Joe Murphy
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Sketch-writing for the @Independent newspaper at Westminster. Ex-Political Editor of the Evening Standard, the Sunday Telegraph & the Mail on Sunday.
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BREAKING ....
Matt Hancock calling "urgent review" into a staggering fiasco at Public Health England.
They are counting people who die of natural causes as coronavirus deaths if they tested positive at any time previously.
Not clear how many deaths were recorded in this way
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Channel 4 News has been consistently excellent this week. Fine reports, sober analysis, brave correspondents
@Channel4News
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What an impressive result for
@DrRosena
Allin-Khan. From a standing start, she overtook everyone except winner
@AngelaRayner
and cannot be denied a shadow cabinet place.
An NHS a&e surgeon as Health Secretary at a time of a health crisis? Why not?
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This is amazing - and, I think, unprecedented.
MP Tulip Siddiq has DELAYED THE BIRTH by Caesarean of her son so that she can vote against May's deal.
Top exclusive by
@kateproctorES
, who highlights the campaign for proxy voting for mums in the Commons.
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The extraordinary U-turn by Matt Hancock in the middle of PMQs is a landmark for city-level devolution.
An elected mayor
@AndyBurnhamGM
opposed a Westminster political decision and the Govt bowed within hours.
Mayors came of age today.
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This emerged only because, says source: "We noticed that hospital deaths were falling but community deaths were up and wondered why ...
"It turns out you could have been tested positive in February, recovered, then hit by a bus in July and you'd be recorded as a covid death".
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Like him of loathe him, Speaker John Bercow perhaps just delivered the quote he will be remembered by:
“If we only went by precedent, manifestly nothing would ever change."
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POLL
Disaster for Long-Bailey in
@ipsosMORI
poll for the
@EveningStandard
She is LAST as a PM-in-waiting among general public and among Labour voters.
And with her as Leader, the party would poll JUST 28%
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I think Chris Whitty just took the controls.
“The idea we can open up everything and keep the virus under control is wrong.”
“We have probably reached the limits, or near the limits, of what we can open up.”
A powerful intervention by the CMO
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"Sir Keir’s technique is one that Alfred Hitchcock would approve. Hitchcock once said: 'There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.'
"The metaphorical bomb in this case is the inevitable public inquiry ... "
My sketch of
#PMQs
...
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Golly
EU'S BARNIER SAYS IF UK WANTS TO STOP EU FISHERMEN FROM ACCESSING WATERS, EU MUST HAVE SOVEREIGN RIGHT TO REACT
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BREAKING Dominic Cummings is self isolating at home - he had symptoms over weekend
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We have not had a Prime Minister elected with a clear majority who served a full term since as far back as 2001.
Quite a wait.
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News klaxon!
NHS overtakes Brexit as key issue for voters in this election.
Good news for Corbyn.
Data from
@IpsosMORI
@benatipsosmori
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Anna Soubry has gone full Rambo against the whole Brexiteer army. Astonishing ballsy performance, whatever your view of in/out
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Did I really just hear Nadhim Zahawi say that if Tory supporters in Doncaster and Ashfield go to a party fundraiser they will get access to councillors etc?
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For more years than I can count, the 6.35am political summary by Norman Smith has provided priceless moments of clarity, calm and insight.
@BBCr4today
just announced that it is his last day.
I will miss
@BBCNormanS
's scoops and sanity in equal measure. Best of luck, Norman.
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"Dear Chief Whip,
"There's no majority left.
"Yours ever ..."
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Lord Heseltine endorses two named Lib Dem candidates in the election - Sam Gyimah and Chuka Umunna
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PHE say there is no WHO time limit to when covid should be counted as a factor.
But Scotland count things differently.
What infuriates me is that we, the public, were not given this information by PHE to make up our own minds with the facts.
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Helo hello - this is surely a sign that a peerage has been lined up for the tycoon at the centre of the tax texts row.
Why else would billionaire Sir James Dyson have quietly moved his primary address back to the UK ....
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Fascinating fact - Mrs May has more votes than Tony Blair got in his 1997 landslide.
Blair - 13,518,167
May (so far) - 13,650,900
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SCOOP - Amber Rudd, a former Tory Home Secretary, today tells the PM that, yes, his rhetoric and tactics "incite violence"
Excl
@eveningstandard
interview by ace
@ayeshahazarika
and me
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I counted five times when Alok Sharma ducked
@KayBurley
's reasonable question if he agreed with the PM that some care homes didn't follow procedure .
Top questioning by KB as usual.
