Christopher Hope📝
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Political Editor and Presenter, @GBNews ; Host, Chopper's Political Podcast; Editor, Peterborough Diary, The Daily Telegraph
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Our daughter Pollyanna lost her leg in a bus crash in London 13 years ago this weekend. But that has not stopped her dancing...
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As if things could not get worse for our Prime Minister, here’s the crowd chanting “Stand up if you hate Boris” at the 2022 Darts World Championship at Alexandra Palace in London tonight.
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BREAKING Nigel Farage has now made a statement to Northumbria Police and told them that he will press charges for assault against the man who threw milkshake over him.
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Politics is crazy right now. One Tory MP just told me: "We are on the cusp of having Andy Burnham carried shoulder-high through the streets of Manchester.
"He has demonstrated courage and principle, hope and determination and a spirit that the British people can be proud of."🤷♂️
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💥Big 48 hours for Boris Johnson next week in the House of Commons ...
Tuesday: Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle is expected to allow vote of MPs on an investigation into whether Boris Johnson misled the House of Commons over the extent of lockdown parties in Downing St 1/3
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You never ever forget the friends and neighbours who drop everything when your life collapses around you, even 14 years later. X
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BREAKING Tory MP Stephen Hammond submits letter of no confidence in Boris Johnson. Canaries in the mine are adding up. Problems for the PM.
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A senior Conservative MP who is also a doctor tells me: “I’d now be calling in the relatives to say it is hours not days.”
#LizTrussPM
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EXCLUSIVE
The Brexit Party is to be relaunched as an anti-lockdown party called Reform UK, in a move which could alarm Conservative MPs jittery about Covid-19 policy.
Plans to change the name of the Brexit Party to Reform UK were submitted to the Electoral Commission last week.
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🥂** Huge excitement in the Hope household tonight and congratulations to my wife Sarah who has been awarded an MBE in tomorrow’s New Year’s Honours for her work with child amputees and road crash victims in London. ** 🥂
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BREAKING Government whips have called a mass meeting of the Conservative Party's backbenchers for 8pm tonight in the House of Commons.
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Dominic Raab: "What would you do differently?"
Keir Starmer: "I would not stay on holiday as Kabul is falling."
#Afganistan
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Dear Twitter,
For the avoidance of doubt I am NOT Sir Christopher Chope MP.
Many thanks.
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I have been following Farage for four days for the
@Telegraph
and he has barely mentioned immigration - certainly not “spending his entire time attacking immigrants”. He talks about delivering on a democratic vote though - A LOT.
Corbyn: "Nigel Farage has spent his entire campaign attacking immigrants". Where?! This is a literal, outright lie – and will come as a shock to
@brexitparty_uk
candidates who are themselves immigrants. Total, outright, 100% lie
#ChangePoliticsForGood
#marr
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Attention train travellers!
If you see an obviously disabled person standing all the way on a train journey from London please can you offer them a seat?
Because none of you did for my amputee daughter on a
@TLRailUK
train tonight and she is very tired.
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Can anyone help?
Can you make our 15yo amputee daughter a prosthetic leg with the foot fixed in the pointe shape so she can do pointe work on it?
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EXCLUSIVE Laurence Fox is launching a new political party to fight the culture wars, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal
@LozzaFox
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NEW Senior Tory MP - not one or the usual critics - tells me: “That was a car crash. A lot of colleagues were waiting for the report to be published [before submitting letters of no confidence]. They may not wait now. He is is own worst enemy.”
#SueGrayReport
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This is my final night following Nigel Farage around the country. He is being greeted like a revivalist preacher by large crowds.
MPs who dismiss him and patronise are misguided. They have to ask: why is he selling out halls across the country? Many of them won't like the answer
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NEW Conservative MPs are being sent home and told they don't have to vote on Labour's Privileges committee motion.
This means the motion will almost certainly pass and Boris Johnson will be investigated for misleading the Commons, as soon as Scotland Yard finishes its work.
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A friend sends me a text asking: “Why does the BBC say the ‘risk’ of no deal instead of the ‘opportunity’ of no deal?”
Anyone got an answer for him?
#Brexit
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** Tory rebel MP tells me resignations from the Government are now expected tomorrow **
#Toryleadership
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EXC As many as 20 Tory MPs from the 2019 intake are planning to submit letters of no confidence in Boris Johnson tomorrow.
The number could breach the 54 letters required for a confidence vote. One 2019 Tory MP told me it could be the PM’s “D-Day”, adding: “His time has gone.”
