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BREAKING: New Communities Secretary Angela Rayner has decided there was an error in the law in the previous government's decision to grant planning permission for the West Cumbria coal mine - and the government won't be defending that decision against legal challenges
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BREAKING: Carlisle Conservative MP John Stevenson (
@John4Carlisle
) says he has submitted a letter of no confidence in Prime Minister
@BorisJohnson
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BREAKING: Conservative MP for Bishop Auckland
@DehennaDavison
announces she will stand down at the next general election
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BREAKING: Labour will have a majority on the new Cumberland Council
This is a remarkable result - all 3 MPs in the area are Conservatives (Carlisle, Copeland, Workington)
2 seats still to be declared
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Conservative MP for Hartlepool Jill Mortimer has said she will be voting for Boris Johnson to continue as Prime Minister
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Keir Starmer says he will hold a meeting with regional mayors on Tuesday, not just from Labour
Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen is the only Conservative mayor left in England - his relationship with the new Labour government is going to be very interesting
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The Prime Minister was challenged by a mum over the government's childcare policy at a nursery in Hartlepool this morning
She told him: "nurseries are struggling" and "it doesn't feel like the system has got the foundations right"
Watch ⬇️
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More backing for
@BorisJohnson
in statements from 2 Teesside Tories
@SimonClarkeMP
: "I absolutely stand by" the PM & "I am very proud to serve in Boris' govt"
@JacobYoungMP
: PM "has apologised unreservedly, has outlined how he will act, & I believe now is the time to move on"
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Holly Blades from
@ProtestNufc
says "the government need to step up" and make sure Newcastle United supporters are treated fairly
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Watch: Gateshead's
@IanMearnsMP
treated the Commons to a timely performance of 'Blaydon Races' this morning
Leader of the House
@Mark_Spencer
says he understood most of it
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Reacting to my interview with Liz Truss...
Scottish Borders SNP MSP Christine Grahame says it's "quite extraordinary for a Prime Minister to allude to the fact that" - if the Supreme Court rules another independence referendum is legal - "she would try to oppose this"
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Labour are continuing to pursue Teesworks concerns at a senior level
The party's deputy leader (and Shadow Levelling Up Secretary)
@AngelaRayner
told me this afternoon why she thinks there should be a National Audit Office investigation...
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Rather than becoming Prime Minister today, the Richmond MP
@RishiSunak
joined a Westminster Hall debate as a backbencher this morning
"I hadn't planned on speaking but ... it turned out I had more time on my hands than I'd anticipated"
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NEW: Labour leader
@Keir_Starmer
responds to criticism over Jamie Driscoll (
@MayorJD
) not being on the party's candidate longlist for North East Mayor
"We're going through a rigorous selection exercise & I make no apologies for saying we want the highest quality candidates"
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Here's a rather practical demonstration of Keir Starmer trying to avoid a *WOBBLE* in Labour's general election campaign - at a school on Teesside this morning
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NEW: Conservative party chairman
@RicHolden
insists "I am bloody loyal to the North East" when I ask him why he isn't standing in any of the 4 local constituencies his North West Durham seat will be split into after the boundary review
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Dehenna Davison is just 29, she was first elected in 2019, recently became a minister and is seen as a rising star of her party. She has a majority of just under 8,000.
