Greg Barradale
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Senior reporter @bigissue Winner, News & Investigations, MHP 30toWatch '23 / Shortlisted, Feature Writer of the Year, BSME Awards '23 DMs open for stories🗞
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🚨 Exclusive 🚨
Home secretary Suella Braverman claims to have "contributed" to a legal textbook. But the book's author says Braverman made no "written or editorial contribution to the book” - and simply did some photocopying for him
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This interview, where a reporter discovers Grimes and Elon Musk's secret second baby because it's crying upstairs, is one of the wildest things I've read
Ignore those cries, that's just our second baby that we wanted to keep a secret
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Home Office staff 'mingled and drank prosecco' during lockdown
Priti Patel has said she'd call the police if her neighbours were breaking rules
But in March 2021 around a dozen staff mingled and drank to celebrate leading the news at 6
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Move over Francis Bourgeois, there’s a new kid on the block
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Here's what Kolvin said when I asked about Braverman's contribution: "She did not make a written or editorial contribution to the book. However on one occasion I asked her to do some photocopying for the book, which she did"
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Braverman didn't respond to questions about the claim, made on her profile for her old chambers - essentially a legal CV submitted by barristers
But No5 chambers say she did contact them to have the profile removed on Friday....
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As Liz Truss departs, activists from Just Stop Oil have sprayed think-tank hub 55 Tufton Street with orange paint
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NEW: Protest forming outside parliament, with some holding
#NotMyKing
messages and others blank pieces of paper. Protesters including Steve Bray and
@paulpowlesland
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🧵 THREAD: Another year on normal island over. Here’s a thread of British political moments from 2021 which prove just how ridiculous this country is:
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🔵 The story comes after several Tory MPs called for Keir Starmer to apologise after being pictured with a beer in an office
And during the same lockdown, the Home Office put out videos saying: 'you can't be chillin'
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🥂The gathering, of around a dozen staff, took place on March 24, while the country was still under lockdown rules
It happened days after a man was fined £100 for sitting in his garden with three friends
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Protesters blocking cars trying to get into tonights Housing Awards.
Social housing tenants say CEOs are using their rent money to buy champagne but not do repairs
@KwajoHousing
@BigIssue
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The official TikTok cut of Grant Shapps’ leadership bid, complete with a disco edit, is quite something
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'You can't stand on the sidelines on this one'
Interviewed
@johnmcdonnellMP
yesterday about why it's more important than ever to register to vote
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🚨 personal news tweet 🚨
I am now Head of News at The Tab UK !
I'll be reporting loads more stories that matter to young people. My DMs are always open if you have a story/tip to send me, or just know something about a story I've reported already
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The Home Office confirmed the drinks took place when approached, saying staff coming in was 'in line with guidance'
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Here’s the video of Just Stop Oil spraying 55 Tufton Street
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Francis Bourgeois addressing the haters who say his love of trains isn’t real…
My heart 🥺🥺
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More on this: The Bar Standards Board has refused to say whether Braverman is under investigation
While
@BarristerSecret
says: “Even as a law student, you are told that to embellish something on a CV is verboten"
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It's a proper Christmas caper: Amazon discounted the book to 99p but the publishers still get the full royalties. So they're donating £2 a copy to charity, and have sold thousands
Until the deal ends, money is going to
@FoodAWARE
and
@Welcome_Hudds
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If the fact Boris drinks Estrella from a tin and not a bottle doesn’t get 54 letters, nothing will
EXCL: Police have a photo of Boris Johnson holding a can of a beer at his lockdown birthday party in June 2020 - taken by his taxpayer funded official photographer.
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🚨At nearly half past midnight, the House of Lords voted to reject a move to give the inquiry into Sarah Everard's death greater powers
"We must assume that the government want an inquiry that drags on for years and does not answer the fundamental questions"
@brianpaddick
🏦The Lords is due to vote on this amendment to the
#PCSCBill
today, to give the inquiry into Sarah Everard's death statutory powers
Without this, campaigners say it can't address systemic police violence. It can't compel witnesses to testify either
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✨ personal news ✨ I'm now a senior reporter at The Big Issue 🎉
If you've got any stories you'd only consider sending to a senior reporter, for some weird reason, get in touch 🗞️
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🏴 NEW: Labour's Shadow Scottish secretary
@IanMurrayMP
reacts: “Every day that goes by more revelations come out showing the culture of one rule for them, another rule for everybody else, at the heart of government."
