After last night's shitshow, with a minister hurriedly trying to silence legitimate questions, let's have no more remote Downing Street news conferences. Covid-secure, in-person questioning please, in the £2.6 million room built during the pandemic.
Lest we forget...
Chris Grayling was warned on
#bbcqt
, back when David Dimbleby was still host, that there would be lorry queues 20+ miles long at Dover. Needless to say, in true Grayling fashion, he dismissed it with a show of arrogance and ignorance.
Liz Truss has cancelled her BBC One interview with Nick Robinson which was due to air this Tuesday evening (30th August) at 7pm. Ms Truss’ team say she can no longer spare the time to appear on “Our Next Prime Minister”. (1/2)
From
@thetimes
: "Tory MPs said he later told them in the Commons tea room that he did not believe he had personally done anything wrong and said that “we’re taking hits for something we don’t deserve”."
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Downing Street says the cabinet minister being put up by them tonight doesn't want to talk to me. I can't say for sure it's the same Secretary of State who's doing interviews on Sky News, BBC News, etc. We'll try other routes. I hate
#failing
.
@LBC
Thank you for all the kind words. I appreciate them. But there are journalists in the world who are being shot, jailed, held hostage or forced to work with
@corrie_corfield
. I’m only changing jobs. So please do something about them. (Not Corrie. She’s lovely. Mainly)
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Here is PART 2 of the Dorries interview with
@BethRigby
.
Here she claims again that Jeremy Hunt is part of a remainer conspiracy (along with Jesse Norman), doubles down on claims that lack of pandemic preparedness was his fault and claims "we are at war with Ukraine".
Eddie Mair broke down the dates that scientific advice was given to the government and how the PM ignored it while telling the UK to obey it.
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#COVID19
🔴 Why Did Johnson Meet Evgeny Lebedev Twice in Days Before First COVID Lockdown – With No Civil Servants Present?
The then PM held unminuted meetings with the press baron he later elevated to the Lords despite security concerns, reports
@josiahmortimer
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Exclusive: Doctor David Nicholl's initial, emotional response after hearing Jacob Rees-Mogg liken him to discredited anti-vaccine campaigner Dr Wakefield.
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@DJNicholl
So glad Andrew Cotter is commentating. Insightful. Passionate. Doesn’t talk during play. Doesn’t endlessly spout statistics. Adds. Does not subtract.
#Wimbledon
Eddie Mair played soundbites of senior members of the cabinet expressing opposition to proroguing parliament, but all have refused to comment on today's events.
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#Prorogation
I expect the natural order will be restored when & if there are fewer people working from home & less news to talk about. But I’ll enjoy these moments while they last & thank everyone who listens for making it the most popular talk show in the history of U.K. commercial radio.
Eddie Mair played soundbites of senior members of the cabinet expressing opposition to proroguing parliament, but all have refused to comment on today's events.
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#Prorogation
Exclusive:
Boris Johnson planned to build a £150,000 treehouse at Chequers but was forced to abandon idea after police raised security concerns
Discussions were held about Tory donor Lord Brownlow funding the project in Autumn 2020
@BBCNormanS
Happy for your future Norman but sad your expertise will be missing from the airwaves. I hear your name, I turn up the radio. Always the right phrase, always crystal clear analysis. The privilege was ours.
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#RAJAR
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He’s probably to shy to mention it but this is published today. If your copy is like mine it will have a toadying inscription.
@mrjamesob
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Eddie Mair became frustrated when reporters were unable to ask follow-up questions during No 10 press briefings. He is proud to launch the inaugural Downing Street Non-Answer of the Night...listen out!
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#Coronavirus
Keith is the person who keeps my show on the air. We welcome him back to his place today, happy he's recovered and hoping he remembers how to open the fader on the Downing Street news conference because it's always so full of direct answers to the hard questions.Join us 1600
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'It's a joke. He's just collapsing under the weight of his own contradictions.'
Dr Rachel Clarke takes aim at Boris Johnson's 'absolute word salad' during his Covid briefing.
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Thrilled to be part of LBC’s record-breaking line up. Highest audience reach in 46 years. 2.2 million listeners a week across the UK. My shiny new slot has attracted almost 100,000 new listeners. The news starts at 4PM.
#RAJAR
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LBC’s Nick Ferrari at Breakfast has smashed another record and now reaches a massive 1.4m listeners nationally each week – up 240,000 in the past year.
Eddie Mair has added 119,000 listeners in the past year, with 804,000 people tuning in across the UK each week.
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