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The full
@YvetteCooperMP
take-down of the
#Rwanda
policy, is the most thorough, detailed and florid dismantling of gov't policy I've seen in many years.
Worth watching in full and sharing. Patel reduced to gurning. I won't quote from it, because every line is quotable. ~AA
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Boris Johnson: "I have no idea why" Labour has "insisted" on a confidence motion in the Government today
Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle: "It's actually the Government that has put it down for today"
😵💫😵💫😵💫
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To anyone who says "it's just summer"... here's NASA's climate spiral👇
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A former UK Ambassador to the US, a civil servant of experience and impeccable reputation and cross-bench peer, with a truth bomb on immigration. ~AA
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Liz Truss, embarrassing herself on local radio, condensed down to three awful, squirming, awkward, delicious minutes.
Everyone should hear this. ~AA
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This is pretty magnificent.
Tory MP: “I think you’re trying to make a political statement.”
Constituent: “I am? Letting people starve is a political statement.” ~AA
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Eviscerating from Ian Hislop
@PrivateEyeNews
at
@HoCStandards
on MP second jobs. "What do you think these companies are paying the money for? Why do MPs think businesses are paying them all this money?
"I think the public is very sick of being taken for fools at the moment."
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Audience intervention of the night, without a doubt. Leaves Johnson absolutely reeling. ~AA
#bbcqt
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Truss says she "raises human rights issues with Gulf leaders all the time". Her spokesman says she hasn't. Asked by
@RhonddaBryant
to name a single occasion, she cannot.
This is Brexit's wider context: not just the alliance we trashed, but what alliances it's forcing us into.~AA
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2014 Nadine Dorries needs to have a word with 2023 Nadine Dorries. Here she is, arguing that constituents should have "more democratic control" over recalling their MP, saying "where MPs fall down is when they ignore their constituents".
Would be terrible if this went viral. ~AA
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🔥
@PrivateEyeNews
' Ian Hislop vs Sir Jake Berry.🔥
IH: "Why didn't you act sooner? You kept saying 'this is too difficult'. Suddenly you can do it all in one day."
JB: That is manifestly nonsense.
IH: Why did you give [Vennells] a CBE in 2019?
JB: You keep talking over me. ~AA
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💪🏽RAGE from
@jessphillips
on the
#RwandaBill
costing £169k per person, IF anyone is even ever deported, while child abuse victims are given £42 each.
"150 judges can be found suddenly down the back of the sofa, while rape victims wait seven years to get in front of a judge." ~AA
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How's everyone enjoying their cheaper gas bills?
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"Why don't the asylum seekers seek refuge in France or Germany"?
Well here's the most succinct perfect answer we've seen 👏
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💥 AMAZING by Chris Daw KC
@crimlawuk
. A must-watch and must-share.
"To detain someone, without trial, without access to a lawyer, or the courts, and then deport them - it's abominable. The UK will become an international human rights pariah. There's nothing 50-50 about it." ~AA
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Superb
@YvetteCooperMP
takes Braverman apart and - as a bonus - manages to trigger 30p Lee.
💥 "Enough IS enough. We can't afford any more slogans with no solutions and government by gimmick. This bill isn't the solution. It's a con. Britain deserves better than this chaos." ~AA
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I'm the social media manager of Best for Britain. I don't often use my own voice.
But 5 days after the
#downingstreetparty
someone I loved passed away in hospital. We weren't with her because of Covid rules. I didn't get to say my final goodbye. I am angry. I'm hurt. I'm tired.
Exclusive: Senior Downing Street staff joked about holding a Christmas party in Number 10 just four days after event is alleged to have taken place last December
Watch full video here:
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The current education minister. Look at those hashtags.
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A devastating 4-minute demolition of the
#RwandaBill
by
@RhonddaBryant
.
Each of his five reasons for voting against this bill is unanswerable. The five together are an annihilation of the govt's nonsense.
