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Politics North presenter and Political Editor for @BBCNEandCumbria , @bbcnewcastle , @bbccumbria , @bbctees
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Hexham’s first ever Labour MP Joe Morris. After 100 years of unbroken Conservative MPs he has taken the Northumberland seat.
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Shoppers in Sunderland were mostly enthusiastic and happy today at the return of non-essential retail despite social distancing and some queues. There was though the odd exception...
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There are clearly some candidates more local than others - but best I've found so far is Ed Punchard, the Brexit Party candidate in Tynemouth. His address is listed on his nomination as East Fremantle in Western Australia. A mere 9,000 miles from the constituency.
#GE2019
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John Major tells South Shields Lecture that the case made for Brexit in 2016 was a fantasy case. The promises placed in front of voters then won’t be in whatever Brexit deal is done. Says he can’t see an intellectual argument against a second referendum.
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Drilling down in to the Hartlepool result does suggest Conservatives shouldn't be that reassured by their two gains. Their vote tally was down in every ward on last year - and often quite significantly. In almost all wards Labour was up.
#LocalElections2022
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Berwick's MP warns that if the PM moves towards a Brexit deal with a Customs Union it will be: "the end of the line for this Conservative Government", and says Tory MPs who vote for it would be "tearing up their manifesto commitments and doing irreparable damage to our party."
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Stockton North's
@ACunninghamMP
has just raised a point of order accusing Home Secretary James Cleverly of saying "because it's a shithole" about his constituency during this PMQ. The Home Secretary has denied saying it, but Alex Cunningham says he wants an apology.
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One last thought on Levelling Up Fund: I am sure all the schemes funded are good news for chosen communities, but it is a curiosity of a centralised state that someone in Whitehall is choosing between Whorlton Bridge or the Tyne Bridge and Yarm or Billingham on unclear criteria.
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Redcar’s
@annaturley
, who has just been sworn in as an MP again, has been appointed as a Whip in the new government.
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The Brexit Party topped the polls in every part of the North East from Northumberland to Teesside
#EuropeanElectionResults
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Breaking: DEFRA committee chairman Robert Goodwill writes to Sec of State
@theresecoffey
calling for urgent investigation into causes of sea life death off North East coast; review of dredging; pyridine checks to be done; and wants expert panel formed to review evidence
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NEW Prime Minister
@BorisJohnson
tells me legislation to introduce freeports offering tax-break zones for businesses in places like Teesport in Teesside could be introduced quickly if we leave the EU on October 31.
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North Tyneside MP
@GlindonMary
is one of those who says she cannot return to the Commons today as her husband Ray has incurable cancer and is shielding. She tells me why she isn’t prepared to risk his life by going back and forth to London.
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Labour have lost the Mayoral race in Middlesbrough by a huge margin. Independent businessman Andy Preston gets 17,418 votes, Labour candidate Mick Thompson 6693.
#LocalElections2019
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Workington man? Labour leader Keir Starmer in the town in local election campaigning for the new Cumberland Council, but perhaps also with an eye on recapturing a parliamentary seat lost to the Conservatives in 2019.
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Bishop Auckland's first Conservative MP
@DehennaDavison
uses part of her maiden Commons speech to talk about the impact on her life and politics of her father being killed in a one-punch attack when she was just 13.
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I can confirm that we now know Politics North will not return before the summer recess, and we have been given no idea of a return date at all. I and teams in the regions have pushed hard to get back on air so personally very disappointed.
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Labour Chief Whip and Newcastle East MP Nick Brown has written to
@MattHancock
to ask why Newcastle (Covid rate per 100k, 343.8) has been placed in Tier 3, while Havering borough in London (Covid rate per 100k, 366.8) is in Tier 2.
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With
@jeremycorbyn
as he visits a hill farm near Keswick in Cumbria. He’s warning that a no deal Brexit would devastate sheep farming. They say 45% tariffs would lead to a mass slaughter of millions of lambs.
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Bishop Auckland always looked like turning blue in
#GE2019
. But 26-year-old Dehenna Davison turned a 500 Labour majority into a Conservative majority of almost 8,000. First Tory MP for the seat not by a whisker but by a considerable margin.
