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Policy editor @theipaper , a @Time Person of The Year 2017

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Jane Merrick

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People with learning disabilities may have died from Covid because they were wrongly classed by the NHS as "frail" and weren't admitted to ICU or had DNAR notices applied to them - by me in @theipaper

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Thousands of disabled people died after 'Covid treatment withheld', inquiry to probe

Mencap says Do Not Resuscitate notices were placed on the medical files of many people with Down’s syndrome, autism and other learning disabilities who were otherwise healthy before contracting the...

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2 years

I got all six numbers on the national lottery last night, but I don't feel like it's the right time to win all that money, so I have ripped up my ticket

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When a lettuce outlasts a Prime Minister, we have truly reached the endive days

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When you don’t follow Piers Morgan but he keeps popping up into your timeline

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This made me laugh on R4 just now: when people were asked what is England’s 2nd city, in Manchester they said “Manchester”, in Birmingham they said “Birmingham” and in Liverpool they said “London”

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NEW: I've done an analysis of every time No10 announced a phone call between Boris Johnson and President Zelensky and it's amazing how many have coincided with his worst crises (full disclosure, No10 have told me this thesis is "ludicrous")

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How Boris Johnson's calls with Zelensky have been announced just after the PM's biggest crises

While No10 deny these timings are deliberate, Mr Johnson’s close relationship with the war hero president emphasises his role as an international statesman - shifting focus from the flak he is facing...

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Single mother of three Zara, who works full time, in tears on phone to @LBC @mrjamesob saying she has to keep her kids warm with hot water bottles and jumpers and can only afford one meal a day. She eats their leftovers. “The system isn’t working for people like me”

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Solidarity with @maitlis , one of the finest journalists the BBC has

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Emily Maitlis replaced for Newsnight episode after Cummings remarks

Katie Razzall stepped in after BBC reprimanded host over ‘breach of impartiality rules’

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Thank you to the radio producer who asked me to come on tomorrow morning to discuss prorog, & when I said I couldn't because of school run, she changed the show so I can go on earlier because she wants to increase rep of women on programme. Little things like this mean a lot.

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I hope wherever she is, Allegra Stratton is allowing herself a little drink this evening…

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This is extraordinary and deeply worrying. The plea "can I show you my press card?" - which would have avoided this - is just ignored. Police should not be arresting journalists in this country.

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Rich Felgate

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Yesterday, myself, a documentary filmmaker and @tomsdinner , a press photographer, got arrested by @HertsPolice whilst filming the @JustStopOil protest from a public footbridge over the #M25 . 🧵....

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First loud cheers of the day outside St Paul's are for Harry and Meghan arriving - despite people claiming they're unpopular, they seem to be pretty popular with the royals crowd

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Allegra Stratton was wrong to make light of No10 party and it is right she has resigned over it, but compare her response - resigning less than 24 hours after it emerged - to Dominic Cummings, Matt Hancock, to name just two - who clung on for days/weeks after actual rule-breaking

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A German-speaking relative tells me that the German for panic buying is “hamsterkäufe” - as in how hamsters stuff their cheeks to store food

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5 years

I bet Boris Johnson is wishing he'd booked his flight to New York with Thomas Cook so he'd be stranded out there

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2 years

Despite me being the first journalist in the world to break the story of the Omicron variant, in the days that followed lots of people on Twitter went “here are some great accounts of scientists/journalists to follow” & they were all men. This is so tiring

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Phwoar! Look at the vital statistics on these lads

It is arguably one of the most bewildering trends of the pandemic: the nerds have become cool. Data scientists were important, but they were fringe figures, la

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For four years under Tony Blair's government I worked for the Daily Mail. His No10 absolutely hated us - you might say justifiably - and yet we were never banned from any briefing involving civil servants under his government, ever.

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4 years

"Yes. You can have two biscuits." is the war cry of all working parents everywhere when they just need to get on

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ABSOLUTE SCENES ON SKY NEWS

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🚨NEW: Rishi Sunak has failed to declare his wife owns shares in a childcare agency that will benefit from the government's new childcare reforms - cracking scoop by @RichardVaughan1 and @paulwaugh @theipaper

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Rishi Sunak's wife owns shares in childcare agency that benefits from Budget policy

Akshata Murty's shareholdings have not appeared in the Prime Minister's register of interests, but he insists everything has been 'declared in the normal way' to MPs

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2 years

Disturbing to see the brilliant, experienced and very much accredited photographer Tolga Akmen being dragged from Liz Truss' speech by security guards.

