Ashley Cowburn
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Deputy Political Editor, The Mirror / [email protected]
Joined March 2011
Corbyn on Grenfell:. "I’ll tell you what’s common sense: Don’t put flammable cladding on people’s homes. That’s common sense. "Don’t close fire stations and don't cut fire fighters. That’s common sense. And don’t ignore residents when they tell you their home is a death trap.".
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Corner shop in Scotland is giving free ‘coronavirus kits’ to people in need in Scotland.
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Conservative member at Oliver Dowden event:. “I really don’t like the culture war, and I really don’t like all of this anti-woke rhetoric. “Was women suffrage woke? Was universal suffrage woke? Were gay rights woke?".
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.@maitlis: “Good evening. Dominic Cummings broke the rules. The country can see that and it’s shocked the government cannot.”
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Tory MP Chris Skidmore: "The reality is that Ulez was a Conservative policy, introduced by Boris Johnson as mayor and recently agreed by this Government to be expanded in May 2020, as part of Covid loans to the mayor. .
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George Osborne says austerity was a "consequence of the global financial crash" of 2008. Weird, I thought it was Gordon Brown's fault.
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Ian Blackford says for weeks he's been calling for Boris Johnson to resign at PMQs – only to be met with a "wall of noise" from Tory MPs. "All this time 41 per cent of them have been cheering me on," he adds.
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New Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy spotted at the England game
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EXCLUSIVE. Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak pressed ahead with a Universal Credit cut despite government papers warning 300,000 children would be plunged into absolute poverty.
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Labour source: “I've never seen Sunak so exercised. That private jet air passenger duty change has really hit home.”.
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💥 Appearing at the Tory conference Andy Burnham says people of Manchester being treated as “second class citizens” over reports Rishi Sunak will axe northern leg of HS2. He says he’s been “shut out” of talks and the decision — in Manchester — will be “remembered as the.
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An MP makes an emotional plea to tone down the language - citing death of her friend Jo Cox. The prime minister responds saying “humbug”.
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The Conservatives won 15% of the vote in Rutherglen and Hamilton West at 2019 general election. This morning they secured 3.9% and lost their deposit.
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EXCLUSIVE. Tories instruct lawyers to fight release of Universal Credit documents ahead of election. The Information Commisioners' Office ordered release of analysis showing impact of cutting the £20-per-week Covid uplift - by June 21. Gov now appealling.
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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt cheered on by Tory MPs as he says you can't "borrow your way to growth". The same backbenches that is that cheered on Kwasi Kwarteng eight weeks ago as he announced billions of £s in unfunded tax cuts.
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After Westminster turned red last week, Keir Starmer congratulates Boris Johnson for achieving the new first being the "first resident of Downing Street" to be a constituent of a Labour council.
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The chief medical officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has confirmed no beds were available & has apologised to the family.
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Exclusive: . Lord Dubs, who fled the Nazis as a child, says PM should sack Lee Anderson after asylum seeker rant. “It taints the Government and it taints the country by having senior politicians making comments like that.".
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Lisa Nandy isn’t take any prisoners on her tour of the media studios this morning.
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Corbyn tells Young Labour event in last leadership election Starmer “promised unity, but instead we are given division. “We were promised ten pledges - and where are they? We were promised effective opposition, but instead the Tories have been given a free pass time & again”.
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EXCLUSIVE. Rishi Sunak ordered to publish a secret analysis showing impact of removing Universal Credit support. The Information Commissioners' Office has overruled the Treasury - which refused to release info on Covid-era uplift. Deadline 21 June.
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Jack Dromey's last speech in Parliament was just yesterday - urging against any watering down of the Afghan citizens' resettlement scheme. "We simply cannot let down those who trusted in our country & who now deserve nothing less than our full support in their time of dire need".
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Boris Johnson just referred to Esther McVey as the "Secretary of State for Work and Pensions". She's his housing minister.
