Michael Crick
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Journalist/Writer; RTS Spec Jrnst of Year 2014+18. C Wheeler/BJR award 2018; Farage biography, 2022. Council, Univ of Kent. Also @tomorrowsMPs
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He’s now Dr Doctor Marcus Rashford of the University of Manchester
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I've just been expelled from GBNews studio after being invited there to criticise Brian Rose, 2021 London mayoral candidate, & then - when asked why I thought Ofcom should close GBNews down - I said because it's a right wing channel dominated by Tory & Brexit Party politicians
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I’m puzzled. Brexiteers are upset with the Supreme Court judgement. Yet the Government insisted prorogation was nothing whatsoever to do with Brexit. So how can the decision to overturn prorogation harm Brexit?
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So England are the first country to win World Cups in cricket, football and rugby.
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Amazing the BBC Ten O’Clock News didn’t have the Dominic Cummings story in their headlines. It must be a deliberate decision, but goodness knows why.
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I’m delighted to hear the BBC is going to invest £100m in “diversity”. But I hope that’s an honest aim, & their diversity includes the over-60s, & manual workers, & rural people, & those who didn’t go to university, & Northerners, & people not surprised by the 2016 Brexit vote
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How cowardly of BBC News not to show Conservative Jenrick dinner video properly because the Tories vetoed it. There’s no way in a million years they’d lose in court - the public interest is obvious.
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Senior Conservative MP: "Boris is an f****** disgrace & if he had an ounce of integrity - which he doesn't - he'd have walked immediately."
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The Covid profits table of shame, thanks to Private Eye…. And if you’re looking for windfall taxes.
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Richard Ratcliffe, who fought so tenaciously yet graciously, to release his wife Nazanin, tonight wins Campaigner of the Year at Civility in Politics awards
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I’m amused to read all these colleagues saying Cummings has left Number Ten for good. Don’t be so sure. I remember when Cameron forced Gove to sack Cummings as his special adviser at Education. Several weeks later my cameraman filmed Cummings leaving the Education Department.
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I can confirm that PayPal have closed the fund-raising page for James Goddard, one of the leading protestors against Anna Souby outside Westminster yesterday
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Great parallels between Boris Johnson & Jeremy Corbyn: great campaigners, idolised by fans; twice divorced; hopeless with money; utterly disorganised; scant on detail; avoid media interviews, press conferences or scrutiny
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I’m puzzled. The Congestion Charge was designed to encourage Londoners to use public transport. So why reinstate it when the Government wants people to avoid using public transport?
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I have left Channel 4 News and ITN after seven and a half great years. Farewell to all my fabulous colleagues. I’m looking forward to an exciting new life writing books again, and all sorts of other activity in journalism and other fields.
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Big story which Sunday Times doesn’t make enough of. They say officials fear Cummings will say Johnson missed 5 key Covid meetings at start of crisis as was writing his Shakespeare biography to fund his divorce settlement. I’d heard same from non- Govt source but couldn’t prove.
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Shocking report from Tortoise and James Harding about how easy it is to sign up fake Conservative members. How many members have the Russian government signed up? Does anyone in the party check that their members are genuine?
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Today, FOR ONE DAY ONLY, every adult in Britain was born in the 20th century, and every child in Britain today was born in the 21st century
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Tomorrow Rishi Sunak should show some backbone and respond to the sub postmasters scandal by saying:
1. Fujitsu banned from all future HMG contracts until full story told and everyone who suffered compensated;
2. All current Fujitsu contracts terminated;
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If the Home Office is making all these cock-ups over the Windrush generation, how can they possibly hope to register the more than 3m EU citizens living here? I suspect that this is just a tiny taste of what is to come post-Brexit
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I'm hearing that for tomorrow's speech by Jeremy Corbyn about media freedom, news cameras are banned - "no room" we're told. Instead the organisers will distribute a transcript and video clips after the event. Wow! There's a good way to challenge people in power!
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There’s something rather strange about the PM’s demeanour in this video.