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Nice mention in London Playbook here
Braverman is speaking to Conservative Party conference this afternoon at 5.15, and at a couple of fringe events today. There are still questions for the Home Secretary on what she meant by "contribution" and on why she had the profile removed
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Wtf why is Kylie Jenner headlining Glastonbury? What happened to real guitar music?
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🚨🏴⚽️EXCLUSIVE: This is the statue of Harry Kane which has been sat in storage for years
@BigIssue
has obtained pictures of the statue, commissioned in 2019, and as-yet-unseen
Waltham Forest Council spent £7,200 on it, at the request of residents. But it hasn't found a home...
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NEW: The huge hike in energy bills is leaving one of Britain's largest food banks facing closure by Christmas
@PlaceKaths
gets enough donations but just can't afford to keep the fridges on
A stark sign of where we are: even food banks can't keep going
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👨👩👧👦 These are Priti Patel’s comments, from September 2020, defining “mingling” and saying families shouldn’t stop to mix with another family under the rule of six
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NEW: The Met has, for the second time, been refused permission to appeal a High Court ruling that found it acted unlawfully by preventing a planned vigil for Sarah Everard
The High Court refused permission last month, citing "selective and misleading analysis", and now this:
Breaking: We are thrilled to announce that the Court of Appeals has concluded that there “is no arguable basis on which it can be said that the Court’s decision was wrong”
The judgment in Leigh vs
@metpoliceuk
stands.
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In March, 17 men escaped a fire in this dangerously overcrowded east London flat. Today - 8 weeks and £100k of council support later - most are set to become homeless
Their ordeal speaks volumes about the state of the UK in 2023. Let me explain...🧵
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A man who came to the UK when he was 7 is among those due to be deported to Jamaica next week
"I’m a part of this country. I know nothing else" he told me from his cell
Campaign group
@followMFJ
say 13 of 20 detainees so far came to the UK as children🧵
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fairplay to ukip but i doubt they could get a seat in ashurst
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Some sobering details of just how much food banks and their users are struggling. People, in 2022, are:
- Making wood fires in kitchen sinks to cook with
- Refusing fresh veg as they can't afford to cook it
- Asking for soap to wash clothes as they can't run washing machines
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If you've not sorted Christmas presents for your family yet, why not settle for trying to explain why you've bought them a parody history of Yorkshire? It'll help two community food banks
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✨today’s my first day reporting for
@BigIssue
✨ I’ll be covering activism and protests - if you’ve got a story or want to chat to me, my DMs are open!
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A group of protesters have occupied Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s London mansion
Surreal scenes as they hold a press conference from the balcony, with reporters behind a police cordon
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💥V proud to say I've written this week's
@BigIssue
cover story (my first cover story!!)
As the cost of living crisis deepens, I've spoken to the heroes stepping up to offer a lifeline to those the government has failed to protect
Out today - buy a copy from your local vendor!
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NEW: The Met has been slammed for secrecy after refusing to say how much it spent in legal costs on two failed appeals over its handling of the Sarah Everard vigil
@jamieklingler
of
@ReclaimTS
says the Met is "covering itself at every turn"
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a stupidly life-changing conversation with a friend a few years ago had me asking: what can you learn about the world from fiction that you can't from non-fiction?
the reply: empathy
Men make up just 20% of the audience for literary fiction. Please, I beg you, get over yourselves and into novelistic chitter chatter!
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NEW: The Met have been denied permission to appeal a ruling that they acted unlawfully over a planned Sarah Everard vigil
In a new ruling, seen by
@BigIssue
judges said some of the Met's submission involved "selective and misleading analysis"
@ReclaimTS
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BREAKING: Report from Child Q's legal team that the teacher who called the police has been sacked
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This statement just in from Aleksandr Orlov:
Site says fictional Russian billionaire Aleksandr Orlov has ‘no association with the current situation’
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Over 7,000 people have been arrested in Russia for joining anti-war protests, according to
@OvdInfo
Puts the bravery of this in context
St Petersburg, Russia, tonight
They’re chanting "No to War!" "Shame!" & "Ukraine is not our enemy!"
