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Joined January 2009
Stephen Fry: “I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism”. Laura Kuenssberg: “You would use that word?”. Stephen Fry: “Oh absolutely. It’s a cult of power; and power only speaks to power”. #bbclaurak
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Tory MP Michelle Donelan: “We are the Party of facts”. *VT compilation of Tory lies*. Victoria Derbyshire: “There was never a proposal to use 7 bins, we can’t find any council that wants to decide when you can go to the shop & Labour have never proposed taxing meat”. #Newsnight
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If you can afford to take legal action you can afford to pay VAT.
🚨 NEW: 1,400 private schools have voted to take legal action against Labour's 20% VAT on fees from January. [@BBCNews].
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Coldplay get waaaaay too much hate (even from me). This is immense. #Glastonbury #Glastonbury2024
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Nothing says “protecting British workers” like threatening their employment.
Nigel Farage: "Anyone working for Durham County Council on climate change initiatives or diversity, equity & inclusion. should be seeking alternative careers very, very quickly."
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Tory MP Andrew Rosindell on £20 uplift to UC: "I think there are people that quite like getting the extra £20 but maybe they don’t need it.". Andrew Rosindell, on banning MPs from 2nd jobs: “We have to realise we have human beings who have families & responsibilities”. #Newsnight
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Laura Kuenssberg earns between £325,000 and £329,999. Labour’s Angela Rayner earns around £158,000. The British taxpayer is currently being fleeced by one of these. And it’s not the member of parliament. #bbclaurak
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Grant Shapps cries: “Labour want to bring in French-style labour laws”. So that’d be 35 hrs max per week, long holidays, 2-hour lunch breaks, employers forbidden from afterhours contact, fire & re-hire illegal…yet still more productive. Sounds terrible. #KayBurley #BBCBreakfast.
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Laura Kuenssberg: “You’ve put taxes up on private jets - rightly or wrongly”. Glad to see someone fighting the corner of private jet users in a country with more food banks than McDonald’s restaurants . #BBCLauraK.
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Victoria Derbyshire pulls apart Sunak’s claim that a Labour govt will raise taxes by £2000. “I’m going to pull you up on that Claire Coutinho. The calculations are made by Tory SpAds, they’re political appointees & that is misleading to voters and very disrespectful”. #newsnight
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Laura Kuenssberg, paid between £325,000 and £329,999 a year, questioning why minimum wage has been increased. #BBCLauraK.
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George Monbiot: “I’m not going to take lessons in climate from someone from Policy Exchange which is funded by the oil industry”. David Goodhart (Policy Exchange): “It isn’t”. GM: “I can demonstrate that it is”. DG: “Anyway, that’s not what we’re here to discuss”. #PoliticsLive
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John O’Farrell on Angela Rayner: “#bbclaurak, I have to say, for you as a broadcaster, for the BBC, to keep spending time on this & for Yvette Cooper to come here & talk about violence against women & girls, & for that to take second place to this bit of gossip. It’s not a story”
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“I’m sat here baffled that you can talk about serious youth violence as if your party isn’t responsible for services stripped to their bones. At best your Party’s been incompetent, at worst negligent & you are directly responsible for the increase in loss of life”. #bbcqt
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Tory MP Kit Malthouse: “If numbers of small boats crossing next summer are higher than this summer will she resign?”. Yvette Cooper: “We have seen a succession of Tory Home Secretaries, 8 we’ve had, none of whom resigned, 2 of whom were sacked - actually that was the same person”
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“What are you doing about TATA Steel??” asks Laura Kuenssberg who never asked a Tory minister about it despite TATA’s issues occurring on the Tories watch . #bbclaurak.
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Sunak is a very odd mixture of the past 4 Prime Ministers . Same suits as Cameron, as robotic as May, as duplicitous as Johnson and as woefully out of his depth as Truss. #PMQs #PoliticsLive.
