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Nick Robinson: “Chancellor, it’s no use saying ‘well of course we’ve listened’ - for 2 weeks you’ve done the opposite of listening.”
Kwarteng: “Well, it was about 9 days”
@BBCr4today
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Keir Starmer responds to accusations that he's boring - says what's needed is "a serious person steering the country calmly and confidently"
"If I came on and said I'd done a bungee jump, you wouldn't say 'Well great, now we have the PM we need'" he tells
@BBCr4today
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Brandon Lewis tries to compare the PM's Partygate fine to getting a speeding fine then backs out.
"I'm not in any way trying to equate a speeding ticket with the sacrifices people have made through Covid", he says
Mishal Husain: "You've actually literally just done that."
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Absolutely savage exchange at the Covid Inquiry where epidemiologist Carl Heneghan is asked about being called a "fuckwit" by other experts
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Cost of living crisis will prove 'fatal' for some families in poverty,
@BootstrapCook
tells MPs
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🚨Michael Gove puts pressure on Liz Truss to extend free school meals to ALL households on Universal Credit. He says in an “ideal world” he’d want universal free school meals in primary schools
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🚨 Police have been given 500 pieces of paper AND 300 photographs of evidence on partygate, Commander Catherine Roper told reporters. [via Reuters] 🚨
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Government guidance states schools are NOT required to provide free school meals during February half term.
Sigh.
[Withdrawn] [WITHDRAWN] Providing school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
www.gov.uk
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Nadhim Zahawi unable to say who called the meeting between Sue Gray and Boris Johnson when repeatedly asked by
@RidgeOnSunday
He insists the PM would never intervene in her Partygate investigation
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5 Tory MPs rebelled against the Government on the free school meals and backed Labour
- Caroline Ansell
- Robert Halfon
- Jason McCartney
- Anne Marie Morris
- Holly Mumby Croft
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Hmmm - Boris Johnson says he "can’t give you a cast iron guarantee that we will get to a particular number in a particular year" when asked about the Tory manifesto promise to build 300,000 homes a year by mid 2020s
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Tory 2019 manifesto co-author Rachel Wolf says Liz Truss partly won the leadership race due to perceived loyalty to Boris Johnson - but this Government has now junked everything he stood for. She makes the point that this Govt has neither a democratic or Parliamentary mandate
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan gives Cressida Dick “days and weeks” to prove she is dealing with problems in the Met Police.
He says he is "disgusted and angry" by what he's seen in recent weeks
#Today
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Chris Bryant absolutely tearing into Rishi Sunak for missing PMQs this week and next - and missing the Boris Johnson Partygate lies report
"You found time to opine on the cricket" but won't take part in key votes, Bryant tells the PM
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Liz Truss says Boris Johnson would make a better PM than Rishi Sunak
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Ex Tory chief whip Julian Smith tells
@BBCr4today
says Boris Johnson “has obviously looked across the water at what Trump did last year and decided that he wants to have some mini version in the UK and that's very dangerous”
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Vladimir Putin says Boris Johnson topless would be 'disgusting' and tells G7 'do sports'
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Labour's Lisa Nandy brands Liz Truss's anti growth coalition rant "laughable"
"She's the leader of that anti-growth coalition" Nandy tells
@BBCr4today
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Not a nice moment there.
Rishi Sunak tries to attack Keir Starmer on the “definition of a woman” as Brianna Ghey’s mother looks on from the public gallery. Starmer tells him he should be ashamed
#PMQs
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Angela Rayner says she'll publish details on her capital gain tax info if Rishi Sunak, Jeremy Hunt and Tory deputy chairman James Daly publish theirs
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💥Home Office report warned about spiking 'jokes' the day James Cleverly made date-rape gag
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On Lord Kilclooney, Labour’s Lords leader, Baroness Angela Smith said she was making a complaint to the Lords Speaker. “I am so angry about this comment. It is despicable and beneath contempt, and totally unacceptable from anyone – but especially from someone in Parliament."
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Boris Johnson pays tribute to Prince Phillip as the Queen's "strength and stay". He quotes the Queen saying the country "owed her husband a greater debt than he would ever claim or we shall ever know". The PM says the nation will give thanks for his "extraordinary life and work"
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Keir Starmer tells
@lorraine
that the comments about Diane Abbott are "abhorrent" and says he doesn't buy the idea the remarks weren't racist
He tells the Tories "call it out and return the money"
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Liz Truss says that 'the jury's out' on President Macron.
She says she'd judge the French leader on "deeds not words" if she becomes PM.
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Terrific pic from Boris Johnson's visit to a vaccination centre this morning
(Leon Neal/Getty Images)
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Rishi Sunak claims people of North Yorkshire won't support Keir Starmer... days after the people of North Yorkshire elected a Labour mayor
#PMQs
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Lib Dem winner Helen Morgan is about to burst Boris Johnson’s Bubble in Oswestry
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Barrister Adam Wagner tells
@BBCr4today
Boris Johnson "could be in line for £10,000 in fixed term penalty notices" - as fines accumulate for repeat offences.
