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Carl Dinnen
2 years
“You off too, mate?” ⁦ @Number10cat
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And here is the official cleaner ... his name is Winston.
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BREAKING - I’m told Liz Truss herself FAILED to vote on the Fracking Ban that her own Government presented as a confidence motion earlier.
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Boris Johnson NOT apologising for using the terms; - letterboxes (to describe niqab wearers) - picanninies - watermelon smiles - bumboys Seems extraordinary to me. #BBCQuestionTime
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Number 10 had more people in the garden on March 20th than in the Commons today.
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"I have the support of the entire government in this matter," Ellis says, to opposition laughter.
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The Prime Minister won't admit that the Police Fixed Penalty Notices show the lockdown rules were broken in Downing Street, despite the Justice Secretary having said that is what they do show.
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NEW Defence Secretary @BWallaceMP says long range artillery and armoured vehicles (although not tanks) will be supplied to Ukraine as a result of today's donor conference.
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Jeremy Corbyn says workers should have a say in the merger of Asda and Morrisons. This may come as rather a shock to Sainsburys who thought they were merging with Asda.
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Blimey. The Business Minister Richard Harrington on No deal/Airbus; "This is a disaster for business. I am very happy to be public about it and very happy if the prime minister decides I am not the right person [to be business minister as a result.]" from @lisaocarroll
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NEW - The Labour leader @Keir_Starmer has joined the Lib Dems in demanding a recall of Parliament in the light of the growing economic crisis.
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One Conservative MP told me the PM was so busy dealing with the Chief Whip’s resignation that she missed the vote.
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Thoughts from a few Conservative MPs who have not publicly called for the PM to go; "I'm heading back to my seat while I still have one." "There's an overwhelming sense that this has to come to an end." "It's pretty dire. The Prime Minister must take personal responsibility."
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BREAKING Tory MP William Wragg accuses the Government of intimidation and breaching the ministerial code by threatening to withdraw investment from constituencies. "The reports of which I'm aware would seem to constitute blackmail."
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BREAKING New Downing Street Press Briefing Room - first images.
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BREAKING Documents suggest Jenrick wanted to approve the Westferry scheme on Jan 14th to save Desmond from paying more money to the Council.
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5 years
One small problem with the Prime Minister's offer; She has said she will stand down after Phase 1 of Brexit. She can't guarantee Jeremy Corbyn anything in Phase 2.
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Larry the ⁦ @Number10cat ⁩ checks out ⁦ @SamCoatesSky ⁩’s New Balance (and might lighting rig).
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2 years
Wait! @Number10cat may have been talked back in. Must have been offered a promotion…
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6 years
Amazing. The US Embassy has issued its own statement this evening apparently correcting the US President on the building costs.
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6 years
If you’re not going to answer questions this is the classy way to do it.
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"I have nothing to say about this matter except to offer you some tea..." @BorisJohnson greets the media armed with a tray of mugs amid burka row
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IDS on Adonis “Lord Adonis’s departure is long overdue. It’s a bit rich for him to pontificate on what he calls populism, but most would refer to as democracy, when he himself has never been elected. He has instead relied on preferment from others.”
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NEW; @LucyMPowell has asked the Commissioner for Public Appointments to investigate the appointment process for the Chair of the BBC following the Sunday Times revelations.
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2 years
This could hardly be more serious. The Bank of England says if it doesn’t step in to buy long-term Government debt TODAY “there would be a material risk to UK financial stability”
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BREAKING The Lib Dem’s have launched a formal complaint to ITV for not including Jo Swinson in the head to head Leaders’ Debate.
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2 years
@BWallaceMP He also says President Putin "is now a man in a cage that he built himself... Russia is a lesser rather then a greater country because of him."
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5 years
BREAKING DUP do NOT support the deal. The statement this morning remains their position.
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2 years
Her name does not appear in the published voting lists.
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BREAKING New headache for the Government. Yvette Cooper’s amendment blocking no deal #brexit policy making has been selected for debate.
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Downing st say he was moved at around 7pm as a precaution. He remains conscious and is not on a ventilator.
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Flybmi are squarely blaming Brexit for the airlines collapse into administration.
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2 months
Azhar Ali says jews control the media: suspended by @UKLabour Lee Anderson says islamists control the London mayor: supported by @Conservatives 🤷‍♂️
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Former Conservative deputy chair Lee Anderson has been criticised for claiming Sadiq Khan, first Muslim mayor of London, is controlled by "Islamists".
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6 years
The @itvnews Lunchtime news was more than usually entertaining...
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BREAK Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Michelle O'Neill to meet PM in Downing St tmw. They want to talk about DUP deal and Stormont.
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WATCH! Varadkar "They'll give you terrible trouble in the British Press." Tusk "Yes I know. Ha ha ha!"