Boris Johnson calls tonight's result on his leadership "decisive" saying it means "as a government, we can move on and focus on that stuff that really matters"
The PM has won vote of confidence despite Tory MP rebellion - 211 voted for him and 148 against
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This is quite a shocking story by Alan Rusbridger, of how senior Tories fixed the chairmanship of Ofcom - hence the current mess over Ofcom's abject failure to regulate GB News:
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Vacuum of integrity. What a brilliant description from Dominic Grieve - just the sort of phrase Johnson might have dreamt up himself. The words will stick to Johnson for the rest of his life, and beyond it.
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High Street in Oxford has been brought to halt by a sit-down protest against the Cecil Rhodes statue on Oriel College by
#RhodesMustFall
campaign.
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36 new peers. Once again people have been appointed to our legislature for LIFE, with full voting & speaking rights, but no public scrutiny. Why, under a government supposedly committed to openness and transparency, are these appointments made in secret (apart from a few leaks)?
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The Mail in 1991 when Panorama revealed John Manor was on the electoral register at a house where he never lived.
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This is Jeff Silvester, boss of Vote Leave's Canadian data firm AIQ visiting Number 10 last autumn. I'm told his AIQ colleague Zack Massingham went with him, and they also visited Conservative HQ. Number 10 have yet to answer my question as to what their visit was about
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Lord (David) Pannick, perhaps the most brilliant KC of our times, is a busy man. He is defending two major clients right now: Boris Johnson and Manchester City. One is accused of debasing the premiership on a historic scale. So is the other.
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New peerage list is an outrage - as always - verging on corrupt. None of these appointments have had any public scrutiny, yet they'll be in Lords for life. 27-year-old Plaid nominee Carmen Smith could be there for 70 years, on allowances of £40,000 pa. A mockery of democracy.
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Eventually, during a break, an angry producer of the programme marched in and said "Out", and pointing at me, "You, Out!" He said I'd refused to "move on", in terms of topic. Gosh he was furious. So anyway, I left.
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If Number Ten is not careful it could soon look like the BBC has become the state broadcaster.
The
@10DowningStreet
press office have granted
@theresa_may
interviews to 20
@BBCNews
journalists during conference; none for
@Channel4News
or
@5_News
and there is solidarity across broadcasters that this is a dangerous precedent
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If you want to understand the British Establishment just read page 8 of latest Private Eye. The photo is from the 2014 Tory Carlton Club dinner. It includes Liz Truss, Lucy Frazer, former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells & current postal minister Kevin Hollinrake.
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Caught in the act! Meet Lee Anderson, Conservative candidate for Ashfield, who forgets his MailPlus mic is on. Click here to see our film and his ruse to set MailPlus up with unusually friendly voter.
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BREAKING: The CPS have told Channel 4 News tonight that they are considering charges against more than 30 individuals.
#electionexpenses
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If the PM is seriously thinking of appointing Nadhim Zahawi as Chancellor he should first get Zahawi to clear up the questions in this film I made for
@MailPlus
and first raised in the Sunday Times on 28 Nov 1999, and talk to businessman Kevin Higgs.
ZAHAWI DENIES FORGERY. Vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi finally denies a 1999 newspaper claim that he admitted forging 2 signatures on fake copyright licence agreement.
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Corbyn rally, Birmingham tonight. He has probably addressed bigger meetings in 2017 than any leader since Churchill
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Tonight, in quick succession, I - & no doubt other reporters - received 6 Treasury press releases about what’s in next week’s budget - 5 of them embargoed to various times over weekend - so we can’t use them yet. Whatever became of budget secrecy & announcing things to MPs first?
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Richard Ratcliffe is such an incredibly nice guy. A model to everyone is his courage, persistence and his devotion to his wife. When this is over he deserves a major place in public life. Both he and his wife are victims of
@BorisJohnson
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Given Fujitsu's role in creating the deeply flawed Horizon computer system at the heart if the postmasters' scandal, it would be interesting to know if the British government is still awarding them contracts. If so, why?
