Got up at 0430 in the morning on Wednesday to go to interview the vaccines minister about the boosters and the interview was cancelled. Thought I’d point that out in case you believe this crap in the Mail on Sunday. And the damning video was an ITV exclusive.
Latest register of members’ interests shows the Ashfield MP Lee Anderson will earn 100k for 8 hours a week at GB News. Last year he was reported as saying on Facebook "We are paid handsomely for the job we do and if you need an extra £100,000 a year on top then you should really
Michael Heseltine tells an audience in Nottingham tonight that they should they should never give up trying restore Britain's position in the European corridors of power...and says it's the young generation who will push for a reversal of Brexit.
@politicseastmid
@BBCPolitics
On
@BBCr4today
Ken Clarke says the idea of spending £200m on a new Royal Yacht is “a complete waste of time, simply populist nonsense . We’ve no money for that kind of thing. We do need money for social care…That’s why we need more taxes and some restraint on public spending.
So last Friday evening the Cabinet Office website was updated to say that in Leicester and six other areas people should “avoid travelling in and out … unless it is essential.” And that message only emerges last night. 8,000 went to a football match in Leicester on Sunday.
The
@LibDems
have taken Lee Anderson at his word and tried to deliver 48 thousand of the leaflets to his office in Sutton. No one would take them so they had to take them away again.
@bbcemt
In the Commons fracking debate Rushcliffe MP Ruth Edwards very critical of the front bench.They have "enabled the opposition to force colleagues to choose between voting against 2019 manifesto and losing the whip.. 1/2
Labour leader
@Keir_Starmer
has been meeting care home staff in Nottinghamshire and says the independent inquiry into the coronavirus pandemic must get to the bottom of deaths in care homes as a priority. An inquiry was announced by PM during
#PMQs
@bbcemt
Confirmed.
@NickBoles
has quit “I am not willing to do what would be necessary to restore a reasonable working relationship with a group of people whose values and views are so much at odds with my own” Will continue to take Tory whip “if it is offered to me on acceptable terms”
Having covered the East Midlands for the BBC since the mid 80’s,and lived here most of my life, I’ve decided to hand in my pass and will finish 23rd February. I plan to do other work in the patch like supporting the Child Migrants Trust where I’ve been a trustee for many years👋
Derby North MP
@DerbyChrisW
has arrived at the High Court where his case against
@UKLabour
is about to get underway. He wants his suspension lifted after row over comments about the party’s handling of Antisemitism.
@BBCPolitics
@bbcemt
@BBCDerby
Can a police and crime commissioner keep her job after breaking the law ? Part of her Making Notts Safe plan was tackling speeding.
Nottinghamshire police boss Caroline Henry caught speeding five times
They should look at thefaces of colleagues behind them with fracking in their constituencies and hang their heads in shame…the leadership today has severely tested my trust and the trust of other colleagues and I advice them not to do the same again."2/2
On the
#amberrudd
resignation
@Anna_Soubry
tells
@SkyNewsBreak
it shows it is a complete sham that the PM is trying to get a Brexit deal. Says he is making
@Conservatives
a right wing rump intent on crashing out of EU without a deal.
Former Labour group leader and an Ashfield Councillor colleague both quit the party and join the Conservatives citing Momentum. More on
@bbcemt
at 1330 and
@BBCNottingham
@BBCSunPolEM
Tonight’s breaking news are reports that
#HS2
planned Eastern leg which was to have run from Birmingham through the East Midlands to Leeds has been mothballed with immediate effect.
Michael Gove just said Dominic Cummings didn’t breach the rules. It’s a tactic of repeating it often enough so we think it’s true. I think it’s important that every time something is said which isn’t true we should correct that. He broke the guidance rules at least three times.
A people’s vote on Brexit...not a re run of the referendum...is the only way to get us out of this holy unprecedented mess says
@Anna_Soubry
at
@peoplesvote_hq
presser.
@bbcemt
A PM email has been sent out tonight asking potential backers to join
@Conservatives
saying EU is threatening blockades. It’s fair to say not everyone who has had it is chuffed at the tone ⬇️
1.5m tons of rubble from Nottingham's old Victoria Railway station and StAnns slums had been buried in a valley near Woodborough. The force of
#StormBabet
floodwaters burst a huge gouge in the field sending bit of buildngs buried for 50 years flying back to the surface.
