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In the UK we don't have many statues of women. Fact. Ask English Heritage. I think a statue of Jo Cox appropriate. By river. She'd be happy.
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Girls + boys study Jo Cox. Campaigner, tireless mum, leader, mountain climber, brave, policy nerd, conversationalist, stylish. Hard as nails
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Couldn't have worked last night without my mum who sat with baby Xanthe next to studio. Burping, feeding, knitting...
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At Home Sec’s speech on reducing serious crime + spent hour reading her plan. Widespread dismay it has 0 mention of police numbers. Zero.
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Am being told that Cameron and Osborne are finished. There will be a "dignified exit" say senior Tories. "Not immediate".
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"I joined this party aged 17, I never dreamt I would lead it". "I'm Truly sorry I didn't succeed, I tried my best". EM last words as Leader
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Geoff Hill passed away today. Here he is in one of the most electrifying displays of judgment and balls. It’s 4:30am on ITV News’s Brexit ref show and Geoff is on set (rare) to eyeball prof Colin Rallings (to my right). “You sure?” Seconds later we called it. First. A great man.
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U/stand
@YvetteCooperMP
aiming to bring vote in parli guaranteeing right to stay for EU migrants. Judging by Commons today, she could win
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Speech from
@sajidjavid
a tough listen for many of us. Am told PM will get visit from apocryphal ‘men in grey suits’ this eve (tho depend on 1922 mtgs this pm). Knowing PM, he’ll fight hard whatever the numbers. For the Bloomberg take, get Readout at 5pm
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Biggest applause for a key moment. Sturgeon challenges Miliband to work with them to keep Tories out. She got the better of Miliband here.
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Oh wow this is amazing journalism and her interviewee seems to agree
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I've seen the chamber in varying states of emptiness over the years but even allowing for MP busy-ness, this sight depresses me
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Really enjoyed interviewing
@LeanneWood
yesterday in beautiful Bangor uni. A very admirably modest politician.
http://t.co/369jmpKelx
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Amazing. SNP just won the manifesto launch competition. What a venue.
http://t.co/YPmMw1b1xg
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@jeremycorbyn
Jeremy Corbyn, hello! On your way out of studio last week promised me a picture of el Gato... Our viewers would be grateful
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Ed Miliband has had a pretty good night. David Cameron really should have been here. This makes this election even more interesting.
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What a moment though: Men outnumbered by women in this TV debate. Who would have thunk it
#BBCDebate
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Can we all just have a nice moment? Had umpteen TV debates now and audience questions have all been pretty blooming good. Brained up Britain
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Chilling development. At ITV I relied on academics like superbly fair
@sarahagemann
to factcheck referendum. UK govt needs her expertise.
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Just when we think we have a handle on winter’s high energy prices, new analysis raises it again.
In The Readout today, as Russia curbs flows on Nord Stream to 20% capacity - Bloomberg’s
@mathiswilliam
shows average bills could hit £500 in January alone
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Completely delighted to be joining
@itvnews
. Their news at 10 relaunch best development to hit TV bulletins for a long time.
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Enormity of £30bn Coronavirus stimulus package today can be seen when you think crash stimulus package was £12bn in 07/08 and £30bn in 09/10
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Getting breakfast in Westminster and cheer goes up from table of happy Tories nearby. Ed Balls out. They are punching the air. What a scene.
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Spoken to
@ChukaUmunna
. Says "it's quite a liberation" to have withdrawn. Sad reflection on public life that someone so talented wants out
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Big moment, Chuka Umunna says 'we shouldn't have been running a deficit going into crash'. This is a significant statement.
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Jeremy Corbyn on Marr doing a good job. Reasonable and taking the mickey out of pompous political process.
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The last week of political wrangling, vaulting ambition, crushed dreams… in a bar chart. Hasta la vista, Penny.
Now Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss go through with Sunak MPs’ fave but Truss currently ahead with activists… making for quite the battle of wills
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The Readout at 5pm: no drama for Starmer as he ends the week well and truly up. Cleared by Durham police, the summer is now also clear for him to attack a distracted Tory party while it hunts for a new leader.
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Privilege to cover election with
@tombradby
@ProfJaneGreen
prof Rallings
@edballs
@George_Osborne
... plus my baby
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The referendum M&Ms are out and on the table -
@tombradby
has 2 packs down by his feet all night,
@Peston
tucking in
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David Cameron should have been in this debate... I think Ed Miliband feels he has kind of free range. Seems to be enjoying himself.
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Punchy.
@NHSEngland
chief exec Simon Stevens, 2 wks b4 Budget, stands under Vote Leave poster + demands Brexit boost
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Uncanny
@pestononsunday
... they DO look alike. Louis Theroux and
@Peston
are both a bit freaked out by it...
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Yougov exit poll numbers would mean Tories and Lib Dems at 315; while Lab, SNP, greens and PC at 315. Aaargh...
