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2 years
‘Kleptocracy’ unit goes after Vladimir Putin’s millions of pounds of personal wealth stashed in London. The National Crime Agency and intelligence services will attempt to identify and freeze assets owned by the Russian president in the UK Thread 👇🧵
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🔴 Labour will make it easier for unions to hold votes on strike action by legalising electronic ballots
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🇬🇧🇯🇵 Fish and vegetables grown near the old Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan can be freely sold in Britain after the Food Standards Agency scrapped a rule on radioactivity levels in produce
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Liz Truss has said white working-class children have been “neglected” because the Government has prioritised helping other groups facing discrimination
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🇷🇺Vladimir Putin is believed to have stashed millions of pounds of his personal wealth in London, with the UK’s new “kleptocracy” unit set to launch an investigation
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🔴David Lammy has been found to have breached the MPs’ code of conduct by inadvertently failing to register on time 16 different interests, including a number of commercial radio shows and Black History Month speeches
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🔵 Tens of thousands of Tory members will leave the party in anger at being denied a vote on the next leader, Rishi Sunak has been warned
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🔴 EXCLUSIVE: David Lammy is being investigated by Parliament’s Standards Commissioner over alleged breaches of the MPs’ Code of Conduct on declaring financial interests worth more than £27,000 | @CamillaTominey
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🔴 Sue Gray ‘told about Abba party at least four times’ for partygate report. However, evidence into the alleged lockdown gathering provided by civil servants did not appear in her final report ⤵️
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💰Bill Browder, an Anglo-American financier who has been instrumental in orchestrating sanctions against Putin’s closest associates, told a US Senate hearing in 2017 that Putin’s personal wealth could be as high as $200 billion, making him “the richest man in the world”
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🔴The Telegraph understands that Putin will be subject to an inquiry led by the National Crime Agency (NCA), working alongside the intelligence services. A team will attempt to identify any assets owned by Putin in the UK, including through known associates and oligarchs
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Boris Johnson's chief strategist Dominic Cummings has warned Remainer MPs attempting to block a no-deal Brexit that they do not get to "choose which votes they respect"
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As Britain heads to the polls this morning, we're looking for the very best good boys of the election! Reply to this tweet with the best #dogsatpollingstations for a chance to get featured in our Twitter moment
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The Guardian will not remove a cartoon which portrayed Priti Patel as a bull, despite her describing the image as racist and offensive
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📊 Over a third of voters believe Rishi Sunak is responsible for the cost of living crisis and rising inflation, a new poll shows
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The NCA has stressed that the new unit will not only investigate corrupt Russian money in the UK but other countries including Belarus, which has aided and abetted the invasion of Ukraine. Read more here👇
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🔴 Ursula Von der Leyen has been accused of contributing to a “climate disaster” after using private jets on more than half of her overseas missions, including short hops to London and Paris Read more:
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The leaked paper is the first evidence that Germany may be preparing to let Britain walk away with No Deal rather than back down to Boris Johnson’s demand to drop the Irish backstop
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🔴 Sadiq Khan is facing an official investigation into his conduct after he announced the opening date of the new Crossrail commuter line a day before the local elections
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🚨BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer is being investigated by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over potential breaches of earnings and gifts rules
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"Our Prime Minister's only crime – as far as millions of us are concerned – is to try and implement the will of the people," writes @allisonpearson
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Just a reminder for @jeremycorbyn of all the times he’s called for an election this year 💁‍♀️
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🗣️The source said: “There are people working on it now. That is what the ‘kleptocracy’ team will be spending its time on. The unit will be tracking down Putin’s money and that of his acolytes”
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🔴Nigel Farage has said that the Conservative Party deserves to be "wiped out" after net migration to the UK hit a new record high of 504,000. Follow all the latest updates on our politics liveblog here ⬇️
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#BREAKING @Nigel_Farage announces he is leaving Ukip
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If the EU rejects Boris’s offer, it’s full steam ahead for a no-deal Brexit | @FraserNelson
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As a special Christmas treat for the loyal listeners of @brexitbroadcast , the Attorney General @Geoffrey_Cox performed a festive reading of Twas the night before Christmas for @christopherhope in the Red Lion Pub. Click here for the full episode:
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Jon Snow did not do Channel 4 “any favours” when he “shouted obscenities about the Tory Party”, Nadine Dorries said on Thursday
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🗣️ Angela Rayner has revealed she refuses to allow Hansard to correct her grammar in Parliament in order to stay true to her working-class roots
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"People who depend for their sense of moral superiority on branding others racists need to grasp the seriousness and impact of what they so casually allege" - @LozzaFox
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🔵 ‘I can’t believe my house is being raided ... by Boris Johnson’ Footage shows Prime Minister standing in doorway, wearing a police stab vest, after joining Met Police raid in Lewisham. Thread 👇🧵
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Boris Johnson has suggested that Manchester has not been placed into Tier 3 because local authorities have refused
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🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson facing second ‘partygate’ fine over aide’s leaving event
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Boris Johnson has called on the chief executive of NatWest to resign if she is found to have leaked details about Nigel Farage’s bank account to the BBC
