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From the Council to the Commons, Chamber publishes and broadcasts political insight & analysis from around the UK. Partnership with policy institute @CuriaUK.
Joined September 2021
'Not listening to what I said three minutes ago is a bit of a fundamental failure of the leader of the opposition' -@Keir_Starmer . #PMQs
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Huge congratulations to all the @EarthshotPrize winners and particular thanks must go to the Prince of Wales for leading such a fantastic initiative. 🌍 #EarthshotBoston2022 #Earthshot @KensingtonRoyal
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The Princess of Wales is visiting the @RoyEntSoc garden where we were filming earlier for Political Sandbox with Biosecurity Minister, @RichardHRBenyon. Watch the full episode discussing biodiversity . #RHSChelsea #ChelseaFlowerShow @KensingtonRoyal
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The Princess of Wales has called for a "rebalance" in society to prioritise physical and mental health and to promote greater compassion. For her early years education project, @Earlychildhood the Princess says she wants to “create a physically and mentally healthier society”.
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The Princess of Wales is meeting school children in the @Savills Garden. 🌹🌺🌸 . #rhschelsea #chelseaflowershow @KensingtonRoyal @RoyalFamily
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🚨Breaking. The Princess of Wales has confirmed that she is now in remission, following a cancer diagnosis and treatment in the last six months. We wish her and her loved ones the best, and a congratulations to Her Royal Highness!.
I wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you to The Royal Marsden for looking after me so well during the past year. My heartfelt thanks goes to all those who have quietly walked alongside William and me as we have navigated everything. We couldn’t have asked for more.
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Keir Starmer: .'We have got a billionaire Prime Minister. who has avoided millions pounds of tax' . #PMQs
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"We pray for her (Princess of Wales) and The King in their dignified response and we pray for all those who are suffering the same way." . The Archbishop of Canterbury, @JustinWelby leads Easter prayers referring to the @RoyalFamily in his #Easter sermon.
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'If she is going to complain about scripted answers, it is probably best not to read that from a script' - @Keir_Starmer . #PMQs
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Stephen Flynn: 'he wasn't rude, he was racist. ' . Tories should be held accountable to receiving large donations from people who are 'immoral.'. #PMQs
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How politically unbiased is Cass?. Questions have been raised about the neutrality & evidence basis for the controversial #CassReview. The report’s author @Hilary_Cass has been asked to provide answers why she is meeting with Women's Declaration in the House of Lords this week.
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'If she hopped off social media for a while. she would have seen the amendments made this morning' -@Keir_Starmer . #PMQs
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"Their bravery, in sharing with us the most harrowing moments of their lives, are extremely powerful and ensure that we never forget. I assure them we never will." The Prince of Wales pays tribute to those who lost their lives at Auschwitz. The Princess of Wales hugged survivors.
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'She has not asked for a briefing on the Chagos Islands. because she is more interested in chasing Reform than national security' . #PMQs
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'Our NHS is at breaking point' 'The conservatives are running the NHS into the ground' . #PMQs
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'She is not doing her job, she is not concerned about national security, and she is not fit to be Prime Minister' - @Keir_Starmer . #PMQs
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Stephen Flynn asks the PM to apologise for the 'pathetic remarks [on extremism in Scotland]'. #PMQs
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'She is talking absolute nonsense' 'We know she is not a lawyer, she is cleary not a leader, if we keep her like this, she is going to be the next lettuce' - @Keir_Starmer . #PMQs
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Marking #WorldCancerDay after her own battle with cancer, the Princess of Wales has released a new photograph taken by her six-year-old son, Prince Louis in a frosty Windsor wood. She says “Don’t forget to nurture all that which lies beyond the disease.” @KensingtonRoyal
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'Why did she instruct all of them to vote against child protection measures?' - @Keir_Starmer . #PMQs
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An official compliant has been lodged with the @Conservatives Party in regard to @Baroness_Nichol’s online behaviour. It comes after dozens of complaints were lodged with social media companies regarding her views on #trans. The Conservative Party has been contacted for comment.
Disallowed on immediate appeal - show the whole discourse;I bet you won’t!.So maybe I will leave it up after will have achieved nothing then.
