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🇧🇧 Barbados plans to make wealthy Tory MP Richard Drax the first individual to pay reparations for his ancestors' significant role in slavery. Drax, MP for South Dorset since 2010, still owns the sugar plantation in Barbados that was established by his slave-owning ancestors 🧵
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WATCH: Jeremy Corbyn says he 'lives rent free' in Rishi Sunak's head in response to Sunak's repeated references to him while attacking Keir Starmer at PMQ's.
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👀 Kwasi Kwarteng's Wikipedia page has been edited to remove all references to his role in the Owen Paterson scandal. The IP address of the user who changed the page. corresponds to the House of Commons network. Kwarteng is widely expected to be Chancellor under Liz Truss.
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WATCH: Rishi Sunak is confronted by a hospital patient. PM: "have they looked after you?".Patient: "they always do but it's a pity you don't pay them more".PM: "we're trying".Patient: "no, you're not trying, you need to try harder.". Footage by Sky News
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🚨 The @guardian has obtained a picture of Boris Johnson, his wife Carrie Johnson and up to 17 staff in the Downing Street garden with ‘wine and cheese’ during lockdown. Downing Street insist everyone was “working” in the garden.
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WATCH: Travel expert @SimonCalder stresses that the "British insistence on passport stamps is causing holiday chaos." . "This was exactly what we asked for. once the deal was negotiated, we said we want to be third country citizens.".
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🌹 Keir Starmer plans to abolish the House of Lords, and replace it with a new elected chamber in order to "restore trust in politics", according to the Observer. This comes after the appointment of - Starmer said - "lackeys and donors" to the Lords by Tory govts.
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NEW: Liz Truss's personal phone was hacked by spies suspected of working on behalf of Vladimir Putin, according to the Mail on Sunday. The hack was discovered in the Summer but details were suppressed by then PM Boris Johnson and Cabinet Secretary Simon Case.
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40 Conservative MPs did NOT vote with the government in today's vote, including:. - Boris Johnson.- Kwasi Kwarteng.- Theresa May. As well as:. - Wendy Morton (the Chief Whip until about 10/15 mins ago).- Liz Truss (the Prime Minister, at time of writing).
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WATCH: Vladimir Putin says the West has "cancelled" JK Rowling and are now "engaging in cancel culture" against Russia. (Begins at 1:00).
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WATCH: Johnson ends his last PMQs with "Hasta la vista, baby" and receives a standing ovation.
@kimleadbeater #PMQs Johnson: "Hasta la vista, baby!".
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#BREAKING Prince Harry's autobiography, 'Spare', has become the fastest-selling non-fiction book ever, selling 400,000 copies so far on its first day of publication.
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📨 Letters of no confidence in the Prime Minister are already going in, according to a former Conservative minister talking to Sky News. "Liz is f******. They're already putting letters in as they think she will crash the economy.".
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🔴 NEW: The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak may have MISLED Parliament. The UK Statistics Authority, the statistics watchdog, found that Sunak and other ministers used INCORRECT figures when comparing the current asylum backlog to the backlog when Labour was in office.
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🍭 Westminster City Council has launched an investigation into 30 US-themed sweet shops on Oxford Street over alleged business rate evasion. The council announced it had seized nearly half a million pounds worth of counterfeit or illegal goods in one week alone.
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BREAKING: Labour's @RhonddaBryant says Tory MP Alex Stafford was "physically manhandled" into the voting lobby by a group including Therese Coffey and Jacob Rees-Mogg. "I've been an MP for 21 years. I've never seen that.".
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🌹 Keir Starmer is expected to, if Labour win the next GE:. - ban second jobs for MPs.- beef up the Electoral Commission .- extend devolution to English regions and devolved parliaments. This comes off the back of an internal review of the constitution by former PM Gordon Brown.
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NEW: Johnson has gone "missing in action" after skipping a COBR crisis meeting, scheduled for today, to address next week's heatwave. in order to host a party for friends and family at his grace-and-favour Chequers retreat.
