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Polly Toynbee

1 year

I've written about class as a Guardian columnist. But this time it's different. This time it's personal. My new book, An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals, is available 1 June. You can pre-order from Waterstones:

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4 years

Eton Head confirms to me that every pupil had a Covid test on arriving at school. Imagine if every child and teacher in the country had access to those private tests. Instead growing numbers stuck at home for lack of a test..

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Unbelievable!! Graham Smith head of Republic has been arrested for unloading placards by Trafalgar Square. He and 6 volunteers are in the police station. This is new anti-protest laws in action..

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What if...she did one magnificent thing to save her country (and her legacy) before she goes. She just revokes A50 on her way out of the door...

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The physical attack on Owen Jones is a shameful and terrifying harbinger of the Brexit world of hate, intimidation, and scapegoating, egged on by an undemocratic, unelected Prime Minister calling opponents "terrible collaborators".

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11 months

I just signed the petition demanding Liz Truss is denied a resignation honours list. Will you sign too? via @38degrees

Liz Truss should go without an honours list or any other perks!

Liz didn't even last 3 months, there is no other occupation that would grant you anything for that, no honest one anyway. Instead she fell at the first hurdle, making huge and avoidable mistakes...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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3 years

Bravo for LBC’s James O’Brien! He wins Ofcom battle with Institute of Economic Affairs. Now BBC should ban IEA until they reveal who finds this right wing lobby.

LBC’s James O’Brien wins Ofcom battle with Institute of Economic Affairs

Presenter cleared over objections to on air claims the thinktank is politically motivated and funded by ‘dark money’

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5 years

Just renewing travel insurance: £35 added for Brexit! Because of UK losing EHIC card for EU health. I don't recall insurers or anyone telling us that in the referendum

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6 years

What's the best memorial for Tessa Jowell? Restore Sure Start, reopen the lost 1000 children's centres. Gov ministers' homilies to her are insincere while they uproot her legacy

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10 months

I sense panic at GBNews. MarkDolan show keeps begging me to go on again. Why?Could be Ofcom investigation means they need non-Rightists urgently to prove 'balance'? I suggest no progressives do GBNews til they have parity of left/right presenters.

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'Labour’s only plan is to hope you forget that Angela Rayner is deputy leader.' That's Greg Hands' email message today to Tory members. He must think his party is sexist and classist. Rayner is a great Labour asset.

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This Saturday Britain turns a remainer nation: more young remainers joined the electoral register, more old leavers died. A Final Say vote would stop the will of dead ruling over the will of the young:

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11 months

Searching rather harder for five millionaires' missing sub than for small boats sinking with hundreds of families and children on board?

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A local carer has been driving around all forecourts, no luck, now on empty, can't do any of her visits. What will happen to her frail old people left alone? This govt has lost control.

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Am I missing something? Anyone heard/read Tory outrage at dangerous St George’s day protesters attacking police and a police horse? Tommy Robinson /Laurence Fox inspired rampage rather worse than peaceful environmentalists jailed for blocking traffic

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“It’s not time for PR," says Lab shadow minister Alex Sobel. "The time for PR was 100 years ago.” Lab to debate PR at conf as YouGov shows 83% Lab members + 63% Lab voters back electoral reform.

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4 years

Victoria station early today: all women young and old and all over-40s wearing masks, virtually none for young men. Any 2nd wave may be down to man-spreading

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5 years

Watching Brexit Betrayed Tommy Robinson march down Park lane. Passed by in 7 mins. VERY few, tiny numbers, almost all men.

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3000 new civil servants hired,300 lawyers - all for Brexit+ more to come. What a waste, when teachers fired, nurses+docs urgently needed

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UK Covid deaths 3X major EU countries,hosp admissions 6X worse. Polls show public more cautious than slapdash govt. I just recovered,don't know where I caught it,maybe on the tube where too few wear masks, men FAR worse. TFL, why no announcements telling all to mask up??? @tfl

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Cheers from Tory benches at refusing to pay nurses, firefighters + all public servants. Those whoops signal the end of their era

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Ruth Davison does a disservice to mothers: many do very well in politics. Covering her resignation with 'motherhood' excuses is deeply depressing. What a waste of a resignation that should have been against Boris stamping on the constitution.

