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iain watson

@iainjwatson

4 years

Now @BorisJohnson urges @Keir_Starmer to 'abandon his slightly negative tone' A stony faced Starmer responds by saying 34.000 deaths is negative and he will ask about it

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This is the precise wording Downing St gave me in response to the Observer story this weekend on suspending parliament re #brexit : ”the claim that the govt is considering proroguing parliament in Sept in order to stop MPs debating Brexit is entirely false.’' #prorogation

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The Speaker threatens to eject @MattHancock for interrupting @Keir_Starmer #pmqs

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Both Conservative leadership candidates blame Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan for crime rates in London

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In the coming days, we will hear a lot about what covid rules were in place during the lockdown gatherings in Downing Street. Tonight, I present: The Rule of One ⁦ @Number10cat ⁩

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3 years

Wow - the PM's adviser on the ministerial code Alex Allan resigns after @BorisJohnson declares full confidence in @pritipatel

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4 years

And @jeremycorbyn personalises the attack -would a white man who dabbled in class A drugs and conspired to beat up a journalist be deported? Who did he have in mind?

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5 years

On ⁦ @BBCBreakfast ⁩ ⁦ @Nigel_Farage ⁩ says 'the old certainties of two party politics are now broken'

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4 years

@Number10cat You are welcome. probably boosted my viewing figures @Number10cat

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3 years

The LibDem MP @LaylaMoran as chair of all party parliamentary group on #coronavirus has said ' @BorisJohnson must take responsibility for the failure to prevent the Indian variant taking root in the UK- once again the govt acted too late'

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2 years

one attendee was brutal about Liz Truss's appearance at the #onenation group: 'it is the first time I have heard a corpse deliver its own eulogy'

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4 years

First official ⁦ @10DowningStreet ⁩ statement on Dominic Cummings : 'mr Cummings Believes he acted responsibly and legally'

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2 years

Oh dear! ⁦ @Number10cat ⁩ joins the delegation....could give the PM paws for thought (sorry)

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5 years

This is the full letter from ⁦ @UKLabour ⁩ MPs in leave areas to ⁦ @jeremycorbyn ⁩ opposing a decisive shift to a referendum and remain

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3 years

Sacked yesterday for not voting for @OwenPaterson - reappointed today. Just in case anyone was in any doubt that a government u-turn was being performed...

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4 years

Breaking: @UKLabour says staff in the home office and 'other depts' have contacted @jeremycorbyn 's office with further complaints re @patel4witham and an unnamed 'former minister'

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4 years

The @FDAGenSec tells @BBCPM that Sir Philip has garnered 45-50 allegations of briefing against him in the past few days and the union will be supporting his legal action

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4 years

Head of the FDA - the senior civil servants' union - says it is time for 'new leadership' at the Home Office

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Leader of Newcastle council, Member of @uklabour NEC - and pro @Keir_Starmer - Nick Forbes will 'leave politics' having failed to be reselected to stand in his ward in the forthcoming local elections

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2 years

Treasury sources say that 'time constraints' are preventing @RishiSunak from doing media interviews today

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6 years

Sir Keir Starmer tells me Labour will raise David Davis's refusal to hand over Brexit impact assessments/sectoral analyses in their entirety in the Commons tomorrow and says 'ultimately this could be contempt of parliament'

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4 years

Margaret Beckett tells the #PLP that the next leader should be someone the country wants rather than just the party (as with John Smith after Neil Kinnock)

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5 years

I'm hearing - following today's discussions - key @UKLabour shadow cabinet members want to see action to prevent No Deal before agreeing to an election

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'I will resign the Conservative whip' if there's no deal -⁦ @sarahwollaston ⁩ tells ⁦ @BBCBreakfast ⁩

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Breaking: Chris Williamson, Stephen Hepburn and Roger Godsiff not endorsed as @uklabour candidates by NEC and new ones will be selected

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2 years

sheltering from the political and yes, actual storm in Downing Street -⁦⁦ @Number10cat ⁩

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5 years

BBC's James Vincent has spoken to @andreajenkyns she says 'the PM resigning will noy persuade me to vote for her withdrawal agreement'

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8 years

Jeremy Corbyn says questions have to be asked over who funds and armsISIS and questions have to be asked about the role of Saudi arabia

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2 years

the @uklabour constituency officers in #wakefield statement says: ‘We asked for local candidates, but there are none. Three prominent Council and local Labour candidates, including the Deputy Council Leader didn’t even make it onto the ‘long list’.

