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Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith

9 months

It's almost never a dead cat.

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Mikey Smith

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2 years

“Nobody told me it was against the rules” is a pretty weird thing for a man who was on telly literally every night for an hour telling people what the rules were.

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When you say “my parents worked hard to give me a good education” you’re saying two things. • State education, which I am in charge of, is bad and should be avoided at all costs. • If you’re a parent who can’t afford to do that, you aren’t working hard enough for your kids.

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🚨 @RishiSunak : Keir Starmer attacks me because of where I went to school. I don’t think that’s very British.

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2 years

Entirely unclear why the outgoing and incoming Prime Ministers had to travel from London to Balmoral and back at broadly the same time on separate, identical 14-seat luxury private jets.

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Mikey Smith

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1 year

So wait. The Foreign Secretary's phone comprehensively hacked, apparently by a hostile foreign power. And the Prime Minister and Cabinet Secretary agreed to cover it up so it didn't derail her chances of winning the race to be Prime Minister? Have I misunderstood any of that?

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1 year

The Home Secretary arriving by military helicopter in war-torn <checks notes> Kent. 67 miles from London. Takes 1h11m to get there by train, at a cost of £11.30.

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1 year

Suella Braverman arrived at Manston migrant camp today by Chinook after visiting Dover.

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Mikey Smith

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5 years

“Stop listening to rich Remainers,” Cummings said as he left his £1.6 million Islington townhouse, which has a “tapestry room”, a reading room AND a “formal” living room. Perhaps en route to the medieval castle owned by his wife’s family?

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Mikey Smith

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2 years

Imagine if, at the end of a gruelling day last May, a shift’s worth of covid nurses had rocked up in the hospital car park, in uniform, with folding chairs and bags of cans and sat around drinking for a few hours.

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2 years

Conclusive proof that anyone with £50, an Aldi within walking distance, a team of helpers, an industrial kitchen and a professional chef can make meals for 30p.

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Mikey Smith

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2 years

One more time, because Boris Johnson keeps saying he thought he was attending “work events”: Work events were not allowed under Covid rules.

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2 years

Rishi Sunak, 7 December 2021: “No, I did not attend any parties”

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Mikey Smith

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4 years

The BBC still have seven days to do the right thing and empty chair Boris Johnson, solo, for a full half hour. Nothing but @afneil solemnly asking the questions he’d like to ask the Prime Minister, with 30 seconds of silence after each one.

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5 years

Nigel Farage went to Downing Street, the morning after losing an election, to demand a role in negotiations that don’t exist from a person who wasn’t there.

Peterborough loser Nigel Farage somehow let into Downing Street for letter stunt

The Brexit Party leader, who just lost an election, is now demanding a seat at negotiations that don't exist from a Prime Minister who isn't there

www.mirror.co.uk

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Mikey Smith

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3 years

In case you missed it, Donald Trump’s legal team is about to do a press conference outside a landscape gardeners, located between a crematorium and a dildo shop.

Confusion as Trump announces legal press conference outside gardening firm

The President initially announced there would be a press conference at the Four Seasons. He then clarified that he didn't mean the hotel

www.mirror.co.uk

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Mikey Smith

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4 years

Boris Johnson just said he “doesn't recognise" the “moonshot” target of 10 million tests a day, which he announced live on national television last week.

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Mikey Smith

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1 year

For the record, I've seen the full, unedited clip - obviously we asked to see it before running the story. The edits do not change the character or content of what was said.

Braverman won't apologise to Holocaust survivor over refugee 'invasion' words

Suella Braverman was confronted by Joan Salter, 83, who won an MBE for her work on Holocaust education, during a meeting in her Fareham constituency in Hampshire on Friday evening

www.mirror.co.uk

Home Office

@ukhomeoffice

1 year

A statement: The Home Secretary attended an event last night and took questions, including on immigration policy. Footage of a conversation with a holocaust survivor is circulating online. The video has been heavily edited and doesn’t reflect the full exchange. (1/3)

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2 years

Ask yourself this. What would have happened if the cleaning staff were found to be partying in the basement after hours?

