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BREAKING: Boris Johnson says the NHS will be "overwhelmed" and Britain will become like Italy unless people immediately follow social distancing orders
His starkest warning to the nation yet about what is coming
PM says people must not visit their mothers on mother's day
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BBC inexplicably cut away from Hancock press conference for the weather. Would politely suggest that when none of us can go outside the health secretary's update is slightly more important FFS
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Hearing from a source with knowledge that one of the big six English clubs is now seriously considering pulling out of the Super League
They are accusing Liverpool and Manchester United — the 2 clubs leading the breakaway — of lying to them and “f***ing up”
Major split in ESL
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NEW: The German Health Ministry has DENIED the Handelsblatt report claiming the AstraZeneca vaccine had only 8% efficacy for over-65s
They say there has been confusion and 8% actually refers to the number of people in the study between 56 and 69 years old
Oh my word...
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Sunak says as a Southampton fan he wants to get back to winning ways by beating Man United this weekend. Southampton are playing Leicester on Saturday.
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Huge story… leaked memo shows Biden promised Boris Johnson and G7 leaders in June that the US would maintain enough of a security presence in Afghanistan that they would keep Kabul safe — then failed to keep that commitment
NEW: Biden assured key allies in June that US security enablers would remain in place in Afghanistan as NATO troops withdrew, so much so that U.K. thought it could maintain its Kabul embassy
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Tory MP: “I’m afraid Keir Starmer asked the killer question. Is there a single phrase of the withdrawal agreement different from what was agreed in November? The answer is no.”
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ITV report on the govt’s new plan to get convicts to fill lorry driver shortages going very viral on Tik Tok… “Here’s Dean, he’s on day release from jail working in haulage. His offence was importing drugs, involving a lorry”
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Ahead of new PM statement — total fury across govt tonight at people flouting social distancing orders — in particular men and younger men — images of London parks packed with people over the weekend have shocked Whitehall — they believed people would behave more responsibly
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What a story - firm had profits of just £317,000 pre-pandemic, now up 21,700% to £69 million after getting a £149 million PPE contract from the govt. £108 million of the equipment was useless.
EXCLUSIVE: A businessman made £70m in profit on contract for PPE that was 70% unused — and celebrated his birthday last week by eating “briefcase of cash” cake on private yacht
Philip Johnson has paid himself £13m dividend as family lives life of luxury
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A senior government source wishes Bercow well
“Bercow thinks he’ll walk away as a hero, when most people in the country don’t know who he is and those that do think he’s a nauseating wanker. The man has been central to stopping Brexit - the nation won’t thank him.”
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NEW: The UK only realised "in the last few days" that attempts to "mitigate" the coronavirus pandemic would not work, and that it needed to shift to a strategy to "suppress", according to a report by a team of experts who have been advising the government
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Jeremy Hunt video says that when he set out as an entrepreneur it was a “daily grind just to stay alive, just to pay the bills”
That’s Jeremy Hunt, son of Admiral Sir Nicholas Hunt and Lady Hunt, Charterhouse, PPE at Oxford, worth £14 million, richest member of the cabinet...
