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"We remain stuck in the John Lennon response to terrorism. They blow us up, we sing Imagine" -
@DouglasKMurray
#bbcsp
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“Has he betrayed his country?” asks
@afneil
after claim from defence secretary about the Labour leader
"Jeremy Corbyn, I think, is a grave danger to this country because of the ideas in which he believes and what that would mean..."
@SteveBakerHW
#bbcdp
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"You're seeing effectively police being given political instructions to beat people up in a democratic referendum"
@AndrewRosindell
#bbcdp
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"Are you implying Conservatives, & people who support Con govt, are consciously cruel?"
@Jo_Coburn
Ken Loach: "I know what they have done"
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“We are in the middle of Watergate-on-steroids” says
@LouiseMensch
debating US politics with
@zoesqwilliams
and
@MrHarryCole
#bbcdp
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"We don't want to listen to what the extremists say, we don't want to believe they mean what they say"
@DouglasKMurray
tells
@afneil
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"You hate us for the rights that we have"
@OwenJones84
"He is being deliberately insulting"
@SidCordle
@Jo_Coburn
tries to keep order
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Labour MPs Lucy Powell, Ruth Cadbury and Stephen Kinnock, who had been calling for Mr Corbyn to resign, as they'll be seen on BBC2 Mon 9pm
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"We want a clean break, not a relationship that can go on for decades"
@Nigel_Farage
tells
@afneil
"Not worth nearly £50bn. No deal is better than a bad deal, and this is a very deal indeed"
#bbcdp
#Brexit
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"We are going to stop Brexit before it happens, and we're going make 29 March a celebration of everyone who has achieved that aim"
@albawhitewolf
with a "demand a vote on the vote on the final deal"
#bbcdp
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“The idea I was part of some conspiracy to prop up the pound,” says
@Nigel_Farage
“the whole thing is too fantastical for anyone to believe.”
#bbcsp
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Jenny Manson of Jewish Voice for Labour defends Jeremy Corbyn over his mural comment and says accusations of anti-Semitism are "under any analysis not true"
#bbcdp
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Marking the last ever Sunday Politics - some highlights from the last six years on air
#bbcsp
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"Not quite true that we trade more with the rest of the world than we do with the EU" Miriam González Durántez countering Lord Lawson claims
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“I will try for a fourth time - what is the British government's negotiating position?" asks
@afneil
“Not for me today to pre-empt a negotiation that has not started”
@GregHands
“I am asking a simple question on behalf of the British voter – what is our side?”
#bbcdp
presenter
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"We have recently had a report on harassment. Let's try to behave properly in these sessions" says the Speaker
He tells MPs: "I could not care less about the press gallery. Huge numbers of people outside this place disapprove of this sort of behaviour.”
#pmqs
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The customs union is a protectionist racket"
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
"It puts up the price of food, of clothing, of footwear. These hit the poorest in our country the most"
#bbcdp
#Brexit
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"The doors were open, I was very polite. I walked in with one cameraman and asked a simple question" says
@TRobinsonNewEra
on
@QuilliamOrg
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“Did the PM, the then home secretary, sign off that decision?”
@jeremycorbyn
asks about landing cards for Windrush immigrants
“The decision to destroy the landing cards was taken in 2009 under a Labour government”
@theresa_may
#pmqs
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“Mr Corbyn accused the government. He said that, since 2010, rough sleeping had doubled. But he was wrong, minister, wasn’t he minister? It has not doubled, it has almost tripled. Why?”
@afneil
to
@MelJStride
#bbcdp
#PMQs
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“He can’t speak to defend himself, I can”
@KatiePrice
tells
@ElizabethGlinka
about the comments towards her son Harvey about his race and disabilities
“I am going to fight as much as I can to get online abuse a criminal offence”
#bbcdp
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“We have been far too tolerant of Islamism" says
@MrTCHarris
"Islamism is a dreadful death-worshipping philosophy which has to be defeated"
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“It is the institution responsible for ensuring our campaigns, our referendums and our elections are legal. Undermining that is an insult to Britain’s democratic processes”
@shahmiruk
on
@ElectoralCommUK
role in fines over referendum spending
#bbcdp
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Speaker to Skinner: “I think he knows the word beginning with 'D' and ending in 'Y' that he inappropriately used”
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"If you didn't know the figure, then you don't know whether it is going up or down"
@afneil
tells
@johnmcdonnellMP
on
#Budget2017
programme
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“No longer anger, they have just lost the plot”
@nadinedorries
on Anna Soubry speech calling it “one of the worst moments that we have ever seen or witnessed in the chamber”
#bbcdp
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"What we saw last night is the government ramming through legislation that takes responsibility of 24 areas back from the Scottish Parliament but remarkably without debate. Not one single Scottish MP was able to speak in that debate"
@IanBlackfordMP
tells
@Jo_Coburn
#bbcdp
#pmqs
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“The far right is on the march across Europe, it does feel emboldened by Donald Trump. And we have seen where that ends in the past. We are not going to stand by and let the far right march across our continent”
@owenjones84
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.