Police are probing 6 parties the PM is believed to have attended
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Lib Dem candidate Helen Morgan arrives at the count to cheering activists
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Dominic Raab tells
@LBC
that it "does not look like freshers week" in Downing Street when asked about the Guardian picture
Because this is where we are.
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General election but do it seat by seat
NEW: Ex-Tory Scott Benton quits as Blackpool South MP rather than waiting for voters to oust him through a recall petition
Another by-election...
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On the PM’s rules mix-up, Labour’s Angela Rayner says: “For the Prime Minister to not understand his own rules is grossly incompetent.
"These new restrictions are due to come into force across huge parts of the country tonight. The government needs to get a grip."
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Starmer tells the PM to call a general election.
Voters have “heard the government telling them to eff off, and they want the chance to return the compliment” he says
#PMQs
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On Scottish independence, Nicola Sturgeon tells
#Marr
: "I don't want a referendum to make a gesture, I want a referendum that can deliver independence."
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Announcing lockdown changes that affect millions of people at 9.15pm - which come in at *midnight* - without any detail is truly extraordinary
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Chief Nursing Officer Ruth May confirms that she was dropped from the No10 briefing (as per my former colleague
@ShaunLintern
). She tells the Public Accounts Committee: "It is indeed true I was dropped from the briefing but that happens to many of my colleagues as well."
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⚽️ Extra bank holiday for Brits if England win Euro 2022 backed by Keir Starmer
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Boris Johnson rows back on his Jimmy Savile comments
He tells reporters: "I'm talking not about the leader of the opposition's [Starmer's] personal record when he was when he was DPP and I totally understand that he had nothing to do personally with those decisions."
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Thrilled to say I’m joining the Mirror’s lobby team next month 🎉. So sad to leave my fab colleagues at the Indy but I’m really excited to get started.
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Incredible that there's no Government minister on the airwaves this morning
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@BBCr4today
Labour will oppose new anti-strike laws which would reportedly include minimum service levels for NHS, rail, education, fire and border security.
“The idea the way to improve industrial relations is banning industrial action is just for the birds," says Rachel Reeves
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Jeremy Hunt effectively admits to
@Peston
that the dossier put out by Treasury this morning attacking Labour's Warm Homes Plan doesn't stack up
Tories force officials to draw up 'bogus' attack dossier on Labour home insulation plan
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Yikes - evidence to the Covid Inquiry today shows the Chief Scientific Adviser called Rishi Sunak "Dr Death the Chancellor"
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Prof Andrew Pollard, chief investigator of the Oxford vaccine, says new variants will arise and spread like colds - "but as long as we have enough immunity to prevent severe disease, hospitalisations and death, we are going to be fine"
#r4today
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Education Secretary Gillian Keegan says free school meals eligibility is "always under review" but says "a lot of children" already qualify.
1.9million kids in England get FSM but an estimated 800,000 living in poverty don't
@BBCr4today
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Excl: Department of Health slammed by stats watchdog over claim of cutting NHS waits
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WhatsApps show No10 aides were worried about potential leaks of images showing Boris Johnson at a “piss up" - months before they denied rulebreaking shown in the Mirror's initial Partygate reports...
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Justice 4 Liz Truss 🙏
From her new book (as per the Mail): "Despite now being one of the most photographed people in the country, I had to organise my own hair and makeup appointments"
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Labour's Louise Haigh tears into the Government for using NI as a 'political football' with its plans to override parts of the Brexit deal
She quotes Margaret Thatcher - of all people - "Britain does not renounce treaties".
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This is turning into a major row now. NAHT leader Paul Whiteman brands her comments 'a desperate attempt by government to deflect from its own significant failings'
Catching up Gillian Keegan's latest appearance on the airwaves. She told
@theJeremyVine
that heads who've not responded to a Govt survey on whether their schools are affected by dodgy concrete should “get off their backsides”
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Exclusive: Rishi Sunak hikes tax on domestic flights - but not private jets or helicopters
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Keir Starmer jokes the Rwanda scheme has been a success if its aim was to send people there that the UK doesn't deal want to deal with
“Apart from members of his own Cabinet, how many people has the PM sent to Rwanda?”
#PMQs
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James Cleverly says the PM shouldn't resign if he's fined over Partygate.
“I don’t think what the country needs at the moment is a vacuum at the centre of government," he tells
@RidgeOnSunday
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The Tory MP accused of rape is able to vote in tonight's leadership contest - by a proxy by the sounds - as they haven't lost the whip (as per
@kateferguson4
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Corbyn accuses Boris Johnson of failing to stand up to Trump on Iran because he wants trade deal. PM says the idea is 'absolute fiction'
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I've deleted an earlier tweet as we understand Dominic Raab wrongly said on Sky there were 250 people in hospital with Omicron.
The real figure is 10.
Obviously crucial we have the right figures from Government!!
