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I've started my new role as a political correspondent for the @guardian Do you have information to share? Get in touch by emailing eleni.courea @theguardian .com or securely on carob7 @proton .me Or ask for WhatsApp/Signal 📱

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During this debate Boris Johnson has accused Keir Starmer of failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile and the Labour front bench of taking drugs

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Two more No 10 resignations coming tonight from Dan Rosenfield and Martin Reynolds, one source says

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NEW in the case of the missing home secretary The home affairs committee chaired by Yvette Cooper has been trying to fix a date for Patel to give evidence for over a month, with no response Cooper is insisting that Patel appears on or around 15 April

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Lots of activity on Tory WhatsApp groups this weekend from loyalists trying to drum up support for the PM They claim the polls are turning and that voters on the doorstep back him It's caused more than a little irritation among MPs. "They've completely lost the plot" one says

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Expectation among Tory rebels is that at 5pm — in 15 minutes — the committee's exec will announce to the rest of the Tory parliamentary party that the rules have changed to allow another confidence vote, that the letters are already in and that a fresh vote will be held on Monday

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Breaking: Labour staff who are Unite members have voted in favour of strike action in an indicative ballot which closed at noon today They voted to reject the party's offer of a real terms pay cut (2% salary increase) this year They've asked Labour for a meeting next week

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Boris Johnson just spoke to Zelenskyy about the “gravely concerning” situation at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station The PM wants an emergency UN security council meeting and warned “the reckless actions of President Putin could now directly threaten the safety of all of Europe”

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One Tory MP texts: “Brady’s letterbox will be busy in the next 24 hours”

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NEW: Unite will vote on whether to disaffiliate from the Labour party at its conference in Brighton tomorrow around 11am If the motion passes, it means Unite will change its rules to be able to donate to parties other than Labour — or independent candidates such as Jeremy Corbyn

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Rishi Sunak says his biggest weakness is perfectionism, Liz Truss's is being "excessively enthusiastic", Tom Tughendhat loves the army too much and Penny Mordaunt has an inability to delegate... classic job interview non-answers

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Keir Starmer suggests Labour will hold back in seats where the Liberal Democrats are best placed to defeat Tory MPs at the next election This intvw with @ayeshahazarika is the furthest he's gone to suggest an informal pact with other opposition parties

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Growing speculation that Truss could ditch yet more aspects of the mini-budget Tory MP texts: “I think we’re heading for the most humiliating u-turn in modern political history: the entire mini-budget Think we’re looking at “deferring” tax cuts and maybe a further windfall tax”

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BREAKING: The ERG star chamber led by Bill Cash has concluded that Boris Johnson's deal is "consistent with the restoration of UK sovereignty" ERG officers have recommended their members vote for it, I'm told by a source in the meeting

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The row over the CCHQ tweet has seriously escalated

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NEW: The extraordinary story of David Cameron's latest gig — lobbying for Chinese interests in the Indo-Pacific Cameron flew to UAE to drum up investment for a controversial project in Sri Lanka which critics fear may become a Chinese military outpost

David Cameron is the smiling face of Chinese interests in the Indo-Pacific

New British foreign secretary promoted controversial Colombo Port City project at investment conference in the Middle East.

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3 years

Can't help but think of "quiet bat people"

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NEW: It appears that Harlow may in fact have fallen into no overall control The result was 17 Tory, 16 Lab. But Labour points out the Tories owe their majority to James Leppard, who was suspended by the Tories in April If he's not been readmitted, he's an independent, not Tory

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Tory MP texts that the 'Back Boris' team has been summoned to his office for 6pm "Presumably to reinflate his own flagging morale," the source says

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A loyalist 2019 Tory MP just marched through Portcullis House in a hoodie, clutching a bottle of red wine

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5 years

Initially Barclay said he didn't think customs declarations would be required but that he would write to the committee clarifying. A few minutes later he read out a correction saying: "The exit summary declarations will be required in terms of NI to GB."

