Barry Gardiner MP
@BarryGardiner
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Campaigning for a greener world since 1997 as Minister for Biodiversity, Shadow Secretary for Energy & Climate Change, Director of GLOBE & Climate Parliament
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LEASEHOLD – a documentary exposing the injustices of our feudal housing system
From ground rent and service charges to mould and combustible cladding, my documentary telling the victim’s stories is now available to watch here:
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Extraordinary from
@BBCRadio4
“The last time inflation was this high, Michael Foot was Leader of the Labour Party.”
Eh? Yes, but Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister.
Tories in charge then & Tories in charge now.
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Been social distancing since March. Today I broke it to join the
#BlackLivesMattter
demo outside Parliament and take a knee with thousands of brave young people calling for Justice.
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Just received a courteous phone call from
@Keir_Starmer
standing me down from Shadow Cabinet. I wished him and his new team well.
I will continue to do all I can to serve the party and ensure a Labour victory at the next General Election.
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Just in time for Christmas:
A substantial libel settlement from TalkRADIO & Jeremy Kyle, who falsely accused me of employing a Chinese spy in my office, means a welcome donation to London Community Kitchen who do such amazing work in Brent & Harrow with their foodbank.
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Question. Is this the BBC?
Answer. It’s the BBC Jim, but not as we know it.
Everyone needs to watch this.
A BBC reporter - "...if Boris gets the majority he so deserves"
The Kremlin would be proud of subtle propaganda like this.
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Labour leader does not instantly recall a figure: Headline news.
@theresa_may
manifesto says a child's breakfast costs 6.8pence
No Problem
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I look forward to Dame Cressida’s response as to whether
@metpoliceuk
will investigate the Downing Street Christmas parties and whether the law was broken. Nobody is above the law.
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Just had the weirdest interview with
@maitlis
on
@BBCNewsnight
Surely tonight the real issue was not about election tactics and which party leader had visited more hospitals; it was why a small boy was being treated on a pile of coats on the floor in a hospital corridor?
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If Amber Rudd has gone because of a memo to
@theresa_may
telling her about higher targets for enforced removals, then surely the Prime Minister also knew and should not have allowed parliament to be misled all last week.
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Ben, you should ask yourself why the only people campaigning for a second referendum are the ones who lost the first.
Precious few Leave Voters seem to be clamouring for the right to change their mind!
Labour must try to heal the divide not make it deeper.
I’m afraid Barry Gardiner in defending
#Brexit
whatever the cost on
@BBCr4today
on democratic grounds completely ignores the democratic right of the people to change their minds
#BrexitShambles
#PeoplesVote
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I’ve contacted the police about the incitement to demonstrate at a Hindu temple in my constituency tomorrow. Anyone thinking of demonstrating should stay away and recognise that hate crimes carry jail sentences.
Hindus should not go to “defend” the mandir. That is the police job.
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The difference between
@jeremycorbyn
&
@theresa_may
is he got the audience laughing with him. She got the audience laughing at her
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Let's have some realism about Labour's election results.
WE WON 1,000 SEATS MORE THAN THE TORIES
(1,018 actually)
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“Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake”
Brexit is in crisis. The government is crisis. There is nothing on the twitter feeds of
@UKLabour
,
@jeremycorbyn
,
@Keir_Starmer
,
@EmilyThornberry
, or
@BarryGardiner
in response. My once great party.
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The most interesting comment on the
#MarrShow
was from
@ProfBrianCox
“If you hear a politician say ‘We’re following the science’ then what that means is they don’t really understand what science is.”
Scientists advise
Politicians must decide — not hide behind the scientists.
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Today visited Iona and found the grave of Labour Leader John Smith
“An honest man’s the noblest work of God.”
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The £ sank, the markets fell the chancellor rubbished every economic policy he ever voted for in the past 12 years.
God help the young.
Mortgage rates up.
Energy costs up
Inflation up.
And a record national debt they will still be paying off in 20 years.
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Just had to laugh as Anna Soubry tells Today Program that she & TIG failed to vote for a Customs Union that they previously demanded because it needs to have a close alliance with the single market to be effective...
Isn’t that Labour’s Policy?
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Thank you to all my friends on twitter for all your support in this campaign. Today is the day we've been working for.
Let's get out there!
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"160,000 Tory Party members are going to decide the next Prime Minister and the future of our country. They will have a vote, we don't have a vote. I'm sick of it, I want a General Election to deal with the real issues in our country."
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Say YES to our NHS.
Say NO to the Health and Care Bill.
304,761 people have signed the petition I took to Downing Street this morning to stop our NHS being privatised.
#YourNHSNeedsYou
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BBC election headline says parties are “neck & neck”.
Pity they then had to provide the figures...
Labour 2,350 seats - up 77
Tory 1,332 seats - down 33
Damn facts! Getting in the way of a good story again.