@bbcemt
Government of national unity needed says
@Anna_Soubry
echoing
@NSoames
Says Mogg and his group running the country without a mandate. Country’s interest must be put first she tells
@BBCr4today
Was meant to be interviewing the Vaccines Minister at Westminster today for
@bbcemt
one year on from the first vaccine. But last night her press team pulled the interview insisting she has a departmental meeting she can’t get out of- yet they chose the 0830 interview time. Hmmm.
Labour is expelling Claudia Webbe. Already called on her to quit as Leicester East MP after harassment conviction...she'll be sentenced next month. She will appeal conviction and has 14 days to appeal expulsion. Here's what some thought in her constituency today
@bbcemt
⬇️
Here's Amber Valley Conservative MP
@nigelmills
explaining how untenable the PM's position would be if he was at the No10 party during lockdown in May 2020. More on
@bbcemt
with reaction from the Derbyshire constituency after
#PMQs
Thanks to
@ElectionMapsUK
as new posters make their background debut as
@bbcemt
mark six months of lockdown. Also six months of home office wall and books.
Conservative leader
@LeicsCountyHall
@nrushton
says for the Govt to say the £63m given to councils can fund free school meals is untrue. He says they can't see children go hungry so 12k on
#fsm
will get them in the holidays including Easter even though no funds to help.
@bbcemt
No decision yet on
#leicesterlockdown
apparently meeting in London not starting now to discuss until 1800.
@CityMayorLeic
has no idea on decision and says “what a way to run the country”
@bbcemt
Labour in Leicestershire say suspension not enough for Andrew Bridgen and say he should quit his Westminster seat immediately. They want a by-election
@bbcemt
@politicseastmid
Statement from the Labour group Leaders of Leicestershire County and North West Leicestershire on the suspension of Andrew Bridgen. His behaviour in recent months has been shocking and brought his role into disrepute, in any other job he would be sacked.
Treasury figures analysed by
@EMChamberNews
show East Midlands continues to receive the lowest levels of public funding in England. Bottom or near the bottom per head spending on transport, health, education and economic affairs in last five years. Levelling up?
30 years to the day since we launched
@bbcemt
in Nottingham as a separate news prog from Birmingham based
@bbcmtd
‘You’ll never fill half an hour’ said one sceptic. A handful from the team are left from that first day. Here’s me from an early job in Leicestershire ⬇️
Of almost 1000 asked in
@LilianGreenwood
south Nottingham constituency she says only 7% backed PM Brexit deal and 75% want another vote if MPs can’t agree deal.
#PMQs
Then
@Anna_Soubry
overcomes heckles to say no responsible Tory PM would be so reckless as to leave without deal
In tributes to HM Queen Elizabeth
@JonAshworth
speaks of the hope she gave and the impact her death has had on different faith groups in diverse Leicester. And he ended with this
On the EU election trail again. This time
@zatzi
campaigning in Nottingham for
@brexitparty_uk
One thing in common with
@ForChange_Now
is they both say politics is broken
Henry Richardson who led striking NUM miners in Nottinghamshire during the 84/85 strike has died. He worked at Creswell Colliery for 32 years and was ousted as a union official by the breakaway UDM. He reformed the NUM in Notts.
@bbcemt
@BBCNottingham
One MP unhappy at his constituency being kept in Tier 3 is
@ABridgen
He fears for the hospitality sector and says he 'wishes the scientific evidence on banning hospitality was there rather than just a hunch'
On Midland Mainline electrification remember when Chris Grayling decided to cancel north of Kettering in 2017 he’d been advised bi-mode trains with the required speed and acceleration to deliver the timetable of the route did not exist. Trains. Ferries.
@bbcemt
@BBCSunPolEM
Time to pick through some of the detail of the
#railplan
today. Not quite sure whoever wrote this understands much about our geography (or grammar) “smaller towns such as….Leicester” ???
#leicester
Note to author; Leicester is the eleventh biggest city in England.