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😎 this blew up 😎 don’t have a soundcloud but 👈🤠👉 follow for stories on protests and activists
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This is Lukas, the man behind the house
He built it from a wardrobe someone was throwing away, using nails and a hammer borrowed from a DIY shop
“It was a choice between sleeping behind a bin or building myself a house” he says
“I was just trying to change my life”
Housing crisis latest: A man has built a house on the pavement in Bethnal Green, complete with fairy lights, a fence, and a parrot
It's apparently the second iteration and has been up since the weekend after the council knocked down a smaller version
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🏠Residents of a Tower Hamlets social housing block have gone on strike and are refusing to pay their service charges
🧵The details of the conditions and charges were shocking to see - residents want to know how their money is spent
@justicethch
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🚨 Outside Stoke Newington police station, where over 100 people have gathered for a
@HackneyCopWatch
protest in support of
#ChildQ
"There should be no police in schools"
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“It’s suggested it will be a custodial sentence. Yes, I am nervous, anxious, terrified, excited
“But it’s good to be able to explain why we’re doing this,” defendant Ben Buse says
@BigIssue
@InsulateLove
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📰Full story here:
🗣️
@natalieben
: "I'm confident that conducted at a ‘normal’ working time – say before 8.30pm – this amendment would have passed in the House"
👇
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🚨 Noisy protest outside the Rwanda High Commission, rallying against the first refugee deportation flight due to leave on Tuesday
"Priti Patel, hear us say, refugees are here to say" is the chant
@followMFJ
@BARACUK
@CLSUK1974
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can't believe the independent have made their HR meetings easier to access than their content
Mark Di Stefano accessed private Zoom meetings held by The Independent and The Evening Standard as staff were told sensitive news of pay cuts and furloughs
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Wow. I'm a winner in the News & Investigations category for the
#30toWatch
awards. Blown away, and fantastic company to be in
This year's
#30ToWatch
Journalism Awards winners in the News & Investigations category judged by John Ryley
@SkyNewsHead
,
@pmorganbentley
and
@Petercampbell1
are
@MeganAgnew
[The Sunday Times],
@GregBarradale
[The Big Issue],
@RunakoCelina
[BBC Eye Investigations/Freelancer],
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Two years since possibly the greatest TV moment ever. It truly was all downhill from here
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Dominic Cummings 🤝 these peppers
Getting grilled by a journalist on a nice bank holiday
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A uni made a wheelchair-using student sit in a stairwell during lectures
@SarahMarieDS
says she's raised it "countless times", but after going public on Twitter the uni *now* say they're launching a "full investigation"
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"time's up, pens down, please stop writing. you will leave this exam hall when called, row by row"
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i’ve written for the times (!!) calling out greedy student landlords
it’s a disgrace that companies are charging students thousands for rooms they can’t use, on top of everything they’re putting up with this term
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How exciting - I've been shortlisted for an award for the first time: Best Feature Writer at the
@bsmeinfo
magazine awards ✨ Proud to be part of a great Big Issue team
Congratulations to
@bigissue
's
@GregBarradale
on being shortlisted as Best Feature Write in
@bsmeinfo
Talent Awards 2023. Richly deserved.
At Big Issue we have a squad of young, new generation talents setting the agenda and leading national conversations.
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4/ Rishi Sunak having to backtrack after outing himself as a 'coke addict' to some schoolkids
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7/ Dom Cummings trying in vain to explain a meme to a select committee, an experience felt by every young person trying to explain the internet at Christmas
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🚨 Big crowd gathered outside the Home Office right now to protest after ,27 people - including children and a pregnant woman - died trying to cross the channel.
Speaker says it is a "direct result of the hostile environment"
Chants of "we will win"
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Imagine how many podiums they'd need if Boris had done this
LIVE ON
@TimesRadio
NOW
Akshata Murthy introduces her husband Rishi Sunak at Tory conference.
First spouse to make a speech like this since Sarah Brown being the warm-up for Gordon in 2008 (also here in Manchester)
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Jack Leslie should have become England’s first Black footballer in 1925. Nearly a century later he’s being honoured with a statue by
@JackLeslieCamp
It's a pretty incredible story. I was amazed I hadn't heard it before. So let me tell you:
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not piers morgan stealing my clout 😤😤 i tracked them down in july come on
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NEW: The Uni of Birmingham, which has a budget surplus of £58m, has come under fire for asking staff to donate to a student food bank
@BhamUniUnison
: "It’s time UoB looked to its civic roots and shared its prosperity with all those on campus"
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spoke to a true legend this morning, interview coming soon 👀
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Tomorrow marks the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell fire. What's life like for those who see the tower every day?