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iain watson

@iainjwatson

4 years

And @BorisJohnson insists we have a 'great deal' with the #eu but as @bbcnickrobinson challenges him, it's not a trade deal #bbcdebate

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@iainjwatson

5 years

BREAKING: 17 Labour MPs including @GloriaDePiero @SKinnock and @CarolineFlintMP plan to amend tomorrow's anti-No Deal bill (if the opposition win tonight) to call for the latest version of the @theresa_may deal to be put to parliament. Their full statement coming up

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5 years

My colleague @laurencesleator reports that independent MP @IanAustinMP and tIG's @MikeGapes have been removed from the Foreign Affairs committee They will be replaced by @UKLabour MPs Catherine West and @ConorMcGinn

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3 years

BREAKING @uklabour NEC won't now discuss @Keir_Starmer 's rule changes

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6 years

Keir Starmer tells @BBCr4today that if parliament votes down Theresa May’s #brexit deal then ‘all options should be on the table’ -that includes a ‘people’s vote’ ie a referendum. very different from Barry Gardiner’s denunciation of the whole idea of a new referendum

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5 years

'Former @UKLabour MP for leave-voting Thurrock Andrew Mackinlay says he has '52 years membership if Labour' but while 'It hurts...to have reached the decision that I have today' ..'The only major party representing my beliefs in the European Union is the Liberal Democrats.'

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iain watson

@iainjwatson

5 years

Ahead of the ⁦ @UKLabour ⁩ NEC dep leader ⁦ @tom_watson ⁩ tells me he has been 'inundated' with emails from members saying the only way to break the #brexit impasse is 'a people's vote on any deal' and 'we have to listen to european candidates who support this'

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4 years

Yesterday's Stony silence from non-cabinet @Conservatives on Dominic Cummings now turning in to a row of heads above the parapet as @DamianCollins -former dcms committee chair - calls for Dominic Cummings to go

Damian Collins

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Dominic Cummings has a track record of believing that the rules don’t apply to him and treating the scrutiny that should come to anyone in a position of authority with contempt. The government would be better without him.

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I'm not alone in #downingstreet this morning -though my focus is on No11 & ⁦ @RishiSunak ⁩'s Spring Statement and the cost of living crisis.Haven't checked the inflationary effect on uncapped cat food costs, though. I'll be ⁦ @BBCr4today ⁩ 630 ⁦ @BBCBreakfast ⁩ at 7

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This morning ⁦ @Number10cat ⁩ strides purposefully towards No10 - perhaps he has some issues to raise about ⁦ @RishiSunak ⁩'s Spring Statement which was littered with announcements But what do others think - i'll be ⁦ @BBCr4today ⁩ 630 and ⁦ @BBCBreakfast ⁩ at 7

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5 years

BBC's @petesaull reports that @LibDems won't be standing against @Anna_Soubry at #election19

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I am told PM isnt calling the 5pm press conference because of a confidence vote has been triggered - she will be arguing for her deal

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2 years

the Labour Left are suggesting that a range of candidates for Labour held seats and target seats are likely to be blocked from standing. Today Maurice McLeod-a local councillor -has been blocked from competing for the nomination in Camberwell and Peckham, Harriet Harman's seat

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3 years

At a packed @younglabouruk rally ⁦ @jeremycorbyn ⁩ says if @uklabour concentrates on rule changes they won't motivate people to kick out the @conservatives govt

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4 years

I am told that Whips have been calling around asking for backbenchers to tweet support for #dominiccummings which suggests that @10DowningStreet aren't yet ready to part company. So far though not many tweets have appeared

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5 years

Breaking: i am told shadow cabinet WILL back early election in december

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The Somerset and Frome MP David Warburton - suspended by the @Conservatives from the parliamentary party following allegations about his conduct in the #sundaytimes -has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital suffering from severe shock and stress, according to his wife Harriet

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5 years

One MP emerges to denounce @Conservatives colleagues as 'jellyfish' for refusing to change leadership rules today