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The #Brexit Minister Stephen Barclay just confirmed to me in his @LordsEUCom evidence that, under the Govt's proposals, Northern Irish businesses sending goods to Great Britain will have to complete export declaration forms.

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NEW: William Wragg has resigned the Tory whip Whips spox: “Following Will Wragg’s decision to step back from his roles on the Public Accounts and 1922 committees, he has also notified the chief whip that he is voluntarily relinquishing the Conservative whip”

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2 years

Ashfield Tory MP Lee Anderson withdraws his support for the PM in a statement on Facebook

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7 months

Some news: After two years writing London Playbook, I’m very excited to be joining @PippaCrerar 's team @guardian as a political correspondent in the new year

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3 years

Labour Batley campaign source says: “Basically built a new electoral coalition in six weeks. Lost the conservative Muslim vote over gay rights and Palestine, and won back a lot of 2019 Tory voters” “This result shows we’re reconnecting with the wider electorate again”

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5 years

Meanwhile, away from the G7... EXCL: The Archbishop of Canterbury is in talks with MPs to chair a citizen’s assembly intended to stop a no-deal Brexit.

Welby in talks over citizens’ assembly to avoid no‑deal Brexit

The Archbishop of Canterbury is in talks to chair a series of public meetings intended to stop a no-deal Brexit.The Most Rev Justin Welby is liaising with a cross-party group of senior MPs over...

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3 years

EXC: Labour is using this Facebook advert to target Red Wall voters tomorrow ahead of its motion calling for hotel quarantine for all arrivals The vote puts the govt in an awkward position because dozens of its own MPs privately agree with it — including home sec Priti Patel

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Home Office just announced it WILL offer indefinite leave to remain for free to the families of care workers and NHS support staff including cleaners and porters — not just doctors and nurses U-turn after this story in @thetimes this morning

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7 months

Overheard in the office: "Hi. I was just calling to see if you had any reaction to Dominic Cummings saying the Cabinet Office is 'terrifyingly shit'"

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NEW on Richard Leonard w/ @KieranPAndrews Senior Labour figures including Angela Rayner and David Evans held a call last night with potential donors who warned they would not back the party while he remained in post

Richard Leonard resigns as Scottish Labour leader

Richard Leonard has resigned as the leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect just four months after seeing off an attempted coup.It is understood that th

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2 years

Letter from Caroline Nokes and Karen Bradley to chief whip Chris Heaton-Harris They ask for a "a policy of zero tolerance" on sexual misconduct allegations, a "thorough investigation... in each and every case" and that Tories under investigation are suspended from the whip

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EXC: SNP's John Nicolson has been cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries online after a six month ICGS inquiry She referred him in October over his tweets following a DCMS cttee grilling in 2021, including one saying she had been “rag-dolled” She can appeal

SNP lawmaker still under investigation for Nadine Dorries tweets, watchdog says

Standards commissioner says “no decision made” over Dorries’ complaint against John Nicolson.

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EXC: Tory grandee Nicholas Soames joins calls for the UK to stop arming Israel “It’s probably time that that happened now, yes ... if we’re determined to show that we are not prepared to countenance these ongoing disasters"

Tory peer Nicholas Soames joins calls for UK to stop arming Israel

Exclusive: Grandson of Winston Churchill says UK must send message to Israel after aid workers killed in Gaza

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No10 has released a picture of Rishi Sunak glaring at Sergey Lavrov during the first G20 session

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NEW: Rebecca Long Bailey has been sacked “This afternoon Keir Starmer asked Rebecca Long-Bailey to step down from the Shadow Cabinet. The article Rebecca shared earlier today contained an antisemitic conspiracy theory.”

