Ben Quinn
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💥 NEW:
Rwanda’s president Paul Kagame warns there are limits to how long attempts to implement the deportation deal with Britain can 'drag on’
.. adds that that he would be happy for the scheme to be scrapped entirely.
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Nigel Farage lobbied senior Tory minister over NatWest complaint
(Andrew Griffith also appears to have been using Whatapp’s disappearing message function 🤔)
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New episode of
#Succession
just dropped
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly's use of private jet described as ‘ludicrous extravagance’
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This WhatsApp had to be dragged out of
@hmtreasury
after it initially didn’t disclose it to an
#FOI
It was only surrendered when they were specifically asked to check for any WhatsApps
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The F word gets a mention in parliament as MPs debate the Public Order Act.
"The only slow walking that we should be concerned about in this place is the slow walking this government is taking .. towards a state of lack of democracy and of fascism" - SNP MP Alison Thewliss
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Hmm.. Richard Tice telling
@EvanHD
that he didn’t express support for Trump at today’s Reform press conference and the he pointed out Trump had been president.
Fwiw here’s the quote from the event
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Greg Dyke on
#r4today
on Lineker:
“the BBC has undermined itself…
because it now *looks like* it has bowed to Govt pressure”
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‘This is what they died for.. the right to protest’
- Nicholas Soames, grandson of Churchill on
#R4today
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"I was forced to stand up to a small group of men, funded by deep financial resources, who tried to use me as a scapegoat to cover up their own mistakes."
Eva Green wins high court battle over collapse of sci-fi film
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Keir Starmer has released his tax returns for 2020/21 & 2021/22
He earned £275k in the last two years&paid £118k tax
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‘Whatapp’ obviously being that new platform used by sausage fingered hacks.
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Anti racism group
@hopenothate
has asked Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle to block a meeting in parliament being organised by MP Andrew Bridgen & attended by an MEP from Germany’s Far Right AFD party
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Remembering Paul Tanney - Gold standard journalist & wit like no other.
You will always be missed
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EXC. Sunak faces transparency questions over jet travel & Tory donations
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So... Rishi Sunak has AGAIN updated his expenses declaration over the funding of private jet travel to Tory events
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Graham Smith - CEO of
@RepublicStaff
- points to recent Guardian coverage of the royals’ finances & other issues as helping arguments for royal abolition
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Absolutely fascinating documents released under
#FOI
by govt on correspondence and meets with Fujitsu, developer of the Horizon IT system
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Ministers should not use disappearing messages on Whatsapp where govt biz is discussed & could face criminal sanction if they do
- Britain's information commissioner
Interesting stuff from the John Edwards appearance before MPs this morn
plus lots of other stuff for
#FOI
geeks
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An hour later, O'Brien is still repeating the rape alarm claim on
#r4today
despite being corrected earlier
Health Minister Neil O’Brien asked on Sky about police handling of Coronation
"Some of things people wanted to do like.. like setting off rape alarms to scare horse"
An incredulous Kay Burley points out the police arrested volunteers who hand out the alarms to protect women
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Rishi Sunak has written to Zac Goldsmith saying he was told to apologise for his comments about the Privileges Committee because they were “incompatible” with his position as a minister.
“You have decided to take a different course.”
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Labour peer Alf Dubs calls for resettlement plan for Palestinian refugees
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Irish twitter this morning monitoring UK media for any descriptions of Cillian Murphy as British
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From the
#CovidInquiry
..
Matt Hancock told officials that he – rather than the medical profession - “should ultimately decide who should live or die,” if the NHS was overwhelmed, the Covid-19 Inquiry has been told by the former head of NHS England, Simon Stevens
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Whither the nation that’s a cold house for culture?
Artists in UK public sector struggling with low pay & exploitation - report
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🍿 BBC interview by
@ChrisMasonBBC
with Liz Truss
LT: "we didn't know we were sitting on a tinderbox..."
CM: "which you set fire to.."
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Qualifies to play for them through his dad
Worth looking closely, the King today, wearing a Greek flag tie at COP, after days of a simmering diplomatic row btw UK and Greek PM 👀👀👀
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Astonishing pictures..
Reports they were arrested under new anti protest laws
Republican protesters being arrested and their placards confiscated ahead of the coronation.
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British voters are restless, angry & demoralised..
