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. @AgnesChambre and I went on Radio 2 earlier to discuss how the Westminster WhatsApps story came together, how the scam worked and the big unanswered questions. You can listen from 05:00 to 14:30 here

Jeremy Vine - Tina Daheley sits in - BBC Sounds

Tina discusses the Westminster honeytrap, Ron's place, burglary and nature sounds.

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Andy Burnham tells Sky: “Any answer to this issue that begins with the words ‘women should’ or ‘women must’ is in my view the wrong answer. This is an issue that starts with men and boys and that is where attention should go.”

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Chris Whitty bodies the lockdown sceptics...

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BREAKING - Labour members have passed a motion backing a change to the voting system to proportional representation. Carried easily on a show of hands. Big cheer in the hall when it passed.

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Chris Bryant MP, chairman of the Commons Standards Committee, tells Boris Johnson: "Downing Street under him has been a cesspit, full of arrogant, entitled narcissists"

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NEW: Tory MP Jonathan Gullis' Bill to override human rights rulings when deporting asylum seekers has been crushed at the first hurdle. Defeated by 188 votes to 69

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Very heated moment in the Commons as Labour's Wes Streeting says: "The Prime Minister is not fit to lick the boot of NHS staff in this country."

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This is the astonishing moment a Cabinet minister ordered the nation not to gather outdoors - 55 minutes before 40 No10 staff had a garden party.

Moment Tories ordered Brits not to meet - 55 minutes before PM 'attended' party

Oliver Dowden said 'you can meet one person outside of your household' - 55 minutes before 40 No10 staff had a garden party, which Boris Johnson is accused of attending

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Angela Rayner winds up in the no-confidence debate by saying Boris Johnson's speech was “as delusional as the Transport Secretary’s leadership bid but sadly not as brief". She adds: "The only 'deep state' relevant tonight is the one he has left this country in."

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Tom Tugendhat rules out leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.

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“We delivered on every single one of our promises”, says Boris Johnson in no confidence debate - a statement which is, just objectively, incredibly untrue.

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Steve Bray's speakers are back on outside Parliament

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Jarring interview of Dominic Raab by Mark Austin while sirens blare in Kyiv. Austin: “The siren’s just going off here. How does the 75 year old woman living in a basement, get to her son who’s living in London?” Raab: “I can’t comment on every potential hypothetical case..."

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Labour MP Afzal Khan: “My beloved mum died of Covid in March 2020. She died alone in hospital while I sat in the car outside, trying to be as close to her as I could. “Even burdened with our grief, my family obeyed the rules."

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"We all have different breads in my house," Rishi Sunak tells BBC

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Outside a restaurant at COP26, more than a dozen cars of police / bodyguards / etc are sitting with engines ticking over, waiting for the VIPs inside to finish their dinners. Got to love the climate summit...

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Yvette Cooper goes a bit 🔥 with her extended metaphor on the Public Order Bill, which will criminalise protesters glueing themselves to roads:

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Yvette Cooper replies: “It’s astonishing. The Home Secretary actually talked about a ‘coalition of chaos’? We can see it in front of us!”

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BREAKING - No10 announce Boris Johnson will refuse to declare how much his freebie Spanish holiday at Zac Goldsmith's villa was worth. Story incoming

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Suella Braverman: “I’m afraid it’s the Labour Party, it’s the Lib Dems, it’s the Coalition of chaos, it’s the Guardian-reading, Tofu-eating, wokerati - dare I say the anti-growth coalition that we have to thank for the disruption we are seeing on our roads today!”

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NEW Grant Shapps has bizarrely claimed Boris Johnson was “clearly not partying” when he raised fizz at a No10 party. Shapps says PM was in fact mourning his mum...despite the fact Charlotte Johnson Wahl died “suddenly” 10 months after the party happened

Grant Shapps says 'not partying' PM 'lost his mum' - but she died a year later

Cabinet Partygate ally Grant Shapps said Boris Johnson was "clearly not partying" when he raised a glass of fizz and pointed out "he lost his mum during the period", despite the fact she died 10...

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Mick Lynch in a proper ding dong with Radio 4's Today programme right now. Accusing them of 'parroting' Tory attack lines on the strike and 'pursuing an editorial line I'd read in the Sun or the Daily Mail'. He claims 'it's about time you showed some impartiality'

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NEW - Two dozen Tories have avoided Covid fines over a “raucous” Dec 2020 party in the basement of Conservative HQ Indoor socialising was banned at the time But Scotland Yard says this photo was "insufficient evidence" of a breach ⬇️

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Tory member challenges Oliver Dowden who says he was “constantly fighting” the “woke” agenda as Culture Sec. "I don’t like all this anti-woke rhetoric. Was universal suffrage woke? Were LGBT rights woke… Have we learned anything from the progress of the last 100 years?"