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2 years

Kwasi Kwarteng, in a bid to defend Boris Johnson, just argued people don’t really consider fraud a crime.

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Mikey Smith

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4 years

We weren’t invited to Matt Hancock’s speech today. If we were, I would have asked why someone who presided over a huge data breach at TalkTalk, and who led a Test and Trace system so unsuccessful it’s been handed off to councils, is qualified to fix England’s public health.

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3 years

At Lobby briefing, Boris Johnson’s spokesman justifies voter ID plans by comparing it to using photo ID to "take out a library book" or "pick up a parcel." Neither of these things requires photo ID.

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4 years

BORIS JOHNSON IS TREATING ME WELL. PLEASE MEET HIS DEMANDS.

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2 years

Marcus Fysh voted in favour of forcing people to show photo ID at polling stations.

Darren McCaffrey

@darrenmccaffrey

2 years

Conservative MP Marcus Fysh who is opposing vaccine passports this morning on BBC "we are not a 'papers please' society" "This is not Nazi Germany," he says "It's the thin end of an authoritarian wedge"

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2 years

STORY Liz Truss among seven MPs who put Amazon Prime subscription on expenses

Liz Truss among seven MPs who put Amazon Prime subscription on expenses

Members of the online retailer’s premium service pay £79 a year to get quicker delivery and enjoy access to TV shows including The Boys, Star Trek: Picard and Jeremy Clarkson’s The Grand Tour

www.mirror.co.uk

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Mikey Smith

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5 years

“Everyone will have the food they need” is one of the most chilling sentences I’ve ever heard about Brexit. #marr

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4 years

Remember that time you went on a 15 grand holiday and had absolutely no idea who paid for it?

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3 years

Boris Johnson returned from his last holiday thirty five days ago.

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3 years

👏 Overseas 👏 aid 👏 spending 👏 is 👏 in 👏 the 👏 national 👏 interest 👏 and 👏 if 👏 you 👏 as 👏 a 👏 politician 👏can’t 👏 explain 👏 that 👏 to 👏 the 👏 country 👏 you’re 👏 not 👏 very 👏 good 👏 at 👏 your 👏 job 👏

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2 years

Imagine the Met will get a lot of phone calls from Tory MPs demanding they reopen their investigation into this now, right? This one where people shared food and drink at the end of a working day? Where it was a “meeting to discuss work”, but staff stayed into the evening?

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Mikey Smith

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5 years

ANGRY STANDOFF AT NUMBER 10

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Mikey Smith

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2 years

Well-placed source convinced Boris Johnson won’t quit, even if the 22 change the rules, and he loses a VONC. Instead, he’ll claim he has a mandate from 14m voters, and will threaten to force an election - but not before deselecting everyone who voted against him.

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Mikey Smith

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8 months

So rare for the official photographer to capture the exact moment a Prime Minister realises exactly how monumentally screwed he is… …and that none of the people he’s assembled around him can help.

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7 years

What a week working in journalism will do to you.

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Mikey Smith

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4 years

I’m no fisherman, but I’m guessing you’d catch more mackerel with a line on your fishing rod.

Victoria Prentis

@VictoriaPrentis

4 years

Getting in the mood for the fish bill next week with a good day catching mackerel off the Pembrokeshire coast 🎣

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7 years

Blumenthal is a plaintiff in the Federal lawsuit alleging Trump is in violation of the emoluments clause. Action due August 14th...

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

7 years

Interesting to watch Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut talking about hoax Russian collusion when he was a phony Vietnam con artist!

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Mikey Smith

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6 years

I don’t want to alarm anyone, but she appears to be moments away from being mauled by a child vampire.

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4 years

Sabisky was allowed to resign because he was becoming a distraction. He wasn’t fired because the government disagrees with his views. Important to bear in mind.

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5 years

Boris Johnson quickly learning that South Yorkshire is not a grey mass of rampant Brexiteers.

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Mikey Smith

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1 month

Susan Hall complains about 36 police stations closing under Sadiq. Wait until she finds out about the 98 closed by his predecessor. What’s that guy’s name again?

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London needs a new Mayor who will act.