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Boris Johnson attended mass at a Ukrainian church in London this evening
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BREAKING: The Conservative Party is threatening to review Channel 4’s public service broadcasting obligations after it replaced Boris Johnson with an ice sculpture at tonight's debate
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NEW: Have spoken to multiple special advisers who say they and their cabinet ministers will refuse to work with Andrew Sabisky
— they won’t attend meetings where he is present or respond to his emails
— they will tell Boris Johnson to overrule Dominic Cummings and sack Sabisky
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Two remarkable lines in today’s papers from
@Steven_Swinford
@benrileysmith
— UK military left in the dark by the US about timings and pace of their withdrawal… UK official confirms this is the case
— Biden ignored Boris Johnson’s attempts to speak on the phone for 36+ hours
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NEW: Boris Johnson has today backed a Singapore-style tax free port at Bristol… six weeks after receiving a £25,000 payment from the owners of Bristol port
Cash-for-policy questions for the Tory leadership frontrunner:
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Where they stand ahead of the vote
Telegraph: no deal
The Sun: no deal
Spectator: no deal
Daily Mail: May’s deal
Mail on Sunday: May’s deal
Times: May’s deal
FT: May’s deal
Express: May’s deal
Guido: May’s deal
Mirror: election
Guardian: second ref
Indy: second ref
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Oof... internal moves underway at ITN to pressure bosses into reinstating Alastair Stewart
— Staff signing petition
— Senior ITN source: “Anna Mallett and her wingman Chris Shaw must come out and explain why they have hung him out for a public shaming. It is a total disgrace.“
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Barry Gardiner latest
— accepted huge sums of money from a Chinese spy over several years
— gave a job to the spy’s son, who was in post until MI5 intervened today
— spoke in favour of Chinese state interests on multiple occasions
— last spoke to the agent *this week*
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Govt figures scathing over Sturgeon preempting UK Cobra announcement — then announcing Scottish-only measures that she admits are not based on science
Source: "She is a total disgrace. This is a nationalist politician playing populist politics with a global crisis"
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Channel 4 are planning to put up a lectern with Boris Johnson's name on it in large letters and keep it in shot throughout Sunday night's debate if he doesn't show
"It will be very obvious to viewers all the way through the 90 minutes" – source
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Uh oh -
@RhonddaBryant
tells
@SamCoatesSky
that he has photos on his phone of Tory whips manhandling MPs to force them to vote with the govt
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Jeremy Hunt on Brexit
June 2016: Backs 2nd ref
Nov 2018: Says 2nd ref “profoundly undemocratic”
Jun 2016: Says UK must stay in single market
Jan 2019: Says UK voted to leave SM
Apr 2019: ‘I would choose no deal over no Brexit’
May 2019: No deal would be “political suicide”
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EXCLUSIVE: Footage from a private meeting at the Ritz shows Nigel Farage soliciting Brexit Party donations from a millionaire Putin cheerleader and an influencer who has made a string of anti-Muslim comments
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Look at twitter right now. Everything people are saying is true. So incredibly proud of the BuzzFeed UK team, which punched so far above its weight and did some really amazing journalism. Snap them up - they’re brilliant, you won’t regret it.
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NEW: Leaked WhatsApps reveal Tory MPs are urging Boris Johnson to break the law to deliver Brexit
Read the messages here >>
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The Tories accepted £146,750 of donations in November and December from Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of one of Putin’s former ministers, eight months after the Skripal poisonings. She donated another £100,000 to the party in March.
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New: The Lobby has staged a walkout in protest at No10 attempting to remove journalists from left-of-centre publications from a Downing Street briefing
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Very very good news from Public Health England: the vaccine works on the Delta/Indian variant
Pfizer 96% effective against hospitalisation after 2 doses
AstraZeneca 92% effective against hospitalisation after 2 doses
This is a lot better than experts had previously feared
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Confirmed: No10 has decided Philip Hammond, David Gauke, Dominic Grieve and co will have the Conservative whip withdrawn if they do not vote with the government on Tuesday
NEW: A Tory MP has told BuzzFeed News their whip informed them tonight that any MP who does not vote with the government this week will immediately have the whip withdrawn and be deselected
The MP thinks this includes anyone who abstains on the anti no-deal legislation
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Epic trolling: Boris Johnson announces 60 million Novavax vaccines to be made at Barnard Castle plant of GSK
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I’m afraid No10 also called a line I wrote two weeks ago that Cummings initially didn’t see coronavirus as a top priority “bollocks”. It was not bollocks - it is true. And the characterisation in
@ShippersUnbound
piece today has been backed up by many over the last 10 days.
No 10 pushing back very hard on those Dominic Cummings comments in the Sunday Times, which are apparently "absolute bollocks"
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** NEW: It was Suella Braverman who made the decision to stop booking hotels for Manston migrants, according to six current and former senior govt sources **
** This led to unlawful detentions and was a ministerial code breach, two senior sources said **
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Err. Here is the opening line of the BBC documentary on Hitler on TV tonight. Punchy to say the least...