This is a big surprise, but she also joins a growing list of Conservative MPs seeing their futures elsewhere
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NEW: Labour’s Chris Cooke has won the election to be Mayor of Middlesbrough
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Keir Starmer has been at a school in Eston on Teesside this morning
Labour are pledging to create an extra 100,000 dental appointments a year for children in England, to introduce supervised toothbrushing for 3 to 5-year-olds & to ban high-caffeine energy drinks for under-16s
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Final results from Cumberland
A quite incredible 'Red Wall' revival for Labour - a week after
@Keir_Starmer
came to campaign in Carlisle & Workington
A mauling for the Conservatives
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Today we asked some people in Consett, County Durham if they know what Labour leader
@Keir_Starmer
stands for
Here are their answers, his reaction - and his hopes of picking up some votes among Darlington's taxi drivers
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Several dozen Newcastle United fans are demonstrating outside parliament. They want transparency from the Premier League over the proposed takeover of the club
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Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen - the sole Conservative - has just posed for a selfie with all the Labour mayors after their meeting with Keir Starmer in Downing Street
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The new government's decision on the Whitehaven mine follows the Supreme Court landmark ruling last month that a council should have considered the climate effects of burning oil from new wells in Surrey, rather than just extracting it
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Ahead of
@WMHDay
tomorrow, Bishop Auckland MP
@DehennaDavison
spoke to me about how she has previously come close to taking her own life
She had already lost her dad then, when she was 20, her nan was diagnosed with cancer and her mental health went into "a really deep spiral"
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Houghton & Sunderland South MP Bridget Phillipson has been appointed as the new Education Secretary, the role she has shadowed since 2021
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Activist group
@oceanrebellion
have dumped a load of dead crabs outside
@DefraGovUK
offices in Westminster. They say recent shellfish deaths in the North East were caused by chemicals due to dredging, not the algal bloom identified by the government investigation
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NEW: Current North of Tyne Mayor Jamie Driscoll (
@MayorJD
) is NOT on the longlist to be the Labour candidate for the new wider North East Mayor role
Labour have been accused of excluding those from left of the party in MP selections - this does immediately look very similar
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MPs on parliament's Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Committee have confirmed they will investigate the deaths of thousands of shellfish on the North East & North Yorkshire coast
A hearing will be held on 25 October
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NEW:
@annaturley
has been selected as Labour’s candidate for Redcar
She was the MP there between 2015 and 2019, losing her seat at the last general election
She beat Thomas Murphy in a vote of local Labour members this evening
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The first tweet in this thread should read: ‘error of law’, rather than ‘error in the law’, but is otherwise correct
It’s not clear if the Supreme Court ruling or change in government has been the biggest factor, but the mine now looks pretty unlikely to go ahead
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In the Commons, Stockton North Labour MP
@ACunninghamMP
uses a point of order to mention FT report that Teesworks annual profits tripled to £54m, but says it's "scandalous" only 10% will go to public purse as 90% of shares were handed over to 2 businessmen...
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Friends of the Earth and South Lakes Action on Climate Change, who brought legal challenges against the mine, say the High Court case is still due to go ahead next week, as the court will need to decide if permission should be quashed
West Cumbria Mining's position not yet clear
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Police are treating this graffiti on a mosque in Thornaby as a hate crime. While we were filming, this local man came along to scrub it off
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I've just had a notification from the NHS Test & Trace app, telling me I've been in contact with someone with coronavirus and need to self-isolate... until midnight tonight. A full 3 hours. Fortunately we've been at home for the last 9 days anyway. Hmm.
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@itvnews
Here’s where you can find the interview I did with Richard Holden in February when he said he was ���bloody loyal to the North East” ⬇️
NEW: Conservative party chairman
@RicHolden
insists "I am bloody loyal to the North East" when I ask him why he isn't standing in any of the 4 local constituencies his North West Durham seat will be split into after the boundary review
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Ben Houchen told me he had a 1-to-1 meeting (as he requested) with Keir Starmer earlier
The Conservative mayor said it was “really positive… hopefully it’s the start of a positive relationship”
He praises new PM: “I get the impression he’s a man on a mission, he’s got energy”
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Business Secretary mixes up mayoral regions with ITV regions
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Dehenna Davison says: "now the time feels right for me to devote more of my attention to life outside politics - mainly to my family, and helping support them as they’ve helped support me"
Full statement here...
