Mollie Malone
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New
@YouGov
data says 1 in 5 of those surveyed have followed lockdown guidance less strictly in the last week than previously. 32% of those people cited the Dominic Cummings story as a reason for that.
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One Tory MP this afternoon tells me they think they are “nearly there” when it comes to letters, that numbers far exceed what whips think, that this weekend was a turning point, and that they give the PM “a week.” Says PM should go before SG report.
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🚨 NEW EXCL via
@SamCoatesSky
... Leaked government emails reveal ministers have bowed to pressure to drop key climate commitments from the UK-Australia trade deal in order to get it over the line. References to specific temperature commitments will disappear. 1/3 🚨
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Steve Baker tells the broadcast pool “my constituents are about 60:1 against the Prime Minister”
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Lockdown rebel
@SteveBakerHW
tells
@SophyRidgeSky
“this is not a fit environment for free people.” “How do people think that liberty dies? It dies like this. With government exercising draconian powers... having a shifting blanket of rules that no one understands.”
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🚨Some GOOD news: Very excited to be taking up a new role working with our formidable Political Editor
@BethRigby
producing all the news, views, and interviews in what promises to be - yet another - busy year! 🚨
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Exec director of Greenpeace UK
@johnsauven
tells
@SamCoatesSky
this revelation is “truly shocking” and “seismic” in terms of the impact it will have. He says the PM made specific commitments on this to envt groups last month which he now calls a “barefaced lie” 2/3
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🚨 Labour have just gained Medway council directly from the Conservatives. This is the first direct Labour gain from Cons, & a council that has been Conservative for the last 20 years. Keir Starmer spent time campaigning there. Every shadow cabinet member visited.
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The same day as the PMs private secretary supposedly emailed staff asking them to “bring own booze” to downing st garden to “make most” of lovely weather
Have you been enjoying the hottest day of the year so far? 🌞
It is important that we all continue to
#StayAlert
You can relax, have a picnic, exercise or play sport, as long as you are:
➡️ On your own
➡️ With people you live with
➡️ Just you and one other person
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Chair of the Covid Recovery Group
@SteveBakerHW
tells
@SophyRidgeSky
he ‘expects’ to vote against the Coronavirus act extension next wk. “With so many vulnerable vaccinated..people will be right to ask why the government is still seeking to hang on to these powers.”
#Ridge
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Some personal news (yes I’ve wanted to do this for a while) - just as things get (even more) crazy in Westminster, there is probably only one certainty - that you’ll see me around here much more often, as I join the epic
@SkyNews
team as Politics Producer
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NEW: Owen Paterson tells
@SamCoatesSky
he “wouldn’t hesitate” to act in the same manner “tomorrow” after being criticised by a standards body for breaching lobbying rules. He said “no question” he would act the same again. More👇and
@SkyNews
shortly
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Chief Scientific officer
@uksciencechief
, asked whether he feels confident or anxious about future of virus - tells
@BethRigby
“the one thing this virus has taught you, is not to be cocky”
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I can’t quite believe what I just watched. President Trump. In a motorcade outside hospital where he’s being treated for Coronavirus. Greeting supporters. Waving to them. Before returning to hospital. Diagnosed with COVID 19 just days ago. Extraordinary. Via
@sallylockwood
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Senior Conservative backbencher
@SteveBakerHW
tells
@RidgeOnSunday
the govt is creating “miserable dystopia” around Covid restrictions. Says he will be creating a new “movement” - Conservative Way Forward - in favour of “freedom and personal responsibility.”
#TPOS
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Sir Roger Gale one of at least 30+ Conservative MPs calling on Dominic Cummings to resign.
@SirRogerGale
says the time has come for the 1922 to take this up with the PM as it has become “a distraction” and “damaging.” This and more with
@SamCoatesSky
at 2200.
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"I risked my safety" - [sending voice notes to the PM from Erin prison] "But unfortunately he did not spend even 5 minutes to give a telephone call to my family." Anoosheh Ashoori tells
@BethRigby
he's "not sure" he will take up PM offer to meet now he's back in UK.
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Asked by
@SophyRidgeSky
whether Andy Burnham is preparing for a leadership bid he says "In the distant future, if they need me, they can get in touch." "I am here to help the Labour party, if they need it... They have lost an emotional connection with parts of the country..."
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MANY ⭐️ women of Westminster - that we celebrate on
#IWD
. Lots I have privilege of working with! This one
@BethRigby
I’ve been alongside for last crazy year, & she is quite the woman! A formidable journo, fierce interviewer & a true partner in politics! 🎉
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Brussels waiting for Westminster. Westminster waiting for Brussels. Brilliant.