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What a difference a week makes. It is standing room only for Angela Rayner at 11.50am today at the Labour Party Conference. This is in stark contrast with the half-empty hall at last week’s Conservative Party conference.
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Jeremy Corbyn is giving out a 100-plus page unredacted document marked "OFFICIAL - SENSITIVE (UK eyes only)" to journalists. Civil Servants will have marked it like this for a reason. And he wants to be Prime Minister in just over a fortnight's time.
#GE2019
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BREAKING Conservative MP John Baron withdraws support from Boris Johnson.
Tory MP says: "I’m afraid the Prime Minister no longer enjoys my support – I can no longer give him the benefit of the doubt.”
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This is unbelievable. Michael Gove has to have a 12-strong police escort to leave the House of Commons safely.
Andrea Leadsom has also tweeted about her police escort to get them through the People's Vote protesters outside.
What has our democracy come to?
Flanked by police Michael Gove not answering questions about the vote
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** EXCLUSIVE **
Boris Johnson has said he does not want to resign and will stay on if the membership backs him
The PM told former treasurer
@peteratcmc
over lunch at Chequers on Friday he wishes he could "wipe away" his resignation.
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Listening to Boris Johnson defending his three years as Prime Minister in the vote of no confidence, I think Conservative voters are really going to miss him
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BREAKING Conservative MP Julian Study issues statement calling on the PM to resign just as Boris Johnson addresses the 1922 committee.
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I have an idea: why doesn't the UK leave the EU on March 29 without a deal, save £39bn to help British companies and unilaterally agree to abide by EU rules for 21 months?
This would allow us to sort out trade deals (having left) which can then start at the end of 2020.
#Simples
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NEW Parliament has been flying the union jack upside down on its Portcullis House offices for weeks, Robert Courts MP says
Government minister Jacob Rees-Mogg says this is "deeply troubling" and demands it is changed.
The union jack flown upside down signifies a distress signal.
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BREAKING Theresa May has refused to appear on
@BBCRadio4
's Woman's Hour tomorrow morning. She is sending Justine Greening.
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Tonight, after the BBC’s cameras were turned off at the Royal British Legion’s Festival of Remembrance and the King and other royals had left the Royal Albert Hall, the military orchestra and the Bach Choir played and sang an impromptu ‘Land of Hope And Glory’ and we joined in 👇
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NEW Here’s the new Brexit 50p coin. Just one of two that have left the Royal Mint. Millions are available to spend in shops on Friday. Brexit is really happening folks.
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My advice for the millions of children breaking up from school today. Use the next six months to:
- learn to touch type;
- learn to play a musical instrument;
- take up a hobby;
- write a weekly letter to your grandparents or other elderly relations.
Anything I missed?
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LATEST John Bercow could face historical bullying claims as new complaints process opens 10 days before he quits as House of Commons Speaker | via
@telegraph
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Tonight 10 Conservatives voted to revoke Article 50 and cancel Brexit. They are:
Foreign minister Mark Field MP
PLUS
Guto Bebb MP
Nick Boles MP
Ken Clarke MP
Justine Greening MP
Dominic Grieve MP
Richard Harrington MP
Phillip Lee MP
Antoinette Sandbach MP
Ed Vaizey MP
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Around 2,000 sixth formers who bunked off school have been protesting in Parliament Square have now wrecked the newly planted grass. And they are worried about climate change? What about the lawn?
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Laurence Fox: “I am here to reclaim your freedom. We need to unlock London now.”
@LozzaFox
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Rumours that Sir Graham Brady might ask Boris Johnson to the 1922 committee tomorrow to explain his reforms to their ‘second jobs’.
It is hard to understate the anger. “Are we going to have to keep time sheets?” one asks me.
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NEW Angela Richardson becomes first member of the Government to quit over the
#SueGrayReport
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👀 Some personal news 👀
After nearly 20 years' working at The Daily Telegraph, I am very excited to be joining
@GBNews
as its Head of Politics and Political Editor later this year.
I love the team at the
@Telegraph
, and its wonderful readers, and will miss them all so much.
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NEW Strong rumours in Parliament from two Government sources tonight that Boris Johnson will make some sort of statement tomorrow lunchtime about partygate just before Prime Minister's Questions.
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The new 2019 intake of 109 Conservative MPs absolutely LOVE their leader and PM Boris Johnson.
#GE2019
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EXCLUSIVE Pictured tonight outside the Commons - leadership rivals
@KemiBadenoch
and
@SuellaBraverman
. Both are fighting on tomorrow.