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'Being patronising is not a substitute for not answering questions' - @KemiBadenoch . #PMQs
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'if you listened to people in the audience, maybe you wouldn't be so out of touch'. @Keir_Starmer receives a round of applause after calling the Prime Minister out of touch. #BBCDebate #GE24
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Starmer challenges the heckling from the Conservative benches. 'this is too serious for that'. #PMQs
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Angela Rayner criticises the conservatives handling of homelessness. 'Instead of obsessing over my house. ' . #PMQs
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'I know the script does not allow for any adaptation but this is getting tedious' - @Keir_Starmer . #PMQs
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The Prince and Princess of Wales with their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis follow The King and Queen back to Buckingham Palace. #Coronation @KensingtonRoyal
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John Kerry spotted in Westminster Abbey sitting behind Winston Churchill’s grandson, Lord Soames @NSoames. #Coronation @CNN
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'We were doing so well' - @Keir_Starmer remarks on the courteous nature of PMQs. Until the economy was brought up. 'That is the difference between stability with Labour and instability with the party opposite' - @Keir_Starmer . #PMQs
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'We have put more money into local authorities than they did in 14 years' - @Keir_Starmer . #PMQs
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Moving tributes to our late Queen Elizabeth tonight, led by the Prince of Wales @KensingtonRoyal from Westminster Abbey. Quoting The late Queen, Prince William says “I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story.” #royalcarols
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The Prince of Wales has today launch #Homewards - a new programme to end homelessness.
Today we are incredibly proud to unveil #Homewards - a UK-wide programme to end homelessness, launched alongside The Royal Foundation @HomewardsUK
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"She must be the only person left who thinks they did well on the economy" @Keir_Starmer takes down the Conservative Party's recent economic record. #PMQs
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'breached the ministerial code . the advisor had to resign'. @Keir_Starmer goes on the attack against the shadow Foreign Secretary @pritipatel and her previous record, having broken the ministerial code. #PMQs
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"Our natural world is one of our greatest assets". Prince William delivers his first speech as Prince of Wales on the threats posed by illegal wildlife crime to the environment, biodiversity and communities across the world. #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #BiodiversityCrisis.
Prince William delivers the keynote speech highlighting the serious and organised nature of illegal wildlife crime and its damaging impact on global biodiversity and local communities
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David Dimbleby dispels the myth that people are disinterested in politics by highlighting how @RoryStewartUK & @campbellclaret filled the Albert Hall a few weeks ago just so people can listen to them natter about politics. He tells the Sir Ted Heath lecture - time for change?.
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Mayor of Greater Manchester, @AndyBurnhamGM tells @BBCBreakfast it’s a “tremendous development” that the Prince of Wales is supporting the homelessness cause. He says they’ll be supporting the Royal Foundation. GM’s A Bed Every Night Scheme has reduced homelessness from 300-72.
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German Parliamentarians warmly welcomed King Charles to the Bundestag with a standing ovation. Speaking in German, he said he and his family were "deeply touched" by the thousands of messages of condolence written in books across the country. 🇩🇪🤝🇬🇧 #KingCharlesIII #StateVisit
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Leader of the @LibDems, @EdwardJDavey has responded to the Prime Minister’s speech agreeing that the Conservatives left a “toxic legacy”. He calls on the new Government to deliver “bold and ambitious action…to fix this mess”. He calls for action to fix #NHS waiting lists.
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Welsh First Minister, @Eluned_Morgan living her best life at @WelshLabour Conference disco tonight 💃 Totally refreshing to see the FM lead everyone letting their hair down tonight #WelshLab24
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'That lot over there, the Tories and Reform, disgracefully voted against it' - @Imran_HussainMP criticses the opposition's rejection of the Employment Rights Bill . #PMQs
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The first Muslim and youngest ever Lord Mayor of Westminster, @LM_Westminster Cllr Hamza Taouzzale arrives at Westminster Abbey. Someone who represents exactly the spirit that The King and Queen wants to celebrate today. #Coronation
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Co-Leader of @TheGreenParty, @AdrianRamsay tells #BBCLauraK “there is a real risk that the UK is too close to the US” and calls for a strong European voice in the wake of @realDonaldTrump brining Putin in from the cold.