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If she can't debate with this lot...
How is she ever going to be able to negotiate with that lot?
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The astonishing thing is that the Prime Minister with all the cameras flashing away and a corridor full of journalists says “Well actually there are no press here”!
Lying comes as easily as breathing for him it seems.
"There are not enough doctors, there are not enough nurses. The NHS is being destroyed, and now you come here for a press opportunity"
The father of a sick child confronts Boris Johnson on a visit to a London hospital
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1. He thought he was safe to drive 270 miles TO Durham when his wife was sick & he had COVID symptoms.
But when his wife recovered & medical advice said he was fit to work he was NOT confident he could drive back without a “test drive” day trip to Barnard Castle!
Really?
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Just remembering when it was that the last Tory Prime Minister resigned in tears...
Oh yes: the same year as England last reached the semifinals of the World Cup.
Just saying!
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Today at No.10 I presented an “invoice” for the PM’s hospital treatment. Soon we could all be seeing invoices like this.The Health & Care Bill will give commissioning power to big US companies & drive health rationing to force people into Private health care.
#YourNHSNeedsYou
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I always knew Johnson was an incompetent narcissist— what I didn’t realise was that thousands of people would die because of his incompetence.
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Labour opposed the government & won the right for parliament
to see:
Impact assessments
Financial assessments
Legal advice
And to vote on:
Triggering Art. 50
& Meaningful Vote
We defeated the government 4times in last week including holding it in contempt of its own parliament
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10 years of broken promises.
3 different prime ministers.
1 long decade of austerity
Tories are hoping that Britain will fall for it all over again.
It's time for Labour.
#RealChange
#OnYourSide
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Funny that!
I could have sworn that only yesterday you guys were saying renegotiating the deal was ‘unicorn fantasyland’.
@theresa_may
has listened to colleagues and will head to Brussels to push back on the backstop.
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The NEC has an important decision to take on restoring the Labour whip to
@jeremycorbyn
and healing the hurt in our party.
Let’s unite and fight the government not each other.
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Breaking News!
Tory care policy launched with new advertising slogan:
"Tough on old people and
Tough on the causes of old people"
#GE2017
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Could this by any chance be the same British Gas that used Fire and Rehire to bully and sack hundreds of workers only just last year because they couldn’t afford to keep them on?
BREAKING | British Gas owner Centrica profits increase five-fold as energy bills soar
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I made no criticism of
@BethRigby
at all. She asked a perfectly sensible question about health and trade as well.
By contrast, Libby failed to ask a question on the subject of the press conference and I gave her the opportunity to do so.
"Was that an opportune moment to get a dig in about something else?"
@BarryGardiner
hits back at journalists, including Sky's
@BethRigby
, as they press Jeremy Corbyn to comment on criticism over the party's handling of antisemitism.
#GE2019
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Don’t let anyone tell you that Labour has not been willing to work across parliament to get a Brexit deal through. Remember this last September
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790g cornflakes=£2.31
@theresa_may
manifesto child breakfast=6.8p
So: 3/4 of an ounce of cornflakes - no milk.
Where's the media outrage?
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How many lies does a prime minister have to tell before the British public can stand it no longer?
Now on 10.4 million views!
It’s being reported in France & Italy.
@SkyNews
yesterday found time to report on a talking dog & a giant rabbit but had no time to report on the shameless lying of our PM in Parliament
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In 20 years I have never before seen every Tory backbencher refuse to sit behind their front bench but move across the aisle.
Clearly nobody can justify Universal Credit
#PauseAndFix
Sadly not allowed to photograph in chamber
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Proud of my colleague
@DavidLammy
who just showed what MPs are for.
He excoriated the Home Secretary and spoke with power & passion in defence of The Windrush generation of our fellow British citizens.
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It is unbelievable that the Government plans to cut Universal Credit. They have lost control of this virus and people are losing their lives and livelihoods as a result. Will the Government do the right thing and scrap its plans to cut Universal Credit?
#DWPQuestions
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Given the Conservative party’s results tonight, it cannot be right that a new Conservative Leader should not face a general election.
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Media seem very keen (not!)😉to point out that Labour's top tax rate is 10%lower than the 60% rate for 9 years under Mrs Thatcher
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There can be no equivocation. The action of the Israeli government has been brutal and utterly unjustified.
This is not merely a disproportionate use of force. It is a calculated and cynical disregard for human life.
The UN must act.
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Three government MPs have told me in the last 24 hours that they consider the only way through the mess their Prime Minister has landed the country in is a General Election.
Yes — government MPs!
My guess is May 2nd.
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Tiger is Alive and is in London
ટાઇગર ઝિંદા હૈ ઔર લન્ડન મેં હૈ.
टाइगर ज़िंदा है और लंदन में है.
