Ian Lucas
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Writer: “Digital Gangsters” How greed, lies and technology broke democracy. Former Labour MP for Wrexham (2001-19) and Minister.
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Overseas interference in plain sight since February 2018. Tories covered it up and took Russian-linked money. Full story in out now.
(1) Facebook admitted foreign interference in UK elections to me in February 2018
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THREAD. Johnson, Gove, Vote Leave and illegality. I know this is complicated but it is important.(1)
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Before I knew all this, I voted for Article 50 and to leave, twice. We now need to say to MPs that the Referendum result was secured illegally and must be rerun.
THREAD. Johnson, Gove, Vote Leave and illegality. I know this is complicated but it is important.(1)
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I am so old now I remember when Conservative Governments supported the Rule of Law.
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I have written to Michael Gove asking for full disclosure of his knowledge of Vote Leave’s illegal payments. If he does not make disclosure, as Secretary of State responsible for data protection, he is breaking the Ministerial Code.
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What rubbish. If I rob a bank, does she need a letter of complaint from Barclays?
Met Commissioner Cressida Dick told
@LBC
today she must have a letter of complaint on lockdown parties in
@10DowningStreet
before deciding if there would be an investigation.
Labour MP
@coyleneil
has answered her request.
Perhaps we should all write to Cressida Dick?
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You have to ask why, when Russian-linked donations were made to them, none of these MPs questioned why?
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Despite all this wrongdoing, Johnson, Gove and Cummings are running our country and are about to take us out of the EU on the basis of a referendum where offences were committed and 2 unresolved investigations are outstanding. (13)
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Both Theresa May and Boris Johnson should be ashamed that, in the context of the Salisbury attacks, they blocked an investigation into Russian electoral interference.
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Why is Fiona Bruce falsely saying Vote Leave did not break electoral law? I have repeatedly asked the BBC to report this fact, even this week, and they defend Vote Leave still.
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My duty is to defend the United Kingdom and vote against the deal that begins the process of its break up.
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I have written to the Prime Minister today to tell him he should instruct his special adviser, Dominic Cummings, to appear before
@commonsCMS
. I have many questions on
#TheGreatHack
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You were too scared to answer questions from me on your knowledge of Vote Leave illegal payments. You were so scared you changed your Ministerial job description to avoid questions. Your silence on your knowledge speaks volumes.
But you were too scared to debate a Conservative and preferred to be challenged by a giant ice cube
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This week Facebook will learn that all are subject to the rule of law. Yes, even them.
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Right Twitter, we are making progress. I am an MP till Wednesday. Can everyone retweet and pass this thread on so more know what Johnson, Gove and Cummings got up to with Vote Leave?
THREAD. Johnson, Gove, Vote Leave and illegality. I know this is complicated but it is important.(1)
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I have written to Michael Gove - the man now in charge of transparency in digital election campaigning in the UK - asking him when he was told about the £600k donation made by the Vote Leave campaign to BeLeave
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I was a Minister. One of the easiest things about it was not breaking the Ministerial Code.
#marr
- You were found to have broken the ministerial code, Boris Johnson is under investigation over the MC... does the ministerial code still matter?
Priti Patel - There's work taking place reviewing that.. this isn't about breaking codes.. we're doing very difficult jobs..
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A further letter from me to Boris Johnson, detailing the actions of Dominic Cummings prior to the EU referendum. Mr Cummings needs to give evidence to the DCMS Select Committee
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Boris Johnson appointed Cummings as his political adviser and has refused, as Prime Minister, to direct Dominic Cummings to give evidence to the Select Committee. He is, thereby, obstructing a Parliamentary Inquiry (10)
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General Election is an opportunity to highlight role of Johnson, Gove and Cummings in the illegal Vote Leave campaign. A new Govt should hold them to account.
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Still waiting for my
@BBCr4today
interview to detail how our Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster have concealed their knowledge of Vote Leave electoral offences in 2016? Would they be happy to have those offences committed again in the General Election?
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No reply from the Prime Minister to Cummings answering questions to Parliament concerning his role in Vote Leave, illegal payments and AIQ. Over a month and silence.
I have written to the Prime Minister today to tell him he should instruct his special adviser, Dominic Cummings, to appear before
@commonsCMS
. I have many questions on
#TheGreatHack
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What mystifies me here is that there has been virtually no BBC coverage of data breaches still being considered by the ICO into Vote Leave with Johnson, Gove and Cummings prominent. They now run the country.
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You have ignored completely, across the BBC, the role of Johnson, Gove and Cummings in Vote Leave, their actions there, and how this now plays directly into current online Government policy and the General Election.
We have 2 pro-Brexit voices on tonight because the 2 big stories of the day - the court ruling and a Tory/Brexit Party pact- make these the best holding to account interviews to do over 30 minutes. We will, of course, hear the full range of views over the run.