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Mikey Smith

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2 years

STORY Efficiency minister Jacob Rees-Mogg spent £1,300 of public money travelling to Wales by car. A return train ticket would have cost £98.

Tory Efficiency minister Jacob Rees-Mogg spent £1,300 travelling to Wales

Details of the trip on 21 July reveal he spent £1,332 of taxpayers’ cash travelling to, from and around Wrexham by chauffeur-driven limousine - instead of getting there by train, which would have...

www.mirror.co.uk

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Mikey Smith

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2 years

There are Tory MPs who are *currently under investigation* by the Standards Commissioner voting to undermine the Standards Commissioner.

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Mikey Smith

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1 year

Your occasional reminder that Sue Gray only did the Partygate inquiry because Simon Case had to pull out because he'd been accused of having one of the bloody parties in his office. She was appointed to the probe by - that's right folks - Boris Johnson.

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5 years

Don’t. Touch. #Newsnight

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5 years

If Labour don’t spend the next 48 hours shouting “BORIS JOHNSON’S SURRENDER DEAL” into every available camera and microphone then what on earth are we all here for?

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2 years

Boris Johnson claims he did not attack the BBC last night. He might want to clarify that to the Source Close To the Prime Minister who stood outside the room briefing that he did. #PMQs

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3 years

Dominic Cummings just admitted a ‘network’ of a dozen or so people literally conspired to take over the country, and were, for a period of time, successful.

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8 months

Rishi Sunak genuinely just deployed “Starmer wanted longer lockdowns” at #PMQs It is September 2023.

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2 months

I think No10 has drastically overestimated how much the nation is thinking “the person I really want to hear from in this moment is Rishi Sunak”

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5 years

Majid Majid just got elected to the European Parliament.

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1 year

So there's been a series of PMQs questions complaining about 'extreme' sex education in schools. These seem to have been kicked off a think tank founded by Tories Miriam Cates and Danny Kruger. You will be STUNNED to learn they're not quite as advertised. Thread:

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Audience member at Tory hustings calls for the abolition of the speed limit. Liz Truss says she’d be “prepared to look at that.”

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7 months

A tax on 3D printed boilers. I've scrapped it. A ban on the breeding of owls for meat. I've scrapped it. Proposals to force everyone to paint their cars green. I've scrapped that too.

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1 month

This is unusual for a couple of reasons. 1) There are two fish and chip shops near where this video was made. One is roughly 10 mins walk away. 2) There is no law that I'm aware of against chip shops opening in Uxbridge. So what on earth could @tuckwell_steve be doing with all…

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We have a fish & chip shop in Cowley & one near St Andrew’s Park, but we don’t in Uxbridge Town Centre. That’s why I’m launching a campaign to get us a fish & chip shop in Uxbridge Town Centre, but I need your support to do it. Sign up 👇 🐟 🍟

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2 years

After Angela Rayner offered him the chance to correct his false statement on inflation, Boris Johnson full-on got up and began to leave…only to be reminded by the speaker that he had to stay for the Covid statement. Correction there came none.

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4 years

I guess we’ll just have to take Number 10’s word for it that Dominic Cummings was present, but not involved. If only there were a way to know for sure, like, for example publishing SAGE’s meeting minutes, like they’re supposed to. Or the membership list.

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Mikey Smith

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4 years

Hancock says when Boris Johnson said it was “right” to charge £625 for NHS access, he was talking about the broader policy, rather than specifically care workers. This is 100% not true.

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10 months

There it is. Lord Bailey of Partygate gets to make laws for the rest of his life.

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2 years

If I were Labour, I’d be printing election posters with BRITAIN NEEDS A LAWYER in big letters.

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Audience member stands up and says “We should not be telling our children that a trans woman is a woman,” to loud applause. Asked if a trans woman is a woman, Liz Truss says “no,” to equally loud applause.

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1 year

Nothing in the edited clip misrepresents what the Home Secretary said. Asked if she'd apologise for her language, she said: "I won't apologise for the language that I have used to demonstrate the scale of the problem."