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Microphone picks up @campaignforleo warning @eucopresident : "they'll give you terrible trouble". Tusk nods and laughs
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BREAKING The National Security Council has ruled that Huawei should not be used in any part of the UK 5G network.
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Japan has agreed, in writing, to use its trade deal with the EU as the basis for a future deal with the U.K. This is a win for Theresa May.
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BREAKING “I have apologised to the Court unreservedly for the error in granting these two licenses.” @trussliz admits two breaches of the commitment not to sell any more military equipment to the Saudis for use in Yemen.
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Emily was wonderful. Just wonderful. We are all heartbroken.
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We are devastated at the passing of our remarkable colleague Emily Morgan. Emily was a hugely talented journalist and a much-loved friend and mentor to so many here. She will be greatly missed. Our thoughts are with Emily’s family. Statement:
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BREAKING from PA Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds have announced the birth of a "healthy baby boy at a London hospital earlier this morning". Both mother and baby are doing very well, their spokesman said
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EXCL @Arron_banks tells @itvnews that "Jacob Rees Mogg said it would be a vassal state ... now he says half a loaf is better than no loaf. It's terrible."
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3 years
Thank you, ⁦ @BorisJohnson ⁩ for giving me the excuse to re post one of ⁦ @lucymanning ⁩’s finest moments. #liverpool
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Len McCluskey; "I don't like attacking rightwing Labour MPs but ... start fighting for the working people and if you can't do that, do a 'Tristram Hunt' and go and find another cushy job to do."
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NEW Confusion reigns in Government this morning - a Northern Ireland Office source says Brandon Lewis believes his resignation was not accepted and he is still in post.
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Blimey Up to 10 YEARS IN PRISON for residents returning from Red List countries who lie on their passenger locator forms - Hancock
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Bercow reminds MPs that they act not as delegates but as representatives - Government won’t like that much.
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‘If you’d known her you would have loved her too.’ This is a wonderful tribute from @tombradby to our dear Emily.
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'She was brilliant at her job. But she was also incredibly funny and completely irreverent.' @tombradby pays tribute to ITV News Health and Science Editor Emily Morgan, following her death at the age of 45
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We said goodbye to one of our own today. Chris Knapman was ITV News’s Westminster cameraman for more than 20 years. 1/3
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Oh my. Geoffrey Cox on his renegotiation; “It has become known as Cox’s Codpiece and it is my job to ensure everything within it is in full working order.” He said this at the Despatch Box.
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Corbyn; The Prime Minister found 1 billion pounds to keep her job, why can't she find as much to keep nurses in theirs? #PMQs
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NEW. The Cabinet Office has told the Covid Inquiry that it does not actually have Boris Johnson’s What’s App messages and diaries.
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7 years
EU official tells me the UK has been unprepared for the scale of work involved in Brexit; "In denial, in fact worse than in denial." #EUCO
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These are the same messages and diaries the Cabinet Office last week said contained ‘unambiguously irrelevant material’.
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8 years
The Lib Dems are setting up a stall outside Labour's Conference to recruit new members. #Lab16 #trolling
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4 years
And that’s it - the Withdrawal Agreement Bill passes the Commons to Tory cheers and almost empty Labour benches.
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2 years
There is no sense from those I've spoken to that another vote of confidence is imminent (the rules of the 1922 Committee would have to be changed for that to happen). But one says that they feel the party has decided the PM must go and that a way will be found.
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That thing when you can't find any friends at the party... #EUCO
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P&O Ferries "In advance of Britain leaving the EU, we undertook a review of the flag status of our ships on the English Channel. "For operational and accounting reasons, we have concluded that the best course of action is to re-flag all ships to be under the Cyprus flag."
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BREAKING - from the Home Office; The Home Office is extending the offer of indefinite leave to remain, free of charge, to the families and dependants of NHS support staff and social care workers who die as result of contracting coronavirus.
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The Queen is on her 15th Prime Minister. But so many Tories have come and gone that even @Number10cat is on his 4th.
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The DUP will vote against the Withdrawal Agreement. They will not abstain. @NigelDoddsDUP tells me “We don’t abstain on the Union.”
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Blimey. In just 5 minutes the High Court has blown away the Prime Minister's plans for Brexit.
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These are the things that the government was not doing and which the Prime Minister now says he is stopping.
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We will never impose unnecessary and heavy-handed measures on you, the British people. We will still meet our international commitments and hit Net Zero by 2050.
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Liz Truss looks very uncomfortable when @faisalislam points out that interest rates on long term debt (where she wants to put ‘covid debt’) are actually higher than short term rates. Faisal is having a good debate so far.