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Audience member to Tory MP Johnny Mercer: “Given that member of the Tories & the Tory Party have shut down any form of meaningful protest, and he’s shouted across every member of this panel tonight - how else are we meant to get our point across other than social media?”. #bbcqt
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Angela to Rod Liddle who thinks there’s no correlation between poverty & mental health: “I’m a therapist. I work in a school. If you think this is nothing to do with poverty can I suggest to live in poverty for 6 months & I will give you a free psychotherapy session”. #bbcqt
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Laura Kuenssberg after finishing her interview with a Tory MP and Laura Kuenssberg after finishing her interview with a Labour MP…. #bbclaurak
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Chris Bryant: “Do you think British companies should be trading in Russia at all?”. Sunak: “Some might be divesting”. CB: “Mantrac, which owns Unatrac FZE, sold diggers to Russia this year and you took £5m from its owner…”. RS: “I’m not familiar with the specific company”
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Apparently doctors, nurses, barristers, civil servants, postal staff, BT workers, teachers, bin men & firefighters are greedy Marxists scum when they strike for slightly better pay but farmers, against paying IHT on farms over £3m, need our sympathy . #trevorphillips #bbclaurak.
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Is there anything more annoying than a yank sitting on national television maligning the NHS . #PoliticsLive
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Mikaela Loach to Kwasi Kwarteng: “It feels like, for the Conservatives, like politics is just like a game. I also feel like, for you, why are you here? You’re no longer in politics. Why are you choosing to come here?”. #Newsnight
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Susanna Reid on Mone: “She’s thinks she’s the victim because of the press intrusion. It’s utterly remarkable that she doesn’t see how sensitive this issue is. PPE was so desperately needed that business people thought they could make millions out of that desperation”. #bbclaurak
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Martin Lewis after listening to Tory MP Therese Coffey’s interview: “It was nice, at least, after your questions on sewerage to finally be able to say accurately that that was a politician definitely talking crap”. #BBCLauraK
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Audience member on Hester: “I just wanted to say you said it’s about giving people a second chance but it’s not your place to say he deserves a second chance. Until Diane Abbott says I think this has been genuinely addressed then I don’t really care what anyone else says”. #bbcqt
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George Monbiot to the IEA’s Reem Ibrahim: “Of course you want to rip down regulations, of course you don’t care about the natural world because you’re from the IEA which is funded by oligarchs & corporations. The IEA refuses to reveal who funds it”. #PoliticsLive #PMQs
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Stephen Fry on Brexit: “Brexit, we must mention Brexit. The Labour Party is afraid to mention it. It was a catastrophe and everybody knows it deep in their bones…they know it, of course they do, and certainly the rest of the world does”. #bbclaurak
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Why is Kwasi Kwarteng now being given the airtime to rehabilitate his career as some kind of political know it all?. His incompetence is only matched by his arrogance . #Newsnight.
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Emily Maitlis to Sammy Wilson: “To turn round and say you don’t like the next thing when it’s your political incompetence that got you here, is extraordinary”. #newsnight
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Keir Starmer to Sunak: “If you listened to people in the audience & people in the country more often you might not be so out of touch”. #BBCDebate
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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch suggesting 9 months isn’t long enough to turn the Tory Party around but the exact same duration *is* more than enough for Labour to turn around a country crippled by 14 years of a government she played a major role in. #bbclaurak
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“I think the country is instinctively Conservative”. Says Tory MP Victoria Atkins after witnessing Labour achieve a historic landslide . #bbclaurak
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Can we please get to the point where the British media, and specifically the BBC, isn’t hanging on the every word of Farage, day in, day out. #PoliticsLive.
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“The common denominator in all this is Boris Johnson. You people sit there as Tory MPs & you defend this guy. You’ve got people like Rees-Mogg and Dorries, who all back this guy to this day. I don’t think anyone here should be surprised at the chaos this man created”. #bbcqt
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Musk also calls for Jess Phillips to be jailed. So he’s currently calling for the release of a man who has been imprisoned for breaking the law whilst simultaneously claiming a woman - who hasn’t broken the law - should be imprisoned. Definitely nothing fascistic about that.
🚨 NEW: Elon Musk calls for Tommy Robinson to be released in a series of overnight X posts; where he also criticised Keir Starmer and called for a new election . Musk also posted that ‘only Reform can save Britain’
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Laura Kuenssberg: “Business confidence, according to some measures, has fallen”. *30 seconds later*. Charlie Nunn, CEO of Lloyd’s Banking Group: “Business confidence is at a nine year high”. #bbclaurak.