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Quite the exchange with the Health Sec &
@skynewsniall
this morning on whether restrictions could start to ease by first week of March...
Hancock: I haven’t put a timescale on it.
Niall: Some of your colleagues have.?
Hancock: Well great, but I’m the Health Secretary
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NEW: Have been sent a letter from the PMs PPS Trudy Harrison on 25 August ensuring Pen Farthing that his staff and emails could be evacuated. This despite number 10 repeatedly denying they had any involvement in the process.
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Labour saying similar tonight.
@AngelaRayner
telling
@BethRigby
for broadcast pool that "it should go to the Met Police and they should deal with it." Deputy Lab Leader says PM "should go", that he's "not fit for office" and that "he's lost confidence of British public"
Tonight the
@LibDems
are calling for the Met Police to investigate.
"It would absolutely reek of double standards if the police don’t investigate these allegations in full."
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One view from Stoke on Trent, Paul tells
@BethRigby
of the PM “He’s a baffoon, he’s a loveable fella. I think he’s done a great job. But I don’t think he’ll ride this out. I think Rishi will takeover. And I have no idea what levelling up means.”
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Just spoke to former Tory cabinet minister. “Think he’ll get through this, but worried. Never seen a PMQs like that.”
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Potential scapegoat for the PM in the public inquiry - gone, as his health secretary resigns. But this was a scandal that was “only going to build.” Analysis 👇 from
@BethRigby
worth your time this morning
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🧵Almost 3 yrs into 40 new hospitals programme, investigation via me
@AgnesChambre
&
@BethRigby
👇
- 80% don’t have a completion date or unlikely to be finished by next GE
- Only 20% completed/begun construction
- Just 32.5% are whole new hospitals 1/4
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Shadow Foreign Sec
@lisanandy
tells
@SophyRidgeSky
she thinks Labour “got it wrong” on Russia - “when the Salisbury attacks happened, we prevaricated we equivocated, we called for dialogue at a time when chemical weapons had been used on the streets of the UK”
#Ridge
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A fun person, formidable journalist & a fantastic friend & colleague. The first time I met
@adamboultonSKY
he interviewed me as a “young person” at 2015 GE. I was SO nervous. Every day since I’ve realised how silly I was and how warm Adam was. Thank you. I will really miss you.💫
.
@adamboultonSKY
helped launch Sky News in 1989 and is leaving after 32 years.
He has given us the political headlines and the best Westminster crepes during a rollercoaster of a career.
More on his time at Sky News here:
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🎥 “Her first request - the one thing that reminded her of home - was imagining being at home with me, having a cup of tea.”
@BethRigby
catches up with Richard Ratcliffe outside parliament on a long awaited day for the family.👇
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First signs of funeral arrangements for the Duke Of Edinburgh via College of Arms here:
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NEW: 2 more hospitals similar to the Excel Centre in East London have today been given the go ahead - in Birmingham and Manchester.
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What mark would Labour leadership hopeful
@EmilyThornberry
give Jeremy Corbyn? Clue - it’s not very high..!
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Ofsted Chief
@amanda_spielman
tells
@BethRigby
on maintaining single sex spaces in schools - “Biological sex absolutely continues to be relevant”. Says “parent choice matters” and that she’d be “very reluctant” to see a “mandate” that there should be no single sex schools
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Shadow Chancellor
@johnmcdonnellMP
says legislative technique developed by cross party group on how to stop no deal will be published on Tuesday. Says he thinks ‘there are large number of people’ who want to tell Boris Johnson this is the wrong move
#Ridge
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It’s happening. Join us -
@SkyNews
as
@BethRigby
and
@KayBurley
bring you all the latest on a momentous day.
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Conservative MP John Stevenson off back of PMQs tells
@BethRigby
this a manifesto commitment so “won’t come as surprise to markets” but accepts optics of chaos “The PM … has got to make sure she, her chancellor and the cabinet are all aligned.”
That there is a graphic clipped up for the PM announcement, looks like this not on the hoof. Truss was facing a clear rebellion, so decided to act. But again, being bounced, policy decisions day to day. Contradicting CX (Mon) & For Sec (Weds). Chaotic hand to mouth leaadership.