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Dino Sofos

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A photographer has just been dragged off the conference centre floor by security.

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This was Keir Starmer's face during Boris Johnson's 1m54s angry tirade at the end of their exchange at #PMQs

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3 years

This is quite the contrast

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2 years

Please go easy on Prince Harry. He lost his mother at a very young age, has talked about how that affected his mental health, and now he has lost his grandmother. All the ceremony and upheaval of this moment now will remind him of his childhood trauma.

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"Dude, where's my £350m a week for the NHS?"

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Michael Gove says U.K. has granted “300,000” visas to Ukrainians through family scheme but thankfully Sophy Ridge on the ball gets him to clarify and it’s actually 3,000 😅

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The Queen has just arrived at the relief centre to meet those affected so I think the "security fears" argument for May is rather redundant

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Jess Phillips tells #Marr the explanatory notes of the new Police Bill does not mention women once but does mention statues and you can get a heavier sentence for fly-tipping than for stalking.

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2 years

Please don’t be angry at journalists for reporting a story. I have zero control over a virus that’s mutating and spreading in another country, and I have zero control over the policies of this or any other government. I’m reporting an urgent public health issue.

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Blistering Q from Maria Eagle: "If the PM needs a Met Police inquiry to tell him whether he attended a party on 13 November in his own Downing St flat, why should we believe he's a fit and proper person to have his hand on the button of our independent nuclear deterrent?" #PMQs

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5 years

It is a bit rich of pro-Brexit people to appeal for more moderate language from Tusk. He’s angry. A lot of us are angry. There are people who cheerled for Brexit who never had a plan, only ideology. We have a right to be angry with you.

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3 years

On Christmas Day, the official UK coronavirus death toll passed 70,000. Today, it has passed 80,000. 10,000 lives lost in just over two weeks. A truly horrifying statistic. Please take this lockdown seriously, we are all responsible for helping to bring this under control

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If we do have to delay 21 June by a few weeks, we should remember we’re not in full lockdown now. 17 May gave us a lot of freedom. If it takes 2-3 wks just to nip a third wave in the bud, by getting as many people as possible double jabbed, isn’t that better than the alternative?

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10 months ago Serena Williams nearly died in childbirth. Today she reached the Wimbledon final. What an extraordinary woman and athlete.

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BBC Sport

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Look who's back! 😍 Serena Williams returns to familiar territory as she reaches her tenth #Wimbledon final! Reaction 📲 📺 @BBCOne 📻 @5liveSport #bbctennis

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I haven't seen this many Australians crying on TV since Scott and Charlene got married

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5 years

No offence but stick 14 women around the table and Brexit would be sorted by sunset

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Paul Waugh

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Cast list at Chequers was: Boris Johnson Jacob Rees Mogg Steve Baker Dominic Raab Damian Green David Davis Iain Duncan Smith PM Chief Whip Brandon Lewis Steve Barclay Alistair Burt Michael Gove David Lidington

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It’s laughable that Johnson loyalists are claiming the by-election is bad news for Labour. The only lesson for Labour is that it shows voters are willing to vote tactically against Boris Johnson’s government, which makes a Starmer premiership more likely not less

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Kudos to @Channel4News for running this as their lead story despite turbulence in Westminster. This story should make you angry and shames Britain

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Channel 4 News

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"Open your eyes - there is very real poverty out there." UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston says there are people in the UK "living in destitution" and that "government people haven't been out in the field to see what the real circumstances are."

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6 years

I know this is off topic but he needs to prune his lavender

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2 years

In an interview with Brandon Lewis on #r4today , Nick Robinson has summed up the incredulity of a nation. Too long for 280 characters:

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Why aren't we calling the row over the Downing Street flat upgrade.... Cash for Cushions?

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Miriam Margoyles, who appeared in Today studio after Jeremy Hunt, says live on air: “I told him what a difficult job he had to do, what I really wanted to say was ‘fuck you’.”