Amid a £120m refurbishment scheduled to finish by 2026, residents described disruption and soaring charges
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Very apt magazine name, isn’t it
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Shami Chakrabarti last night: "I still have questions, and so do people all over the country, about the wider issues of culture, professionalism and practices in our police service in relation to crimes against women and girls
"We have not had our Lawrence moment."
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@RobynVinter
It's really unsettling. Saw somebody on TikTok going through her Strava data and trying to pull out patterns. Treating it like a Netflix documentary
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1/ In a clip which sums everything up, Boris Johnson had to be asked 'is everything OK' by a reporter
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🚨 Anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorists targeted a drag queen story time event yesterday, shouting at children and parents and attempting to perform a citizens' arrest on a drag queen
The far-right moral panic in the US is making its way to the UK (🧵)
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Housing crisis latest: A man has built a house on the pavement in Bethnal Green, complete with fairy lights, a fence, and a parrot
It's apparently the second iteration and has been up since the weekend after the council knocked down a smaller version
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🚨 The Met has admitted its officers acted unlawfully during this incident where tents were destroyed outside UCLH hospital in November.
One man who was arrested and had his tent destroyed took legal action with
@libertyhq
, and has won an apology from the Met's Commissioner
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“They’ve realised they can’t clamp down on peaceful expressions of opinion, and those opinions have now multiplied”
@paulpowlesland
, threatened with arrest yesterday, says a lack of police interference today is a “big win” for protest and freedom of expression
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“I think I was blocking their optics, their narrative”
Jane, the
#NotMyKing
protester escorted away from parliament yesterday, explains what happened and says she wasn’t blocking any traffic
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Blows a bit of a hole in the idea of the Lords as the last great bastion of parliamentary scrutiny if you can just...win votes by holding them after everyone's gone to bed
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NEW: One of the UK's largest food banks, facing closure by Christmas due to a £25,000 energy bill, has found an unlikely saviour: Gordon Brown
After hearing
@RayFrsa
on the radio at 6.15am, Brown stepped in and helped launch a campaign to save We Care
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THREAD: Two months ago, 50 people were detained to be deported to Jamaica. Yet only four were on board as the plane left
Since then, I've spoken to detainees, lawyers and activists - and uncovered the human cost of the flights
Here's what I learned👇
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Food banks are institutionalised - we've come to accept them as the last line of defence. But what happens when they can't carry on?
We Care serves 3,000 people, and costs just £25,000 a year to run
"If we all go, what the hell is going to be there to pick up the pieces?"
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Someone now getting a telling-off from police after trying to throw a bag of food up to the occupiers, and landing it on top of a police van
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10/ This MP claiming that men were being driven to crime because Dr Who is played by a woman
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🚨 Write-up here
@KwajoHousing
: “I was disgusted at the CEOs walking past and laughing at us protesting for decent housing provided by them, meanwhile they spent £4,000 on tables, no doubt funded by the rent we pay. Completely immoral and inhumane"
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Down-on-their luck towns often get given a choice: gentrify, or stay derelict. A group of Hastings residents (
@hastingscommons
) are showing an alternative - bring buildings into community hands and turn them into rent-capped flats
#EmptyHomesWeek2023
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NEW: Sadiq Khan calls for an immediate end to asylum seeker evictions from Home Office accommodation
@SadiqKhan
tells
@BigIssue
a winter pause will avoid rough sleepers dying, and that govt needs to go further than current 3-day SWEP halt
Story 👇
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Great to see the Tab's man on the scene (and possibly future war correspondent)
@realBenBloch
getting his dues
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Shocked - *shocked* - to discover that the list of team names in the Downing Street quiz is an absolute banter vacuum
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Why does a statutory inquiry matter?
The last non-statutory inquiry into the police - the Daniel Morgan inquiry - took 8 years
Its author "faced obstruction, and said specifically in her findings that she knew that she had been hampered by not having the statutory powers"
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Fun personal news: I’m now
@TheTab
’s News Editor. Buzzing, and if you’ve got any scoops hiding away, DM me
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Me, knowing a positive Covid test at any point in the next 10 days means I won’t get to see my family for the second Christmas running
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The timing of the vote meant just 129 peers voted - three times less than voted on the first division of the day
The votes of Conservative peers, who'd stayed late at night, also rejected a move to have this amendment voted on at a later date, put forward by
@natalieben
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