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2 years

Come for the tofu-eating wokerati, you best not miss

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One senior Labour source salivating at the prospect of Johnson redux: "In some sense, him running is the dream. Droning on about how they need a sensible, serious person to fix the mess they've made then that honking pudding turns up with his travelling circus trailing behind"

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**Nadhim Zahawi** is in the delegation of cabinet ministers about to tell the prime minister to go, I'm told

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BREAKING Labour have a 33 POINT LEAD with YouGov/Times Yes, 33. THIRTY-THREE POINTS Lab: 54 (+9) Con: 21 (-7) Lib: 7 (-2) Green: 6 (-1) Ref: 4 (+1) Fieldwork: Today and yesterday

Liz Truss refuses to publish budget forecast until November

Truss and Kwarteng in emergency talks with watchdog after financial turmoil

www.thetimes.co.uk

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BREAKING: Rishi Sunak has admitted holding a US green card until October 2021. He became chancellor in February 2020

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EXCL: Simon Case and team had a Christmas party on Dec 17 2020 at 5.30 pm in room 103 of the Cabinet Office. The digital calendar invites sent in advance called it "Christmas party!" Raises serious questions about his investigation into No 10 parties

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Sometimes if a joke doesn't quite land you just need to wait four years

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7 years

They would refer it to Sue Gray for urgent investigation

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People keep calling Sue Gray’s report “independent”. Jake Berry just did it on Today, several broadcast journalists have too. She might be independent-minded but she’s a serving permanent secretary — it’s not an independent report. Subtle distinction but really matters

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Tory MP Philip Davies to Sajid Javid in the Commons just now: "Can he give me any reason at all why I shouldn’t tell my constituents to treat these rules in exactly the same way that number 10 Downing Street treated last year’s rules?"

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NEW: Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood has been stripped of the whip by Boris Johnson for failing to support the government in last night’s confidence vote

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Take a step back. The 12 alleged gatherings (of 16) being investigated by the Met include one in Johnson's flat, one he attended in the garden, and one which was to celebrate his birthday. So the prime minister is under investigation for multiple breaches of his own Covid laws

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BREAKING: Sir John Major has written to Sir Graham Brady "For the overall wellbeing of the country, Mr Johnson should not remain in Downing Street" He says either Dominic Raab should become PM or Conservatives should remove the members' stage of the leadership ballot

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"I am humbled and I have learnt a lesson" ... "Sir Beer Korma"

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EXCL: Sir Geoffrey Cox is tonight being referred to the standards commissioner by Labour after he appeared to use his Commons office to represent the British Virgin Islands in a corruption case against the UK government Full story in @thetimes on Wednesday

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I think this could become a crucial exchange Starmer: "Will the prime minister support the police and support the CPS by handing over everything the government knows about parties in Downing Street to the Metropolitan Police?" Johnson: "Of course we will do that."

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3 years

EXCL: The permanent secretaries of the Foreign Office, Home Office and Ministry of Defence are ALL on holiday during the Afghanistan evacuation

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NEW: A Conservative MP, Christopher Chope, objected to the government's motion to finally approve the standards committee's findings on Owen Paterson. It means govt has to reschedule, probably with a debate. Sleaze agony prolonged

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So what might happen next? It's complicated...

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"If the 22 changed the rules, we'd hit the threshold for a confidence vote in a couple of hours", a Tory MP tells me. Safe to say the mood is sulphurous in parliament this morning

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This is not going well... Caroline Johnson - a Tory MP I never recall stepping a centimetre out of line - asks Ellis a deeply hostile question asking why Pincher was ever appointed to a new government job after the Foreign Office complaint

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Amongst these 22 MPs are 10 former cabinet ministers, 21 former ministers, 2 former chancellors, a former deputy PM, a former education secretary, a former lord chancellor and a former Conservative Party chair. There can't be any precedent for expelling a group like this

Paul Brand

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5 years

NEW: @peston has the list of Tory rebels willing to vote to prevent No Deal. Here they are:

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Boris Johnson just very very very noticeably did not deny @thetimes reporting that he suggested Sue Gray not publish her report

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Listening to this extraordinary recording, you have to think that if Chris Pincher hadn’t been the final straw for Conservative MPs then this would have been

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EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson lobbied for a public role for a young woman who says he abused his power to have a sexual relationship with her The PM was confronted at the height of the #MeToo movement in 2017, when she told him she was still “shaken and upset”

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7 years

Prince Philip going to extraordinary lengths to get out of having to meet the Trumps

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5 years

EXCLUSIVE: Labour MP Louise Ellman has tonight quit the party after 22 years as an MP and 55 years as a member. She tells The Times she cannot tell her constituents to make Jeremy Corbyn prime minister

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Ken Clarke does not appear at all shaken, or lost, by being booted out of the party he's represented for 49 years in the Commons. "Anyone who says I'm not a Conservative is taking an odd political view. It's the Brexit Party rebadged."

