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Chants of ‘my name is Boris’ and ‘this is a work event’ outside Downing Street as maybe a hundred bewigged Boris lookalikes jig around in the street. Utterly surreal
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Parliament’s tallest MP Daniel Kawczynski - who is 6ft 9in - has posted a pic with the PM
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Having spent a few days in Wakefield the by election is going to be tough for the Tories. One of their issues is that people feel disillusioned about Brexit. People who voted for it telling us they regret it. One of PM’s biggest selling points starting to seem like a weakness.
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An elected politician here saying he couldn’t vote against a piece of legislation because some other politicians were laughing at him. Speaking exclusively to the tv channel that pays him £100k salary 🤷🏻♀️
‘I was going to vote no…’
‘The Labour lot were all giggling and laughing and taking the mick…’
@LeeAndersonMP_
explains why he abstained from the Rwanda vote after resigning as Tory Deputy Chair yesterday.
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Worth remembering Sue Gray played no role in uncovering partygate - that was the press
Hers was not the first investigation to conclude - that was the Met police who found PM broke the law
Her report played no role in the PMs departure - that was the Pincher scandal
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Every time I go out of Westminster now to report on partygate lots of people tell me the same thing - regardless of their politics. ‘It was wrong but we’re over it. You (the media) are obsessed. Please focus on more important things’.
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Whoever is doing comms for Sir Keir today has made a basic error…
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Conservative MP for Crawley
@HenrySmithUK
appears to have deleted the statement he put on his website in July calling for Boris Johnson to go. He’s said to be backing his return.
Fortunately a local media outlet reported the statement at the time…
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Caroline Flint shouts 'hello Manchester!' at a Labour conferenece fringe event... in Liverpool 😮
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Nick Robinson on the Today prog just described Lee Anderson as ‘the red wall made flesh’.
It’s throwaway comments like this that reveal a deep and enduring misunderstanding of political views in the north and the midlands.
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For any aspiring journalists… 95% of the job is sitting on the floor looking at your phone
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This week we found out that 131,000 children in this country have no home of their own to go to. They live in temporary accommodation.
That’s the highest figure since records began in 2004.
But anyway back to Nigel Farage’s bank account.
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WATCH: Chris Williamson tells a Sheffield Momentum meeting that Labour has been "too apologetic" about anti-Semitism...
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Nadhim Zahawi in his first few minutes as Chancellor getting the
@SamCoatesSky
treatment. Might as well get it out of the way early eh…
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Lee Anderson says his mum and dad told him to defect to Reform. He’s 57 years old.
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Sam Coates elevates the Downing Street shout to an art form
'Did you lie at the despatch box, prime minister?'
Our deputy political editor
@SamCoatesSky
has been outside Downing Street asking the prime minister and his cabinet about partygate
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It’s my last day
@Channel4News
😭😭 the weirdest and most wonderful newsroom. I watched Jon Snow on it as a teenager but never dreamed I would be part of the team one day. Sad to leave so many lovely colleagues but looking forward to the next leg of the journey…
@SkyNews
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I also asked Ian Blackford about the way he handled the Patrick Grady sexual misconduct case
- why he said in a private meeting colleagues should rally around Grady
- and if he had personally apologised to the victim
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The camera crew he was with was me and Channel4News! You don’t need this grainy pic because there is a whole 5 minute video of the day online including this cafe interaction. It’s been available ever since it was aired almost two years ago and still is 😂
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Sir Greg Knight MP will not stand at the next election which means no repeat of the BEST CAMPAIGN VIDEO OF ALL TIME
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After reading this I was inspired to ask my elderly neighbour if he’d like to come round for a cup of tea. He said ‘no thanks’.
I wrote this about the "loneliness epidemic" and the absurd modern belief that happiness and fulfilment are found in ourselves not in other people
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I’m 35 years old but still informing my parents of my minor accomplishments (I went for a swim) and then glowing with pride when I get some emojis
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Hard not to feel sorry for the Speaker in all of this, who has a good reputation and record and seemed genuinely upset at how tonight ended. He’s found himself at centre of childish political game playing in a parliament now so election-focused it has lost touch with reality.
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It's hard to create a moment in these very short, very structured interviews that reveals something about a politicians character. This feels like one.
'How do you feel when you lose?' - Sky's
@BethRigby
The Conservatives recently lost out in local elections and Beth Rigby asks PM Rishi Sunak how it feels to be "one of life's winners" but to lose.
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Inspired by this Telegraph article I’ve come up with some more tips…
Stand a bit closer to people at the bus stop to absorb their body heat.
Watch TV for free in Curry’s.
No need to buy food when you can just take a bite out of someone else’s when they’re not looking.
