it's the third time he's been sacked/ forced to quit govt, presumably he's done quite nicely out of taxpayer.

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👀Fascinating insight into how No 10 reacted to my initial query about Partygate - all in the bundle drop just released by privileges committee. “I don’t know what we say about the flat”. “Just be robust and they’ll get bored…”

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Almost two years ago I reported that Boris Johnson had tried to meet the Queen when he had Covid symptoms. I was told by No10 it was “completely untrue”. Yet @AnthonySeldon and @RaymondNewell_ confirm in their new book on the former PM that it had, in fact, happened.

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LBC's @NickFerrariLBC not holding back, telling Liz Truss: "While you have been on a five-week beauty parade, people in this room have seen inflation go to the highest rate for 40 years, energy bills go to nearly £4000, wages down... this is a zombie government".

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Keir Starmer: “At least the staff at No 10 know how to pack a suitcase.” #PMQs

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Liz Truss drops Kwasi Kwarteng in it on 45p top tax rate. “It was a decision that the Chancellor made”. She admits rest of Cabinet wasn’t informed in advance. #BBCLauraK

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Absolutely thrilled (and a bit overwhelmed) to have won Journalist of the Year, Political Journalist and @WIJ_UK ’s Woman of the Year at the British Journalism Awards 2022. Thank you @pressgazette 🙏🏽

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Dominic Cummings says he will "swear under oath" that Boris Johnson not only knew about May 20, 2020 drinks party, but that he "agreed it should go ahead". If true, these claims are explosive, as would mean PM had lied to House of Commons.

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Updated blog: PM was told about the invite, he knew it was a drinks party, he lied to Parliament

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It’s not an independent report. Never has been. It’s an internal one. And Boris Johnson is her boss. So there’s a big difference.

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NEW: No 10 admit that Sue Gray met with the Prime Minister. They say she didn’t show him her report and insist PM wants it to be “completely independent”. But what did discussing “process” involve exactly?

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Cabinet minister Simon Hart describes migrants - many of whom are fleeing fear and persecution in countries like Afghanistan and Syria - as “illegal people”. No such thing.

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This @gmb interview shows why cost of living crisis is so dangerous for Government. Boris Johnson struggling with story about Elsie, 77, who rides buses all day because she can’t afford to heat her home. PM: “The 24 hr freedom bus pass was something I actually introduced".

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Love this 😆

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“Solidarity with Sanna” Women in Finland are posting videos of themselves partying while tagging Prime Minister Sanna Marin.

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👀Miriam Margolyes not holding back on what she said to Jeremy Hunt when they met on way into studio. “When I saw him there I just said ‘you’ve got a helluva job, the best of luck’. What I really wanted to say was ‘fuck you, you bastard’, but you can’t say that”.

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Possibly the greatest moment in the Today programme’s history courtesy of Miriam Margolyes.

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It’s France’s fault there’s a border…

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Rishi Sunak tells #PMConnect that NI is “world’s most exciting economic zone" b/c of access to both GB and EU markets. Earlier he said this "very special position" makes it "incredibly attractive" place to invest. This is, of course, the status *whole* UK had before Brexit 🤔

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🚨EXCL: Suella Braverman has departed as home secretary, causing yet more chaos for Liz Truss's government, with Grant Shapps tipped to take over.

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Suella Braverman forced to resign as UK home secretary

Rightwinger is replaced by Grant Shapps in further serious blow to Truss’s authority

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Priti Patel says UK has "staff in Calais" to process refugees and it's "absolutely wrong" that they're being turned away. But Downing Street told us four hours ago there was *not* yet any processing centre there.

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Tory source: "It beggars belief that even after all the criticism Johnson has faced regarding integrity and probity, one of the reasons he is staying is to have his wedding party at Chequers. The Johnsons should do the decent thing and find a different venue."

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Assured by who, exactly?

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NEW: A second foreign office whistleblower says it was "widespread knowledge" that Boris Johnson directly approved evacuation of cats and dogs with Nowzad charity from Kabul - which he has denied.

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NEW: Lib Dems to table a 'humble address' motion in Parliament today to force the Government to release minutes of Boris Johnson’s meeting with Sue Gray.

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BREAKING: British pound has fallen to it lowest level against the US dollar since 1985, when Margaret Thatcher was running the country

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EXCLUSIVE: Bombshell email shows organisers planned for *days* for No 10 staff to attend the "virtual" Christmas quiz in person. Senior official also told staff to "go out the back door" at the end of the night. Cracking scoop from our @mikeysmith

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Bombshell message shows No10 staff were told to leave Xmas quiz ‘by back door’

Organisers had been planning for staff to attend the "virtual quiz" in person for days ahead of the event in December last year - and a senior official told attendees: "Go out the back"

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BREAKING: IMF criticises Kwasi Kwarteng again saying govt’s tax cuts and energy support package has made Bank of England’s battle against inflation more difficult.

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In a 20 minute keynote speech to business leaders Boris Johnson has: - compared himself to Moses - pretended to be an accelerating car - referred to himself in the third-person - lost his place - admitted he spent y'day at Peppa Pig World #CBI

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A front page for the ages

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Voters may not notice this, but we journalists do…

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Liz Truss accused of ‘running scared’ after pulling out of BBC interview

Truss now likely to become prime minister without undergoing a single set-piece grilling on TV or radio

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All is well in the Conservative party…

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NEW: Rishi Sunak has received a questionnaire from Met Police as part of 'partygate' investigation. The Chancellor was present at the PM's birthday party in Cabinet Room on 19 June, 2020. He has previously claimed he was on his way to a Covid meeting.

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Starmer describes Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi as “member for Stratford and Gibraltar” - a reference to his complicated tax history.

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What must public be thinking? We’re in middle of cost of living crisis w households across the country fearful about how they’ll pay their bills. Yet the government seems to be locked in a psychodrama.

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It’s the woke liberal remainiacs innit 🇬🇧

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The Prime Minister @BorisJohnson arriving with wife Carrie at St Paul’s Cathedral for the Platinum Thanksgiving Service is booed by some in the crowd @BBCNews

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👀Boris Johnson was made aware of allegations of inappropriate behavior by Chris Pincher before the last reshuffle, but appointed him deputy chief whip in February anyway - grim background from @EleniCourea

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Labour plans to hit the constituencies of any Tory MPs who defend Boris Johnson with ads like these...

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Extraordinary moment from Tory MP Aaron Bell who says he travelled hundreds of miles to go to his grandmother’s funeral in May 2020. “I was not able to hug my siblings, there were just 10 people at the funeral, I didn't stay... does the Prime Minister think I’m a fool?”

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Tory MP Roger Gale tells Times Radio PM should quit over "damning" new pics. "It's absolutely clear there was a party, that he attended it, that he was raising a toast to glass one of his colleagues. Therefore, he misled us from the despatch box. Honorably there is one answer".

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BREAKING: Met Police announce they have now issued more than 100 fines for Partygate breaches - another 50 since their last update.

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BREAKING: Labour leader Keir Starmer threatens to table a confidence motion in Boris Johnson if he "clings on" in No 10 after he has resigned as Tory leader.

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