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"I don't know what they're talking about... safer for what?" Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi disagrees with former UK PMs Boris Johnson and Liz Truss that the world was "safer" when Donald Trump was US President #BBCLauraK
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“These are very reasonable proposals” Alba leader Alex Salmond says his party will be asking for Humza Yousaf to support their independence plans in return for their support but that they’re “not bothered” by the idea of an electoral pact #BBCLauraK
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“I want to appeal to… the Green party” Former SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford says he’s sorry about how his party’s coalition with the Greens ended but asks them to think “very carefully” about voting against First Minister Humza Yousaf #BBCLauraK
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“The TikTok issue was a security issue” Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tells #BBCLauraK that the US’ potential ban of TikTok – that she voted for - received broad support in Congress #BBCLauraK
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"How can you ever criticise demonstrations on campus? That's a way of life for us in America" Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Gaza deaths "challenges the conscience of the world" but protestors should also target Hamas #BBCLauraK
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“All the evidence shows it improves... health outcomes” Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey says it’s important people have a named doctor – and that previous attempts to implement it were a “tick box exercise” #BBCLauraK
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“Not that I’m aware of” Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting says to his knowledge his party didn’t offer MP Dan Poulter anything in return for defecting to Labour from the Conservatives #BBCLauraK
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"Activist judges in Strasbourg [are] taking decisions best placed for Parliament" says ex-immigration minister Robert Jenrick "They've protected British people from abuses of power by their own governments" says Labour's Baroness Chakrabarti #BBCLauraK
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“We want to build a big tent” Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting says “disaffected” Conservatives are welcome to join Labour to help tackle the country’s big problems #BBCLauraK
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“I don’t accept what Dan is saying at all” Policing Minister Chris Philp says he disagrees with Conservative defector Dan Poulter that the Tories have lost their compassion #BBCLauraK
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"Please don't do it. You don't need to leave France." Police minister Chris Philp says it is "dangerous, illegal and unnecessary" for anyone "thinking of getting on a small boat" to attempt to cross the Channel to the UK #BBCLauraK
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"We now have a Tory party that resembles more a nationalist party" Conservative defector Dan Poulter says "the changes Labour has made since 2019 under Keir Starmer" will make "a big difference" to healthcare in the UK #BBCLauraK
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“I was asking that as a clearly rhetorical question” Policing Minister Chris Philp tells #BBCLauraK he was struggling to hear when he asked whether Rwanda is a different country to the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Question Time earlier this week
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Conservative MP and ex-minister Dr Dan Poulter defects to Labour, telling BBC he could no longer look NHS colleagues, patients and constituents "in the eye"
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“I find it increasingly difficult to look my NHS colleagues in the eye” Former Conservative minister and MP Dr Dan Poulter has quit his party to join Labour. He tells #BBCLauraK he believes that Keir Starmer can be trusted to run public services
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'Trains and buses'? 'Mating porcupines'? Author Tim Shipman gives #BBCNewscast the inside scoop on two Brexit Westminster WhatsApp groups
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