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deputy political editor at the @guardian 📧 jessica.elgot @theguardian .com 📸 by @StefanRousseau
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Clearing out my grandparents flat this weekend and coming across these treasures - thank you cards from Denis Healey and Leeds MP Joe Dean - my grandfather made their suits. He was so proud of that.
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Others had the chicken
Prince Harry had a frostbitten penis at Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding
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Going to war with Match of the Day and David Attenborough in one afternoon strikes me as a strange electoral tactic but there we are
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No one puts the counter argument better than Frank McCourt - in one of my favourite ever letters
History degrees are superbly transferable - you learn how to write, how to argue, how to critique, how to reframe, how to read, how to be empathetic to other perspectives, and how to understand why the world is as it is. It is not a “fluffy” subject
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This is one of the most unintentionally baffling pieces of government comms I have ever seen
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Matt Hancock admits in this message to Simon Case that he helped cover up rising cases in key areas during Eat Out to Help Out. Strikes me as potentially the biggest revelation yet…
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Just found out that, unless you know exactly the half hour when a theft occurs, it’s effectively legal
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Tory MP texts tonight in total disgust about PM leaving the D Day commemorations early. Said when they saw the picture of Cameron with the other world leaders at the ceremony, they initially thought the BBC had chosen the wrong picture.
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Another exc from us tonight - Leaked emails from inside the BBC reveal extent of pressure journalists came under from No10, inc asking BBC to avoid using ‘lockdown’ at start of pandemic and to go harder on Labour criticism
By
@rowenamason
and me
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What’s been so depressing about this whole affair has been seeing people I thought were quite serious political commentators - especially in the US - openly mocking a women who was quite obviously seriously unwell. You don’t have to love the Royals to find that distasteful.
A message from Catherine, The Princess of Wales
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Johnson tells LBC he has no donors paying for his suits…”you're on a perfectly good salary from the government anyway. And, you know, that looks greedy, right?”
He must have forgotten a donor paid for his post No10 accommodation, his wedding and food deliveries to No10
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New - We reveal Tories pressured the BBC not to describe Johnson’s Jimmy Saville jibes against Keir Starmer as false. In this case, editors did push back.
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What this actually was is someone vandalising the brakes of bikes locked outside the station and cutting them so that they don’t work, which could result in a fatal accident. But it didn’t happen in a half hour window so it’s fine, they can carry on.
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Later today, we find out Theresa May has handed over all her private government emails to Nigel Farage in order for him to write a favourable memoir. Boris Johnson currently deciding between James O’Brien and Ian Dunt.
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Astonishing that a hung parliament and Susan Hall mayoralty were taken seriously by a fair few people on here over the past 24 hours
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Source close to Hancock claims Oakeshott broke an NDA to publish the trove of WhatsApps. She publishes a long public interest defence. Quite extraordinary he chose the journalist who had campaigned most vigorously against his most significant political policy…
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The prime minister posting a picture of a child with his hands in the air as if he’s about to be shot.
Grim.
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The logic of this is that parents can be fined for something their grown-up children do (or don’t do) - which would be an extraordinary new legal principle
Election so far this morning:
* Minister refuses to rule out fining parents if their children decline to take part in Conservative's new national service scheme
* Labour says private schools blaming plans to impose VAT on school fees for financial woes are 'a bit desperate'
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Perhaps it’s time to take the concerns of these protesters into consideration?
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Huge exclusive from
@PippaCrerar
Rishi Sunak’s closest aide placed bet on election date days before announcement
£100 bet placed in Montgomeryshire – the constituency of Craig Williams – days before announcement.
Gambling commission investigating...
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@clhubes
The phrasing is wild, we “chose” to teach our kid to climb down safely, as if most parents simply do not choose to do this
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This is - by some measure - the most impressive event this Labour leadership has ever assembled. Guests inc CEO of Boots, senior counter terror officer, a terminal cancer patient... each one linked to a key offer to the public.
It's a big contrast to Sunak's speech on Monday..
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First big miss for the exit poll - Dan Jarvis comfortably holds Barnsley North by 8,000 votes.
Exit poll predicted Reform victory 🫣
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Extraordinary moment in the press conference just now where Sunak deliberately blocked NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg from answering
@PippaCrerar
's question about the next election.
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Jenrick: "The country just voted for change, all we've got is more managed decline."
Not sure this works because it implies the Tories were already doing managed decline...
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In a bizarre election twist, all three main UK party leaders are doing some form of pottery today…
No work and all clay 🥁
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British Gas says “this isn’t how we do business” which is a strange thing to say when this is how they have been doing business.
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New - Starmer tells me Labour activists *should* campaign in Clacton against Farage.
"We're not backing down in Clacton... We've got an excellent candidate there.. I'm very supportive of both him and the campaign that he's running."
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@Jandaboiiii
The source is this message that they sent to me after I reported a crime. Not sure what other source I would need?
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This is an absolutely breathtaking story with very very serious questions for people in government at the time.
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New Ipsos poll finds two thirds of voters (64%) do not care who becomes Tory leader.
It includes almost a third (32%) of those who *voted Conservative* in July.
Starmer leads Badenoch by 25 points, Cleverly by 21 points, Jenrick by 22 points, and Tugendhat by 22 points.