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Jeremy Hunt claims Labour's plans would "bankrupt the economy" Labour:

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Err except you have to work more than two hours to make up for the cut, because every £1 you earn while on Universal Credit triggers a 63p reduction in your benefits. So £1 extra in wages = only 37p extra net. And that’s excluding NICs, pension contributions etc.

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"£20 a week is about two hours extra work every week, we will be seeing what we can do help people perhaps secure those extra hours” On #BBCBreakfast Work and Pension Secretary Thérèse Coffey says the increase to universal credit was always temporary.

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"I will immediately publish in full whatever Sue Gray gives me," Boris Johnson says at PMQs. Bookmark that!

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NEW: Tory DWP chief Therese Coffey belts out 'I've Had The Time of My Life' hours before cutting 6million Brits' benefits

Tory DWP chief belts out 'Time of My Life' before cutting benefits for millions

Therese Coffey danced, jumped and pointed ecstatically as she sang the 1987 power ballad during a Tory conference karaoke party

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Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer “would like to take us back into the EU and take us back into lockdown”, er, neither of which are true

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Nicola Sturgeon tells @bbclaurak : “If the question to me is would I prefer a Labour government over a Tory government, I detest the Tories and everything they stand for. So it's not difficult to answer that question. Yes.” But....

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Sajid Javid says it's fine for Tory MPs not to wear masks in the Commons chamber because "they're not strangers"

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Every line in this Michael Gove story, originally got by the Daily Record, is a work of beauty. The doorman is claiming he tried to avoid paying the £5 entry fee by boasting he was the “Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster”.

Michael Gove spotted raving in a suit at 2am in Aberdeen nightclub

The recently-separated, 54-year-old minister's arms flailed wildly - as a friend denied claims he tried to get out of paying the £5 entry fee by boasting he was the 'Chancellor of the Duchy of...

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Don’t usually do this but… my partner and I were very lucky to get our first-time buy mortgage offer in Autumn 2021, on a good rate. The monthly payment is currently about £930. If we took out the same mortgage with the same lender today, the monthly payment would be £1,700.

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A proper The Thick of It moment — even the camerawork

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Education secretary Gillian Keegan is recorded on camera saying others ‘have been sat on their a***s’ on schools Raac crisis and shares frustration about not being thanked for doing ‘a f***ing good job’

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BREAKING Tory MP Andrew Bridgen to be suspended from Parliament for breaching 'litany' of lobbying rules

Tory Andrew Bridgen to be suspended from Parliament for breaching lobbying rules

MPs blasted Andrew Bridgen's 'cavalier attitude' after Mere Plantations made a donation of £5,000 to his local Tory association - and he then approached ministers about the forestry firm

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Minister Greg Hands tells Sky News on Boris Johnson's Savile slur: "These are all events that happened many, many years ago. The time is now to move on." Err... Savile happened years ago but the PM made his claim on Monday

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Quick quips galore responding to Michael Gove's levelling-up plan from Lisa Nandy: “They have given away more to fraudsters than they’ve handed to the north of England.”

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MP leaving Liz Truss address to the 1922 committee, asked how the meeting was? Was it positive? “It… it happened”

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Absolutely brutal verdict on Gavin Williamson from Keir Starmer "A sad middle manager getting off on intimidating those beneath him." “The truth is simple - he’s a pathetic bully but he would never get away with it if people like the Prime Minister didn’t hand him power."

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Tory MP Damian Green tells Westminster Hour: “This is a quasi general strike they’re trying to organise, and that needs to be resisted by everyone who cares about democracy.” Worth noting each strike has been voted for separately on its own grievance with 50% turnout threshold…

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NEW: Cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi tells BBC Breakfast he *has not read* the ethics report on Owen Paterson - but voted to overturn his suspension on Wednesday anyway because Paterson claimed it was wrong. "I've looked at the report, I haven't gone into the detail"

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Labour MP Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, says Suella Braverman has "broken the law". Braverman scowls in response.

