Tamara Cohen
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I interviewed Ellen Roome who is campaigning for parents to have access to a deceased child's social media history. Her 14-year-old son Jools died in April 2022 and a coroner said he probably did not intend suicide. She has battled with social media companies for answers, and.
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🔥 Tobias Ellwood tells @KayBurley he will be submitting a no confidence letter to the 1922 committee today. He says the PM does not appreciate the depths of concern among his colleagues about having to defend these stories.
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Exclusive. After years of delays, I understand laws to introduce a register, which would unmask the owners of properties owned by Russian politicians and oligarchs in the UK via offshore companies, will be brought forward as soon as next week. More on @skynews shortly.
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Hard hitting report by MPs today says the #Afghanistan withdrawal was “a disaster and a betrayal of our allies that will damage the UK’s interests for years to come.”. The absence of ministers & civil servants on holiday was “a grave indictment” of the FCO & “likely cost lives”.
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Former head of the foreign office Sir Peter Ricketts @skynews says Boris Johnson should withdraw his Brexit/Ukraine remark, saying it was "seen as desperately insulting and insensitive all of Europe. we should be trying to heal wounds with the EU not doubling down on them".
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Starmer says in opening remarks to the summit that the Uk “ will never withdraw from the ECHR” - as threatened by Rishi Sunak. He said it was “built on the blood bond of 1945” and since first reading about it as a student 40 years ago it “inspired me and everything that I have.
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Centrist Tory MP tells me has received **800 emails** in past 48 hrs about Cummings: "I've never seen anything like it". About 10 in support. Not many of the negative ones from people who hate Boris/ Brexit. It's why they've privately made case that Cummings position untenable.
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First footage of the PM at controls of a Typhoon last week. In a speech this morning he'll compare the flight to.to his leadership of the Tory party: . "I hauled the joystick right the way back and we did a loop the loop. "
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Rishi Sunak sacked Suella Braverman by phone this morning. And Downing Street say there won’t be any exchange of letters between the two - almost unheard of.
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NEW Explosive testimony from a senior FCDO whistleblower about the evacuation of Afghanistan - saying she is speaking out because civil servants have a duty to dos o when "the public and Parliament has been deliberately misled by the government".
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Exclusive. The minister for Afghanistan Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon was also on leave last week, as Kabul fell. He was on a staycation and not back at his desk until Monday. Although he knew Afghan FM Haneef Atmar, he was not asked to make the call on Friday. More on @SkyNews now.
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NEW Senior Tory William Wragg accuses Conservative party whips & no10 staff of "blackmail" of MPs who want a vote of confidence. He says his colleagues have been threatened with withdrawal of funding from constituencies - and encourages to contact police!.
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In other news, emails just published by @CommonsForeign re the Afghan evacuation refer to the PM giving personal authorisation for the Nowzad animals to be evacuated. This was denied by No10 spokesman.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg leaving cabinet tells waiting cameras that Boris Johnson is “the greatest prime minister ever” and adds “everyone loves Peppa Pig”.
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Sue Gray report is likely to come next week, a source close to the inquiry says.
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Tory backbencher Robert Halfon - who is shielding - hits out at the “stern, unbending” attitude of Govt to electronic voting. “If you can’t swing through the division lobby like Tarzan beating your chest. they think you’re not doing your job properly” 🔥
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Former scientific adviser Sir David King - who is setting up an independent rival to SAGE, which will hold its meetings on Youtube in interests of transparency, tells @KayBurley . "I’m a little worried ministers are setting up the scientists to be the fall guys".
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I understand a number of the ex-Tory rebels who were going to abstain on having a recess for party conference are now going to vote against - after what they heard last night.
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To those tweeting me that the animals were in the hold…. The controversy here is about the *considerable* official and ministerial time diverted to this (Pen could have got an RAF ✈️ alone last week), and about the soldiers waiting on tarmac at personal risk for his charter.
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Going for the cat-lovers vote? Leadership contender Rory Stewart pats @Number10cat outside cabinet this morning
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Jeremy Corbyn claimimg his @SkyNews interview was “hostile” because he was asked a lot of questions about why 9 MPs left the party this week. Otherwise known as @lewis_goodall doing a great job holding him to account.
Corbyn: As you may have noticed, the MSM can be hostile. I did an interview for Sky and they kept asking me about racism and why people were leaving the party, rather than things I wanted to talk about.
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No Tory MPs have broken cover yet but some seething in private and think it’s cutting through. One senior MP tells me its a disgrace and that constituent emails today have been v bad. When their whip called to encourage supportive tweet, they admitted their emails bad too.
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The handover hasn’t happened yet but the Benny Hill music has already started …
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NEW.Just four schools have been completed under the government's School Rebuilding Programme started in 2021, DfE confirm to me.
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Boom. David Gauke tells @KayBurley the policy Boris Johnson is pursuing is "reckless and irresponsible" and a majority Cons government "would be detrimental to people's jobs and livelihoods".