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Transport Secretary, @GrantShapps: “Yesterday as negotiations were ongoing Mick Lynch & @RMTunion walked out & went to a TUC rally”. Mick Lynch “What Shapps said is an entire fabrication. We left on Fri & they said they were prepared to meet on Sun. They never mentioned Saturday”
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The Co-Leader of @TheGreenParty, @carla_denyer tells #bbclaurak that deescalation should be the top priority of the UK Government. Following Iran’s attack on Israel last night, she says that the Greens have called for a ban on arms sales to Israel over their invasion of Gaza.
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“I’m not going to sit here and promise this will be resolved overnight.”. The Prime Minister tells #BBCLauraK that “by next spring” we will have eliminated all those waiting over a year. He asks for the public to hold him to account over #NHS performance.
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'The surest risk that there will be conflict is if Putin thinks he can breach any deal that may be arrived at' - @Keir_Starmer . #PMQs
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Energy Security & Net Zero Secretary, @Ed_Miliband due to make a speech at @EnergyUKcomms on Tuesday. Calling for a renewed focus, he will warn “every wind turbine we block, every solar farm we reject, every piece of grid we fail to build makes us less secure and more exposed”.
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Congratulations to our regular local government columnist, Cllr @HelenCBelcher on receiving an OBE in this year’s #NewYearsHonours for services to the #trans community.
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"Have we finally discovered what they meant when they said we're all in this together?" . Keir Starmer says in reference to George Freeman MP quitting his ministerial role after claiming he could not afford his mortgage #PMQs
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Not a dry eye in the house as @TheMontyDon pays a wonderful tribute to the country’s favourite good girl, Nell who recently passed away. Gardeners across the country join to say we have all loved knowing her over 8 years. #RIPNell 🐶😢💔🎾#gardenersworld
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Concluding the exchange on pensions and the £46bn aim to get rid of National Insurance, @Keir_Starmer attacks the Conservative spending plans. 'Vote Tory, Risk your Pension'. #PMQs
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"The week we lost two giants of the Labour family" Keir Starmer pays tribute to Alistair Darling and Glenys Kinnock at #PMQs
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Campaigner, Keira Bell @KLBfax is threatening Health Secretary, @wesstreeting with legal action in bid to ban cross-sex hormones such as testosterone to under 18s. @DHSCgovuk said it is working with regulators to tighten rules on the private provision of cross-sex hormones.
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'She has not quite done her homework' - @Keir_Starmer ensures that the immigration loophole is getting a second look in regards to the Ukraine scheme. #PMQs
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Never have there been more powerful words from Sir David Attenborough on ensuring we deliver our global #COP26 pledge: “We can do it.”. “It is within our power to do it, we can do it, we must do it. Then there will be a future for the planet.” #FrozenPlanet2
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'I would invite her to tell us what went wrong under the last government, but it would take us all afternoon' - @Keir_Starmer . #PMQs
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Hearing serious worries from Conservatives Central Office that they may fall behind @reformparty_uk in Wellingborough. Senior figures are questioning why they were told not to campaign there by Party Chiefs. #WellingboroughByElection.
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'This is a man who needed emergency voice coaching on Christmas Eve' - @KemiBadenoch #PartyGate. #PMQs
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This Christmas, the Archbishop of Canterbury, @JustinWelby is encouraging people to support @Feeding_Britain, a charity founded to combat hunger and food poverty in the UK. There are 600,000 children that live in food insecure households in the UK. (2021/22 @DWPgovuk)
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So that’s 3 Conservatives and 2 Labour on @bbclaurak today - why not invite a @LibDems representative given that they came second at local elections this week? #bbclaurak #LocalElection2024
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CEO of @stonewalluk, @Nancy_M_K is greeted by @amylame & London Mayor, @SadiqKhan as they finish the march. #Pride #Pride2022 #prideinlondon
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12.32 million viewers tune into finale of Gavin & Stacey, overnight figures show. With the largest Christmas Day audience figures in more than a decade, writers of the show James Corden and Ruth Jones thanked the people of Barry and South Wales for their support over the years.
