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‘Kleptocracy’ unit goes after Vladimir Putin’s millions of pounds of personal wealth stashed in London. The National Crime Agency and intelligence services will attempt to identify and freeze assets owned by the Russian president in the UK. Thread 👇🧵.
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🔴 Labour will make it easier for unions to hold votes on strike action by legalising electronic ballots
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🇬🇧🇯🇵 Fish and vegetables grown near the old Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan can be freely sold in Britain after the Food Standards Agency scrapped a rule on radioactivity levels in produce
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Suella Braverman says Islamists are in charge of Britain now.
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Liz Truss has said white working-class children have been “neglected” because the Government has prioritised helping other groups facing discrimination
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54 per cent of British adults think Parliament should be suspended to prevent MPs stopping a no-deal Brexit .
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🇷🇺Vladimir Putin is believed to have stashed millions of pounds of his personal wealth in London, with the UK’s new “kleptocracy” unit set to launch an investigation.
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🔴David Lammy has been found to have breached the MPs’ code of conduct by inadvertently failing to register on time 16 different interests, including a number of commercial radio shows and Black History Month speeches
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A former SNP equalities officer who told how he wanted to “beat the f***” out of gender critical feminists has been convicted of sexually assaulting six young adults
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🔵 Tens of thousands of Tory members will leave the party in anger at being denied a vote on the next leader, Rishi Sunak has been warned
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🏴 Former first minister Humza Yousaf faces a probe into a series of donations the Scottish government made to a Gaza aid agency while members of his family were trapped in the warzone. Read more here ⬇️.
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🔴 EXCLUSIVE: David Lammy is being investigated by Parliament’s Standards Commissioner over alleged breaches of the MPs’ Code of Conduct on declaring financial interests worth more than £27,000 | @CamillaTominey.
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.@Nigel_Farage interview: 'At the end of this campaign the #Brexit Party will be a lot bigger than the Conservatives' .
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🔴 Sue Gray ‘told about Abba party at least four times’ for partygate report. However, evidence into the alleged lockdown gathering provided by civil servants did not appear in her final report ⤵️.
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🏠 Angela Rayner scraps plans to limit social housing applications to long-term British residents.
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🔷 Nigel Farage hails Reform as ‘party of optimism’ in New Year message.
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💰Bill Browder, an Anglo-American financier who has been instrumental in orchestrating sanctions against Putin’s closest associates, told a US Senate hearing in 2017 that Putin’s personal wealth could be as high as $200 billion, making him “the richest man in the world”
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🔴The Telegraph understands that Putin will be subject to an inquiry led by the National Crime Agency (NCA), working alongside the intelligence services. A team will attempt to identify any assets owned by Putin in the UK, including through known associates and oligarchs
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Boris Johnson's chief strategist Dominic Cummings has warned Remainer MPs attempting to block a no-deal Brexit that they do not get to "choose which votes they respect"
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As Britain heads to the polls this morning, we're looking for the very best good boys of the election!. Reply to this tweet with the best #dogsatpollingstations for a chance to get featured in our Twitter moment
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The Guardian will not remove a cartoon which portrayed Priti Patel as a bull, despite her describing the image as racist and offensive.
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📊 Over a third of voters believe Rishi Sunak is responsible for the cost of living crisis and rising inflation, a new poll shows
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🔵 Jeremy Hunt is facing a rebellion from 40 Conservative MPs over £7 billion of government spending on “woke” projects
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The NCA has stressed that the new unit will not only investigate corrupt Russian money in the UK but other countries including Belarus, which has aided and abetted the invasion of Ukraine. Read more here👇.
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🔴 Ursula Von der Leyen has been accused of contributing to a “climate disaster” after using private jets on more than half of her overseas missions, including short hops to London and Paris. Read more:
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🗣️ Nigel Farage is a “pub bore” with simplistic answers to complex problems, said Ben Wallace after the Reform UK leader suggested the West provoked Russia into invading Ukraine
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The leaked paper is the first evidence that Germany may be preparing to let Britain walk away with No Deal rather than back down to Boris Johnson’s demand to drop the Irish backstop.
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🔴 Sadiq Khan is facing an official investigation into his conduct after he announced the opening date of the new Crossrail commuter line a day before the local elections
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"Our Prime Minister's only crime – as far as millions of us are concerned – is to try and implement the will of the people," writes @allisonpearson .
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🚨BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer is being investigated by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over potential breaches of earnings and gifts rules.
