Steffi Ede
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The beautiful, magnificent, beguiling Miss Cassie passed away last night. I don't know what I will do without her.
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If I were Keir Starmer, I might just be tweeting right about now that I would be more than happy to be interviewed by Nick Robinson tomorrow in Liz Truss's place.
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Someone's finally called out the ludicrous use of nationalistic props. Well done, Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty.
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#BBCBreakfast
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I'm afraid, Mr Lewis, I refuse to believe that a Russian oligarch paid £135,000 for dinner with Theresa May because they thought it would be a good night out.
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I have a great deal of time for both Pat McFadden and Daisy Cooper but I fail to see how the BBC's impartiality commitment is fulfilled here by allowing Sunak airtime on the Sunday before an election without the same opportunity being afforded to Starmer and Davey.
#bbclaurak
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Does Professor Ferguson's dubious sexual activity render him unable to carry out his duties as a government advisor?
Because if we're going to go there, perhaps we need to take a long hard look at the suitability for office of the incumbent of No10.
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Cleverly: The Prime Minister and Conservative Party represent the values of the British people.
I think that's just about the most shaming thing I've ever heard said about this country.
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The Met Police has concluded its partygate investigation.
James O'Brien responds with this monumental takedown of Boris Johnson's 'barefaced lies'.
@mrjamesob
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Ah, so it's the listener's fault that we don't want to listen to what
#r4today
chooses to define as news? Good to know.
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Thought For The Day: This is a factual and accurate account of what has happened re Farage & Coutts, and yet if
@maitlis
was sitting in a BBC studio she would not be allowed to say it.
#r4today
“The power of the populist is, somehow, to turn utter entitlement into victimhood.”
@maitlis
on Nigel Farage using his Coutts bank account closure to provoke a culture war.
Coming to
@GlobalPlayer
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I've already said that I'm terribly sad for the queen, but honestly, he was 99 and by all accounts would find this fuss ludicrous. Continued blanket coverage in the midst of civil unrest in a part of the UK and an ongoing global pandemic is not appropriate.
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What I'm struggling with here,
#r4today
, is that the day after the UK was reported as having the worst death rate in Europe, and in the middle of a global pandemic, your top story, being given seemingly endless airtime, is the resignation of a govt advisor.
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I've just received this from West Kent Conservatives encouraging me to register for postal voting, with a form and prepared envelope back to them. This is dodgy as all hell.
#bbcaq
@lewis_goodall
@ElectoralCommUK
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It is the media's responsibility to report to the truth,
#r4today
. Mark Field did not 'appear' to push a woman against a pillar, Mark Field pushed a woman against a pillar. There is no ambiguity in the footage. At all.
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Hancock: What if someone from Leicester decides to go to Nottingham?
Hancock: We recommend they don't.
That'll sort it.
#r4today
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I remember the days not so very long ago when the Met refused to investigate what they subsequently confirmed were crimes because 'they had taken place in the past'. Now they're investigating well before any potential law-breaking might take place. Quite the journey.
#r4today
We have now fully examined the items seized and reviewed the full circumstances of the arrest.
Those arrested stated the items would be used to secure their placards, and the investigation has been unable to prove intent to use them to lock on and disrupt the event.
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The BBC are entitled to give Bernard Jenkin as many opportunities as they like to peddle his message, but the very least they could do is challenge the inaccuracies, inconsistencies and downright untruths. And they choose not to. And make no mistake, it is a choice.
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Please someone ask Hancock why he's back at work 7 days after being diagnosed, despite the WHO advising that sufferers should continue to self-isolate for two weeks after symptoms have disappeared, as they are still likely infectious.
#PressBriefing
#PressConference
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@NiallHarbison
@NYCACC
Niall, you fly half way round the world and you find the one that really needs a lucky break! You really are the living embodiment of someone who's found their vocation!
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Also, can you ask Mr Gove why Mr Johnson verifiably lied yesterday about the condition of his eyesight in order to imply that he had experienced the same side effects as Mr Cummings, thus attempting to legitimise the Barnard Castle story?
#r4today
@SkyNews
This is bollocks. Johnson said in 2014 that he was as blind as a bat and needed glasses. Eyesight doesn’t improve with age.
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There's so much about this I don't understand but I'll start with this. Why would you buy mince pies from a railway station when there's a well-stocked Tesco round the corner from Downing Street?
#r4today
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been seen at King's Cross railway station purchasing seasonal treats, which were reportedly for key workers.
Latest politics news 👉
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@NiallHarbison
There was a time, not so very long ago when, if Cindy had been lying on her back, she wouldn't have been able to get up again. It's an amazing transformation.