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What was 'the will of people' is now 'the will of dead people'.From Saturday, new young remain voters on register tip the balance v old dead leavers.Time for a Final Say Referendum

On Saturday the UK turns remain. Parliament must force a second referendum | Polly Toynbee

A population shift means young remainers have replaced older leave voters, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

www.theguardian.com

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Blethering bluster from flailing Boris on PM prog. NEVER does any homework,ignorant of own policies, should NEVER be PM or let near EU negs

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6 years

May should cancel all Trump meetings today. His intervention in our politics is not just a direct insult to her, but to this country. Take back control!

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BBC's Laura K and Kamal A are hard-hitting on the terrible growth and living standard forecasts. But neither of them ONE WORD about how Brexit vote is largely responsible. How are people to know the truth?

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6 years

If Tory ministers and MPs don't step up and attack Trump's racist attacks on the London mayor, they confirm all Baroness Warsi says about deep racism and Islamophobia in their party

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10 months

Of course Labour can't possibly eject Neal Lawson of Compass for a 2-year-old tweet of great good sense. Even to threaten risks stirring a mighty rebellion - and not by the usual suspects. The majority of the members voted for proportional representation! Sack the lot?

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6 months

The OBR says the Chancellor's measures will result in a £19bn reduction in spending on public services, after accounting for inflation. Far worse cuts to come...

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Interesting. Here in Westminster abbey for the NHS 75th loud claps for Keir Starmer walking in, but bare smattering and much silence for Sunak. In the pews conflicting emotions: Dean of W’minster aptly says “Here is courage tested to its limits”.

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3 years

Tory MPs tell reporters there's no "cut-through" on wallpaper and lies because they get no emails and messages from constituents. So send them NOW.

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4 years

NOT true fewer children in poverty than 2010 - risen and rising fast.

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Bravo! Brilliant Yvette Cooper has started a landslide of votes to stop No Deal. Remarkably brave Tory rebels, unaccustomed to disobedience.

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6 years

No Evan, Osborne and I agree on nothing except that the Brexit he and Cameron helped enable is a calamity

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@steverichards14 @chakrabortty @pollytoynbee I'm not sure either George or Polly are centrists; let's avoid the term. Nor do they agree on the past. But it is perhaps the great paradox of our time that as ancient foes, they now find themselves on the same side in the great "open/closed" schism that defines politics today.

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Puzzling: all his life Corbyn followed Benn demanding Labour party democracy. Now he's in charge, does he still want power to the members? 87% of party want to stay in Single Market and Customs Union, why doesn't he?

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4 years

Not one MP who broke away from their party has been elected, not one. Honorable MPs following their conscience were punished, though voters say they hate whipped obedience. Our pernicious FPTP voting system kills off all political rebels and innovators.

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@JolyonMaugham Read this. It's the reason to support The Good Law Project all you can: dig deep as they dig deep into the crony contracts

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No, surely not. Yet more identical coverage of Prince Philip’s life again on tonight’s 10 o’clock news. Plainly complaints have no effect. Where is moderation and balance?

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DUP top priority will be soft border, saving Good Friday agreement and free movement across boundary. That absolutely rules out hard Brexit

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@suzanne_moore @suzanne_moore Very many of us will miss you, your bravery, your willingness to stand up to bullies and your sheer brilliance as a writer. Sad day...

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Bad Brexit omen: Leadsom “pissed off” with business concerns over Brexit plans breaks off contact!

Businesses left rattled as Andrea Leadsom cuts contact

The government is to shelve its weekly meeting with the five largest business groups, including the CBI, in favour of a wider monthly meeting.Andrea Leadsom, the business secretary, has rattled the...

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On BBC WATO now “trade expert” from Institute of Ec Affairs with no mention of this as right wing thinktank that doesn’t reveal who funds it. Never again BBC!

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Boris Johnson: the wrong man in the wrong job at the wrong time. My column

Boris Johnson is the wrong man in the wrong job at the wrong time | Polly Toynbee

The Sunday Times revelations confirm all our worst fears: the prime minister’s handling of coronavirus has been shockingly complacent, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

www.theguardian.com

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7 years

My garden shed is on offer to Theresa May for her next "meet the people" venue. Would fit three Tory faithful +placards, at a pinch.

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"Whether it’s the economy or education, the Labour Party would take us back to square one" says R Holden, Con party chair. But most people would be glad, as YouGov finds 75% think things are worse than in 2010: it will take a while to put things back to how they were.

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“ There are many many more of us than you!” Sing anti racist anti Brexit marchers - and they’re right, as I leave the tiny UKIP leavers demo and join them, many many times bigger

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Garden centres going bust with unsold spring stock - and people stuck at home wanting plants? Deliveries? Taking them in vans down streets so people can come out (one by one) to buy them?