@SteveBakerHW
, who took the photo, tells me: "This is the future of our country and our party. Enduring friendship despite our differences."
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** BREAKING **
@KemiBadenoch
has picked up real momentum in a new
@ConHome
survey of 850 Tory party members today, in the wake of the Channel 4 TV debate last night.
The poll puts Ms Badenoch in the lead on 31 per cent, up from 19 per cent last Monday. 1/3
#ToryLeadershipContest
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CONFIRMED Boris Johnson to address mass meeting of Conservative MPs at a meeting of the 1922 committee tomorrow evening in the House of Commons
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LATEST Layla Moran MP, chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus: “This is not a joke or a game. Matt Hancock must ensure he is fully available to assist the Inquiry when required, not when he leaves the jungle.”
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NEW The House of Commons has agreed that Boris Johnson "appeared to mislead the House" in his comments over
#partygate
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BREAKING I am hearing rumours of a THIRD Tory MP loyal to Boris Johnson who might resign tonight.
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EXCLUSIVE Sir Keir Starmer is to take on Boris Johnson in a battle of the televised press conferences.
Sir Keir Starmer is to go head to head with Number 10 by launching his own regular televised press conference next month, The Telegraph can disclose.
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EXCLUSIVE Scotland Yard will meet with a leading Conservative MP to discuss claims of threats and blackmail of rebel Tory backbenchers by Government whips, The
@Telegraph
can disclose.
A detective from the Metropolitan Police will meet with William Wragg early next week. 1/2
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NEW A Northern Research Group source said: "Sadly, today’s events show the PM has no commitment to levelling up, his voters, or the North of England.
"He is burning through goodwill, and looks scared to come and engage with the very group who delivered for him during the vote."
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Are you sitting comfortably? Some Tory MPs tell me David Davis is being lined up as an interim leader to take the UK through Brexit talks. DD - 70 in December - would then stand aside for a younger leader late next year.
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BREAKING Eleven members of the 2019 Conservative party intake have submitted letters of no confidence in Boris Johnson this morning.
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BREAKING Nigel Farage says he is now in talks with Tory donors about funding its general election campaign.
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A friend texts me: “They’ve published the WORST case scenario but why haven’t they published the BEST case scenario?”
Any one got an answer for him?
#operationyellowhammer
#Brexit
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📢💥Jacob Rees-Mogg tonight on
@BBCAnyQuestions
: "I will not be endorsing Mr Sunak for Prime Minister. I belong to a party that believes in low taxation and the former Chancellor has talked about low taxation and delivered higher taxation. 1/2
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BREAKING 10,000 Conservative party members - all who have to give their membership numbers - have now signed a petition to the party demanding a vote on whether Boris Johnson should resign.
How Boris Johnson could chart a course back to Number 10
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Sue Gray's description of entitled staff boozing away during lockdowns while dismissing concerns of cleaners and security staff, many of whom are paid substantially less than them, is incredibly damaging.
#partygate
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BREAKING Veteran Tory MP Sir Bob Neill calls for Boris Johnson to quit.
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I don’t understand Labour’s criticism of the PM’s deal on employment rights.
Isn’t the point of Brexit that outside the EU the UK government can set its own rights?
If a Government sets them too low they can face the consequences at the ballot box.
#Brexit
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Never look at your watch if you are a politician on TV.
I’m no body language expert but think this says “I’ve had enough…”
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If Johnson is found guilty of wrongdoing by the Privileges committee, he can be required to make oral or written apologies, be suspended from the House or even expelled.
Full story in today's Telegraph: 3/3
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The one worry for Tory MPs tonight is that forcing out a sitting Prime Minister between general elections could appear anti-democratic.
The Conservative Party might not recover from this for years.
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The rise of the
@brexitparty_uk
is extraordinary. Some 3,000 members signed up yesterday (Easter Sunday), raising an estimated £75,000.
More candidates unveiled tomorrow. And Nigel Farage is holding an open air rally in Clacton on Wednesday. Big worry for the Conservatives.
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Tomorrow is going to be 🔥 for Boris Johnson in Westminster. I am not sure the Government whips know what is coming. 😬
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LATEST Conservative MP Alicia Kearns: "My position remains unchanged since January, and the Prime Minister continues not to hold my confidence."
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BREAKING Eurosceptic Conservatives are 100 per cent behind the PM.
