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Andy Burnham tells Sky: “Any answer to this issue that begins with the words ‘women should’ or ‘women must’ is in my view the wrong answer. This is an issue that starts with men and boys and that is where attention should go.”
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BREAKING - Labour members have passed a motion backing a change to the voting system to proportional representation. Carried easily on a show of hands. Big cheer in the hall when it passed.
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Chris Bryant MP, chairman of the Commons Standards Committee, tells Boris Johnson: "Downing Street under him has been a cesspit, full of arrogant, entitled narcissists"
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NEW: Tory MP Jonathan Gullis' Bill to override human rights rulings when deporting asylum seekers has been crushed at the first hurdle. Defeated by 188 votes to 69
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Very heated moment in the Commons as Labour's Wes Streeting says: "The Prime Minister is not fit to lick the boot of NHS staff in this country."
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This is the astonishing moment a Cabinet minister ordered the nation not to gather outdoors - 55 minutes before 40 No10 staff had a garden party.
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Angela Rayner winds up in the no-confidence debate by saying Boris Johnson's speech was “as delusional as the Transport Secretary’s leadership bid but sadly not as brief".
She adds: "The only 'deep state' relevant tonight is the one he has left this country in."
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“We delivered on every single one of our promises”, says Boris Johnson in no confidence debate - a statement which is, just objectively, incredibly untrue.
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Jarring interview of Dominic Raab by Mark Austin while sirens blare in Kyiv.
Austin: “The siren’s just going off here. How does the 75 year old woman living in a basement, get to her son who’s living in London?”
Raab: “I can’t comment on every potential hypothetical case..."
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Labour MP Afzal Khan: “My beloved mum died of Covid in March 2020. She died alone in hospital while I sat in the car outside, trying to be as close to her as I could.
“Even burdened with our grief, my family obeyed the rules."
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Outside a restaurant at COP26, more than a dozen cars of police / bodyguards / etc are sitting with engines ticking over, waiting for the VIPs inside to finish their dinners. Got to love the climate summit...
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Yvette Cooper goes a bit 🔥 with her extended metaphor on the Public Order Bill, which will criminalise protesters glueing themselves to roads:
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Yvette Cooper replies: “It’s astonishing. The Home Secretary actually talked about a ‘coalition of chaos’? We can see it in front of us!”
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BREAKING - No10 announce Boris Johnson will refuse to declare how much his freebie Spanish holiday at Zac Goldsmith's villa was worth. Story incoming
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Suella Braverman: “I’m afraid it’s the Labour Party, it’s the Lib Dems, it’s the Coalition of chaos, it’s the Guardian-reading, Tofu-eating, wokerati - dare I say the anti-growth coalition that we have to thank for the disruption we are seeing on our roads today!”
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Grant Shapps has bizarrely claimed Boris Johnson was “clearly not partying” when he raised fizz at a No10 party.
Shapps says PM was in fact mourning his mum...despite the fact Charlotte Johnson Wahl died “suddenly” 10 months after the party happened
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Mick Lynch in a proper ding dong with Radio 4's Today programme right now. Accusing them of 'parroting' Tory attack lines on the strike and 'pursuing an editorial line I'd read in the Sun or the Daily Mail'. He claims 'it's about time you showed some impartiality'
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NEW - Two dozen Tories have avoided Covid fines over a “raucous” Dec 2020 party in the basement of Conservative HQ
Indoor socialising was banned at the time
But Scotland Yard says this photo was "insufficient evidence" of a breach ⬇️
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Tory member challenges Oliver Dowden who says he was “constantly fighting” the “woke” agenda as Culture Sec.
"I don’t like all this anti-woke rhetoric. Was universal suffrage woke? Were LGBT rights woke… Have we learned anything from the progress of the last 100 years?"
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Err except you have to work more than two hours to make up for the cut, because every £1 you earn while on Universal Credit triggers a 63p reduction in your benefits. So £1 extra in wages = only 37p extra net. And that’s excluding NICs, pension contributions etc.