@hopenothate
's annual report warns of fertile ground for a radical right challenge in future
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Veteran campaigners from anti- apartheid to pro-hunting criticise extremism redefinition plans
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A judge investigating allegations of 50+ killings by the SAS in Afghanistan launches his inquiry, saying he wants “anyone” with evidence to come forward
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Rishi Sunak was forced at
#PMQs
to respond to questions about changes to his expenses declaration over the funding of private jet travel to Tory events
..Our original story
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Charles: "that I am a faithful protestant.. and I will secure the protestant Succession "
Worth reading
@martinkettle
on how, for all the inclusivity, events 'hit an Anglican wall' at odds with modern Britain
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Sometimes you need the light amid the darkness..
Incredible story here of one dad's unwillingness to give up in the face of Putin's murderous, child snatching regime
great via
@lorenzo_tondo
@ArtemMazhulin
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“It’s almost as if our parliament is working for another master”
ex Tory MP Andrew Bridgen speaking as he joins Reclaim
Accused by
@hopenothate
of using conspiracy-laden language 'fuelling ideas of shadowy elites'
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The leadership pitch (?) begins..
Gillian Keegan compares herself (as a young working class girl from Liverpool working in a shop) to Thatcher learning from her dad the grocer
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NEW:
“Dramatic consequences” for EU & UK citizens in Northern Ireland would result from any hindering or British withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (UNHCR)
- a senior MEP with oversight of post Brexit relations has warned in a letter to
@stellacreasy
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@labourlewis
: "we are talking about a party whose members have been actively planning to deport millions of Germans who they deem to be not sufficiently German."
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Fresh clashes now breaking out after the Far Right St George’s Day event at Whitehall
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Dominic Rennie Raab is now up at the
#covidinquiryUK
Hope all documents formatted in the appropriate way
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Boris Johnson Partygate defence dossier just dropped
and
@AndrewSparrow
's vital liveblog coverage of it
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NEW:
City of London Police has launched an investigation after the Guardian reported more than a dozen women made allegations of sexual misconduct by senior figures at the CBI
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Three different strangers giving water, tissues & pats on the back to a woman suddenly crying on the underground. this morning.
One stayed beyond their own stop. You're alright London..
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New record?
A total of 11 fucks in this parliamentary report finding Gavin Williamson should apologise for
bullying ex chief whip Wendy Morton after he was not allocated tickets to the Queen's funeral
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Respect to the Rhodes man who has taken in a German couple, a Swedish couple “.. and four people from Dublin”
#R4today
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‘What we should not have is trial by media’ insists postal minister Kevin Hollinrake on
#r4today
🤔.. it took an ITV drama to unblock the wheels of justice
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@FraserNelson
To be completed at some point by a republican First Minister at Stormont, seemingly
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The Tories & Labour are two sides of the ‘same socialist coin’ - says Reform leader Richard Tice
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Three Reform UK general election candidates now sacked over the course of 24 hours.
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@CeliaRichards0n
@infobeautiful
@duncanogleskan
Better keep this one quiet or else
@duponline
will be asking for Donegal to be incorporated into NI
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Jonathan Gullis has come out of a meeting of Tory MPs:
Need now for a Plan B which could involve dropping people back on French beaches or pushing boats back
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Rishi Sunak using
#PMQs
to accused the Greek prime minister of trying to "grandstand" over the Elgin Marbles.
That's going to do the opposite of calming a diplomatic row with an EU member state
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As the PM heads to Rome, what’s behind the Sunak-Meloni / UK Conservative - Italian Far Right axis ..
Via me &
@GiuffridaA
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New from Police:
• Police re-opening probe into alleged breaches of Covid regulations at xmas party at Tory HQ in December 2020
• Probe into parliamentary event Dec 8, 2020
• No probe into alleged breaches at Downing Street & Chequers between June 2020 and May 2021
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UK aid cuts ‘death sentence’ for world’s most vulnerable children, UK gov warned as aid bodies call for return to 0.7% GNI aid target
@SaveUKNews
@oxfamgb
@CAFOD
@PlanUK
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Campaigners against apartheid-era South Africa’s regime would have fallen foul of a new bill seeking to ban British public bodies from boycotting Israel,
@PeterHain
tells Parliament
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“Forgiveness follows.. only when you actually acknowledge that you have done something which is wrong”
— Bishop James Jones with
#r4today
’s
#ThoughtForTheDay
🔥 Paula Vennells?