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Labour Deputy Leader
@AngelaRayner
on PM's response to questioning on North East Covid gudelines/laws: "For the Prime Minister to not understand his own rules is grossly incompetent.
The government needs to get a grip."
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Copeland Conservative MP Trudy Harrison has been appointed as
@BorisJohnson
's Parliamentary Private Secretary. His "right-hand woman" she says. The role of the PPS is to act as an assistant but also as a pair of eyes and ears for the PM in the Commons.
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It’s a tremendous honour to be recognised by my colleagues. Made up. And truly humble to win a trophy named after the legend that was Mike Neville amid great competition. Thanks to the RTS. And to the BBC team who help to make me look vaguely competent!
#rtsawards
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That latest statement by
@DurhamPCC
Steve White asking the Chief Constable to look at whether Dominic Cummings broke the law. Chief Constable has control over operational issues so will make the decision about whether to commit resources to an investigation.
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Pretty meaningless perhaps but
@RoryStewartUK
is the winner with more than seven in ten of voters in this self-selecting unscientific poll at the moment. Have I qualified that enough? Still it’s better than being last in it.
#BBCOurNextPm
Who is winning the debate? Cast your vote in our live poll:
#ConservativeLeadershipRace
#BBCOurNextPM
#BBCDebate
#ToryLeadershipDebate
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Progress on the government's flagship Levelling Up Bill stalled as there are currently not enough ministers in the government's flagship Levelling Up Department.
Bill session cancelled tomorrow. All Ministers leading on the Bill have resigned. Govt is not functioning. Time for a
#GE
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Unhappiness in the Sedgefield Labour Party. 13 constituency officials have resigned after the long list for the Parliamentary candidate there was drawn up. Final straw was the exclusion of chairman
@PaulDalySTT
from that list. He’s one of those resigning and quitting the party.
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Nick Brown on
#bbcsp
: I never once as Chief Whip managed to change
@jeremycorbyn
's mind - but that's one of his strengths.
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Very sad to hear that Ronnie Campbell has died. Blyth Valley MP from 1987 to 2019; a former miner who cared deeply about his community and working people. He never ducked an interview, was great company, and full of character humour and passion. He deserved a longer retirement.
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Penrith and the Border MP
@DrNeilHudson
has said Partygate fines make the PM's position untenable in the long term. He says now is not the time for a leadership election, but says the PM should stand down and trigger a contest as soon as the international situation allows.
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The plan announced by the PM for Transpennine line electrification does have the potential to cut journey times between the North East, Yorkshire and North West. It was though a scheme that has been committed to before and was cancelled in 2017. Long term decisions....hmm.
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John Major tells South Shields Lecture that UK is in danger of losing both its big allies of the last 60 years as US drifts away and UK leaves the EU. Says that in itself is a folly, and a reason not to leave the European Union.
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Good news. Political programming is coming back to the region. Thanks to all who offered their support. I hope to be involved! But obviously worrying times for colleagues in terms of potential job losses.
Pleased to say Politics North will be back on BBC1 in September. People of all political persuasions argued the region needed its own political programme - that support was invaluable. Thoughts tonight are with talented BBC colleagues who face losing their jobs
@BBCRichardMoss
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Labour leader
@Keir_Starmer
is talking to A Level students at Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College in Darlington. Many successful students here, but some disappointed at being downgraded. Principal says results are lower than for many years.
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It may be a town council, but even so this is more evidence that people in formerly solid Labour areas of the Bishop Auckland constituency are now prepared to vote Conservative. First ever seat on Spennymoor Town Council for the party. Labour coming third.
A HUGE congratulations to the first ever Conservative Councillor on Spennymoor Town Council,
@GemmaAbley
🥂
A massive
#ToryGain
! There’s no stopping the blue wave 💙
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Labour NEC member Luke Akehurst selected to be the party’s North Durham candidate. Vacancy caused by Kevan Jones’ late decision to stand down. Means local members had no say in selection because of time restrictions.
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Boris Johnson’s visit to Sunderland today will be his third campaign appearance in the North East. Nigel Farage has also been three times. Jo Swinson hasn’t been - but has no seats or real targets. Jeremy Corbyn is yet to visit an area where Labour need to hold and win seats. 🤷♂️
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Brexit Secretary highlights the problem Nissan and other car manufacturers have been raising about trade barriers since 2016. Just a short delay can bring production to a grinding halt. An unkind person might say file under no s**t Sherlock.
