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A campaign van has turned up outside Dominic Cummings’ house in Islington and is playing new clips and a video of Boris thanking the public for their sacrifice
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🚨EXCLUSIVE
Number 10 held two boozy parties the night before the Queen mourned Prince Philip alone.
Staff drank and at points danced until the early hours of the night of April 16.
Hours later, the Queen went to a socially-distanced funeral for Philip.
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I am told that this man having wine and cheese with the PM is Martin Reynolds, Boris Johnson’s Principal Private Secretary.
Mr Reynolds appears to be assisting with the investigation into parties in Downing Street last year. He emailed staff about it on Monday.
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A man who gives his name as Ben has turned up at Dominic Cummings’ house. He says: “I was furloughed, I was at home, I was angry, and I wanted to ask him this question.”
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Just seen Sue Gray in the queue for Pret. Black Americano. No sugar, no messing around. Ruthless.
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Police have just turned up at Dominic Cummings’ house and knocked on the door. No one in.
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We have spoken to eyewitnesses. At a leaving do for a No10 photographer it’s alleged:
🥂Staff partied in the basement of No10, to music DJd by a special adviser.
🥂One broke Wilf Johnson’s swing in the No10 garden.
🥂Another was sent to the Co-op with a suitcase to buy booze.
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Pretty extraordinary article here from Tobias Ellwood, where he argues we should rejoin the single market to ease the cost of living crisis, even if it means accepting EU regs and freedom of movement.
Is anyone else in his party going to back this idea?
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This was the scene in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle the next day.
Prince Philip’s funeral was restricted to 30 people, and the PM declined to attend, to make more space for family.
The Queen did not participate in the service.
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Sam Tarry tells
@BenKentish
that he has just taken phone calls from seven union general secretaries that are "absolutely fuming" about his sacking and are now on a "direct collision course with the Labour Party".
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In mortifying news of the day, I just explained a detailed crime query down the phone to a Met Police press officer, who listened patiently before telling me that she worked for the Met Office and if my query wasn't related to the weather, she wouldn't be able to help.
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At the time Britain was in Step 2 of lockdown easing - which banned indoor gatherings and imposed the rule of six outside.
But the celebrations in No10 meant around 30 people were gathered for what a source declares were definitely parties.
Can No10 claim they were work events?
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Very rare to see this level of tailoring nowadays, even on the wealthy. So let's talk about some of the reasons why it's great. 🧵
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Another event held to mark the departure of James Slack, Mr Johnson’s chief spinner, saw:
🍻 Staff gathered for a speech from Slack, with others dialling in via Zoom.
🍻Booze drunk and attendees spilling into the garden.
🍻Chatting and drinking into the early hours.
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NEW: Understand the Liberal Democrats are going to ask a point of order in the Commons this afternoon about the mystery of the Carrie Johnson story that disappeared from Saturday's edition of the Times.
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BREAK: Durham Police will not be issuing any fixed penalty notices in respect of the Beergate gathering and no further action will be taken.
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NEW: Extinction Rebellion say they have blocked the road to the printing presses of the Mail, Telegraph, Times, Standard to stop them going out tonight
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NEW: Boris Johnson has cancelled a Wakefield by-election campaign visit and Q&A with Northern Tories today.
Sounds like the order came down from the top last night - CCHQ and No10 people are baffled.
Today had been marked out in the No10 grid as "LEADERSHIP".
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This Heathrow feed is the most gripping plane-related live stream since Priti Patel flew back from Kenya to be sacked in 2017
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Penny Mordaunt has had her dress and hat for the coronation custom embroidered with gold ferns -- a nod to the Privy Councillor's uniform.
The colour, by designer Safiyaa, is "Poseidon", a reference to her Portsmouth constituency.
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Rebel ringleaders are telling MPs they have north of 150 votes against the PM ahead of tonight.
That's just 30 shy of the 180 needed to oust him, with just three hours to go...
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NEW: Therese Coffey quietly announced this morning that the government is going to miss its own deadline for setting clean water, air and biodiversity targets.
Embarrassing as they were meant to be done by Oct 31 - in time to be discussed at COP27.
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*You've* had a bad day? Robbie Williams has just released a festive single called "Can't Stop Christmas"
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NEW: All three PPSs on the Privileges Committee have resigned their government jobs to work on the investigation into whether Boris Johnson knowingly misled Parliament.
Laura Farris, Andy Carter and Alberto Costa have resigned.
Now vacancies in FCDO, DWP and the AG’s office.
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EXC: Lord Geidt believes allegations that Boris Johnson tried to appoint his future wife to a plum government job "could be ripe for investigation", Telegraph can reveal.
PM’s former ethics adviser thinks the incident could be a matter for his successor.
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Fair to say that all of this is going down absolutely appallingly among Tory MPs.
A Government source says: "Backbenchers who went back to constituency surgeries at the weekend were being asked by voters how many boys they had touched up this week. The mood is not great."