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As Michelle Mone & hubbie Doug Barrowman tell
@bbclaurak
of their selflessness & ‘regrets’, here’s the story of the PPE scandal
#bbclaurak
Thanks to the relentlessness of
@david_conn
@PaulLewis
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Once, twice, three times ♪
Rishi Sunak changes declaration again over private jet travel expenses
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It was fine when Post Office brought private prosecutions so if we’ve got to do it, then so be it
- Alan Bates to
#r4today
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When she ran as a Tory candidate
“I was an outlier.. indeed I even changed my name to my husband’s to protect the innocent”
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Brianna Ghey’s mum is in the Commons during
#PMQs
Sunak is being invited by an opposition MP to apologise for comments earlier in which he jibed at Keir Starmer for “not knowing what a woman is”
Sunak responded to the 2nd part of that Q (about Teesworks) .. but no apology
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Gets a laugh mentioning archaic laws which would save Charles from prosecution if he detonated a nuclear bomb in Cornwall
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Journo note on
#FOI
to govt departments
*Always* go back and ask for whatsapp messages when any initial replies claim there is no correspondence between ministers and others
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Significant..
Rishi Sunak has met in Cairo with the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas,
"They condemned Hamas’ terrorism and stressed that Hamas do not represent the Palestinian people."
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Exc. Penny Mordaunt among ministers wavering over whether to support Sunak's generational smoking ban.
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Blink & you'll miss it mention of Matt Hancock's rule breaking in 2 days of
#covidinquiryUK
.
"The lesson for the future is very clear & it is important that those who make the rules abide by them. I resigned in order to take accountability for my failure to do that"
That's it
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Start of a discussion about ofcom ..
GB News is being allowed to break impartiality rules, say senior TV figures
By me and
@rowenamason
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Head of UK’s leading anti-monarchy group arrested at coronation protest
Graham Smith was detained after bringing a megaphone
@danielboffey
reports
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Exc. Keir Starmer faces discontent from some MPs & activists over union flag use on election material
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Britain - producer of fine art since.. whenever
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Health Minister Neil O’Brien asked on Sky about police handling of Coronation
"Some of things people wanted to do like.. like setting off rape alarms to scare horse"
An incredulous Kay Burley points out the police arrested volunteers who hand out the alarms to protect women
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Journo: (asks press office for a figure)
Press office: You'll have to make an FOI
Journo: That's a waste of public money
Press office: ok here it is
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Edwin Poots (Free Presbyterian DUP member) paying tribute to Alex Maskey (ex IRA prisoner & SF member) while succeeding him as Stormont Speaker
People of a certain generation still to pinch themselves at these moments.. & it’s still early in the day
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Loose coalition of Far-right groups & self-styled “child protection” advocates are targeting drag events
.. but it’s also amid a wider anti +LGBTQ+ mobilisation in the UK - report author
@aoifegall
:
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Enlightening moment for global viewers tuning into this morning's UK covid-19 inquiry where Oliver Letwin is asked what the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is
"It's like the holy roman empire, neither holy, roman or an empire. It's just an ancient honorific title"
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There's been a lot of exchanges like this in the last few minutes
Covid Inquiry barrister: "There was no plan for coronavirus.. you know there wasn't .. do you agree?
A. "I am not sufficiently expert.."
[Clearly frustrated barrister interjects: “alright” .. moves on]
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Covid inquiry: Hancock ‘wanted to decide who should live or die’ if NHS overwhelmed
#CovidInquiry
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Boris Johnson kept pressing during the pandemic to "punish people who aren't doing the right thing"
and "Massive fines massive fines
via Patrick Vallance's diaries shown at
#covidenquiryuk
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Lineker story actually leading leading BBC 1 and R4 news headlines?
Hard not to suspect editors feeling pressure to balance coverage on the Richard Sharp controversy
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"Conservatives are not tribal.. " - says Gillian Keegan at her Margaret Thatcher Conference speech, concluding her speech with an apparent attack on Labour.. and warning to her own party?
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Sunak: Qatari govt taking a lead and working intensively to release hostages in Gaza. UK working closely with them
Sunak says he's due to meet some of the hostages' families
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