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Crucial new fact from the thicket of Covid inquiry legal wrangling this evening. While Boris Johnson has passed lots of WhatsApps to the Cabinet Office, they only date from May 2021 onwards - when he got a new phone. None of the messages before then have been shared

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2 years

Understand Boris Johnson has invited every single Conservative MP to a dinner in Central London next Tuesday as he continues to try to heal the wounds of Partygate

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But Ellwood would presumably argue that visiting Eastern Europe as defence select committee chairman is more important at the moment than being there for a confidence vote where the result was a foregone conclusion

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2 years

NEW Biggest Labour lead in YouGov’s HISTORY Labour 45 (+5) Conservative 28 (-4)

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Bernie Sanders, addressing his supporters by livestream, just praised Rishi Sunak’s 80% wages scheme. “What is going on in the UK is the proper approach... that is the direction we should have gone here.” Strange times, strange bedfellows.

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2 years

Meanwhile over on LinkedIn…

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EXCLUSIVE Times/YouGov poll gives Labour their biggest lead since Dec 2013 Lab 38 (+1) Con 28 (-5) LDem 13 (+3) Green 7 (+1) RefUK 4 (-1)

Defiant Boris Johnson refuses to quit as polls slip further

Boris Johnson defied calls last night for his resignation over lockdown parties in Downing Street as the Tories fell to their lowest poll rating against Labour

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Sally-Ann Hart, now MP for Hastings+Rye, is under investigation for liking a Nazi phrase on Facebook and sharing an antisemitic slur. Lee Anderson, now MP for Ashfield, is under investigation for being an active member of a Facebook group where Soros conspiracies were promoted.

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Matthew Parris: Why I'm leaving the Conservatives and voting Lib Dem

I’m leaving the Tories and voting Lib Dem

Fifty years ago this autumn your columnist joined the Conservatives, signing up to a Tory ginger-group at university. Ten years later I was the MP for the Derbyshire constituency that remains my...

www.thetimes.co.uk

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2 years

How much longer is it sustainable for Boris Johnson to tell Sue Gray, but not the public, whether he was there on May 20 2020?

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11 months

I’m thrilled to say I will be joining the BBC as Chief Political Correspondent this summer. I’ve had an amazing seven years with great colleagues and friends at The Times but can’t wait for what’s ahead.

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Ouch. As Sky cuts away from Johnson's Peppa Pig-heavy speech at the CBI @IanKingSky says: "I've got to say, watching that - that was as excruciating to watch as Theresa May's speech in 2017 to the Conservative conference"

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Crucially, Labour's lead has been fuelled by Con to Lab switchers. 17 per cent of those who backed Boris Johnson in 2019 now say they would vote Labour

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Some fines were broadly expected/'priced in' by now. But that shouldn't mean we lose sight of what a big deal it is that it's been officially confirmed Covid rules were broken at the top of government

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3 years

Just announced: Biden and Harris’s first act after being sworn in will be to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier — joined by the Obamas, Bushes and Clintons

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EXCLUSIVE: Leaked docs reveal donors given access to Boris Johnson’s top team during pandemic as part of secret ‘advisory board’ Among them: ex-Putin minister's wife, alleged rapist invited after police interview, four billionaires (w/ @Gabriel_Pogrund )

The Tory donors with access to Boris Johnson’s top team

Shortly before Christmas, a photograph taken in the Downing Street garden emerged that was felt by many to epitomise a prevailing attitude at the heart of gover

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Some extremely bad numbers for the government on mortgages Who do you blame for fixed-rates rising to 6%? The government: 52% Global economic factors: 24% Bank of England: 5% Lenders: 4%

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6 years

Boris Johnson just came up on the big screen at the Oval and got booed. Not far off a George Osborne Paralympics moment

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Which of the following do you think would make the best prime minister? Liz Truss: 15 (-10) Keir Starmer: 44 (+12) How well or badly do you think Liz Truss is doing in her role as prime minister so far? Well: 15 Badly: 65

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BREAKING: Conservative Party fined £17,800 after Electoral Commission finds it broke the rules over donations to fund the refurbishment of the Downing Street flat

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For 4 years the Tories have used deselection of non-ideologically pure MPs as an attack line against Corbyn’s Labour. And now, before any MPs have been deselected by Labour, a Tory PM is about to deselect a load of MPs who were in the cabinet until weeks ago

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Really not sure the government line on not withdrawing the whip from Chris Pincher will hold. Senior Conservatives already examining Tamworth’s Wikipedia page. 20,000-vote Tory majority but Labour 1997-2010

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2 years

This reminds me of one of those Tom Baker voiceovers at the start of a Little Britain episode. "Britain, Britain, Britain"

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Our leadership has to change. It needs to become a little less about the leader and a lot more about the ship. #pm4pm

