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Political Correspondent, Good Morning Britain @GMB

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🚨NEW: Keir Starmer reveals he and his family haven’t seen the inside of the Downing St flat they could be moving into in a week’s time @GMB
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I’ve sorted Downing St’s Christmas card for them @Number10cat
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Labour leader @Keir_Starmer tells @susannareid100 @gmb Liz Truss should turn down the £115,000 a year allowance she is entitled to claim as a former PM
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Breaking news: new #royalbaby on the way! 👶🏻 @GMB
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Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are very pleased to announce that The Duchess of Sussex is expecting a baby in the Spring of 2019.
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5:30am and I’m smashing today already
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Good morning from the set of the first TV debate of this election campaign - live on ITV1 at 9pm
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The PM’s lecturn has had a makeover 👇🏻
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Not just you @kategarraway - this is all the ‘essential’ stuff I bring to Downing St. You never know what might come in handy 🤪 @GMB @benshephard
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BREAKING - David Cameron into Number 10 ‼️🚨
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'He's broken his little girl's heart, says @piersmorgan ' - but is it really too late for Thomas Markle change his mind? Surely he and Meghan would regret it for the rest of their lives if some daft photos stopped him seeing his daughter marry?
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. @piersmorgan : Meghan's dad has no one to blame but himself for missing the wedding
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'I've missed you!' says @realDonaldTrump to @piersmorgan as they meet in Davos for the President's first international TV interview. I've watched the whole thing and it's compelling television. See it for yourself on @gmb and 10pm Sunday on @itv
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#DuchessofCambridge is wearing Polish designer Gosia Baczynska #RoyalVisitPoland #royals @GMB
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. @TMZ tell us @GMB their story about Thomas Markle not going to #royalwedding came directly from him. No confirmation from @KensingtonRoyal yet but it looks increasingly like he won't be walking his daughter down the aisle on Saturday
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Here comes the bride #RoyalWedding @gmb
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So, #Harry & #Meghan want to keep the birth of their first child private, and who can blame them. @gmb #royalbaby
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Labour’s @Keir_Starmer live on @GMB next
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🚨 Exclusive: The Prime Minister repeatedly refuses to tell me whether he’ll take part into today’s vote on the highly critical report on Boris Johnson
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Rishi Sunak refuses to say if he will approve Partygate inquiry report. @GMB exclusively interviewed the Prime Minister last night. @LouisaJamesITV has more.
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Duke & Duchess arrive at garden party to celebrate The Queen's birthday #RoyalVisitPoland #royals @GMB
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K&W have now left village and heading for this afternoon's engagements #RoyalVisitIndia @GMB
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COBRA meeting now underway inside number 10. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told reporters as he arrived “Putin will pay a heavy price” @gmb
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We’re ready… ⁦ @GMB
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If they do, they’ve clearly never watched @gmb @susannareid100 @richardm56
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I feel like politicians still make the mistake of thinking GMB is going to be an easy ride
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🚨BREAKING: Boris Johnson WINS vote of confidence
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Will we have a new royal by the end of the day? If so #babysussex will share its birthday with mum and dad’s friend George Clooney @GMB
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BREAKING: James Cleverly replaces Suella Braverman as Home Secretary
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Delighted that @LouisaJamesITV is joining Good Morning Britain’s politics team as Political Correspondent, taking over from @ranvir01 . She’s experienced, hard working and obsessed with politics. Think she’ll do well with me and @kieronishere . Welcome to the (mad) House Louisa
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It's snowing in Leicester Sq and we can't feel our feet but Jamie Dornan is on his way so I think we'll be OK #FiftyShadesDarker @GMB
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Turns out the police van was here to bring treats for the Lindo Wing campers! @GMB #RoyalBabyWatch #GreatKateWait http://t.co/CdcGZFznWV
