Katherine Forster
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Political Correspondent @GBNEWS. Previously The Sunday Times & The Spectator. Northerner. DMs open
London, England
Joined May 2011
I joined @gbnews in May 2021, well before the channel launched. Coming from Yorkshire, I felt many people round the country weren't having their voices heard. It's been a wild ride, but look how far we've come in just 3 1/2 years. .
GB News overtakes Sky News - marking significant milestone in march of the People’s Channel.
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RT @GBNEWS: 'Labour MPs have learnt that if they band together to oppose something, they can do so without facing consequences.'. GB News'….
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RT @GBNEWS: 'This will be one of the defining moments of the government.'. GB News' @Forster_K examines the state of the Labour Party, noti….
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NEW: Chancellor says “when I’m having a tough day it’s on the telly and most people don’t have to deal with that”. True. But still no more info on what caused her tears, beyond, again, “a personal issue”
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Badenoch says Chancellor “looks absolutely miserable”…. Says Reeves is “toast…a human shield for his (PM’s)incompetence”. Asks PM if Reeves will still be Chancellor at next GE. He doesn’t say #PMQs.
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“Can PM rule out tax rises in the autumn budget?” Badenoch asks. PM stresses fastest growing country in G7.
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“How much will his welfare bill save?” Badenoch asks PM. He deflects. IFS says nothing. A £5 billion black hole in Reeves’s plans #PMQs.
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RT @PJTheEconomist: Looks like initial attempt to save >£5bn, which then was watered down to saving of less than half that will now save no….
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A week since Sir Keir Starmer insisted to me he’s “very confident” of being PM into, & beyond, the next election. Welfare debacle today so much worse than he saw coming in the Hague though….
'How confident are you about leading Labour into the next general election?'. GB News' Katherine Forster quizzes Sir Keir Starmer on his future as the PM faces a rebellion over his welfare reforms. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604
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Lord Glassman says seeds of UK’s problems sown by “Thatcher decimating our industrial base”. Says re-industrialisation will be centred round arms production given massive increase in defence spending promised at NATO.
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BREAKING: Government wins welfare vote, 335 to 260. But the bill as passed is nothing like what it was a week, or even a day ago. And Rachel Reeves’ £5 billion saving has vanished. Labour has gone to war with itself.
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“The winds of change are blowing”, Lord Glassman, architect of Blue Labour, tells @GBNEWS. Warns that in the most deprived areas ( with highest numbers of people receiving PIP) it’s Reform that is gaining ground.
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Labour was “strategically unprepared for the challenges” of government, Labour peer Lord Glassman admits to @MartinDaubney @GBNEWS as their flagship welfare bill is brought down by its own MPs.
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Meg Hillier, last week’s chief rebel now says Timms review “puts disabled people in the driving seat”.
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John Glen describes welfare system as “a profound tragedy” which “brings too many into dependence on the state and that is not right”. A statement most would agree with.
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“I can see the hand of the Treasury” says former Tory Treasury Minister John Glen. Acknowledges “fiscal imperative” & likely “more tax rises”.
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