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@DavidhBrown
While understanding this is a big story, we also need to remain mindful that Dr Mosley had a loving family and many friends who cared about him who will be devastated by this news so perhaps the more sensationalistic aspects and language should be parked for a bit?
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After fronting a good five minutes of uninterrupted saccharine propaganda in favour of the Prime Minister, Nick Robinson, with not a hint of irony, asks 'should RT be banned from broadcasting Russian propaganda in the UK?'
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Could someone at
#r4today
please explain why this isn't story on the links between Steve Bannon and Boris Johnson isn't newsworthy enough for broadcast and analysis? Bannon may be lying, he may be telling the truth - isn't it worth finding out?
NEW: Boris Johnson denied & denied & denied any relationship with Steve Bannon & called it ‘a lefty delusion’. So how to explain new video of Bannon describing ‘back & forth’ over key Brexit speech?? My piece with
@aliklay
footage in
@ObserverUK
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Listen to Sajid Javid explain that the state is, apparently, not responsible for health and social care.
If you're one of the 5.6m people on the NHS waiting list, you should try to get a hip replacement from an aunt, cousin or a neighbour. THEN you can try the gov't. 😱
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CCHQ seemingly unaware that when you've already dug a massive hole for yourself it's probably best to stop digging.
#r4today
It’s very interesting indeed. Not only do they all have the same friend. They all have the same person writing their tweets. Tories in full sock-puppet account mode. Shame on you
@CCHQPress
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Well, she looks a million times better than she did yesterday. As you say, she's alive and safe. That's a far better situation than she had yesterday.
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@krishgm
@Telegraph
Sunak might need some refresher lessons himself. He stated twice in PMQs that the government was paying half of everyone's energy bills at the moment. Which obviously isn't true. I'd love to see his working out for that.
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I see Dan Hodges has dug into an argument with Dan Neidle over tax law.
What a time to be alive.
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So Johnson plucks a unrealistic objective out of thin air, announces it to the nation on a Sunday night and then leaves it to everyone else, who he didn't tell in advance, to sort out how the hell it's to be done.
Boris Johnson in a nutshell.
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Many people haven't stopped working, they've just been doing it at home. Stop reading out government propaganda unchallenged.
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Do better, BBC. We all saw Sunak dump the D-Day commemorations to campaign yesterday. His campaign was not 'paused'. Stop trying to rewrite history.
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@krishgm
It feels to me that it will be important to establish how she managed to get through her entire life, including school and nursing training, etc, without there being alarm bells raised. There are always signs - why did no-one see them? Or did they?
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@campbellclaret
@Keir_Starmer
@RoryStewartUK
@RestIsPolitics
Poor old Greg Hands sent 16 tweets while Starmer was on his feet...
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Rather than listening to endless gossip about a bunch of incompetent people who shouldn't be anywhere near the levers of power bickering amongst themselves, I'd far rather hear about the billions that have been doled out to friends and family of govt for little return,
#r4today
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Finally a senior conservative politician calls Anderson and his vile, divisive brand of nonsense out.
#bbcaq
#bbcpm
I've worked with Sadiq Khan and the ideas that "Islamists have got control of him" is offensive bollocks. It also wouldn't have been said if he wasn't Muslim. It's a dog whistle and we should be better than this.
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Seriously,
#r4today
, what do your researchers actually do? There are two massive stories today, both involving the exposing of lies from the Prime Minister. One has had a cursory mention, the other no mention at all. Why?
FULL STORY Boris Johnson’s government concedes Brexit will mean checks on goods going into Northern Ireland. Belfast, Warrenppint, Larne, He previously boasted that deal, which he agreed, meant no checks and businesses could put paperwork “in the bin”
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I'm sorry,
#r4today
, but this narrative that it will be all sunlit uplands once the vulnerable are vaccinated that you are peddling this morning is dangerously irresponsible.
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This is excellent from Miliband. There will have been some squirming on the government benches.
#r4today
The Internal Market Bill is indefensible. It breaks international law. It is wrong and self-defeating for our country. Tonight I urged MPs to oppose it.
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@ChrisDJackson
@NaomiBiden
I couldn't agree more. Watching from the UK it's been frustrating and infuriating to watch a good and decent man who has done so much to stabilise and grow his country torn apart by a pack of baying wolves in pursuit of the next big story. He's a better person than any of them.
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Is
#r4today
really facilitating a hypothetical conversation on how Donald Trump would negotiate Brexit? With renounced social commentator, Nigel Farage? Now might be the moment to cease calling yourselves a 'flagship news programme'.
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@mdouganlpool
We've gone full Orwell. 'Ignorance is Strength' and anyone who dares challenge this will be struck down by the full weight of 'The Party'.
We're probably screwed, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't go down fighting. Keep at them, Mr Dougan.
