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Joined April 2008
Would continue to recommend the other place, which has such revolutionary features as:. - Picking whose posts you want to see, rather than having the worst people in the world forced onto your timeline.- The option to block people threatening you with physical harm.- Timestamps
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Keir Starmer on Conservative ministers comparing Boris Johnson’s Partygate fine to a speeding ticket:. "As it happens the last minister who got aspeeding ticket and then lied about it ended up in prison. And I know about it because I prosecuted him.".
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Rishi Sunak tells MPs it is impossible to “artificially” hold down energy prices. In other news, Shell today announced their profits have increased by fourteen-fold and they plan to hand $8.5 billion back to shareholders.
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It says a lot about the political culture in the UK that the only person who has faced any consequences for Dominic Cummings' actions is a journalist who pointed them out.
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A reminder that if Paddington were a human being who had come to the UK by boat, rather than a fictional bear, the Mail would be demanding his immediate removal to Rwanda.
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Grant Shapps, who used a fake name in order to pose as a "millionaire web marketer" running a get-rich-quick scheme, and then lied about it for three years, is now in charge of law, order and security in the UK.
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BBC interviewer: "If Gary Lineker had said to Suella Braverman, 'I support your migrant policy. I back it. It is brilliant.' Would you have removed him from air for that?". BBC Director General Tim Davie: "I'm not going to get into hypotheticals. "
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Donald Trump says Sadiq Khan is a "disaster" because of violent crime rates in London. Here's how London's homicide rate compares to US cities.
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Sunak asks a homeless man in a homeless shelter whether he "works in business", then proceeds to talk about the financial services industry. Utterly bizarre
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Rishi Sunak, who held a green card requiring him to declare himself a permanent US resident, and who also benefited from his wife's non-dom tax status, while being listed as a beneficiary of her Cayman Island trust, says his patriotism to the UK is "non-negotiable".
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Rishi Sunak needs to explain why, if breaking the ministerial code is now a sacking offence, that he chose to reinstate Suella Braverman just days after she was found to have broken it.
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Boris Johnson has today raised National Insurance by 1.25%. Here's what he promised in his last manifesto.
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Nothing says ‘I definitely followed the ministerial code’ like rewriting the entire code shortly before being investigated for breaking it.
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Leave the colours of our national flag alone, says Nigel Farage
For once our leaders are getting it right. This flag must be changed.
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Liz Truss says she is "the first prime minister of our country to have gone to a comprehensive school." . Both Gordon Brown and Theresa May went to comprehensive schools.
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"I'm a plain-talking Yorkshire woman," says Liz Truss, who was born in Oxford and lives in Norfolk.
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Boris Johnson chuckles and pulls faces as Rishi Sunak talks about people huddling in basements in Ukraine. #springstatement
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Gavin Williamson, who was sacked by Theresa May over allegations of leaking information from a National Security Council meeting and then sacked by Boris Johnson after presiding over the exams and school closure fiascos, given a knighthood for his services to the nation.
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Rishi Sunak said today that he has "absolutely no idea" about links between his wife's family company and Putin. He should ask his father-in-law.
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"Some people used to sneer at wind power. and say it wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding," says Boris Johnson, who used to sneer at wind power, and say it wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding.
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Angela Rayner says it's ironic that the Speaker has to intervene to stop the "mob" of Conservative MPs shouting her down in the House of Commons, while the government brings in a law to stop people noisily protesting against them outside. #pmqs.
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Boris Johnson's spokesman says the Prime Minister will transform the NHS into "a blockbuster health care system in the age of Netflix.". Asked repeatedly to explain what this means, Johnson's spokesman is unable to say which features of Netflix he believes the NHS should imitate.
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Amazing to think that Boris Johnson spent £2.6 million on this room for daily televised press briefings and the only clip we'll ever see from them is when his Press Secretary joked about when they all broke the law.
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Priti Patel says she would offer a security briefing to the opposition but she is "very sceptical of how they treat and respect security advice." . A reminder that Patel was previously sacked from government after holding unauthorised meetings with a foreign government.