"£20 a week is about two hours extra work every week, we will be seeing what we can do help people perhaps secure those extra hours”
On #BBCBreakfast Work and Pension Secretary Thérèse Coffey says the increase to universal credit was always temporary.
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"I will immediately publish in full whatever Sue Gray gives me," Boris Johnson says at PMQs. Bookmark that!
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NEW: Tory DWP chief Therese Coffey belts out 'I've Had The Time of My Life' hours before cutting 6million Brits' benefits
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Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer “would like to take us back into the EU and take us back into lockdown”, er, neither of which are true
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Nicola Sturgeon tells @bbclaurak : “If the question to me is would I prefer a Labour government over a Tory government, I detest the Tories and everything they stand for. So it's not difficult to answer that question. Yes.”
But....
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Sajid Javid says it's fine for Tory MPs not to wear masks in the Commons chamber because "they're not strangers"
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Every line in this Michael Gove story, originally got by the Daily Record, is a work of beauty.
The doorman is claiming he tried to avoid paying the £5 entry fee by boasting he was the “Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster”.
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Don’t usually do this but… my partner and I were very lucky to get our first-time buy mortgage offer in Autumn 2021, on a good rate. The monthly payment is currently about £930. If we took out the same mortgage with the same lender today, the monthly payment would be £1,700.
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A proper The Thick of It moment — even the camerawork
Education secretary Gillian Keegan is recorded on camera saying others ‘have been sat on their a***s’ on schools Raac crisis and shares frustration about not being thanked for doing ‘a f***ing good job’
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BREAKING Tory MP Andrew Bridgen to be suspended from Parliament for breaching 'litany' of lobbying rules
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Minister Greg Hands tells Sky News on Boris Johnson's Savile slur: "These are all events that happened many, many years ago. The time is now to move on."
Err... Savile happened years ago but the PM made his claim on Monday
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MP leaving Liz Truss address to the 1922 committee, asked how the meeting was? Was it positive?
“It… it happened”
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Quick quips galore responding to Michael Gove's levelling-up plan from Lisa Nandy: “They have given away more to fraudsters than they’ve handed to the north of England.”
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Absolutely brutal verdict on Gavin Williamson from Keir Starmer
"A sad middle manager getting off on intimidating those beneath him."
“The truth is simple - he’s a pathetic bully but he would never get away with it if people like the Prime Minister didn’t hand him power."
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Tory MP Damian Green tells Westminster Hour: “This is a quasi general strike they’re trying to organise, and that needs to be resisted by everyone who cares about democracy.”
Worth noting each strike has been voted for separately on its own grievance with 50% turnout threshold…
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NEW: Cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi tells BBC Breakfast he *has not read* the ethics report on Owen Paterson - but voted to overturn his suspension on Wednesday anyway because Paterson claimed it was wrong. "I've looked at the report, I haven't gone into the detail"
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Labour MP Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, says Suella Braverman has "broken the law". Braverman scowls in response.
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“I think the Ministerial Code is extremely important," says Boris Johnson.
Literally this morning, the government's QC told the High Court the PM didn't have to sack or discipline Priti Patel because the Ministerial Code is "not required by law" and "not regulated by law"
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Boris Johnson just repeated the misleading claim that there are “more people in work than there were before the pandemic” despite being repeatedly told it’s not true, and admitting as such at the Liaison Committee
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One v unhappy backbencher tonight predicts “I suspect she’ll be gone within weeks”, adding: “The libertarian freakshows from Tufton St need to accept that their entryism has failed. It’s going to be nipped in the bud. From now on their pamphlets will go back to gathering dust.”
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Labour's Rachel Reeves tells Sky: "Would you feel safe going on a train knowing there was an agency worker instead of a properly skilled and trained-up train signaller? I know I wouldn’t."
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Asked if the Sunday Times story about officials lobbying Sue Gray to water down her report is true, Cabinet minister Brandon Lewis said: “I don’t recognise any of that.” Hmmmmmm
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A source close to Suella Braverman has, erm, defended her security breach by telling The Times: “Ministers do this all the time. They use private email and are also WhatsApping documents all the time too.”