@campbellclaret
accuses Brexiteers as "delusional" - "The vast bulk of British businesses think Brexit is a disaster"
#bbcsp
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"Henry is increasingly in a position where he's got some difficult decisions to make...and he will make them today" - UKIP Chairman Paul Oakden on leader
@_HenryBolton
's future
#bbcsp
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"Lets not get carried away with the left-wing media spin"
@SebGorka
, Deputy Assistant to
@realDonaldTrump
#bbcsp
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"There is no way we would vote for a no deal. That would be catastrophic" -
@Keir_Starmer
tells
#bbcsp
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"I know he is new to this"
@EmilyThornberry
"I ask the questions and he answers them - I am quite happy to swap places with them"
#pmqs
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"If it's a landline its cheaper, I understand, but many people know don't have a landline"
@afneil
"Why are you charging them 55p a min?"
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The question for today is what did grime artist Stormzy call Theresa May at the GQ Men of the Year awards, asks
@jo_coburn
#bbcdp
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"I paid more tax than some companies owned by people he might know quite well" says
@jeremycorbyn
#PMQs
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Is there any clarity on Labour's position on Brexit? Here are all their different positions...
#bbcsp
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“I am technically a Waspi woman myself and I don’t consider myself stupid. But I categorically never got a letter saying any of the 95 changes would apply to me… it’s a big jump and they were not informed”
@Dr_PhilippaW
adding some women could lose £40k-plus of pension
#bbcdp
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"You sound like an apologist for Assad?"
@Jo_Coburn
"I just believe in facts" Seymour Hersh
#bbcdp
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"Incredibly disappointing for anybody who thinks democracy matters" says
@timfarron
claiming PM's
#brexit
speech was a "theft on democracy"
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“If I had somebody saying those things to me in that role, I would be saying: What is it you are getting at here?”
@barrygardiner
“What is it she is getting at when she says that suffragettes were white supremacists?” asks
@afneil
about
@MunroeBergdorf
appointment
#bbcdp
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.
@paulmasonnews
on 'Blairite' coup against Corbyn: "It's they who think he can win"
#bbcdp
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"There's a person on the other side - who said he organised Live Aid. This guy has no credibility at all"
@alexnunns
saying there is "no justification" for continued press coverage of Czechoslovakian spying claims
#bbcdp
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"People love the NHS and we know it is utterly affordable. If it was affordable to bail out the banks in 2008, it is affordable to bail out the health system."
@AnnPettifor
#bbcdp
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"If your only excuse is gross incompetence then you cannot remain in post."
Shadow Home Office Minister
@LouHaigh
calls on the Home Secretary
@AmberRuddHR
to resign
#bbcsp
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Judging by the first few weeks of
#ge2017
campaign, was The Thick of It from
@Aiannucci
possibly closer to fact than fiction?
You decide...
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"No, people have been conned" says
@Anna_Soubry
on referendum claims about money for the NHS, revisited by the foreign secretary
"Surprised and disappointed in Boris for perpetuating these nonsenses" the Conservative MP tells
@Jo_Coburn
#bbcdp
#Brexit
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"Give a moment's thought to whether they would like to be viewed by their constituents shrieking their heads off" Speaker Bercow at
#PMQs
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"Do you think a trans-woman is a woman?”
@Jo_Coburn
"No.. I think women are capable, generally speaking, of having babies and they have female genitalia and they have an XX chromosome, and I think the biological markers are relevant…”
@jordanbpeterson
#bbcdp
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Labour's Dennis Skinner says NHS staff reckon the best period they saw was 1997- 2010 and called on the government to "get weaving"
@theresa_may
said Labour was able to spend more because the Conservatives "left a golden economic legacy"
#PMQs
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Here is the clip of
@johnmcdonnellMP
from 2014 repeating comments about 'lynching' Tory MP Esther McVey
#bbcsp
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Can
@NicolaSturgeon
win a second independence referendum? We ask Professor John Curtice, author of the Scottish Social Attitudes survey
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"A fantastic opportunity for the British people to change the direction of our country - to vote for that change" says
@timfarron
#ge2017
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"Are you in favour of dragging former soldiers in their 70s and their 80s through the courts?"