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My guess is that this will not affect the dreadful numbers of deaths seen in March/April.
But the current rate of an average 72 deaths per day over the past week may be higher than the common sense reality. Some, and we don't know how many, are from natural causes.
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Keir Starmer steps in -
- blasts PM as "slow, slow at every turn"
- demands 250,000 tests a day
- demands 50,000 tracers
Exclusive interview by
@ayeshahazarika
& me
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Waugh at his best. "Cummings actually told journalists: “You guys should get out of London.” Little did we realise that would turn out to be his personalised pandemic self-protection plan."
Waugh Zone by
@PaulWaugh
:
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@PippaCrerar
Maybe a teeny bit rich coming from the building where the boss, his brains, the health adviser, the health executive and the top official all got Covid-19
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We are so humbled by the courage, skill and speed of the
@MetPoliceUK
officers we have seen bravely dealing with this wicked attack here
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Theresa May has invited
@BorisJohnson
into No 10 for a chinwag (presumably asking what is his price to back her deal). She must be desperate as BoJo has been very clear he would need the backstop removed. He slipped in via Cabinet office
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@Keir_Starmer
has best ratings for any Opposition leader since Tony Blair in mid-90s* reveals our exclusive
@IpsosMORI
poll in tonight's terrific
@EveningStandard
(* ie - just before Blair won his record-breaking landslide)
.
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POLL - Support for Remain highest since referendum with big 12-pt gap
Remain - 56%
Leave - 44%
Source: YouGov poll taken after Tuesday's defeat for May's deal. Commissioned by People's Vote but conducted independently
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Yes, the Commission did have an update.
It turns out the Union Jack wasn't bottom of the list
UK 1.3
France 1.3
Belgium 1.1
Germany 0.4
Italy 0.1
Euro area 1.1
Source (Commission, Autumn estimates 2019)
#hubris
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Revealed: Cherie Blair voted Lib Dem in European elections
... and she is "appalled" by the suspension of Alastair Campbell.
A U-turn by Team Corbyn surely cannot be far off.
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Jeremy Corbyn slapped down by watchdog for bogus claim that violent crime doubled under Tories
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Exclusive. Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neil: Brexit means a united Ireland in a generation
Interview by scoopendous colleague
@SophiaSleigh
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Gosh, Tories who heard
@NickTorfaen
on
@BBCr4today
will be thinking this is a shadow home sectetary to be nervous of. Strong support for police begs the question ‘where’s Priti Patel?’
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This is appalling
A nurse ARRESTED for trying to bring her 97-yr-old mother home.
As anyone with elderly relatives knows, old folk are deteriorating fast in locked-down care homes.
Some are even zombified with chemical cosh drugs
If a family home can do the job, why object?
Nine months of separation. Qualified nurse looking to take her mother home and care for her - ARRESTED - how can this be right, in the meantime her 97 year older mother’s health continues to decline
#rightsforresidents
#stilllockedaway
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A massively important story by
@nicholascecil
.
In at least one London borough, the apparent leap in Covid cases is a phantom - because half the new cases are students using their home address
The implications are ....
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Best
#reshuffle
joke from the Tea Room: Sir John Chilcot has written to Jeremy Corbyn asking him to get a move on.
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NEW - Triple boost for Boris Johnson as Damian Green, Tracey Crouch and Andrea Leadsom all back him
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The scent from a sea of flowers for PC Keith Palmer and other victims is indescribably moving in a Westminster dawn
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Speaker Bercow is thoroughly enjoying himself.
I think his critics will struggle to explain to the public why he should not allow MPs to vote on something that the Government doesn't want anyone to vote on.
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"They must be hiding in a giant cake"
Hilarious answer when ex trade negotiator is asked where the Brit gains are found in the UK-Oz deal
'I don't think we've ever done as well as this.'
The UK-Australia trade deal is an 'unprecedented result' for Australia, says former Australian trade negotiator Dmitry Grozoubinski.
@MrJamesOB
|
@DmitryOpines
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Hey,
@EU_Commission
, is there any update on this?
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Growth forecast in 2019:
🇲🇹 4.9
🇮🇪 4.5
🇸🇰 4.1
🇷🇴 3.8
🇵🇱 3.7
🇧🇬 3.7
🇨🇾 3.5
🇭🇺 3.4
🇸🇮 3.3
🇱🇻 3.2
🇱🇺 3
🇨🇿 2.9
🇪🇪 2.8
🇭🇷 2.8
🇱🇹 2.8
🇳🇱 2.4
🇪🇸 2.2
🇫🇮 2.2
🇦🇹 2
🇬🇷 2
🇪🇺 1.9
🇩🇪 1.8
🇸🇪 1.8
🇩🇰 1.8
🇵🇹 1.8
🇫🇷 1.6
🇧🇪 1.5
🇮🇹 1.2
🇬🇧 1.2
#ECForecast
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Seumas is now on £101k.
