Jim Pickard 🐋
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Deputy Political Editor, Financial Times: Political Journalism team award 2019 (Corbyn’s Labour) & 2021 (Greensill Capital)
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feels self-indulgent to do this but I've written a new piano piece, not sure what to call it yet, here it is
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it’s a privilege to live in a country where you can do this to the premier with zero repercussions, don’t ever take it for granted
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huge breaking news at BP:
- BP to exit its 20% stake in Russian oil giant Rosneft
- BP chief executive Bernard Looney to resign from board of Rosneft with immediate effect
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your reminder that almost 2,000 people have been prosecuted at Westminster magistrates court for ignoring lockdowns, attending parties and breaking quarantine during this pandemic
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thought I’d share this golden clip while everyone is aimlessly waiting
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Nadhim Zahawi forcing himself into the role of chancellor then using it to destroy the prime minister is proper game of thrones stuff
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your reminder that almost 2,000 people have been prosecuted at Westminster magistrates court for ignoring lockdowns, attending parties and breaking quarantine during this pandemic
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keen to hear why Johnson is holidaying in the Caribbean for two weeks when the Commons is sitting and there are 22 weeks of recess at other times of the year
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this is the guy who should have his own statue in Bristol:
Paul Stephenson, who in 1963 led the Bristol bus boycott
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if you think Keir Starmer quitting would mean Boris Johnson feeling obliged to quit I have a bridge to Ireland to sell you
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now *this* makes you proud to be British
This is how Southport responded.
A group of around 100 members of the community are repairing damage to the local mosque, seen here rebuilding a wall.
St Luke’s Road, last night strewn with rubble and debris, has already been cleared.
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still the best radio moment of our era
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Yvette Cooper:
“Today, Tory MPs voted to make it a criminal offence for Ukrainian families to arrive in the UK without the right papers with a penalty of up to 4 years in prison...when British people have made clear we need to help Ukrainian refugees, this is deeply shameful."
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if Keir Starmer owns a field what else is the man capable of
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Tommy Robinson is endorsing Boris Johnson's Conservatives and former Conservative leader Sir John Major is not
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incredible anyone has to say this but sneering at a working class female Labour MP for going to the opera is not a brilliant look
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it is objectively quite funny that the biggest surge in immigration in British history came *after* Brexit
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good to see Chris Whitty getting a knighthood, this is someone who spent Christmas Day 2020 (and maybe 2021 for all I know) working on the hospital wards
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somewhat awkward timing for Shell to be announcing a quadrupling of annual earnings to $19bn
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meanwhile in covid-free New Zealand, a music festival at the weekend
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interesting stat of the day:
Liz Truss wants to change the law to require 50% of a workforce to vote "yes" in order for a strike to go ahead
Liz Truss just won 47% of support from the Conservative membership to become leader
(57% result on 82.6% turnout)
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they should use this in an advert for going into teaching
Every time this clip pops up I watch it. His face, and the way he automatically takes off his hat.
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one little-known fact is that Mark Drakeford spent the first lockdown living in a hut at the bottom of his garden because his wife and mother-in-law were both shielding in the house
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it’s the public’s fault for not taking enough tests but also for taking too many tests
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the health secretary has announced a testing system for all travellers into the UK around 53 weeks after the pandemic began
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the karaoke machine was provided by Helen MacNamara - director general for propriety and ethics at the time - you couldn't make this up
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Breaking:
new figures from the Electoral Commission released today show the Conservatives accepted another £80,000 from Lubov Chernukhin in the last quarter
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the Conservatives have been in power for 29 years out of the last 42
Boris Johnson to claim new Tory economic model will end ‘decades of drift and dither’ – politics live
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imagine being this precious about being asked to clean your hands
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useful context to suggest Labour’s spending plans might not be quite as extraordinary as some think - via The Times
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essential one-minute Owen Paterson explainer from Ian Hislop
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can’t believe the chancellor did all those tax cuts behind the prime minister’s back
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love this Hilary Mantel explanation of what history actually is
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perhaps people will understand this morning why some footballers have been wanting to make an anti-racism gesture
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Boris Johnson asks Keir Starmer to name a country with a working contact tracing app
Starmer replies that the German version has already had 12 million downloads
#pmqs
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millennials aren’t getting more right-wing as they age: fascinating statistics via
@jburnmurdoch
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what scene in what film always makes you cry?
mine is when the priest in Les Miserables forgives Jean Valjean for stealing his silverware and then gives him some candlesticks for good measure
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Boris Johnson has touchingly praised the two immigrant nurses who stood by his bedside for 48 hours at the height of his illness
here is a reminder of some of Vote Leave’s anti-immigration rhetoric from 2016
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Cambridge Analytica
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to choose UNUSUAL name for baby that UNIFIES the US and UK
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Angela Rayner:
“Liz Truss has even crashed the pork market. Now...that. Is. A. Disgrace.”
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hopefully in future office workers with flu and colds will work from home rather than “bravely” staggering into work and infecting everyone else
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Jonathan Van Tam asked about the behaviour of Dominic Cummings:
“In my opinion the rules are clear and they have always been clear. In my opinion, they are for the benefit of all and in my opinion they apply to all”.