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After match, Serena Williams says of Brit Heather Watson, "she should have beaten me", and that Watson should aim for top 10. So graceful.
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In your Readout today: how Boris Johnson breaks people. A lot of people. Have we ever witnessed so many resignations in one afternoon in history? Our
@alexwickham
reveals the PM returns to No10 to previously hyper-loyal
@grantshapps
saying it’s over
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The Readout: the Tory race just cranked up with
@rishisunak
. (Some think slick vid took months of prep, but appaz script done at tea time ydy). With backing of widely liked former chief whip
@Mark_Spencer
, known simply as “The Chief”, it’s a good start.
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Scene from adbreak:
@jeremycorbyn
+ Seumas Milne banter with
@ChukaUmunna
. Trump brings peace to Labour
#Peston
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Feels to me that of the three - Miliband had a pretty tough time; the PM was tested but held his own and Clegg won't have changed much
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Hey all worried
@Peston
talked over me - v sweet of you but he's my telly bezzie and we're sweet. And I'll give him hell if he does it again
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Have to hand it to Gove: unlike PM who's done gazillion Q&A events, Gove hidden away-ish. But audience seem to be liking his high-mindedness
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Jo Cox MP is a good mate and a brilliant woman - so smart, so fun. Deeply hoping you are OK, Jo X
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Between now + the November COP26 climate summit
@aloksharma_RDG
must persuade the world to reduce carbon emissions. As I type, there’s torrential rain in the UK in August and overnight wildfires razed an entire American town: to grip extreme weather, we all need Alok to succeed
Saturday’s Daily MAIL: “Make The Minister Of Hypocrisy Do Quarantine!”
#TomorrowsPapersToday
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Listening to Jeremy Corbyn asking 7 questions of the PM'a case for striking Syria. A pretty lucid set of questions, doing his job here well
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Theresa May's shoes this morning on
@pestononsunday
- can you see the sparkle??
@jessbrammar
@steve_hawkes
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Could not rinsing dishes b4 the dishwasher be your
#onestepgreener
ahead of
#COP26
? If that’s too hard a habit to kick, pick something else. At COP26 we have big asks for the world on cash, coal, cars and trees but the micro matters too. Change is coming.
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@KirstieMAllsopp
@leswhe
I'm a stickler too but 1) A true public servant 2) Life devoted to others 3) 1st female MP killed in line of duty
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Clegg; "the most crushing blow to Liberalism since our party was founded"
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A gracious speech by Corbyn meticulously praising every corner of the Labour Party. Burnham, Cooper and now Kendall
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Thoroughly modern men Jacob Rees Mogg and
@Peston
having discussed
@TimDSamuels
book on blokes... Taking make up off
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Me for Mail on Sunday today on the fire and fury of new mothers coming back to work... it includes a lot of breast milk. And a few words on what an ordeal being pregnant at the BBC can be.
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Iain Duncan Smith on
#marr
most powerful blow: that Govt at "risk of dividing society". Will haunt everything govt does this parliament.
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Amazing political journalism from
@Peston
- first on telly with news of Gove and now Boris Brexit decisions. Ballsy stuff. Superb reporting.
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Hearing all these spending commitment feel like I am listening to JM Keynes or even Gordon Brown. Normally in a George Osborne budget you would at this point be hearing the cuts. Reflection of how much political landscape has changed even before Coronavirus.
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.
@Peston
teaching
@BorisJohnson
s'thing about manspreading as we plan Sunday's first
@pestononsunday
back. 10am, ITV
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Today you NEED Bloomberg - reporter keyboards on 🔥 processing Bailey’s barrage of bad news.
Largest UK rate hike in 27 ys; a crash longer than a year + inflation to hit 13.3% (+ still be above 9% in 12 months).
The pound slumped (you may have too).
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Now
@Alexsalmond
telling
@tombradby
that
@NicolaSturgeon
will now trigger another referendum
#ITVEURef
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Join us at 10am on ITV for last
@pestononsunday
of our first run. And look at our guest wall: what a time to launch
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I have a ringside seat watching in awe vital work
@aloksharma_RDG
is doing. He’s pushing himself to the limit, travelling long distances, to meet key players and negotiate success for us all, and our kids, at
#COP26
. Cash, coal, cars + trees to limit climate change to 1.5 degrees
Anyone who thinks
@AlokSharma_RDG
shouldn’t be flying 10 times around the world, in order to get eyeball to eyeball with as many people as possible in the run up to
#COP26
, is an idiot who has completely failed to realise how serious the climate crisis is.
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For those of you sick with worry - this is a Vg, and frank, piece on what comes next by a Boris Johnson adviser
From Sunday Times: A bump, yes — but then watch us surge ahead with new friends by Gerard Lyons
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But I will miss
@BBCNewsnight
so much. Some of my best friends, some of Britain's best telly, daily. Privilege to have been her political ed
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Yup back for Sunday day job. Xanthe got
@peston
star dressing room... Diet Coke but no lilies.