ٹائیگر زندہ ہے اور لندن مے ہے
A pleasure to welcome
@BeingSalmanKhan
to Wembley today.
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Andrew Marr asked me what would happen if Theresa May simply refused to give Parliament the government’s legal advice and was held in contempt of parliament:
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This despairing father just cut through all the phoney photo ops and called out the reality of our NHS after 9 years of Tory (and Tory/Lib) austerity.
Huge respect to you sir, and best wishes for your daughter’s speedy recovery.
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10 years ago I challenged Dow Chemicals to drink a bottle of water from Bhopal where they had gassed, poisoned and abandoned over 500,000 victims. They refused. Just as they still refuse to compensate the 1 in 10 children born deformed today.
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I thought the first photo must be photoshopped, but the second suggests that this really is the massed ranks of Tory activists...
Bless!
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He couldn’t give a straight answer if he stuck a ruler in his mouth!
🚨So from his Downing Street office Boris Johnson refuses to rule out further privatisation of our NHS.
It’s clearer than ever this general election is about ending a decade of Tory cuts & privatisation of health services & saving our NHS from Trump.🚨
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In the MP’s phone call with Health Minister Lord Bethell I was told government had enough laboratory capacity and didn’t need small labs like the one in Brent (capacity 9,600 tests per day). Now we find the government has been sending tests to labs in the US.
Please explain.
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The intransigence of this Prime Minister has shocked the country. The incompetence of this government has shocked the world. Now even her senior MPs are saying the only way through this mess is a General Election.
"If the deal doesn't get through tonight there will have to be a General Election"
Senior Conservative Charles Walker says he cannot see how Theresa May's government can continue in office if it loses tonight's
#BrexitVote
[tap to expand]
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The Foreign Sec repeatedly refuses to correct his mistake to help Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
More concerned to save his face than to save her
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Feel very sorry for
@AmberRuddHR
losing her father.
She should not have had to do tonight's debate in those circumstances.
Respect.
Amber Rudd appears on election debate just 48 hours after her father died
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Another day another institution using fire and rehire. Glasgow University this time, doing it to catering staff and lecturers. It CANNOT be right that someone can be told they're sacked and can only have their job back for £10k less per year. We MUST
#stopfireandrehire
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In other words Labour has forced the government to change its policy and adopt ours.
Abolishing PFI for future projects is a big move and bang on Labour's agenda
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This is the most intellectually dishonest speech by any British Prime Minister in over 50 years.
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Spot on!
The Independent Group has a very clear ideology: maintain a status quo that has seen wealth and power monopolised by a tiny elite.
Watch as they back privatisation, spending cuts and tax breaks for the rich, win zero seats and leave politics for six-figure salaries in the City.
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I think I just heard the Secretary of State agree at the Despatch box that the government is proposing to break international law!
But only a little bit.
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BBC calmly announces that UK government has confirmed that there will after all be some new checks on goods coming into Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK as part of the Brexit deal.”
Don’t they mean
“What the ****!
He lied through his teeth again.”
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Just finished delivering these to all residents in tower blocks in Brent North.
Need to ensure all concerns are listened to & acted upon.
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Today’s NEC decision was a missed opportunity to reunite the whole of the Labour Movement. This photo is the image we should have seen. A party together once more.
Today’s NEC vote and Keir Starmer’s ongoing decision to bar me from sitting as a Labour MP is disappointing.
I am grateful for and humbled by the support I've received, especially from my Islington North constituents.
The struggle for peace, justice and sustainability goes on.
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Just to be clear: I did not talk about “the seven MPs”. I was referring to Luciana Berger. I have absolutely no time for the others at all.
Interesting use of words from Barry Gardiner. The news that Hatton had been readmitted came on the on the day that seven MPs were "forced out" of the Party.
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NHS waiting times are not a problem for this government. They are a strategy.
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Measured, responsible opposition that is rooted in the realities of life.
I've written to Boris Johnson calling for emergency support for people affected by the coronavirus epidemic, including rent deferrals and mortgage holidays, higher statutory sick pay from day one, and income protection for insecure, low-paid and self-employed workers.
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@ProfBrianCox
Sorry Brian
The clue is in the title.
We are The Official OPPOSITION - not the government’s support act or collaborators. They are damaging this country & risking a No Deal Disaster.
Labours Policy would solve both the border & the Tariff issues that are blocking a deal with EU
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Just received a response to my URGENT query on behalf of one of my constituents who is with his Afghan wife and three British children in Afghanistan saying the Home Office will revert “within 20 working days”. I could not be more angry.
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Trouble is Eric, as the Chanel 4 Fact Checker discovered, that bit you highlighted in brackets was added on the website two days AFTER Theresa May had claimed you had already adopted it in full at PMQs this July 2018.
You can pull the wool some of the time...