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Labour’s Jamie Driscoll says he will deliver ‘a socialist manifesto’ as North of Tyne mayor. His most eye-catching pledge is creating a regional people’s bank. His acceptance speech is straight out of the Corbyn playbook
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Some pro-Palestine protesters are now sitting down to stop the Labour battle bus leaving the Gateshead Quayside
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Middlesbrough Labour MP
@AndyMcDonaldMP
has had "emergency surgery" and "will now undergo a lengthy period of recovery and recuperation"
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Labour leader Keir Starmer & Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves celebrate with new York & North Yorkshire Mayor David Skaith at Northallerton Town FC - in the Prime Minister’s constituency
Starmer calls it an “historic victory” & says people are “fed up” with a “failed” government
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Labour gain Hexham
The constituency has been held by the Conservatives for 100 years and has never been won by Labour before
Transport minister Guy Opperman is beaten, Joe Morris is the new MP
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Stockton North Labour MP
@ACunninghamMP
tells us:
"I simply don't believe the Home Secretary... he definitely said what he said & he owes my constituents an apology"
"I want him to come to Stockton and apologise directly to the people of our borough"
PA are reporting - Home Secretary
@JamesCleverly
apologises for using "unparliamentary language" during PMQs yesterday
A source close to Cleverly says he called
@ACunninghamMP
"a sh*t MP" - but denies he labelled his Stockton North constituency "a sh*thole"
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Conservative Carlisle City Council leader John Mallinson on BBC overnight show says he thinks
@BorisJohnson
should no longer be Prime Minister, people don't trust him to tell the truth. Also criticises George Eustice comments on value brands as "very patronising"
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This was posted two days ago by the Conservative MP whose constituency includes Barnard Castle, where Dominic Cummings is alleged to have visited during lockdown
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What
@PaulKingstonITV
& I saw as broadcast pool at Hexham General Hospital...
PM maskless as he walked up & talked to some staff in atrium/corridor area (see press photos)
Put mask on to enter clinical area (see video)
Had it on when meeting patients etc
Took it off for interview
Boris Johnson slammed for 'parading' around hospital unmasked as he dodges sleaze debate
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Tim Farron probably most distinctive, in delivery at least - personal stories, staccato speech + looking straight down the barrel
#ITVDebate
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Former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell says Jamie Driscoll not being on the longlist to be Labour’s candidate for North East Mayor “demonstrates that factionalism in the party is completely out of control”
This is staggering news. To refuse to allow a serving mayor onto even a selection long list demonstrates that factionalism in the party is completely out of control. Jamie Driscoll
@MayorJD
is widely credited with doing a great job. There can be no other motive for excluding him.
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Labour's
@AndyMcDonaldMP
has called for an investigation into whether Bishop Auckland Conservative MP & Levelling Up Minister
@DehennaDavison
broke the ministerial code
He says she should have recused herself over Teesworks as she received a donation from a shareholder
And here's my letter to the Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case, asking whether he'll investigate the issue 👇 6/6
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Labour gain North Northumberland
It contains most of the old Berwick seat Labour have never won before
Foreign Office minister & former cabinet minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan is beaten
David Smith is the new MP
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South Shields'
@EmmaLewellBuck
is one of very few Labour MPs expected to vote against covid passports later
She told me they are "discriminatory, where they've been put in place elsewhere they clearly don't work", and will hurt businesses
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NEW: Labour confirm Middlesbrough MP
@AndyMcDonaldMP
has had the whip restored
He used the phrase "between the river and the sea" at a pro-Palestine rally
Labour say their "investigation concluded that he had not engaged in conduct that was against the Party’s rulebook"
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I've interviewed
@RishiSunak
today at a nursery in Hartlepool, where he was stood in front of a seasons-of-the-year display
But he wouldn't say which season the general election will be in, repeating that his "working assumption" is it will be in "the second half of the year"
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Hundreds of service personnel, veterans, military families and local people, at Sunderland's Remembrance Parade and Service
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Here's the response from
@BorisJohnson
to question from
@andybell5news
about whether people in the parts of the North East under local restrictions will be allowed to meet those from different households in pub gardens...
