Lucy McDaid
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Political Correspondent @itvwestcountry 📺 📡 🎥 Prev @itvnews @itvnewspolitics 🗳️ Lucy.mcdaid @itv .com 📧
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🚨This is the support for Nigel Farage at his rally in Newton Abbot tonight
People are still piling in at Trago Mills to hear him speak in a few minutes’ time
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Ed Davey doing an aqua aerobics class at Cheltenham Lido
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‘Take your hate, take your hatred… and take it somewhere else’
Green councillor Lorraine Francis speaks at a counter protest in Bristol tonight
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‘Labour will be in Number 10’
Green co-leader and Bristol Central candidate
@carla_denyer
says the ‘choice for voters’ is ‘an unassailable Labour majority’ or a govt in which the Greens can ‘hold them to account’
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The new Labour MP for Kingswood,
@damienegan
, celebrates with his husband, Yossi Felberbaum, after being declared the by-election winner
Pic:
@BenBirchallUK
/ PA
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🗣️‘If you asked 100 people outside about net zero, 90 wouldn’t be bothered’ -
@LeeAndersonMP_
🎥
@itvnews
spent time with three MPs during recess to gauge what’s on the minds of voters…
Here’s a 🌶️ exchange from the piece with
@AnushkaAsthana
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Keir Starmer is gifted a Bristol Rovers Shirt labelled ‘Change 24’
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I understand the Liberal Democrats made a donation to the charity to cover the cost of the visit
Former Tory minister Kevin Foster quits membership of the Disabled Sailing Association charity after they let Sir Ed Davey campaign on one of their boats today
He is re-standing as Torbay's Conservative candidate and the Lib Dems were clearly there to send a message..
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If only I could jump into the mind of little girl me and tell her she’d actually be doing it for real one day. A real privilege
@GMB
@itvwestcountry
💛
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🟧'Seats we didn't think of before are now looking within reach'
The Lib Dems set their sights on more seats in the South West
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🚨Keir Starmer repeatedly refuses to set out what he would do with the Bibby Stockholm barge if he becomes PM
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🚨 CHELTENHAM: Lib Dems retain control
The party wipes out the final 4 Tory councillors, saying 'the Conservatives are now extinct in Cheltenham'
Huge boost for the party who hope to unseat Justice Secretary Alex Chalk at general election
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The Liberal Democrats won 21 seats in the West Country, Cheltenham being the top target - not a single one of these seats has a Gail's
🚨 NEW: The Liberal Democrats chose what seats to target based on whether or not they had a Gail’s bakery location there
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New job day! My first day as a producer for
@itvnews
- there’s not much going on at the moment is there? 🤥
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Rishi Sunak puts on a red life jacket on a visit to Clovelly
‘I’m not sure you should be in red, Prime Minister, don’t you think you should have the blue one?’
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🗳️ First official day as the new political correspondent for
@itvwestcountry
and I swapped mandatory training for a trip to South Glos to speak to
@Keir_Starmer
Big shoes to fill (cc
@davidbevanwood
) but incredibly happy to be covering politics for the patch I call 🏡
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🚨At a campaign event in Melksham, the PM is confronted by a woman who says thousands won’t vote Conservative in a few weeks time because of a ‘dismissal of general practice’
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🚨Stark statistics from
@SteveDarlingMP
on how many pensioners will be impacted by the cut to winter fuel payments - 21,000 in Devon and Cornwall - almost 90%
'They've had no time to save for this and it's a complete shock to them'
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🚨BREAKING: Avon and Somerset Police’s new PCC is
@ClareMoody4PCC
🗳️ The first Labour candidate to be elected into the role since it was created
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SOURCE: Former official who worked under Dominic Raab says his narrative of a ‘challenging environment’ is a defence, and damaging
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Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak have an upbeat-looking chat in the Commons after the King's Speech
Joined after by Oliver Dowden and Angela Rayner
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Big moment for my Dad as he pays to cross the Severn Bridge into Wales for the last time. Here’s to having an extra £1200 year to spend on me.
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Rishi Sunak is campaigning in North Devon today in seats that, *on paper*, should be considered safe Tory
He braced the choppy waters in Clovelly - note the shout of "Keir Starmer" as he holds up his lobsters
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🚨🟢 Greens have 27 seats compared with Labour’s 15 in Bristol
Six wards still to declare - hard to call whether or not the party will get 36 for overall majority
As pointed out by
@beardedjourno
all seats in Bristol Central constituency are green - worrying for Labour
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BREAKING: Liam Fox OUT in North Somerset
HUGE Tory loss here - this is one of the seats that was still considered safe for the Party, even in the face of wipeout
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BREAKING - There are NO Conservatives left in Cornwall
Camborne and Redruth - LAB gain
North Cornwall - LD gain
South East Cornwall - LAB gain
St Austell and Newquay - LAB gain
St Ives - LD gain
Truro and Falmouth - LAB gain
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New Labour MP
@HattonLloyd
put the Bibby Stockholm at the centre of his campaign for election in South Dorset
Today he says - ‘I made a pledge before the election and I have been able to deliver on it’
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We love
@jamesmooreactor
at
@itvwestcountry
- such a positive, inspiring guy. If you need a pick-me-up, just read his Twitter feed!
