Ruth Davidson
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Channel 4 is publicly owned, not publicly funded. It doesn't cost the tax payer a penny. It also, by charter, commissions content but doesn't make/own its own. It's one of the reasons we have such a thriving indy sector in places like Glasgow. This is the opposite of levelling up
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Welcome to the world, little one.
Finn Paul Davidson, born today, 10lb 1.5oz.
Know that you are loved. X
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Met confirms what we already knew: the PM introduced liberty-curtailing rules for public health reasons. This caused huge hardship for those separated from ill or dying loved ones. He then broke the rules he imposed on the country & lost the moral authority to lead. He should go.
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There's no way he can stay on until October. It's arrant nonsense to think he can. Someone needs to grip this.
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By coincidence, my partner shares a birthday with the Prime Minister (19th June). We marked it in 2020 by inviting one other household to sit outside, socially distanced, in our garden. It didn't occur to us - literally couldn't conceive - that we would act outside the rules.
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Pleased to see
@sajidjavid
and
@RishiSunak
showing some backbone. This has gone on far too long.
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My sister is the most kick-ass woman I know. She's an NHS consultant. More than half her cardiology ward is already COVID positive. She told me today she's terrified of what's coming and how bad it will be because idiots were refusing to stay home. Do it now. No ifs or buts.
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How, in the name of all that is good and holy, is there no longer room in the Conservative Party for
@NSoames
?
#anofficerandagentleman
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This Margaret Ferrier case is different - knowingly taking public transport after testing positive for COVID-19 is to put lives at risk. She has to go.
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Is it wrong my first thought is "What a great tale. I wonder what story is about to drop that Trump needs to distract the world from?"
Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened.
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This line won't survive 48 hrs. Nobody needs an official to tell them if they were at a boozy shindig in their own garden. People are (rightly) furious. They sacrificed so much - visiting sick or grieving relatives, funerals. What tf were any of these people thinking?
Health Minister Edward Argar has the unenviable job of defending No 10 this morning over the latest party.
He says he can completely understand why people are “angry, upset and hurt by these allegations” but we have to wait for Sue Gray’s internal investigation.
@BBCBreakfast
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None of this is remotely defensible. Not having busy, boozy not-parties while others were sticking to the rules, unable to visit ill or dying loved ones.
Nor flat-out denying things that are easily provable. Not taking the public for fools. 1/2
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I've worked with Sadiq Khan and the ideas that "Islamists have got control of him" is offensive bollocks. It also wouldn't have been said if he wasn't Muslim. It's a dog whistle and we should be better than this.
Conservative MP Lee Anderson tells GB News that he thinks Sadiq Khan has "given our capital city away" to Islamists, who are "his mates".
"Islamists have got control of Khan and they’ve got control of London," he says.
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Well that was an absolute doing from
@afneil
. A doing on the growth report, a doing on the hypocrisy of her Brexit vs Indy position and a doing over her domestic record in health.
And what's more, she knows it.
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I totally get that some LA funding has been put in place, but am baffled why WM colleagues picking this hill to die on. I didn't have or need free school meals, but I went to a school where a huge % did. Food security during the holidays so important. It's basic. Feed the kids.
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The President of the United States has just turned his face to the world to defend Nazis, fascists and racists. For shame.
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Politics for another day.
Stepping down from an all-consuming role is hard and decompression takes time.
@NicolaSturgeon
has done one helluva shift.
I wish her well for the future.
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As yesterday saw a new low for vaccinations and Scotland officially having the lowest rate of any of the nations and regions of the UK, the dead cat strategy is enacted. Watch all columnist rush to dissect the Joanna Cherry sacking, rather than SNP vaccine failure....
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And today's "we'll investigate what we've spent a week saying didn't happen and discipline staff for rules we continue to say weren't broken" was pathetic. As a Tory, I was brought up to believe in playing with a straight bat. Believe me, colleagues are furious at this, too. 2/2
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Scotland did decide. We voted to stay in the UK.
At stake here is a simple democratic principle that can unite those for and against independence - it is Scotland’s right to decide. The arrogant assertion that the Tories get to decide for us - no matter how Scotland votes - should be given short shrift by every democrat.
