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Cripes, thank you for the lovely messages. The news popped out while I was in a pub in Halifax, with no signal. My phone did the can can in the car park when I came out&hasn’t stopped dancing since. The new job is an immense privilege&responsibility and I’ll give it everything.
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NEW Boris Johnson will resign as Conservative Party leader today
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Oooof. Former Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Soames on Leader of the House Jacob Rees Mogg
@thetimes
: ‘an absolute fraud, a living example of what a moderately cut double-breasted suit and a decent tie can do with an ultra-posh voice and a bit of ginger stuck up his arse.’
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I’m up and running as BBC Political Editor — an immense privilege and responsibility. Brilliant to make my debut
@BBCBreakfast
talking about the
@BBCPanorama
report I’ll bring you this evening
@BBCOne
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I'm hearing the thread below from the Culture Secretary about Jeremy Hunt has incensed some MPs and is tempting some to vote against the Prime Minister -- because they feel it comes with his endorsement
1/4 On afternoon of 23rd July 2020 when I was health minister you telephoned me to tell me that we had to handle the pandemic following the example set by the East/China. That people testing + should be removed from their homes and placed into isolation hotels for two weeks.
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OOOF! Home Office source: “Priti is working day&night to bring an end to these small boat crossings, which are facilitated by international criminal gangs&are of serious concern. If that means upsetting the social media team for a brand of overpriced junk food then so be it.”
Hey
@PritiPatel
we think the real crisis is our lack of humanity for people fleeing war, climate change and torture. We pulled together a thread for you..
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NEW: I’m told Boris Johnson now has more than 100 backers and so could be on the ballot if he chooses to be
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Just basking in the warm glow of fan mail this morning
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NEW: Michael Gove sacked by Boris Johnson
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Labour's tree planting policy (with mathematical support from
@BBCFrediani
):
Labour wants to plant 2 billion trees by 2040.
That is, roughly...
* 100 million/yr
* Or 8.3 million a month
* 2 million a week
* 300,000 a day
*12,400 an hour, every hr, 24hrs/day
* 200 a minute
#GE2019
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BREAKING: Suella Braverman sacked
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.
@NickBoles
tells
@bbclaurak
this is the "worst cabinet in my lifetime and probably in recorded history."
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Conservative MP Dominic Grieve: "What is the purpose of this government? What is it doing? How are we contributing to the national interest? Government credibility is running out, trust in it is running out."
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Thread: Since I was about 6, and I was given a tiny, gleaming white, battery powered radio, I’ve dreamt of 1 day presenting my own programme. Tonight, that dream comes true: and I’m beyond fortunate&beyond excited to be able to say so...even if the picture suggests otherwise!
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You should see it now, mate
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A group of cabinet ministers are about to tell the Prime Minister to resign, including the Chief Whip, reports
@ionewells
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The Employment Minister Guy Opperman has told
#bbcqt
that Harry and Meghan are “utterly irrelevant to this country," said "clearly they are a very troubled couple" and has “urged everyone to boycott Netflix.”
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The Conservative MP for Dover Natalie Elphicke has apologised for suggesting Marcus Rashford should have spent more time focusing on football than “playing politics”, after he missed a penalty last night.
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Do I dare get on the London Underground for just ten minutes?
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Former Prime Minister Sir John Major
@bbcr4today
: "I have been a Conservative all my life. And if I am concerned at how the government is behaving, I suspect lots of other people are as well."
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NEW: The new leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer, has said the government has made "serious mistakes" in its handling of the Coronavirus.
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The former Commons Speaker Betty Boothroyd has told peers that in 47 years in Parliament she has never witnessed such a collapse in public trust, reports
@bakerm11
@bbcpolitics
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On the subject of the Conservative Conference app breach, I've now been texted by a Tory source who clearly didn't mean to text me, describing what has happened as "a shit show."
#cpc18
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Hi Joe. I turned down a job in the private sector last year that would have paid me nearly treble my current wages. And Any Questions has 1.3million listeners. Have a great weekend.
#bbcaq
@BBCRadio4
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A quick Brexit update for you.... 😂
"I haven't got the foggiest idea"
@ChrisMasonBBC
beautifully sums up the complexities of
#Brexit
. 🤯
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Someone once said ‘he won’t get on air with a voice like that.’ I grew up in the Yorkshire Dales, didn’t know anyone in journalism or the media, but from about the age of 8 wanted to be a reporter. The most important qualifications: enthusiasm, persistency&more enthusiasm
Know any 11-18 year olds with a story to tell? We’ve launched BBC Young Reporter to inspire young, UK-based talent from diverse backgrounds to come into the media industry. To find out more follow
@BBCYoungReport
#BBCYoungReporter
#findyourvoice
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40% of Brits say Brexit has had some impact on their mental health, a poll for YouGov suggests
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Quick parish notice that I’m going into self isolation. One of the Mason urchins showing symptoms. Goes against every single journalistic instinct not to be out there reporting on this. But, bluntly, this doesn’t allow the usual luxury of being the journalistic observer...