#andrewneilshow
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And all delivered in a magnificent County Durham accent....hero
A star is born - They say 'cometh the hour cometh the man' - listen to this brilliant Bishop Auckland farmer...
"On referendum night we went to bed as Great Britain and woke up as Little Britain"
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Gove is the Secretary of State for the Cabinet Office, the department with conduct of the Electoral Integrity Bill. He must make public his role in the Vote Leave Campaign, which has committed offences and is subject to further investigations. (11)
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Gove has admitted he knew of the payments giving rise to the electoral offences. He has refused to disclose to me the date he found out about them or who told him.(5)
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Pleased that BBC is covering issue of interference. Johnson’s failure to address cyber and other threats from Russia is unpatriotic and a dereliction of his duty as Prime Minister to defend our democracy.
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Farage’s income from media appearances, especially Russia Today, increased from £9,737 in 2012 to £548,573 in May 2018, paid to his company. More detail in
‘I have to challenge you there, in what way was Nigel Farage colluding with Putin?’
‘He was simply defending the positions of Russia…Every extreme right wing politician in Europe has one or other link with Russia.’
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Why won’t the journos ask Gove my questions?
I have written to Michael Gove - the man now in charge of transparency in digital election campaigning in the UK - asking him when he was told about the £600k donation made by the Vote Leave campaign to BeLeave
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Can you imagine the reaction if they had been Labour MPs?
10 cabinet ministers have taken Russian money. The real reason Johnson stopped the report being published and tried to impose his own committee chair. Democracy undermined with willing compliance of Johnson because his government are on the Kremlin’s payroll.
#RussianReport
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I spoke in Parliament yesterday about Cummings’ law-breaking and the BBC ignore it. He speaks at a book launch and is top story. BBC failing in its duty to inform fully the public.
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Gove now also denies that he has responsibility for electoral law and data protection in Government which was included in his job description when he was appointed in July. This is to avoid him breaching the Ministerial Code but is not credible. (12)
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Vote Leave broke the law in 2016, accepted by Vote Leave itself. Evidence published by the Electoral Commission, (EC) - includes quotations from Dominic Cummings who encouraged the breaking of electoral spending limits in the final “crucial” days of 2016 campaign.(4)
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This is utter nonsense. Vote Leave accepted it broke the law and paid fines imposed.
I’m delighted that the
@metpoliceuk
have confirmed they won’t be acting on the allegations made against Darren Grimes and Alan Halsall by the
@ElectoralCommUK
. This proves that the wild allegations made against
@darrengrimes_
& Vote Leave since 2016 are completely baseless. (1/4)
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Called on Johnson, Gove and Cummings to come clean on the illegal payments of Vote Leave and their role.
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Cummings has refused to give evidence to the DCMS Select Committee to explain his role in electoral offences. He was found to be in contempt of Parliament. (9)
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I raised the facts of Johnson’s (and Cummings’) duplicity and misconduct again and again in the House of Commons in 2019 and was ignored by you,
@bbclaurak
and, incidentally,
@Peston
. Don’t pretend to be surprised now.
Extraordinary. Truly extraordinary. The Cabinet Secretary on his then boss
@BorisJohnson
during the pandemic : "He cannot lead & we cannot support him...Government isn't actually that hard but this guy is really making it impossible."
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Better late than never.
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I put Cummings’ behaviour on the record here a year ago. Johnson knew what Cummings had done and the way he operates.
"I want to place on the record some information that I have concerning disinformation and the Government of the day."
@IanCLucas
House of Commons, 5 Nov 2019
Hansard:
VIDEO THREAD (4 Videos)
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Let’s do it, Dominic Cummings. We have a meeting on Monday.
BREAKING: government agree there is no reason to stop Dominic Cummings giving evidence to
@CommonsCMS
(he’s currently in contempt of Parliament)
@IanCLucas
@DamianCollins
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I will using every device I can to get Michael Gove to answer questions in Parliament on his knowledge of the facts giving rise to Vote Leave’s electoral offences in 2016.
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Threats like this do not influence me. I speak as I find.
Just remember
@IanCLucas
anything you have said (which is quite a lot) outside of parliamentary privilege, we will be going after you and anyone on that
#FakeNews
anti-brexit biased committee-
#lawyerup
MPs are not above the laws as you well know.
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Well worth watching. The audacity of his dissembling is prodigious.
Watch this video, it's our Prime Minister on Theresa May's deal; it needs no further explanation other than -
BORIS JOHNSON CANNOT BE TRUSTED.
@duponline
@eastantrimmp
@DUPleader
@NigelDoddsDUP
@J_Donaldson_MP
@GRobinsonDUP
@PaulGirvanMP
@DavidSimpsonDUP
@JimShannonMP
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I intend to speak on this in the Queen’s Speech Debate today.