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Told Labour have long-term adverts targeting every Tory MP who voted to stitch up scrutiny of their behaviour ready to go live
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Proper alarm in govt now at lack of economic measures to accompany PM announcement affecting businesses
In France Macron has just unveiled economic package and vowed "no company of any size will be allowed to go bankrupt"
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That is pretty damning for Swinson
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Alastair Campbell has just claimed the Brexit Party "lost" in Wales because it got below 50%... the Brexit Party came 1st in Wales by an absolute mile, dear oh dear hope Labour rebels aren't basing their strategy on Bad Al
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Possibly the boldest election advert in history just released by CCHQ
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Gove makes the point that the PM does not always attend Cobra meetings, and that the point of Cobra is the relevant people attend and then report back to him. To be fair that is true
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Johnson confirms he is rejecting Neil interview
Senior Con source: “The public are fed up with interviews that are all about the interviewer and endless interruptions. The format is tired and broken and needs to change if it is to start engaging and informing the public again.”
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EXC: SAGE has told Boris Johnson he has to keep schools closed in January and order a stricter national lockdown than November’s to prevent the virus spiralling out of control
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This morning's new Brexit Party candidates: environmentalist, Afghan vet, charity director, entrepreneur, nurse
This morning's new Change UK candidates: Boris Johnson's sister, two former Tory MPs, that BBC guy and QC who tweet a lot...
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20 Tory MPs voted for Cooper amendment
Allen
Bebb
Benyon
Boles
Clarke
Djanogly
Fallon
Freeman
Greening
Grieve
Gyimah
Lee
Letwin
Morgan
Neill
Sandbach
Soames
Soubry
Vaizey
Wollaston
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Told Boris Johnson is furious that details of the imminent lockdown were leaked from yesterday’s meeting to Sky/Times/Mail, and has ordered a leak inquiry. No10 insist they didn’t brief it and that whoever is responsible has damaged trust in the middle of a public health crisis👀
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NEW: A Tory MP has told BuzzFeed News their whip informed them tonight that any MP who does not vote with the government this week will immediately have the whip withdrawn and be deselected
The MP thinks this includes anyone who abstains on the anti no-deal legislation
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McDonnell speech
— 4 day working week (32 hours) within a decade
— end in-work poverty in first term
— end opt-out from European Working Time Directive
— Real Living Wage of £10+ per hour
— rollout collective bargaining
— end Universal Credit rollout
— cap rents
— 1m new homes
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NEW: Boris Johnson's senior aides have ordered Tory MPs to call the EU 'crazy' if it rejects their new Brexit proposals
Internal memo sent tonight reveals how the govt plans to blame Brussels for 'ending negotiations' if talks break down
Read it here:
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Over three days of talks the government offered no changes to the political declaration, essentially asking Labour to support the same deal that has been rejected three times. Almost as if the whole thing was yet another charade by No10 to wind the clock down to a final vote.
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West Yorkshire police chief "disappointed" to see his officers used as backdrop for PM's speech
— it was the police's understanding they would only be used to promote recruitment
— "we had no prior knowledge" PM speech "would be broadened to other issues until it was delivered"
Statement from West Yorkshire Police Chief Constable John Robins on yesterday's Ministerial visit.
