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7 months
Tory MP Michelle Donelan: “We are the Party of facts” *VT compilation of Tory lies* Victoria Derbyshire: “There was never a proposal to use 7 bins, we can’t find any council that wants to decide when you can go to the shop & Labour have never proposed taxing meat” #Newsnight
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Fiona: “Sorry Mick, you’ve had a couple of minutes but we’re fed up of your honesty. I need to hear from my Tory” #bbcqt
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Tory MP Andrew Rosindell on £20 uplift to UC: "I think there are people that quite like getting the extra £20 but maybe they don’t need it." Andrew Rosindell, on banning MPs from 2nd jobs: “We have to realise we have human beings who have families & responsibilities” #Newsnight
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Rory Stewart on Boris Johnson: “He lurches sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left but always in the direction of his self interest” #bbcqt
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Andy Burnham take a bow… #bbcqt
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The Thick of It, deleted scene (2021): #Newsnight
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John O’Farrell on Angela Rayner: “ #bbclaurak , I have to say, for you as a broadcaster, for the BBC, to keep spending time on this & for Yvette Cooper to come here & talk about violence against women & girls, & for that to take second place to this bit of gossip. It’s not a story”
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Sunak is a very odd mixture of the past 4 Prime Ministers Same suits as Cameron, as robotic as May, as duplicitous as Johnson and as woefully out of his depth as Truss #PMQs #PoliticsLive
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Audience member to Tory MP Johnny Mercer: “Given that member of the Tories & the Tory Party have shut down any form of meaningful protest, and he’s shouted across every member of this panel tonight - how else are we meant to get our point across other than social media?” #bbcqt
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Chris Bryant: “Do you think British companies should be trading in Russia at all?” Sunak: “Some might be divesting” CB: “Mantrac, which owns Unatrac FZE, sold diggers to Russia this year and you took £5m from its owner…” RS: “I’m not familiar with the specific company”
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Angela to Rod Liddle who thinks there’s no correlation between poverty & mental health: “I’m a therapist. I work in a school. If you think this is nothing to do with poverty can I suggest to live in poverty for 6 months & I will give you a free psychotherapy session” #bbcqt
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Laura Kuenssberg after finishing her interview with a Tory MP and Laura Kuenssberg after finishing her interview with a Labour MP… #bbclaurak
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1 year
How it started How it’s going #KayBurley #BBCBreakfast #Brexit
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Susanna Reid on Mone: “She’s thinks she’s the victim because of the press intrusion. It’s utterly remarkable that she doesn’t see how sensitive this issue is. PPE was so desperately needed that business people thought they could make millions out of that desperation” #bbclaurak
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1 year
Martin Lewis after listening to Tory MP Therese Coffey’s interview: “It was nice, at least, after your questions on sewerage to finally be able to say accurately that that was a politician definitely talking crap” #BBCLauraK
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Audience member on Hester: “I just wanted to say you said it’s about giving people a second chance but it’s not your place to say he deserves a second chance. Until Diane Abbott says I think this has been genuinely addressed then I don’t really care what anyone else says” #bbcqt
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3 years
Emily Maitlis succinctly explaining... Why. It. Matters #Newsnight
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Krishnan Guru-Murty to the Israeli spokesperson, David Mancer: “If you won't answer the questions I can't allow you to do the propaganda” More of this please Also do it with Tories #c4news
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Fiona Bruce: “There are more people in this audience who voted for Boris Johnson than any other single Party here. So let’s have a show of hands shall we, who believes Boris Johnson was telling the truth?” #bbcqt
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Rishi Sunak: “Food banks are a complicated issue” They’re not complicated They’re a national shame #C4News
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8 months
Stephen Fry on Brexit: “Brexit, we must mention Brexit. The Labour Party is afraid to mention it. It was a catastrophe and everybody knows it deep in their bones…they know it, of course they do, and certainly the rest of the world does” #bbclaurak
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George Monbiot to the IEA’s Reem Ibrahim: “Of course you want to rip down regulations, of course you don’t care about the natural world because you’re from the IEA which is funded by oligarchs & corporations. The IEA refuses to reveal who funds it” #PoliticsLive #PMQs
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2 years