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Remember tomorrow: bowling alleys and casinos open, just as Covid-19 sweeps across Europe again. Same as March, strange Brexity island belief that we alone are immune...

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1 year

YouGov: "Most Britons (55%) prefer that the country remained a member of the ECHR, while around a quarter (23%) think Britain’s membership should be withdrawn." Here's the truth: most people are so much less stupid and nasty that the Tories always think they are.

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Therese Coffey addressing the British Association of Shooting and Conservation, said: "I’m frankly fed up with the right to roam campaign. The only things that have rights to roam are farmers, their pigs and cattle."

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Keir Starmer's clear, powerful, well-argued case puts to shame Boris Johnson's pathetic opener, with neither vision for Britain's future, nor detailed explanation of his deal, only promises written on air.

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Sometimes nostalgia is good. Bravo Morrisons for return to paper bags in war on plastic

Little green bag: Morrisons revives paper in war on plastic

Supermarket chains begins UK rollout of paper bags for loose fruit and vegetables

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4 years

War against the BBC steaming up. SueCameron just now unchallenged on BH says a hundred go to jail for not paying licence fee. Real number 5,all serial fine defaulters,fee just minor one,judged well able to pay. See how often Tory croc tears for poor used to attack BBC

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7 years

Only interesting thing about zero content May interview was giving it to Sky not BBC, just as she decides if Murdoch can take total control

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6 years

Can some senior minister please step up right now and challenge Trump: we are all humiliated by official silence.

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7 years

May floundering. Oddly all over the place, underprepared, no wit, lifeless, not one memorable phrase.Crosby not earning his fee.

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5 years

@DAaronovitch Ah, me too! I was called earlier by Newsnight to join this "interesting" discussion on divided Britain - with Rod Liddle - so I said no. Nothing would be interesting about a knockabout with a boorish misogynist shock-jock. Let's see who agrees... @DAaronovitch

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One poll, one swallow doesn't make it summer - but it sure lifts Labour spirits....

Voters will reward our bravery, Tories insist as poll lead vanishes

Conservatives are trailing Labour with their lowest backing since election, poll for The Times shows

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NHS on its knees pays large sum to Virgin Care for failing to win Surrey children's services when contracts went to local NHS. HSJ says just one of 6 CCGs involved paid Branson £328,000 compensation. Total sum unknown.Insanity.

Commissioners settle with Virgin following contract dispute

A legal dispute between Virgin Care and six Surrey clinical commissioning groups has been resolved - with an apparent payment by the NHS to the company.

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7 years

Good news that Ken Clarke IS standing! Made the bravest speech v Brexit.

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8 years

Where's Liz Truss? Her constitutional role requires her to uphold rule of law and defend judiciary V Murdoch/Dacre/Barclay mob rule

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Cronyism in Britain is rampant and goes unpunished. We're turning into a banana republic | Polly Toynbee

The Covid contracts furore is no surprise – Britain has long been a chumocracy | Polly Toynbee

From questionable appointments to toothless watchdogs, favours to friends is the Conservatives’ modus operandi, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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May has always talked one way, walked another. Murmurs soft consensual Brexit - and hires Gove and Steve Baker, leader of mad dog Brexiteers

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Labour turkeys just voted for xmas and an electoral roasting: tragedy of Labour demise is millions of citizens roasted by unending Tory rule

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8 years

Look at these Mail headlines in ref campaign+Sun+Express+Telegraph+SunTImes. Lies deny democracy Thks @Simon_Cullen

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Magnificent Ken Clarke! MPs should vote for the good of the country not to appease - the great majority across the House are not Brexiters.

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"You follow the rabbit down the hole and emerge in a wonderland," says Ken Clarke on UK's future trading outside EU

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5 years

As election rolls up, teachers should refuse to let children be filmed as props to politicians - ditto patients and nurses.

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3 years

Here it is already, the 1st lie of the new Brexit era: "Everything that the British public was promised during the 2016 referendum and in the general election last year is delivered by this deal,” a Downing Street source said.

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This vaccine jingoism is humiliating and shaming: what kind of national character does Gavin Williamson represent?

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Protesters in handcuffs and nonstop bling: this coronation has been an embarrassment

Protesters in handcuffs and nonstop bling: this coronation has been an embarrassment | Polly Toynbee

Other European royals would never have risked a display on this scale. From the much-mocked pledge of allegiance onwards, Charles’s gamble has gone terribly wrong

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"There are 700,000 children in London living at or below the poverty line" Crocodile tears of George Osborne's leader in today's Standard. He is directly to blame for this, his vicious £12bn benefit cuts hitting famiiies hardest right now. Expect no apology.

