Sorry wait what?!?
Did I just hear that right?
Did the PM just admit to an off-the-books, official-less meeting as Foreign Secretary with a former KGB officer while on a personal jaunt in Italy??!!
#liaisoncommittee
Why are furious keyboard warriors telling a recently released prisoner, who spent 6 years in prison in Iran, what *she* should feel about her time in there?!
Who are these people?
😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬
We’ve waited 3 weeks for a GP phone call about our 5 year old.
The phone rang this afternoon but my wife was driving and couldn’t answer.
She pulled over and rang them back.
We have to rebook and wait.
Outrageous.
Andrew, who has family stuck in Moldova having fled Ukraine, says
@LBC
he was told by the Home Office to “call back next Monday”.
He says they are charging a fee for the application process…
Surely…*surely*…not.
A Tory MP gets in touch:
“We are eeking out the final hours and days of this Government. We aren’t talking about weeks or months”
Don’t see how that happens without quite a few Cabinet resignations in the coming hours, but even still 👀👀👀👀
As astonishingly chaotic as having the interior designer of the flat wander around No10 looking to ask a question of the PM.
This quote via
@ShippersUnbound
This is the interview that needed to happen.
Every time we have
#ExtinctionRebellion
on the show, we always ask how to reduce to net zero by 2025. No practical answers come forth.
@afneil
calmly, carefully, politely demolishes that target.
Very big story this.
Government sitting on 15 reports some of which, the author says, show security failings at the U.K’s borders.
In an election year.
Who wants to start a sweepstake about how long it takes for all of them to leak?!
David Neal has issued a staunch defence of his decision to speak to the media about details of his inspection reports.
Says he identified security failings, which he reported to the Home Office but has no confidence that the department will publish them after sitting on 15 of…
Oh man. Just had a dad nearly in tears on the show tonight.
@LBC
An Albanian who fled war, his son was due to study Law at
@UoNSU
with AAA predicted.
He was given CDE.
Now not going...
#examfiasco
Have surprised myself with just how much rage I feel at this story.
It’s not like she made an error *because* she was a Cabinet Minister. She made an error and *happens* to be a Cabinet Minister
CCHQ could have paid the bill.
But not me and you!!
Refusing to say how much taxpayers' money has been spent on Donelan's court settlement is *terrible* news management.
You could disclose it now and have one story fighting it out with budget stories, or you can disclose it via FOI in early April, and have two stories.
The Mark Menzies story…
I’m trying to find the words for it for 5pm
@LBC
…
Cos I can’t really go on the radio and just keep saying “bloody hell” for an hour.
It is absolutely mental and is yet another example of the “natural Party of government” turning into a total ****show
Absolutely unbelievable that
@HertsPolice
would arrest, handcuff and take the mugshot of a journalist doing their job.
The treatment of
@charlotterlynch
is absolutely outrageous.
Holy hell.
Just had a chat with the bloke next to me buying coffee at the little stand at Sevenoaks station.
Nice man. Smartly dressed. Talked about getting over the line and into the weekend.
I get on the train.
Think about it a bit.
It was only bloody
@PaulMcCartney
!!
Prof Neil Ferguson says that the demand for tests from possibly symptomatic children in schools (97% tested negative) was not predicted by SAGE.
Makes you wonder how many parents sit on SAGE...!!
Even if you’ve had mixed feelings about these two, that’s an iconic picture.
Them against the world, laughing as they go.
#MeghanMarkle
#harryandmeghan
NEW:
@jeremycorbyn
says he will be writing to
@YouGov
to “ask for an explanation” over allegations that the polling firm didn’t publish results that were favourable to Labour during the 2017 election.
He says it looks like the polls were rigged.
Latest from 10am
@LBC
NEW: Sir Richard Branson on the state of the UK’s economy:
- Virgin will not invest any new money in the U.K.
- Gov “desperately need” a Swiss-style deal with the EU
- U.K. entrepreneurs should think about moving out to other parts of the world.
More
@LBC
from 4.
#Lambeth
The moment Met Police officers Taser and detain a 59 year old man wielding a machete on a Platform at
#TulseHill
Station this evening.
Police were called just after 6.30pm.
The man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Video:
@xarapandapop
That this experiment on children ever happened on the NHS, pushed by the “
#BeKind
”ers & during which those -like
@VictoriaPeckham
-who asked for clinical evidence were dismissed as “transphobes”, makes me rage.
What the hell were they doing?!
Before it gets going let’s just be really upfront that this is not about trans rights.
This is about the NHS getting itself into a position where it took a punt on children’s health.
It’s a story of medical malpractice.
So either they knew your mortgage and/or pension was going to get ****ed and didn’t flag it to you.
Or they hadn’t a clue what they were doing.
Which would you rather???!!