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At PMQs, Bishop Auckland MP
@DehennaDavison
mentions the death of her father from a single punch assault & asks for support for
#OnePunchAwarenessWeek
Deputy PM
@DominicRaab
(PM's in USA) says MPs are "very proud" of her work on this issue & he's happy to join her at event after
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We were given very brief interviews with Keir Starmer today on Teesside
He told me: "the government has abandoned levelling up" & Labour "will pick it up with a plan to actually deliver it"
This was before Teesside got a central role at the Conservative manifesto launch event
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The government (
@DCMS
) told us again today: "it is up to the Premier League to come to a conclusion as quickly as possible and with due regard to transparency", and the fan-led review of football governance is ongoing
@premierleague
have again declined to comment
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Scottish Borders MP John Lamont (
@John2Win
) asks PM to support
@DoddieWeir5
campaign for a motor neurone disease virtual research institute
@BorisJohnson
praises "excellent work" of
@MNDoddie5
, says govt are looking at how they significantly boost support for research
#PMQs
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Huge demonstration by striking teaching assistants outside Durham County Hall - well over 1,000 here, protesting against pay cuts
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NEW: the government has agreed with local leaders a new devolution deal that will bring together Northumberland, Newcastle, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Gateshead, Sunderland and County Durham
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Breaking: Labour’s Jamie Driscoll elected as first North of Tyne mayor
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NEW: National Audit Office makes clear it could investigate Teesworks if requested by the government - but it hasn't received such a request (yet)
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I’d estimate around 1,000 people at ‘Stop the coup’ protest in Newcastle, opposing Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament
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NEW: National Audit Office response to calls for it to investigate Teesworks:
"The NAO’s statutory audit remit does not extend to examining the decisions or actions of the Tees Valley Combined Authority or the South Tees Development Corporation..."
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Here’s the reaction from the North of Tyne Mayor Jamie Driscoll at not being on the Labour longlist to be the candidate for North East Mayor
I’ve been barred from standing as North East Mayor by
@UKLabour
. No explanation has been given.
I’m proud to have created thousands of jobs, fought child poverty, built affordable homes and delivered our Green New Deal. I believe in democracy. Share if you do too. More to follow.
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NEW: It’s an A-level success story for the North East. Proportion of top grades (A* and A) has risen to 23% here, while falling in every other part of England. Pass rate (A*-E) has risen slightly here to 98.3%, the highest of any region
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I asked the Prime Minister about what she will do if the Supreme Court rules another Scottish independence referendum is legal
She said: "I'm very clear there shouldn't be another referendum before [a] generation is up"
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Conservative chairman & North West Durham MP
@RicHolden
also refused to confirm that he plans to stand anywhere at the general election, telling me: "I don't know what I'm going to do yet"
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Trudy Harrison - Conservative MP for Copeland, Transport Minister & former Boris Johnson PPS - says she will be supporting the Prime Minister in tonight's confidence vote
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NEW: The government says it will invest up to £20m to upgrade offshore wind manufacturing facilities on Teesside, aiming to create 3,000 jobs
GE Renewable Energy will build a factory at the former Redcar steelworks site, making blades for wind turbines, with 750 jobs promised
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Labour MP for Stockton North
@ACunninghamMP
says constituent Jason Green's wife couldn't travel to be with her father when her mother died or attend either of their funerals, because she was following the law. He says Jason doesn't forgive the Prime Minister & he should resign...
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BREAKING: Ewan Ireland, who was 17 when he murdered solicitor Peter Duncan by stabbing him with a screwdriver after they bumped into one another outside a shopping centre in Newcastle in August, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 15 years
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South Lakes Liberal Democrat MP
@timfarron
says the Prime Minister "habitually" broke covid rules. He says it's "not right to hide behind the suffering of the people of Ukraine" and calls on Conservative MPs to "discover their backbone" and remove the PM
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BREAKING: Conservative Jill Mortimer has won the Hartlepool parliamentary by-election - with a majority of nearly 7,000
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NEW: Paul Crowther given 150 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay £350 compensation, after admitting throwing milkshake over Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage in Newcastle last month
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Teesside Labour MPs
@ACunninghamMP
&
@AndyMcDonaldMP
use Points of Order to raise in the House of Commons a recent report by
@RBullockITV
on
@itvtynetees
about Cleveland having the country’s highest crime rate & call for ministers to do interview / give statement in the House…
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NEW: The government says it will set up "an independent panel of external experts" to "assess the evidence and consider all explanations" for the deaths of thousands of shellfish on the North East & North Yorkshire coastline
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Thelma Walker was the Labour MP for Colne Valley between 2017 and 2019
🚨 BREAKING – CANDIDATES FOR HARTLEPOOL
🟨🟥 This Sunday, NIP Members will select between three potential candidates for the coming By-Election.