If you only watch one speech from this debate, this is the one. ~AA
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In 2016, James Acaster perfectly predicted what life would be like outside the EU.
Watch to the end 👇🗑️🔥
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I haven't seen a more thorough dismantling of gov't policy than this interview by
@skynewsniall
to
@trussliz
on the Northern Ireland protocol in a long while. Truss has not a single answer, of course, but it's satisfying to see the right questions asked. Deserves to go viral. ~AA
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Minister Johnny Mercer complains about people being outraged on social media - or as he puts it "collective bed-wetting".
Lady from the audience cuts him down to size with ONE SENTENCE. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 ~AA
#BBCQT
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What an extraordinary panic from Johnson, asked the simplest possible question: Where have you been for the last ten days? ~AA
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"Mr Speaker, I think it's rather ironic that you have to intervene because of the baying mob here, when they've got people through their 'noisy protest' laws being stopped for protesting out on the street.
"They don't like it when the public say what they think."
@AngelaRayner
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WOW. Watch to the end.
Terse exchange, after
@johnmcdonnellMP
probes cabinet secretary Simon Case on the PM trying to appoint Carrie as his chief of staff.
- "An investigation [into the PM] under the ministerial code can only be initiated by the PM."
- "Is he not keen?" ~AA
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Our latest polling shows Boris Johnson is projected to LOSE his seat at the next general election 👀
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Who remembers this absolute belter from James Acaster in 2016? The most perfect description of Brexit ever heard on the telly.
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Incredible statistic: the economic cost of Brexit now exceeds what we’ve net paid-in to the EU over 47 years.
@BestForBritain
@futureidentity
It's also more than the sum of all the UK's net contributions to the EU over 47 years.
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Letter from the former chair of governors at Jubilee primary school, where Kemi Badenoch was a governor.
"Ms Badenoch’s war on woke appears to mean a war on some of the most underprivileged and vulnerable in our society for her own political and personal gain."
@guardianletters
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We looked it up. This drug is licensed for use in the EU. It's been available to EU countries since 2016.
This is a new low.
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I do love it when a presenter calls things by their real name and puts a story in its proper context.
This is a glorious closing sentence by
@skysarahjane
on Andrew Tate, delivered in just the right tone. ~AA
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🔥🔥🔥 INCREDIBLE to watch Penny Mordaunt's face during
#PMQs
, having to listen to Sunak flailing.
Everyone knows what is coming. He should do the decent thing: Call an election. ~AA
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Transport Sec in real trouble over accusation that No10/Treasury intervened at the 11th hour, in fact, to SCUPPER a deal with rail workers. No denial. If this gains traction, it could utterly destroy the govt's comms strategy of claiming greedy unions are being unreasonable. ~AA
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Mick Lynch: "What about the days when we're not on strike, when [rail is] absolutely useless as well?"
Greg Smith: "That's a whole other evidence session."
Mick Lynch: "No, it's not."
He really has a way of bursting gov't balloons. ~AA
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Liz Truss says she will legislate to deny workers the right to strike, despite unions warning that this would lead to an all out general strike.
I'd love to see how Truss plans to force workers, to work against their will. Also, what that might be called. ~AA
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@bbcquestiontime
It is truly sad to see such a misinformed audience.
Broadcasting such opinions to millions of people and framing them as valid, merely normalises the expression of such racist views.
“We should completely close the borders … enough is enough”
This audience member says the number of people ’flooding in’ to the UK is costing public services too much.
#bbcqt
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Sunak: "Labour is stoping us in the House of Lords"
The House of Lords:
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👀WOW. '30p Lee' on Radio Nottingham.
When his getting caught asking a mate to pose as a swing voter is raised he says everyone lies, accuses Cowley of being dishonest, says his lying has nothing to do with his role as Tory deputy chair, then demands interview is not played. ~AA
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Liz Truss promises everyone will be able to get a GP appointment within 2 weeks - as if this is good news.