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Exciting 2024 ahead! Looking forward to joining the team in the new hands of
@davidbevanwood
who I have a lot to learn from!
Will miss working with the most brilliant
@ITVNewsPolitics
Westminster team but what an amazing time I've had with the best group of people
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Can't stop thinking about this tweet and how it also gives off 'coming back from Casa Amor and stayed loyal' vibes
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🌹 Labour leader Keir Starmer at a school in Hanham this morning with the Kingswood by-election candidate Damien Egan
⏰ Two weeks today voters will be able to choose their new MP
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🚨PLYMOUTH: Labour takes 15 of the 19 seats up for election 🗳️
🔴 LAB 42 (+9)
🔵 CON 7 (-8)
🟢 GREEN 2 (0)
⚪️ IND 6 (-1)
Plymouth was taken over by Labour last year but Tories have gone from 24 seats (2022) to 18 seats (2023) to SEVEN (now)
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BREAKING: Michelle Donelan LOSES to Lib Dems in Melksham & Devizes
This is a huge scalp - shows the scale of Lib Dem success across the West Country
Exit poll predicted she'd be safe
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Former Tory minister Kevin Foster quits membership of the Disabled Sailing Association charity after they let Sir Ed Davey campaign on one of their boats today
He is re-standing as Torbay's Conservative candidate and the Lib Dems were clearly there to send a message..
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Most reports suggesting the counter protesters are outweighing the number of far right demonstrators in Bristol tonight but they are still out in force…
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🚨Ed Davey has about 5 goes down a slip n’ slide in Beckington, near Frome
🟠The Lib Dem Leader is confident about his chances in this new constituency - today he’s focusing his campaign on childrens’ mental health
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My last bulletin for
@itvwestcountry
didn’t quite turn out how I’d hoped it would. Thankfully
@ajgrierson
was on hand! Waving goodbye to the newsroom for now to take on a new challenge with
@itvnews
in London. Leaving with the best experiences, memories and friends. ✨
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NEW: Sir Ed Davey launches his general election campaign in Cheltenham, a seat the party feels confident it can take from Justice Secretary Alex Chalk
The Lib Dem Leader says 'it's time for change and that means the Conservatives have to go'
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'The fact that the PM hasn't been probably tells you everything you need to know'
@Keir_Starmer
visits Kingswood two weeks before the by-election
He tells
@itvwestcountry
'we're only having a by-election... because the ex MP told the PM he was absolutely lacking in leadership'
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Shadow Culture Sec and Bristol Central candidate
@ThangamDebb
says voters have a choice between ‘an opposition MP on the backbenches’ or an MP ‘at the heart of government’
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IT’S FRIDAY! Catch your local headlines just after 8 o’clock on ITV - there’s more good news in there than bad this morning 🥳
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Any one else feel like news is a bit of a lucky dip at the moment? You put your hand in each day and you’ve got absolutely no idea what’s gonna come out.
#keepsmiling
@GMB
@itvwestcountry
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Not quite the
#BackToSchool
feeling for us as we’ve been here all weekend - join me,
@HarrietRElliott
,
@KidbyJo
and
@sidjgore
for your
@itvwestcountry
news at 4:50pm. 📺
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Before I’d even arrived at
#CPC2023
today someone asked if I was Liz Truss. Yesterday, I was told my media pass photo looked like… Liz Truss.
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Keir Starmer very clearly getting the majority of the audience claps and laughs so far
#ITVDebate
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On The West Country Debate tonight: 🟢
@carla_denyer
🔴
@FredThomasUK
🟠Anna Sabine
Carla Denyer says she hopes she’s not ‘seen by Labour as a thorn in their side’ after inflicting a huge defeat on the former Shadow Culture Secretary
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Dame Jenny Harries advised Dept of Health on 16 March 2020 that positive Covid patients would need to be discharged from hospitals into care homes
'I do recognise that families and care homes will not welcome this in the initial phase'
#covidinquiryUK
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I lost someone very close to me and I truly believe his death could have been avoided if he had told someone just how bad he was feeling. I’ve watched
@TalkClubUK
grow from an idea to more than 2k members worldwide, thanks to
@BenAkers
and
@gavinthorpe
👏🏼
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🎥 Caught on
@itvnews
camera 👀🔥
Starmer says Johnny Mercer is a ‘silly sod’ who will ‘soon be history’
Comes after the Tory MP likened Selby and Ainsty’s new Labour MP to an ‘inbetweener’ who ‘has been at Oxford University more than he’s had a job’
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Who signed off the flame
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I just completed my first ever 10k ✅ And I do not like running. I am not a runner. But I do like endorphins and the feeling of completing a personal challenge. And the
@TrueGeordieTG
podcast with
@rickygervais
kept me relatively distracted. 💃🏻
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🗳️The West Country Debate is on ITV across the South West at 10.45pm tonight after your late news
Thanks to this month’s guests who joined me on my first show!