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"There have been more changes to this policy than there have been to @RachelReevesMP's LinkedIn!". @MelJStride . #SpringBudget #SprintStatement
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'We will also set a clear ambition for defence spending to rise to 3% of GDP in the next parliament' - @Keir_Starmer
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''They used Britain like some kind of mads scientist experiment'' - @Keir_Starmer on the Conservative party time in government. ''They haven't listened, they haven't learned, and they certainly haven't changed''. #PMQs
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"Does he agree his education secretary should be thanked?". Keir Starmer kicks off #PMQs by addressing the school concrete crisis.
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Questions over social care - @EdwardJDavey questions the PM on how chairing the social care commission is too vast, yet also Baroness Casey has enough free time to chair another inquiry . #pmqs
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'It is not about you, it is about the victims' 'Be a leader, not a lawyer' - @KemiBadenoch tells @Keir_Starmer .#PMQs
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It’s like a switch has been flicked to an entirely new generation of monarchy, @petetong opening the #CoronationConcert . @KensingtonRoyal #Coronation
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'I am doing everything I can in terms of regular contact with key players' - @Keir_Starmer comments on how he is helping Zelenskyy rebuild his relationship with Trump after their fallout. #PMQs
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'He needs to spend less time whining about the last government and do his job' -@KemiBadenoch . #PMQs
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Our Editor sat down with asexual campaigner Yasmin Benoit @theyasminbenoit to discuss her activism and the Ace in the UK Report she launched in collaboration with Stonewall. Read the full interview here 👇.
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"The real black hole isn't the one the Chancellor invented, the real black hole is the one the Chancellor created!" - @MelJStride #SpringBudget #SprintStatement
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Great turnout at the #NotSafeToBeMe protest with widespread support to #BanConversionTherapy for all. #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Pride #TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBWithTheT #trans
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Huge risk to Government. If the @OBR_Uk’s independent assessment does not back up the Government’s 2.5% growth plan, this is potentially terminal for government economic credibility. #MiniBudget . For those that don’t know what a humble address is:
humble address klaxon: . Labour is seeking support from rebel Tory MPs to force Liz Truss’s government to speed up the release of the OBR’s assessment of the impact of the recent “mini” Budget.
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Keynote speaker at the British @KebabAwards tonight, @MayorofLondon says the awards are a celebration of the diversity of London.
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Labour Parliamentary Candidate, @Miatsf tells the @SME4LABOUR and @BestForBritain reception that B4B has led a “brave campaign” to expose the truths of #Brexit. She says she has “never seen the economy so broken” and is encouraged by Labour’s mission for growth. #LPC23 #lab23
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Following the ceremony in Auschwitz to commemorate 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, King Charles has taken a tour of the concentration camp's memorial site. For Holocaust Memorial Day he laid a wreath at what is known as the death wall on behalf of the UK.
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'I don't think Lord Alli is buying any of that nonsense'🤣 . @RishiSunak questions @Keir_Starmer's commitment to not raising taxes . #PMQs
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Diversity = more solutions. @frogdesign’s Kieran McBride tells us. #CallingAllWomen .#5050parliament .#AskHerToStand
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On an emergency call last night, UK Defence Secretary @BWallaceMP persuaded 28 nations, including the UK, European countries & the US to give more weapons, medical supplies and other military aid to #Ukraine as it fights invasion from #Russia. #StandWithUkriane
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.@kimleadbeater Kicks off #PMQs with a question on standards in public life, sadly drowned out by MPs. there's probably a message in there somewhere.
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Universal Basic Income is a hot topic at @LibDems conference - packed room.
Standing room only at the #UBI Fringe event at @LibDems Conference. Proud to see my fellow @LondonLibDems parliamentary candidate @AbbateUlysse & London Assembly Member @HinaBokhariLD speak in favour of Universal Basic Income 🔶 #LDConf @soclibforum
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Congratulations to the @AHSNNetwork for their excellent stand at @ConfedExpo - never seen so much excitement around innovation in the #NHS. #NHSConfedExpo
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MPs asking questions about how much the Home Secretary’s ride in a chinook cost the taxpayer as she arrives in #Manston from Dover - a journey of 20 miles.
Suella Braverman arrived at Manston migrant camp today by Chinook after visiting Dover.
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