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🚱 The 100ml limit on liquids through airport security will end within two years, @thetimes has been told. Major UK airports have until mid-2024 to install new security scanners that will mean you can take more liquid aboard and won't have to remove laptops from hand luggage.
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NEW: An MRP poll by Opinium for the Trades Union Congress projects a "1997-style landslide for Labour". LAB 411.CON 137.LDM 39.SNP 37. 10 current Cabinet ministers would lose their seats (inc Jeremy Hunt, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Therese Coffey) as well as former PM Boris Johnson.
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#BREAKING Rishi Sunak attacks Equality Act 2010, calls it "trojan horse" of "woke nonsense". In a speech tomorrow, Sunak will vow to ensure "sex means biological sex", protect "mothers" and "women" from "erasure" - as well as "shield children from inappropriate material."
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🇺🇸 US President Joe Biden hails the "groundbreaking milestone" of "Rashid Sanook" becoming Prime Minister.
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Ed Miliband gets in the last word (or emoji). seven years later
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🚨 BREAKING Liz Truss has announced her resignation. She will become the shortest-serving prime minister in British history.
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💬 NEW: Social workers are being told to stop asking dementia patients who the Prime Minister is, due to the high turnover in the position. Following 3 leaders in 3 months, a warning was given in a training session for social workers last week, according to the Mirror.
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UPDATE: Rishi Sunak will block Scotland's recent gender recognition reform, the Times has learnt. New legal advice notes that the legislation put forward by the Scottish Government would have an "adverse effect" on UK-wide equality legislation, allowing for a Section 35 order.
🏴 The UK Government has not yet decided whether it will try and block Scotland's recent gender recognition reform, No10 says. The deadline is approaching next week for the government to use - for the first time - a section 35 order under the Scotland Act to block the new law.
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🗳️ A petition calling for an immediate general election is close to surpassing 400,000 signatures - well above the 100,000 necessary for a debate in Parliament.
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NEW: Labour leader @Keir_Starmer has called for a general election, saying the government is "completely at the end of the road". The Conservatives are "completely exhausted and clapped out" with "no ideas", Starmer said to the @guardian.
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💰 A multimillionaire Conservative donor has defected to Labour and given the party £100,000. Gareth Quarry said Keir Starmer and his team "were sensible people who have got their feet on the ground" while Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng were "zealots" practicing "GCSE economics".
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Some huge polls this evening:. 🔴 @YouGov 33 point lead for Labour.🔴 @Survation 21 point lead for Labour.🔴 @DeltapollUK 19 point lead for Labour.🔴 @RedfieldWilton 17 point lead for Labour. Gives you an idea of the public reaction to the events of the last week. .
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🥬 The Daily Star's lettuce cam has been joined by a plate of tofu.
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🔴 BREAKING: The BBC has decided NOT to broadcast an episode of Sir David Attenborough's new series over fears of a 'rightwing backlash'. @horton_official reports an episode of Wild Isles focusing on the losses of nature in the UK will not be shown on BBC One.
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Caroline Henry, the Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Nottinghamshire, has been banned from driving after breaking the speed limit 5 times within a 12 week period. this comes after she pledged to crack down on speeding. .
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🌹 @Keir_Starmer calls for an immediate general election in wake of Truss resignation. "The British people deserve so much better than this revolving door of chaos".
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#BREAKING Labour members at conference have approved a motion backing changing the UK's voting system to proportional representation.
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🍸 A Labour MP has claimed that there is a "whisper list" of 40 MPs from which people are warned never to accept a drink from, or be alone with. Charlotte Nicols, the MP for Warrington North, said when she joined Parliament, she was sat down and told of the list.
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Britain's longest serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, served for 20 years, 314 days. That means he served for 173 Trusses.
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🙅 LGB Alliance made "false and misleading" claims, the Fundraising Regulator has ruled. The charity had - falsely - claimed that it was the UK's only registered charity set up to protect and promote the rights of those of lesbian, gay and bisexual orientation.