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Brexit department say Dominic Raab isn’t doing any more broadcast interviews today following the one he’s just done for Today. I’ve never known a time when both senior Cons & Lab politicians seem so scared of media questions
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I pay a lot of money for my Times subscription. Please could somebody at the Times please explain why this story was pulled. If it was inaccurate please could you warn fellow-journalists so that we don’t repeat your mistake.
It is four years since I worked for The Times. Sometimes I hear stuff ... but I don't know why this story on Carrie Johnson was cut after being published in early editions.
Yet cut it was. How are readers supposed to trust a paper that does this without explaining why?
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In almost any other walk of life the outstanding, answered questions about the business careers of Zahawi & Shapps would disqualify them from the start. But in choosing a new PM - & doing so hastily - nobody seems to care.
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Damian Collins has been unanimously readopted as Conservative candidate for Folkestone & Hythe. So Arron Banks’s £30,000+ campaign, sending letters to every constituent, urging them to join Tories so as to deselect Collins, seems to have been a total waste of money
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I have some sympathy with Jeremy Hunt's gaffe about his wife being Japanese - when she's actually Chinese. I once asked someone at a party: "Have you met my wife Barbara?" "No, I'm called Margaret." she interrupted. She's now my ex-wife, though I don't think this is the reason
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If Conservative Party had done background checks on Zahawi 20 years ago he'd never have been an MP, let alone a minister. Based on a 1999 Sunday Times article by Nick Fielding about Zahawi & Jeffrey Archer they clearly should have contacted businessman Kevin Higgs. They didn't.
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No doubt GB News will post the full exchanges on here shortly.
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What shocks me is reporters collaborate with May press team by agreeing to reveal their questions to them in advance
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This postmasters scandal is blood-boiling. And so many of the incompetents responsible for these gross injustices are still working in public life. How many have apologised? How many have used their own money to compensate victims? How many have resigned in shame?
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Ten days after the ITV Post Office drama was first broadcast, not a single member of the Post Office board of directors in that time - so far as I am aware - chairs, executives, non-execs - has had the decency, the courage, the humility, to do a broadcast interview on the scandal
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I warned the Conservatives Jeffrey Archer was an accident waiting to happen;
And Nadhim Zahawi;
And Andy Coulson;
And Grant Shapps;
And Boris Johnson;
And Lee Anderson;
Others warned them too. We don't have special powers or insight.
In most cases it was blindingly obvious.
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I've just gone into a post office in northern England & got chatting to subpostmaster. They lost only a few thousand but know 3 others within 5 miles who suffered much worse. Only 2 of these 4 are in Bates campaign. That suggests scale of injustice could be even worse.
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If I were Prime Minister I would appoint a troubleshooter in Downing Street whose job it would be to spot scandals like the Post Office early on, and stop them. One duty would be to read Private Eye every issue, and the trade press.
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OK. Release the paperwork then.
It is important that the facts are not misrepresented on the basis of this interview as the Labour party (ever ready to jump on a bandwagon) is already doing🙄
We will make a statement tomorrow telling the truth about what’s been happening.
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I’m told by one Labour source that the Starmer “inner circle are worried about being seen as anti-Muslim”. Maybe that explains their treatment of Oldham, Rotherham and so on.
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My iron rule for press conferences. Ask ONE question, and keep it very short.
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It’s strange Norman Tebbit is calling for whip to be withdrawn from Heseltine for disloyalty, when only a few years back he said he couldn’t blame Conservatives for voting Ukip
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Absolutely right. The past days, with a few honourable exceptions, have been a shameful period for British journalism, in which scrutiny, challenge, perspective, balance and common sense have been ditched in favour of fawning banalities.
I appreciate the bbc will be criticised whatever they do,but I am struggling with the sheer banality of the coverage. It just feels like everyone is just repeating the same words all the time.
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If Jacob Rees-Mogg is a man of decency, he will immediately pick up his phone, ring Douglas Ross, and apologise.