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4 years

Breaking: ' @uklabour under new management' (cont) I am told shadow chief sec. to the Treasury @bphillipsonMP has written to colleagues telling them not to make uncosted - or indeed costly -spending pledges and policy ideas will have to go through her and @Keir_Starmer 's office

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5 years

Breaking: @jeremycorbyn cancels 'international commitments' including meeting the President of Ghana, to concentrate on attempts to block a No Deal #Brexit

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4 years

And @Keir_Starmer says the country's thoughts are with @BorisJohnson and family; @SadiqKhan says he is praying for PM's recovery; @NicolaSturgeon has sent best wishes - all underlining it's definitely Not the time for party politics

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@iainjwatson

4 years

Full statement from no10 on ⁦ @BorisJohnson ⁩'s condition.

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5 years

Perhaps unsurprisingly @Keir_Starmer tells me @BorisJohnson should consider his position. asked if he believed he had misled the Queen the shadow #brexit secretary says 'he misled the whole country' and as a former DPP was struck that the Supreme Court judges had been unanimous

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@iainjwatson

3 years

Now @GMB_union -representing support staff in education - has joined @NEUnion in calling for all schools in England not to re-open. It says unless @GavinWilliamson 'reverses his position' it would have 'no option other than to take action to defend its members’ safety at work. '

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3 years

Sources close to @Keir_Starmer say they are not unhappy with @AndyMcDonaldMP 's departure They say he unveiled his employment rights package on Saturday then resigned over the content on Monday. They insist that this week is all about change and closing the door on the Corbyn era

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iain watson

@iainjwatson

4 years

And @BorisJohnson tries to move on to improved wages for care workers and reform of the care home sector but @Keir_Starmer presses for an apology and says it is the govt's responsibility for excess deaths -'the govt insults everyone on the front line' #PMQs

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iain watson

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6 years

Ken Clarke on #Brexit ‘I have never known such a weak parliament’ and urges MPs to take control if they don’t like the final deal

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iain watson

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7 years

Friends of Diane Abbott (not a euphemism for DA herself) say she was moved without consultation -not at her request

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iain watson

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2 years

In other news: Treasury sources confirm that @RishiSunak has received a #partygate questionnaire from the @metpoliceuk

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iain watson

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3 years

As @uklabour prepares for a policy review, left wing NEC member @BeckettUnite , a contender to succeed @LenMcCluskey at @unitetheunion said' If Labour continues on its current path it will become irrelevant to workers. My message is that policies matter, socialism matters'

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iain watson

@iainjwatson

2 years

So on @BBCBreakfast Sam Tarry joins the RMT picket line at Euston station - says he is there as a shadow transport minister. But Keir Starmer has told frontbenchers to stay away from picket lines....

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iain watson

@iainjwatson

5 years

Labour NEC has agreed that a commitment to a referendum will be caveated Ie the party will call for one IF the Conservatives don't change their deal or concede an election. It will NOT be a referendum on ANY deal - which is what Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson wanted

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iain watson

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3 years

The results of @UKLabour NEC elections are being delayed from lunchtime to (approx) teatime as some people who were ineligble to vote appear to have done so and this is being addressed. I have no sense, though, that any faction is about to hire Guiliani

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@iainjwatson

2 years

The Labour leader Keir Starmer is addressing a lively crowd at the London Labour reception and claims change is on its way. He accuses the govt of having an 'ideological mission to make the rich richer' And he describes trickle down economics as 'a piss take' (sic)

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5 years

Breaking: i'm hearing @LabourStudents are in effect being wound up. @UKLabour NEC has passed a motion from Momentum's @jonlansman to look at setting up a new body. Lab students say accusations they haven't paid affiliation fees are untrue & say it's an attack on party 'centrists'

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5 years

Breaking: John Bercow says he will take a 'rapid decision' on this - maybe tonight, if not 'at the earliest opportunity'

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5 years

The letter from @uklabour and other opposition parties alleging contempt over lack of legal advice from govt on #brexit

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Describing the @UKLabour split as 'terrible news' @DavePrentis of #Unison says: Labour’s overriding concern must be to look long at hard at the reasons why the MPs feel they are no longer able to stay in the party.'