THREAD. Johnson, Gove, Vote Leave and illegality. I know this is complicated but it is important.(1)
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The truth is that any decent Prime Minister would never consider appointing an adviser in contempt of Parliament.
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Facebook said: “The materials obtained by the DCMS committee are subject to a protective order of the San Mateo Superior Court restricting their disclosure. We have asked the DCMS committee to refrain from reviewing them and to return them to counsel or to Facebook.” Too late.
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The EC should re-open their investigation into LeaveEU in view of the additional evidence from Brittany Kaiser via
@CommonsCMS
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The issues I am talking about relate to Vote Leave which was the official 2016 campaign for the UK to leave the EU. Do not confuse them with issues, a separate campaign led by Farage and Banks. (2)
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The DCMS Select Committee has asked for evidence held by the Electoral Commission relating to electoral offences to be disclosed to it. They have refused citing a current police investigation bein carried out by the Metropolitan Police (6)
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In addition, there is a current, continuing investigation by the Information Commissioner into the possible illegal sharing of personal data in the 2016 campaign by Vote Leave and other ‘Leave” organisations. (7)
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Still waiting for the first BBC question to Johnson, Gove and Cummings on Vote Leave’s illegal payments in 2016.
That time the BBC de-platformed itself from a platform about who gets a platform...
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Johnson, Gove and Dominic Cummings were the central characters in the Vote Leave campaign as, respectively, Campaign Committee member, Co-Convenor of the Campaign Committee and Campaign Director. (3)
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It’s not about me losing my seat. It’s about jobs and people’s livelihoods in Wrexham.
@IanCLucas
Wrexham voted to leave you should be voting for exiting the EU not voting against you will lose your seat cos Wrexham voted OUT
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What makes sense now is to discuss the Withdrawal Bill in a 3 month extension period, have the various votes and make the decisions. To have a General Election now is not in the national interest.
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Thanks. You are a lovely daughter.
He hates fuss but today is Dad’s last day as an MP after over 18yrs of dedication to Wrexham, the Labour Party & public service.
@IanCLucas
is quietly formidable. He has achieved so much & helped so many people over the years. He is also a wonderful father. I am so proud of him.
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I always believed this despite the earlier finding by the Electoral Commission.
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The data Investigation is based on information given to the DCMS Select Committee and includes evidence of apparent data sharing by Gove’s own 2016 Tory Leadership campaign website and Vote Leave. (8)
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@carolecadwalla
@anneapplebaum
@CatherineBelton
@OliverBullough
@lukeharding1968
@TimothyDSnyder
@jasonintrator
I repeatedly contacted
@Peston
and
@bbclaurak
and many others whilst I was in Parliament, as well as speaking in the Chamber. I was told the story was too complicated.
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The rules of the House need to change to impose appropriate sanctions for lying to Select Committees of Parliament. And for failing to attend.
Now officially established beyond all doubt that THERE WAS A CROSS-OVER BETWEEN ARRON BANKS' INSURANCE BUSINESS, ELDON INSURANCE, and BANKS' POLITICAL ACTIVITIES WITH LEAVEEU, should the authorities now revisit the startling information revealed in this
@CommonsCMS
video?????
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Ask him when he knew about the Vote Leave illegal payments and who told him?
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When the elite break the law and get away with it, they do it again and again.
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When Johnson says there is no evidence of Russian interference, journalists must challenge him with facts.
@CommonsCMS
reports are sources.
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Here is Boris Johnson claiming there has been interference from Russia in UK elections, the position he maintained as Foreign Secretary. He now says there hasn’t. Which is true?
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If you haven’t viewed this, you should.
Now on 9.6 million views. Help drive it to 10 million tonight & send a message to
@BBCNews
@itvnews
@Channel4News
@SkyNews
that if they won’t hold this truth twister to account we will do it ourselves
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It is in outrage that the views of the Information Commissioner and Election Commissioner on the inadequacy of current election law are being ignored by the Tories. Cheating happened in 2016 and is happening again.
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The Cabinet Office has today altered its website to suggest Gove does not have oversight of data protection and electoral reform. This contradicts what the site said yesterday. It is incredible what he will do to avoid questions on Vote Leave.
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Significant.
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Before 2016, we had the best relationship with Ireland we had had for hundreds of years. Now, the Government is breaking agreements it made itself with Ireland, through the EU. A huge mistake.
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Vote Leave has paid its £61,000 fine and withdrew an appeal. It has, thereby, accepted wrongdoing. Correct please.
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The blocking of questions on Russia by Johnson has taken place for years. This is from November 2019.
Please watch this. The blocking of the Russia report is last in long line of profoundly disturbing actions govt has taken to prevent truth coming out. Listen to Dominic Grieve &
@IanCLucas
. Is there any way of describing this which isn’t a cover-up??