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This is from Jo Cox's maiden speech in the Commons, June 2015:
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A Royal Air Force aircraft travelled 330 miles from a base in Scotland for a photoshoot with Boris Johnson –before flying back.
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Exclusive: Almost half of voters back Rachel Reeves increasing borrowing to fund new hospitals, roads and rail. Just 20% opposed.
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Elections expert John Curtice tells the BBC he was surprised by scale of Labour's victory at the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. "By-election swings on this scale are the kind of swings - historically at least - oppositions have secured when they are going to on to.
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Channel 4 have actually gone ahead and replaced Boris Johnson with a melting ice sculpture
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Incredible photo of thousands protesting on Downing Street this evening at #TrumpProtest (via @MPSWestminster)
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This was just three days ago.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson accuses Labour's Keir Starmer of wanting to "cancel Christmas" and adds that there is "unanimous agreement" across the devolved nations that "we should proceed in principle with the existing" festive plans. #PMQs:
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This from Nadhim Zahawi in December has aged well.
EXCL: New bombshell image shows Boris Johnson with open bottle of bubbly at No 10 Christmas quiz
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On Suella Braverman's "invasion" comment, Refugee Council chief exec says: “This kind of dreadful rhetoric is not only fundamentally wrong, it is incredibly dangerous. “Men, women and children coming to the UK on small boats are fleeing war, conflict and persecution. .
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Keir Starmer tells Labour’s National Policy Forum if the party wins power “the rescue job will be like none other”. “Think of it like this: if our job in 1997 was to rebuild a crumbling public realm, in 1964 - to modernise an economy left behind by the pace of technological.
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Did Theresa May just say to a nurse "there's no magic money tree" when asked about the 1% pay rise. Unbelievable. #bbcqt.
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Transport Secretary Louise Haigh on whether Keir Starmer has a "woman problem" on GMB: "I am a senior woman in the Cabinet and I sit in front of you as the youngest ever woman to sit in any British Cabinet. "We have the first female Chancellor, we have a female Deputy Prime.
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Donald Tusk has just posted a letter from a 6-year-old girl on his Instagram 🦄
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“The Government has announced that Manchester's Metrolink will be extended to the city's airport” after scrapping HS2 northern leg. “However there's one small issue - this already happened back in 2014.”. 😬😬.
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When you've got a second day hangover on a Monday morning.
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Latest poll by @WStoneInsight for @DailyMirror shows the Reform overtaking Tories. 🔴Labour - 39% (-2).🟣Reform - 20% (+2).🔵Tories - 19 (-).🟡Lib Dem - 12% (+1).🟢Green - 6% (-). From June 19-20/changes with June 13.
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Can someone break it to Shaun Bailey’s social media team that Sadiq Khan isn’t the prime minister.
Germany has let fans back into stadiums. France has let fans back into stadiums. @SadiqKhan has let London fall behind. As @TheSun says, the sports industry is worth billions to the UK. So let’s get fans safely into stadiums and help our economy recover.
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Andy Burnham tells Covid Inquiry "all hell broke loose" when Manchester was put under local restrictions in July 2020. He says he had recieved "minimal notice" from the then Health Secretary Matt Hancock. "This was as chatoic as it gets - he gave me an hour to speak to local.
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Under the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 the government compensated slave owners £20m – around 40 per cent of total annual expenditure at the time. This fascinating project set up by my former lecturer allows you to search individuals who benefited .
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Theresa May’s face as Ian Blackford describes Boris Johnson’s deal as worse than hers is everything
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NEW: 16 major charities - including Trussell, Scope, and Mind - are warning the government benefit cuts will have a “catastrophic impact on disabled people up and down the country”. In a letter to the Chancellor today, they say 700k more disabled households could be pushed into.
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Not seen any mention of this from UK government today - one of its most important allies beheads 37 people in a single day, and not a peep.