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🎓 Students are - on average - left with just 25% of their maintenance loans after paying rent in halls, new analysis has shown. The average rent in student halls of residence now consumes 75% of the maximum available student loan.
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🗺 The latest proposals for new constituency boundaries would mean Keir Starmer's home would no longer be in his own constituency. A Labour insider told @thetimes it doesn't matter because Starmer is planning on living in Downing Street after the next election anyway.
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🚫 Andy Street, the West Midlands Mayor, has turned down a £16,000 pay rise as it would be "wrong" to accept it when "so many people are facing challenges in their personal finances.". Street remains on the same £79,000 salary he has got since 2017.
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NEW: Tesco has raised the price of its meal deals to £3.40 for Tesco clubcard members, and to £3.90 for people who do not have one. This comes after the supermarket giant raised meal deal prices to £3.50 for non clubcard customers back in February.
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WATCH: @Keir_Starmer tells Just Stop Oil protestors to "get up" and "go home" - stressing "I'm opposed to what you're doing, it's not the way to deal with the climate crisis.".
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⚫ The Conservative Party is facing a £25 million black hole, amid a major slump in donations, @alexwickham has learnt. At one point, party funds got so low that the party's main bank account went into its overdraft to pay its staff wage bill.
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👨⚕️ Number 10 published an image - on their official Flickr account - of Rishi Sunak greeting nurses at a hospital today. The problem? The image contained a clear and unredacted view of a patient's medical records inc name, address, DOB etc. The image has since been pulled.
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📺 Liz Truss says she's concerned about the "disproportionate number of women" who end up "in prison for non-payment" of TV licences. ❌ The issue is. nobody is in prison for not paying the licence fee
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#NEW MPs have approved an amendment by Labour MP @stellacreasy to the Public Order Bill that would establish 'buffer zones' around abortion clinics and hospitals. Ayes: 297.Noes: 110.
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#BREAKING China has abstained in a vote at the UN Security Council to condemn Russia. This is a significant development.
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WATCH: King Charles holds his first weekly audience with PM Liz Truss. PM: Your Majesty, great to see you again.King: So you've come back again.PM: Well it's a great pleasure.King: Dear oh dear. Anyway.
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🌹 NEW: Labour are demanding that Suella Braverman be sacked as home secretary, citing the fact documents leaked by her could have enabled "de facto insider trading.". It is now understood that the document leaked by Braverman concerned the creation of a 'growth visa'.
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🇪🇺 The government is considering a Swiss-style relationship with the European Union, according to the Sunday Times. Whilst not a member of the EU, Switzerland enjoys access to the European single market. The move would require payments to the EU budget.
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🚨🏴 BREAKING: Supreme Court unanimously says NO to #IndyRef2. The Supreme Court has ruled that Scotland CANNOT hold an independence referendum without permission from the UK government.
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BREAKING: Labour will introduce a vote of no confidence if Boris Johnson attempts to "cling on" until the autumn, @Keir_Starmer says.
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#BREAKING Labour is on course for a healthy majority, according to the latest MRP polling by Savanta ComRes for @LabourList. 🌹 Labour 353.🌳 Conservative 211.🟨 SNP 48.🔶 Lib Dem 15.🏴 Plaid 3.🟢 Green 1.⚪ Independent 0.🔵 Alba 0. == Labour majority of 56 ==.
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NEW: Veteran Conservative MP Christopher Chope has called for a general election. He says it's the "only way out" and that the party is "ungovernable".
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🤷♂️ What just happened?. - Govt wins fracking vote with 96 majority. - Tory MPs unsure if it was a confidence vote. - Tory chief whip & deputy reportedly resigned. - Allegations of 'physical manhandling' & 'bullying' in voting lobby. - And all this after Suella Braverman resigned.