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Some countries take Russian interference seriously.
BREAKING: Rep. Adam Schiff on Trump impeachment report: "This report chronicles a scheme by the president of the United States to coerce an ally, Ukraine, that is at war with an adversary, Russia, into doing the president's political dirty work."
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We need to change electoral law before the next General Election. We cannot trust Michael Gove to do the job. Here’s why.
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Airbus say a no deal Brexit would be “catastrophic”. They employ 6,000 in NE Wales. A deal is essential.
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Electoral Commission tell
@CommonsCMS
that even if an election is won with the benefit of unlawful payments to a particular party, the result stands. Unbelievable.
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I agree. I will continue to press.
If we had a functioning opposition, it would demand:
1) urgent overhaul of electoral law as top priority
2) demand govt insist Zuck comes to UK to give evidence
3) ban microtargeted political ads until FB can demonstrate safe
4) demand answers from Johnson re Vote Leave fraud
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(1) Facebook admitted foreign interference in UK elections to me in February 2018
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Why do so few seem to mind that we have a Prime Minister who does not tell the truth and blocks Parliamentary inquiries into wrongdoing?
"I want to place on the record some information that I have concerning disinformation and the Government of the day."
@IanCLucas
House of Commons, 5 Nov 2019
Hansard:
VIDEO THREAD (4 Videos)
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I have been working on this for two years and have simply followed the evidence.
@IanCLucas
@BBCNewsnight
@IanCLucas
an excellent interview by Lucas. Coherent, fluent and convincing on the corruption of the EURef. Even the
@BBCNews
appears to have woken up to this threat, just two years late.
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Breaches are not “alleged”. They are fact and Vote Leave has already paid a fine for them.
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@carolecadwalla
Gove is now in charge of elections and data. We know Vote Leave, of which he was campaign co-ordinator, broke election spending limits and await a determination from
@ICOnews
on whether they illegally shared data.
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This is just a straight lie. Incredible that such a person is a Secretary of State.
Online safety bill had few hours left to complete stages in commons, when in last days bfre recess, Labour pulled a cynical VONC in PM which meant it stalled before parl rose- as NSPCC state, leaving 3,500 children to be abused online every single day.
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It would be farcical if it wasn’t so serious.
That statement from
@arron_banks
saying it was impossible to visit an insurance call centre in Bristol, followed by the french TV interview with
@arron_banks
in a call centre filled with insurance workers in Bristol working on Brexit. Judge for yourself.
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Johnson refuses to gove evidence to Liaison Committee. Johnson refuses to direct Cummings to give evidence to
@CommonsCMS
They both have much to hide.
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Gove continues to avoid answering questions on his Vote Leave role. Cameron calls him “mendacious.”
I have written to Michael Gove asking for full disclosure of his knowledge of Vote Leave’s illegal payments. If he does not make disclosure, as Secretary of State responsible for data protection, he is breaking the Ministerial Code.
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Facebook emailing me telling me what I need to do to comply with electoral law. Just fell off my chair....
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“Compared to remaining in the EU, there is no doubt that Mrs May’s deal is manifestly inferior.” : FT
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I think the dam is breaking, finally. Well done, Chris. Class of 2001 working together.
@IanCLucas
@RhonddaBryant
calls for Arron Banks to be added to the sanctions list as an “agent of influence for the Russian state”.
Likewise Nigel Farage, who received £548,573 in 2018 alone from the Russian Govt funded Russia Today.
🎥
@AdamJSchwarz
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We really need to let people know what these characters really are - not fit for public office.
Here is Boris Johnson's top advisor Dominic Cummings saying that the Tories don't care about 'poor people' or the NHS!
#Wrexham
#VoteLabour
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This is utterly absurd.
BREAKING Theresa May confirms MPs' Brexit vote is delayed until as late as March 12
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Well, he’s blocked Cummings giving evidence to
@CommonsCMS
so there’s a course of conduct here...
Boris Johnson accused of 'sitting on' report on Russian interference in UK elections
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All know the law is inadequate. So why has the Government failed to change it?
“We’re about to enter into a battle where foreign funding can flood into our system.”
Labour MP Jess Phillips says the UK’s electoral laws are “not fit for purpose”
She's right.
#GE2019
@lbc
#C4News
#Newsnight
#r4today
#PoliticsLive
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I have been pursuing more detail on these matters since the summer. Johnson, Gove and Cummings have had every chance to come clean.
THREAD. Johnson, Gove, Vote Leave and illegality. I know this is complicated but it is important.(1)
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I told the Commons the truth about Gove, Johnson and Cummings in November 2019.
A stunning valedictory speech from
@IanCLucas
in which, using the actual words of Dominic Cummings, he reveals to a shocked House that the Prime Minister and Michael Gove have known of Vote Leave's illegality for over three years!
Full speech here:
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