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Tobias Ellwood has been temporarily given the Tory whip back to let him vote in today’s leadership ballot, whips office says. A spox says it’s to ensure neutrality of whips office isn’t questioned
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Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle says he WILL allow a vote on whether Boris Johnson should be investigated over claims he misled Parliament on Partygate
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Wolf says it’s basically impossible for Truss to push a Thatcherite agenda now. She says it’s not right to sell the electorate one thing and then do something completely different and appear not to care
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The difference between DfE guidance on food boxes and the parcels branded "disgraceful" by the PM boils down to about 50p a day, according to Labour
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Boris Johnson says Emmanuel Macron is "un tres bon buddy" of the UK.
I cannot
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Hollywood stars Olivia Colman, Kate Winslet and singer Ed Sheeran lead calls for free school meals for all primary pupils
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Angela Rayner tells a TUC fringe she’ll get Labour’s deal on workers rights done in the first 100 days. “Anyone who knows me knows I’m no angel but I get things done”, she says
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Boris Johnson declares a donation to the value £23,853 from Lord and Lady Bamford for his wedding party in July - inc smoke, braai and an ice cream van🍦
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Found this v funny (it's been a long weekend!)
Labour launches spoof Netflix shows rinsing Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss and Boris Johnson
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Post Office hero Alan Bates snubbed as Rishi Sunak hands honours to Tory pals
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1922 Committee chairman - and no-confidence letters supremo - Sir Graham Brady is standing down as an MP at the next election 👇
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Keir Starmer says he's got 'no deal with the SNP' at the next election "tattooed on my forehead".
He says Nicola Sturgeon can sell it to her voters that she has let in a Conservative government by bringing down a Labour one at the next election
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It's back!! The best gif of the election
@DawnHFoster
Labour manifesto launches
#CostOfCorbyn
... how's Corbyn going to make it rain so much money?
#GE2019
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On January 3...
Lee Anderson describes Richard Tice as ‘Reform’s answer to Diane Abbott’ and calls him Pound-shop Farage
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Covid Inquiry counsel Hugo Keith KC says no-deal Brexit planning may have "crowded out" work on the UK's resilience to a pandemic
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New data for
@BestForBritain
shows that if 30% of pro-Remain people vote tactically, it could return 324 MPs pro EU parties - against the 309 seats for the Tories.
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Explosive Covid Whatsapps show Simon Case joke Carrie Johnson is 'real person in charge'
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Keir Starmer asks an audience of business leaders if they would have come to a Labour business conference in 2019.
“No,” shouts an audience member.
Starmer jokes there is no audience participation - and tells people to “put your glitter away”
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Hmmm...
@DianaJohnsonMP
asks Rishi Sunak if whips warned Tory MPs that if they voted to pay compensation for the infected blood scandal then Budget tax cuts could be at risk
PM says it's "not something I’m aware of"
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Labour's shadow culture secretary Jo Stevens says students should be allowed to go home for Christmas.
She says universities should be testing every student and staff member on arrival on campus, like at Cardiff University
@RidgeOnSunday
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North Shropshire by-election snacks - choose your fighter…
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Just unbelievable
Women being snatched by police at the vigil for Sarah Everard. Shameful, shameful scenes.
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🚨Lib Dems now saying they are confident of victory. Spox: “We’re not just going to win, we're going to win comfortably. This is an amazing night for the Liberal Democrats and a disaster for Boris Johnson”
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Thornberry signals Labour will call another confidence motion in the government but can't say whether it will be this week
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I’m at the Tilda rice factory in Essex, where Nicky Morgan, David Miliband and Nick Clegg are launching a cross-party push against a hard Brexit
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Rachel Wolf is the second person on this panel to say the Tories are unlikely to win the next election - at a
@CapX
fringe called “Can the Tories win the next election?”
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EXCL We caught brazen Tory minister door-knocking with flasher MP Peter Bone
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Sunak tries to distance himself from his £1,000 wager with Piers Morgan yesterday after a big backlash
He says he is “not a betting person” and was “taken totally by surprise” by it
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🎄 BORIS JOHNSON'S NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS 🎄
BREAKING Lib Dems win North Shropshire by-election in brutal defeat for Boris Johnson
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NEW: Sadiq Khan vows to roll out free school meals for all primary pupils in London for a second year
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@SkyNews
Dominic Raab flat denies that Boris Johnson will face a confidence vote next week.
"No - I think the Westminster bubble, village, whips this stuff up"
He says he "doubts" 40 MPs have written to Graham Brady
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@ShaunLintern
Asked about the lockdown rules and the actions of Dominic Cummings, she said: "I believe the rules were clear and they were there for everyone's safety. They applied to us all."
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Professor Chris Whitty suggests some Covid restrictions could be still be necessary NEXT winter
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Boris Johnson says parents in England should send children to primary school in areas they are open.
"Schools are safe. The risks to young people are very, very small indeed... the risk to staff is very small."
#Marr
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Keir Starmer quips: “All we need now is an especially hardy lettuce and it can be 2022 all over again”
#PMQs
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