🔵
@JustinTomlinson
🟠
@SarahDykeLD
🔴
@DanAldridgeWSM
On ITVX now:
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One year on from
@cityjournalism
@CityUniLondon
and we find each other at the ITV News Awards!
@RosalieFalla
@JossieEvans
@connorjohara
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An experience that will live with me for the rest of my life. Partly because of the debt I’ll still be paying off when I’m 80, but mostly because I was surrounded by fantastic people. Without it - and them - I wouldn’t be doing what I am today. (Extra 🧀, anyone?)
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Re-filming some shots on North Street this morning because some of mine from yesterday *might* have been covered by raindrops on the lens.... I’m a
#workinprogress
when it comes to self-shooting 🎥
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Arriving with Ed Davey at the Lib Dem conference in Brighton is Anna Sabine, the new MP for Frome & East Somerset
She also joined Davey on a giant slip n slide during the election campaign - a rising star of the party for sure
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey has arrived at their party conference - he’s already on the stunts
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NEW: Visiting Gloucester, the PM says 'nothing has changed' and his 'working assumption' remains that a general election will be held later this year
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EXC: PM tells ITV West Country there won’t be a general election on May 2nd
In an interview with ITV West Country, Rishi Sunak has confirmed there won't be an election on 2 May
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Labour’s Shadow Culture Sec and MP for Bristol West on ITV West Country tonight -
@ThangamMP
is standing in the new Bristol Central seat, her main opponent is the Green Party
‘No votes have been cast… I’m going to work hard for every last one’
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'These long queues today and yesterday are symptomatic of what's happening up and down the country'
Shadow Culture Secretary and MP for Bristol West
@ThangamMP
tells
@itvwestcountry
'it's just not good enough' that people are queuing for days to try and get an NHS dentist
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I did throw my backpack away this morning after a lunch explosion and I also burnt my thumb on my straighteners - but this from Emma Collier has put the good back in my morning!
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Nigel Farage voices his support for Reform’s candidate in the upcoming Kingswood by-election, Rupert Lowe
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The 4am alarm is set which means only one thing: I get to pull out the “it’ll help me get to sleep” excuse for one last glass... 🎄 Mr Bean seems sceptical 🤷🏼♀️ see you tomorrow morning
@GMB
@itvwestcountry
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This is pretty much the reception I get when I come home after running round the block.
#thesonheneverhad
#simplyhealthbristol10k
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🚨 Reform selects a candidate for the Kingswood by-election in February
@RupertLowe10
is a former chairman of Southampton FC and Brexit MEP
Unsure if he has any links to South Glos - says he’ll donate his entire net MP salary to local charities
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Twitter says it’s Wrongful Conviction Day, which seems a good opportunity to re-share mine and
@kyliepentelow
’s Innocence Podcast 🎧 ft. brilliant voices of
@amandaknox
@liam_allan95
@BarristerSecret
@JustinoBrooks
@SunnyCenterFDN
@OfficialUoM
⬇️
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ITV News is the third most trustworthy news outlet, according to MPs
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NEW: I understand a change in Labour Party rules will stop Dan Norris being able to run for re-selection as West of England’s Combined Authority Mayor after becoming an MP in July
Party rule book will be updated so MPs can keep ‘focussing on being MPs’
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Cornwall's four new Labour MPs head to Westminster together - the duchy has no Conservatives left after the general election
🔴
@JayneKirkham4
@Perran4CRH
@NoahLaw4StAN
@annagelderd
🟧
@AndrewGeorge_
@benmaggy
Cornwall’s four new Labour MPs heading to London yesterday
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So incredibly proud to work with the greatest team of people. After hearing some members of staff at the force turn around and say, “You shared our key message”, it felt like a job truly well done. Thank you to the team at
@ASPolice
for working with us.
"We are actually stretched to breaking point" - Views from one of
@ASPolice
officers. Tonight at 6pm we're dedicating the whole show to investigating the state of policing following years of budget cuts - and how this affects our safety. This is how much the force spends.
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Just remember, if you have a dog you’ve given them the best year of their life so far.
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If the rain is getting you down, here are 4 out of about 100 photos of my dog on a tour of Devon.