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NEW - HMT is starting process for Reeves to appoint Covid corruption tsar with instructions to claw back billions
Appointee expected within weeks and will re-examine Covid contracts for government lawyers to pursue costs. Hopes are to retrieve £2.6bn
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So much breath wasted on a Labour city where the result is roughly what polls predicted and so little on Labour winning NORTH YORKSHIRE which tells us so much more about where politics is in this country
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After all that, it looks like the Greens will get as many seats as Reform…
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Ok, the itinerary was set weeks ago. That in many ways make the decision even more incomprehensible
"On reflection, that was a mistake and I apologise."
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says it is important that the story of him leaving D-Day commemorations early yesterday is not "politicised".
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Having a tweet by a football pundit lead the News at 10 seems like quite an odd decision…
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Tories available for broadcast interviews are now basically just Mel Stride.
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EXC - Labour launches first major attack on Sunak on his time at a hedge fund during financial crisis
@darrenpjones
says Sunak should have been cross-examined about deal that regulator said was key to sinking RBS.
Expect this to be feature of debates...
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👋Personal news - It's my last day before maternity leave & the brilliant
@peterwalker99
will be covering as deputy political editor. I'll miss this lovely team a lot.
Last time I was on leave we had a snap election and a global plague, apologies in advance if that happens again
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It's the new parliamentary Labour party - and there is a lot of them!
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Ed Davey’s first week of the election campaign has been like a half term holiday camp.
Unlucky morning for Ed Davey — it started pouring with rain just as he was about to go down the slip n slide (he braved it anyway)
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Genuinely how was this allowed to happen?
I do feel like maybe the Home Secretary’s husband shouldn’t be involved in interviewing her on breakfast television, like I do think that’s fair to say
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Asked the same, Tom Tugendhat said it is “absolutely not my place to tell women how to live” when asked if women should be having more children and spending more time bringing them up.
“I am enormously proud of my wife, who is an extremely senior judge."
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Also personally happy to see one MP go who was deeply inappropriate to me in my first few weeks in the lobby… funny how so many of us have these stories. I can only hope that they are getting rarer.
There are two Tory MPs that I'm v happy to see go this morning - one made me cry as a parliamentary clerk and one was extremely rude to me as a journalist. Don't let the door hit you on the way out!
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There’s clearly a story here in how the police protection came about. But there’s also the alternate universe headline…
Taylor Swift cancels Wembley dates after Labour REFUSED extra security despite mass terror threat
I realise it’s a core rule of media now that if there is any way to get Taylor Swift into a headline, every journalist will jump on it.
But I do think it’s worth adding the context of, you know, an actual deadly terrorism threat? That led to concerts being cancelled? Maybe?
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Exc from
@PippaCrerar
- Rishi Sunak was warned by senior civil servants a week before he called the election that he was at risk of breaching his legal responsibilities if he failed to take action over the prison overcrowding crisis
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Labour source: “The BBC’s cowardly decision to take Gary Lineker off air is an assault on free speech in the face of political pressure.
“Tory politicians lobbying to get people sacked for disagreeing with govt policies should be laughed at, not pandered to.”
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Just three male MPs in the chamber to hear this
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NEW - Kemi Badenoch tells Times Radio that maternity pay has "gone too far."
“We need to have more personal responsibility. There was a time when there wasn’t any maternity pay and people were having more babies.”
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Jess Phillips opens PMQs by talking about women she worked with who were illegally brought to this country, trafficked, and repeatedly raped - asking will they now be denied help. Sunak doesn't even acknowledge this in his response.
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Angela Rayner makes the key point about the investigation into Sunak - the underlying issue is the complete failure to update the rules or publish a register of ministers' interests in nearly a year
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This is the picture the Tory MP was referring to, called it "total disgrace"
Odd decision for Sunak not to attend world leaders D-day event in Normandy and instead return early to UK to campaign.
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Just as a point of genuine interest, why can’t anything be done in this situation?
91,000 phones stolen in London last year — another crime effectively decriminalised
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When I go back to work it will be £1050 for my younger boy for four days. It was £750 for his elder brother, so a massive increase. This is *with* the current system of tax-free reduction.
Nursery fees have gone up again. £949 a month for three days a week. For one child.
I feel sick.
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Starmer breaks silence on attack ad - and doubles down despite discomfort in his party.
“I make absolutely zero apologies for being blunt about this. I stand by every word Labour has said on the subject, no matter how squeamish it might make some feel.“
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Sunak was visiting Horsham to campaign today
Conservative majority 21,127
It’s 68th on the Lib Dem target list
NEW - Rishi Sunak vows to ‘fight on’ until last day of election campaign.
PM hits the campaign trail again this morning and says “don’t write me off”
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Tough retort from Keir Starmer on the last week of noise.
“The bad faith advice from people who still hanker for the politics of noisy performance.
“It's water off a duck's back. Mere glitter on a shirt cuff. It has never distracted me before. It won't distract me now”
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Had not clocked this before but is that… Che Guevara dressed as Nelson?
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I thought it was the bond markets but they are basically the same I guess
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By my count we have ten declared Tory rebels -
Johnson
Duncan Smith
Truss
Patel
Francois
Rees Mogg
Duddridge
Jones
Jenkyns
Bone
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£27,000 on food while he was PM …
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New
@IpsosUK
polling finds 70% think the Conservatives have done a poor job in government and 66% think it is time for a change at the next election. Net satisfaction rating for Sunak also falling.
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