Home Office

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Since the footage misrepresents the interaction about a sensitive area of policy, we have asked the organisation who posted the video to take it down. (3/3)

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2 years

Ellis claims the PM has “always” wanted the house to decide what happens to him, and that’s why today is a free vote. It was a strict, three line whip until 20 minutes before the debate started.

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2 years

Ex cabinet minister Karen Bradley: “It’s very difficult to be ambushed by porn, in the same way as it’s difficult to be ambushed by cake."

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7 months

STORY Rishi Sunak has been accused of a 'very clear breach' of the ministerial code over his speech last night

Rishi Sunak accused of breaking ministerial code over climate speech

Ministers aren't allowed to use publicly-funded resources to spread political messages - like the slogan that appears both on the PM's lectern and the Tory party conference guide

www.mirror.co.uk

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3 years

This is *horrendous*…

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Mikey Smith

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4 years

No, the PM doesn’t *have* to chair COBR meetings. The PM also doesn’t *have* to break off a getaway at a country estate to show leadership on two national crises. And he doesn’t *have* to cut short his Carribean holiday to deal with an international military crisis.

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11 months

You'll be stunned to learn this headline isn't accurate. It's a non-uniform day, where all pupils are "encouraged" to wear something "rainbow or colourful".

Students urged to wear 'full-blown drag' for school’s Pride day

Parents and MPs furious over secondary school’s ‘Drag 'n' Rainbows’ themed non-uniform day

www.telegraph.co.uk

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5 years

UPDATE: In 2017/18 there were more ovens in James Brokenshire’s kitchen than there were new social/affordable houses built in his borough.

Mirror Politics

@MirrorPolitics

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Tory housing minister roasted for having FOUR OVENS in extravagant kitchen

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7 months

May be an obvious observation, but this conference is night-and-day different from Tories last week. And every other Labour conference I can remember. Smooth-running, minimal drama, busy speeches, general good vibes from delegates and MPs, tonnes of public affairs execs turning…

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STORY You're going to want to stop what you're doing and watch this.

Tories drink, dance and laugh at Covid rules in first ever Partygate video

The Conservatives face the threat of a new police probe as an exclusive video shows officials joking about their rule-bending Christmas bash at the party's headquarters in London during lockdown

www.mirror.co.uk

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3 years

Chris Whitty just told Britain to ignore Nicki Minaj, and you thought 2020 was wild.

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5 years

To recap: Boris Johnson rolled over in Brussels, came back with a deal demonstrably worse than May’s, with terms he’d explicitly ruled out. MPs said they'd like to read the small print before signing and he said no, choosing to break his own "die in a ditch" deadline instead.

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Downing Street source: "There’s meant to be an all-staff meeting tomorrow. Assuming there are still any staff."

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Tory MPs fall suddenly silent when they realise Keir Starmer’s questions about Ambulances aren’t hypothetical, but are from an actual patient, Stephanie. #PMQs

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(Not including gas/electricity, because that would be madness)

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Rishi Sunak did NOT like being called “Inaction Man”. #PMQs

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2 years

But honestly what’s stopping any of us putting 100+ meals in our freezers? Back when I lived in a council flat, I know I certainly had an enormous, empty freezer, and not a tiny box in which I could barely fit three ready meals before the frost set in.

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Boris Johnson lashes out at “bankrupt” Labour councils - perhaps forgetting it was only a few years back that the first council in two decades to issue a S114 notice was Northamptonshire, a Tory council.

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This appears very much to be a government minister suggesting that refugees fleeing a warzone should apply for a seasonal worker programme.

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3 years

It’s coming home, as long as it hasn’t travelled through a safe country before arriving at the UK border.

Priti Patel MP

@pritipatel

3 years

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 COME ON ENGLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Let’s make history! #ItsComingHome

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Sajid Javid says it “would not be right” to talk in public about the government’s Plan for Brexit before October 31. A matter that is of vital importance to jobs, businesses, trade in a little over 30 days. Extraordinary.

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9 months

I'm sure the Secretary of State intended to mention that JCB are a major donor to the Conservative Party. In fact, I'm certain of it.

Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP

@grantshapps

9 months

The incredible work going on at JCB looks like it will be game changing for British construction and agricultural machinery – I’m looking forward to seeing the team get this tech onto our roads and construction sites next year.