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The Prime Minister’s name HAS now been added to the list of those voting against the fracking ban. As per @AnushkaAsthana it looks like she did go through the lobby but just didn’t register the vote electronically.
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BREAKING The Government is to require travellers arriving in the UK to complete a predeparture test (Lateral Flow or PCR) from Tuesday.
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Boris Johnson sticking to the line that there will be no checks between NI and GB. I’ll just leave this Government Impact Assessment of the Deal here....
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He’s going for it. #tomorrowspaperstoday
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Non business (media) questions to Jeremy Corbyn shouted down by members of the FSB. They are willing to give him a hearing. Interesting.
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BREAKING - 702,000 people have now volunteered to help the NHS. Extraordinary. And wonderful.
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The Prime Minister has just cycled through the conference hall…
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Astonishing moment of humanity on @TimesRadio just now when Richard McCann - whose mother was murdered by Peter Sutcliffe - said he phoned Sutcliffe’s brother to offer his condolences this morning.
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Which seems to beg a question or two…
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BREAKING I understand military assistance has now been requested to deal with the tanker incident off the Isle of Wight. Likely to involve Special Forces.
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The Belgian flag is raised in solidarity over Downing Street following the Brussels attacks.
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Once again @Keir_Starmer finishes his questions on a serious note which means @RishiSunak can’t have the last say with a political flourish. Interesting #PMQs tactic.
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BREAKING The Government wins the Overseas Development Aid vote; Ayes - 333 Noes - 298
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4 years
Existential crisis in the ITV Millbank kitchen ...
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BREAKING - @amberdebotton is the new Downing Street Director of Communications.
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Gordon Brown “History is not just made by ‘moral monsters’ like Hitler. History is made by bystanders who do nothing.” #JLMConference
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Tremendous work, ⁦ @LibDemPress
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Whilst Tusk's 'special place in hell' is attracting lots of attention today, Emily Thornberry's warmth towards an Article 50 extension may be much more significant.
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Leo Varadkar tells Boris Johnson; “There’s no such thing as a clean break or just getting it done”
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NEW The new Brexit Secretary is Stephen Barclay MP, previously a junior Health Minister. But his brief will not include negotiating with the EU which Mrs May will take sole charge of.
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Remainers sent TWO Lords on separate missions to retable the Grieve Amendment this afternoon - one as a back up. Just in case they were double crossed on the deal. Trust low within the Tory Party.
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Full DUP reaction to the PM’s offer.
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NEW; The Government has been defeated in the House of Lords on the first amendment to its Rwanda bill by 271 to 228.
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4 years
I was wrong to say restrictions were reimposed in Trafford and Bolton just 12 hours after they were lifted. Apparently the restrictions were never lifted as planned. Its just that noone was TOLD they hadn't been lifted until 12 hours later. Hope that's clear. To someone.
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Some ‘Blue Collar Conservative’ MPs have come to try and clean the remaining graffiti from Churchill’s plinth. They’ve been asked to stop by a Heritage Warden who said the listed memorial had to be cleaned by official cleaners.
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7 years
Mrs May's social care proposals are 'the biggest stealth tax in history' say the conservative - yes conservative - Bow Group. #GE2017
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May; There is, to be frank, far too much tolerance of extremism in our society. That will require difficult and embarrassing conversations.
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5 years
She has lost her Attorney General, legally if not politically. She has lost the ERG. She has lost the DUP. She has lost her voice and tonight she will lose her vote. The question now is what will Theresa May lose next.
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This also makes the idea that the EU is ‘not targeting any one country’ rather harder to believe.
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2 years
Most of all Chris was a great operator and a truly kind colleague. And we miss him so. RIP, Knappers.
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The Home Secretary ⁦ @patel4witham ⁩ says she is shocked and saddened by the loss of life in Essex.
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BREAKING - note at the start of the Government’s emergency ‘Safety of Rwanda’ Bill says it is not compatible with the ECHR.
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2 years
Just a reminder to everyone on here of Art 13 of the Geneva Convention; "prisoners of war must at all times be protected, particularly against acts of violence or intimidation and against insults and public curiosity." You should think long and hard before posting POW videos.
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Bernard Jenkin asks if the PM knows of a single pharma company that has warned its customers it may not be able to supply drugs. She says she doesn't. He says that's because there isn't one.
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Ouch; Diana Johnson “When the Prime Minister has to spend his time trying to convince the British public that he is stupid not dishonest isn’t it time for him to go?”
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Doesn't sound like the Muslim ban would've stopped him really....
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. @BrianRoss : Las Vegas suspect had no criminal record, had pilot's license, Alaska hunting license & was accountant
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Both Harriet Harman and Iain Duncan-Smith have talked about how the Queen invited them to see her when they had lost their jobs. She really did look after people.
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