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@iainjwatson

5 years

Good quip from @jeremycorbyn 's team - is #Brexit secretary as a ceremonial post? #pmqs

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iain watson

@iainjwatson

5 years

So @jeremycorbyn making it clear that while @borisjohnson is 'unfit to be PM' he won't be calling a #VoteofConfidence soon -says No Deal must be avoided first then an election asap. In other words no call for that election until after the PM is required to see a #brexit extension

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4 years

This is interesting - looks like @Conservatives MP Bob Stewart thinks the cabinet secretary should look in to whether #dominiccummings broke lockdown rules @UKLabour and @theSNP have asked for a cabinet office investigation

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I emailed my MP Bob Stewart and explained my situation and asked if I can now visit my mother given Govt guidelines are now open to personal interpretation. This is his reply. #dominiccummimgs #BorisJohnsonCoronavirus #sackcummmings @PippaCrerar #COVID ー19 #marr #sophyridge

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It's been confirmed by @uklabour sources that @ @AngelaRayner has been removed from roles as party chair and campaign coordinator

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iain watson

@iainjwatson

5 years

BREAKING The Dominic Grieve amendment - which would give the PM just 3 parliamentary days to come up with a #brexit plan B if her deal falls - has passed by 308 votes to 297

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iain watson

@iainjwatson

5 years

Senior Labour sources are telling colleagues to expect four resignations tomorrow morning

Laura Kuenssberg

@bbclaurak

5 years

Maybe, maybe not - nothing like a sunday night political Twitter meltdown ... this could happen as early as tomorrow, but then again.....

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iain watson

@iainjwatson

5 years

And now ⁦ @JunckerEU ⁩ further clarifies his 'no prolongation' comment on #brexit Asked if he was ruling at an extension he said 'that's what I have been saying...we have a deal so no need for prolongation 'This Deal v No Deal' will give ammo to ⁦ @BorisJohnson ⁩

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NEW/ Following a 'thorough investigation' The Information Commissioner has told the BBC there is 'insufficient evidence' to take action against the prominent supporters of Jeremy Corbyn that Labour accused of leaking a controversial document in 2020

Ex-Corbyn staff court case could dent Labour election fund

A long-running internal feud may prove costly in the run-up to the next election, writes Iain Watson.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@iainjwatson

5 years

Was it something I said? I wasn't doing a crime story! ...maybe #brexit coverage just has that effect...

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BREAKING @bbcnews releases the Projected National Share of the vote based on key wards -Lab on 35pc Cons 26 LDs 20 others 19 - biggest Labour lead over Conservatives at locals since leaving office

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5 years

Hearing @uklabour leadership will indeed try to block an election if it is at a time of @BorisJohnson ‘s choosing

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I have no idea if the 48 letters to force a confidence vote in @theresa_may will go in. But one ERGer tells me he thinks Steve Baker may have 'overplayed his hand' & another leading Brexiteer - who hasnt sent a letter - says he thinks Steve Baker 'has made an arithmetical error'

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@iainjwatson

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Vince Cable on @paddyashdown 'Few people know how hard he fought to get into politics following service in the marines & diplomatic service...He inspired the Lib Dems from a polling position he described as ‘represented by an asterisk’, to become a formidable campaigning force'

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@iainjwatson

5 years

Gosh! Seems some people will stop at nothing to silence parliament...

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

5 years

Orderrrr! Oh dear... Speaker John Bercow struggles in the Commons after losing his voice

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This is from the @UKLabour readout of @jeremycorbyn and @theresa_may 's call: 'Jeremy Corbyn set out opposition to the PM's last-ditch attempt to separate the Political Declaration from the Withdrawal Agreement. Jeremy made clear Labour will not agree a blindfold Brexit'

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3 months

Breaking : Lee Anderson loses the @conservative whip by refusing to apologise for saying @MayorofLondon was controlled by Islamists

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2 years

Well when I was told ⁦ @Christian4BuryS ⁩ had sent a letter I assumed it was to ⁦ @grahambradymp ⁩ but in fact it was to the PM - defecting to @uklabour . Gobsmacking curtain raiser to #pmqs