@ITVShiver
helping women keep their eye in...
This morning we also welcome back
@ITVAllegra
and her latest addition Xanthe (currently too young to operate the screen)
#Peston
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PM is nearly through this - didn't come to this debate with enough to say. Didn't have grasp of stats and thought the old lines enough.
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Cameron: "Nick (Clegg) makes an important point"... Nearest we're going to get to "I agree with Nick"
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Birmingham Council Cab member "steps aside" after
@itvnews
reveals govt integration tsar concern about him: he said School shld let 4yo veil
Cllr Waseem Zaffar steps aside from cabinet role | Birmingham News Room
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Corbyn appealing directly to members for views on Syria with online poll to "undercut" views of shadow cabinet. Just gone out to members now
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Labour coup today: "around 10" resignations from shadow cab in "waves". They believe there is a general election in 6 months time.
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You've got to hand it to Corbyn - he's doing this well. Melding Qs from public with wider points he wants to make. But PM handling well too
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Oh, we are such suckers -- the Chancellor protects police spending in entirety. Of course he does. He was never going to cut them now.
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Loved doing this with
@lizwathuti
ydy as we figure out how to make
@cop26
work for young people. Activist
@indimiro
dialled in despite it being midnight in NZ and kudos to
@bellalack
for making her points heard from a noisy corridor at college.
The UK is committed to an all of society COP.
Yesterday
@AllegraCOP26
&
@lizwathuti
co-chaired the 6th
#COP26
Civil Society & Youth Advisory Council meeting 🌏
Youth council members shared their youth inclusion principles & our Italian partners updated on
#Youth4Climate
plans.
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This team - Jane, Colin & Chris - meant
@itvnews
was first to call UK leaving the EU. Brilliant - It was electric.
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Very hard to watch Clegg's senior adviser team listen to resignation. Struggling to contain themselves. They were v effective, and nice.
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If near a telly and want to see
@campbellclaret
and
@piersmorgan
argue, leaving
@Peston
speechless... switch on. It's an ego tennis match
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Corbyn's supporters in audience have just got to their feet to applaud Liz Kendall. That's impressive.
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Rare that all 4 of us in studio together. Tried a selfie, it didn't work. Hello from -3 NBH
http://t.co/Z22ZWIwwoG
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Tory aides v kind to me today, loitering nearby with mike to help me ask PM a Q. But next time he should take more than one Q from a woman.
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Proper progress this week on Road to COP26 - in the world of zoom diplomacy, G7 agreed substantial stuff. Meanwhile in Cornwall, we met oil workers now in green jobs who surf after a shift... (sorry about the drill)
Ahead of the
#G7
Ministerial this week,
#COP26
Spokeswoman
@AllegraCOP26
joined
@AlokSharma_RDG
on a visit to the
@edenproject
where work is now underway to capture renewable geothermal energy deep in the granite beneath Cornwall.
Watch the full video 👉
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"Hope is the future, fear is the past", Tony Benn tea towel. Benn does seem to have his party back.
http://t.co/IhMBWaosYK
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These Questions to Mili seem a bit harder but he seems very happy... Like he does when he thinks he's got the upper hand
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Corbyn team has been contacting shadow ministerial teams to find out who will serve under him. Many people here very torn.
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This is also a very important tweet
Can someone please explain the point of getting companies to list foreign employees? I didn't vote for people already here to be harassed.
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You’ll know this already if you’ve packed lunches this week for kids heading back to school.
But even with a glut of graphs around, these in the Readout today take the biscuit (🥁):
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Stella Creasy done well in this but now Tom Watson over the line - new dep Leader. He'll do a vg job but Labour has zilch gender balance
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Lab folk furious about tonight's Corbyn poll of members: "Cynical attempt to circumvent majority of the public who MPs actually represent."
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Greetings, outside world... we're toiling away inside ITV towers for Pesto's first
@pestononsunday
. Tomo at 10am.
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.
@tombradby
on air
@Peston
waiting. Me, also waiting to go on air. Who knew our studio was so green? I didn't.
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Chuka Umunna won't say that he is running for leadership, says there is no timetable yet. Looks a bit silly. He should just say he is.
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Miliband answering Kay Burley's questions on rift with his brother better than I've seen before... Quite raw responses
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EXCL: We understand decision taken within govt today NOT to hold EU ref next May. PM had wanted to, but has decided against. Blog to come
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Obama ribbing Brexit hysteria (bit rich but oh well). Rolls Royce staying, Huawei sticking, Oz/S Korea/NZ want deal
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Ah-ha... As soon as SNP's Angus Robertson gets up for his questions all of the prime minister's PMQs adrenaline / rage is hurled at him
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Shock departure of
@westminstergoby
to UKIP doesn't trigger byelection at the BBC... But it leaves a big hole. Very good hire for Farage.
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Another source says "this might be last straw". Feeling that Corbyn wants to run party from membership. RIP representative Labour democracy
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