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So let me get this right: Jeremy Corbyn, who has strongly condemned the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie, won’t be readmitted to the Labour Party by Keir Starmer, who has remained silent.
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If Keir Starmer says he and his colleagues were in Durham for the Hartlepool by-election, I trust the costs of the trip appeared on Labour's by-election expense return. That ought to have included all their hotel bills, and the takeaway curry, which reportedly cost £200.
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Boris Johnson, "Brexit means Brexit and we are going to make a Titanic success if it". Perhaps worst speech he's ever made
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He resigned out of a sense of shame at what had been happening under his command.
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Public discourse on Post Office scandal has been too selective on who should be held to account or blamed. There's not been enough focus on Fujitsu; or to other CEOs apart from Paula Vennells, such as Adam Crozier; or to the many postal services ministers other than Ed Davey.
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Theresa May has just told Iain Dale she won’t “answer hypothetical questions”, but then warns what would happen if Jeremy Corbyn became PM
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This is a truly dreadful interview by Davey & will be used by media trainers for ever as a model of what not to do. "Of course, I regret..." goodness knows how many times. So insensitive & ill-prepared. Davey's aides also failed to advise him properly. I'm afraid he has to go
Sir Ed Davey has refused to apologise over his position in the Post Office scandal, despite being asked to more than ten times in an interview with ITV News'
@PaulBrandITV
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@BBCNews
In the history of dramatic political resignations, that is very near the top. Philip Rutnam is a very courageous man.
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And in a 1991 BBC Panorama programme we showed how PM John Major had been registered in 1968 at a house in Lambeth which the owner told me he'd never lived at - not even for one night. That qualified him to stand for Lambeth Council, and he duly won a seat. The Mail splash…
I'm not sure this police investigation into whether Angela Rayner broke electoral law will get very far. When we found on C4 News in 2017 Stoke by-election that Ukip leader Paul Nuttall was registered at address he'd told me he'd never yet visited, Staffs police investigated &…
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If Nadhim Zahawi had pursued his libel threats against journalists he would have ended up committing perjury and perversion of the course of justice, offences for which his friend and old partner Lord Archer went to jail.
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The BBC’s coverage from Ukraine tonight is brilliant - forensic, dramatic, intelligent, wonderfully shot, well written, courageous, shocking. Corporation has excelled this last month like no other time in its 100 years. (Though I admit I didn’t see much TV news before 1964.)
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EXCL Following queries from me, Ukip leader Henry Bolton has today corrected his LinkedIn site to remove the BA he claimed from Sandhurst (which doesn't award BAs), & clarified that the BA he still claims from City & Guilds (which also doesn't award BAs) is really an NVQ Level 6
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@Nigel_Farage
What about the UKIP MEPs who Left UKIP, like, er, you? Shouldn’t you stand down and let the next person on the Ukip list take their seat?
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One of the most interesting things about Badenoch was that in 2018 the Mail on Sunday reported an interview Badenoch had previously given, in which she admitted hacking a Labour MP’s website in 2008 (when aged 28) to say nice things about the Tories”. The MP was Harriet Harman.
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If I were Chris Rowley, chief constable of Lancashire, I would resign in shame after seeing Ed Thomas’s shocking BBC News report tonight. He reported that parents in Chorley are having to police a local park themselves to stop their children being attacked by violent gangs.
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In future, why not oblige all Referendum campaigns and all political parties while a contest is going on to lodge a copy of every online or social media ad, and every paper leaflet, at the time with the Electoral Comm? I’ve argued this for years in the case of ordinary elections.
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Corbyn gets it in neck for being lukewarm about Remain. Yet for Theresa May being lukewarm about Remain is now a great virtue. I'm puzzled
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Nobody is attacking you for that. I suggest you spend a quiet evening in your empty house reading the Representation of the People Act
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I'm not sure this police investigation into whether Angela Rayner broke electoral law will get very far. When we found on C4 News in 2017 Stoke by-election that Ukip leader Paul Nuttall was registered at address he'd told me he'd never yet visited, Staffs police investigated &…
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It’s worth stressing that what happened today was NOT a press conference. There were just two BBC (as ever) people there; no other journalists & certainly no questions.