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Looking through Scott Benton’s written parliamentary questions, he has asked quite a lot about gambling. Around 40 out of 335 are on the subject. Here are a few examples:
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First
@SkyNews
live done… 1000s to go 🎉 Thank you
@Katy_Dillon
for taking pics like a proud mum on the first day at school 😘
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Only in Yorkshire… Two Yorkshire puddings with gravy as a starter 😍
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when your mouth says 'this is fine' but your copious facial sweat says 'I wish I'd just been a corporate lawyer like my parents suggested'
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Civil Service Chief Simon Case is asked about Boris Johnson’s missing mobile phone.
Labour’s John McDonnell has his own theory… ‘in the Thames probably’
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Thoughts and prayers with this brave family caught up in the air traffic control chaos 🙏
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A snapshot on Sky News this evening of the atmosphere in Rochdale in the wake of a divisive by election. Probably not the most fun
@SamCoatesSky
had ever had on a Friday night…
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That terrifying moment when you think
@SamCoatesSky
has snuck into your no media event…
*it was a different Sam Coates
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Just trying to ask a minister about male privilege and misogynistic culture…
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Rishi Sunak's attack lines on Starmer borrowed from his old boss...
He's from North London
He tried to stop Brexit
He backed Jeremy Corbyn
It's all sounding very 2019.
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Over the past 12 years under the Conservatives (+coalition) there have been…
4 PMs: Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss
6 Chancellors: Osborne, Hammond, Javid, Sunak, Zahawi, Kwarteng
Compare that to the previous 13 years under Labour:
2 PMs, 2 Chancellors (3 people total)
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Always baffled by this obsession with wanting political leaders not to be boring - something that followed May and now Starmer. Imagine taking the same approach to choosing any other professional - a surgeon, an accountant, a lawyer. Would you say ‘I want the the fun one’.
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Whenever Liz Truss goes off on one I always think yeah but credit where it's due she really knows her leaves
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Just off to the pub for a cheeky *checks notes* shout
@Nick_Pettigrew
Say what you want about him, but the man sure knows what people like to do in pubs
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Leaving one city a day late because of train strikes to go to another city where there are bin strikes. Of course the train I’m on is packed because of cancellations. Oh and the card machines aren’t working at the station. Fully expecting to be covered in raw sewage at any moment
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Labour's
@jon_trickett
tells
@JPonpolitics
: "We want to remain in a reformed European Union"
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Declaration imminent in North Shropshire. Lib Dems very very confident 👀
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Journalism is 95% squatting
What a day
#BehindTheScenes
#cabinetreshuffle
#Rishuffle
@10DowningStreet
with the
@SkyNews
team
@SophyRidgeSky
@wizbates
@BethRigby
@markaustintv
Back tomorrow for
@RishiSunak
first
#PMQs
see you 11am
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Behold a perfect Downing Street live. The turn, the shout, the smooth finish. It’s a 10 from me 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Here’s our live report for
@itvnews
from Downing Street - with Deputy PM Dominic Raab telling us he won’t resign over bullying allegations.
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He also recounts how he sang ‘Celebration’ outside Joan Ryan’s office when she quit Labour last week…
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Thread: Why Emma Raducanu’s win means I was right about everything + I take a wild guess at how her future will play out based on nothing
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Peak Jon Craig 😂
The brilliant
@joncraig
summarises the James Cleverly ****hole row and I totally lose it on TV (for I think the first time)
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If anyone needs me I’ll be drinking and wearing my new microwaveable slippers. Happy Christmas one and all! 🎄🥂😘
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Silly line of questioning on Today prg aimed at David Lammy who may well be foreign sec in a year or so and dealing with one of the most complex foreign policy challenges the world faces. And instead he is grilled on Labour splits. Unserious journalism on the most serious subject
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An incredible moment as Sky's Africa Correspondent
@YousraElbagir
spots her Uncle in the crowd
'I didn't know that you came here.'
As evacuees arrive in Jeddah from Sudan, Sky's
@YousraElbagir
, finds her uncle in the crowds. Mohsin, a Sudanese-American surgeon, boarded a ship in Port Sudan to escape the fighting in Khartoum
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I *think*
@RoryStewartUK
was quite pleased when he heard the news
Incredibly,
@SkyNews
earlier had
@RoryStewartUK
on air when the news broke of Boris Johnson’s resignation…
…which meant that we saw his reaction live on air.
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Can’t believe it’s Sue Gray Day again already. Comes round quicker every year.
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Leeds is cool… but this tiny shopping trolley that appeared containing my dinner receipt is not
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If you see me walking round Westminster extremely slowly this is why…
Last night after our LIVE at Number 10 Downing Street .. I asked Political Correspondent
@wizbates
if she'd like a quick maternity shot, as she goes on leave in a week.