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💬 Jake Berry, Conservative Party chairman until he was sacked by Rishi Sunak, has alleged that Suella Braverman committed "multiple breaches" of the ministerial code when Home Secretary under Truss. Braverman also allegedly didn't own up until presented with evidence.
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🐦 NEW: Twitter is now asking dozens of workers it fired to return. Some workers were allegedly laid off "by mistake" with others let go "before management realised that their work and experience may be necessary to build the new features Musk envisions," Bloomberg is reporting.
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💬 The government has officially admitted that "there is no provision" allowing someone to travel to the UK to claim asylum. The admission came in the form of a parliamentary written answer by @RobertJenrick to a question from @timfarron.
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🏴 BREAKING: Scottish parliament passes Gender Recognition Reform Bill by 86 votes to 39. The bill makes it easier for people to change their legal gender by removing the need for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
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Just a little trigger warning for anyone concerned this mornings TLDR video about partygate will contain “left wing sympathising”
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🥚 The protester who threw eggs at King Charles has been banned from carrying eggs in public and from being within 500 metres of the King. The 23-year-old said his bail conditions had been altered so he could go shopping and that he'd been charged with a S.4 public order offence.
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🔴 NEW: Gary Lineker will NOT delete his tweet, comparing the government's migrant plans to Nazi Germany, @janemerrick23 understands. The Match of the Day presenter is also not taking calls from the BBC. This comes after it was reported he would be "spoken to" over the Tweet.
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#BREAKING The four BLM protestors charged with criminal damage for toppling the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol last year have been found NOT guilty by jury decision.
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📸 Boris Johnson has been pictured phoning Tory MPs to get their backing for the leadership race 👇
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WATCH: Rishi Sunak ends his 86-second speech with a slightly awkward stare before walking off stage.
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FACT CHECK."Liz Truss will be able to claim a £115,000 allowance - each year - for the rest of life, in spite of being in office for just 44 days.". VERDICT.Misleading. let's explain👇.
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TODAY: Labour to force parliamentary vote calling on the government to permanently ban fracking. Labour are hoping for a sizeable anti-fracking Tory rebellion. Tory MPs have been told the vote is "a confidence motion in the Government" and is a "100% hard 3 line whip".
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🔇 Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng are no longer on speaking terms, according to @kevin_maguire. Writing in the New Statesman's Commons Confidential column, Maguire says that Kwarteng has stopped relying to Truss's texts and emails. Ouch.
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For context on how this looks internationally, here are the prices (across Europe) for the 6pm-7pm CET auction. i.e. 5pm-6pm UK time. (h/t @knott_richard for the idea)
UK wholesale electricity prices (i.e. the prices charged to utility firms) for tomorrow peaked at £2,585 per MWh. This is 45 times the 2011-2020 average.
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Seems that @politicsforalI might have been taken down so if you want news but with:. - fewer 🚨.- fewer dodgy ads.- less bias.- less clickbait.- more actual news. Then treat yourself to following us!.
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📊 Labour is heading for a "super-landslide" at the next general election, if yesterday's swing at the Chester by-election were replicated nationwide. According to Electoral Calculus, Labour would have 461 seats with the Tories on just 86 (their worst performance since 1900).
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BREAKING: Boris Johnson has pulled out of the Tory leadership contest, according to @Steven_Swinford.
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📊 With 27% of Tory MPs already declaring who they're backing in the leadership contest, here's how things look at 22:25. A reminder that candidates require at least 100 nominations to get on the ballot. 1️⃣ Boris Johnson - 48.2️⃣ Rishi Sunak - 33.3️⃣ Penny Mordaunt - 15.
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NEW: Andrew Tate has reportedly been arrested in Romania on human trafficking charges, according to local reports. Romanian media have said that Tate and his brother will be detained for 24 hours.
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🌹 NEW: Labour are boycotting the Qatar World Cup in protest at the country's criminalisation of homosexuality and deaths of thousands of migrant workers. Talking to the Mail on Sunday, @LucyMPowell confirmed she turned down an invitation to attend.