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Liz Truss walks on to Moving on Up. Err - here are the lyrics

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“I think the Ministerial Code is extremely important," says Boris Johnson. Literally this morning, the government's QC told the High Court the PM didn't have to sack or discipline Priti Patel because the Ministerial Code is "not required by law" and "not regulated by law"

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Boris Johnson just repeated the misleading claim that there are “more people in work than there were before the pandemic” despite being repeatedly told it’s not true, and admitting as such at the Liaison Committee

Boris Johnson admits he's repeatedly given false jobs information to Parliament

The Prime Minister said he accepted a correction about his use of jobs data from the UK Statistics Authority - after repeatedly using the dodgy figure even when he was told it was wrong

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One v unhappy backbencher tonight predicts “I suspect she’ll be gone within weeks”, adding: “The libertarian freakshows from Tufton St need to accept that their entryism has failed. It’s going to be nipped in the bud. From now on their pamphlets will go back to gathering dust.”

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Labour's Rachel Reeves tells Sky: "Would you feel safe going on a train knowing there was an agency worker instead of a properly skilled and trained-up train signaller? I know I wouldn’t."

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Asked if the Sunday Times story about officials lobbying Sue Gray to water down her report is true, Cabinet minister Brandon Lewis said: “I don’t recognise any of that.” Hmmmmmm

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A source close to Suella Braverman has, erm, defended her security breach by telling The Times: “Ministers do this all the time. They use private email and are also WhatsApping documents all the time too.” Duly noted..........

Calls for inquiry into Suella Braverman’s return as home secretary after security breach

MI5 will give Suella Braverman lessons on what information she can and cannot share and how to avoid security breaches, The Times has learnt.Rishi Sunak yesterd

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Am I missing something here? Rishi Sunak tells Today £1,200 of help for the worst-off will be "about the same amount" as the energy bills rise across a year. But the price cap was £1,277 and is set to hit £2,800. That's over a £1,500 rise - not really the same as £1,200 is it?

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Raab: “There was speculation that the May 20 party was held in my honour to thank me, it’s just ridiculous.” @KayBurley : So it was a party! “No, exactly, er, no, er, the, no no no no. This is the claim that was made, it was nonsense, I wasn’t invited and I didn’t attend.”

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Ooft - Michael Gove says the tax cuts for the rich was "a display of the wrong values" and refuses three times to say he'll back them in Parliament. "I don't believe it's right." 🔥

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More fury from Speaker Lindsay Hoyle that “this house has become second runner-up to TV news” for Covid announcements.

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Jamie Oliver on Liz Truss: “I have no faith - we’ve been tracking her in her views for six, seven years, she’s not going to change. “She will be a ship that passes in the night. I’m actually quite calm about the whole thing.” 🔥 #r4today

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BREAKING - Matt Hancock has lost the whip for going on I'm a Celeb Chief Whip Simon Hart MP said: “Following a conversation with Matt Hancock, I have considered the situation and believe this is a matter serious enough to warrant suspension of the whip with immediate effect.”

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NEW: No10 has just confirmed you won't be able to get a free lateral flow test if you're visiting your elderly gran in a care home

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NEW Labour demand Suella Braverman is sacked - as her leak could've been used for ‘insider trading'

Labour demand Braverman sacking as leak 'could've been used for insider trading'

Labour wrote to “weak” Rishi Sunak demanding answers about the market sensitive information that Suella Braverman sent to two people outside the government. Keir Starmer said: “He should sack her”

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Oh this is brilliant, they’ve got the coding wrong.

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Marr: Is it transphobic to say only women have a cervix? Keir Starmer: “It is something that shouldn’t be said, it is not right.”

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NEW: Boris Johnson branded 'rogue PM unworthy of the Queen' by leading historian Lord Peter Hennessy. His diary entry from Tuesday is absolutely brutal

Boris Johnson brutally branded 'rogue PM unworthy of the Queen' by top historian

Crossbench peer and respected historian Lord Peter Hennessy said the Prime Minister has 'broken the law, misled Parliament, and has in effect shredded the Ministerial Code' over Partygate

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NEW - Labour are demanding Rishi Sunak *BLOCK* Boris Johnson’s “conveyor belt of cronies” resignation peerages for two aides under the age of 31, four MP allies and the man who donated his Caribbean holiday

Boris Johnson offers Lords seats for life to young aides, MPs and holiday donor

Labour urged Rishi Sunak to block the Prime Minister rewarding cronies and a Tory donor - as he tries to dodge a by-election humiliation by letting four MPs DELAY taking up their seats

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👀 David Cameron pops up in The Hill on US funding for Ukraine ... "I am going to drop all diplomatic niceties. I urge Congress to pass it." "I do not want us to show the weakness displayed against Hitler in the 1930s."

David Cameron: Pass Ukraine funding for the sake of global security

As Congress debates and votes on this funding package for Ukraine, I am going to drop all diplomatic niceties. I urge Congress to pass it.