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George Monbiot on Ukraine/Putin: “It’s as if he’d come to the UK, he’d occupied Kent, Surrey, Sussex & then somebody else like Donald Trump comes along & says fine guys just live with that. These people who go on about sovereignty will sell anyone down the river”. #bbcqt
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Tory MP Michael Fabricant: “Could she tell me how many illegal asylum seekers per head of pop Scotland is accommodating & how many illegal asylum seekers per head of pop England is”. SNP’s Alison Thewliss: “There is no such thing as an illegal asylum seeker”. #RwandaBill
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Feel much as I did after the Brexit vote & Boris Johnson’s 2019 GE win. Not because ‘my side’ lost. But because of the overwhelming sense of an impending disaster. Just like Brexit & Johnson, Trump will be a disaster but with far greater international consequences.
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Kuenssberg breaks her neck to ask Yvette Cooper about Angela Rayner yet *completely* neglected to ask Victoria Atkins anything about William Wragg . She couldn’t be more a Tory apologist if she tried . #bbclaurak.
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Tory MP Desmond Swayne: “Not withstanding the carnage on our roads - certainly killing more people than Covid at the moment - some of us still decide to drive”. Deaths on UK roads in past two years - 2,850. Deaths from Covid in past two years - 146,477
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Rishi Sunak claiming that Starmer won’t “stand up for school children today”. That’s the same Rishi Sunak who voted against feeding hungry school children outside of term time. #PMQs #PoliticsLive.
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@AdamBienkov Tories also voted against:. Stopping water companies dumping sewage in waterways. Measures to curb privatisation of the NHS. Preventing companies from fire & rehire. Extending Free School Meals for hungry kids. Not…erm…sure these people have our best interests at heart.
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Joe Lycett: “It was nice to hear from Rishi Sunak. He’s not going to be Prime Minister so you may as well have interviewed Peter Andre”. #BBCLauraK.
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Labour’s Dame Angela Eagle: “It’s not in the interest of our country to allow this discredited PM to squat in No.10. He’s a security risk having admitted to meeting Alexander Lebedev alone. He’s ending his tenure, as it started - going AWOL from Cobra meetings”. #NoConfidenceVote
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Yvette Cooper: “We’ve had low growth, low opportunities it’s time to something better.”. #BBCLauraK: “Well there’s plenty of people who come to this studio who disagree with you. Many people watching might disagree with you too”. She *never* does this after interviewing a Tory MP
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Tory commentator, Tim Montgomerie on Rishi Sunak leaving the 80th D-Day anniversary: “I want to put my head in my hands. If he came back for a political interview from the D-Day commemorations that is indefensible. It’s political malpractice of the highest order”. #newsnight
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We’ve had Boris Johnson on the US Presidential Election coverage, Jacob Rees-Mogg with a new reality TV show & now Nadine Dorries on #BBCLauraK. This attempt to rehabilitate the legacy of some of the worst people to ever hold public office needs to stop immediately.
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Chris Philp: “The average family over the next parliament will pay £2k in extra tax”. Victoria Derbyshire: “Those figures have been widely ridiculed”. CP “Hang on!”. VD: “Is this how desperate you are now? You’re literally making things up”. CP: “That’s nonsense!”. #newsnight
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Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi: “Judge us by the delivery over the next two years”. You’ve been in government 12 years - #EnoughlsEnough . #bbcqt.
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Strong start from Tory MP Dame Andrea Jenkyns, who was named by the Privileges Committee as one of the MPs who campaigned to undermine the Johnson Partygate inquiry, as she begins her defence by claiming “Magna Carta was issued in June 2015”. Magna Carta was issued in June 1215
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Tory MP Victoria Atkins: “We, the taxpayer, have paid some £16bn to the rail industry”. And “we the taxpayer” have seen £37bn spent on a barely functioning Test & Trace system, £11bn wasted by Rishi Sunak servicing the govt debt & £4bn of unused PPE set to be burned. #newsnight.