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Just a reminder for @jeremycorbyn of all the times he’s called for an election this year 💁♀️
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'In any other circumstances, it would be called out for what it is: racist, misogynist and with a nasty pinch of snobbery thrown in' | @allisonpearson
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🗣️The source said: “There are people working on it now. That is what the ‘kleptocracy’ team will be spending its time on. The unit will be tracking down Putin’s money and that of his acolytes”.
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🔴Nigel Farage has said that the Conservative Party deserves to be "wiped out" after net migration to the UK hit a new record high of 504,000. Follow all the latest updates on our politics liveblog here ⬇️.
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"To a remarkable degree, Boris and the country are now at one" | writes Charles Moore
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If the EU rejects Boris’s offer, it’s full steam ahead for a no-deal Brexit | @FraserNelson .
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As a special Christmas treat for the loyal listeners of @brexitbroadcast, the Attorney General @Geoffrey_Cox performed a festive reading of Twas the night before Christmas for @christopherhope in the Red Lion Pub. Click here for the full episode:
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🔵 Suella Braverman: No migrants who cross Channel will be able to claim asylum in the UK. Thread 🧵⬇️.
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Jon Snow did not do Channel 4 “any favours” when he “shouted obscenities about the Tory Party”, Nadine Dorries said on Thursday
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🗣️ Angela Rayner has revealed she refuses to allow Hansard to correct her grammar in Parliament in order to stay true to her working-class roots
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"People who depend for their sense of moral superiority on branding others racists need to grasp the seriousness and impact of what they so casually allege" - @LozzaFox
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🔵 ‘I can’t believe my house is being raided . by Boris Johnson’. Footage shows Prime Minister standing in doorway, wearing a police stab vest, after joining Met Police raid in Lewisham. Thread 👇🧵.
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Boris Johnson has suggested that Manchester has not been placed into Tier 3 because local authorities have refused.
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🔵 Jacob Rees-Mogg has led calls from Conservative MPs to abolish the BBC licence fee in the wake of the decision to reinstate Gary Lineker
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🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson facing second ‘partygate’ fine over aide’s leaving event.
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Boris Johnson has called on the chief executive of NatWest to resign if she is found to have leaked details about Nigel Farage’s bank account to the BBC
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🗣️Steve Baker MP: ‘I’m sick of the Cabinet sitting there fat, dumb and happy’. The former Brexit minister has no time for ‘self-interested sycophancy’ and wants instead to focus on championing more libertarian ideals🧵👇.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg is the leader Britain needs to stand up to the EU like none has dared since Thatcher, writes @Nigel_Farage .
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'The most lamentable aspect of Theresa May's latest outburst is her failure to acknowledge the disastrous state of affairs she handed on to Mr Johnson' | Writes @oflynnsocial
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.@Nigel_Farage returns: 'Our #Brexit Party candidates will be household names from all walks of life' .
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This is the EIGHTH Labour MP urging people not to vote for Labour.
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Boris Johnson takes second foreign holiday in a fortnight. It comes amid claims Prime Minister is 'missing in action' and presiding over 'zombie government' during mounting cost-of-living crisis. 🧵⬇️.
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🗣️ “I hope I annoy them, that would be my delight, if I’m annoying the Left”. @SuellaBraverman joined @christopherhope for a live @ChoppersPodcast at the Conservative Party conference today. See more here:.
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🔴NEW: The Government has asked the Metropolitan Police for assurances that it will not publish 300 photographs from its investigation into Downing Street parties
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🔵 A majority of Tory voters now think the party made the wrong decision by forcing Boris Johnson out, a poll for The Telegraph has found.
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Tories face election wipe out as party on course to lose 60 seats and hand Corbyn keys to No. 10
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🔵 Tory members are furious about the loss of Boris Johnson, the party’s former chairman has said
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🔴A barrister advising Sue Gray on the "partygate" report has deleted a social media account after it emerged he had posted a string of anti-government messages
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🗣️ 'The new Prime Minister even left Keir Starmer flummoxed - and Angela Rayner looking like she’d swallowed a wasp' | Writes @Madz_Grant
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🖋️ "Tory successes are being binned for no more reason than political ideology," writes Daniel Hannan. Read more here ⬇️.
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Varadkar can blame Britain all he likes – but he is the real threat to peace | Nick Timothy .
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"Ruth Davidson proved she possesses something her opposite number never will – class"
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Nicola Sturgeon was only able to hand NHS workers a minimum four per cent pay rise in Scotland thanks to the billions of pounds she has been given by the UK Treasury during the pandemic, the Tories have said
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“I’m as likely to support Jeremy Corbyn as I am to support Enoch Powell”. Jewish Labour activists talk about why they no longer feel welcome in the party .