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#BREAKING Boris Johnson is expected to stand for the Conservative leadership, @Steven_Swinford reports.
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🌹 Labour is considering abolishing the House of Lords as well as handing "sweeping new powers" to local regions and devolved nations, according to a leaked report. A constitutional review by Gordon Brown for the party recommended the significant devolution of economic powers.
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You think Johnson had a tough evening?. These two weren't allowed into see Minions 2 as the Odeon said no more guys wearing suits
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👀 Downing Street has formally denied a FOI request asking for confirmation of visitors to Number 10 on the evening of the 18th of December 2020. that date being the date a Christmas party was allegedly held. on the grounds that the request was 'vexatious'.
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😃 GOOD NEWS: 1,200 scientists have signed the World Climate Declaration announcing that “there is no climate emergency”. That means we can all go back to burning polystyrene in our gardens or whatever. ☹️ BAD NEWS: They're not scientists, and a bunch work/ed in the oil lobby.
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CONFIRMED: Nadhim Zahawi *did* reach a settlement with HMRC while he was Chancellor of the Exchequer. This means - as @TomLarkinSky highlights - he was negotiating a settlement with the tax man "at the same time as he had direct oversight of the tax man.".
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🤴 Prince Andrew thought everything would 'all blow over' and allow him to return to public duties -- before facing a showdown with the King that left him in a "bad shape". Charles made it clear to Andrew that his public life as a royal had ended: "you have to accept this.".
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🔴 BREAKING: Teachers were looking for an "excuse" not to work during the pandemic, according to the former education secretary Gavin Williamson. #TheLockdownFiles
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🚫 The government will finally announced its new law to ban 'conversion therapy', ITV understands. The ban - due to be announced tomorrow - will make it illegal to attempt to change a person's sexuality or gender identity i.e. both gay and trans conversion therapy.
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💢 Liz Truss and Jacob Rees-Mogg are said to be on a "collision course" over plans to ban solar power on around 41% of English land. Both the PM and her environment secretary want a ban. whilst JRM says it would be "unconservative" and that renewables need to be boosted.
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🔵 Jacob Rees-Mogg says he no longer believes Rishi Sunak is a socialist and would be willing to serve in his Cabinet. In the summer leadership election Rees-Mogg called Sunak a socialist and said he would not serve in his Cabinet.
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🚨 BREAKING. The BBC are reporting that someone has thrown petrol bombs into a migrant processing centre in Dover before killing themselves. (More information to follow).
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🚨 #NEW Christian Wakeford, the Tory MP who defected to Labour on Wednesday, has named the individual that threatened him with the cancellation of plans for a new school in his constituency if he voted for an opposition motion on Free School Meals. Mr Gavin Williamson.
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#BREAKING Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been fined for not wearing a seatbelt in a moving car.
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🥬 The Daily Star's editor in chief has confirmed that there are "no plans to eat Lizzy Lettuce as that would be cruel after all she’s done for us.". Responding to allegations of political bias, Jon Clark stressed "we are not anti-Tory or anti-Labour… we are anti-idiot.”
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💥 NEW poll from @RedfieldWilton gives Labour a 36-point lead. "Largest lead for ANY party with ANY polling company since October 1997". 🔴 Lab 56% (+3).🔵 Con 20% (-4).🟠 Lib 11% (-2).🟢 Grn 5% (+2).🟡 SNP 4% (=).🟣 Ref 2% (=).⚪️ Other 1% (-2). Fieldwork 16/10 | Changes vs 13/10.
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💬 Liz Truss's "jenga" lectern has been left abandoned in Number 10, as no one wants it. According to @johnestevens, the govt had hoped the £4,000 lectern would be used by another department or even an embassy -- but there have been no takers.
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🔴 NEW: As of today, the legal marriage age in England and Wales has risen to 18.
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🏆 Rishi Sunak has reached his 50th day in office, meaning he overtakes Liz Truss who remains the UK's shortest-serving prime minister.
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