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Y'know, it's funny. There was no such front page in 2007 when Brown became PM without a vote (no GE til 2010) or in 2014 when
@NicolaSturgeon
became FM without a vote (no Scottish elex til 2016)
It's **almost** as if their pearl clutching sanctimony is actually partisanship...
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It has been the privilege of my life to serve as
@ScotTories
leader. This morning I wrote to the Scottish party chairman to tender my resignation.
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Official figures show Scotland is running a 7% deficit - the highet in Europe. The next highest are
Cyprus - 4.8%
Romania - 3%
France - 2.5%
And the overall UK's deficit has been brought down to 1.1%
For the SNP to pretend a 7% deficit is not an issue is criminally negligent.
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18 months old today, little man. Jeez, where did the time go? How did you get so big?
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The Prime Minister has cojones of steel and is putting in a punishing degree of effort to deliver for our country. She has my full support.
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As a Protestant Unionist about to marry an Irish Catholic, here's the Amnesty Pride lecture I gave in Belfast...
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Potatoes peeled. Steak pie made. Drink poured. Ready to ring in the bells when they come. Happy New Year to you and yours. 💓 x
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For those (rightly) tearing their hair out at what has gone on at Holyrood today, worth noting that representations to get the Lord Advocate in front of MSPs in parliament tomorrow have been made (led by
@MilesBriggsMSP
) and are currently being refused....
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Not content with "forgetting" she met Salmond's former chief of staff, Nicola Sturgeon has now "forgotten" to hand over WhatsApp messages to the inquiry committee. She's turned into quite the ditz these days, hasn't she?
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An unholy alliance of Corbyn and Sturgeon would bring the country to its knees' | via
@telegraph
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So, I've been away for a few days as I had an important question to ask. Delighted Jen said yes. Very happy. X
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Not big enough. For colleagues' who stood on manifesto after manifesto committed to this, it's a bloody disgrace.
BREAKING Govt wins overseas aid cut vote by 333 votes to 298. Big Tory rebellion
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But, obviously, fine for a First Minister to be 'installed' in Bute House without a Holyrood election. Eh, Nicola?
2. Her departure will not solve the Brexit mess that the Tories have created. Only putting the matter back to the people can do that. Given current circumstances, it also feels deeply wrong for another Tory to be installed in Number 10 without a General Election.
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Very pleased to see a post calling pro-UK Scots "anti Scottish" has now been deleted. But that is grim ultra-nationalist language to come from any Scottish government advisor.
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A tough call to make. But the right one.
BREAKING: Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has called for Boris Johnson to resign after the prime minister admitted attending a Downing Street party during lockdown.
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Right, I'm off for a fortnight. In the mean time, here's
@GillianA
just sitting round the house in stilettos & seamed stockings. As you do.
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First Muslim mayor of a major western city led a Pride march today. You are a class act,
@SadiqKhan
#Pride2016
Amazing
#Pride2016
celebrations in London today. Proud to be Mayor of a city so LGBT+ friendly
#nofilter
#lovewins
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Can't believe this was a year ago today. And now he's a proper little person in his big boy car. Happy first birthday, Finn! 🎉
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Alexa: define classy...
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Erm, what on earth is
@SkyNews
doing tweeting about Rishi Sunak's wife? The woman's a private citizen and, as one of the brightest intake of 2015, Sunak has his own merits for news channels to discuss. Weird.
Rishi Sunak, who was previously chief secretary to the Treasury, will become chancellor after Javid's shock resignation.
His wife is the daughter of Indian billionaire and co-founder of IT services company Infosys, Narayana Murthy.
Live
#reshuffle
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Unbelievably dignified in a really horrible situation.
Wow. Israeli wins gold in Judo in Abu Dhabi, which refuses to show Israeli flag or play its national anthem. So he sings it quietly himself.
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Not sure this was the reception Nicola Sturgeon was expecting in Germany today - Der Spiegel calling her out as a hollow populist blaming Westminster for everything, referencing the Salmond trial & even the
@JournoStephen
sacking affair. via
@SPIEGELONLINE
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We must not let China use Covid as cover for a Hong Kong power grab
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Thanks for all the lovely messages. Too many to reply to all, but know they are appreciated. X
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The Queen's own quiet resolution on how we will see the other side of this and 'meet again' was reassuring, I thought. Didn't know I needed to hear that, but it turns out I did.