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"The Brexit Party stands for a clean break Brexit. But it is about much more besides," writes @Nigel_Farage .
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✍️ We want a vote to keep Boris Johnson as PM, demand Tory members. More than 2,000 sign petition calling for premier to be added to leadership ballot, so members can have a say on if he should carry on. 🧵 #thread.
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🗣 'Jeremy Hunt’s attack on the middle classes could be the death of the Conservative Party' | Writes @allisonpearson . Read more here 👇
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📸 Pictured: Boris Johnson arrives back in the UK.
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"The shadow business secretary, who looks like the love child of the Roswell alien and Mrs Merton, just confirmed that she is running to succeed Jeremy Corbyn" Writes @allisonpearson
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🔴 Bridget Phillipson will face legal action over her decision to pause new free speech laws designed to protect academics from cancel culture .
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📸 Jacob Rees-Mogg, with his child Sixtus, casts his vote for the #GeneralElection2024 at his local Polling Station in West Harptree, Somerset
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✍️"If Conservative MPs confuse a leftist clamour to oust Boris Johnson with the settled view of those likely to consider voting Tory in 2024, then they will deserve every misfortune coming their way" | Writes @oflynnsocial Patrick O'Flynn.
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Nigel Farage is the Brexit Icarus. Here's how he can see us fly out of the EU to freedom | Hunter DuBose .
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Forget Theresa May's deal and leave on WTO terms, a dozen ex-Conservative ministers urge MPs.
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Boris Johnson was given a standing ovation after he made his first appearance on the American corporate speaking circuit
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Scotland's deficit is the equivalent of more than half the entire UK's thanks to public spending being £1,600 higher per person.
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Nigel Farage's #Brexit Party becomes fastest growing party in modern British political history.
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Dominic Cummings tweeted an intriguing picture of the Government's pandemic planning, showing that officials and ministers asked themselves: “Who do we not save?” as they confronted the first wave of Covid .
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🔵 A senior member of the voluntary Conservative party has defected to the Right-wing fringe party Reform UK, amid signs of frustration with the direction of Rishi Sunak's leadership
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🔴 Rishi Sunak is planning to cut defence spending in real terms in the coming years in an apparent breach of the Conservative election manifesto
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🏴 Humza Yousaf has been reported to Britain’s statistics watchdog for allegedly making “grossly misleading” claims about the health benefits of minimum alcohol pricing
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🌹 @sam_carling_ has been elected as the new Labour MP for North West Cambridgeshire, with a margin of victory of less than 100 votes over long-serving Conservative Shailesh Vara. Mr Carling becomes Britain’s youngest MP at 22 years and 85 days old
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Emmanuel Macron will warn Theresa May that Britain will never have a say over trade negotiations if it joins a customs union with the EU at tonight’s summit in Brussels.
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John Bercow says he will stop Boris Johnson from closing Parliament to secure Brexit | @christopherhope & @CamillaTominey.
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🔴 Labour is facing its own “booze row” after Conservative figures pointed out that Sir Keir Starmer had been pictured drinking a beer when the country was still under Covid restrictions.
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"In 1970, the number of fisherman in the UK was around 21,000; today it’s about 12,000. Our European membership was unquestionably a factor."
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🗣️'I made clear the scale of change urgently required. I am not satisfied with the Commissioner’s response'. Watch Sadiq Khan's full statement on Dame Cressida Dick's resignation 👇.
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Sue Gray was told by at least four officials that they heard Abba music playing in Boris and Carrie Johnson’s Downing Street flat, it was claimed. 👉 The aides said that they gave evidence to Ms Gray, who did not include the allegations from her final report published last week.
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United States presents Britain with fresh intelligence on Huawei risks in last-ditch attempt to block deal .
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'There's a lot wrong with being woke.'. @LozzaFox predicts that the culture wars will stoke more division than Brexit – and explains how his Reclaim party is planning to fight
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Liz Truss has ordered ministers to reduce the number of government agencies as part of a cost-cutting exercise designed to tackle the budget deficit
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💷 Labour receives biggest-ever female donation as Lord Sainsbury’s daughter gives £1m
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"By the time we got to the 1922 Committee meeting that evening it was the usual festival of bombast and orgy of adulation. 🗣️"It took me about 90 seconds to realise he wasn’t really remorseful”
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"First ministers have resigned for less before now"
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Every region of England and Wales happy to leave the EU without a deal - except London #Brexit .
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Tories tear up convention with plan to contest John Bercow's seat in general election | @owenjbennett .
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