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BREAKING: Tories to block courts from ruling on some human rights violations in 'dangerous power grab' Ministers will change the law to stop some human rights cases proceeding to a full hearing They will also let the UK ignore some decisions by the ECHR

Tories block courts ruling on human rights violations in 'dangerous power grab'

Boris Johnson is accused of 'ransacking' Brits' human rights as he plans to stop some human rights cases being heard in the High Court - and overrule European judges entirely to send asylum seekers...

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EXCLUSIVE: Plans to force all voters to show ID will cost taxpayers £120MILLION over a decade - despite just three convictions in seven years £55m on bigger poll cards £15m for those without ID £20m on comms £20m on 19,851 extra clerks Full story:

Tories blow £120m on forcing voters to show ID - despite tiny number of frauds

Tory ministers are accused of 'rigging democracy' by forcing all voters to show photo ID from 2023 despite just three convictions in seven years. Now the full cost to taxpayers has been revealed

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Andy Burnham tells Sky: “I’m a little disappointed to hear the party saying it’s going to rule out electoral reform. I would say to them listen, hear the mood of conference on that particular issue...1/2

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💣 Dominic Raab tells Today on Boris Johnson "I think he can make a return to frontline politics" - but "I just can't see in practice how a new prime minister could give the country the attention, the focus that it needs" while still giving testimony to the Privileges Committee

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"Well who cares what Andrew Bridgen thinks," @wesstreeting tells @BBCRadio4

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Martin Lewis tells @BBCr4today the government must act now over the "terrible cataclysmic risk millions of people in our nation face this winter" - every £100 people pay now will be £215 by January.

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Is "try to be less gay" really the government line?!

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James Cleverly: "I think with a little bit of flex and compromise at both ends, it can be a safe and secure World Cup."

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BREAKING - PM's spokesman says it would be 'reckless' to give across-the-board pay rises in line with inflation to teachers, nurses, and more. He adds this remark should not be taken out of context, so we're tapping up the quotes and context and will publish an article shortly

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NEW: Now *Lord Frost* says benefits should rise with inflation. Tells GB News: "I'm going to say something which I don't say very often, which is I agree with Penny Mordaunt and I think she’s got this right." This is an extraordinary coalition emerging

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Keir Starmer tells BBC Boris Johnson broke the law and lied

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Starmer: "Have officials raised concerns about his decision to appoint [Suella Braverman]?" Sunak: "I just addressed the issue with the home secretary." [He didn't answer the question]

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Lib Dem Treasury Spokesperson Christine Jardine: “This is his ‘let them eat cake’ moment. While he talks about all his dough on morning television, millions of families watching are struggling with the worst fall in living standards in decades.”

Rishi Sunak says 'we all have different breads in my house' as bills rocket

Rishi Sunak spoke after the Spring Statement 2022, and after Iceland’s boss said food bank users are “declining potatoes because they can't afford the energy to boil them”

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Theresa May at first refused to get up during the standing ovation - then when she stood refused to clap

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The Cabinet minister in charge of online safety has shared a mocked-up image of Rishi Sunak stabbing Boris Johnson in the back, with a knife.

Tory Nadine Dorries shares image of Rishi Sunak stabbing Boris Johnson in back

The Culture Secretary - who is in charge of online safety - was told to 'wind her neck in' after sharing a 'dangerous' mocked-up image of Julius Caesar's assassination... months after an MP was...

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Sturgeon adds: “Being better than the Tories is not a high bar to cross right now. I think we need to see more of a radical alternative from Labour rather than just a pale imitation. ..

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Keir Starmer quotes Liz Truss during the leadership campaign saying "I’m very clear, I’m not planning public spending reductions". "Will she stick to that?" Truss: "Absolutely". Bookmark that!

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Tory peace update. This quote about Suella Braverman - to The Times - is from a *former Home Office minister*

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This is a genuine headline: Tories threaten to cut benefits and the state to pay for tax cuts for the rich

Tories threaten to cut benefits and the state to pay for tax cuts for the rich

As post-mini-Budget chaos engulfs Britain, Treasury minister Chris Philp refused to rule out a real-terms cut to DWP Universal Credit, asked for 'efficiency savings' and said 'I'm not going to...

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BREAKING: Boris Johnson’s Brexit minister will declare a “British renaissance has begun” despite punch-ups on petrol forecourts, empty supermarket shelves and warnings thousands of pigs will be dumped in skips.