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A reminder that the prime minister skipped an emergency meeting to prepare for exactly this scenario, in order to take selfies in an RAF jet.
BREAKING: The London Fire Brigade has declared a major incident in response to the surge in fires across the capital as temperatures exceed 40C. . 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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He just raised taxes by the highest amount of any chancellor in almost three decades.
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"Under Labour, taxes go up," says Boris Johnson, who last year raised taxes by the highest amount of any Prime Minister in almost three decades. #pmqs.
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It's quite hard to think of a lower bar for a PM than getting dressed and brushing your hair.
New haircut and new tie, has the PM made a New Year's resolution to be less chaotic?
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Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls.
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Boris Johnson, who called black Africans “picanninies,” Muslim women “letterboxes” and said the problem with Africa is that "we are not in charge any more,” releases report saying institutional racism doesn’t exist in the UK.
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Amazing that Talk Radio:. 1) Voluntarily chose to put this out. 2) Apparently believed this made the guest, rather than the host, look bad.
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So the Metropolitan Police appears to have concluded that Boris Johnson somehow legally attended what they otherwise judged to be illegal gatherings, and that while he didn't break the law for attending those illegal events, other more junior officials did.
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Liz Truss has just become the bookies' favourite to become Britain's next Prime Minister. Here's a reminder of some of her finest moments.
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So to summarise, the Government has just announced plans to scrap the biggest public transport infrastructure project planned for any Northern city, while taking part in its conference in that same city, which its Chancellor chose to travel to by plane.
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I'm not saying the Conservative leadership contest is going badly, but they just cancelled tonight's televised debate because they want to stop any more members of the public from seeing it happening.
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Andrew Neil helped front the BBC's political coverage for many years while also regularly sharing his own (very right-wing) views on Twitter. It never once splashed newspaper front pages, or led BBC news bulletins.
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Rishi Sunak's closing statement boasting of his own "competence" and "seriousness" would have been more effective were he not sitting in front of a sign which misspells the word 'campaign'.
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The Mail says Keir Starmer "flouted lockdown guidance" at the start of September 2020, by being given a birthday cake. The UK wasn't in lockdown at the start of September 2020.
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Nicola Sturgeon is “an attention-seeker” says the notoriously publicity-shy politician Liz Truss.
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A reminder of when Boris Johnson said he was "furious" to see footage of staff joking about holding illegal parties in Downing Street. All the while he knew he had attended them himself.
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"Labour's plan is always to raise taxes," says Boris Johnson, whose government last year raised taxes by a higher amount than any other government in almost three decades. #PMQs.
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Liz Truss has now deleted her tweet promising to "hit the ground from day one."
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Asked to sum up how she feels about Boris Johnson as a person, Angela Merkel replies: "We look at each other, we look at how different people can be and we make the best of it. ".
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"I abhor bullying," says Boris Johnson who point-blank refused to act when an official investigation found the Home Secretary Priti Patel was guilty of it #PMQs.
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So Rishi Sunak just took a question from a hi-vis jacket-wearing man at a campaign event in a McVities warehouse. It turns out the man is actually local Conservative councillor Ross Hills. Hills just admitted to me to being asked to appear at the event.
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Dominic Raab accuses Angela Rayner of being a "champagne socialist" for attending Glyndebourne. Heaven forbid a working class woman should enjoy watching opera. #pmqs.
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He's going to be absolutely furious when he finds out who's responsible for this.
Rishi Sunak says getting an NHS dentist is too difficult
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I see the Telegraph is still taking this exceedingly well
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It's now been one month since Boris Johnson submitted his partygate questionnaire to the Metropolitan Police.
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I'm not saying UK media and politics is too narrow and insular, but the Prime Minister's sister has her own national radio show, in which she interviews the Prime Minister's father about the Prime Minister's government.
"I would say we have to blame the Government!" . Stanley Johnson tells Rachel Johnson the Government is responsible for the huge increase in raw sewage being released into the UK's waterways. @RachelSJohnson
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"This is so awkward. Where is Boris Johnson? We hate him."