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Sadiq Khan got significantly more votes (both in first and second rounds) and a significantly larger vote share than Boris Johnson did for his second term.

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Side note - this is the same Cabinet Secretary who has decided 'Leaky Sue' isn't worth investigating?

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Your house has a tapestry room and your father in law owns a castle.

Dominic Cummings

@Dominic2306

3 years

@Otto_English If u think me Gove & Boris are posh you have literally no idea what posh is - if you want to defeat your class enemy you need to actually figure out who/what they are! Actual posh world was bitterly divided. But posh ppl not v relevant to politics now, they focus on £

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I’m not being funny, but it looks exactly like the stage at Conservative Party Conference. If Labour had won the election and spent £2.6 million painting bits of Downing Street red people would have gone absolutely ballistic.

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Also, presumably best part of a day to do nothing but cook. But everyone has that, right?

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2 years

This is literally one of the policy ideas Glenn and Ollie came up with in the back of the car in the first episode of The Thick of It.

Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP

@grantshapps

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📢 '...put unwanted newspapers in the bin...' This is one example of the announcements that we're getting rid of, making the passenger experience better and delivering on the Williams-Shapps #PlanForRail . Read more on announcements we’re removing 👇

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STORY Boris Johnson sent for ministerial jet to bring family home from Cornwall jaunt

Boris Johnson sent for ministerial jet to bring family home from Cornwall jaunt

Boris Johnson has been accused of using government aircraft as his "personal taxi service" after he called for the jet to fly him home after being spotted on the beach at St Ives with wife Carrie and...

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You show me a 10 foot wall, I’ll show you an 11 foot ladder.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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BORDER WALL prototypes underway!

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I mean, the sentiment is there, but the turn of phrase is so weird.

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STORY: Number 10 uses 'national security' to protect guest at Boris Johnson's birthday party #Partygate

No10 uses 'national security' to protect guest at Boris Johnson's birthday party

Boris Johnson has paid a fine - but questions remain over the presence of luxury interior designer Lulu Lytle at the brief birthday bash, and whether she had a high enough security clearance to be in...

www.mirror.co.uk

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Not normally one to carp on this topic, but I’m not certain a former Tory leader, the sister of a former Tory Prime Minister and the chairman of Tesco entirely fulfil the BBC’s balance requirement.

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Rishi Sunak has a pop at decisions being made without enough scrutiny, before announcing a raft of changes to government policy while Parliament is on recess.

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STORY Tory who wants police to probe Starmer's work pizza had work curry in same week

Tory who wants police to probe Starmer's work pizza had work curry in same week

Richard Holden has urged Durham Police to reopen a probe into the Labourleader’s conduct during lockdown last year - but boasted on Facebook about having a work-related curry

www.mirror.co.uk

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Jeremy Hunt, who owns several houses of his own, and seven flats in Southampton, makes a crack about Angela Rayner and multiple dwelling stamp duty relief.

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3 years

I see Sajid Javid’s principled stand against Boris Johnson lasted 16 months.

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Nadine Dorries asks what Sue Gray's "motivation" was in writing her report. Her "motivation" was being asked to do so by Boris Johnson.

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1 year

Your occasional reminder that Sue Gray only did the Partygate inquiry because Simon Case had to pull out because he'd been accused of having one of the bloody parties in his office. She was appointed to the probe by - that's right folks - Boris Johnson.

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In perhaps the pinnacle of his career, Chris Grayling has failed to be elected chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee, a job he was specificially parachuted into. Truly incredible scenes.

Tory Chris Grayling denied chairmanship of powerful Intelligence Committee

Members of the committee - responsible for the Russia report - elected Tory Julian Lewis instead despite wide expectation No10 favourite 'Failing' Grayling would get the job

www.mirror.co.uk

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Priti Patel has just claimed that if the UK had introduced border quarantine earlier, it would not have been able to repatriate citizens stranded abroad. Which is so blatantly absurd I had to rewind it to check she’d actually said it.

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Decent sized protest outside the gates of Blenheim Palace ahead of Donald Trump’s arrival. “Shitler go home” a personal favourite.

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