Saudi Arabia executed 37 people today, including Mutjaba al-Sweikat. Mujtaba was arrested at King Fahd International Airport, on his way to begin his studies at Western Michigan University.He was 17 yrs old when arrested. The PM must condemn these brutal executions. #ripmutjaba
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At the Covid Inquiry Matt Hancock refers to the former Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson, who he says is "sadly no longer with us". He's. alive.
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A dental practice recently visited by Rishi Sunak to launch his NHS dentistry “recovery plan” is dropping NHS patients - from @MartinBagot .
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When you’ve had three Prime Ministers and five Chancellors since the last general election “chaos” is hardly the most effective line against your opponents.
🔴 Labour would have to enter a “coalition of chaos” with other parties to win office, No 10 sources have suggested, after an analysis said the general election could produce a hung parliament.
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Bit odd Theresa May hitting out at the abuse Diane Abbott has received when the Conservative election campaign directly targeted her.
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Quite a pic from @ReutersUK. One thing for broadcasters to empty podium the PM during televised debates, quite another for another foreign leader to do so. Diplomatic equivalent of 🖕
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Who had a better weekend: Liz Truss or Gavin Williamson?
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Financial Times, 21st July: . ‘Truss said the tax cuts would not be paid for by austerity, adding: “I’m very clear, I’m not planning public spending reductions.”. 10 weeks later:
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Tory manifesto promises to "fully abolish Section 21 notices" for renters. So did the 2019 manifesto.
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"We couldn’t even suggest that people shouldn’t boo our national football team on the global stage. "Have we learnt anything from the progress of the last 100 years?”.
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ITV to Rebecca Long Bailey: "How would [you] rate Corbyn as leader out of 10?". RBL: "I thought Corbyn was one of the most honest kind principled politicians I've met.". ITV: Out of 10? . RBL: "I'd give him 10 out of 10, because I respect him and I supported him all the way. ".
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Quite telling that Jo Swinson just refused to answer whether it would be worse to have Corbyn in Number 10, or a no-deal Brexit.
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Boris Johnson claims he didn't say anything about Turkey in the EU referendum campaign. Here's his joint letter with Michael Gove to Downing Street, seven days before the referendum.
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Tory Deputy Chair Nickie Aiken tells BBC 5 Live on Suella Braverman's homelessness comments: "Having been responsible for rough sleeping policy in Westminster when I was a city councillor, I have met scores of rough sleepers over the years and I can't recall one of them telling.
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"I'm off to north England" said precisely no one ever from up north.
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Here's Jeremy Corbyn today visiting a foodbank in Mansfield which received financial support from the Conservative MP Ben Bradley - after the defamatory tweet dispute. Looks cheerful.
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Four Tory MPs who made huge £6m selling taxpayer-funded 2nd homes won't say whether they paid capital gains. Exclusive from @NickSommerlad .
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Hang on, did Boris actually have a photo shoot signing his own resignation lettter? Is that not. slightly odd?
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A Labour source hit back at the Tory attacks, saying: “The only person who’s clocked off early in this campaign is Rishi Sunak at the D-Day commemorations.”.
Keir Starmer did NOT say he'll clock off work at 6pm every day - Tory lie debunked
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Businessman Theo Paphitis not holding back on @bbclaurak show: "The Tories have just done such a rubbish job - definitely over the last 7 or 8 eight years. "They've spent all their time looking inwards and themselves and not actually doing the job we've elected them to do.
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The set design for Theresa May's speech kinda looks like something I would have designed using WordArt for a powerpoint presentation during an IT class in secondary school.
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Keir Starmer says vote tonight - with 99 Tories rebelling - shows Boris Johnson is “too weak to discharge the basic functions of government". "PM needs to take a long, hard look at himself and ask himself whether he has the authority to take this country through the pandemic".
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Rishi Sunak's WhatsApp legal battle with Covid inquiry could cost 'well into six figures'. "The cost is likely to be several hundred thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money," says lawyer who worked on Hillsborough tragedy and now representing bereaved.