Under the last Labour government the target was 48 hours. And they met that.
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Wow.
Tory MP
@timloughton
: "I'm a 16-year-old orphan from an East African country escaping a war zone and religious persecution, and I have a sibling legally in the UK at the moment. What is the safe and legal route for me to come to the UK?"
Suella Braverman: Unable to answer.
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Defence Secretary and Deputy PM giggling together during the Israel-Gaza statement.
This is completely unacceptable.
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😡Just take a moment to absorb this.
An entirely UNELECTED Prime Minister is selling public assets AT A LOSS in order to prevent a future ELECTED Prime Minister from reversing the decision to junk a manifesto pledge on which people actually voted. ~AA
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Talk TV doing a fantastic job spouting nonsense Brexit “facts” while Lord Heseltine runs rings around them!
Watch this with your morning coffee 👏🏽
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It is depressing to see someone talk about the deportation of refugees with such happiness. For it to be the Home Secretary is repulsive.
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Tory MPs try to shout down
@CarolineLucas
's important question on Russian interference in UK politics - as they do all too often with progressive female politicians. The Speaker, incredibly, interjects to tell HER off, for taking too long. ~AA
#PMQs
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Huge mistake to let cameras into cabinet meeting today. Look at the grim faces around that table. Compare to previous occasions. Look at Javid, Coffey - one of the ministers sent out with a misleading briefing. Look at Gove! Even Dorries knows the gig is up. NOT a happy ship. ~AA
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Suella Braverman was the shortest-serving Home Secretary for 188 years.
Kwasi Kwarteng was the shortest-serving Chancellor for 52 years.
Liz Truss can beat that. If she goes before Christmas she'll be the shortest-serving UK Prime Minister ever.
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Heartbreaking exclusive by
@SkyNews
, Asylum seekers violently restrained, bundled into vans, phones taken off them, one with hands & feet bound, another dragged to the plane by the hair.
In any civilised society, the Home Secretary would be handing in her resignation today. ~AA
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Tory MP
@ElliotColburn
spoke movingly of his own mental health difficulties and attempted suicide.
What was the first thing Starmer did at the end of
#PMQs
? Crossed the aisle to offer a gesture of praise and support.
Bravo to both. We must be human beings above all else. ~AA
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🔥SUPERB by
@vicderbyshire
on
#Newsnight
.
Confronts Donelan with a montage of cabinet colleague lies.
VD: "They are untruths, they are fiction, they are completely made up, and they are really disrespectful to voters."
MD: "I genuinely believe we are the party of facts." 😂~AA
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💥HORRIBLE moment for Sunak at
#PMQs
.
Starmer: "I met with the Greek PM, we talked about the economy, security, immigration. I also told him we won't be changing the law regarding the marbles. It's really not that difficult."
Look at Sunak's expression at the end. Beaten. ~AA
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“Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument”
Desmond Tutu 1931-2021.
Rest in peace.
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That magical moment when the penny drops for Brexiter MP Edward Leigh, that stopping freedom of movement from Europe may mean more immigrants from India.
Another for the ever expanding That's-Not-The-Brexit-I-Ordered collection.
#PMQs
~AA
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Reality check: The UK has one of the lowest rates of asylum applications in Europe.
In 2021, there were just eight asylum applicants for every 10,000 people resident in Britain.
Chart:
@NewStatesman
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💥WOWZERS. Professor
@D_Blanchflower
, does not hold back on the budget.
"You're the Chancellor and what you've done is you've stood up and crashed the markets... you've created a giant recession, your credibility is trashed. I have never seen such raging incompetence." ~AA
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Best thing you’ll see today. Grant Shapps, whose brief is growth, is challenged by
@darrenpjones
on growth, with actual figures on growth, and has a contained hissy fit at ‘having data thrown at him’.