UK
@Conservatives
adopt
@TheIHRA
definition of
#Antisemitism
in December 2016, when it was the first political party in the World to do so. It’s enforced through the Party’s Ethics Code. No fuss, no amendments just got on with it.
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We have a once-in-a-generation chance to rebuild and transform our country.
It’s time for real change.
We’re ready. Are you with us? 🌹
#GeneralElection2019
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This Thursday we should all clap for the Energy Companies instead of paying them.
Why not? The government thinks it’s good enough for the nurses…
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Labour was founded by Trades Unions to fight in parliament for better conditions for working people.That should be our pride. Labour councils should not be grinding down workers terms and conditions. That should be our shame. Thank you
@UniteSharon
for reminding us of our history
Let me be very clear - the remaining financial support of Labour Party is now under review. Your behaviour and mistreatment of our members will not be accepted. It's time to act like labour, be the party for workers.
#CovBinStrike
@coventrycc
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Any impartial visitor listening to the exchange in Parliament — the aggressive bluster on one side & the measured substantive & forensic questioning on the other — could only believe that it is Jeremy Corbyn who is the PM statesman & Boris Johnson nothing but a rowdy back bencher
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I will applaud any politician who calls out racism. Angus did
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No! You explained that you didn't care nurses have to use food banks - & were ignorant that the national debt is now £750bn higher than 2010
On
#Marr
, I explained why we need strong and stable leadership - to get the right deal for Britain and make it an even better place to live:
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Strange!
@theresa_may
says UK was "on the brink of bankruptcy" in 2010
National debt
then: £979.8bn
now: £1,731.4bn
then: 65%
now: 89%GDP
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Producer just told me they may have to cancel audience Q&A on Victoria Derbyshire this a.m. because no Tory will debate.
New Tory strategy?
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Why did he do that?
Every time the truth surfaces in this election his response seems to be to hide away from it.
Tried to show
@BorisJohnson
the picture of Jack Williment-Barr. The 4-year-old with suspected pneumonia forced to lie on a pile of coats on the floor of a Leeds hospital.
The PM grabbed my phone and put it in his pocket:
@itvcalendar
|
#GE19
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Despite my plane back from the Climate Conference being 4 hours late — I have just managed to cast my nomination for
@RLong_Bailey
&
@DawnButlerBrent
😅
I will be voting for
@AngelaRayner
for Deputy but she kindly agreed I should help get our friend over the magic number of 22!
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Now, one more time everybody. What are we going to do on October the 31st?...
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Labour policies beginning to triumph over vacuous Tory smears.
Politics does not have to be content free!
#GE2017
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Where are all the Prime Minister’s supporters?
The Conservative benches have been deserted.
Extraordinary!!
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The conservative backbenchers have just debased parliamentary debate by their orchestrated barracking of
@jeremycorbyn
who is trying to uphold parliament’s sovereign right to be consulted prior to a government engaging in military action.
Shame on them!
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Waited 14 long years to get a Labour government, so today I cast my vote early!
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I have consistently re-affirmed our conference position - which if you recall Paul was that we should call for a General Election and IF THAT WERE UNSUCCESSFUL nothing should be ruled off the table including a second referendum. Let’s get the priority right General Election 2019.
I'm delighted that Labour's
@BarryGardiner
has confirmed "immediate" no confidence vote next week. I'll be even more delighted when he backs the Labour conference position of a second referendum if that vote is lost...
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So glad you had the radio on for a most engaging
@BBCWestminHour
Next time you might enjoy it more if you try listening as well.
Stop spinning
@BarryGardiner
@BBCWestminHour
young ppl believed
#Labour
wld wipe out student debt & you didn't disabuse them it was a con
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Absolutely. We all stood on the same manifesto that accepted the referendum and said we would work to get a deal — but it must be a deal that benefits the whole of the U.K.
PM’s red lines are pushing U.K. towards a No Deal disaster. We may need a public vote to stop her.
This letter sets out in robust terms that the Prime Minister must abandon her Brexit red lines. It does not take the option of a public vote off the table.
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PLEASE HELP
Have you seen Rashid?
My constituent is missing for more than a week. He is only 14 and this is TOTALLY out of character.
If you know anything please contact 999 quoting 22MIS009512 or call
Crimestoppers on 0800555111
His friends and family miss him & are so worried.
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1/8 Seems the Daily Mail plan a “hit piece” because I met with
@ASLEFunion
back in May😱
I’m proud of my links with all union and business leaders and am happy to answer
@David_Churchill
3 questions
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29 Children dead.
Saudi Arabia leads the attack.
U.K. still sells arms to Saudi Arabia.
Fox says we have “strictest arms controls in the world.”
UN says suspend arms sales where there is a clear risk of violating humanitarian law.
Labour says “There clearly is.
Stop now.”
#Yemen
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