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EXCLUSIVE: Ministers will have the power to overrule doctors’ prescriptions in case medicines run out after Brexit. Urgent government consultation launched on Tuesday, leaked to The Times

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EXCLUSIVE Ephraim Mirvis, The chief rabbi, has warned that Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of antisemitism allegations makes him “unfit for high office”. Writing only in tomorrow’s Times he the “very soul of our nation is at stake” in next month’s general election

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EXCLUSIVE Boris Johnson has been referred to the police by the Cabinet Office over new claims he broke lockdown rules at Downing Street and Chequers during the coronavirus pandemic Story w/ @Steven_Swinford @Fhamiltontimes

Boris Johnson referred to police over new lockdown rulebreaking claims

Boris Johnson has been referred to police by the Cabinet Office over new claims he broke lockdown rules after his ministerial diary revealed visits by friends

www.thetimes.co.uk

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NEW: Steve Baker says Johnson must go: "I've been tempted to forgive. But I have to say now the possibility of that really has gone. I'm sorry but for not obeying the letter and the spirit, the prime minister must be long gone... The prime minister should know the gig's up"

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EXCL: Conservative MPs are in talks with Labour about how to overturn Kwasi Kwarteng’s budget Lots of questions about the mechanism, not least because finance bill not expected until next year But Kwarteng’s opponents think they’ll have the numbers

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Quite the column intro from Dominic Lawson

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NEW: Dominic Raab is returning to the UK today to lead Foreign Office response to Afghanistan. He had been on holiday abroad.

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BREAKING: Met Police will now investigate a number of lockdown events at Downing Street and Whitehall. The events were referred by Sue Gray, Cressida Dick says.

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NEW YouGov/Times poll gives Labour 25 point lead Lab 47 (+4) Con 22 (-2) Lib Dem 11 (-) Green 8 (-) Reform 7 (-) Biggest Labour lead with YouGov since March

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

www.thetimes.co.uk

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EXCLUSIVE: Joan Ryan tonight becomes the 8th MP to quit Labour, accusing Jeremy Corbyn of “presiding over a culture of antisemitism and hatred of Israel”. She told @thetimes she couldn't “be part of a party that allows racism to flourish”

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BREAKING: Christian Wakeford, red wall MP for Bury South, has defected to the Labour Party in an interview with his local paper @burytimes . Full story dropping on @thetimes within seconds

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💥Dan Rosenfield, Boris Johnson's chief of staff, and Martin Reynolds, his principal private secretary, are leaving their jobs. Officials in No 10 have just been told

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7 years

There are about 30 people here to watch Theresa May speak to 5 people in the back of a Dunelm in Nottingham

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Boris Johnson forgot about his government’s spending round and tried to leave the chamber at the end of PMQs. Matt Hancock pointed it out and told him to go back

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NEW: Conservatives lose their poll lead with @YouGov Con 35 (-1) Lab 35 (-) Green 10 (+1) Lib Dem 8 (-) Starmer ahead on best PM for first time since January Starmer 29 (+4) Johnson 27 (-4) Not sure 41 (-)

‘Very sleazy’ Tories cost Boris Johnson poll lead over Keir Starmer

Two thirds of voters now see the Tories as “very sleazy” as Boris Johnson’s ratings fall behind Sir Keir Starmer’s for the first time since the January lockdown

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Every living former cabinet secretary voted against the government on the customs union this afternoon (Lords Armstrong, Butler, Wilson, Turnbull and O'Donnell)

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Earlier I plugged these numbers into the Electoral Calculus predictor. It said the Conservatives would be left with *two seats* Both are in Scotland so I think it's safe to say... zero seats Of course it would seem utterly impossible for those numbers to hold to an election tho

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Former Tory mayoral candidate, Tory assembly member and Boris Johnson’s own deputy mayor discuss his credentials...

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21 TORY REBELS Bebb Benyon Brine Burt Clark Clarke Gauke Greening Grieve Gyimah Hammond P Hammond S Harrington James Letwin Milton Nokes Sandbach Soames Stewart Vaizey 2 LABOUR REBELS Hoey Mann

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🧨 BREAKING: Times/YouGov voter intention poll Con 38 Lab 26 *TIG 14* LD 7 SNP/Plaid 5 Other 11 (Weighted by likelihood to vote, excluding would not vote and don’t knows)

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7 years

They would refer it to Sue Gray for urgent investigation

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@SamCoatesSky

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Imagine the financial system collapsed like it did in 2008. What would this government do then?

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Not a single Nigel born in 2016. The year of Brexit. Sad!

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Quite a big deal: one of Boris Johnson’s former cabinet ministers links the harassment of Starmer outside parliament to the PM’s Savile jibes

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What happened to Keir Starmer tonight outside parliament is appalling. It is really important for our democracy & for his security that the false Savile slurs made against him are withdrawn in full.