Duly noted..........
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Am I missing something here? Rishi Sunak tells Today £1,200 of help for the worst-off will be "about the same amount" as the energy bills rise across a year. But the price cap was £1,277 and is set to hit £2,800. That's over a £1,500 rise - not really the same as £1,200 is it?
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Raab: “There was speculation that the May 20 party was held in my honour to thank me, it’s just ridiculous.”
@KayBurley: So it was a party!
“No, exactly, er, no, er, the, no no no no. This is the claim that was made, it was nonsense, I wasn’t invited and I didn’t attend.”
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Ooft - Michael Gove says the tax cuts for the rich was "a display of the wrong values" and refuses three times to say he'll back them in Parliament. "I don't believe it's right." 🔥
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More fury from Speaker Lindsay Hoyle that “this house has become second runner-up to TV news” for Covid announcements.
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Jamie Oliver on Liz Truss: “I have no faith - we’ve been tracking her in her views for six, seven years, she’s not going to change.
“She will be a ship that passes in the night. I’m actually quite calm about the whole thing.”
🔥 #r4today
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BREAKING - Matt Hancock has lost the whip for going on I'm a Celeb
Chief Whip Simon Hart MP said:
“Following a conversation with Matt Hancock, I have considered the situation and believe this is a matter serious enough to warrant suspension of the whip with immediate effect.”
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NEW: No10 has just confirmed you won't be able to get a free lateral flow test if you're visiting your elderly gran in a care home
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NEW Labour demand Suella Braverman is sacked - as her leak could've been used for ‘insider trading'
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Marr: Is it transphobic to say only women have a cervix? Keir Starmer: “It is something that shouldn’t be said, it is not right.”
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NEW: Boris Johnson branded 'rogue PM unworthy of the Queen' by leading historian Lord Peter Hennessy. His diary entry from Tuesday is absolutely brutal
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👀 David Cameron pops up in The Hill on US funding for Ukraine ... "I am going to drop all diplomatic niceties. I urge Congress to pass it."
"I do not want us to show the weakness displayed against Hitler in the 1930s."
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NEW - Labour are demanding Rishi Sunak *BLOCK* Boris Johnson’s “conveyor belt of cronies” resignation peerages for two aides under the age of 31, four MP allies and the man who donated his Caribbean holiday
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BREAKING: Tories to block courts from ruling on some human rights violations in 'dangerous power grab'
Ministers will change the law to stop some human rights cases proceeding to a full hearing
They will also let the UK ignore some decisions by the ECHR
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EXCLUSIVE: Plans to force all voters to show ID will cost taxpayers £120MILLION over a decade - despite just three convictions in seven years
£55m on bigger poll cards
£15m for those without ID
£20m on comms
£20m on 19,851 extra clerks
Full story:
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Andy Burnham tells Sky: “I’m a little disappointed to hear the party saying it’s going to rule out electoral reform. I would say to them listen, hear the mood of conference on that particular issue...1/2
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💣 Dominic Raab tells Today on Boris Johnson "I think he can make a return to frontline politics" - but "I just can't see in practice how a new prime minister could give the country the attention, the focus that it needs" while still giving testimony to the Privileges Committee
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"Well who cares what Andrew Bridgen thinks," @wesstreeting tells @BBCRadio4
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Martin Lewis tells @BBCr4today the government must act now over the "terrible cataclysmic risk millions of people in our nation face this winter" - every £100 people pay now will be £215 by January.
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BREAKING - PM's spokesman says it would be 'reckless' to give across-the-board pay rises in line with inflation to teachers, nurses, and more.
He adds this remark should not be taken out of context, so we're tapping up the quotes and context and will publish an article shortly
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NEW: Now *Lord Frost* says benefits should rise with inflation. Tells GB News: "I'm going to say something which I don't say very often, which is I agree with Penny Mordaunt and I think she’s got this right." This is an extraordinary coalition emerging
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Starmer: "Have officials raised concerns about his decision to appoint [Suella Braverman]?"
Sunak: "I just addressed the issue with the home secretary."