“We had a press secretary sacked for making a joke. She made a joke about a party & had to go. Boris Johnson committed the crime & he won’t go” Strong intervention from #bbcqt audience member…
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Emily Maitlis to Sammy Wilson: “To turn round and say you don’t like the next thing when it’s your political incompetence that got you here, is extraordinary” #newsnight
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“The common denominator in all this is Boris Johnson. You people sit there as Tory MPs & you defend this guy. You’ve got people like Rees-Mogg and Dorries, who all back this guy to this day. I don’t think anyone here should be surprised at the chaos this man created” #bbcqt
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Tory MP Michael Fabricant: “Could she tell me how many illegal asylum seekers per head of pop Scotland is accommodating & how many illegal asylum seekers per head of pop England is” SNP’s Alison Thewliss: “There is no such thing as an illegal asylum seeker” #RwandaBill
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Kuenssberg breaks her neck to ask Yvette Cooper about Angela Rayner yet *completely* neglected to ask Victoria Atkins anything about William Wragg She couldn’t be more a Tory apologist if she tried #bbclaurak
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5 months
It cannot be right that the partner of the leader of a hard-right political Party, who will be campaigning in the next GE, can appear on #BBCQT and sit there as some kind of independent political commentator
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Tory MP Desmond Swayne: “Not withstanding the carnage on our roads - certainly killing more people than Covid at the moment - some of us still decide to drive” Deaths on UK roads in past two years - 2,850 Deaths from Covid in past two years - 146,477
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Rishi Sunak claiming that Starmer won’t “stand up for school children today” That’s the same Rishi Sunak who voted against feeding hungry school children outside of term time #PMQs #PoliticsLive
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@AdamBienkov Tories also voted against: Stopping water companies dumping sewage in waterways Measures to curb privatisation of the NHS Preventing companies from fire & rehire Extending Free School Meals for hungry kids Not…erm…sure these people have our best interests at heart
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Joe Lycett: “It was nice to hear from Rishi Sunak. He’s not going to be Prime Minister so you may as well have interviewed Peter Andre” #BBCLauraK
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2 years
Labour’s Dame Angela Eagle: “It’s not in the interest of our country to allow this discredited PM to squat in No.10. He’s a security risk having admitted to meeting Alexander Lebedev alone. He’s ending his tenure, as it started - going AWOL from Cobra meetings” #NoConfidenceVote
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Yvette Cooper: “We’ve had low growth, low opportunities it’s time to something better.” #BBCLauraK : “Well there’s plenty of people who come to this studio who disagree with you. Many people watching might disagree with you too” She *never* does this after interviewing a Tory MP
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Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi: “Judge us by the delivery over the next two years” You’ve been in government 12 years - #EnoughlsEnough #bbcqt
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10 months
Strong start from Tory MP Dame Andrea Jenkyns, who was named by the Privileges Committee as one of the MPs who campaigned to undermine the Johnson Partygate inquiry, as she begins her defence by claiming “Magna Carta was issued in June 2015” Magna Carta was issued in June 1215
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Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg: “We need planning reform. We need more deregulation” By that he means *less* regulation And less regulation leads to cutting corners. And if you want to see what cutting corners looks like… #bbcqt
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Tory MP Victoria Atkins: “We, the taxpayer, have paid some £16bn to the rail industry” And “we the taxpayer” have seen £37bn spent on a barely functioning Test & Trace system, £11bn wasted by Rishi Sunak servicing the govt debt & £4bn of unused PPE set to be burned #newsnight
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Luke Johnson on climate change: “Where’s the evidence that any of that is connected to carbon emissions?" Chris Packham: “It doesn’t come from Toby Young’s Daily ‘Septic’ which is put together by those close to the FF industry, it comes from something called science" #bbclaurak
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Tory MP John Penrose wails about “the taxpayers stumping up billions to keep the railways going during the pandemic” whilst keeping noticeably quite on the £37bn given to his wife (Dido Harding) for a non-functioning Test & Trace system during the pandemic #PoliticsLive
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Chris Bryant: “The PM has had responsibility for UK econ for 1323 days & he’s delivered…the largest peacetime debt, largest tax burden since WW2, highest core inflation since ‘91, fastest int. rate since ‘89 & biggest fall in living standards in our history” #PMQs #PoliticsLive