The European Research Group has issued statement to tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph pledging "the fullest confidence in David Frost and the British negotiating team", adding: "We have nothing to fear from freedom.”
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Shots fired outside Parliament. Loud explosion then shooting. Man lying shot outside gates to Parliament. Gun shots outside, Frightening.
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BREAKING Sir Bill Cash and other ERG Tory MPs have written to the Prime Minister questioning her right to postpone Brexit on Friday. MPs vote tomorrow.
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The 22 Conservative MPs who voted against the Windsor Agreement👇
A Afriyie
J Berry
P Bone
B Cash
C Chope
S Clarke
R Drax
J Duddridge
I Duncan Smith
M Francois
J Gullis
A Holloway
A Jenkyns
B Johnson
D Jones
Danny Kruger
C Mackinlay
M Offord
P Patel
J Redwood
J Rees-Mogg
L Truss
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Conservative MPs privately acknowledging that Sir Keir Starmer did well today at his first outing as Labour leader in front of a full House of Commons.
"He got the measure of the place," said one veteran Tory MP, who is loyal to Boris Johnson.
#Afghanistan
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Tory MPs will face a dilemma. If they want to know if their leader misled the House of Commons they can ask the Privileges committee to investigate.
Or they can vote against and shut down any investigation over contempt before it starts - opening themselves up for criticism.
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EXCLUSIVE in this weekend's Sunday Telegraph
Every statue will be given greater protection from "baying mobs" and road names could be saved from the "revisionist purge" of Labour councils, under law changes to be published on Monday
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Why is SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford allowed to ask a question about restrictions that only affect England?
#coronavirusuk
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BREAKING Eurosceptic Tory leader Jacob Rees-Mogg to submit letter of no confidence in Theresa May as Conservative leader later today, sources confirm
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Wednesday: MPs set to vote on whether to hand matter over to the seven-MP strong Privileges Committee which has a Tory majority but is chaired by Chris Bryant, a Labour MP.
The Privileges committee will then investigate whether Johnson misled the Commons 2/3
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NEW Jeremy Corbyn on whether he watches the Queen's Speech on Christmas Day:
Julie Etchingham: “So you don't sit down as a family to watch the Queen’s speech.”
Jeremy Corbyn: “We don't watch television very much on Christmas Day.”
#GE2019
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This is a national disgrace
Sewage now pollutes every single beach between Brighton and Hastings
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BREAKING The 1922 committee executive has met and decided not to change the rules to allow a second no confidence vote in Boris Johnson.
Instead 1922 executive elections will be held on Monday 2pm to 4pm.
All 18 places on the executive will be up for grabs. Proxy votes allowed.
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NEW ERG statement from chairman and vice chairman Mark Francois and
@DavidJonesMP
"Assuming a deal between UK and the EU is officially confirmed tonight, the ERG will tomorrow reconvene the panel of legal experts, chaired by Sir Bill Cash, to examine the details and legal text.
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The Daily Telegraph front page and back page this morning 🎩
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Wow! I am picking up pressure tonight from ERG sources for Suella Braverman, Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch to merge campaigns and blow Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt out of the water.
#ToryLeadershipRace
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Why is Nicola Sturgeon in the BBC QuestionTime election debate when the vast majority of the viewers cannot vote for her party?
#GE2019
@bbcquestiontime
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Backbench Tory source on David Frost’s ‘resignation’: “This is very bad news for Boris. Boris was elected to get Brexit done. Frost was getting Brexit done, if it turns out that he feels that is no longer possible it removes a big reason why Boris became PM in the first place.”
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BREAKING
Sources close to the Reform
UK Party tell me that as many as nine Conservative MPs are in advanced talks to join the Reform UK party.
More at
@GBNEWS
now.
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I find this unbelievable.
SNP leader
@Ianblackford_MP
told the Commons today: "The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is a liar".
Blackford was not challenged, or ordered to withdraw the comment, as is normal by the Speaker.
Have rules on Parliamentary engagement been changed?
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Sewage now pollutes every single beach between Brighton and Hastings
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My 15 yo daughter just asked me what is the difference between Remainers asking for a second referendum on Brexit and Donald Trump asking for a recount? 🤔
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Nigel Farage about to go on stage in Wolverhampton. Hall managers tell me around 1200 are here. Every seat is taken. Supporters are having to stand around the walls.
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EXCLUSIVE in tomorrow’s Daily Telegraph
Former Labour MP Frank Field set to become peer after Jeremy Corbyn's three candidates blocked
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