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Is day three a leaked photobooth shot of Dominic Cummings on Nemesis at Thorpe Park?
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NEW: Matt Hancock is in the cheese and wine photo from the Downing Street garden, Telegraph can reveal.
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The Laurence Fox battle bus just drove past Sadiq Kahn filming a video (seemingly by accident).
Fox stands up and shouts: “Sadiq, I’m taking your house mate”
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🌹Exclusive: Jeremy Corbyn is considering setting up his own political party after accepting he will never be readmitted as a Labour MP.
Figures in Corbyn’s inner circle, including his wife, think he should turn his Peace and Justice Project into a party.
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Incredibly glum on the Tory benches at the moment as they stare down an economic crisis.
Former Cabinet minister: “There is nothing now the party can do. We can't change leader. He won't change policy. We're going to get absolutely annihilated at the election.”
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There is a rumour going around Tory MPs that the party whips have spies near Sir Graham Brady’s office and are watching for people who visit to deliver their letters of no-confidence in Boris Johnson. Some less brave MPs have given their letters to other members to deliver.
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NEW: Government laptops given to schools for students to use at home have come pre-installed with a serious virus that tries to connect them to a Russian server.
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Astonishingly it appears Michelle Donelan's first act as Education Secretary is to join a coup against the man who appointed her less than 24 hours ago
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The Met is in touch with the Cabinet Office after the Reynolds email.
“The Metropolitan Police Service is aware of widespread reporting relating to alleged breaches of the Health Protection Regulations at Downing Street on 20 May 2020 and is in contact with the Cabinet Office.”
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Truss says the opposition politician she most admires is
@RosieDuffield1
because she "stood up for her beliefs" against Labour on trans issues
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The Lib Dems are paying to promote the Daily Mirror story on Shaun Bailey’s party onto the Facebook timelines of voters in North Shropshire
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This is doing the rounds in anti-Truss WhatsApp groups this evening
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This photo is from the blockade in Knowsley, Merseyside, where there is another Newsprinters plant
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Shocked that people yet again are claiming that Oxford is out of touch with the rest of the world and has not got over its aristocratic past. Here is a photo of me yesterday in my exam uniform at this Totally Normal University.
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NEW: The Tory candidate in the Wakefield by-election has said voters should still back the Conservatives because “we still trust GPs” after Harold Shipman killed 250 people.
Nadeem Ahmed says Imran Ahmad Khan was just "one bad apple".
Story:
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good morning especially to this man from Woking, who knew photographers would be taking pictures of the mass testing and has emerged from his house in a clown mask
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In case anyone was interested, Extinction Rebellion are still walking around in fancy dress
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A passing neighbour asked the press pack who they were waiting for, and is informed she lives on the same road as Dominic Cummings.
“Oh, what a shame!”
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EXC: Sir Keir Starmer has a gold-plated pension from his time as Director of Public Prosecutions that is exempt from the lifetime tax-free savings limit he wants to keep in place for everyone else.
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Paul Williams, who was the first Labour candidate to lose in Hartlepool for half a century, is not hanging around:
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Protester at Conservative Party Conference called me scum, so I told I’m a journalist rather than a delegate. Then he called me a twat. Not sure which is better really
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🇦🇫 EXC 🇦🇫
As Pen Farthing escapes Afghanistan with 150 cats and dogs, there are British people still there.
This is Ben Slater, former bodyguard to ambassadors, who has spent 2 weeks helping evacuate people.
Now he thinks he might not get out himself.
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Extinction Rebellion have said they're planning a new wave of protests to cause "maximum nonviolent disruption" at UK oil refineries next month.
Comes amid reports that average energy bills could hit £4,000 this year and concerns about Britain's energy security. 🙃
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Thanking the barman for a pint that costs more than £7 in central London
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Rishi Sunak to give Ofcom the power to take on Netflix for the first time, after an almighty row over the accuracy of the Harry & Meghan documentary.
Told powers to regulate streaming services are in the Media Bill, coming soon…
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Two people have just got married on Westminster bridge, while blockading it. ()
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No10 has released these pictures of Boris being "comforted" by his wife and kids after delivering his resignation statement outside Downing Street.
Pretty unusual for this sort of photo to be released - the PM is usually very private about his family.
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Thanks Full Fact
An image supposedly showing Sir Keir Starmer in a pink hijab and dress is fake, and may have been generated using AI.
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Kind of obsessed with the writeup that the CEO of Go Ape gives his former employers on LinkedIn
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A major Labour donor and Just Stop Oil funder has been urged to repay furlough money his company received during the pandemic.
Dale Vince’s firm received £300k from the taxpayer in the same period he used it to donate £700k to Labour.
