Lisa O'Carroll
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Guardian senior correspondent. Brexit, EU affairs, Disinformation, Ireland. https://t.co/FqU06fdGMc. Send tips: lisa.ocarroll@guardian.co.uk o
Joined March 2009
Trying to build profile on the other platform. Staying here too, but hoping to be more active at Bluesky. Seems to be growing in popularity. I'm here.
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Chemotherapy nurse being interviewed on BBC World at One .How much do you earn? .£22,000.no wonder they are on strike.
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Two ladies who brought toiletries and other goods in lovely gift bags so it would create more dignity. So thoughtful
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Lord Frost on Boris Johnson refusing to correct claims that there are more people in employment than pre pandemic. "I wish he wouldn't say things like that, they're obviously not true. I'm not gonna defend, making factually incorrect statements".
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Extraordinary scenes at Boris Johnson press conference. Attacked by journalist for not doing enough. You are not sanctioning Abramovich. She says he is still in London. Putin's children in the EU. yet people in Ukraine are dying.
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NEW: Ireland has now taken in 2,500 Ukrainian refugees - justice minister Helen McEntee just now. She is at airport welcome building."We have rooms for children, we have toys, cots, food, you know we even have the companies that have donated chargers, adapters and sim phones".
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FULL STORY Boris Johnson’s government concedes Brexit will mean checks on goods going into Northern Ireland. Belfast, Warrenppint, Larne, He previously boasted that deal, which he agreed, meant no checks and businesses could put paperwork “in the bin”
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NEW: Leo Varadkar alarmed by Cummings comments that NI protocol was always going to be ditched. Varadkar who negotiated NI protocol with Johnson October 2019 tells RTE. "these comments are very alarming bcs that wd indicate that this is a government that acted in bad faith" 1/2.
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John Redwood challenges David Lammy to state what his alternative is to this bill. Leaning forward, raising his voice he says: "You negotiate". "You do not break international law".
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Mark Easton on BBC News just now - the home office has just confirmed there is no visa centre in Calais. @BBCMarkEaston The "surge" in effort it claimed at weekend was three or four staff and a few bottles of water and packets of crisps.
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NEW Gove confirms a de facto internal border in Kent - rephrasing previous tweet (this is something transport industry been v worried about). Truckers will have to have a "Kent Access Permit" to get into the county says Gove. It will use police and ANPR to enforce.
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NEW and WOW: Steve Baker, former head of ERG apologises to Ireland and the EU for “not always behaving” in a way that they would “trust us” in Brexit negotiations . “I am really sorry about that because relations with Ireland are not where they should be”.
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Sky News: "Hopefully you can build a new life in Dublin safe in the knowledge that the British people are completely behind you". Interviewee: "We want to thank Irish people. We are so grateful".
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Conservative chair Jake Berry: People know when they get their bills, they can either cut their consumption or get higher salaries or higher wages and go out there and get that new job.
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NEW: 6 charter flights from Romania to bring in 450 workers for British farms tomorrow - BBC WATO news reporting.
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Max Hastings, ex editor of Telegraph and boss to Boris Johnson: “Boris Johnson is one of the most brilliant and entertaining journalists that I know but the tragedy is he thinks he is Winston Churchill but the reality he is Steve Coogan” - on Radio4 any questions just now.
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Northern Ireland justice minister Naomi Long says “dishonesty” over the Northern Ireland protocol and promises of “unfettered access” by Boris Johnson et al and “denial of borders even as borders being erected” has contributed to loyalist anger. @BBCr4today (She’s Alliance party).
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BREAKING: EU has just sent formal letter to X owner Elon Musk over "indications" that his "platform is being used to disseminate illegal content and disinformation in the EU" in the wake of Hamas's attack on Israel.
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Ukrainian journalist makes emotional plea to Boris Johnson. Pleas for NATO cover on the border to allow refugees cross safely, asks why Abramovich and Putin’s children she claims are in London and the EU are not sanctioned while people in Ukraine dying
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Cheshire cheesemaker says business left with £250,000 'Brexit hole' and will have to move £1m investment he planned for Macclesfield to France. “I’ll be creating French jobs, paying into EU tax system” which he says was hardly point of Brexit
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NEW: High court in Belfast suspends "the order or instruction" given by Edwin Poots to officials to stop Brexit border checks pending a judicial review.