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NEW: Downing St say Rishi Sunak is ‘availing himself of all the information’ about the Suella Braverman issue. He has spoken to his ethics adviser this morning but no update yet on whether there will be an investigation
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Rishi Sunak will become Prime Minister tomorrow morning. Timings in full:
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Kensington Palace confirms Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's baby due in April @gmb
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In the madness of the last 24 hours I also fulfilled my performance objective of co-creating a Barbie wardrobe and hangers out of a cardboard box and some pipe cleaners 👊🏻
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Please RT. Sabah Abdullah searching for his wife Khadija Khalloufi, last seen between 15th and 17th floors of #GrenfellTower @GMB
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NEW: Downing St confirms Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie will face no further action over #partygate after Met investigation concludes with 126 fines. Sue Gray report expected next week 🔥💣
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#PrinceHarry tells Trudeau 'there's a real buzz around Toronto" #InvictusGames @GMB
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Duke & Duchess get a warm welcome to Kaziranga #RoyalVisitIndia @GMB
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The PM tells @GMB @susannareid100 ‘I get you want to say it {the cost of living crisis} is all my fault’ but ‘we are doing the right thing to help people get through these difficult times’
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Meanwhile, Larry is already bored with the fuss of #reshuffle day and has sidled off to sit on his favourite air vent
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Passing time in the House of Lords press gallery by counting tiaras as we wait for King Charles to arrive. I’m on 10 so far (no photos allowed). Plus 23 wigs. And lots of velvet headbands. 👑
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@Elainebks I can assure you it was simply a statement of fact
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Sorted Rishi Sunak’s Christmas card for him again @Number10cat
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Former Conservative leader Lord Michael Howard tells @susannareid100 @GMB he hopes the country will look back on Liz Truss’s premiership as ‘a bad dream’
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In unrelated news, there’s a red sky over Downing Street this morning…
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It’s been a surreal morning @GMB
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Beautiful, foggy Kensington Palace @GMB http://t.co/2Jvww9Gn5u
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Police officer letting me into Downing St at 5:30 this morning: ‘There’s an awful lot of you here today. What’s going on?’ #reshuffle (PS - truth is, no one knows)
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For what it's worth, my Covid-19 test experience: Woke up on Saturday with a cough which lasted all day, went online at 17:30 to book a drive-through test, got an appointment for 18:30, in and out in 20 minutes, result (negative) within 24 hours.
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Chancellor @KwasiKwarteng says the 45p rate was ‘becoming a huge distraction’ as he confirms a u-turn. ‘We talked to people, we listened to people, I get it’
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A real pleasure to meet boxer Michael Watson for @GMB today. His interview from 6 tomorrow.
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Ben Shephard
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Morning! Lovely to have Kate back with us- thank you for all the messages we’ve had already. You’ll be pleased to know I’m already tidying up after her so things are getting back to normal 😜
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Adil Ray OBE
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Ooooh @LouisaJamesITV you look fabulous and were fab today as always. Wishing you and your family all the best for the new arrival. Adil/Adele are lovely names. @GMB
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New Liberal Democrat MP for #TivertonandHoniton says result sends a ‘shockwave through British politics’. Says voters have sent a message that it’s time for Boris Johnson to go.
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Robert Jenrick, supporting Rishi Sunak, tells me he WILL cut taxes, but slowly, and when time is right. Also says Sunak’s childhood, working in his father’s chemist, means he can relate to cost of living struggle and should be judged on record (e.g. furlough scheme) not wealth.
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Rishi Sunak has reignited speculation about a summer election by refusing to rule out a vote in July - and repeating that his ‘working assumption’ is the second half of the year (which surely includes the 7th month…!)
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🚨NEW: PM's spokesman says climbing on a war memorial is "an affront to our armed forces, goes against British values and is not acceptable". Says public will be "shocked and appalled" and govt will look carefully at how police reacted
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The Met Police have expressed regret for not responding quickly enough to pro-Palestinian protesters climbing on a First World War memorial in central London last night.