@afneil
asks
@SteveBarclay
#bbcdp
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“I voted Leave in the first referendum, and I think that what we are seeing now is a totally different proposition to what was on the table in 2015”
@Will_DryOFOC
on calls for another vote on UK/EU relations
#bbcdp
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"We saw number of hate crimes going up"
@lucycthomas
For a year "we have had ludicrous claim....sudden rise in hate crime"
@DanielJHannan
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“British has to build a consensus with our allies and we support the PM in taking multi-lateral action...to ensure we strengthen the chemical weapons convention to ensure that this dreadful appalling act, which we totally condemn, never happens again in our country”
@jeremycorbyn
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"Leave it to us, the grown ups, to negotiate" -
@EmilyThornberry
on Labour negotiating Brexit with the EU
#bbcsp
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"People of all faiths have rejected the vile anti-Semitism that has gone unchallenged in the Labour Party for too long"
@theresa_may
speaking to Barnet councillors
#Election2018
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"I absolutely do not think the Lords can stop it" -
@Andrew_Adonis
tells
#bbcsp
that the people should have the final say on Brexit
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"This is implausible" says
@michaelgove
"Shouting does not make your point any better for you" says
@BarryGardiner
@Jo_Coburn
#bbcdp
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"If the EU has to be held together by fear, then it's a protection racket"
@DanielJHannan
tells
@afneil
#bbcdp
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“So you can’t answer it either”
@afneil
“We have taken nothing off the table”
@RachaelMaskell
"Even by our standards, that was remarkably unproductive " says
@afneil
to both
#bbcdp
guests
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Jacob Rees-Mogg on emergency budget talk: “The chancellor needs to calm down and regrettably stop talking nonsense”
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@NadineDorries
says the "real heroes" are the Conservative MPs, who campaigned for Remain but stood on a manifesto to deliver Brexit. "Some of the rebels could perhaps learn a lesson from their Remain colleagues, who know the right thing to do is to deliver Brexit."
#bbcsp
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Is Labour's position on Brexit now clear?
Here are some clips of what senior figures have said about the single market since the referendum
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“We would force a general election” if there was a bad deal or no deal for the UK, says
@jeremycorbyn
#bbcsp
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“My own very strong belief is that we should put all the options back on the table to enable decent negotiations to carry on”
@Anna_Soubry
#bbcdp
#Brexit
“The EU hold the cards … because we have limited our options”
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Iain Duncan Smith argues that by agreeing to be in 'a' customs union, Britain will "not" be free to trade with other countries and will have to listen to the EU "and we would almost certainly be outvoted endlessly"
#bbcsp
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“90% of the growth, this century, is coming from outside the EU, Britain needs to be where those markets are”
@DanielJHannan
on UK future trade deals
#bbcdp
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Interviewer to interviewee: 10-year-olds Charlotte & Henrietta grill
@afneil
about banning unhealthy food in schools
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“Hard to think of a worse idea”
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
tells
@afneil
about tariff barriers
"A really foolish policy"
#bbcdp
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If Home Office "cannot deal humanely and efficiently" with 50k from Windrush generation, it will “seriously struggle to deal efficiently and humanely” with 3m EU applications
@vincecable
“Making sure this is a problem that will not occur in relation to EU citizens”
@theresa_may
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"If it's a landline it's cheaper, I understand, but many people now don't have a landline"
@afneil
"Why are you charging them 55p a min?"
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“What we are trying to do is present high-quality arguments in favour of Brexit, many of which have not been made, and don’t seem to get into the press, or in some cases the BBC I am afraid” Graham Gudgin of
@briefing4brexit
when asked about need for group of pro-Brexit academics
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The resignation letter of 'Brexit bulldog' David Davis as seen and heard by
@hubabakanda
who voices him on
#DeadRingers
@BBCRadio4
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“How closely do you have to look at that to realise it is anti-Semitic?”
@afneil
asks
@Richardburgon
The presenter told viewers
#bbcdp
had to decide whether to show the image on-air
“I think it clearly is anti-Semitic” says the Labour MP
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"We face the same issue in Scotland. The reason Gaelic shrank so massively was children who went off to school with Gaelic as their first language were mocked, were intimidated, were beaten often by teachers, and we see the same mocking of the Scots language”
@Dr_PhilippaW
#bbcdp
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"People watched people jumping out of windows... they don't recognise the number of 80"
@DavidLammy
on
#GrenfellTower
death toll
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"I have been abused since 2010 online - long before most people even knew who J Corbyn was"
@TulipSiddiq
"because I was a female politician"
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'I don't remember discussing the European Union with Lord Patten when I was eight'
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
hits back
#bbcdp
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"We could collapse the government," says Dominic Grieve.
The Tory Remainer rebel went on to say he "wakes up at 2am in a cold sweat thinking about the problems that we have put on our shoulders".
#bbcsp
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"Trump has incredible power right now and he doesn't have to listen to anybody" says
@piersmorgan
#bbcsp
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Dennis Skinner asks PM for guarantee no Tory MP under investigation be a candidate in 2017, with claims of "most squalid election campaign"
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"I don't think he did mis-speak"
@AyoCaesar
on
@jeremycorbyn
"What he's doing is addressing the fact...country's increasingly debt-burdened"
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“Britain has crossed the most significant political watershed in my lifetime”
@afneil
tells
@AndrewMarr9
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"The Rt Hon gentleman never knew he was quite that popular” the Speaker tells
#pmqs
as he calls
@Ed_Miliband
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“It does not, in my view, deliver Brexit”
@AnneMarieMorris
when
@afneil
asks about backing a deal based on Chequers agreement
#bbcdp
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“Theresa May urging us today to look at page 65. She says there is no change, that is not the way I see it” says
@BBCVickiYoung
#ge2017
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"It's a massive hit on our economy if we leave the single market and customs union. It's a massive hit on peace in Northern Ireland if we leave the customs union"
"These are core Labour values and that's what we're standing up for"
@stellacreasy
tells
#bbcsp
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