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Tobias Ellwood, vocal critic of the PM, tells @KayBurley says his party is on track to lose next election. He says he "absolutely" has more support than Tory MPs are letting on publicly, and "we are now going to get a steady drumbeat" of MPs losing confidence in the PM.
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Text messages related to the alleged party on 19 June are expected to be requested by the Privileges Committee. The messages, revealed by @HarryYorke1, are seen as relevant evidence as to whether Boris Johnson misled parliament over #Partygate.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg’s reaction to the Theresa May result in 2018 - when she won 2/3 MPs support
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Will May's move break the Tory party ?. Steve Baker tells me this morning: "I think it may unite it - against her". Says he's receiving "amazing support" for his stance against the deal.
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Mike Gapes sounds devastated. He’s been a Labour member for more than 50 years and an MP since 1992. Says Labour is now a “racist” party, which is “complicit” in facilitating Brexit and Corbyn Government will “threaten our national security”.
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BREAKING The DUP is planning to vote down this month’s Budget if Theresa May breaches the party’s red lines on Brexit, Sky News understands.
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Vote confirmed for Monday - Boris Johnson's birthday. Three years since the birthday party for which he was fined.
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Two weeks ago, the Cabinet Office said Whatsapp threads - even those "with a title or purpose which concerns Covid 19" contain material "unambiguously irrelevant to the inquiry". It turns out they haven't got Johnson Whatsapps or written diaries.
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Morning,. “One of the worst public health failures the UK has ever experienced” is the verdict of a major #Covid report by MPs. Thousands of deaths could have been prevented with an earlier lockdown and deaths in care homes were “among the worst in Europe”.
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Tory MP Antoinette Sandbach calls the sacking threat “staggering hypocritical” as Boris Johnson wouldn’t have been able to stand as PM if Theresa May had made such a threat . The MP is prepared to “put my job on the line” to stop no deal, speaking on @SkyNews.
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Far from universal excitement in Tory ranks. One former cabinet minister tells me election is a “suicide mission” and they’ll end up with fewer seats. .
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What about those newly elected Tory MPs who make up 1/3 of the party?. Publicly quiet, but talking to some tonight, I understand their Whatsapp conversations post press conference have been pretty angry, with many telling whips they want answers from the PM.
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Email Helen McNamara sent in Apr 2020 listing the issue that were ignored due to lack of women making decisions:.Pregnancy, fertility treatment, childcare and domestic abuse… .Disproportionate focus on football.
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Well. Boris Johnson says “one way or another we will leave with this deal”. So the PM accepts October 31 is off. And does not call for an election. Was all bluff.
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Boris Johnson denies making the “spaffed up the wall” comments about police money spent on historic child abuse inquiries, during Q&A in Rotherham. This is what he said on LBC in March.
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A tale of two scientists on 10 March 2020. Jeremy Farrar, on left, says the “chilling” Italy pictures of health service collapsing “focused minds” . Jenny Harries emailed colleagues to say the Italians were in a “rubbish position” as they had a less centralised health service.
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Keir Starmer on Sky News just now: "Brexit can be stopped".Jeremy Corbyn to Der Spiegel on Friday: "We can't stop it".
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Meanwhile at the PLP I’m told Jeremy Corbyn has just reiterated his view that “when people voted to leave the EU they voted to leave the single market” and said "single market membership requires us to be members of the EU"
Chuka Umunna just…ahem…walked purposefully out of #PLP, dramatically sighing and shaking his head.
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Morning,. Cressida Dick on the front pages, amid calls for her to resign. Extra 650 police officers to patrol busy areas of London, as part of measures to support women. 750 Met police & staff have faced sexual misconduct allegations since 2010, and just 83 sacked (@ithepaper).
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Tory MP tells me there's a "50% chance TM will resign by Friday. it’s a disaster. The question is – is it a worse disaster if she goes?".
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Talks on a US trade deal get underway today and the government has been warned by consumer group Which? that prospect of letting in products such as chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef would pose biggest risk to UK food standards since BSE in the 1990s.
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Keir Starmer says the PM's judgement on Afghanistan "has been appalling". Says Boris Johnson should have rallied international support through the UN, G7 or Nato, to stabilise Afghanistan over t past 18 months. Instead he chose to cut the aid budget which helped "resilience".
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Morning from the Covid inquiry . -Helen McNamara on the stand - 2nd most senior civil servant . - Dominic Cummings said in messages he wanted to “ handcuff” and get her “ out of our hair”. - she wrote a report on govt dysfunction in 2020 saying no10 “always at war with someone”
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Exc: Labour MPs have been told that Laura Murray is now *acting head of complaints* for the party. Far cry from admin support. Confirmed by Jenny Formby’s representative to the parliamentary committee meeting which is ongoing. MPs are furious.
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Eye-opening story from @Annaisaac @PippaCrerar - sources tell them Sunak was informed about the probe into Zahawi's tax affairs, when he was chancellor back in June. And that a penalty may be levied. Downing Street categorically deny the story.
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Ellwood also very unhappy about the Savile slur, telling @SkyNews:.“The attacking this week of Keir Starmer with Jimmy Savile. I mean who advised the Prime Minister to say this? We’re better than this. We must seek to improve our standards and rise above where we are today.”.