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Victoria Derbyshire to Tory MP Helen Whately: “A few years ago Kemi Badenoch admitted hacking into Harriet Harman’s website a decade previously. What does that say, in your view, about her judgment?”. *car crash ensues*. #newsnight
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Luke Johnson on climate change: “Where’s the evidence that any of that is connected to carbon emissions?". Chris Packham: “It doesn’t come from Toby Young’s Daily ‘Septic’ which is put together by those close to the FF industry, it comes from something called science". #bbclaurak
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Geoffrey Cox (Tory): “In 2019 there were about 20,000 applications a month for health related benefits, for people off work with sickness. In 2023 there are now over 50,000 a month…”. Mick Lynch: “So you’ve made everyone sicker”. #politicslive
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Tory MP Alicia Kearns: “It’s just not honest”. Stephen Fry: “You did the same in 2008”. AK: “Yeah but we did…”. SF: “Oh I see, you did but they don’t?”. AK: “You name it we was worse off”. SF: “GDP was roughly same as US then, it’s now half. That’s pretty bad”. #bbclaurak
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Tory MP John Penrose wails about “the taxpayers stumping up billions to keep the railways going during the pandemic” whilst keeping noticeably quite on the £37bn given to his wife (Dido Harding) for a non-functioning Test & Trace system during the pandemic . #PoliticsLive.
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Farage is currently agitating for a foreign leader against our own government live on national television. But tell me again he’s a British patriot . #Newsnight
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For a man who’s dad was a journalist by trade, Jacob Rees-Mogg’s speaks with a more patrician accent than the actual King. He’s a complete charlatan. This constant platforming by the BBC of some of the worst people to ever hold public office is becoming really tiresome . #bbcqt
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Chris Bryant: “The PM has had responsibility for UK econ for 1323 days & he’s delivered…the largest peacetime debt, largest tax burden since WW2, highest core inflation since ‘91, fastest int. rate since ‘89 & biggest fall in living standards in our history”. #PMQs #PoliticsLive
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George Monbiot: “These sympathetic things Starmer said about Thatcher were not an attempt to appeal to the electorate. They were an attempt to appeal to Murdoch & Lord Rothermere & these are the real powers in this country. And it’s a profoundly undemocratic situation”. #bbcqt
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Tory MP Helen Whately: “Some pensioners have written me incl. one who only heats 1 room of their house through the winter & sleeps on the sofa because that’s in the 1 room they heat”. Which says more about life under 14 years of the Tories than it does under Labour. #PoliticsLive
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Tory peer Lord Bamford gave Boris Johnson £23,853 to fund his wedding celebrations. The donation covered the cost of hiring a marquee, Portaloos, waiting staff, flowers, a South African BBQ & an ice cream van. Right wing media went ballistic about thi… oh wait. #bbclaurak
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Grant Shapps: “There was no handbook to deal with a pandemic”. Might have helped if you didn’t ignore Exercise Cygnus . That three-day simulation exercise carried out by NHS England in October 2016 to estimate the impact of a hypothetical H2N2 influenza pandemic on the UK. #bbcqt.
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Chris Philp: “Labour aren’t committed to spending 2.5% of GDP on defence”. Tom Swarbrick: “They said they will”. CP: “A commitment with no deadline is no commitment at all”. TS: “When’s the deadline for cutting NI to zero?”. CP: “When it’s affordable”. TS: “So no deadline”. #LBC.
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Due to the BBC’s aching desperation for balance & impartiality, #bbclaurak is conducting an interview with Rosie Duffield after she resigned as a Labour MP but won’t mention a single thing about Baroness Sayeeda Warsi resigning the Tory whip only two days prior.
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If there’s only one good thing about Jonathan Gullis being an MP, it’s that he’s no longer a teacher. #PoliticsLive.
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Tory MP Tom Hunt: “I’ve often felt that offshore processing is the only way to truly tackle this issue”. Jo Coburn: “This is offshore processing to stay in Rwanda not here”. Tom Hunt: “To stay in a safe European country, Rwanda”. #PoliticsLive
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@PippaCrerar Looking forward to next Saturday when I can head to the pub and ask for a pint of lager instead of a pint of lager.
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Just imagine the shit we’d be in if we had Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Badenoch or Farage attempting diplomacy right now rather than a forensic lawyer and natural statesman . #bbclaurak.
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Gillian Keegan, the actual Education Secretary, here claiming that a school is closing as a direct result of a Labour government that doesn’t exist rolling out a policy yet to be implemented. The school has closed under the Tories. No one else.
1 in 3 children at Downham Prep School have special educational needs. But Labour’s schools tax means that this school is being forced to close - slashing SEND provision. Same old Labour putting the politics of envy ahead of evidence.
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