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Who to believe? Eminent scientists/experts who’ve undertaken longitudinal studies on climate change or *checks notes* a journalist with no scientific qualifications or expertise whatsoever? Toughie #bbcqt
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George Monbiot: “These sympathetic things Starmer said about Thatcher were not an attempt to appeal to the electorate. They were an attempt to appeal to Murdoch & Lord Rothermere & these are the real powers in this country. And it’s a profoundly undemocratic situation” #bbcqt
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Fiona Bruce: “Let me just ask, in the interest of balance, is there anyone here who welcomes what Michael Gove had to say and supports what he had to say?” *Not a single audience member raises their hand* #bbcqt
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1 year
When Jacob Rees-Mogg talks of “bossy, interfering European law” he means deregulation giving unscrupulous employers the chance to cut corners And if you want to see what cutting corners looks like… #bbcqt
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3 years
Grant Shapps: “There was no handbook to deal with a pandemic” Might have helped if you didn’t ignore Exercise Cygnus That three-day simulation exercise carried out by NHS England in October 2016 to estimate the impact of a hypothetical H2N2 influenza pandemic on the UK #bbcqt
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Ash Sarkar on the Tory government’s Illegal Migration Bill: “You’re doing it because you’ve committed yourself to this nastiness olympics because you want a pat on the back from the Daily Mail & the human cost of that is obscene” #bbcqt
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If there’s only one good thing about Jonathan Gullis being an MP, it’s that he’s no longer a teacher #PoliticsLive
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Laura Kuenssberg: “Boris Johnson is the most dominant figure in British politics & has been for a long time” Largely due to client journalists, hanging on his every word…much like Laura Kuenssberg #Panorama
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Quite enjoy this new #bbcqt feature where the audience all laugh in tandem at dishonest Tory MPs, in this case Suella Braverman
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@PippaCrerar Looking forward to next Saturday when I can head to the pub and ask for a pint of lager instead of a pint of lager
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Tory MP Tom Hunt: “I’ve often felt that offshore processing is the only way to truly tackle this issue” Jo Coburn: “This is offshore processing to stay in Rwanda not here” Tom Hunt: “To stay in a safe European country, Rwanda” #PoliticsLive
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Kate Andrews is the ‘Economics Editor’ of The Spectator despite the fact that she has no economic qualifications or experience whatsoever (as far as I can tell) And yet she’s platformed time & time again by #BBCQT
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Fiona Bruce abbreviating Jacob Rees-Mogg to simply ‘Jake’ does nothing to dispel the notion that’s she’s a card carrying Tory sycophant #bbcqt
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Tory MP Andrew Bridgen: “The best protection of all is having had the virus and then recovered” Tell that to the 140,000+ families mourning the death of a loved one who never recovered
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Tory MP Kemi Badenoch on the CPTPP trade deal: “It’s a momentous occasion, we’re here so proud, so excited” How the Asian press see it… #BBCLauraK
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Brandon Lewis on #RailStrikes : “We need to look carefully how we spend taxpayers money” The same taxpayers money that’s seen £37bn spent on a barely functioning Test & Trace system, £11bn wasted by Rishi Sunak servicing the govt debt & £4bn of unused PPE set to be burned #Ridge
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Tory MP Simon Clarke: “There’s not an unlimited amount of money when dealing with the public sector pay issues” But there was when doling out PPE contracts to friends & donors #BBCBreakfast
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NHS staff saw the lack of PPE as a serious issue Others saw it as a serious opportunity #BREATHTAKING
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Marcus Rashford: “We should really do more to help children” #JeremyVine : “On today’s show, we’re asking - should we actually pay attention to Marcus Rashford?” This show is absolutely ridiculous
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Arrogance personified #bbclaurak
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Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, the man who insisted that we needed to leave the EU in order to stop foreign courts interfering with us is the same Jacob Rees-Mogg now advocating ignoring our own courts #bbcqt
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Victoria Derbyshire: “A week last Friday on #Newsnight you described the Priv. Committee as a kangaroo court” Tory MP Bob Seely: “I don’t think I did” VD: “You absolutely did” BS a week last Fri: “I have a lot of sympathy for some of the issues raised by this kangaroo court”
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Tory MP Jonathan Gullis: “The 200 missing children were 16/17 years old…there was no evidence that the children were kidnapped…they left of their own accord” Stella Creasy: “I would suggest the member for Stoke gives his head a wobble about what he’s just said about children”