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3 years

Big round of applause from MPs following Keir Starmer's first speech to an in-person PLP meeting in months He told them he has begun meeting the test he set for himself when he became leader 18 months ago - getting lapsed Labour voters to give the party another look

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Extremely strong comments from @RobertBuckland Remarking on Anderson, Braverman, Truss he told R4: "Proper Conservatives stand for bringing the country together ... Anybody else who doesn't agree with that agenda and wants to fight had better get out and join another party"

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NEW — Movement on the the Partygate probe Boris Johnson was handed the stack of written evidence from the privilege committee's investigation this morning, one source says No denial from Johnson's spokesman

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2 years

As per this morning's @POLITICOEurope London playbook... I'll be joining the brilliant team there as deputy playbook editor in the new year Really sad to be leaving my wonderful colleagues at The Times - but excited to take on a new challenge 🌃

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NEW: There's a "real buzz" in LOTO and Southside around the idea of Ed Balls standing in Wakefield, says a senior Labour source... Party figures think he'd bring a "big beast factor" to the by-election and a "big brain" to the Labour benches

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Lisa Nandy's move to shadow levelling up confirmed Starmer said: “There will be nobody better than Lisa to lead this work” Nandy said: “This is the battleground that will shape the future of our country. The Tories have given us a decade of empty slogans and broken promises”

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Patel wrote to Cooper yesterday saying she was “disappointed at the increasingly adversarial tone” and promising to appear for the committee “towards the end of the month” Cooper replied insisting on an earlier date, saying the delay would “be inappropriate given the urgency”

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The Lib Dems are calling for Kwasi Kwarteng to resign if the pound reaches parity with dollar

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Former Tory cabinet minister David Mellor says he “couldn’t believe it” when Kwasi Kwarteng went on TV and called for Kathryn Stone to quit “He was doing it because he thought that would please Boris. A lot of it is like a children’s party - they want to please daddy” #Phillips

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NEW: Rishi Sunak has softened his language on China and hinted he's ditching plans to declare it a “threat” in the integrated review When I asked him, he said China poses a “systemic threat” before hastily correcting himself to say “systemic challenge”

Rishi Sunak ditches plan to class China as a ‘threat’ to UK security

British PM’s comments have angered China hawks in his own party as they await refresh of major foreign policy plan.

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Mildly concerning that people in govt are impressed by Cameron reading his own department's white paper (via @thetimes & @guardian )

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Big news from @samiotobin on PA: Labour has suspended some of its members after the leak of the 860-page report in April which said that "factional opposition" to Jeremy Corbyn hindered the handling of antisemitism allegations

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Cooper has declined an offer of private Home Office briefings on the basis of transparency Patel has appeared before the committee just once, in October, since she became home sec in July Sunak, Raab, Buckland, Coffey have all appeared before committees in the past three weeks

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Greek government spokesman @DTsiodras has suggested to ERT that today's marbles row is politically motivated "I understand the game that's playing out internally in Britain, which will probably hold elections in 2024 ... He [Sunak] has difficulties, as is clear in the polls"

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3 months

Breaking: Labour has withdrawn its support for Rochdale candidate Azhar Ali

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2 years

Labour MP: "Coyle has form at being abusive and obnoxious in the Strangers’ Bar but these racist remarks take it to another level" "This should be investigated thoroughly by the party and the whip should be removed while that takes place"

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A Personal Statement on My Interaction With Neil Coyle

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Black cab driver gave me this receipt last night. Might save it as a historical artefact

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4 years

“As Leader of the Labour Party, Keir has been clear that restoring trust with the Jewish community is a number one priority. Antisemitism takes many different forms and it is important that we all are vigilant against it” ^ from a spokesperson for Keir Starmer

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London Labour source says: “We think it will be close. There is no chance of winning on the first round” “We are definitely seeing the product of lower turnout and complacency from voters who believed it was safe to put a candidate from a smaller party as first preference”

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I can’t believe I’m writing this. But Tory sources say Shaun Bailey’s campaign now believe they can win the London mayoralty.