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On seeing this briefing, one Conservative MP reckons it’s ‘hogwash’ that Mr Johnson has so many backers not willing to say so publicly. ‘It’s clearly nonsense.’
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A year after the first lockdown, here’s Oxford Circus Underground Station in Central London, at 10pm on Friday night:
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NEW: Boris Johnson drops out of the Conservative leadership race. He says he got 102 nominations
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Just working my way through the fan mail at Any Questions Towers this morning...
#bbcaq
@bbcradio4
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That was one of greatest privileges of my career: sitting in for the superb
@theJeremyVine
on
@bbcradio2
. Thanks for having me.
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It’s one of those days
Obsessed with my mum treating
@BBCNews
notifications like direct texts from
@ChrisMasonBBC
. “Just got another message from chris” 🤣🫶
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I think the train from Glasgow has just arrived here at London Euston...
#ENGvSCO
@bbc5live
@NickyAACampbell
@rachelburden
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The Prime Minister is to accompany the King on his tour of the UK in the coming days.
He is to visit Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff — and Liz Truss will be with him.
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Good morning from Downing Street — reporting live from here for
@BBCBreakfast
,
@BBCr4today
and
@bbc5live
. Stellar producer this morning — the inestimable
@Number10cat
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NEW: Government climbdown on helping poor children&their families in England in the school holidays, following campaign from
@MarcusRashford
. Catch him on
@BBCBreakfast
first thing. Here are the details....
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The Union flags in Downing Street have been lowered to half mast.
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Downing Street has no intention of apologising for the Prime Minister's remarks about the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Jimmy Savile.
"He has got other stuff to get on with today," I'm told.
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‘Oi Newsboy, let’s go out!’ playfully yells Mason Junior, aged 4, in my direction.
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Jeremy Corbyn: "A public holiday on election day would be a good idea."
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Michael Gove says “significant additional disruption” is expected at the border in the coming weeks, particularly on the Dover-Calais route.
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Crikey, I know we are no match for
@LittleMix
, but thank you if you were among the 14 million people who caught the BBC News Special last night — where
@reetacbbc
and I found ourselves in a rather more in depth conversation than we anticipated, as we awaited the Prime Minister
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Welcome back
@BBCAlagiah
!
I’ll be back in the
@BBCNews
studio today after months of treatment. Pure coincidence - it’s 8 years to the day since I was told I had stage 4
#bowelcancer
So good to be with the News at Six team again.
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Right, that’s your lot from me on here until September...Shared Parental Leave starts today. Time to delete the Twitter app from my phone. I’ll miss it!
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Corbyn: ‘When Labour wins, the nurse wins, the pensioner wins, the student wins, the office worker wins, the engineer wins. We all win.’
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Just overheard a dog walker reprimanding their pet with the line ‘don’t you understand English?!’
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NEW Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner NOT fined by Durham Police
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This is Steve Bray — the bloke who used to be forever shouting ‘stop Brexit’ whenever a camera was turned on in Westminster. This morning he’s blasting out the Russian national anthem and has got himself a new outfit from eBay
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This has been sent to Conservative MPs in the last few minutes:
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Yeah, Mary, I can tell you. I’m a journalist. I ask questions about newsworthy events. The programme has a senior SNP figure on it just as a big SNP story breaks. It would have been a dereliction of journalistic duty not to ask
#bbcaq
Listening to
#bbcaq
Can anyone tell me why the presenter, Chris Mason, started asking about the situation between Nicola Sturgeon & Alec Salmon after a question on timing of lockdown?
I hadn't thought it was supposed to be part of the presenter's brief to follow his own agenda!
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NEW ON RUSSIA REPORT: The Intelligence and Security Committee "has unanimously agreed this morning that it will publish the Report on Russia prepared by its predecessor before the house rises for the summer recess. There will be no further comment."
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NEW: Plaid Cymru and the Greens wont fight the Brecon and Radnorshire by election to give the Liberal Democrats a better chance of beating the Conservatives & Brexit Party. Seat has been Tory since 2015. Was Lib Dem 1997-2015.
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Health Secretary Matt Hancock:
55 fatalities today
Lowest level since 21st March, before lockdown began
No deaths in London hospitals
No recorded deaths in Scotland
R rate is below one in each region of the country
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Half ten on Friday night, Oxford Circus, Central London:
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What a colossal privilege to spend the week here — sitting in for
@theJeremyVine
and talking to his amazing, and vast, audience. The biggest news show on British radio. Walking through the doors of Wogan House to present a show on
@BBCRadio2
blows my mind. Merry Christmas all.
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This is a wonderful watch
We all miss Prince Philip and his wonderful anecdotes.
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Waterloo Underground Station, Central London, Friday night at just gone 10pm, May 2021
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And now having to deploy a tube of tomato purée i found in the boot as a makeshift ice scraper. What a morning...