Not since peak Labour in 1995 have the Conservatives not been in control in Melton…and Charnwood…and Newark &Sherwood…and South Kesteven. So far only Rushcliffe and Blaby have stayed blue. Straight win from Conservative for Labour in Erewash.
Last night Pulp
@welovepulp
were magnificent in Finsbury Park. Was a bit of a veteran in the crowd when I saw them play same venue in 1998. People singing along at the top of their voice behind us probably not even born then. What fun. 🎶🕺
Change of advice to go to work seems now to be from Wednesday from
@DominicRaab
on Today whereas the PM said tomorrow last night. And workplace guidance to be published tomorrow(?) Which makes you wonder why the announcement was yesterday. Clear?
#coronavirusuk
Here’s our interview with
#andrewbridgen
for
@bbcemt
the first he has given since suspension from Conservative Parliamentary party following an anti vax tweet. Put it to him that he
removed the offending holocaust tweet so he must have known he had gone too far.
Labour pick Keir Morrison to fight Bassetlaw at
#GE2019
He had lost out to
@SallyGimson
before she was ousted on Wednesday. Local Labour Party picketed the regional HQ today to protest saying it was a stitch up to make sure he was selected.
@bbcemt
@BBCPolitics
@BBCSunPolEM
Thursday we had ITN put Melton Mowbray in Lincolnshire... it’s Leicestershire... as is Donington Park which the
@thetimes
moves to Lincolnshire.
#pedant
#facts
Assume this written up from a cosy desk and they found Donington near Spalding on google and thought that’ll be it.
At the end of another week like no other here’s our report on
@Official_MRLP
long serving leader Howling Laud Hope. It’s their Party Conference in Belper this weekend. More emphasis on the Party.
@bbcpolitics
#politics
#UKPolitics
Top camera Paul Hunt & edit John Barbero
Slightly puzzled the lockdown on schools in Leicester to be eased according to Health Secretary statement. They would have broken up last Friday. It’s the summer holidays.
#leicesterlockdown
@bbcemt
First day off for ages. Go ten yards out the house and sitting on a wall where the youth normally congregate is Ken Clarke out campaigning for local elections. “See you down at the shop next week” he says cheerily.
Been told that over half of the Conservative parliamentary party, 174 MPs, have now signed a letter to the PM calling to leave EU without a deal. “Including half the whips office”. It’s a paper letter so we can’t get to see it....
#brexit
@bbcemt
It also means 140 haven’t.
Results in
#LocalElection
overnight in the East Midlands see Conservatives lose NW Leicestershire to NOC (Lab biggest party) with South Kesteven poss heading that way too (Ind dominant there). Labour hold Bassetlaw; and in Bolsover a big Labour win : was NOC in 2019 vote. 🗳️
For anyone in
#Leicester
worried about stories of a localised lockdown “in days” this is
@CityMayorLeic
on
@bbcemt
. It all depends on the data. Important to listen to full clip for context not hype.
You can forget levelling up the East Midlands is being levelled down. That’s the reaction from Business leaders in the East Midlands
@EMChamberNews
to the stopping of HS2. For
@midsengine
Sir John Peace says ‘We are disappointed and disheartened’ 🚅
#hs2
First question at
#pmqs
from
@LilianGreenwood
raises the plight of oldest professional Football Club Notts County, facing extinction. Calls on FA to investigate to secure future of historic club. PM says will hold FA to account.
@bbcemt
@BBCNottingham
@BBCSunPolEM
Listen to this if you doubt the seriousness of this crisis and the need for social distancing. Landlords of pubs who actively encouraged people to pack them last night did not help their communities. The Nolan Show - A&E Consultant
#CoronaCrisisuk
⬇️
Just ahead of the Conservative conference in Manchester and hours after leaving No10 for PM interview now at
@Official_MRLP
annual conference in Belper
Here's our
@bbcemt
@politicseastmid
tribute to Nottingham's
@buspasselvis
who's died at 78. 25 years adding fun to Parliamentary elections. His last stand was Erdington this year. 8 votes. Includes words from his publicist
@avikal55
who knew the rebel artist and poet well.
37 years ago today first official day at the BBC in Cumbria. Still around …though in spare room in East Midlands rather than at St Bees heading to a job at Sellafield.