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David Davis keep referring to Ireland as "the south". Memo to Davis: The south of Ireland is Cork, Kerry, Waterford, Wexford. Ireland does not reference itself in relation to Northern Ireland. It is a whole country in its own right and it is called Ireland, or the Republic of Ire.
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Breaking: Emma de Souza forces change in immigration laws in the UK. All Northern Ireland citizens - British or dual Brit/Irish citizens now entitled to have 3rd country (US in Emma's case) spouses apply to remain in UK under EU settled status scheme. This is big. Full story soon.
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David Lammy making forthright speech about Brexit. Consensus amongst economists that the government's poorly negotiated deal with the EU has contributed to the UK lagging behind the rest of the g7 in trade recovery. 1/2.
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Cabinet office doc seen by Guardian on no deal scene:"The likelihood of a systemic economic crisis has increased and will have major impacts on disposable incomes, unemployment, business activity, international trade/commerce, market stability, and security decisions/capability".
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NEW: Brexit is "the biggest disaster any government has ever negotiated". Cheesemaker tells how he lost all business in the EU and new trade deals locked him out of other markets. "Turns out our biggest rival is UK govt" - Simon Spurrell
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This British man who went to Brussels to work for big car firm HQ decided to come home to be near elderly parents with his French wife and kids. Applied in March for family permit. Sold house in Brussels. Got new job, home kids into schools. Then . 1 Sept home office says. no.
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Miliband is on fire on Marr "I don't accept the sovereignty argument". "No deal is not an end game. We will go through pain, all the anguish It is not a sustainable position to have tariffs with our biggest market. We will have to go back into the negotiating table".
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Jacob Rees-Mogg Also expresses disgust that "the text was shared with the Irish national broadcaster RTE first and not the BBC. it is discourteous to the nation". A back-handed compliment to @tconnellyRTE cos of course this was good journalism and not an official statement.
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Lots of commentary in Irish media tonight about how confrontational approach by UK is threatening to splinter the west's united front against Putin. How can it criticise the Russian leader for breaking international law, while at same time threatening to breach a treaty itself?.
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Barnier confesses to being frankly “stupefied” by May's Lancaster House Jan 2017 speech which laid out UK��s red lines. “The number of doors she shut, one after the other . I am astonished at the way she has revealed her cards … before we have even started negotiating.”.
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Most extraordinary development #deniedmyvote.German couple in my story just been told the can, after all vote. Tower Hamlets checked the CCTV footage after my call for day they said they submitted their paperwork and found the mistake was theirs.
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Paraphrasing @BBCr4today .Humphrys - people like Boris Johnson say EU trying to break up the United Kingdom.Coveney - not so Boris isn't even in cabinet.Humphrys - well he speaks for a lot of public opinion.Coveney - you sound like you are speaking for him John.
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BREAKING Ireland will have final say on whether Britain can progress to 2nd phase of Brexit talks. Donald Tusk: “Let me say very clearly. If the UK offer is unacceptable for Ireland, it will also be unacceptable for the EU.
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NEW: BMW has delayed the development of the next generation of the Mini car."For cost reasons and because of Brexit".
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Car bomb in Derry around 8.30 last night. A bleak reminder of troubles, but also a reminder of how little Northern Ireland counts in London - as far as I can see not on any front pages.
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NEW: five-mile lorry queues in Kent after French started testing one element of its post Brexit controls in Calais. Checks took 70 seconds per person on truck.
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Draconian legislation to sweep away 47 years of laws in less than one year to get its second reading on Tuesday, Penny Mordaunt confirmed today. Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill publications will get rid of 2,400 laws unless someone actively seeks to save them.
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Green party's Caroline Lucas says the Tories negotiated a Brexit deal "when they didn't give a fig for the situation in Northern Ireland".