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Former U.K. ambassador to Kabul Sir Nick Kay tells BBC News “I hang my head in shame” at what is happening in Afghanistan

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4 years

Johnson's pivot is that Cummings was "trying to stop the spread" of coronavirus by travelling to Durham. This is a gaslighting of an entire country.

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Given the advice that Boris Johnson should "get out of Camberwell" because neighbours were aware enough to make a recording, maybe the author would like to recommend an area of London where a woman's screams are ignored?

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Watching #HarryTheInterview and the overriding sense I get is of relief that he no longer has to remain silent. No one - not even a royal - should be made to take a lifetime vow of silence. It is a ludicrous tradition in an outdated monarchy.

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Caught on mic at the end of the hustings, Liz Truss apologised to Tom Newton Dunn for "being mean about the media" (by blaming us for PM's downfall) and Tom replied "it's cheap and you know it". Fair play to him for coming back on that.

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April: PM calls an election because she says Labour & LibDems are meddling in Brexit. July: May asks Labour & LibDems to meddle in Brexit

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4 years

In 2014, Boris Johnson wrote he was “as blind as a bat” and needed glasses to see round the house - so why did he say tonight Covid had left him needing specs? H/t @robweaverwm

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I'm blind as a bat, says Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson - said to have his eyes firmly fixed on one day leading the Tory party - said: ‘I’m now so short-sighted, I’m blind! My eyes used to be fantastic but now…’

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Despite extremely difficult circumstances at home and poor schooling, Angela Rayner has overcome more than most of us to reach the top of politics, to be contemporaries in British politics with people whose education fast-tracked them to Westminster. So well done to her.

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No GCSEs above a D. Our shadow Secretary of State for Education.... Scary.

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NEW: Boris Johnson wrote the word "bollocks" across a Dept of Health document on Long Covid, the Covid Inquiry has heard this afternoon. This and other extraordinary revelations about his handling of the pandemic, here @theipaper

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UK's top pandemic scientist delivers damning verdict on Johnson and Sunak's handling of Covid

Sir Patrick Vallance tells Covid Inquiry Boris Johnson 'flip-flopped' and 'panicked' over pandemic response while Rishi Sunak did not consult with him or Chris Whitty over his Eat Out To Help Out...

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7 years

Actually saying my failure at 29 to confront a senior MP who lunged at me shows a “lack of character”. Any wonder people don’t speak out?

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Sounds like lack of character to me , when you confront people and speak the truth you always feel better .

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Extraordinary story from @DavidParsley50 @theipaper - The government bought a £1.5m house on the HS2 line less than 24 hours before Rishi Sunak cancelled it

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Government bought £1.5m house on HS2 line less than 24 hours before Rishi Sunak cancelled it

Government has failed to tell HS2 manager to stop buying properties under compulsory purchase orders despite cancellation of northern leg of the line between Birmingham and Manchester

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Wonderful story by my MP @HarrietHarman who revealed that, after she was sacked as Secretary of State - "when no one wanted to talk to me" - the Queen invited her for tea to thank her for her service.

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The #royalwedding florist @PhilippaFlowers has donated the flowers from Saturday to hospices and women’s refuges across London. Here is just one place. This makes me very happy ❤️

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At the daily Downing St press conference on Sunday 5 April 2020 I tried to ask Jenny Harries, alongside Matt Hancock, what the plan was for testing in care homes. I always remember this because I had to follow up twice to get an answer because she wasn’t completely clear 1/

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Amber Rudd tells Sky News that the PM can't say prorog wasn't about Brexit and then use as a defence that people are using judiciary to frustrate Brexit - because it shows it *was* about Brexit. "You cannot have it both ways" she says.

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Despite the attention - rightly - on Priti Patel, we mustn’t also forget Boris Johnson’s catastrophic error in the Iran case, his pathetic qualified apology to a mother in tears at prospect of not seeing her child for more years, and his risk to diplomacy

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NEW development on Jenrick asylum centre kids' mural story from @singharj - staff at the centre are defying orders to paint over the mural, which features Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh and Baloo @theipaper :

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Home Office staff 'refusing order' to paint over Mickey Mouse art for children at asylum centre

Workers at asylum centre said to be “horrified” about the “cruel” order handed down by Robert Jenrick and were trying to think of ways to “avoid” it, a source told i.