[He didn't answer the question]
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Lib Dem Treasury Spokesperson Christine Jardine: “This is his ‘let them eat cake’ moment. While he talks about all his dough on morning television, millions of families watching are struggling with the worst fall in living standards in decades.”
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Theresa May at first refused to get up during the standing ovation - then when she stood refused to clap
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The Cabinet minister in charge of online safety has shared a mocked-up image of Rishi Sunak stabbing Boris Johnson in the back, with a knife.
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Sturgeon adds: “Being better than the Tories is not a high bar to cross right now. I think we need to see more of a radical alternative from Labour rather than just a pale imitation. ..
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Keir Starmer quotes Liz Truss during the leadership campaign saying "I’m very clear, I’m not planning public spending reductions". "Will she stick to that?"
Truss: "Absolutely".
Bookmark that!
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Tory peace update. This quote about Suella Braverman - to The Times - is from a *former Home Office minister*
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This is a genuine headline: Tories threaten to cut benefits and the state to pay for tax cuts for the rich
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BREAKING: Boris Johnson’s Brexit minister will declare a “British renaissance has begun” despite punch-ups on petrol forecourts, empty supermarket shelves and warnings thousands of pigs will be dumped in skips.
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85 Tories who fought Covid passes for nightclubs - but have forced voters to show ID
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Full context here.. Millionaire Rishi Sunak says 'we all have different breads in my house' as bills rocket
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BREAKING
No10 refuse to publish notes of Boris Johnson's secretive meeting with Sue Gray
Despite admitting it *WAS* No10 officials who first suggested the meeting - even though the "technical" invite came from Sue Gray's side
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Opposition MPs fall about laughing as Chief Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke says “I’m not going to comment on leaks”, during an urgent debate on the £30bn of Budget policy the Treasury has itself leaked
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Sky's Niall Paterson: “It’s not as if Suella Braverman is the intellectual powerhouse of the Conservative movement.”
Nadhim Zahawi: “You’re now personalising it and being very rude about a particular politician. I think Suella is very capable, it’s unfair for you to say that"
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Quite aside from anything... very amusing that No10 is now trying to highlight as much as possible that Boris Johnson is close family friends with Zac Goldsmith - a man he gave a peerage and a ministerial job less than two years ago
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Theresa May took time to get there but her speech is pretty damning of the government
“I am deeply disappointed that we only see draft legislation on a new Mental Health Act... I think those suffering from mental health deserve better from the government.”
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Keir Starmer: “This is not the summer for Downing Street to be occupied by a vengeful squatter mired in scandal.”
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"And if you're asking me do I think either a Westminster Tory government or a Westminster Labour Government is good enough for Scotland, then my answer to that question is no.”
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Grant Shapps on Sky: "Some of the complaints [are] from, I have to say, largely Labour leaders who are completely misleading people because when they actually look at the list of journey times..they’ll be able to get around a lot faster".
That's extraordinarily.. misleading:
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BREAKING Tory chair admits he and Kwasi Kwarteng went to Budget day champagne bash with hedge funders
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NEW: No10 mount extraordinary defence of Boris Johnson, claiming he did not lie to the public over the No10 flat refurbishment... because while he knew Tory donor was *organising* the money, he didn't know it was actually *the donor's money* 🤯
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Lisa Nandy tells Michael Gove it's a "DIY asylum scheme: “He can’t seriously be asking Ukrainian families who are fleeing Vladimir Putin, who’ve left their homes with nothing, to get on Instagram and advertise themselves in the hope a British family might notice them.”
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Keir Starmer in the Times tonight: "The Labour Party I lead today is unrecognisable from 2019. There are those who don’t like that change... To them I say in all candour: we are never going back. If you don’t like it, nobody is forcing you to stay."
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A very good point made to me:
People losing PIP under today’s changes would ALSO lose their UC health top up …potentially meaning they lose more than half of their UC entitlement as well as losing their disability benefits
Because it’ll all be based on one, tougher assessment
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This is such a deeply moving interview with Peter Kyle about the loss of his partner
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