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🗣️Steve Baker MP: ‘I’m sick of the Cabinet sitting there fat, dumb and happy’ The former Brexit minister has no time for ‘self-interested sycophancy’ and wants instead to focus on championing more libertarian ideals🧵👇
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'The most lamentable aspect of Theresa May's latest outburst is her failure to acknowledge the disastrous state of affairs she handed on to Mr Johnson' | Writes @oflynnsocial
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Boris Johnson takes second foreign holiday in a fortnight It comes amid claims Prime Minister is 'missing in action' and presiding over 'zombie government' during mounting cost-of-living crisis 🧵⬇️
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🗣️ “I hope I annoy them, that would be my delight, if I’m annoying the Left” @SuellaBraverman joined @christopherhope for a live @ChoppersPodcast at the Conservative Party conference today. See more here:
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🔴NEW: The Government has asked the Metropolitan Police for assurances that it will not publish 300 photographs from its investigation into Downing Street parties
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🔵 A majority of Tory voters now think the party made the wrong decision by forcing Boris Johnson out, a poll for The Telegraph has found
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🔴A barrister advising Sue Gray on the "partygate" report has deleted a social media account after it emerged he had posted a string of anti-government messages
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Nicola Sturgeon was only able to hand NHS workers a minimum four per cent pay rise in Scotland thanks to the billions of pounds she has been given by the UK Treasury during the pandemic, the Tories have said
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4 years
“I’m as likely to support Jeremy Corbyn as I am to support Enoch Powell” Jewish Labour activists talk about why they no longer feel welcome in the party
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✍️ We want a vote to keep Boris Johnson as PM, demand Tory members. More than 2,000 sign petition calling for premier to be added to leadership ballot, so members can have a say on if he should carry on 🧵 #thread
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📸 Pictured: Boris Johnson arrives back in the UK.
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"The shadow business secretary, who looks like the love child of the Roswell alien and Mrs Merton, just confirmed that she is running to succeed Jeremy Corbyn" Writes @allisonpearson
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✍️"If Conservative MPs confuse a leftist clamour to oust Boris Johnson with the settled view of those likely to consider voting Tory in 2024, then they will deserve every misfortune coming their way" | Writes @oflynnsocial Patrick O'Flynn
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Dominic Cummings tweeted an intriguing picture of the Government's pandemic planning, showing that officials and ministers asked themselves: “Who do we not save?” as they confronted the first wave of Covid
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Humza Yousaf has been reported to Britain’s statistics watchdog for allegedly making “grossly misleading” claims about the health benefits of minimum alcohol pricing
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🔴 Rishi Sunak is planning to cut defence spending in real terms in the coming years in an apparent breach of the Conservative election manifesto
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🔵 A senior member of the voluntary Conservative party has defected to the Right-wing fringe party Reform UK, amid signs of frustration with the direction of Rishi Sunak's leadership
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🔴 Labour is facing its own “booze row” after Conservative figures pointed out that Sir Keir Starmer had been pictured drinking a beer when the country was still under Covid restrictions
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🗣️'I made clear the scale of change urgently required...I am not satisfied with the Commissioner’s response' Watch Sadiq Khan's full statement on Dame Cressida Dick's resignation 👇
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"In 1970, the number of fisherman in the UK was around 21,000; today it’s about 12,000. Our European membership was unquestionably a factor."
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Sue Gray was told by at least four officials that they heard Abba music playing in Boris and Carrie Johnson’s Downing Street flat, it was claimed. 👉 The aides said that they gave evidence to Ms Gray, who did not include the allegations from her final report published last week
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Liz Truss has ordered ministers to reduce the number of government agencies as part of a cost-cutting exercise designed to tackle the budget deficit
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'There's a lot wrong with being woke.' @LozzaFox predicts that the culture wars will stoke more division than Brexit – and explains how his Reclaim party is planning to fight
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"By the time we got to the 1922 Committee meeting that evening it was the usual festival of bombast and orgy of adulation. 🗣️"It took me about 90 seconds to realise he wasn’t really remorseful”
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🔵 The Conservatives are on course to lose more than 800 council seats in next month's local elections in results that, if repeated at the next general election, would see Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer become prime minister, reports @christopherhope
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Angela Rayner has hit back after criticisms of her accent and grammar during this morning's broadcast interview round. "Doesn't mater how you say it. Boris Johnson is unfit to lead," the deputy Labour leader wrote
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🔴Boris Johnson grilled by his predecessor Theresa May, the former Tory leader, says the public "had the right to expect their Prime Minister" to "set an example in following those rules"
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🚨Downing Street staff drank alcohol into the early hours at two leaving events the night before Prince Philip’s socially-distanced funeral, The Telegraph can reveal. Read more:
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Sir James Dyson: 'So if we leave the EU no one will trade with us? Cobblers...'
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. @allisonpearson 'This ghost of a prime minister has humiliated her country and lied to its people. She must go, and go now'
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"Many Leave voters I know are so incensed by this shameless Boris-bashing that they simply won’t watch or listen to the news any more," writes @allisonpearson
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🚨 BREAKING: Former Conservative Party politician and journalist Nigel Lawson has died at the age of 91
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Women who question transgender ideology have been branded ‘farts’ as part of equalities training offered to civil servants in Nicola Sturgeon’s government, it has emerged
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