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The only non-cringey response came from Kemi Badenoch who said her sense of humour can make her seem flippant about things

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EXC: Keir Starmer has begun sending personalised letters to attract former major Labour donors who left under Jeremy Corbyn Among those who have received them is David Abrahams, the Newcastle property developer who donated more than £650,000 to the party under Tony Blair

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John Glen is about to resign as economic secretary to the Treasury, one source in the department says

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EXCLUSIVE - A Chinese government delegation has been refused permission by Commons authorities to attend the queen’s lying-in-state It opens a fresh diplomatic rift with Beijing and exposes a divide between parliamentary authorities and Whitehall

Chinese delegation barred from viewing Queen Elizabeth’s coffin in parliament

House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle rebuffs request from Beijing.

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Starmer effectively slaps down Corbyn’s claim that the EHRC is “part of the government machine” Labour spokes: “We fully respect the independence of the EHRC. Keir Starmer has made clear he will cooperate fully... We will implement, in full, any recommendations made by the EHRC”

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Conservative Party made EHRC "part of the government machine", says Jeremy Corbyn:

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Disillusioned No 10 officials making the point that Munira Mirza is the third senior woman to leave on poor terms in the space of six months — following Nikki da Costa and Allegra Stratton

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Fuelling up ... So happy to have run my first marathon today in 4 hrs 55 mins! The crowds were amazing — especially my friends whose incredible support helped me do it under 5 hours 🥰

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NEW - Parliament has shut down its TikTok account after MPs sanctioned by China raised concerns about data security in a letter revealed by Playbook Parliament spox: “Based on Member feedback, we are closing the pilot UK Parliament TikTok account earlier than we had planned"

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I rang the registry of court judgements and asked the woman on the line what sort of thing the debt could be for - she said "maybe he's not paid someone who redecorated his flat"

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Boris v. the bailiffs? A county court judgement for unpaid debt was issued last October against one Boris Johnson, address 10 Downing Street - and six months on, it STILL hasn’t been paid. An exclusive in the new Private Eye, on sale today.

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Exclusive in Playbook Boris Johnson was warned of allegations about Chris Pincher's conduct before the February reshuffle, per three sources — but made him deputy chief whip anyway w/ @estwebber — 👇 and in your inbox

London Playbook – Newsletters – POLITICO

What's driving the day in Westminster. Politics and policymaking in the UK capital.

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Snap @YouGov poll - 54% of 2019 Tory voters think Boris Johnson should resign And 69% of voters think he should, up 11 points from early June (but just 21% think he will)

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Tory MP: “No10’s initial response — suggesting he’s done ‘the decent thing’ and allowing him to retain the whip — tells us Boris Johnson doesn’t take allegations of sexual assault as seriously as the leader of a government should"

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"They’re sharing opinion polls that still have us miles behind but with us up 1% as some sort of great triumph" Nadine Dorries and Michael Fabricant plus 2019ers Jonathan Gullis, Brendan Clarke-Smith, Suzanne Webb and Chris Clarkson among those posting supportive messages

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Incredible timing for this tweet — Joe Biden is due to meet Liz Truss tomorrow for the first time since she became PM...

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I am sick and tired of trickle-down economics. It has never worked. We're building an economy from the bottom up and middle out.

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One MP in the 1922 committee meeting says Daniel Kawczynski was "lone voice of support" for the PM He complained about how Boris Johnson was spoken to in liaison cttee "Three MPs banged the table out of 160," the source says

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In today's Playbook — Knives out for Suella Braverman as she returns to the Home Office Truss ally says she was known in govt as "leaky Sue" and accuses her of having "leaked OBR-sensitive information and then lied to the prime minister and the country about what happened"

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Tory MPs already saying they think William Wragg should resign over his admission to @breeallegretti that he was involved in the honeytrap sexting scandal by handing over colleagues' numbers Comes after amazing Politico reporting led by @AgnesChambre that brought this to light