“How would like me to measure your performance?”~AA
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If you have only seen the "Government Wins on Rwanda" headlines, it really is worth watching and sharing
@YvetteCooperMP
's majestically comprehensive five-minute demolition of Suella Braverman on it. ~AA
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💥Just
@lisanandy
absolutely destroying Michael Gove over plans for a new coal mine in Cumbria.
"What on earth is he thinking?"
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Extraordinary barnstorming speech by
@Ed_Miliband
on energy security and climate change, promising zero carbon energy by 2030. People in the hall, on their feet, applauding.
"This is the undeniable truth of our age: It is cheaper to save the planet than to destroy it." ~AA
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An absolutely must-watch speech from
@hilarybennmp
on the Government's dangerous EU Retained Law Bill.
"This is a shocking Bill.
"I remind the House that one person's 'burdensome law' is another person's safe working conditions. It's their right to take parental leave."
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Let’s start Friday off on a nice note, with Ian Hislop dismantling the governments response to asylum seekers in hotels 👏🏽
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Devastating from Dawn Butler:
"Can the Prime Minister clarify to the House and the rest of the country when the scheduled programme of integrity, professionalism and accountability will begin?"
#PMQs
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Cute little grenade lobbed by Varadkar, on the possibility of the UK reversing its decision to exit the EU: "All the polls since Mr Johnson became PM suggest that's what the British people actually want, but their political system is not able to give them that choice." ~AA
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Jenrick said Labour left office with backlog of 450,000 asylum cases. Detective
@RhonddaBryant
found number is, in fact, under 19,000.
@UKStatsAuth
has told the minister that his figure is wrong. He refuses to correct it because BBC reported 450k figure so "it's legitimate". ~AA
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RT if you think there should be a General Election.
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Oh my god. This is just...incredible.
Watch Suella Braverman refuse to answer
@DianaJohnsonMP
's question about when she was told the situation at Manston was in contravention of the law.
Remember, Sunak promised "integrity, professionalism and accountability" from his Govt.
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Reply from
@keir_starmer
in full. To Conservative MPs, he says: "Continuing his leadership will mean further misconduct, cover up and deceit.
"It is only they that can end this farce. The eyes of the country are upon them. They will be judged by the decisions they take now."
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How bad can you look in an 80-second clip. This bad. 👇🏽
The skill of a politician is to stick to their answer without looking like a myna bird, rocking on its perch, just mimicking human speech. ~AA
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On a day when the Tories want rid of the ECHR, it is worth sharing this video from
@guardian
👇 👇
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And the Oscar goes to...
Nadine Dorries, for getting all choked up about the bravery of impartial BBC journalists, just now in the Commons. Last month she was complaining of their bias and wanted to obliterate their funding. ~AA
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The death penalty conversation seems to rear it’s head every few years. Ian Hislop put it better on
@bbcquestiontime
than anyone else has 🔥
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Wow.💥
"We have spent more than 200 years building our business, fought for 30 years against the global textile trend of moving to the Far East and have now been killed off by our own side in a couple of years. We all lose." ~AA
#BrexitReality
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INCREDIBLE from No10 spox. Dying after waiting 16hrs for an ambulance is "not a crisis", but a "challenge" and is "normal".
PM and Health Sec have "no plans at the moment" to "visit any hospitals or answer any questions".
Tone-deaf doesn't quite cover this. Please share! ~AA
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💥Keir Starmer destroys Rishi Sunak at
#PMQs
while a backbencher shouts "bring the lettuce back!"
This is how you do it.
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Starmer started by praising Brianna Ghey's mother, who is in the gallery of the Commons, for her grace and bravery.
90 seconds later Sunak is cracking jokes about trans issues. His front bench and MPs laugh with delight.
Appalling, even by their very low standards. ~AA
#PMQs
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Average salary of an NHS nurse: £33,384
MP basic salary: £84,144. Plus £67,505 if a Cabinet Minister.