Andrew Fisher gets a 26% rise to £90k.
Karie leaps 15% to £90k
Nothing too good for the workers!
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Great news for a superb journalist who is also a really nice guy
BBC health editor
@BBCHughPym
named winner of Charles Wheeler Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcast Journalism.
There was praise for his "ability to explain some of the complex causes of the Covid-19 pandemic" that became a defining feature of coverage in past 6 months
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EXCLUSIVE Brexit 'chaos' as top official quits Brexit dept after one year in the job
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SCOOP - SWINSON SURGE CONFIRMED BY 2ND POLL
Lib Dems are effectively level* with Labour, finds top pollsters
@IpsosMORI
.
Con 33 (-1)
Lab 24 (nc)
LD 23 (+3)
BP 10 (+1)
See
@EveningStandard
* ie: within the margin of error
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Uber employs 40,000 drivers in London alone. That's like closing a town.
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Massive respect to
@EmmaVardyTV
for challenging those brutes to their faces and holding them to account in tonight’s
@BBCNews
report. It must have taken a lot of guts.
#LyraMcKee
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No! No! No! The only cruelty is the regime that jails an innocent mother & rips her lovely toddler out of her arms. The same monsters execute people for being gay, having sex outside marriage and insulting the Prophet. That's cruelty. A word slip, however grave, doesn't compare
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POLL of Londoners: Lab 50%, Con, 33, LD, 11, Ukip 3, Green 2. Via
@philipjcowley
& @
@QMPoliticsIR
&
@YouGov
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Horror story for Tories in terms of BAME vote in London local elections - 78% for Labour, just 12% Tory. Hat tip to the brilliant
@philipjcowley
of
@QMUL
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@KirstyBuchanan4
@sussex_police
@YvetteCooperMP
@GillianKeegan
@TheVoiceNews
And how the heck does a private business-funded security force have the power to handcuff young kids? Are they trained? Are they safe? This looks awful.
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SCOOP - Chuka Umunna will stand against the Tories in flagship seat to force a Remain v No Deal showdown.
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Great words, understated delivery, powerful leadership. The Queen knocks spots off the young politicos
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My eyebrows shot up when I read this: "The officer erased the data, as instructed, but kept the copies knowing experts could retrieve the information if they had to." Is this what happens when police "delete" people's data?
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Sketch :
@Keir_Starmer
was on top form today - and
@BorisJohnson
‘s troops looked uneasy over job losses.
PMQs verdict: Cold as ice Starmer was this week's clear winner
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He will stand in Cities of London & Westminster, which has been Tory held since created in 1950.
Mark Field had maj 3,100 in 2017 ... LibDems came 3rd
But 72% back Remain & LDs came top in euro-elections.
In other words, it is eminently winnable
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More news from the Mad World of May's Brexit....
The Brexit Secretary voted against the very Government motion that he actually spoke for at the Dispatch Box.
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Boris will take paternity leave later in the year, I'm told.
For now, he wants to keep a firm grip on he critical decisions about lockdown and Covid-19.
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Explanation of Cummings' Barnard Castle trip doesn't add up - Tory MP
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NEW
British Labour MP
@RhonddaBryant
(Chris Bryant) has nominated
@JoeBiden
for a Nobel Peace Prize.
He tells me: "When others have resorted to violent solutions, he has argued that the best force is the force of argument."
more ...
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Sketch -
@keir_starmer
is dispassionate, pitiless even, the expression of a prosecutor who has sent down bigger villains and merely wonders how long before the wretch in the dock trips and realises the game is up."
..
..
@eveningstandard
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A week ago .....
@RoryStewartUK
was under fire from ministers for saying the Govt should question its modelling & ban large gatherings.
Seven days later the modelling has been, er, updated and social distancing imposed.
A long time in politics ...
Following the latest infections - including in Government - I urge
@10DowningStreet
and
@MattHancock
immediately to accelerate the response. Actions proposed for 2 weeks time - including banning gatherings - must be implemented today. We are taking far too much risk.