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🚨 Some personal news: 🚨 I have successfully managed to take a week off work when it isn’t pouring with rain
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“Breaks my heart “ BJ needs to “decide whether he continues to be the right person to lead”
@SayeedaWarsi
“A national distraction”
@Keir_Starmer
“Not fit to be PM” -
@Ianblackford_MP
Reaction & analysis on latest party allegations👇via
@BethRigby
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Speaking to
@BethRigby
after todays meeting considering further strikes, GMB rep and EMT worker Mark Tilley - talks were “very heated.” Says potential legislation makes him “angry.” “They’re taking away our right to strike b/c they can’t get the pay right to keep staff in NHS”
NEW: Ambulance workers (represented by GMB) to announce whether there'll be further strikes on Weds at 1pm. The expectation is that the ambulance workers will announce further strikes, with up to six more dates being discussed
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Asked by Hunt how to in future prevent the difficulty of govt and advisers pushing back against scientific consensus they believed wrong..Cummings: “No doubt at all the process by which SAGE was secret and overall thinking around strategy was secret was a catastrophic mistake.”
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Dominic Raab “ruined people’s lives” through “coercive” behaviour. Officials who worked with Dep PM speak of the way he - in their words - “put the fear of god” into junior officials. Others defend him. More👇
@BethRigby
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“All fur coat and no knickers” - that that the view of Evie in Stoke on Trent today when talking about the PM and his levelling up plans.🎥👇 More via
@BethRigby
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Some of this we knew but having it laid out in such a stark manner is q something. Cummings: “The PMs view through Jan Feb March.. was that the real danger was not the disease, the real danger is the economic destruction it will cause. He had that view all the way through.”
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… I’m off from the wonderful but wacky world of Westminster to do some reporting for
@skynews
- covering the UK and all its corners complexities and concerns! Stuff we should be covering that we’re not? Things you think we’re missing? Please do get in touch. 👋 2/2
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Some of my favourite news so far today (this week/month) - Boris Johnson has consulted Downing St staff about getting a dog. They’ve said they want one.
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Cummings says on the day the PM tested positive he and others “were told at the cabinet table that the dept for health had been turning down ventilators because the price had been marked up.” He says “it’s completely beggars belief that sort of thing was happening.”
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Statement from the Electoral Commission on Number 11 flat 👀
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🚨News about me is my least favourite type but I’m excited about this... after 4 PMs in 5 years, a global pandemic & countless; conferences, elections, resignations, fiscal statements, and Voyager air miles … 1/2
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The “overriding pitch” for
@AngelaRayner
is about “delivery” and “pragmatism” over ideology, as she tells
@BethRigby
the last seven years have been “devastating” for Labour. “I believe in my principles” but “when I was a free school meals kid, principles would not have fed me.”
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PM: “we will not be responding to this crisis with austerity. The world has moved on since 2008.”
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On his way in to the Gala dinner tonight in a subtle dig at PMs of recent past
@Keir_Starmer
tells
@BethRigby
the Govt have not played role of “honest broker” in way they should have. Acknowledges Sunak progress on Windsor but urges PM to hasten restoration of power sharing.
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As the PM stands up in PMQS to say they've got 'all the big calls right' - this is published. Email from FCDO official on Nowzad animal evacuation from Afghanistan "the PM has just authorised their staff and animals to be evacuated." The PM consistently said he had 'no influence'
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Angela Eagle: "Mr Cameron I've looked backed at your 56 messages, and they're more like stalking than lobbying. Aren't you at least a little bit embarrassed?" Cameron insists it was a "particularly acute time in the British economy" but says there are "lessons for me to learn"
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Tory MPs in Westminster “irritated”, and “in despair”… a Conservative leader in Scotland “furious” and demanding answers, a Prime Minister under pressure to answer some very serious allegations. Analysis👇 via
@BethRigby
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On the plane to India speaking to journalists PM says he’s “better off focusing on other things that matter” to voters than party gate. He tells
@BethRigby
“not a lot springs to mind” when asked if there are any circumstances he’d consider resigning, and he’ll fight next election
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Yesterday the government said they were seeking 250,000 volunteers to help the ‘shielded’, and the vulnerable with medicine delivery, food shopping etc during Coronavirus. 405,000 people have already signed up.
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Former foreign secretary
@Jeremy_Hunt
tells
@BethRigby
we have woken up with the “biggest threat to democratic life that we have had in our lifetimes.” Says this a long term strategy - wants to see govt increase defence spending and assist militarily.
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👀 this is interesting. Follows
@SamCoatesSky
revealing last night that former Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling was approached to be part of the trust too. Both of these matter b/c each further evidence the efforts made to help the PM find ways of financing the flat.
EXC: Labour peer Baroness Jay tells Newsnight that earlier this year Lord Brownlow approached her to become a trustee on the proposed Downing Street Trust.