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Patel hasn’t appeared in any of the gov’s coronavirus press conferences or broadcast rounds Full correspondence published here:

Home Affairs Committee - Correspondence - Committees - UK Parliament

Correspondence publications for Home Affairs Committee.

committees.parliament.uk

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Thoughts so far... Rishi Sunak is winning on delivery and communication - he's by far the most comfortable on tax and economic policy and able to explain it simply But Tom Tugendhat is really benefiting from being the sole candidate untainted by this government

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Yesterday was my last at Politico — really excited to be joining the Times as a political reporter next month. But I’ll miss working with everyone in the brilliant @POLITICOEurope team. I'll still be based in Westminster - always up for a coffee! ☕

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EXC: Labour is recruiting hundreds of people who may never have been party members to stand as candidates at the next GE Anyone, no matter how long they've been a Labour member, can apply by Aug 16 as part of a scheme likened to David Cameron's A List

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One source points out that it's hard to square this with Tory MPs' claims that Boris Johnson should be kept in place to deal with Ukraine "He is literally getting in the way of a proper response"

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I understand there were discussions in government this week about bringing back Parliament asap because of potential chemical weapons use in Ukraine Now not possible because they’d get questions about Partygate fines

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Crucially it doesn't mean Unite will stop donating to Labour, but that it will be able to (also) fund others It would be another break with the left — some Unite members have long been pushing for this to happen because of the direction Keir Starmer has taken the party in

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EXC: At least 10 ex MPs who work for lobbying or consultancy firms have the freedom to roam parliament They include Michael Dugher of the Betting and Gaming Council, and Chris Leslie of the Credit Services Association, which lobbies for debt collectors

At least ten former MPs who work for firms that engage in lobbying have parliamentary passes

At least ten former MPs who now work for companies that engage in lobbying or consultancy work have the freedom to roam the parliamentary estate.The chief execu

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EXC: Tony Blair is planning a major conference on June 30 together with the Britain Project, a group said to take its inspiration from En Marche Organisers are trying to get Emmanuel Macron to participate in the event, according to three sources

Tony Blair’s new centrist project — just don’t call it a party

Some of those involved see potential for a new centrist party in British politics. Others spy a ‘smugfest.’

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Ruth Smeeth launches attack on Momentum at @labour_first rally after they instructed delegates to oppose EHRC rule changes She says anyone who votes against them is “a racist” “Look yourself in the mirror and ask what party you should be in - because it isn’t ours”

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This is a cracking story by @estwebber and @gallardo_ortega that's months in the making MPs have used parliamentary trips abroad for sex tourism

UK MPs accused of using foreign trips for sex tourism

Multiple MPs and diplomats have warned of inappropriate behavior and drunkenness during parliamentary visits.

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EXC: Blair-era backer David Abrahams is donating to Labour again Peter Mandelson says he's been asked by two Tory donors in the last month how they can switch to Labour: “In time, this trickle could become a flood if Keir continues as he has started”

Blair-era tycoon backer David Abrahams donates to Labour again

A property tycoon who funnelled donations to Tony Blair’s Labour via his builder and secretary has resumed his support for the party, as Sir Keir Starmer seeks to reduce its financial reliance on...

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A Tory MP texts from Waterloo Station: "Lots of people here taking selfies outside Oliver Bonas"

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Throwback to 2018

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Off to India 🇮🇳

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A shad cab minister tells me they were once sitting on a train to London from Manchester when Rosena and her team boarded and sat a couple of rows in front... and overheard her asking them go round and "say something you've done this week to help me become Labour leader"

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Tongues wagging in Labour circles about this poll sent round to LabourList subscribers by pollster Survation… with a section (accidentally?) headlined ROSENA QUESTIONS

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Joanna Baxter, an NEC member, tells @labour_first rally that Labour's legal fees now cost it more than £2m a year Before Jeremy Corbyn became leader she said it was £200k a year

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EXC: Boris Johnson has ordered a review of ways to stop sexist abuse of MPs this week after a meeting with female backbenchers on Tuesday MPs present said he was “shocked” by the scale of the issue and said there was “something really rancid going on” in politics

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Our story now has now gone up here:

Downing Street appointed Tory MP to top job despite sexual misconduct allegations

UK government had been aware of concerns about Chris Pincher since the start of the year.