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Welcoming committee ready for K&W. They're due in the next hour. See it live @GMB #RoyalVisitIndia
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Lovely moment on @GMB as we reunite Sammie & Rylan with their stranger on a train http://t.co/5xtTJCObLL
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Police van arrives outside the Lindo Wing and everyone gets very excited. And then it drives away. #RoyalBaby @GMB http://t.co/pepaZeykWK
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David Cameron comes out of Number 10 and takes the shortcut (no pun intended) to the Foreign Office
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This is Gracie, who travelled 8 hours by car to meet the Duchess #RoyalVisitIndia @GMB
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🚨NEW: Rishi Sunak says he is satisfied Suella Braverman did not break the ministerial code and he will not be ordering an investigation 👇🏻
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This story today raised at #PMQs with Rishi Sunak saying his wife has stopped investing in British companies - though Number 10 said earlier this week is keeping her shares in @BloomandWild
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GMB has learned that the Prime Minister’s wife Akshata Murty has given up her shareholding in the childcare service Koru Kids and donated her shares to charity. Rishi Sunak broke parliament’s rules by failing to properly declare his wife’s shares in the childcare agency.
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A little story about the wonderful Desmond Tutu and a young TV reporter 👇🏻
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BREAKING: Rishi Sunak sacks Nadhim Zahawi for ‘serious breach of the ministerial code’
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#JeSuisCharlie Thousands gather at Trafalgar Sq @GMB http://t.co/ykgswSiN8C
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#Meghan Markle and #PrinceHarry arrive at #Invictus hand in hand @ Nathan Phillips Square
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Some also questioning how many care home beds are actually available to be bought. One owner told me homes in his region were already at near full capacity in the summer - let alone now
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NEW: The govt will spend £250m buying up care home beds to discharge patients from hospital. Has echoes of similar push during the pandemic (though this time without the deadly risk). Care sector source says it’s hardly “rocket science” - baffled why it hasn’t happened sooner.
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@Annemariealex Not to mention the irony of having to debate whether violence is the way to solve a dispute
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K&W have arrived at Taj Palace hotel #RoyalVisitIndia @GMB
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Following a thorough investigation I can exclusively reveal it is not the same coat 🧥 (just the same great taste)
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This is not sponsored 😂 @LouisaJamesITV | @julietdunlop
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Sir Graham Brady confirms only one nomination received and Rishi Sunak is elected as leader of the Conservative Party. He will address MPs here at 2:30
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A year after her disastrous conference as PM, @trussliz is back for the sequel. She’s making a big speech at lunchtime today and some of her colleagues aren’t happy @ConorBurnsUK
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New PM, fancy new lecturn
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Today @matt_angelo_84 brought a one-eyed Father Christmas to Downing St to show me where to stand #santaforPM
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Two huge by-election defeats for the Tories this morning as once ‘super safe’ seats go red Labour say it’s a ‘political earthquake’ The Conservatives say ‘the government of the day rarely wins by-elections’ More @GMB
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It took me by surprise how moving it was to see this, at 5:30am, when Westminster is normally empty
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Hello @Lauratobin1 , we've got the German version of you doing the weather forecast next to us!
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Duke of Edinburgh in car crash @gmb #royal
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The New Conservatives have gone into Number 10 for pastries and persuasion. They have told Sunak the bill needs ‘major surgery or replacement’ so he has his work cut out
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That’s it. The party’s over. Bring on election year 🗳️
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Even the snowman’s head is on strike ⛄️
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Cheers for the #UK team at the #InvictusGames2016 opening ceremony @GMB
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Congratulations to the 🥬
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And insisted on stopping and speaking to me, as he’d promised. He was utterly charming throughout and it remains my favourite ever interview. RIP #DesmondTutu
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A phone in a car cradle balanced on a toy box got me on @gmb this morning after I picked the worst week to get Covid. The new office mate was an added bonus 👶🏻 @ London, United Kingdom
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🚨 Exclusive: The PM tells me cutting inflation is the best way to help people with rising mortgage rates but doesn’t offer any extra help to those struggling now 👇🏻
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Is the Government going to do anything to help people who are facing increases in their mortgage rates? @GMB questioned @RishiSunak who said: 'We've got to stick to the plan.'
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It’s a beautiful day for a budget 🧳
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On @GMB at 7:20, behind the scenes at @NorlandCollege . What does it take to become a royal nanny? #royalbaby http://t.co/6hIg7jIxMl
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No comment either on whether Sunak and Braverman have spoken but the PM’s spokesperson says he has full confidence in his Home Secretary
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Choose your own metaphor
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Journalists in Downing St all exclaimed WHAT?! as this happened. New Foreign Sec?
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