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iain watson

@iainjwatson

6 years

20 @UKLabour tax rebels: Karen Buck Yvette Cooper Neil Coyle Stella Creasy Mike Gapes Roger Godsiff Kate Green Mgt Hodge Helen Jones Liz Kendall David Lammy Pat McFadden Alison McGovern Ian Murray Lisa Nandy, Jess Phillips, Lucy Powell, Emma Reynolds Gareth Snell Martin Whitfield

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this is ⁦ @Keir_Starmer ⁩'s motion to ⁦ @UKLabour ⁩ NEC to debar ⁦ @jeremycorbyn ⁩ as a candidate

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@iainjwatson

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Breaking - in response @jeremycorbyn says 'during PMQ those turning a crisis in to a pantomime' were referred to as 'stupid people'

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iain watson

@iainjwatson

3 years

An outspoken attack tonight from a former shadow cabinet member on the @uklabour leadership...

Jon Trickett MP

@jon_trickett

3 years

•21st century parties don’t need old fashioned distant leadership techniques •Leadership in this new world needs to inspire hope, vision & strong values & to build consensus •Not aloof management & policing of members but ideals, vision & partnership with the wider movement!

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I am told 1922 committee chairman Graham Brady made it clear that the 48 signatures that would start a leadership contest hadn’t been received

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6 years

Labour Leaver Kate Hoey says she is rebelling against her own party by not backing the Lords on a meaningful vote - says it is dressed up as parliamentary democracy but they really want to stop #brexit - it is disingenuous she says

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@iainjwatson

4 years

In non #covid19 news, the #brexit talks don't seem to be going swimmingly - this just in from No10.

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@iainjwatson

2 years

the Commons Speaker @LindsayHoyle_MP says the Serjeant at Arms and senior officials will investigate last night's voting lobby chaos and he wants all parties to agree that the behaviour was unacceptable

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iain watson

@iainjwatson

3 years

hearing that @BeckettUnite Asst Gen sec and head of Politics and Legal of @unitetheunion has now been removed from his political role. It's known within leading sections of the union there are now discussions about his future.I understand he is considering his options.

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5 years

official ⁦ @UKLabour ⁩ position: “Jeremy Corbyn proposed that the motion not go to a vote and instead that there be a review of the position of Deputy Leader and other positions in support of the Leader. The NEC agreed to his proposal.”

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iain watson

@iainjwatson

5 years

@MichaelLCrick A big loss to C4 News & its viewers. One of the few journalists to become a verb. Politicians & football managers hated being 'Cricked' - you combine humour with serious, thorough, brillaint journalism. I know from personal experience you are extremely generous - and inspiring.

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Downing st says the Attorney General Geoffrey Cox will make a statement to parliament on #brexit legal advice @Keir_Starmer says @UKLabour 'will settle for nothing short of the full legal advice' - as requested by the Commons

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iain watson

@iainjwatson

2 years

the @metpoliceuk have said fines were issued for an event on November 13 2020 - the date of the alleged ‘Abba’ party in the Downing St flat- but I (and indeed anyone else who has been asking) have been there will be no further action taken against Carrie Johnson ie no fine

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6 years

I am told Lucy Powell and Yvette Cooper rebelled for the first time against the @UKLabour leadership for the first time -by opposing and not abstaining on the #budget2018 tax measures

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2 years

Breaking: I understand Sam Tarry - who joined the RMT picket this morning at Euston - has been sacked by the chief whip as a shadow transport minister

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4 years

In response to @amcarmichaelMP @BorisJohnson refuses to publish law officers' advice on whether he is breaking international law in the Internal Market Bill

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iain watson

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5 years

Now @BorisJohnson - to cheers on his benches - says @jeremycorbyn has been ‘reprogrammed’ as - and he says the word with maximum derision and the infection of an insult - a ‘Remainer’

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iain watson

@iainjwatson

2 years

Quite a frisson when Boris Johnson seems to hint at liaison committee there could be an early election unless the govt with a mandate is allowed to get on with the job but under questioning from Bernard Jenkin he seems to revise this to say he is against 'wildcat elections'

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4 years

It's been confirmed - following @BorisJohnson 's comments at #PMQS that MPs who are shielding and/or are over 70 Will be allowed a #proxyvote

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