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Keir Starmer tells reporters Tory candidates investigated by Gambling Commission should be suspended. He says: “If it was one of my candidates they’d be gone and their feet would have not touched the floor.”.
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Really didn't expect to be at the FlightRadar stage on day 39 of a Liz Truss premiership.
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Rishi Sunak reported to ethics adviser after using government crest for 'politically charged rant'.
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MPs told this morning:. - Almost 5,000 excess winter deaths last year caused by people living in cold damp homes. - Energy debt is "destroying lives" and government package of financial support urgently needed. - Increase in 'dangeous coping mechanisms' among those in extreme.
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Keir Starmer challenges Rishi Sunak to call a general election next week to be held on May 2. He tells @lewis_goodall: "I say to the Prime Minister, call it. Have the backbone to call it. "Allow this to go to a general election on May the second, we're ready.".
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US Department of Homeland Security says Nigel Farage was allowed to board flight as it was in "the national interest". He was initially denied boarding.
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Ouch. Philip Hammond tells John McDonnell to vote for Brexit deal on the table at the moment. Speaker Bercow interrupts: "It's quite difficult to vote for something if there isn't a vote".
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Quite a stand out remark in John McDonnell's response to Philip Hammond during the spring statement just now: "A male child born in Kensington, Liverpool can expect to live 18 years less than a child born in Kensington and Chelsea.".
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Well, the UK certainly looks prepared for the second round of Brexit talks.
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Text from a friend: “I wish I could resign every time I didn’t want to do something and still have a job.”.
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Wes Streeting tells the New Statesman he’s seen tomorrow’s newspapers . “It is going to get worse,” he says. “Sue Gray has been hiding Lord Lucan, she shot JFK… I don’t know how we’re going to recover from this frankly.”
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Quite amazing that all these tweets are from Conservative MPs.
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Andy Burnham venting anger this morning on A-Levels. “This is the single biggest act of levelling down that this country has ever seen and if they think it is fair I’m afraid they are only demonstrating how out of touch they are. ".
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Jeremy Hunt sends Treasury minister Bim Afolami to the Commons to answer Labour's urgent question on the UK economy entering recession. Rachel Reeves - clearly baffled - asks "Where is he? You're not the Chancellor".
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Andrea Leadsom describes shale gas as something the UK will "need for the next several decades" & says the fracking ban is a "huge disappointment". Not exactly the comments from a cabinet minister keen on a permanent ban.
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Another delegate also said voice of membership had been "wiped out". “This used to be the members’ conference,” they said. “The latest absurdity is now that when questions are taken from the audience in the main auditorium they are filtered through a WhatsApp programme.”.
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Labour’s newly elected mayor of Doncaster Ros Jones - who won with a majority of just 698 over Reform - says Keir Starmer “needs to listen” to voters. Jones raises cuts to winter fuel payments, NI rise for firms, and cuts to PIP disability benefits.
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Incredible what can happen in British politics in two years.
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Excellent communications strategy from the work and pensions secretary here
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Keir Starmer says he backs calls for an early election, arguing the country needs a fresh start. It's clear the government is "collapsing", he adds.
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Tuesday . Rishi Sunak: "Well good morning everyone, it is great to be here with you all and at Silverstone. There’s nowhere better to mark the fact that our economy has turned a corner." . Wednesday . Office for National Statistics: The UK economy recorded no growth in April.
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Ed Miliband says renewable energy law will stop Britain being held to ransom by Putin. In his speech tomorrow he'll outline plans for an Energy Independence Act - establishing the party's plan for publicly owned GB energy company.
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An actual government minister - Maria Caulfield - is now on Sky News claiming Keir Starmer wants to do a four-day week in No10. It's immediately pointed out that's not true.
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Tory MP John Baron on @BBCPM: "I would find it impossible to serve under Boris. coming back being Prime Minister - that ship has sailed".
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