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Quite enjoying this new #bbcqt feature where the audience all laugh in tandem at dishonest Tory MPs
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Rishi Sunak is a very curious mix of the four Prime Ministers who preceded him Same suits as Cameron, as robotic as May, as mendacious/deceitful as Johnson and still as woefully out of his depth as Truss #PMQs #PoliticsLive
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Ash Sarkar on the Tories NHS crisis: “The reason why you don’t want to admit that it’s a crisis is because it makes your government look bad. But if you can’t be trusted to describe the problem, why should we trust you to fix the problem? It’s wholly deceptive” #bbcqt
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Victoria Derbyshire making Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg tie himself in knots as he attempts to explain why he’s not a hypocrite for voting for the #RwandaBill he previously stated wouldn’t stop the boats and was ineffective… #Newsnight
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Tory MP Michael Gove: “We brought in a law to deal with new homes and Labour voted against it” That law was to allow housing developers the freedom to flood rivers and waterways with pollutants Labour did right to vote against it #TrevorPhillips #BBCLauraK
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Author, Philippa Gregory: “The reason the government needs to Level Up the North is because they spent 14 years Levelling it down” #bbcqt
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Kuenssberg going out of her way to ask David Lammy about the Angela Rayner non-story as she completely ignored the William Wragg honey trap story when talking to Tory MP Oliver Dowden #bbclaurak
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Rishi Sunak is a very odd mixture of the last 4 Prime Ministers before him Same suits as Cameron, as robotic as May, as duplicitous as Johnson and as woefully out of his depth as Truss #bbclaurak
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Tory MP Richard Holden: “There’s no comparison to what Enoch Powell said & what Suella Braverman said. The PM is from multi-ethnic background, the Foreign Secretary is, the Home Secretary is…” Emma Dabiri: “This is the danger of representation politics” #bbcqt
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Keir Starmer to Boris Johnson: “This is not the summer for Downing Street to be occupied by a vengeful squatter mired in scandal” 🔥🔥🔥 #NoConfidenceVote
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This woman wanted to leaving the largest trading bloc on earth (one which is on our doorstep) because UK workmen adhered to health & safety rules and the French & German’s didn’t Just let that sink in #bbcqt
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Only in Brexit Britain could a man who used to sell get rich quick scheme under false names, reach one of the highest roles in public office A man who oozes dishonesty is now *checks notes* Defence Secretary #phillips #bbclaurak
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Simon McDonald, former top civil servant at the Foreign Office: “The final straw for me was watching Therese Coffey, she was clearly feeling the strain of having to trot out lines that she had been instructed to use. And they were lies” #StateOfChaos
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In a normal country the Michelle Mone revelations would make front page of every newspaper & would be the main topic of discussion on political debate programmes Only Andy Burnham had the guts to mention it on #bbcqt
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Darren Grimes, Julia Hartley-Brewer, Martin Daubney, Daniel Hannan, Richard Tice, Isabel Oakeshott, Douglas Carswell, Guido Fawkes and even LeaveEU are all surprisingly quiet with regards to Gove’s revelation about Kexit today #Newsnight
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Gary Neville: “Gareth Southgate told us they were taking the knee to promote equality & it was against racism. The Prime Minister said it was ok for the population of this country to boo those players who were trying to promote equality & defend against racism” #englandfans
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Tory MP Robert Jenrick on taking asylum seekers: “People who say we’re not generous as a country are wrong” I’ll just leave this here… #bbcqt
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Ben Elton’s excoriating criticism of Rishi Sunak: “I sort of believed maybe he’s kind of a bit more decent, you know, and it’s turns out he’s as much of a mendacious, narcissistic sociopath as his previous boss…” #bbclaurak
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Tory MP Andrew Rosindell on preventing MPs having a second job: “How can we possibly survive on £81,932 a year? What about our lifestyle??” #Newsnight
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That’s the same Lord Bethell who mysteriously ‘lost’ his phone, then alleged it was broken, only to then claim he’d given it to a family member #r4today #BBCBreakfast #kayburley
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Former health minister James Bethell was on R4 just now arguing the Covid inquiry needs limiting lest it might also want to look at the WhatsApp messages for his kids' school parents' groups in case they are relevant, which doesn't sound hugely likely to me.