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BBC Director General Tim Davie, who was previously a Conservative Party candidate and Deputy Chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative party, says that forcing Gary Lineker to step aside is about "delivering on impartiality"
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"The old concepts of fighting big tank battles on European land mass are over," said Boris Johnson last November, as he mocked the idea of armed conflict returning to Europe.
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A reminder that at no point has anybody ordered anyone to not put a crown stamp on a pint glass.
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"If Labour win this time, they'll change the rules so they're in power for a very long time," says Rishi Sunak, whose government has. - Rejigged electoral systems .- Changed seat boundaries.- Introduced Voter ID.- Raised election spending limits.- Extended voting overseas
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Boris Johnson, who until a few years ago owned a £3.75 million Islington townhouse with his former wife, who is a lawyer, repeatedly attacks Keir Starmer for being a lawyer from Islington. #PMQs.
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So it turns out it doesn't matter how they're taken down. They just want their statues of slave traders.
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Feels like there might be something missing from this "Conservative Woman" event.
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The amount of coverage given to the Green Party, who have so far won 159 seats in these elections, compared to Reform UK, who have won two, has been quite something.
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Gavin Williamson tells MPs he threatened to sue Greenwich Council for closing schools early because “at that stage none of us were aware of the new variant.”. In fact the Health Secretary had already told MPs about the new variant before he sent out his legal threat.
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GB News presenter Dan Wootton used multiple fake identities to trick and bribe scores of men into revealing compromising sexual material. The victims included members of the public, his own colleagues and a senior executive at News UK.
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So in summary Boris Johnson has gone from:. 1) Denying there were parties.2) Saying that even if parties happened, no-one broke any rules.3) Saying he personally didn’t break rules.4) Admitting he attended a party.5) Denying knowledge the party he attended was a party. #PMQs.
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"There will be drinking water, whatever happens on October 31st," says Boris Johnson. Such ambition.
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These new Dad's Army stamps, following in the wake of the failed campaign for a Brexit stamp, feels like some top notch trolling by the Royal Mail.
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Sadiq Khan on the balloon blimp of him which has been crowdfunded by far-right activists:. "If people want to spend their Saturday looking at me in a yellow bikini they’re welcome to do so – I don’t really think yellow’s my colour though.".
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YouGov gives Labour a 15-point lead. LAB: 43%.CON: 28% .LD: 11% .GRN: 7%.SNP: 5%.REF: 4%. If repeated at a general election Labour would get a 126 seat majority. Conservative MPs losing their seats would include Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Grant Shapps and Dominic Raab.
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If you mean we're outside the EU with low growth, high inflation and a government that wants to bring back imperial measurements and grammar schools, then yes.
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Caller: "If we Brexit and go into recession, will you have the courage to go on TV and apologise". Boris Johnson: "Of course I will.".
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Conservative MP Nick Fletcher says Doctor Who being played by a woman has pushed young men into crime.
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Conservative MPs here still refusing to wear masks, during a debate on forcing the public to wear masks.
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You know I'm starting to think we might not have been told the truth.
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The Daily Mail: Encouraging tactical voting is undemocratic and dishonest. Also Daily Mail:
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As Sun columnist Rod Liddle is brought onto Newsnight to talk about Huw Edwards' alleged behaviour towards young people, here's a reminder of what he's written himself on the subject.
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As the new asylum ban is condemned by international human rights groups, the Children's Commissioner, and the UN, the BBC leads its news bulletins on. Government criticism of Gary Lineker
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Laughter in the House of Commons as the Paymaster General Michael Ellis says that "the Prime Minister maintains the highest standards in public life, and will continue to do so.".
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Laughter breaks out in the House of Commons as Cabinet Office Minister Nigel Adams tells MPs “there is no link between party donations and nominations to sit in the House of Lords.". SNP MP Brendan O’Hara: “I admire the minister’s ability to say that with a straight face.".