Brexit minister hails 'British renaissance' despite empty shelves and fuel chaos

Lord David Frost will declare 'the long bad dream of EU membership is over' amid punch-ups on petrol forecourts, empty supermarket shelves and warnings thousands of pigs will be dumped in skips

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85 Tories who fought Covid passes for nightclubs - but have forced voters to show ID

85 Tories who fought Covid passes for clubs - but have forced voters to show ID

Critics have questioned why scores of Tory MPs were so passionately opposed to a "papers, please" society when it came to vaccine passports - but were happy to have it at election time

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Full context here.. Millionaire Rishi Sunak says 'we all have different breads in my house' as bills rocket

Rishi Sunak says 'we all have different breads in my house' as bills rocket

Rishi Sunak spoke after the Spring Statement 2022, and after Iceland’s boss said food bank users are “declining potatoes because they can't afford the energy to boil them”

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BREAKING No10 refuse to publish notes of Boris Johnson's secretive meeting with Sue Gray Despite admitting it *WAS* No10 officials who first suggested the meeting - even though the "technical" invite came from Sue Gray's side

No10 refuse to publish notes of Boris Johnson's secretive meeting with Sue Gray

The latest news in Partygate has taken another twist after Boris Johnson's spokesman admitted his officials first suggested a private meeting with Sue Gray - but refused a bid today to release...

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Opposition MPs fall about laughing as Chief Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke says “I’m not going to comment on leaks”, during an urgent debate on the £30bn of Budget policy the Treasury has itself leaked

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Sky's Niall Paterson: “It’s not as if Suella Braverman is the intellectual powerhouse of the Conservative movement.” Nadhim Zahawi: “You’re now personalising it and being very rude about a particular politician. I think Suella is very capable, it’s unfair for you to say that"

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Quite aside from anything... very amusing that No10 is now trying to highlight as much as possible that Boris Johnson is close family friends with Zac Goldsmith - a man he gave a peerage and a ministerial job less than two years ago

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Theresa May took time to get there but her speech is pretty damning of the government “I am deeply disappointed that we only see draft legislation on a new Mental Health Act... I think those suffering from mental health deserve better from the government.”

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Keir Starmer: “This is not the summer for Downing Street to be occupied by a vengeful squatter mired in scandal.”

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Grant Shapps on Sky: "Some of the complaints [are] from, I have to say, largely Labour leaders who are completely misleading people because when they actually look at the list of journey times..they’ll be able to get around a lot faster". That's extraordinarily.. misleading:

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"And if you're asking me do I think either a Westminster Tory government or a Westminster Labour Government is good enough for Scotland, then my answer to that question is no.”

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BREAKING Tory chair admits he and Kwasi Kwarteng went to Budget day champagne bash with hedge funders

Tory chair admits he and Kwasi Kwarteng went to Budget day champagne bash

Jake Berry has confirmed he attended a drinks reception for business leaders - including hedge fund managers - at the home of a Tory donor hours after the mini-budget

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Keir Starmer's zinger: “At least the staff at No10 know how to pack a suitcase.”

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NEW: No10 mount extraordinary defence of Boris Johnson, claiming he did not lie to the public over the No10 flat refurbishment... because while he knew Tory donor was *organising* the money, he didn't know it was actually *the donor's money* 🤯

Boris Johnson accused of lying to probe that cleared him in flat refurb scandal

The PM told Lord Geidt he didn't know the source of funds for the refurb until February 2021. But an Electoral Commission report released today reveals WhatsApp messages sent months earlier which...

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Keir Starmer in the Times tonight: "The Labour Party I lead today is unrecognisable from 2019. There are those who don’t like that change... To them I say in all candour: we are never going back. If you don’t like it, nobody is forcing you to stay."

Keir Starmer: My Labour is patriotic, a party of equality not protest

Promising change is the easy part. Delivering it is painstaking. It requires commitment, hard graft, focus and humility. From the moment I was elected Labour le

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Lisa Nandy tells Michael Gove it's a "DIY asylum scheme: “He can’t seriously be asking Ukrainian families who are fleeing Vladimir Putin, who’ve left their homes with nothing, to get on Instagram and advertise themselves in the hope a British family might notice them.”

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MOGG'S CLOCK HAS MOGG WRITTEN ON IT H/T @benglaze

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This is such a deeply moving interview with Peter Kyle about the loss of his partner

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R4 Today: Can Liz Truss get a real terms benefit cut through Parliament? One Nation Tory Damian Green: “Probably not” If she tries, will she have to do another U turn? “Yes”

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NEW: UK vaccine centre that got £215m from government is sold off to US pharma giant

UK vaccine centre that got £205m from government is sold off to US pharma giant

Campaigners branded the sale of the Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC) 'beyond absurd' as the UK faces the risk of a new Covid variant in the future

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