Simon Clarke says that the markets’ response to the mini-budget was factored in as a possibility from the start. I don’t actually believe this - he just thinks it’s the less unacceptable answer - but if it’s true it’s absolutely damning.
Aside from that astonishing exchange, this whole interview I think showed how ill-thought through this
#GRRBill
is
- provided no evidence of humans changing biological sex
- said sex was not immutable
- and yet, said protections would stop “men” falsely claiming to be trans 🤷♂️
Amazing exchange between
@TomSwarbrick1
and Scottish Green MSP Maggie Chapman on
@LBC
, who thinks we should ‘explore’ gender recognition for children as young as 8 and who says she doesn’t know what sex she is 😳
‘The spirit of the law is being absolutely trashed and I cannot wait for the Conservative government to take back control!’
@TomSwarbrick1
: 'Love to the family.’
Caller Adam is not impressed by the ruling of 'unlawful' Rwanda plan...
@ivanlaskov
@PoliceScotland
No. No. No. I am not saying that “trans people are a threat”. I’m saying rapists who use their dicks to rape women, are not women. Whatever that rapist may claim for themselves.
I’m saying that biological and legal reality matters.
This is an extremely odd description of what happened to this little girl.
She was kidnapped by terrorists - not “lost”.
She wasn’t “found” - she was released by those same terrorists who knew where they were holding her.
This is a day of enormous joy and relief for Emily Hand and her family. An innocent child who was lost has now been found and returned, and we breathe a massive sigh of relief. Our prayers have been answered.
Right. So for the part of the Twittersphere at the back, I’m well aware of the widely reported story of that jaunt. I reported it on my programmes.
It is nevertheless newsworthy af that the PM admitted to it.
Just so we’re all clear.
If what the BBC is reporting is true, it is an absolute disgrace.
By what measure, and on whose authority, is this rapist able to claim they are not a man, to the point where *THE POLICE* aren’t recording his crimes as such.
Watched the
@piersmorgan
int with
@Keir_Starmer
.
Definitely worked for the Labour leader. Humanising, direct and powerful without being oily or sickly.
@giles_fraser
I, like you, was there at the event this evening.
Like you, I can’t quite believe what I have seen.
And I suspect, like you, I can’t get the voice of that little boy crying for his mum out of my head.
It is the most horrific, barbaric thing I have ever seen.
The
#Spain
thing....
Another example of why it’s officially BONKERS that you’re even considering going abroad this summer.
We’re having a pandemic, people
#COVID
ー19
Another v good piece by
@jameskirkup
who displays a much calmer version of the absolute fury one should feel about the risk children were put at by the NHS
I see people are “theorising” as to why the U.K. didn’t shut its borders last year.
You don’t need “theories” for this one.
The answer is because NERVTAG and others said border closures would be “ineffective”.
@Mortgage_Stu
@johnsweeneyroar
People have been talking about it and reporting it for years. Labour have raised qs on it on numerous occasions.
The point is that the PM just admitted it…
We are asking the
@foreignoffice
about the details of this absolutely astonishing story.
German government rescues stranded Brit and her young child from
#India
, as U.K. Foreign Office accused of “hanging up” on her.
#stranded
#COVID19
Completely thrilled that so many have stayed listening to my
@LBC
Drive show…and that we’ve added another 10% on top.
It is hugely appreciated.
Live from 4pm
@LBC
#wegoagain
🚀 🚀 🚀
What a damning indictment of policing this picture is.
My colleague
@charlotterlynch
, a young woman, on her own, put in a police cell, in tears, by a force who initially accepted no responsibility *at all* for her completely ludicrous arrest.
The NHS should, quite rightly, be sued to kingdom come for all this.
They let an apparently unchallengeable ideological commitment guide their “treatment” of *children*.
Just completed an extraordinary interview with
@Scaramucci
about
@realDonaldTrump
, his health, his character and his mindset.
It’s astonishing.
Tonight at 10
@LBC
Wonder what the chat was like between
@afneil
and
#BorisJohnson
when the mics turned off!!
That was one of the most intense political interviews I’ve ever seen.
Contrary to reports,
@theresa_may
is kind, thoughtful and altruistic. She’s not the
#maybot
you think she is.
Her
#brexitdeal
is the right way forward. And she should deliver it, even if it means her resignation.
The national interest comes first.
@LBC
#brexit
Wow.
A GP from my home town in Kent rings in.
Staff can’t come in -
#petrolshortage
He can’t guarantee he’ll have enough to get to work
So in order to keep the GP surgery open, **he’s going to sleep there**!
@LBC
Liz Truss can't say she wasn't warned that her plan was a fairy tale.
Rishi Sunak(former Chancellor) - "We have to be honest. Borrowing your way out of inflation isn't a plan - it's a fairy tale."