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Victoria Derbyshire: “How can we trust the govt with this technology when you can’t even tell, in the DWP, if the the algorithm they’re using is sexist, ageist or racist?” Tory MP Michelle Donelan: “I reject that” VD: “Sorry, hang on, you can’t reject it” #bbclaurak
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Rishi Sunak on the steps of Downing Street: “The time has now come for us all to stand together to combat the forces of division and beat this poison” Start with removing the whip from these two…
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Tory peer Sayeeda Warsi: “This is either two things; either my colleagues are so dim that they cannot understand the consequences of what they’re doing when it’s staring them in the face or they are doing this deliberately to divide communities” #bbcqt
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It wasn’t about “cake” but about the man holding the highest role in public office riding roughshod over the very rules he set If you can’t understand that you’re too far gone #BBCQT
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Richard Bacon to Tory MP Paul Scully regarding an audience members mortgage interest rate moving from 4.5% to 10.5% in less than a week: “Does that make you feel uncomfortable, Paul?” As of next week, replace Fiona Bruce with Richard Bacon #bbcqt
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Andy Burnham on the #minibudget2022 : “The most graphic demonstration we’ve ever seen of how a small number of people, a small elite, can manipulate the political system in their interest. This was a budget for bankers. This was a budget for Tory donors” #Ridge #BBCLauraK
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As Nadine Dorries attempts to position herself as some kind of Liverpudlian working class hero who grew up in poverty, it might be worth looking at her voting record on issues that largely affect working class people… #PoliticsLive
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Tory MP Chris Heaton-Harris: “There was no playbook for fighting a pandemic of this kind in this modern time” There was Exercise Cygnus…which your government ignored #bbclaurak
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Michelle Mone: “Since I walked into the Lords it’s been a nightmare for my family” Not a single person is forcing you to be a member of the House of Lords #bbclaurak
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This is absolutely embarrassing from #Marr
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Rishi Sunak is a very odd combination of the four Prime Ministers who preceded him Same suits as Cameron, as robotic as May, as mendacious as Johnson and still as woefully out of his depth as Truss #PMQs #PoliticsLive
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Alastair Campbell: “Boris Johnson never believed in Brexit. Boris Johnson went for the referendum as a way of advancing his own career & becoming Prime Minister. The mess he’s left this country in should never be forgiven” #bbcqt
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Someone call an ambulance, there’s been another car crash #bbcqt
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Tory MP Robert Jenrick has just claimed that some of the most vulnerable people on earth attempting to cross the Channel in a small boat are “breaking into our country” This man is an absolutely abhorrent individual #KayBurley #BBCBreakfast
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Tory MP Oliver Dowden: “We cannot risk the stability of our public finances” From a government that burned £4bn of unusable PPE, spent £11bn servicing UK debt and wrote off £4.3bn of Covid support fraud #BBCLauraK
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