The car industry’s ‘just in time’ supply chains rely on fluid cross-Channel trade routes. >1,100 trucks filled with car parts cross seamlessly from EU into UK each day. We need to start talks now on how we make sure this flow continues if we leave without a deal. /4
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Thanks for the feedback Paul. I have tried to organise my cats into a revolutionary commune but as they are class traitors, they're not co-operating. A feline gulag beckons.
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Whatever you think. This is one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen.
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Big news this morning on the job front in Northumberland as plans announced for an electric battery plant that could create 3,000 direct jobs with another 5,000 in its supply chain.
Blyth in Northumberland is to be home to the UK's first "gigaplant" manufacturing electric car batteries
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83 Labour Northern MPs write to Chris Grayling urging him to take further action on Northern Rail failings. Led by Gateshead’s
@IanMearnsMP
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Two North East Conservative MPs have joined a backbench rebellion to register their opposition to the 10pm hospitality curfew. Stockton South’s
@Matt_VickersMP
and Bishop Auckland’s
@DehennaDavison
among 42 Tory rebels.
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Three gains for Greens in Darlington in Harrowgate Hill in the end. Two from Conservative, one from Labour.
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Whatever side of this you're on as of now this doesn't look like a sustainable Official Opposition.
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Now an admission and apology but for insulting
@ACunninghamMP
not Stockton. Will it wash or is the Home Secretary digging himself into a bigger sh*thole himself?
Breaking:
James Cleverly apologises for calling Alex Cunningham a 'shit MP' - he denies calling Stockton a 'shithole'
Source close to Cleverly: 'He apologises for unparliamentary language
'He would never criticise Stockton. He is clear it is a great place'
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A quick thank you to all who passed on their congratulations to me on the award over the weekend. It means a lot when people are pleased for you. Almost restores your faith in social media when you're opening notifications that actually read pleasantly! Now on with the job!
A HUGE congratulations to all of the winners at the
@RTSNETB
Awards on Saturday evening! 👏
@BBCNEandCumbria
, Look North and Inside Out all took home awards, as well as
@BBCRichardMoss
who bagged Presenter of the Year! 🏆
#RTSAwards
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Just in - a letter calling for a new referendum to break the Brexit deadlock. It’s signed by 45 figures from business and academia in the North East.
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The Home Office has announced it's providing just over £245,000 in funding to help provide extra tasers and training for the three North East police forces. It'll help buy 298 new tasers - 130 in Northumbria, 120 in Durham and 48 in Cleveland.
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No declaration in Hartlepool yet but an inflatable Prime Minister has appeared outside the count. Perfectly normal.
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Great to be back. Plenty to talk about.
The North, its people and its politics - join us for a new series of Politics North this Sunday morning on BBC One with
@BBCRichardMoss
and on i-player
#bbcpoliticsnorth
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An emotional
@AndyMcDonaldMP
on how losing his own son Rory at 16 influences his call for an end to the blanket ban on the use of cannabis oil to treat epilepsy.
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I am pleased to see Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland keeping their political programmes going, but I’d like to see English regions - many with larger populations than those nations - get theirs back as soon as possible.
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Turning into a really bad night for Labour in Northumberland. Losing in the parts of the county they used to rely on. Defeated candidate is the wife of former Blyth Valley Labour MP Ronnie Campbell. Can imagine he has a few choice words to say about his wife losing to the Tories.
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The other by-election of the night. Same result as Lib Dems take a Conservative seat. This Hexham East result also removes the Tory majority in the Northumberland council chamber, though they still run it as the largest party:
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Unemployment in the North East fell 14,000 to 76,000 between January and March and the rate of 5,9% is now below that of London (6.1%).
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Bishop Auckland MP
@DehennaDavison
asks PM if he agrees with her that MPs should not get the pay rise likely to be recommended this year by IPSA - the body that decides on MPs' pay. He does!
#pmqs
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Cumbria
#LocalElections2022
verdict: Labour's Cumberland win is most significant result in the North so far. Taking so many seats in Conservative parliamentary constituencies of Carlisle, Copeland and Workington will lift hopes of pushing for gains at the nest general election.
