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Jun 11
The BBC’s @ChrisMasonBBC on Al Carns’s decision to quit after touring the TV studios this evening: ‘He’s gone from steadying the ship at 7.30 to jumping off it at 8.30’
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Jun 11
While Starmer casts round for a new defence secretary willing to swallow a discredited Defence Investment Plan, a reminder that Darren Jones told Lord Mandelson (in the context of a Cabinet reshuffle) that, 'I also like MoD...'
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Jun 11
Ooft, Healey's parting words to Starmer: 'You have been unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling, to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats...'
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Jun 10
Govt proposing new social media curbs in 'times of crisis'...
Jun 10
Those who use social media to incite violence and disorder are breaking the law.
Next week we will lay in Parliament an update to the Online Safety Act requiring services to take quicker action to remove illegal content circulating during times of crisis.
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Jun 10
Sounds like Starmer will not now campaign in Makerfield despite previously saying he would. He is said to be furious about Burnham's open declaration against him. Time is running out and No 10 now unwilling to say he still wants to go. Probably a great relief to Team Burnham...
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Jun 10
DUP leader Gavin Robinson calls for the closure of the ‘open and porous border’ with the Irish Republic #PMQs
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Jun 10
Starmer stays ‘we are heading into a very difficult situation in Northern Ireland’ in the wake of the Belfast attack #PMQs
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Jun 10
Keir Starmer twice ducks qs about whether he’s considering tax rises to pay for increased defence spending #PMQs
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Home Office confirms that the Belfast attack suspect is a Sudanese national who was granted asylum in 2023 and given leave to remain for five years
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Reminder: Starmer was told in December that the MoD needs £28bn to fund the defence review. Six months - and one war - on and ministers are *still* quibbling about a sum half that size
Jun 9
DIP wrangling continues, with Treasury accused yday of using backlash against Whitehall cuts (to fund defence) to try & squeeze DIP envelope from £15bn to £13.5bn. Final figure still not locked in
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Shabana Mahmood on whether she might launch her own leadership bid: 'The first rule of politics is you have to be able to count. In a poll of party members, I got 1%...'
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Kemi Badenoch says the police response in the Henry Nowak case was ‘rooted in the Equality Act’
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Abimbola Johnson, of the Independent Scrutiny and Oversight Board, that monitors police anti-racism plans, does not dispute claim by Kemi Badenoch that she supports defunding the police, saying it’s right to examine whether they are given ‘too much’ money
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David Lammy tells @SkyNews he phoned JD Vance yesterday to tell him he was 'wrong' and that it was 'not helpful to tweet in this way'
Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.
Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.
It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.
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Jason Groves retweeted
Jun 5
This is what drives people up the wall with Labour:
a) Every Minister, from Starmer down, mouths the platitude "our priority must be Epstein's victims".
b) Mandelson is forced to resign because of his friendship with Epstein
c) Darren Jones sends Mandelson a sycophantic, fawning message AFTER his relationship with Epstein is fully exposed.
d) Darren Jones literally goes on national television and lies about sending that message.
e) Darren Jones lies are finally exposed themselves.
f) Jones "allies" then start roaming around, briefing the media HE is the victim.
g) Jones carries on in post as if nothing has happened
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No 10 says that 'broadly' the PM expects his ministers to tell the truth. But suggests it does not apply in this case as Jones's team are claiming he did not have access to his messages and had misremembered them
In April, Darren Jones denied sending a 'warm message' to Mandelson on the day he was sacked, claiming it was along the lines of 'I don't know what's going on...'
His actual message: 'You’ve been doing such a great job, and you worked wonders with Trump. I’m so sorry about today'
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For reference, the Ministerial Code has this to say about the requirement for honesty: 'Holders of public office should be truthful.'
In April, Darren Jones denied sending a 'warm message' to Mandelson on the day he was sacked, claiming it was along the lines of 'I don't know what's going on...'
His actual message: 'You’ve been doing such a great job, and you worked wonders with Trump. I’m so sorry about today'
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In April, Darren Jones denied sending a 'warm message' to Mandelson on the day he was sacked, claiming it was along the lines of 'I don't know what's going on...'
His actual message: 'You’ve been doing such a great job, and you worked wonders with Trump. I’m so sorry about today'
Jun 4
Missing Mandelson messages from minister Darren Jones revealed bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w2… - this is what he said to us about those ‘warm messages’ a few weeks ago 👇🏼
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Cabinet Office guidance on use of disappearing messages in govt. Seems fairly clear that Starmer’s use has impacted on both record-keeping and transparency…
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On the broader question of disappearing phone messages for politicians around half think Government officials shouldn’t have disappearing messages at all. A further 29% think it’s acceptable for non-government business and 8% think it’s fine for all messages
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