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Gtech - the ones with the annoying vacuum advert - reckon they've found a way to make 100 ventilators a week. Please Lord make their design pass muster with the CMO and amazing work by their engineers in turning this around. 👏👏👏
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I think it helps to talk about mental health. I know it would have helped me. Also, realising that a diagnosis isn't a full stop; nor is it binary. It can be managed over time.
If you need to talk,
@SAMHtweets
does some brilliant work.
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I don't think I can remember such a detailed, point by point rebuttal from HMG on a news story, ever.
In current times, I'm sure half of Twitter sharing the original
@thesundaytimes
article won't share this & vice versa, but worth a read for the neutrals
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The committee MUST now call Salmond's legal team to deliver the documents Salmond himself is banned from producing ahead of the Lord Advocate's appearance on Monday.
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Can you just imagine the outcry if the head of media for the
@Conservatives
said this about
@NicolaSturgeon
?
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So, the SNP waited until after Holyrood business had completed before making public that one of their MPs had recklessly endangered the public? Pretty cynical and makes a mockery of expressions of righteous anger from the FM.
The SNP found out about its MP Margaret Ferrier being positive for Covid on Wednesday afternoon, the Commons authorities say
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Families come in all shapes and sizes. So, from me & mine, to you & yours - have a wonderful Christmas and best wishes for the year ahead. X
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Obviously, it would be hugely childish & wrong to chuckle at Linus & Florian, the backbone of Germany's hockey team.
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Unbelievable that the SNP's priority is trying to push through another referendum when it should be on rebuilding after the pandemic.
The Scottish government has published draft legislation for the holding of a second independence referendum.
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Happy birthday my lovely, adventurous boy.
How did you get so big?
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So, if the CMO says she popped up to her holiday home last week as well, does that mean the government statement that she was only up there to check on it, wasn't.... true?
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I love a good wedding anyway, but even the cynics must have found something in that. Wonderful sermon, fabulous choirs and a young couple just looking smiley and happy. Congratulations to Harry & Meghan.
#RoyalWedding
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Humza: I am winging it! And will get found out sooner rather than later 🤣
Jason Leitch: Me too.
People lost loved ones, couldn't attend funerals, lost jobs and businesses.
Here's the health minister & clinical lead laughing in real time at not knowing what they're doing.
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"Statements have been manipulated and the truth has been deliberately hidden.
"This is a clear attempt at a cover-up and an abuse of power at the heart of government. The first minister must answer for it."
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A warm welcome to Ireland. However, if
@UN
Security Council membership is your measure, Scotland has had unbroken representation there for the past 75 years by virtue of the UK's permanent membership...
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In peace I will lie down and sleep,
for you alone, Lord,
make me dwell in safety.
Psalm 4:8
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And......here we go. Right on time Nicola Sturgeon uses any Brexit development to bang the indy drum. Could set your watch by it. Give it a rest.
An aside - a UK government that is able to say that come what may, it will avoid hard borders with Ireland/NI after Brexit can never again tell Scotland that independence would mean a hard border between Scotland and rUK
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By my count, that's the sixth poll in a row showing majority support for staying in the UK....
New poll finds 57 per cent of Scots would vote to 'remain' in UK
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So, the most effective political video of the election so far hasn't come from a political party...
TV actress Maureen Lipman in blistering attack on Jeremy Corbyn and Labour with mock version of her iconic BT advert
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Nicola Sturgeon bellowing about "Alex Salmond's cronies" in the chamber. I know she's rattled, but is that really any way to talk about her SNP colleagues?
#fmqs
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This is getting odder and odder.
NEW: Detectives seen with a spade & garden equipment in the rear garden of Peter Murrell and Nicola Sturgeon’s Glasgow home.
Officers spotted with blue tarpaulin sheets, a stills camera and laptop as they examine the area around the garage.
Rolling coverage
@SkyNews
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I am childless. I have nieces and nephews. I believe I - like everyone else - have a very real stake in our country.