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can’t believe this is happening: crass, insensitive, disproportionate, outrageous
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Keir Starmer:
“Pay rises for City bankers. Pay cuts for district nurses. I didn’t see that in leaflets on Wakefield.”
#pmqs
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Sunak is asked by
@GeorgeWParker
- why 40 out of 45 towns receiving £1bn through new "town deals" happen to have Conservative MPs
- why affluent Richmondshire (his seat) is designated as "priority 1" in the separate Levelling-up Fund while places like Barnsley are priority 2
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removing the whip from Tobias Ellwood and not Chris Pincher is the final reminder of why the last regime was….problematic
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can’t believe Johnson flew all the way back from the Dominican Republic to watch Sunak become leader, now that’s true friendship
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can’t decide if the Star has lost its mind or is having a genius purple patch
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Awkward letter to Times from leading constitutional expert
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not sure this sleaze story is going to disappear as quickly as they hope, expect more of this kind of thing 👇🏻
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if you want to know what a long week it's been, Kwasi Kwarteng was still chancellor 7 days ago
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if Cummings is unhappy about inaccurate stories in the media just wait til he reads that lockdown Spectator piece by Mary Wakefield
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whenever you question your own political analysis there’s always someone worse
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to believe this you have to believe that they were too ill to look after a kid but somehow able to drive nearly 300 miles
@PippaCrerar
Source says his trip was within guidelines as Cummings went to stay with his parents so they could help with childcare while he and his wife were ill - they insist no breach of lockdown
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literally the justice secretary
Raab, "The police don't normally look back and investigate things that have taken place a year ago"
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I better stop making jokes about May in case she ends up as my editor by September.
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- Jacob Rees-Mogg tells Newsnight that he can’t discuss today’s cabinet
- when reminded the PM didn’t tell cabinet about the police investigation he replies “you don’t know anything of the kind”
- except that Downing St spokesman told the entire press about it this morning
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A reminder of some of the senior establishment figures who sat on the campaign committee of Vote Leave, which has just been fined by the Electoral Commission:
Liam Fox
Iain Duncan Smith
Dominic Raab
Michael Gove
Boris Johnson
Steve Baker
Chris Grayling
Priti Patel
Lord Lawson
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there aren’t enough tiny violins in the world for this tragic tale of a man who might have to pay more tax when he sells his (squints at notes) 27 homes
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the story so far:
Pincher
Tractorgate
Owen Paterson
Greensill Capital
Partygate
Mustique
the £800,000 loan
wallpapergate
Lebedev peerage
Warburton
secret hampers
the £150k treehouse
Zahawi tax
Williamson bullying
Imran Ahmad Khan
Raab bullying
Patel bullying
illegal prorogation
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someone has just referred to that new channel as "Wetherspoons TV" and I can't stop thinking about this
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there’s a lingering disquiet about Tory MPs voting last week against an amendment to stop private water companies dumping raw sewage into rivers and coastlines…not sure they’ve gauged the public mood on this
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Apocryphal quote about journalism:
“If someone says it’s raining & another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the window and find out which is true.”
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“‘Defund the BBC’ was last night’s pontification from former Sun editor Kelvin Mackenzie, who once put Diana’s covertly recorded private phone calls on a premium-rate line so readers could ring in and have a listen.”
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Tusk: please do not waste the six-month extension
UK:
the Tory press office has just delivered actual chicken breasts to lobby journalists in a somewhat peculiar move even by the usual standards of political gimmicks
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is it churlish to ask who was home secretary last year
1.4 million people were granted visas here last year.
Asylum approvals at a record high.
Work & student visa numbers, including many dependents, are appalling.
This cannot go on: we don’t have enough homes, GPs or schools to support this level. 1/2
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it really isn’t political point-scoring to look at this graphic and ask what has gone wrong
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not sure the Brexit minister quitting is a sign that Brexit is going swimmingly well
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Quote of the day is Heseltine on Boris:
“A man who waits to see which way the crowd is running and then dashes in front and says ‘follow me’....”
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- Johnson is asked at liaison committee if he's worried that Brexit will cost 4% of GDP (official forecast) but the Australia trade deal will only add 0.08% to GDP
- the prime minister replies that Britain had a very successful vaccine programme
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I’ve found today’s tweet of the day and am now logging off because it can’t be surpassed
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Brexit fast becoming a holiday which half the family didn’t want to go on and now the car is stuck in a traffic jam and mum and dad are arguing over the map
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the rules about gatherings in spring 2020 were pretty clear, which is why my family held a zoom funeral for my grandmother, one of tens of thousands taking place at the time
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this quote from Captain Tom Moore just stopped me in my tracks
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Breaking: the New York attorney general has subpoenaed former US president Donald Trump and his two eldest children in a probe of the family’s business
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Matt Hancock announces that 11,788 retired health workers have returned to the NHS “in its hour of need” - what absolute heroes
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Siri give me an example of “closing the stable doors after the horse has bolted”
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