Jason Groves
@JasonGroves1
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Political Editor of the Daily Mail. Views my own, I'm afraid.
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Britain, France + Germany announce plans to seize Russian assets to arm Ukraine. Statement from E3 leaders: 'We are ready to progress towards using... the value of the immobilised Russian sovereign assets to support Ukraine’s armed forces + bring Russia to the negotiation table'
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@JasonGroves1 Forcing them to have digital IDs means forcing them to have smart mobile phones, and this should be a choice for parents not governments.
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The official justification for bringing in ID cards for children is that by the time of the next election they will be required to show them if they want to take a paper round or do a Saturday job
NEW: Digital ID cards to be brought in for children as young as 13, as Labour says they will become a 'boarding pass to government' https://t.co/ByMOAvqn3F via @DailyMail
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NEW: Digital ID cards to be brought in for children as young as 13, as Labour says they will become a 'boarding pass to government' https://t.co/ByMOAvqn3F via @DailyMail
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A petition against digital ID signed by almost three million people has been dismissed by ministers who vowed to press ahead with imposing them before the election.
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NEW: Digital ID cards to be brought in for children as young as 13, as Labour says they will become a 'boarding pass to government' https://t.co/ByMOAvqn3F via @DailyMail
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A petition against digital ID signed by almost three million people has been dismissed by ministers who vowed to press ahead with imposing them before the election.
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MODERATOR: Are you willing to commit to NOT raise the sales tax? MIKIE SHERRILL: I'm not going to commit to anything right now. On Nov. 4, vote NO on Mikie Sherrill. ❌
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Keir Starmer not sounding particularly enthused about the idea of Tony Blair running Gaza: 'I'm less interested in discussions about personnel than in getting the deal implemented'
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Badenoch admits there has been ‘a small price to pay at the polls’ for taking her time on policy development but insists it will pay off in the end
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Kemi Badenoch on the Tories’ problem: ‘Winning elections without a plan is what got us into trouble’ #BBCLauraK
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Tory peer, and Tees Valley Mayor, Ben Houchen says a slow start by Kemi Badenoch allowed Reform to ‘steal a march’ on the Conservatives, adding: ‘We need to start to pull our socks up’
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Shabana Mahmood says 'no govt minister' was involved in collapse of China spy trial. But does not deny Jonathan Powell involvement, saying only: 'I don't recognise that report about that meeting' #BBCLauraK
EXCL w/@cazjwheeler The China spy case collapsed days after Jonathan Powell — PM’s national security adviser — chaired a secret meeting in Whitehall where he told officials the government’s evidence would stop well short of branding Beijing an “enemy” https://t.co/3JJqX50d5G
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Home Sec Shabana Mahmood says she is 'very worried about the state of community relations in our country' #bbclaurak
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Home Sec Shabana Mahmood says the Manchester terror attack shows 'there is a problem' with integration that needs to be tackled
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Mahmood says its become clear in 'the last couple of days' that there is a 'gap in the law' re intimidatory protests. More like a couple of years
NEW: Police forces will be granted new powers to put conditions on repeat protests, Shabana Mahmood says. The new powers, to be brought in asap, will allow senior officers to consider ‘cumulative impact’ of previous protests - and move them elsewhere. Home Secretary will
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Noisy pro-Palestine demo gathering in Parliament Square
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Kemi Badenoch currently doing an exhaustive pre-conference media round. Not much news so far, but three BBC radio stations in a row have followed up her appearances by playing Tina Turner's What's Love Got To Do With It?
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It’s a crowded field, but the Met has a decent claim to be Britain’s worst public institution
Sir Mark Rowley says the Met are ‘relentless’ in rooting out unfit police officers. Then why did it take a reporter to find the racism and misogyny at Charing Cross, @NickFerrariLBC asks.
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Starmer, who spent years in opposition saying Britain was broken, now says: ‘I just do not accept that Britain is broken’
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Asked to repeat her claim last year that she won’t be ‘coming back for more tax’ at the Budget, Rachel Reeves replies: ‘I think everyone can see the world has changed in the last year and we are not immune to that’
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