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Wow. Albert Uderzo, 87 year old creator of Asterix cartoons, comes out of retirement to pay tribute to Paris victims:
http://t.co/uE5X8CM69C
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Corbyn
— election after extension
— new publicly owned drugs manufacturer
— end Trade Union Act
— no one has to work after 75
— free prescriptions
— free personal care
— tax rise for top 5%
— Crossrail for North
— restore bus services
— massive investment in green energy/ tech
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New study shows AstraZeneca and Pfizer have similar instances of blood clots, and that blood clots are far far more likely in covid patients that people who’ve had the AZ jab. U.K. officials react with genuine fury at EU leaders who trashed AZ
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Senior Tory source declares war on the BBC on Brexit night
“Only the BBC could have a special programme on Brexit where the studio is emblazoned with EU colours, they refuse to run the PM’s address, get to Brexit 15 mins in then go to Farage, Widdecombe and a load of Remainers”
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Rolling list of Conservative MPs who’ve announced that they’re standing down at the next election:
1. Chloe Smith
2. William Wragg
3. Gary Streeter
4. Nigel Adams
5. Charles Walker
6. Crispin Blunt
7. Adam Afriyie
8. Dehenna Davison
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Wonder how Michael Gove and Jeremy Hunt feel about No10 making them do a broadcast round praising the "legally significant changes" to the deal (before they'd seen the legal advice), only for the AG to then dump on it
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10 Tory rebels who voted with Corbyn to stop no-deal Brexit
Guto Bebb
Ken Clarke
Jonathan Djanogly
Justine Greening
Dominic Grieve
Sam Gyimah
Philip Lee
Oliver Letwin
Antoinette Sandbach
Caroline Spelman
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Every motion loses
No deal loses 160-400
Common Market 2.0 loses 188-283
Efta/EEA loses 65-377
Customs union loses 264-272
Labour alt plan loses 237-307
Revoke A50 loses 184-293
2nd referendum loses 268-295
Managed no deal loses 139-422
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NEW: Boris Johnson's government pushes back strongly against the Sunday Times story with a rebuttal from a senior Whitehall source
They say the claim Johnson "skipped 5 Cobra meetings" is "fundamentally mendacious" and deliberately misunderstands how Cobra works
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💥 Boris Johnson set to hire Chloe Westley from the Taxpayers' Alliance as his digital adviser in No10. Former Vote Leave campaigner and pro-Brexit talking head who you will know from your TV screens
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Remember Tory MPs piling into Labour for not adopting the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism and trying to come up with their own definition instead? Well now the government is doing exactly the same on Islamophobia
EXCLUSIVE: Theresa May is to reject the British Muslims APPG definition of Islamophobia on free speech grounds
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Change UK have changed their name again... their twitter handle was
@TheIndGroup
until an hour ago when it inexplicably became
@ForChange_Now
... which is somehow even more confusing and less catchy, and also means they've lost their blue tick 👏
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The Handelsblatt guy has obvs had a mare but it doesn't take away from the fact that German government officials have been briefing against the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine amid EU rollout problems... pretty shocking for UK-EU relations... imagine if the shoe were on the other foot
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BREAKING: Boris Johnson has ordered a full UK-wide lockdown
“From this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction — you must stay at home.”
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Jonathan Van Tam rocket for the EU: "Vaccines don't save lives if they're in fridges, they only save lives if they're in arms"
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NEW: The UK will send more Storm Shadow long-range missiles to Ukraine as part of its single biggest military aid package to the country since Russia’s invasion
Britain is also sending more than 1,600 strike and air defense missiles
£500m of new spending
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NEW: UK govt sources tell Olaf Scholz to stop talking about British activity in Ukraine and send Germany’s Taurus missiles there now
— Germany should “stop making excuses” and give Ukraine long-range missiles, says a UK govt source
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Slipped out under the cover of a busy news week... another massive effective tax rise for young people already screwed by broken university system and scandalous interest rates... on top of NI rise to subsidise social care...
No 10 plans to lower salary level at which graduates start repaying loans
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EXCLUSIVE:
— Internal Treasury analysis advised Rishi Sunak that tax cuts would have only a “low impact” on boosting economic growth
— Leaked documents show the Treasury suggested increasing immigration and planning reform would do more
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Look forward to No10 “expressing full confidence” in Cressida Dick and the Met on Monday morning, rather than requiring her resignation tonight
Women being snatched by police at the vigil for Sarah Everard. Shameful, shameful scenes.
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Those names in full
The Independent Group
Change UK
Change UK - The Independent Group
ForChange_Now
The Independent Group for Change
It's not even been four months
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Donald Tusk, 11:41am: "I strongly believe a common solution is possible and I will do everything in my power to find it"
Donald Tusk, 11:42am: "I've been wondering what that special place in hell looks like for those who promoted Brexit"
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Judgement handed down in Court of Appeal
Lord Chief Justice has ruled BeLeave *was* a permitted participant and entitled to the donations made to it - contrary to Electoral Commission view - and so its return was correct
(From this stemmed allegations against Darren Grimes)
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Tory source on May bus tour: "It was a bus of failure. Every-fucking-where we went we lost."