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@davidallengreen
Unfortunately, right through the negotiations the UK has prioritised its 'acting tough for a domestic audience' act over achieving anything meaningful. And they don't seem to realise that not only the EU, but the rest of the world, are watching. Our credibility is in tatters.
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Well, that was quick.
But don't worry folks, it's what you voted for and you can never, ever, say you weren't warned.
#bbcbh
#marr
#ridge
Damian Green Tory MP saying on
@lbc
that we all need to start paying towards an insurance type system to pay for our care.
And there it is.
That is what we are going to get.
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There is a heavy emphasis this morning on the No10 party having 'broken the rules'. Let's not forget it also broke the law at the time, which I would have thought is both worthy of mention, and very much a matter for the police.
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I am not a Conservative and would never vote Conservative, but god, what a different place this country would have been in if Rory Stewart had won the last Tory leadership election.
#bbcpm
#c4news
Rory Stewart was excoriating about Boris Johnson's leadership on
#GMB
this morning.
His recounting of Johnson's careless incompetence over the Kenyan elections, while he was Foreign Secretary, is really something else.
#PoliticsLive
#PartyGate
@LBC
#NazaninZaghariRatcliffe
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Believe it or not,
@BBCr4today
, this is an absolutely enormous story. Might you get round to investigating, or even just mentioning it, at some point?
#r4today
Corruption: £526.3m of UK govt PPE contracts awarded to Conservative Party backers, often to fledgling companies with no PPE experience & without obtaining any competitive tenders. Was good PPE even delivered? What is the human cost of delayed deliveries?
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Ms Kearney, your 7am preamble was incorrect. The government are not offering tests to 'the over 65s'. They are offering tests to 'the over 65s who are showing symptoms of Covid-19'. These are not the same things.
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Did Braverman have other meetings to attend in the US? Because if not, I'm having a hard time seeing how it was a good use of the Home Secretary's time and presumably taxpayers money to fly her to the US for a 30min speech watched almost exclusively by UK journalists.
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@algingersmith
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The body language between them is fascinating. Swan sitting with a straight back, open, relaxed posture, dangling his foot impatiently. Trump looks like he's sitting on a footstool, hunched, desperate to show his homework to teacher and have it approved of, utterly subservient.
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Mark Adams, who's just eviscerated Boris Johnson live on air, is absolutely right. And it's refreshing to hear the calling out of the government's preposterous and prolific rewriting of history.
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Please stop having Helen Whately on,
#r4today
. Otherwise I might have to start feeling sorry for her.
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@BorisJohnson
: 'Without democracy governments will become corrupt and they will be run by an elite who will hand power to other members of that elite down the generations and that will have a terrible effect on the rule of law'
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Bloody hell. That landed with Sunak. Uncomfortable doesn't begin to describe the look on his face.
#bbcpm
#c4news
Keir Starmer: "Think very carefully about what Suella Braverman is committing your government to do... because without a serious Home Secretary, there can be no serious government, & he cannot be a serious Prime Minister..."
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And lo, there appeared among us a miraculous message from a phone that was 'lost' in 2021.
And joyous good tidings it did bring.
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@MichelleMone
wasn’t “honest” about her financial interest to me.
She didn’t explain “from the very beginning” about her financial “involvement” - her message below was typical.
It wasn’t in her Register of Interests, as you’d expect it.
@RishiSunak
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Operation Moonshot is a 'big numbers' shock-and-awe tactic to knock the government's intended breach of international law off the headlines. Which it has.
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Again, I find myself in the strange position of thanking god and the House of Lords. Neither of which I believe in.
#bbcpm
#C4News
🚨BREAKING: The House of Lords has voted to remove clause 9 of the Nationality and Borders Bill, which seeks to create new powers to strip British nationals of their citizenship without even telling them.
This is a huge win. 1/3
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Serco and Deloitte are being funded by the taxpayer. There should be no problem with the taxpayer scrutinising their work and how they came by it.
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This is very welcome news, but it should never have needed a social media meltdown for the Home Office to come to their senses.
#r4today
Great news - Home Office has overturned their decision & the Afghan youth orchestra will now be coming to UK and playing their women’s day concert at
@southbankcentre
then Bham,, Liverpool & Manchester. . Pls go see them & show your support for Afghan women & girls 🙏
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@BBCHughPym
Mr Pym, if you're at the briefing today, perhaps you could ask the PM how a private citizen can lay his hands on 60 tonnes of PPE but the UK govt, which is apparently 'the international buyer of choice' (whatever that means) is still struggling to procure it?
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When an interviewee starts to answer the question they wish they had been asked, rather than the question they had actually been asked, could all presenters please stop them and repeat the original question? Otherwise the interview descends into a propaganda exercise.