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Henry Staunton's response to Kemi Badenoch tonight in full

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6 months

David Cameron's official spokesperson told me a month ago and again this week, after he had been made foreign secretary: "Mr Cameron has not engaged in any way with China or any Chinese company about these speaking events"

Gabriel Pogrund

@Gabriel_Pogrund

6 months

Source gets in touch to say gift was a souvenir glass of Port City sand This was reclaimed during China’s draining of the site, part of Xi’s Belt & Road initiative Chinese developer — part of entity sanctioned by the US — gives them to VIPs Cameron had denied contact with them

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Eleni Courea

@elenicourea

4 years

. @MLewisLawyer , of Patron Law, who acted for the Panorama whistleblowers, says: “I confirm that I have been instructed to pursue cases”

Laura Kuenssberg

@bbclaurak

4 years

After Jeremy Corbyn's statement, which said Labour settlement was a 'political not legal' decision, journalist John Ware understood to be consulting his legal team

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Eleni Courea

@elenicourea

3 years

Starmer praises John Major on #Marr “When there was sleaze in the 1990s John Major rolled up his sleeves and put in place the Nolan committee on standards in public life” “Boris Johnson is the prime minister who is leading his troops through the sewer”

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Eleni Courea

@elenicourea

4 years

“He just wanted to be chair,” one source said. “When he wasn’t chair he started throwing his toys out of the pram. He had no interest in the subject at all, he hasn’t got any background in defence or intelligence matters.”

‘Sulking’ Chris Grayling quits intelligence committee

Chris Grayling has quit the Commons intelligence and security committee weeks after MPs blocked his attempt to become its chairman.The former transport secretary, who had been No 10’s handpicked...

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Eleni Courea

@elenicourea

3 years

Labour shad minister: "The PLP is hugely disappointed that many cases are 3yo+ and someone has made a decision to expedite his case to get a favourable panel Utterly shocking and a slap in the face to all those who thought the party had moved on from the cesspit of antisemitism"

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Eleni Courea

@elenicourea

3 years

EXC: Boiling lobsters alive will be banned as ministers prepare to back an amendment to recognise they can feel pain Crabs, squid and octopus and cuttlefish are among the non-vertebrates set to be recognised as sentient under the plans

Neil Henderson

@hendopolis

3 years

THE TIMES: Travel rules ditched in weeks for vaccinated #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Eleni Courea

@elenicourea

3 years

A Tory MP texts: "From what I can gather the reshuffle is two pronged: 1 - Get some details people into key public services 2 - Dial up the culture war to 11"

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Eleni Courea

@elenicourea

5 years

@EU_Commission Barclay's initial statement on exit declarations: “We’ve said in terms from NI to GB that it will be frictionless and so there wouldn’t be [declarations].” His correction: "The exit summary declarations will be required in terms of NI to GB." Suggests trade not frictionless...

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Eleni Courea

@elenicourea

2 months

Labour confirms Andy McDonald MP has had the whip reinstated Party spokesperson said: "The investigation concluded that he had not engaged in conduct that was against the party’s rulebook but reminded him of the importance of elected representatives being mindful ...

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Eleni Courea

@elenicourea

10 months

Two MPs say Angela Rayner told PLP tonight that she stands by her tweet calling the two-child benefit cap "obscene and inhumane" ... but she also said she supports Keir Starmer, and spoke about the importance of fiscal responsibility/ not making spending commitments on the fly

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