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NEW: Tory MP Owen Paterson makes £100,000-a-year from a company that is selling private coronavirus testing kits to consumers for £120 each
From
@AlbertoNardelli
and me:
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The Queen should start listening to ELECTED members of parliament and stop being such a public health socialist
NEW, the Queen “with regret” has cancelled her pre-Christmas family lunch as a “precautionary” measure, feeling that too many people’s Christmas arrangements were at risk if it went ahead. Royal sources say “there is a belief that it is the right thing to do for all concerned.”
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EXCLUSIVE: Theresa May is to reject the British Muslims APPG definition of Islamophobia on free speech grounds
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The BBC has deleted a tweet/story repeating the Tories' claim that they are building 40 new hospitals as per CCHQ press release... story now says it's just six hospitals
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Tough week for the LibDems just as people start paying attention
— Remain Alliance falls apart over shift to full revoke
— Swinson’s attack on Cameron for holding EU ref backfires spectacularly
— Her austerity gaffe interview goes viral
— Dogged by Phillip Lee LGBT record
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John McDonnell: leave single market
Tom Watson: stay in SM & CU
Jon Ashworth, Jenny Chapman: leave SM
Diane Abbott: keep freedom of movement
Corbyn, Keir Starmer: end FoM
Barry Gardiner: staying in CU a disaster
Corbyn: whip vote against SM & CU
Starmer: stay in SM & CU
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Exclusive
— Rishi Sunak is now polling **worse than Liz Truss** with the key voters who decided the last election
— Sunak has presided over a “year of decline” that’s caused an “implosion” in the Tory vote, according to a major study by
@JLPartnersPolls
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90mins into hustings… Truss says that unlike the BBC, GB News usually get their facts right
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NEW: Boris Johnson has handed £100,000 of taxpayers' money to one of his main personal donors
The cash is supposed to help the company be "ready for Brexit". But it declared itself "Brexit ready" in January
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Govt sources stunned by Sunday Times piece — one says it's a "hatchet job" on the PM that ignores context of scientific advice or what other countries were doing in Jan/Feb. They say the Cobra attack is misleading & suggestion PM is lazy is uninformed. Expect a full rebuttal soon
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“Research from Labour has revealed that Boris Johnson has travelled over 26,000 miles to hide from difficult questions during his leadership - roughly the distance around the world”
🤣 Someone in Labour HQ deserves biscuit and a day off
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Did Sunak just make a trans joke in front of Esther Ghey?
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NEW: Jeremy Hunt has admitted to breaking the law just five hours after claiming he had never done so
He says tonight that he 'accepts responsibility' for 'mistakes' breaching his own government's anti-money laundering laws in a 'genuine oversight'
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Tobias Ellwood, a former British army captain, lost his brother in the 2002 Bali bombing. Today gave mouth-to-mouth to wounded policeman.
Tobias Ellwood 'Gave CPR and Mouth-to-Mouth to Wounded Policeman' | Minister Photographed Covered in Blood
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Tories rallying around Priti Patel this morning — even MPs who don't like her are saying she is the victim of coordinated briefing from a disgruntled former official... view is political opponents in the home office have overshot with the MI5 claim and lost credibility
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EXCLUSIVE: The UK govt is preparing for a winter energy crisis ‘reasonable worst case scenario’ that could see >>
— peak demand surpass capacity
— emergency measures for 4 days in January
— including organised blackouts for industry and even households
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Understand Amber Rudd did not tell Boris Johnson she was resigning before she gave an interview to the Sunday Times
She came under huge pressure from Rebel Alliance and her brother Roland Rudd, who were furious she had stayed in the cabinet
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NEW: Boris Johnson told the father of a sick child there was “no press” invited to his hospital visit...
@MarkDiStef
has got hold of the No10 operational note arranging the TV media coverage... which includes political lines about new Tory NHS spending
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Statement from Luis Pitarma, one of the nurses who looked after Boris Johnson at St Thomas' hospital: “He thanked me for saving his life"
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New from
@YouGov
… 71% of Brits say face masks should continue to be mandatory on public transport for a further period of time once restrictions are lifted; 21% say they should not
66% say face masks should continue to be mandatory in shops; 27% say they should not
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Cabinet now in open revolt against No10 over Sabisky appointment
— one source: “Did nobody consider google? Jesus fucking Christ”
— another: “How fucking dumb is this ‘superforecaster’”
— another: “Interesting take on the people’s government”
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