Literally 1 minute later we ge this..
Beautiful!!
..x
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My apologies for this strange look - I’m pregnant but refusing to accept that my clothes don’t really fit anymore 😂
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Number 10 has backed Lee Anderson over his 'migrants who don't like barges can f**k off back to France' comment.
After Justice Sec Alex Chalk said "his indignation was well placed", No10 told Sky: "The Justice Secretary was speaking on behalf of the government."
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Nadhim Zahawi won’t be resigning, I’m told. He wants to focus on lowering the tax burden and helping with the cost of living.
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They go to a different school
Lots of people come up and say thanks for what you have done for the country . You just wouldn't know any of them !
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Conservative MP Chris Pincher stands down as Deputy Chief Whip after drunkenly groping two men last night…
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Not saying northern transport is in a bad way but I tried to get from Warrington to Sheffield last night and only got as far as Manchester. Eventually ended up in a taxi. Shout out to the driver whose tyre burst on the motorway and got his pal to pick me up. Pls sort the trains!
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No one has declared yet but expectation is he could take on Corbyn in Islington North. He sounds hugely impressive, as does his mum, but boil all this down and he is a rich businessman who has made his money in private healthcare. Tricky sell to Labour members?
🧵 There's a postcode lottery for NHS IVF in this country - it's not right, and we wanted to do something about it.
So over the last decade, my mum and I have been on a mission to make fertility treatment more affordable and women-friendly./1
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He really thinks he’s the good guy in this story…
John Terry talking about the time he and a few other Chelsea first team players boycotted their flight until they were moved out of economy and back into first class😳
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Genuinely baffling. He made the allegations but doesn’t want to say what they are… AND keeps accepting offers to do media even though he doesn’t want to talk about it.
"Why won't you say?" asks Sky's
@BethRigby
Conservative James Daly MP refuses to answer multiple times when asked what he thinks Angela Rayner has done wrong, despite being the person who contacted the police about her.
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I’ll save
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I have made a list of publications whose editorial line I disagree with and are therefore immoral. Should anything bad happen to me in the future I will be blaming all of the people who work there. Peace and love x
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Hope they’re ok ☹️
One of the funniest things about scrapping the bonus cap is that bankers are mostly v unhappy about it. Surprise surprise but these people like the certainty of having higher fixed basic salaries and knowing whether they can meet their mortgage payments and school fees.
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After a long day of not particularly helpful Brexit shenanigans
@heidiallen75
is at the entrance to parliament trying to help rough sleepers find somewhere to stay for the night
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The hair...
Stop Sadiq Khan’s mad ULEZ expansion plan.
It will hit hardworking families and businesses in outer London with an unfair tax grab. That's why I'm supporting
@Hillingdon
council in their fight against it.
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Was it this
@SkyNews
interview that got Sam Tarry sacked?
Lab insider: “You can’t make up your own policies on an unauthorised national TV appearance and expect it to all be fine.
It’s also a hilarious amount of attention for an absolute nobody who has never achieved anything”
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She’s not barred. She’s the opposite of barred. She’s running to be First Minister right now. And she can run for Parliament too if she wants.
This is the logical extension of Kate Forbes’ critics. If her religious views bar her from Bute House, why not Parliament?
Why allow her - or anyone who does not renounce “problematic” aspects of their faith - to cast votes and shape laws?
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Sky News has spoken to the SNP staff member who was inappropriately touched by SNP MP Patrick Grady at a party back in 2016. He says that the way Ian Blackford reacted means he should stand down as the SNP's Westminster leader.
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I am extremely privileged, well-educated and connected and if anything it's a disadvantage. I can't get to my desk in the lobby without people stopping me to say hi, ask how may parents are, offer me jobs, ask if I'm going to Murdoch's summer drinks. I can't get any work done.
The main thing I've learned from working in the British media is that much of it is a cult. Afflicted by a suffocating groupthink, intolerant of critics, hounds internal dissenters, full of people who made it because of connections and/or personal background rather than merit.
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Awful identity crisis moment when I asked my dad: 'What shall we do for dinner?'
And he replied: 'Do you mean tea?'
WHO AM I
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Find someone who looks at you like Rishi Sunak looks at a pothole in Darlington…
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Voters were asked what the two main political parties stand for…
Answer: I dunno 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
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Defence Secretary Ben Wallace this morning: “My advice to MPs is: avoid the bars. Finish your day’s work & go home.”
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace last night:
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I read his book as a teenager and never thought I would even meet him never mind work with him. He’s exactly as you would imagine - kind and interested in everyone. A true inspiration and a lovely man. He will be missed ❤️
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