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Lots of tributes today to Becca Mack, a 29-year-old nurse from Morpeth in Northumberland, believed to be one of the latest casualties of Covid-19. Many families experienced her care at the RVI in Newcastle. She had not been working as a ward nurse though in recent times. 1/3
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A different Northern Powerhouse: North East
#WASPI
campaigners protesting at
#CPC16
- and meeting
@annietrev
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@RespectIsVital
@ChrisMasonBBC
@BBCPolitics
@peterjukes
@davidwalliams
@HackedOffHugh
@DawnButlerBrent
@iainlee
Okay, Alex I do understand how you feel. No story without your work. I’ve just submitted an extra line to say the complaints followed an online piece by you which showed no record of planning permission. Will hopefully be live soon.
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I was in awe of her ability to nail pieces to camera first take just as the camera panned to her from something that was going on elsewhere. Remarkable skill. As my colleagues will testify, one I can’t replicate. Gail was a huge loss
#LineOfDuty
Gail Vella is an absolutely stunning journalist who was taken from us too soon 💔 Justice for Gail!
#LineOfDuty
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Boris Johnson is in Sunderland tomorrow making a pitch for votes. Told he will say: “I will make sure Sunderland’s voice will be heard in the corridors of Westminster and Whitehall like never before. We will give Sunderland and the rest of the north the investment it deserves...”
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Redcar’s former MP
@annaturley
has been selected tonight by Labour to win back the seat she lost to
@JacobYoungMP
in 2019. His majority is 3,527, though the constituency boundaries are likely to change by the time of the election.
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Labour have selected chemical engineer
@MrChrisMcDonald
, who headed up Teesside’s Materials Processing Institute and has a background in the steel industry, as their candidate for Stockton North. Current MP
@ACunninghamMP
is standing down. Majority on current boundaries 1027.
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Sedgefield Labour candidate
@VotePhilWilson
tells BBC Radio 4 that
@jeremycorbyn
must resign as leader and the party must move on from Corbynism
#GE2019
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TV presenter and current North West MEP David Bull will be The Brexit Party candidate in Sedgefield. He was selected to stand in Suffolk in August but now looking to take Labour seat in Co Durham. Phil Wilson’s majority is 6,059 over Conservatives.
BREAKING : I am thrilled to say that following the announcement from
@Nigel_Farage
today, we are forming an informal leave alliance. I will now be representing Sedgefield in the GE fighting an incumbent Labour MP who wants a 2nd referendum. We will make sure
#brexit
happens
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.
@darrengrimes_
tells
@BrexitCentral
rally that he doesn’t see why “entitled” remainers from his generation should have more say over the UK leaving the EU than his County Durham miner grandad who voted for Brexit.
#cpc18
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New regional GDP data from
@ONS
shows the North East was the worst-performing UK economic region in the third quarter of 2021. Its economy shrank 1.2% on the previous quarter - the worst fall in the UK - while overall the economy was growing:
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NEW: Prime Minister
@BorisJohnson
tells me legislation to introduce freeports offer tax-break zones for businesses in places like Teesport in Teesside could be introduced quickly if we leave the EU on October 31.
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I continue to report on politics for Look North, and regional news is getting large audiences. It is clear to me though that it can never match the depth of a political programme, or allow politicians to fully discuss and be held to account for what affects their communities.
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County Durham Labour MPs write to the head of the Valuation Agency querying why Dominic Cummings and family haven’t been asked to hand over tens of thousands of pounds in unpaid council tax for family property in the county.
I don’t want to be talking about the PM’s chief advisor, but once again there seems to be one rule for him & another for the rest. This morning, alongside
@grahamemorris
&
@KevanJonesMP
, I've written to
@VOAgovuk
asking why this property is not liable for backdated council tax?
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New Hartlepool MP
@Jill4Hartlepool
is officially sworn in. She becomes the first Conservative to represent the current version of the constituency; the first to represent the town since 1964.
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There is one Brexit Party-Conservative pact at least. The two parties are now working together to run Hartlepool Council after 9 councillors opted to sign up to the Brexit Party banner and work with three Tories. Hartlepool is a seat The Brexit Party would target in an election.