Theresa May’s press conference today was not about a Prime Minister making tough choices in a negotiation. It was about appeasing the insatiable Brexit fanatics in her own party. Brexit is a Tory psychodrama, nothing more.
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Postmasters 2/2:
3. All senior Post Office staff & directors involved in scandal 2010-20, banned for life from public sector jobs;
4. All NDAs relating to scandal to be scrapped by Parliament;
5. Compensation to be paid by 31 Dec 2024.
Keir Starmer should commit to same
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I’m terribly sorry. I seem to have touched a raw nerve with so many people with this tweet. That was most inconsiderate of me. I do apologise.
Great parallels between Boris Johnson & Jeremy Corbyn: great campaigners, idolised by fans; twice divorced; hopeless with money; utterly disorganised; scant on detail; avoid media interviews, press conferences or scrutiny
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On sale at the UKIP Young Independence shop - the Nigel Farage condom. £1 each or 4 for £2.
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Private Eye says Guardian editor
@KathViner
was paid £391,000 last year. That’s more than twice as much as the Prime Minister. And Guardian CEO Annette Thomas gets £630,000 pa plus bonuses. Shome mistake surely? Or perhaps the Guardian’s financial woes aren’t as bad as I thought
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Oldham child sex exploitation report is extraordinary: “Offender A worked for Oldham Council between 1998 and 2006. He was employed as a welfare rights officer in the welfare rights unit of the council seconded to the Oldham Pakistani Community centre…”
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And could the Conservatives please tell us what Theresa May is doing tonight that is more important than the leaders' debate?
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"We're not allowed to answer your questions," say workers at factory being visited by Theresa May
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So TV newsreaders are trusted to tell the truth by 62%, but journalists by only 26%. So who do the public think writes what the newsreaders read?
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We all have to show ID whenever we collect a parcel from the local Royal Mail depot, but nobody accuses Royal Mail of postal suppression
@Ed_Miliband
The extrent of vote fraud may be exaggerated - & proposed remedies may go too far - but you can’t say there’s NO problem. Remember Birmingham or Tower Hamlets? And remember Marsha-Jane Thompson, convicted of vote fraud in 2006, later employed in Corbyn’s office & now Labour HQ?
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Today’s Telford child sexual abuse inquiry comes after similar horrific inquiry reports in Oldham & Rotherham in past 3 weeks. I don’t think the BBC linked the three. If not, why not?
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Civil service union leader Mark Serwotka says some of his members administering Universal Credit for the government are themselves in receipt of Universal Credit. Crazy if true.
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I was told by May aide I wasn't on list to ask May a question, & there was no point in putting my hand up to ask one
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I have long divided politicians into two categories: 1. The weak who run away; avoid media questions; or come up with platitudes. 2. The strong who relish media combat with confidence,
a smile, & good humour, and tend to answer the questions asked.
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Blimey. Lord Stephen Gilbert, whose name crops up in some of the election expenses stories we’ve done on C4 News, has been appointed to the Electoral Commission
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Now Corbyn is joining BBC leaders' debate in Cambridge, what possible excuse do Tories have for putting up Amber Rudd rather than May?
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In this modern world of supposed government transparency what is the possible argument for keeping secret the membership of SAGE, the Government’s scientific advisory group?
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BBC News seem to have have rather underplayed their good story tonight about another Priti Patel case involving a DWP staff member who received a £25,000 settlement. She had been dismissed and took two overdoses of prescription drugs.
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Some gentle advice to any journalist about to interview Jeffrey Archer about his new book, Traitor's Gate, the latest in a series about William Warwick who rises, book by book, up the Met police. Ask Archer about his own five months as a Met copper in 1960, & ask why he left.
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