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@Peston
@doctorcdf
It's not an integrated transport network, though, is it, Mr Peston? It's a series of disparate franchises and management contracts, so why on earth would you expect it to be 'joined up' when it is run solely for the benefit of shareholders, not customers?
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Processing could happen in Calais. Wouldn't it be cheaper to do that than send people half way around the world? This is not about stopping the boats. If it were you'd take up the French on their offer. You want the boats to keep coming so you have an 'enemy' to fight.
#wato
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This is bonkers. Yet again the opposition being subject to greater scrutiny than the government.
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One to ask Gove,
@BBCr4today
. You won't, of course, but I'd be more than happy to be proved wrong.
#r4today
Why did No10 claim Cummings trip to Barnard Castle was a lie - he just admitted it?
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"Has anyone on benefits come to you and said 'I really want a mortgage'?"
Eddie Mair grills Work and Pensions Secretary Thérèse Coffey over the plan to allow people to use housing benefit to pay for mortgages.
@eddiemair
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@NiallHarbison
How anyone could have thought he is an aggressive dog is beyond me. In pain, yes, but they should have tried to do something about that if they intended to keep him.
Poor Buster. There's nothing in the world worse than being misunderstood.
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Having scraped the barrel till it was entirely empty, Johnson had to dig a few feet beneath it to complete his ministerial appointments. Nadine Dorries...good grief.
#bbcpm
Nadine Dorries has been appointed as Health and Social Care Minister and Zac Goldsmith has been appointed as a minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department for International Development
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@NiallHarbison
If you've spent your life not being seen, to be seen is the greatest gift there is.
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Boris Johnson is preparing a line-by-like rebuttal of the Privileges Committee’s report
He intends to publish it when the report is made public
He and his lawyers have been working on it since he received the draft findings last week
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@BrandonLewis
Might I suggest, Mr Lewis, that you address the issues within your own party regarding the circulating and perpetuating of 'straightforward lies' before you venture an opinion on the 'hard left' on that topic. Otherwise you run the risk of being branded an amateurish hypocrite.
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Why would the minutes confuse anything? They would inform the public of the arguments and why/how the govt came to the decisions they did. I can quite understand why the govt has no wish to release them, but 'causing confusion' is not the reason.
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@PippaCrerar
@AllieWhiteley
I'll bet your finger has been hovering over the 'post' button for hours! 😂
This is delicious.
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@ruskin147
Perhaps she'd like to have a go?
@buddymercurydog
can give her some pointers...
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Staunton was a highly regarded finance professional with a background in audit. It was inconceivable he would have gone into this without the means to prove what he was saying. If Badenoch is incapable of reading the room she should at least try to read the person.
#r4today
NEW: Ousted Post Office boss Henry Staunton has unearthed the memo at the heart of his row with Kemi Badenoch. It says that on Jan 5, 2023, the top civil servant at BEIS told him to “hobble” into the election and not to “rip off the band aid” financially.
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I'm afraid I have little faith in Jenny Harries. She made too many mistakes and lazy assumptions early on in the pandemic. Of course, she wasn't the only one, but she was one of the most visible ones.
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@campbellclaret
@Twitter
@OliverDowden
@SuellaBraverman
@RobertBuckland
In addition:
Patel retweeted Raab
Williamson retweeted Hancock
Sharma
Lewis (weirdly responding himself briefly then retweeting Dan Hodges)
I think that's all of them.
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As someone who lives in Kent, I welcome news of our internal border with the rest of the UK.
Does anyone know how to apply for devolution?
Or apply to join France?
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You haven't been negotiating, Mr Mogg. You have been issuing idle petulant threats. They're not the same thing.
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Probably just a complete coincidence.
#wato
Multimillionaire son of millionaires, who is himself married to a multimillionaire heiress who is set to inherit multimillions, calls for a tax that only really affects multimillionaires to be scrapped.
#ManOfTheRichPeople
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You can completely ignore this if you want,
@bbcnews
, but it doesn't change the fact that the Prime Minister has serious questions to answer about potential misuse of public funds.
And, despite what you would have us believe, that is news.
#r4today
If Johnson had disclosed his r’ship with Arcuri to city hall, the funding she received would not be in question. But he didn’t. And so she’s carried the can of all the qs around impropriety. But the impropriety was *his*. She was just some wannabe startup. He was mayor of london
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@peterwalker99
Starmer did this to Johnson on a number of occasions, too, but Johnson used his pre-prepared attack lines anyway and came across as tone deaf, cruel and uncaring. It's a win for Starmer whichever way the incumbent PM plays it.
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@MarinaOLoughlin
@MarinaHyde
If Margaret Rutherford was trending all the time, the country might be in significantly better shape.
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