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European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker: "I would like to say that the 48% were right."
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Astonishment at how short the PM's news conference was -- and how few questions she took from reporters via
@BBCNews
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What a powerful read from
@theousherwood
in the Sunday Times. Absolutely brilliant to read of his recovery and return home — and doing what he does best; reporting.
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The Union flag has been lowered to half mast in Downing Street
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"The future's bright!" says DUP Leader Arlene Foster. "The future's orange!" adds Ian Paisley Jnr.
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I used to get the Tube home from Any Questions a few months back and be the only person in the carriage. Now a bottle of Merlot is being passed around with a straw in it. The shimmy back to normality is gathering pace!
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Well, apart from getting the name of the Prime Minister wrong that was an interesting day.
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Right, my last few days on here before Shared Parental Leave starts...and the real work begins! A final run of weekend late shifts talking politics, then it’s nappies, DIY and a promise to delete the Twitter app on my phone until September...
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This is a great bit of telly…
Watch as Health Secretary
@sajidjavid
persuades Sky's chief political correspondent
@joncraig
to get his booster jab while the pair were preparing for an interview at St Thomas' Hospital vaccination centre.
Get live
#COVID19
updates:
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Whatever you think of the prime minister, and few are indifferent, today is a moment of triumph for Boris Johnson.
When he became prime minister, he had no majority, no mandate to call his own, an angry country and an angry Parliament.
My analysis:
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11,000 likes, but wrong. It was in my
@BBCBreakfast
report. It was in my
@bbc5live
report. And I talked about it on
#Brexitcast
.
BBC News this morning is totally ignoring seismic 2.3 million who in 48 hours have signed petition to revoke Article 50
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I know the weather forecasters are saying it’s very mild, but when your stint in Downing St enters its fourth hour, it still feels a bit parky
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What a class act: Always looked up (literally and the rest) to
@mrdanwalker
— warm, witty, open minded, scrupulously fair & human. And generous with colleagues
@BBCBreakfast
. Wishing you the best, Dan
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One last time for
@jonsnowC4
. His final programme. I’ll never forget that when I was a trainee at
@itn
in 2001-2 he spotted a newbie and went out of his way to walk across the newsroom to introduce himself and shake my hand. ‘Hello, I’m Jon,’ he said. Made me feel ten feet tall.
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Highways England has confirmed that more than 900 lorries are being held on the M20 in Kent, waiting to get into the port of Dover, reports
@BBCHelenCatt
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Sir Nicholas Soames has told The Times that Boris Johnson was “signed up to the Trump playbook” and “nothing like Winston Churchill”. (His grandad)
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Thank you Jonathan -- this means a huge amount.
Just heard
#chrismason
is my successor in the
#anyquestions
chair. Great choice for great job. Fine political journalist who inhabits the Westminster bubble but has feet firmly planted outside. Tough, clever and witty. Listeners will relish him as much as he'll relish the role.
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BREAKING: There will be a by-election in Peterborough after 19,261 people signed a recall petition to remove Fiona Onasanya after she was convicted of perverting the course of justice. That amounts to 27.6 % of eligible residents; well over the 10 % threshold required.
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New Downing Street Director of Communications Guto Harri arrives at No10.
Shout of ‘what's the first thing you're going to do today?’
‘Give healthy snacks and mineral waters to staff,’ he says — and waves his Tesco bag around.
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NEW: The BBC understands one of the prime minister’s most senior advisers has been suspended.
Jason Stein, a special adviser, is to face a formal investigation by the Propriety and Ethics Team in Whitehall, I am told…more below…
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Thank you for the kind words about my report on
#BBCNewsTen
last night
@BBCOne
#JournalismMatters
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I don’t think I’ll bother heading to work later. Let’s just play this again
"I haven't got the foggiest idea"
@ChrisMasonBBC
beautifully sums up the complexities of
#Brexit
. 🤯
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Thank you so, so much if you emailed us after
#bbcaq
@bbcradio4
this weekend to ask after Don, our 88 year old fellow listener who spoke to us about grief and loneliness. We have compiled a 44 page pull together of your emails and will be passing them on to him.
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NEW: Boris Johnson is stepping down as an MP with immediate effect, triggering a by election in his marginal seat
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First flight taking migrants to Rwanda expected on 14th June
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So I had under six hours kip and still missed stuff. Got this at half one in the morning about the chaos in parliament last night
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Arise Dame Deborah James — Downing Street tell us ‘The Queen has been pleased to approve that the honour of Damehood be conferred upon Deborah James.’
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Three different sources tell
@nickeardleybbc
and I that Jeremy Corbyn walked out of the meeting with that PM because Chuka Umunna of TiG was there
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Following the brilliant journalism of
@Gabriel_Pogrund
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@PickardJE
and others, I found myself writing down a list of questions....
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