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David Starkey has now lost:
- Two university jobs
- His book deal
- Board position at
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He stands to also lose:
- His honours (per
@thetimes
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- Two honorary degrees
If this was meant to be a feisty battle in the marketplace of ideas, he's been absolutely pummelled
Historian Dr David Starkey has been removed from his jobs at two universities after making comments about slavery in which he referred to “damn blacks”
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Lindsay Hoyle has been delivering parcels in Parliament today with his tabby cat Attlee, using a new electric post van
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🚨 Privately, there is a lot of anger from Whitehall about the Farthing evac, while Afghan refugees remain.
One official told me: “This is the first British government explicitly committed to idea of non-white people as equivalent to animals since the abolition of slavery."
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EXC: Support for the Conservatives is collapsing in the Red Wall and “Blue Wall” Lib Dem target seats ahead of the local elections and after partygate, according to a new poll. w/
@DominicPenna
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Any MPs who are worried about this should know it’s now possible to email your letter into Sir Graham rather than delivering it in person. But that doesn’t have quite the same dramatic feel to it, I suppose.
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Ed Davey says: “Never mind a Green Card, it's time to give Rishi Sunak the red card!”
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Exclusive in today’s paper: Labour is planning to send water bosses who preside over the most serious sewage leaks to prison if they win the next election.
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Sir Keir Starmer, speaking to Labour MPs tonight, suggests those who attack NATO should go elsewhere:
"There will be no place in this party for false equivalence between the actions of Russia and the actions of NATO."
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A cursory search of the public records reveals there are 48 women in Britain named Elizabeth Line, whose SEO rankings have been absolutely destroyed by TfL
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Crikey - Boris is planning to put Nadine Dorries in the House of Lords according to
@ShippersUnbound
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Ben, 31, says he works for a record label in London but came here to protest because he was angry.
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XR Glasgow say they have also blocked the entrance to Newsprinters in Motherwell to disrupt the distribution of the Scottish Sun
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David Walters, 78, has been living alone since his wife died two years ago.
He hasn’t left the house for months, but headed to his local when pubs reopened on Monday for a pint.
He was turned away because he doesn’t have a smartphone.
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📰🚨Some personal news📰🚨
Delighted to say I've got a new job as a political correspondent
@Telegraph
.
I'll still be working with the Tel's fantastic team in Westminster (but virtually, for now).
As always, my DMs are extremely open for news and gossip.
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Rob Oxley (left) has just been spotted buying a KeepCup at the party's merchandise stand (yes really) 👀
Did anyone spot this moment at the Conservative Party Conference?
@BorisJohnson
was handed a plastic coffee cup by an aide, before another aide immediately snatched it away.
"No disposable cups", she was heard saying.
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Met Police press office also won’t tell us why they’re there.
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A neighbour has suggested they use their cars to create a roadblock “to stop them coming past Dominic’s”
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But shutters are all down at the Cummings residence - doesn’t look like anyone is at home.
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Not sure making a side-to-side comparison between Keir Starmer and JFK, one of the most popular politicians of all time, is quite the attack CCHQ thinks it is
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Angela Rayner has written to Simon Case demanding that he explain whether he was involved in looking for jobs for Carrie.
The latest in the Carrie CV saga - Rayner says there are “serious questions…about potentially impropriety and conflict of interest”.
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My Dad has dug out the front page of the Daily Mirror on the day he was born, on the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.
“They expected to be welcomed with open arms, for they had been told they were liberating the Czechs…instead they have met nothing but hostility and hatred.”
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NEW Labour calls for Claudia Webbe to resign as an MP
A spokesperson said: “The Labour Party strongly condemns Claudia Webbe’s actions and she should now resign.”
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This year’s first place at Westminster Dog of the Year is awarded to Vivian, Sir David Amess’s French Bulldog
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If I was
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NEW: Tory campaigners are distancing themselves from Boris Johnson and urging voters not to "punish" them for partygate.
The PM has not appeared in the last 113 party Facebook ads, while Tories are rebranding as "Local Conservatives".
w/
@DominicPenna
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Rishi put £30.01 into the car of this lucky Sainsbury's employee, which according to Labour's maths means they got more off him than the average motorist will save in a whole year from the 5p fuel duty cut
Apparently the Kia Rio in this picture was not Sunak's car... Treasury sources claim it is the car of a Sainsbury's employee and the Chancellor paid for the fuel out of his own pocket
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Labour is doing a tour of the lobby with this mock-up postcard from the Tories (and ice lollies)
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Thank you to the Times for their glowing review of this tweet, which I will hang in my downstairs loo
Just seen Sue Gray in the queue for Pret. Black Americano. No sugar, no messing around. Ruthless.
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If there was an election on July 4 and Labour won it, Keir Starmer would have to fly to Washington on day four of his premiership for the NATO Leaders’ Summit on July 9.
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Diane Abbott would like to apologise for accidentally sending an “initial draft” of a letter that accidentally said the complete opposite of what she thinks about racism. Sure…
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Little and large! PM says he thinks the blimp “looks like Hastings in Line of Duty”.
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