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John McDonnell on Today sounded like one of the few grown ups in the debate

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Fatally damaged PM to stay on: from now on watch her party fight each other to the ground while Labour unites.

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BBC denies freedom of speech to its two great national treasures, Attenborough and Lineker, "cancelled" by govt intimidation. These icons will be loved forever, but if BBC lacks Reith's resistance to interference it may not be - while this govt will soon be gone

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Let’s all vote for magical ‘alternative arrangements’ for everything. Alternative unicorns, rainbows and elixir for eternal life

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If ever there was a dangerous time when Britain most needed to stay close to neighbouring countries most like us, this is surely it.

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David Lammy in Parl square rally: Organise to take back this country! This deal makes us subordinate to Trump. Reject hostile environment of Bexiters. You were sold a lie by Boris J.

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@JolyonMaugham Frightening press this morning. They called for sovereignty of parl but when parl asserts itself they protest. Called for escape from EU courts- but when our Supreme Court rules, that’s not legit either. Realms of dictatorship by unelected PM w no majority.

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Amber Rudd takes over DWP on the very day UN rapporteur reveals with brutal clarity the shocking disgrace of what DWP cuts have done to the poor.

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Tears do not become her. Like Thatcher she has only ever wept for herself.

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Too many Brexit low points to count - but IDS takes a biscuit or two envying the young who will "be out there buccaneering, trading, dominating the world again." This mad and bad crew really do expect the old British empire to rise from the sea and rule the waves again..

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Bravo Phillip Lee MP, resigning ministerial job to call for right of country to vote on final deal. Take note the rest of you, Tory and Labour MPs, put country before party today

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Keir Starmer is 3/1 favourite with Ladbrokes to become next Prime Minister

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Johnson renegs on pre-election promises to compensate victims on Shropshire visit to floods. Note to journos - don't report any promise he makes as fact, unless signed with lawyer present.

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Next available GP appointment, 5 weeks I'm just told. Never mind Boris Johnson photo ops in hosp (pretending camera we see him through isn't there), the protesting father was just being factual about plight of NHS. Advise PM stays away from it

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Weep no tears for her: as she goes she praises "compromise" but her "No deal is better than a bad deal" was an atrociously perverse untruth she could never reverse.

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The Cummings debacle has exposed Boris Johnson's weakness and dependency

The Cummings debacle has exposed Boris Johnson's weakness and dependency | Polly Toynbee

In cleaving to his special adviser, the prime minister looks the servant not the master, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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This is interesting - and surprising - from a Labour MP who backed Corbyn in the confidence vote. Do read

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Heartbroken??? What does it take to break this government's heart? Here's my list of deliberate cruelties that left them stone-cold frozen- hearted. Please add your own...

It’s a bit late for Amber Rudd to be ‘heartbroken’ over anything | Polly Toynbee

So the Windrush scandal is ‘heartbreaking’. Has the home secretary not noticed what else her government has been up to, asks Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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It's time weather persons on TV stopped beaming and smiling about hot weather. Time they looked serious and warned of the significance of ever more extreme weather.

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Waiting for the BBC to put this into every bulletin: Resolution Foundation shows child poverty rising to 60 year high on Tory benefit plans.

Fears child poverty may rise to record 60-year high under Tories

Thinktank Resolution Foundation predicts social crisis will worsen if Boris Johnson wins general election

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Going backwards: how Theresa May wipes out all progress Labour made on child poverty. Gordon Brown's indignation:

Theresa May is creating an epidemic of poverty. Don’t give her a free hand | Gordon Brown

Under the Tories, by 2022 there will be a million more children denied the necessities of life. May wants to rule without accountability: only Labour can stop this

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My col today gave v cautious figure for Remain's election win at 3%. Here ace pollster Peter Kellner sets it far higher at 55% Remain v 43% Leave

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Thanks Declan. It was Evan Davies suggestion that Osborne and I were close together in today’s politics that set me off. Sometimes there’s too much cosiness in polite TV studio debates. Osbornes smooth denial of any regrets sails above his wreckage

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Bravo @pollytoynbee

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Why does BBC use IDS to opine on anything? NAO’s devastating report on universal credit shows he never follows evidence, obstinate, fixated, obtuse. So why him talking on cannabis v sensible Willetts?

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@piersmorgan Nothing "callous" Piers, just demographic fact. Facts not your strong point, maybe..

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"You're chuntering": He always does and Marr's word will stick.

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