The daughter of former PM Jim Callaghan said she later discussed it with the Cabinet Sec.
Story from me and
@hattmarris84
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A report that was “excoriating, damning and unanimous.” But also a report which “in no way brings to an end the divisions it has once again exposed and exacerbated in a Tory party that ploughed through 3 PMs in seven weeks.” Analysis via
@BethRigby
👇
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A Prime Minister “beaten, distressed, out of options.” Analysis👇 via
@BethRigby
after a 16 minute pool interview with the PM.
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PM repetitively pressed on council funding in
#PMQs
- as report released by County Councils Network finds 39 local authorities face a funding shortfall of £2.5 billion - warning councils might have to use up all the money they hold in reserve by next year
This is the letter
@Keir_Starmer
was referring to at
#PMQs
. Tory Council leader says more funding needed and impact on councils “will be far in excess of the £3.2bn provided to date”.
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Latest reaction to this
@SamCoatesSky
story👇 from
@Ed_Miliband
- “greenwashing government” that “cannot be trusted” on climate
🚨 NEW EXCL via
@SamCoatesSky
... Leaked government emails reveal ministers have bowed to pressure to drop key climate commitments from the UK-Australia trade deal in order to get it over the line. References to specific temperature commitments will disappear. 1/3 🚨
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“I think it’s over… feels now like a question of when not if…”
@JohnPenroseNews
tells
@BethRigby
'It feels like the beginning of the end for Boris Johnson.'
Conservative MP John Penrose tells
@BethRigby
he believes the prime minister's time in office is more of a case of "when not if."
Latest:
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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👇this follows our work last year
@BethRigby
@AgnesChambre
which found that 32/40 hospitals hadn’t started construction & 80% hadn’t been given a completion date/ were unlikely to complete building by time of next GE. Numbers barely changed almost year on.
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@Keir_Starmer
pushing on cost of living this
#PMQs
. Lab leader raises PM words last October to
@BethRigby
- saying fears of inflation were “unfounded”
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Hilary Benn in Brussels, on NI protocol debate “We have a standoff… we have a war in Europe at the moment,started by the Russians. Do we really want to have a trade war between the EU and the UK.” As per
@BethRigby
senior govt figures close to negotiations believe it’s possible
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PM: "I will immediately publish, in full, whatever Sue Gray gives me"
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What to make of the Russia report? Neat analysis here from
@SamCoatesSky
@haynesdeborah
@DiMagnaySky
@AliBunkallSKY
@IanKingSky
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NEW: Only 9% of people believe the PMs assertion that no party took place in Downing Street last year. 53% also think the PM should resign (up 5 points from a fortnight ago) much more and context👇 via
@SamCoatesSky
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He adds “Labour & the SNP will vote for any old authoritarianism these days” so likely it will pass but says he is voting “squarely against” and calls for the act to “now go.” He tells
@SophyRidgeSky
“it’s a very uncomfortable position for some of us to be in”within party
#Ridge
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Ben Bradshaw: If the PM is found to have broken the law, he will go - won’t he?
Ellis: “It’s entirely a hypothetical. The PM is going nowhere!”
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NEW: Cressida Dick: “I can confirm the
@metpoliceuk
is now investigating a number of events that took place at downing st and Whitehall in last 2 years in relation to potential breaches of covid 19 regulations.”
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Cummings alleges a view among “various number 10 officials” that if the PM, in Feb, were to chair COBRA meetings- it wouldn’t help “serious planning” as the PM would just “tell everyone it’s swine flu don’t worry about it.” Says the PM in Feb regarded COVID as a “scare story”
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Acting Dep Commissioner
@metpoliceuk
Helen Ball tells
@BethRigby
28 people had between 2 and 5 fines. Met informed PM no further action or fines for him. A relief but as the commissioner tells
@BethRigby
she is “sure” the public will be “surprised and concerned” about findings
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Former MI6 Officer Christopher Steele tells
@BethRigby
we can’t “trust” Putin in the future, “I don’t believe there is any way back for Putin” - and thinks he may be assassinated by his own people.
#BethRigbyInterviews
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Oh wow. Prime Minister: “On chilled meats, the wurst is behind us”
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Soon the govt will need to consult parliament to reauthorise emergency lockdown measures, after 6 months of the Coronavirus Act.
@SamCoatesSky
has more...
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Sir Roger Gale on the extent to which he's prepared to go to, to express opposition to IM bill.. telling
@SamCoatesSky
he'd be prepared to lose the whip and that he is "disappointed" with the PM.