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How did this happen? How?
These pictures are only about a fortnight apart, surely? 😭😭😭
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Well, you know what they say about imitation and flattery....
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But, heaven forbid, the SNP would *never* politicise the pandemic....
Scotland cannot fully recover from the coronavirus crisis unless voters back independence, the deputy first minister has said.
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Does the idea of two referendums in the next 12 months fill you with dread? There's an easy way to help stop that happening - vote
@ScotTories
on December 12th.
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Scotland's most popular and widely read newspaper get it 👇
SCOTTISH SUN SAYS: SNP need to forget IndyRef2 and concentrate on schools, NHS and police
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I am forty-two years old. She is eighteen (18?!)
When I grow up, I want to have the poise of
@EmmaRaducanu
...
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Thought: SNP whip was told on Wed Margaret Ferrier tested positive for COVID. She'd been in Commons that week mixing with colleagues. They should've been told to self-isolate. Did whip instruct them to? How many also returned to Scotland after mixing with COVID +ive colleague?
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(Obviously) I'm not an in-depth student of the SNP membership, but I'm pretty sure that, with this, Kate Forbes has just set fire to her leadership campaign on the very same day as she launched it.
EXCLUSIVE: Kate Forbes would not have voted for Holyrood's equal marriage bill "as a matter of conscience", she tells
@TheScotsman
She will keep the co-op agreement with the Greens but said it would be up to them to 'live with' her economic plans
Story:
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The SNP government should be more concerned with raising standards, not lowering flags. Dismal stuff.
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Had a pre
#CPC18
meeting with
@theresa_may
to discuss all things conference/Brexit/budget. Didn't expect to be surprised with a gift for the wee one at the end (including the PM's favourite book, Swallows & Amazons, for when they're older).
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Shout out to all the other kitchen constructors, dolls house builders, push bike engineers, general toy DIY-ers or anyone still swearing at page 6 of the instruction manual at 10pm on Christmas eve. Bless you. Have a happy Christmas. Xx
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Guess someone got the hairdryer treatment over the phone....
.
@NicolaSturgeon
& I are completely aligned & I support her cautious approach to easing lockdown & re-opening schools. She has kids (& teachers, parents) best interest in mind so better to go slowly, track virus closely & make decisions in a reasoned & data-driven way.
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Shout out to all the unvaccinated Scottish over 40s, watching their timelines fill up with folk in their 30s elsewhere celebrating their jabs...
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If ever the PM needed a metaphor for service and duty and resolution through adversity, that battling performance was it! Huge respect.
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Crikey.
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Apparently, some mild interest in politicians' legs today; here are mine. They're a bit short. But with a lovely Aboyne vista here.
#Legs
-it
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I don't think I've ever agreed with anything Angus has said in his life. But even he can see what's in front of his face on this one...
So yesterday- Salmond must provide the evidence!!
BUT
Today - Salmond must NOT provide the evidence.
....To understate - this doesn't look good for Holyrood and the Crown Office looks crooked.
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Of course they are. Right in the middle of a pandemic.
Leading SNP politicians are drawing up a renewed case for Scottish independence while Britain is in lockdown.
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Davidson: Independence could give me the body of Beyonce, the speed of Usain Bolt and Gillian Anderson for a wife.
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Nicola Sturgeon has today chosen the path of further division and uncertainty. We will vote against any request for a Section 30 next week.
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I don't know who was quick off the mark with this, but it works.
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I have regularly found myself in disagreement with Boris Johnson, but I agree wholeheartedly with the PM here. In fact, I would urge him to go further and make this change for BNO passport holders in Hong Kong anyway, irrespective of this security law being imposed on the city.
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Dozens of people in the basement with a DJ, dancing and a suitcase full of booze? I still can't conceive how anyone - anyone - thought any of this was OK. Especially when the rest of the country was doing their damndest to play by the rules, often at great personal cost.
🚨EXCLUSIVE
Number 10 held two boozy parties the night before the Queen mourned Prince Philip alone.
Staff drank and at points danced until the early hours of the night of April 16.
Hours later, the Queen went to a socially-distanced funeral for Philip.
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