#ActToday
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Doctors say the situation in London hospitals is "almost apocalyyptic" and ICUs are "overwhelmed"
Story by
@rosslydall
and
@nicholascecil
& me
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Staggering fact from
@BBCJonSopel
:
There are more US troops in Washington DC to protect Congress from Trump’s mob than in Afghanistan and Iraq combined
#ImpeachmentDay
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My favourite news story of the day.
A genuinely nice guy makes it to the top in a field (no pun intended) that he loves. And this comes a year after he quit his ministerial post with neither malice or self-pity on a point of principle.
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What an extraordinary result in London!
LibDems clear winners - 27% and three MEPs
Lab 2nd with half as many MEPs - 24% and 2 seats.
Brexit has 18% and two MEPs, an amazing result from nowhere
Greens get 12 and keep one seat
Cons come 5th - with 8% and zero MEP
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@IpsosMORI
@EveningStandard
Just to be clear, RBL is BEHIND EMILY THORNBERRY among the very voters that Labour must attract if it is to have any hope of winning power.
Worse, she is trailing Starmer and Nandy in London, the South, Scotland, the Midlands & the North ...
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It’s a bargain - much cheaper than having her at No 10
Sir Keir Starmer calls on Liz Truss to decline £115,000 annual allowance for former PMs
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That TV debate war ...
BBC offers panel including business people to ask questions:
That's "rounded" says No 10.
That's "a fake audience", says Labour
ITV proposes no audience, just the leaders.
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Tories plunge five points in a month after weeks of sleaze storm, reveals
@IpsosMORI
in tonight’s
@EveningStandard
Con 40 (-5)
Lab 37 (-1)
LD 8 (+2)
Green 5 (nc)
mf .....
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.... enormous because these test numbers are used to trigger restrictions, like the potential closure of pubs and restaurants.
Jobs could be lost if they are wrong.
But if test stats are rubbish in Richmond, why should the much higher rate in Redbridge be trusted?
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Senior Labour MP says re Richmond Park: "The ghastly thing is we have over 1,600 Lab members in the seat ... yet we only got 1,515 votes"
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SCOOP: Leaked document shows May and Corbyn discussed plan to block second referendum and leave EU on July 31
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@emilysheffield
gave me the Friday Diary for a valedictory to
@eveningstandard
readers ...
So here's my final week, with tales of the high seas, brutal death in the Commons and asking if Political Editors really need degrees ...
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Pay up, Guido. You can't say no to a doc in scrubs!
.
The tweet by
@MediaGuido
has been deleted.
I don’t need an apology but they could make a donation towards the St George’s Hospital charity:
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Here's a cracking story. Tories are targeting Facebook ads with Boris's image at regions ... but NOT at former Mayor's home city of London. Ace research by
@WhoTargetsMe
into hidden online ads
Tories hiding Boris Johnson from London voters in Facebook ads
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Watching
@OrlaGuerin
reporting from Yemen, what a fine reporter she is. No showboating, just authority and passion.
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“I know Boris, he’d do a very good job.
“I know Jeremy, he’d do a very good job.
“I don’t know Michael,” says Trump, asking Jeremy Hunt “would he do a good job?”
Comedy from POTUS.
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Awful ratings for Jeremy Corbyn in new
@ipsosMORI
poll for
@evening
Standard today
1 in 5 trusts him on Brexit
1 in 6 thinks he gives strong leadership on Brexit
Under a fifth say he puts national interest first on EU exit.
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Ultimate hedge
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Important story by
@NicholasCecil
:
Three senior MPs call for the 3 little orphans in Syria to be brought home to London and cared for.
Thumbs up to caring FAC chair
@TomTugendhat
, ex-Dev Sec Andrew Mitchell & LibDem Foreign spox
@chukaumunna
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Tony Blair puts the BBC's Dyson emails into context on
@bbcr4today
... "We were in the middle of a pandemic ... I find it hard to get worked up about this".
A contrast with official Labour spox who say it is "jaw dropping" and example of "Tory sleaze"
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Up to 21 Tory rebels now against Mrs May's "Brexit Day law".
And two ministers have indicated they could resign next autumn if exit deal is bad for UK
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Tony Blair talking sense as usual on
@BBCr4today
.
If one dose of vaccine gives substantial immunity, why not use second dose on someone else to cover herd quicker?
And why not let GPs choose to give jab to likely spreaders as well elderly?
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Even the House of Commons Christmas tree looks ready to collapse.
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Vaccine wars latest:
@Jeremy_Hunt
tells tonight's
@EveningStandard
"Step by step the EU is destroying the possibility of a long term partnership and friendship with its closest neighbour...it is idiotic in the extreme."
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