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There was a jet on standby to take Raab to Brussels last night to stand alongside Barnier, but he refused to go and was angry at only seeing the final wording of the deal at the last minute, reveals @KateEMcCann from friends of Raab.
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This is an extract from the letter to the PM from the Greater London Authority Monitoring Officer who is an independent official. It explains why the threshold has been met:
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Tobias Ellwood says: “I don’t think the Prime Minister realises how worried colleagues are in every corner of the Party, backbenchers and ministers alike that this is all only going one way. I will be submitting my letter today to the 1922 committee.”.
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This is a point. Youth services cut by approx £1.1bn since 2010/1 or 70% in real terms (YMCA and National Youth Agency), big regional variation too.
For reference, the £2.5bn annual cost of the Conservatives new national service policy is roughly twice as much as would be needed to return local authority spending on services for young people back to the level it was in 2010.
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That’s a wrap! . After 5 years on the @skynews Breakfast show with I’m switching off my 3:45 alarm. I’ll be on TV in the daytime/evenings covering politics in depth as we ramp up for the election. Thanks to the brilliant team and of course @KayBurley
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New: . Government has lost its bid to relax rules around the pollution of waterway to build more houses. Lords rejected it 156-203. Opposition peer heard shouting: “we’ve won the war!”.
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Boris Johnson’s team were “sitting there and saying it was great and laughing at the Italians” as Covid hit, McNamara tells the inquiry. The PM was “unbelievably bullish” she says.
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Liam Fox slaps down the WTO only option: “if WTO was so good, people wouldn’t be looking to have trade agreements and customs unions to improve on those WTO rules”. Says he thinks it’s “strange” people say we don’t need a trade deal with Europe but want one with the US #Ridge.
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Josie Stewart, who has 15 years experience including two years at the embassy in Kabul says:. "I feel a strong sense of moral injury for having been part of something so badly managed, and so focused on managing reputational risk & political fallout rather than the actual crisis".
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Sir Alan Duncan, Boris Johnson's deputy at the Foreign Office, who described him as a "circus act", of having thrown the Washington ambassador "under the bus" and told in an interview how a fellow foreign minister described him as Boris's "pooper scooper" has now resigned. .
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@KayBurley Philip Lee makes striking (and maybe coincidental) point that there are a lot of recent former justice ministers: David Gauke, Sam Gyimah, himself, and Rory Stewart, who are no longer Conservatives.
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NEW Ministers ignored warning 8 months ago that the US withdrawal would destabilise Afghan government and cannot say that “no one foresaw or predicted the consequences” - by me and @RaynerSkyNews
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NEW . London’s City Hall will be lit up in white and blue tonight, the Mayor’s office confirm. Follows displays for 🇮🇱 in Germany, Italy and the European Union.
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Register of beneficial overseas entities is expected to be brought forward, as No10 now see it as a " top priority", I'm told. MPs and campaign groups have warned for years that Kremlin-linked wealth is being hidden in London.
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A Tory MP has shown me this leaflet sent in by a voter - who initially thought he was being told NOT to vote for the Conservatives in the European elections. It’s all going terribly well.
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And indeed by the PM, who told reporters in a clip on 26 August that he had “no influence on that particular case. Nor would that be right”.
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Liam Fox letter to Tory MPs pulverises Labour’s customs union: “we would be stuck in the worst of all worlds”
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Gauke says he (and likely other ex Tories) will insist on delay even if there’s a deal. Doesn’t want to but says there’s a risk that we “crash out” if a deal gets through Parliament on Saturday but the legislation - votes on all the detail - proves controversial.
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NEW The PM will NOT chair today's Cobra meeting on the heatwave, Kit Malthouse will do it again. The PM is attending a planned appearance at the Farnborough air show and then opening the confidence debate the govt has called in itself.
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On the reports in September that 5,000 emails from desperate Afghans went unread, she accuses Dominic Raab, the former foreign secretary, of being “inaccurate” when he wrote to MPs to say they were being urgently worked through.
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Former aide to Theresa May has told me she won’t rebel tonight as she’s loyal and feels very strongly that MPs taking control of the order paper is a “constitutional outrage”.
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NEW Tory rebels reply to Jeremy corbyn letter - saying they will discuss options with him to stop no deal
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Close of polls: Tamworth . A Labour win here is a real possibility, in the 57th safest Tory seat, according to those who’ve been campaigning here. We’re ready for a long night!
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You’d expected a lot of these visits to come during the election campaign.
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Detail about this hack which is alleged to have happened during the leadership contest: . “Her phone was reportedly compromised when Ms Truss was Foreign Secretary, but the details were suppressed by Johnson and the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, who ordered a news blackout”.
EXCLUSIVE.Kremlin hacked PM’s phone .
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Jeremy Corbyn’s former press secretary is among those protesting
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Matt Hancock tells @SophyRidgeSky that sunbathing in parks is not allowed, it’s “against the rules”. The 4 reasons for going out are:.- medical reasons.- groceries.- work .- exercise.
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