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3 years

Very strong we’ve missed the connection at Crewe vibes from the Cambridges this evening

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I've been making this argument since June, but there's a difference between saying "schools are (largely) safe for children" - which they are - and "schools are safe", which, in the context of higher transmission to households and the community, when R is above 1, they're not

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There are 13 million working parents in the UK. If the Prime Minister wants us to go back to the office, he’s going to have to find us some childcare before September

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The point is, surely, if Russia meddled in 2014, 2017 and 2019 why would they *not* interfere in Brexit 2016, which had the biggest geopolitical implications of all of those votes? And suddenly go, "nah, you're alright, we'll sit this one out"? It is disingenuous to say otherwise

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I wish people would stop sneering at garden centres. If they can operate social distancing in DIY stores then they can do same in them. For so many gardeners I know, gardening is key to mental health. Oh, and it’s worth more than £7bn to the UK economy.

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V honest from Nicola Sturgeon: "Politicians usually run a mile from admitting human frailty, but these are not normal times. I don't mind saying that these last 9 months have been the hardest of my life. I've had many many dark days .. at times I have felt completely overwhelmed"

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SNP's Joanna Cherry: "Scotland will have to decide whether it wants to be an unequal member of this union or an equal member of the European Union ... the answer is a no-brainer." Am afraid I agree with her.

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5 years

What do you know, Yvette Cooper is leader of the opposition after all

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Robert Peston

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In highly symbolic amendment to finance bill put down by @YvetteCooperMP , MPs defy @theresa_may & signal opposition to a no-deal Brexit by 303 TO 296. Bad for May, but not overwhelming and no-deal is still the formal default position as and when May's deal is rejected

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NEW: Rishi Sunak's Eat Out To Help Out scheme drove a second wave of Covid, Sir Patrick Vallance has told the #CovidInquiry . This is the 1st time the link has been confirmed by a senior figure in govt at the time @theipaper :

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Sunak's Eat Out to Help Out drove second Covid wave, Vallance tells inquiry

Sir Patrick’s evidence is the first time a senior figure from government at the time has confirmed the discount meals policy was a driver of transmission

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Nigel Farage has just dismissed the petition signed by more than 2m people because “a lot of them are Russians” and then about 40 seconds later said it doesn’t matter how many attend his march because “it’s the symbolism that matters” 🤔 #r4today

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What has turned us into this society where even the serious illness of a child has to be contextualised according to the political views of her father, and where pain must be weighed on the scales with “privilege” on the other side? Isn’t an ill child simply an ill child?

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I watched this earlier and watched it back and I don’t get it... she’s not laughing?

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Andrew Marr tells a smiling Priti Patel “I can’t see why you’re laughing” as he reads our a list of manufacturing groups worried about a hard Brexit

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The Queen’s message “We will meet again” completely floored me. It will mean so much to so many of us. She does get it right every time.

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These journalists are heroes.

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Alan White

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I see this press conference couldn’t be going better.

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Am hearing that the Tory-DUP deal is now just a matter of "dotting the is and crossing out of the LGBTs".

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What an extraordinary woman Angela Rayner is

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We political journalists are not doctors. If Diane Abbott is now taking some time off for a period of ill health, let's leave her alone.

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Gavin Williamson's resignation means that now a total of 80 ministers or whips have resigned or been sacked from the government since the start of 2022 (source: House of Commons Library and this Sky News piece )

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Truss to pocket almost £19k in severance pay as cost of ministers leaving office totals more than...

A total of 71 ministers and whips are eligible for the pay thanks to a tumultuous year in government, with Boris Johnson and Liz Truss set for the most generous individual payments.

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“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us” - Wilfred Owen.

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Sky News

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. @realDonaldTrump has cancelled his visit to a US war cemetery due to "bad weather" as world leaders mark #armistice100

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Brilliant question from Gary Gibbon: "He was following instincts, the rest of the country was following rules. Are we all now to follow instincts?"

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3 years

I feel very very sorry for his wife whose life turned upside down on Thursday evening (via @ShippersUnbound )

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There's a zinger of a point from @CarolineLucas - if MPs have changed their minds in a matter of weeks, why wouldn't the public's have changed in three years?