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Asked about restrictions in the winter, Professor Whitty tells
@BethRigby
“winter is inevitably going to be tricky. This winter the nhs will have both covid and other respiratory viruses. This coming winter may be very difficult for the NHS.” 1/2
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Speaking to
@BethRigby
on his final day in Kigali - the PM admits “if you look at the by elections, people were absolutely fed up about hearing about things that I’d stuffed up, endless churn of stuff. What they wanted to hear - is what is this guy doing?”
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NEW:
@Keir_Starmer
tells
@BethRigby
as PM he would be prioritising key workers for special access to petrol pumps + issue enough visas for the haulage industry - for 6 months, not 3. He says in his discussions this am the fuel industry is “beyond frustrated”1/3
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The work of police officers “must be based on crystal clear guidance, not loose rules that are open to interpretation” says the National Chair of the Police Federation for Eng & Wales in response to the PMs announcement tonight... 1/2
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Keeping the ‘R’ down was once “absolutely vital” to our recovery, in the words of the PM. Today, with indications it’s risen, it was referred to as “only one data point” and “a very standard” way of looking at what’s happening. Not sure what to think? Have a read
@SamCoatesSky
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Former Conservative party donor tells
@BethRigby
“I think it’s farcical I get a cut to my basic rate of tax… The tin-eared approach to bankers bonuses… where’s the logic?” Says “as a rich guy” he has to “carry a greater burden on my back”
"I think it's farcical that I get a cut in my base rate of tax"
Former Conservative donor Gareth Quarry says there is no "logic" in the decisions made by the Conservatives and adds that "this whole kamikaze government should be withdrawn"
👉
📺 Sky 501
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Allegations against Downing St, awkward questions from the public and the backbenches, and a PMs authority - challenged.
@BethRigby
breaks down another tricky day for the Government👇👇👇
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Starmer at PMQs takes aim at state of Hillingdon Hosp ahead of Uxbridge by- elex. Claims “wards have had to close, staff working in appalling conditions.” Last year 👇 we revealed Hillingdon hosp hadn’t yet begun construction, nor submitted business case.
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“There have been two failings here: what happened and how No 10 reacted.” This👇from the PMs former head of legislative affairs is a very interesting read
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“We’re not afraid. Nobody wants to die, but it’s our home.”👇
@BethRigby
speaks to
@Vitaliy_Klychko
- defiant, determined, and “one wish - Russia, go away.” A message to the West too - this is not far away. “It can touch everyone in the European continent ..please, be proactive.”
Speaking on Sky News'
@BethRigby
Interviews programme, the Ukrainian politician Vitali Klitschko said that "everyone in Ukraine is in danger right now" and "nobody wants to die".
⏰ Watch Beth Rigby Interviews tonight 9pm
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 & YouTube
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Pressed by
@BethRigby
on his education ‘mission’ and funding commitments ahead of next GE, Starmer admits “we can’t hide from the fact we’re going to inherit a really damaged economy… public services that are on their knees, on their face.”
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What a day. Conservatives lose by- election. According to some voters - because of investigations into accusations of sleaze and Christmas parties. Now the investigator out and could be investigated himself?👇 via
@SamCoatesSky
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We travelled to Juno beach to tell the story of a truly inspiring man,Clive Pitt,through the eyes of his great grandson and granddaughter. Sadly he didn’t quite make today but he made his family and a nation proud of what he did 75 years ago.
@skynewssarah
Just watched
@skynewssarah
film about her Grandfather Clive Pitt and her son visiting Normandy in his footsteps... I am now in pieces. Beautiful vignette (including a letter from his own mum) and poignant contrast to the huge scale of the day. Watch it if you can.
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As per
@BethRigby
👇 yesterday,
@S_Hammond
confirms he has lost confidence in PM, and has submitted a letter.
Taster of our
#SueGrayReport
PM on wanting to move on,
@S_Hammond
on whether he can, & me on why report, despite jaw-dropping revelations, comes as relief. But the big Q, PM may survive but can he thrive without confidence of public & MPs?
By ⭐️
@Mollie_Malone1
🎥 Finn Lehane
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🚨PMs former aide claims BJ was warned of dangers of number 10 garden party.. and misled Parl saying ‘work event’
🚨Tory MPs says hundreds of ‘party’ emails in one weekend
🚨Constituents in red wall “unconvinced”
All👇🎥 via
@BethRigby
…. 1/2
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A Conservative council leader in Tory heartland messages this morning…
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Cummings begins: "The truth is that snr ministers, officials, advisers - like me, fell disastrously short of the standards the public has a right to expect of its government in a crisis like this. When the public needed us most, the government failed."
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