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Conservatives ramping up attacks on Labour MPs who voted against the borders bill. Only issue with this one is that Jenny Chapman hasn’t been the MP for Darlington since December 2019, when the Conservatives defeated her

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Delighted to have been appointed Associate Political Editor @thetimes , and to keep working with the best team in Westminster

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Ann Widdecombe voted for Ken Clarke to be leader of the Conservative Party three times. The radicalisation of the past few years is something to behold

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Ann Widdecombe has a pop at anyone who voted Remain. "They wanted us to have no control over our own laws, our own border, our own trade... How could anyone in Britain with an ounce of self-respect have voted for that?"

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Genuine question: has this all been worth it for Qatar? Most successful sportswashing event ever? Or millions of people who’d never given the country a second, or first, thought now have an extremely unfavourable opinion of it?

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Marcus Rashford, Times columnist. Powerful piece too

Marcus Rashford: Ending child poverty is a bigger trophy than any in football

It can be funny where your career takes you sometimes. If someone had said ten years ago that I would one day be writing for The Times I would have laughed, and yet here I am on Monday evening...

www.thetimes.co.uk

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An election could be more than two years away. But if this were replicated at an election it could be an extinction-level event for the Conservative Party. At the 1997 general election Blair had a lead of 13 points

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Good day for the UK’s reputation around the world

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EXCL: No 10 staff are preparing to give evidence at the privileges committee inquiry into Boris Johnson Raises the extraordinary prospect, if he returns, of the PM’s honesty being questioned by his own staff

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Kate Hoey, still a Labour MP, appears at her first Tory conference. She says this is a “much better-dressed conference”

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If Liz Truss were to resign today she would match Brian Clough’s 44 days as Leeds manager

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Good morning from Downing Street, where Larry has stolen my space. Nevertheless, tune in for all the budget news you need on @BBCBreakfast @BBCr4today @bbc5live

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3 years

It's not that complicated: this is what Trump asked his supporters to do

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Calling for PM to go on BBC, William Wragg makes an interesting point about the significance being piled onto Gray's report: "I don't believe it should be left to the findings of a civil servant to determine the future of the prime minister and indeed who governs this country."

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Literally hundreds of MPs and peers have just received a mass email from a member of the public as follows:

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Do you think Kwasi Kwarteng is doing a good job or a bad job as chancellor? Good job: 7 (-3 from end of last week) Bad job: 60 (+24) Do you think the govt is managing the economy well or badly? Well: 11 (-5) Badly: 76 (+8)

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NEW: Kwasi Kwarteng has apologised to Kathryn Stone, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, after he said she should consider her position. He seems to be suggesting he might have "fallen short" of the ministerial code

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Statement from Tobias Ellwood

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Mark Francois on BBC just now accused Airbus's Tom Enders of "Teutonic arrogance", adding: "My father, Reginald Francois, was a D-Day veteran. He never submitted to bullying by any German. Neither will his son. So if Mr Enders is watching, that's what he can do with his letter"

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EXCL Am told that George Young (Lord Young of Cookham) has quit as a government whip in the Lords over Boris Johnson's decision to prorogue parliament. He was a minister under every Tory prime minister since Thatcher, and in Major and Cameron cabinets. But this was too far

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But what about that rigorous appointment process she went through? Surely all the relevant expertise still applies?

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NEW: Gina Coladangelo is leaving her position on the board of the department of health

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NEW: Lindsay Hoyle has granted Keir Starmer an urgent question to follow Jeremy Hunt’s statement What does govt do? Convention would dictate Truss attends. Does she have her arguments ready? But if she sends someone junior it looks like she’s going awol in a crisis

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EXCL: Tory donor defects to Labour and hits out at the “GCSE economics” of “zealots” Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng

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Oof. Former Labour defence secretary and Nato secretary-general George Robertson not impressed by Raab being on holiday

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BREAKING YouGov Conservative members poll which will electrify the leadership election Penny Mordaunt beats EVERY candidate in a run off by at least 18 points Sunak loses to everyone except Zahawi/Braverman/Hunt Truss beats Sunak by 24

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The review would have 8 backbenchers, 4 of them Tory. Whittingdale, as the chair and 9th member, would have the casting vote. So a Conservative majority to change the standards system in response to findings against Paterson, one of their own Huge dustup coming tomorrow💥

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3 years

Anyone believe things would have been this lax if the protesters weren't white?

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One irony of the developing Conservative attack that Labour will form a chaotic coalition with the Lib Dems is that of the 4 kinds of Conservative government since 2010 - coalition with Lib Dems, small majority, minority, large majority - the coalition was by far the most stable

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EXCL: Mike Hill, Labour MP for Hartlepool, is quitting the Commons. Prepare for a dynamite by-election deep in 'Red Wall' territory

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