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He wrote this six months after being admitted to intensive care with COVID and when nearly 60,000 people in the UK had already died.
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BREAKING: The House of Commons votes by 310 to 248 against Labour's motion to impose a windfall tax on oil and gas producers.
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This is absolutely shocking. Suella Braverman refused to let people in a dangerously overfilled migrant detention centre be moved elsewhere, leading "directly to overcrowding and outbreaks of scabies and diphtheria".
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A reminder that the Mail spent almost two weeks demanding Keir Starmer resign for ordering a curry.
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Nadine Dorries' local town council writes to her to raise their "concerns and frustration" at the "continuing lack of representation for the people of Mid-Bedfordshire at Westminster". They demand she "immediately vacate" her seat and allow someone else to represent the area.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nadine Dorries tell the BBC that Liz Truss is "as strong a Brexiteer as both of us.". Here she is in 2016, saying that Brexit would be a disaster.
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OMG. They've actually just done The Thick of It.
📢 '. put unwanted newspapers in the bin. '. This is one example of the announcements that we're getting rid of, making the passenger experience better and delivering on the Williams-Shapps #PlanForRail. Read more on announcements we’re removing 👇.
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Piers Morgan says his NewsUK show will be “a place that celebrates the right of everyone to have an opinion, and for those opinions to be vigorously examined and challenged."
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Asked how they can pay for their National Service plan, James Cleverly says the Government can raise £6 billion by cracking down on tax avoidance. So what have they been waiting for since 2010? #bbclaurak
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Rishi Sunak's attempt to mock Starmer for being a supposedly out-of-touch elite North Londoner, would be somewhat more convincing if he didn't himself own a £7m mansion in Kensington, a £1m 'pied-à-terre' nearby, a manor house in Yorkshire and a £5.5m penthouse in Santa Monica.
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The man pictured on the right here with Boris Johnson, during his holiday in Greece, is Henry Newman. Boris Johnson claimed he was "interviewing" Newman during the infamous 'ABBA party' in his Downing Street flat that he avoided a fine for.
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"Paid lobbying is wrong and members found guilty of it should pay the appropriate penalties,” says Jacob Rees-Mogg, who just two weeks ago told all Conservative MPs to vote to stop someone guilty of paid lobbying from paying the appropriate penalties.
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BREAKING: Boris Johnson's spokesman says the Cabinet Secretary will *only* investigate the alleged Downing Street party on December 18th, which the prime minister did not attend, and not any other party, including the one he reportedly *did* attend.
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Snap poll by Opinium finds:. - Two thirds of voters (64%) want Boris Johnson to resign following the Sue Gray report. - 83% believe he broke lockdown rules.- 75% believe he is not telling the truth.
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Suella Braverman fails to turn up to the House of Commons to answer the Urgent Question on her resignation and reappointment as Home Secretary.
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Suella Braverman fails to turn up to the House of Commons to answer the Urgent Question on the Government's treatment of refugee children and overcrowding at Manston.
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Not a single admission of having done anything wrong, or of having any regrets, in Boris Johnson's resignation statement, but he does take the time to blame Conservative MPs for their "eccentric" decision to remove him. Incredibly graceless statement.
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Conservative MP Desmond Swayne says the “carnage” on UK roads is “certainly killing more people than Covid at the moment”. For context there were just 1,460 deaths on British roads in the whole of 2020, compared to more than 4,000 deaths of people with Covid last month alone.
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Conservative Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson says one family in his local constituency who regularly uses his local food bank, he also sees in McDonalds "two or three times a week.". How is this even possible? Does he have them under surveillance?
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Jacob Rees-Mogg is asked whether he thinks the leader of the Welsh Conservatives is also “a lightweight figure” and is then challenged to name him. Mogg: “The Secretary of State for Wales is called Simon Hart.”. The leader of the Welsh Conservatives is Andrew RT Davies.
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For some reason Boris Johnson's press secretary Allegra Stratton won't say whether he agrees with the Scottish Conservatives that a politician who misleads Parliament should have to resign.
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