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UPDATE: Government facing calls to launch inquiry into registration EU citizens. Lawyers say there are multiple breaches of EU law and group action possible. Tower Hamlets apologise to German duo. Electoral Commission to launch review of what happened
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Why are people being sniffy about Primark queues? As one of my colleagues pointed out - "children have grown during lockdown. " and may need new clothes. and for many people that means shopping at Primark, more so with so many on furlough or anxious abut their jobs.
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Chlorinated chicken comes up in Urgent Question debate - Q Can Mordaunt guarantee it won't be allowed on British supermarket shelves? . A: "We should trust the consumer and I think consumers want high quality fairly priced food with high animal welfare standards".
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This:.I was the only journalist from British print media in Dublin today. No 10 refused to take any questions from any journalist from British print media, because there was no-one there for "the lobby" - Westminster political corps. I would have asked on proroguing; Rudd, law.
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News at Ten top story - CBI says supplies and staff shortages could last two years. Test tubes, chicken, IKEA products, lorry drivers. Govt says employers shd hire more Brits, that's what Brexit was all about. CBI says change immigration rules now. .
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"that this is a British government, that doesn't necessarily keep its word doesn't necessarily honour the agreements, it makes. And you shouldn't make any agreement with them until such time as you're confident that they keep their promises".
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Barnier raises the issue of truckers - how can they drive on EU roads without agreement? Currently they drive under EU law. In no deal Brexit, they will have to apply for quota of licences under agreements for 3rd country.
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NEW Chemical industry warns of £1bn Brexit costs.Neil Hollis, BASF tells Brexit sel comm of £1bn costs for registering chemicals post Brexit. Says some chemicals probably won't be available in UK as result. "There's no positive spin on this one," he tells Hilary Benn.
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British Veterinary Association has joined NFU in condeming govt decision to scrap Brexit checks. BVA's James Russell: “This move flies in the face not only of common sense, but also of the Government’s commitment to preserving high levels of animal and human health in the UK. 1/3.
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Heartbreaking story on @bbc WATO of interpreter who was told he was eligible to relocate in the UK in December 2020. He got rejection letter today. Taliban came knocking on his door last night. He escaped over back wall. Says Taliban torture and kill anyone who worked for NATO.
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Barnier regrets that the UK has not produced a legal text for the entire negotiations. (Sources tell me the UK text covers 7 areas). The EU text is 350 pages long an available on line, whereas UK text remains confidential, something Barnier says he regrets.
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#deniedmyvote.EU citizens - please do contact me. I am doing story on this today and want to hear your stories. lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com.
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This Kent Access Permit will be issued once trucker has completed their paperwork. But sources in industry say it is impossible to implement unless police patrol the Kent border. They have asked govt to explain this. This is first time govt has said police will be used.
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Sefcovic press conference: "the EU cannot be blamed for the cost of Brexit".
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Simon Hoare, Tory MP, chair of NI affairs comm: critics of NI protocol have "a bit of a brass neck". "The UK Govt co authored the protocol. the UK Govt legislated for it. The UK govt voted for it. This wasn't an impulse. This was agreed. It is a bit of a brass neck isn't it.
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Lord Frost tells President Biden to butt out of Northern Ireland row. 'It is our country that faced terrorism, faced the Troubles. I am old enough to remember having to check under my car every morning, as a diplomat, before I went to work.
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BREAKING Ireland has hit back at David Davis remarks saying Friday deal merely a statement of intent. Statement: “Both Ireland and the EU will be holding the UK to the Phase 1 agreement”. Points out UK has signed up to par 46 which binds them to the deal.
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Brexit committee exposing madness of Brexit. A ham and cheese sandwich coming into Belfast from GB (think Marks and Spencer etc) would need "two health certificates". But problem escalates if lorry carrying the sandwiches also carrying 10 other types of sandwiches - all need HCs.
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Andrea Leadsom on Radio 4, laying down contentious claims about freedom of movement. (paraphrasing), we will have same rules for all instead of current EU citizens allowed to come in without a job. (Fact) FM rules require citizens to have job after 3 months.
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Labour veteran Roy Hattersley comes out in favour of second referendum. Tells @BBCr4today "Sometimes, you just have to do what is right." And on no deal? "I don't think many people would regard Chris Grayling as an expert on these matters or, indeed, on anything." Me:.