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NEW: Dan Norris confirms he won’t be standing for re-election as West of England’s Metro Mayor
‘Because of rule changes the party has made, I will not be able to stand as metro mayor next year’
He says he’ll support the new candidate
‘to make sure Labour wins’
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Home from an incredible week away in Cornwall with
@EmmaLMCollier
- I got through a whole Daphne du Maurier and we didn’t use the ‘c’ word once, either.
#lucky
👌🏻 🌊
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'Why are we destroying the economy for people who are going to die anyway?'
Apparent quote from former PM Boris Johnson during a meeting with his private secretary for public services, Imran Shafi, in March 2020
#CovidInquiry
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🚨 ‘Children are cowering in schools’ - Starmer slams Sunak for his handling of the Raac crisis and says ‘cowboys are running the country’
💥PM hits back, insists govt ‘makes no apology’ for ‘acting decisively’, claiming Lab has never raised the issue
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When I wasn't presenting your
@GMB
headlines in the West Country this morning, I was getting the most important stories online. Exhibit A see here.
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HAVE TWO BISCUITS HAVE THE WHOLE PACK HAVE EVERYTHING IN THE KITCHEN
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On Raab’s resignation letter, a former Foreign Office official has told me ‘it really is vile’. In it, the former deputy PM says ‘in setting the threshold for bullying so low, this inquiry has set a dangerous precedent’
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Coming up to 1 year at
@itvwestcountry
and couldn’t think of a better way to be spending it!
Perks of the job! Michael Eavis you give the best hugs!
@GlastoFest
@lucy_jm
#Glastonbury2019
#Glastonbury
#GlastonburyFestival
@itvwestcountry
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Johnny Mercer says ‘it is what it is’ after losing to Labour in Plymouth Moor View
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A fantastic day hearing women from across the South West talk about their field of expertise in front of the camera 🎥📺
#itvwomeninnews
#confidenceoncamera
@ITV
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I admit this is my sister okay but this counts
Many journalists are classed as key workers.
@itvwestcountry
are doing a brilliant job keeping us informed in really tough times.
@lucy_jm
👏🏼🙌🏻
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On the Dominic Raab bullying report not being published today, former foreign office official tells me they ‘didn’t have high hopes anyway’ but any hopes of Raab being sacked have been ‘obliterated’
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It was amazing to have
@jamesmooreactor
into the
@itvwestcountry
studio to talk about his experience as a disabled actor. We loved having you, James - come back again!
"I'm proud to be a disabled actor" -
@emmerdale
's
@jamesmooreactor
tells us about his
@OfficialNTAs
win, and how he's using his role to change people's perceptions of disabilities.
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Damien Egan’s first moments as the winner of the Kingswood by-election
🚨 BREAKING: Labour win Kingswood by-election. Damien Egan to be new MP
LAB: 11,176
CON: 8,675
REFORM: 2,578
GREEN: 1,450
LIB DEM: 861
UKIP: 129
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The queue for Theresa May’s book signing at Conservative Party Conference - is it longer than the one for Truss yesterday?
Speaking to people in the queue, one said they admired how ‘personable’ she was as PM and another said she ran a ‘steady ship’
@ITVNewsPolitics
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🗣️Today
@itvnews
spoke to an asylum seeker who fled domestic abuse and compared being stuck in the system to life with her abuser.
She said her inability to provide for her son makes her feel like she’s ‘not a complete mother’.
📝
@lewisUTBdenison
👇🏼
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This is a genuine thread of messages I’ve just bombarded
@ElliotFPLewis
with. I’ve never been SO convinced by something. WOW
@thismorning
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
#AprilFoolsDay2019
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Another damning Vallance extract shown at the
#covidinquiryUK
- Boris Johnson allegedly said in July '21 we'll need to learn **to die with** covid
- PM wanted 'all the malingering work shy people' to be back at work. ie full opening up
- Health Sec Sajid Javid v cautious
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🚨 BREAKING: Labour win Kingswood by-election. Damien Egan to be new MP
LAB: 11,176
CON: 8,675
REFORM: 2,578
GREEN: 1,450
LIB DEM: 861
UKIP: 129
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Full report on
@itvwestcountry
tonight at 6pm, or catch it later on our website. Thank you
@aledoz
and
@anthonybabajee
🙏🏼
📸☝️🏽
#ThrowbackThursday
to
#NationalHIVTestingWeek
in November 2018
@MiddlesexUni
📺❤️ In
#HIVTestWeek
2021 I spoke to
@lucyjmcdaid
for
@ITVWestcountry
about my diagnosis in Somerset 14 years ago and why it is so important to get tested regularly:
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Nothing better than ending the week with an all-female lineup! 💁♀️
@JulieEbbs
@HarrietRElliott
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