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Something really interesting is happening in Liverpool. In the past week public health officials noticed a surge in cases in one ward - so a few dozen streets - Princes Park in Toxteth. There were 20 new cases, out of 49 across the whole of Liverpool. Not a huge quantity but

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When I #ClapForCarers tomorrow I will particularly clap for my uncle Mark, who caught Covid19 in his work as a paramedic. He’s been in hospital for a few days and is still on oxygen but is getting better. Please #stayathome for him, my aunty Kathy and all NHS workers #heroes x

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Even though we knew this was coming this is an awful, ugly moment. To my European friends, I’m so sorry.

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EU citizens and their families will need to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme to continue living in the UK after 31 December 2020. Find out more: #Brexit

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Boris Johnson's response to his past comments about Islam as being "heartless": "My great-grandfather knew the Koran off by heart". My great-grandfather made shoes but the idea I could make a pair is just cobblers. #Marr

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I suspect Boris Johnson is secretly pleased Sadiq Khan is keeping masks mandatory on public transport in London - keeps transmission down without it being him, the PM, having to be the bad guy in the eyes of lockdown sceptic MPs

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5 years

If the Conservative Party don’t want Rory Stewart can the rest of us have him?

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4 years

December 1919: the first woman MP takes her seat in the House of Commons. December 2019: a series of women MPs step down at the election, in part because of a climate of abuse and threats against them.

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Claims and counterclaims and contradictory briefings surrounding the departure of Dominic Cummings, but two facts remain: he still has his No10 pass, and there has been no resignation letter nor official, on the record confirmation that he has resigned.

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5 years

Meghan helping to design a clothing range for M&S, John Lewis and Jigsaw, so that for each item bought one will be donated to @SmartWorksHQ to help an unemployed woman to go for a job interview, is really inspirational, good news. So watch her critics try to pick it apart...

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3 years

Great analogy by Chris Whitty: the law is you can drive at 70mph, but you wouldn’t drive that fast if there was ice on the roads: “these are icy and treacherous conditions”

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4 years

I am already bristling at the forthcoming day for lifting restrictions as “Super Saturday”. This suggests a moment of celebration. But it is an arbitrary date. The moment of celebration should be when there are no new deaths, or even no new cases.

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4 years

I fear that when we look back on the pandemic, this week will be, among others in February & March, a week which was pivotal in the way England - and I mean England - has suffered. 1. The government’s own Joint Biosecurity Centre has said we’re not ready to move from alert level

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3 years

I’m not sharing the horrible footage of Chris Whitty getting physically accosted but whoever is in charge of police protection for ministers/officials - is it @michaelgove at Cabinet Office maybe? - needs to get him some right now

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Jane Merrick

4 years

Disappointing that Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance aren’t taking questions after their briefing today. This should be a moment of maximum transparency and scrutiny.

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Jane Merrick

2 years

BREAKING: Boris Johnson has just had a phone call with President Zelensky (this is not a joke)

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Jane Merrick

1 year

Tory MP pushed ministers to put vaping at heart of govt's anti-smoking drive without declaring his family will profit from disposable vapes - top scoop by @poppyeh @theipaper

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Tory MP who repeatedly promoted vaping didn't declare wife's shares in vape retailer

Labour has described the revelation as a “lobbying scandal” as it called for a ban on MPs acting as lobbyists

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3 years

Exclusive by me in @theipaper : Sage has met just 3 times since July, is only meeting once a month, because of a lessened demand from ministers for their advice. This is despite fears of a winter wave, with cases, admissions and deaths all rising right now:

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Sage scientists are meeting just once a month despite soaring Covid cases and deaths

The committee, which used to convene every week, last met on 14 October and before that on 9 September and 22 July.

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Jane Merrick

5 years

Please God can we not have Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. There’s a petition that would reach 18 million signatures.

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Jane Merrick

4 years

The World at One have just played @BorisJohnson ’s favourite song, Here Comes The Sun by The Beatles, “in the hope that it might reach him”. A simple yet very moving moment of radio. #wato

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Jane Merrick

4 years

It always amazes me that Twitter allows actual Nazis and Holocaust deniers but then gets fussy about this kind of thing

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4 years

Just had this for showing @alanshearer celebrating. I mean really? Copyright? How absurd.

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3 years

Lockdown 1: Wow I really miss talking to people, must set up every opportunity to zoom Lockdown 2: I don't need social contact, I can watch CNN nonstop from 6am til 2am, John King and his magic wall are my new friends

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