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Just been to polling booth in London Tower Hamlets where two German nationals denied vote. They returned their UC1 form by hand on 2 May. I witnessed Kat phone the no she was given by officials and she was told the form was not processed until 16 May - 9 days after deadline.
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V IMPORTANT STORY BREAKING: Judge in Amsterdam refers case of British nationals wanting to retain EU citizenhip to ECJ. Judge Bakals says no referendum in a democracy should prejudice a minority. 1/2.
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Unless UK never wants to trade with the EU again, it will have to enter negotations even if there is no deal. And the top three things the EU will demand are: . 1. the money.2. EU citizens.3. Irish border. Prof Sara Hobolt, Sutherland chair European institutions, LSE @ifgevents.
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Did you know? Brits settled in EU with EU spouses lose automatic right to come home as a family after March 2022. Instead they must go through Priti Patel’s points system. British in Europe and The3million have tirelessly campaigned on this loss of rights
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Did UK know what Brexit meant? . Sefcovic :"It might be that our British partners, couldn't fully estimate the total the the consequences of the Brexit they have chosen; what it would mean to leave the single market, the Customs Union, how complex it would be for businesses".
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BREAKING: Raab promises government will "make sure there is adequate food" in Britain in the event of no Brexit deal. But says it is wrong to say government itself is stockpiling.
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NEW: Govt gives 42 kids with rare and severe form of epilepsy just 2 weeks notice they will no longer be able to get medicine from Netherlands because of Brexit.Alfie Dingley's mother blasts Boris Johnson and dept of health; implores them to do something
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Today is anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. Taoiseach statement: Island of Irl has truly become a completely different place in the last 23 years, because of the GFA. a period of building trust, dev relationships, changing attitudes, and improving the lives of people".
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Gove: "It’s unfair that people coming from European countries can access free NHS care without paying in while others make significant contributions". He should perhaps familiarise himself with EU free movement principles here: .
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Gove asked one Q about Brexit. about whether govt had now got the 50,000 customs agents. Gave lengthy answer explaining that they are not people in uniforms, they are not officials, they are private sector. Shows how little engagement on Brexit in UK that that was the one Q.
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Been trying to find this tweet all morning - remember this? Timely reminder that Brexiters including Steve Baker said they were told to vote for the withdrawal agreement because they could "change it later".
Incredible admission by leadingTory Brexiteer Steve Baker. They were told to vote for WA without reading it “on the basis Michael Gove articulated: we could change it later”. So they voted for it. And now discover there will be an border in the Irish Sea.
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Hansard Society briefing on fast track Brexit legislation. Strong words. Brigid Fowler says Parliament’s role around end of Brexit transition and deal is an ‘abdication of Parliament’s constitutional responsibilities to deliver proper scrutiny of the executive and of the law" 1/.
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referendums in Ireland totally different to the Brexit referendum. came with a package of detailed proposed legislation that was arrived after more than a year of consideration by a citizens assembly and then a parliamentary committee before permission for ref put to vote in Dail
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Theresa May put on spot over partnership with DUP by teenagers in Belfast ."What we've put forward in terms of Brexit is something that works for.all communities in Northern Ireland.".Nevan Mawhinney then replied: "But the DUP aren't, the DUP aren't.working for all communities.
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NEW: Northern Ireland Brexit row escalated as Lord Frost warns the EU the UK will not be shy in triggering Article 16.
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Business leaders slam government Brexit delays. Food and Drink Federation highly critical. Said many of its members "dismayed". Not only does it meant their preparations have gone to waste but. "worse it actually helps UK competitors. 1/.
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The Road Haulage Association policy director for England and Wales Duncan Buchanan told me earlier the Kent permits were "useless" and "pointless" as nobody could enforce them.
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WATO: Admiral Lord West says what plan to return boats to France "might achieve is someone being killed". It is hugely "problematic" he told the BBC programme.
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Eu nationals already in the U.K. or arriving with work visas including one airline crew member, a banker and an IT boss, tell how they were treated at the border with disbelief and apparent ignorance of the post Brexit rules
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and except for Putin's Russia, which has faced unprecedented sanctions, the OECD predicts that next year, The UK will have the lowest growth in the G20.
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