CONFIRMED: BREXIT PARTY AND TORY HARTLEPOOL COUNCIL PACT - 'PUTTING COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY'
Chairman
@TiceRichard
said: "I can reveal that nine councillors from different parties have joined The Brexit Party and agreed to work with three Tories to secure a pro-Brexit majority."
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The SDP has also selected a candidate for the Hartlepool by-election this week. David Bettney is a former soldier with the Light Dragoons and more recently has worked in the oil and gas industry.
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Strong
@jeremycorbyn
supporter
@DavidStockdale
retains his Newcastle Council seat in Blakelaw
#LE2016
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Significant defeat for a Conservative group leader in North Tyneside who had called on Boris Johnson to resign over Partygate.
Labour gain Monkseaton South in North Tyneside unseating the Conservative Group leader by 1798 to 1412.
#localelections
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All the best to Blyth Valley MP Ronnie Campbell who's taking a hopefully short break from front line after being diagnosed with cancer.
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David Smith arrived at the election count in Blyth as the Labour candidate - he comes out into a sunny Friday morning the new Labour MP for North Northumberland.
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Ron was one of the loveliest people I dealt with. I used to look forward to interviewing him. He would answer the tough questions, but you could also enjoy his company. He was an exceptional Police and Crime Commissioner, but more than that a great guy. A true public servant.
It has just been announced that Ron Hogg, the Police, Crime and Victims’ Commissioner for County Durham and Darlington has died. Mr Hogg was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease earlier this year.
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Middlesbrough South Conservative
@SimonClarkeMP
points out in Commons no job losses flow from Nissan’s X Trail decision, with production of Qashqai, Juke and Leaf continuing, and that 14% drop in Nissan sales to Europe is the context in which the decision was made.
#Nissan
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Tony Blair back in his Sedgefield constituency on whether he has any sympathy for
@theresa_may
and whether he thinks Brexit will happen. More on his fears for the North East on
#bbcpoliticsnorth
11am Sunday BBC1.
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One point that might strike northern communities. In the first wave, when Covid was initially a bigger problem in London than the North we went into national lockdown. When it’s more of a problem in the North, lockdown is more local. More focused perhaps but politically awkward.
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Official release from Number 10 on which areas are in which tier has spelt Middlesbrough wrong. Tees Valley in Tier 2/High.
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What I love about coming to Brighton is the views of seemingly endless sea and sky. Something my hotel view doesn't quite capture.
#Lab17
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Labour leader
@Keir_Starmer
says Newcastle Council is warning that 10,000 jobs could go in the city before the end of the year because of the restrictions alongside lack of financial support from government. Why isn't PM saving viable jobs?
#PMQs
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Labour in the North East are losing to Brexit-backing parties in some places; referendum-supporting parties in others. Message so far cannot be seen as an endorsement of its current Brexit balancing act stance.
#LocalElection2019
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Middlesbrough South and E Cleveland Brexiteer
@SimonClarkeMP
tells PM she has "failed to reassure" the House about Northern Ireland backstop being time-limited and urges her to pursue Super Canada Deal. PM says EU won't offer Canada deal without different trading rules for NI.
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Houghton and Sunderland South MP
@bphillipsonMP
delivering an emotional and personal message about her own childhood in the North East as part of a Labour push to halt government plans to remove the £20-a-week Universal Credit uplift.
#UniversalCredit
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Perils of having a nanny state...I'll get my coat.
One of the reasons for Queens Speech delay - it takes a week to dry the goats skin upon which it is carved. I am not joking.
#velum
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Another fall in unemployment in the North East - the largest proportionally in the UK - and the region now has a lower rate than either London or the West Midlands, though still above the UK average.
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Majority for Labour council leader
@nick_forbes
in his Westgate ward in Newcastle up from 966 in 2012 to 1001 now.
#LE2016
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Houghton and Sunderland South MP
@bphillipsonMP
on why she thought Labour should commit to campaigning for a Remain in a referendum today:
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Two Labour Durham county councillors have resigned from the party tonight citing a failure by the leadership to accept responsibility for the
#GE2019
defeat. Between them
@judehgrant
and Peter Brookes chalked up 60 years as members. They will now sit as independents.
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Northumbria PCC
@VeraBaird
, who represented prosecuted miners, accuses
@AmberRudd_MP
of turning her back on justice with
#Orgreave
decision.
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