Those candidates are:
🟨 James Crow
🟥 John Pendergast
🟨 Thelma Walker
#FreeTheNorth
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A couple of dozen pro-Palestine protesters have arrived outside Labour’s event in Gateshead
They’re chanting things like “Labour party you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide”
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Heated Westminster Hall debate going on over Middlesbrough Development Corporation
Middlesbrough Labour MP
@AndyMcDonaldMP
says govt are ignoring local council vote in setting it up, it's anti-devolution & would mean "dangerous" lack of transparency & accountability
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Bishop Auckland's
@DehennaDavison
follows up at PMQs: "as we are having intense discussions on how to balance the nation's finances, now is not the time for an MPs' pay rise"
@BorisJohnson
says he agrees & encourages IPSA not to proceed
Bishop Auckland MP
@DehennaDavison
leads more than 50 Conservatives opposing a pay rise for MPs
At the Spending Review tomorrow, the Chancellor is expected to announce a pay freeze for most public sector workers
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The final results are still coming in, but it's now clear that Labour can't reach the majority mark on Durham County Council and have lost overall control - for the first time since 1925 apparently
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The final finishers of
#GreatNorthRun
2017 - Matt Hadden & teammates fundraising for
@maggiesne
@itvtynetees
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Carlisle Conservative MP John Stevenson has spoken to
@ITVborder
this afternoon
"Given what has gone on, I think it's time for a change of Prime Minister"
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Here's the moment in parliament earlier when
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
turned his nose up at a Teesside chicken parmo - in response to a question from Redcar's
@JacobYoungMP
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Thank you, I’m delighted
The Outstanding Journalism Award sponsored by
@LNER
goes to
@TomSheldrickITV
from
@itvtynetees
#RTSAwards
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There were "breaches of planning and building control regulations" at the property where Dominic Cummings stayed during lockdown, a council investigation has found. A review will consider whether council tax is owed on the building at his parents' farm near Durham
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Visiting Cardiff, David Ginola makes policy pledge that FIFA should pay tax in country where it holds World Cup
http://t.co/RGTkl2RaYf
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Middlesbrough MP
@AndyMcDonaldMP
says he's "grateful" to have the Labour whip restored, and is "pleased" the investigation found he didn't breach the party's rules
But he says "I bitterly regret the pain and hurt caused" and "I will not use that phrasing again"
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@RicHolden
Conservative chairman
@RicHolden
admits unrest in his party is "frustrating", says some colleagues have not been "constructive" & urges Tory MPs to "remember what unites us"
This was while we were filming cutaway shots, but he was happy his microphone was on - as you can see...
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South Lakes Lib Dem MP
@timfarron
says stamp duty cut (which is still happening) "will add fuel to the fire of a second home ownership & Airbnb disaster" in areas like Lakes & Dales
Chancellor
@Jeremy_Hunt
seems to misunderstand question & mentions concerns OF second home owners
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Teesworks debate in Commons...
Shadow Levelling Up Secretary
@lisanandy
says govt "has chosen to block an independent inquiry" into "some of the most serious allegations I have ever seen in my time in parliament"
"Accountability, scrutiny and democratic control has broken down"
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Houchen says Starmer “offered to help” with securing investment from British Steel & BP, decisions needed on govt support funding
Rachel Reeves said in April Labour would get National Audit Office to investigate Teesworks, Houchen told me “I didn’t get any sign of that” today
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New government is scrapping 'levelling up' phrase
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities is reverting to Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
Minister Jim McMahon says "levelling up was a slogan... but it wasn't felt in communities across the country"
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Prime Minister: economic growth must be “everywhere across the whole country”
“I am not a tribal politician… where regional leaders want to deliver for their area, regardless of the colour of their rosette, my door is open”
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In conference speech, Levelling Up Secretary
@michaelgove
praises Teesworks, despite having commissioned an inquiry (which hasn't reported back yet) into allegations of corruption there
He says: "it's a Conservative mayor
@BenHouchen
who's bringing 4,000 new jobs to Teesworks"
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