NHS canteen prices: £7.25 for macaroni cheese
House of Commons Members' Dining Room: £5.67 for a gourmet roast rump of beef dinner
NHS parking: £25/day
MP travel: expensed
Are nurses paid enough?
Cabinet minister Chris Heaton-Harris tells
@KayBurley
: “That’s very difficult to judge… it’s a vocation, I suppose you could say politics is a vocation in many ways”
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Starmer's face is an absolute picture here (at 1.08!).
He looks as perplexed as anyone why Truss keeps banging on about energy prices when the markets are in turmoil and interest rates are spiralling.
It's like he genuinely can't believe this is who he's up against.
#PMQs
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It's Christmas Eve so big up the man in red who gives to the children 👏 👏 👏
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💥💥💥 ZING!
Sunak: "It's the same old Labour, soft on crime, soft on criminals."
Starmer: "The only criminal investigation he's ever been involved in, is the one that found him guilty of breaking the law." ~AA
#PMQs
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Who else remembers when James Acaster made the greatest ever Brexit analogy?
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We can beat Boris Johnson's plot against democracy.
If the shut-down goes ahead, we will hire a venue in Westminster so MPs can carry on working for us. Over 50 MPs are already confirmed.
Support the
#PeoplesParliament
. Add your name 👇🏼
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"I believe that you know best how to spend your own money to get on in life and to realise your ambitions," says Truss of her economic plan.
You can't spend your own money if you don't have any left. Astonishingly tone-deaf.
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🔥"At the 11th hour, one galaxy brain says the way to force it through is to make it a vote not just on one of the most unpopular causes in the country, fracking, but the most unpopular cause in the country: the current Prime Minister."
@ed_miliband
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The most disturbing, sexist part of today's
#PMQs
.
First Dominic Raab WINKS at
@AngelaRayner
.
Then he intimates it's absurd for a working class woman to enjoy opera and drink champagne.
If you think Raab is better than Johnson, just watch this.
#PMQs
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Razor-sharp opener by
@SophyRidgeSky
:
"If you shouldn't read too much into by-elections, why did the PM seemingly change his entire net zero strategy after [Uxbridge]? So, I am going to read into by-elections, particularly when people tell me I shouldn't."
Journalism.👇🏽~AA
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"We've seen off the European Super League," says Johnson, claiming it as a Brexit benefit.
1. He supported it in the first place.
2. This was a private venture not linked to the EU.
3. Italy, France & Spain all opposed it.
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👀A reminder of what Sunak told
@AndrewMarr9
about climate change when he was bidding to become PM:
"I have two young girls, 9 and 11. The one thing they do ask me about is: What are you doing about the environment, Daddy?"
I wonder what he tells them nowadays.
Pass it on. ~AA
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I look forward to Tory MPs explaining why a karaoke machine, in the middle of a full lockdown, was “essential for work”. ~AA
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🔥This is incredible. ITV have identified the actual room in Downing Street, where Sunak filmed his detailed video explaining why he had scrapped HS2, several days ago. After which he toured studios and swore to the nation "no decision has been made". ~AA
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An eagle-eyed follower pointed out that Sunak’s glasses don’t reach his ears and now I cannot stop noticing it. (h/t
@dc_litchfield
) ~AA
How bad can you look in an 80-second clip. This bad. 👇🏽
The skill of a politician is to stick to their answer without looking like a myna bird, rocking on its perch, just mimicking human speech. ~AA
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That smirk.
After David Amess. After Jo Cox.
How can he still not take this seriously?
.
@BorisJohnson
says he's said 'more than enough' about his discredited Jimmy Savile slur after
@Keir_Starmer
confirmed he'd received death threats since the claim was made
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KILLER question by
@JayneSeckerSky
:
"How would have fared if you'd been put on a plane to Rwanda?"
It leaves
@nadhimzahawi
floundering and trying to argue the fact that his parents were lucky enough to flee on a plane directly to the UK, somehow, makes all the difference. ~AA
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