I see
@AngelaRayner
has deleted her tweet about needing an exit plan before entering a conflict after she realised it was her party that took us in to Afghanistan.
I have a question
@Keir_Starmer
. If any civil servant at Downing St that receives a fine is a paid member of the Labour Party, will you "kick them out"?
Uh Oh - has Keir just created another Elsie, lying at the dispatch box? He cites "Phoenix" unable to fund power for their home dialysis. PM replies asking for the details as NHS funds dialysis costs! Great performance from Boris today - I hope he reports back on "Phoenix".
#PMQs
@lisanandy
You're right Lisa. Boris apologised, rather than insist no rules were broken. Boris respected the met investigation, and Boris hasn't called for Sir Keir to resign now he's under investigation. Boris doesn't use emotional blackmail to deflect.
People complaining about Boris not fixing illegal immigration, and saying they'll vote Reform, while ignoring the fact the borders blll is being held up by Yvette Cooper who only has her seat due to a UKIP split vote! You couldn't make it up...
@Keir_Starmer
Will you also hand over all details relating to any labour MP who was found to have broken the rules in place at the time? That must include yourself, Stephen Kinnock. Richard Burgon, Barry Gardiner and Tahir Ali as a bare minimum.
@RachelReevesMP
The last labour govt saddled nhs with PFI debt, sold our gold, raided pensions, encouraged massive immigration, frittered 3G billions, deregulated the banks and ran a deficit all BEFORE the financial crash. Hardly cause for celebration.
@GaryLineker
This you Gary? Im assuming this was somewhere in the UK, so you didn't have a carbon footprint, what with you caring so much about the environment. How will you be getting to Qatar for the world cup?
@droopy_cock
It's criminal damage, and is illegal. Who pays for the damage is irrelevant. Also, how much energy do you suspect is used in glass manufacture? All that heat / energy - absolute muppetry. I applaud jail terms and lifelong criminal records for anyone engaged in this vandalism.
@EricIdle
Hi Eric. Really confused - you must have a different passport to mine. Which countries are you no longer able to visit with your new passport?
@piersmorgan
By population, we're doing well. Our govt had a plan to flatten the curve, and stay within NHS capacity, which is exactly what we've done. They have supported us economically, are explaining the current situation every day, and taking the scientific advice seriously.
Guy in the audience claims ยฃ150 council tax rebate has to be paid back, which it doesn't. No comment at all, or correction from Fiona Bruce - these are the basics.
#bbcqt
How is it conceivable that a slice of cake deserves a fine, but a beer / curry in identical circumstances doesn't? A stitch up at both ends of the country, both with labour involvement. I've had enough - no more news today.
@AngelaRayner
Firstly, the government isn't the employer. Secondly, the govt bailed out the rail industry at a cost of billions to the taxpayer to keep the railways going during covid. The unions have short memories.
I'm curious. How many postmasters were prosecuted under
@Keir_Starmer
's watch? He seems to be very quiet on this - labour govt in place in 2000 when prosecutions began. Given he claims to have "prosecuted shoplifters" then I'm sure this passed across his desk...
@KayBurley
@Simonhartmp
So, just to recap, there were no MP's. ministers or the PM present. Further the head of ethics who has been fined was previously a PPS under Tessa Jowell, and the parties were in whitehall, not number 10. This is a civil service issue, and measures have been put in place.
@SocialistNHS
You're only striking for one of those things - an award higher than was recommended, and accepted by the govt. How many nurses were made redundant, or furloughed? How many private sector workers get your pension level? I absolutely do not support striking nurses.
@PaulBrandITV
@breeallegretti
Excellent news. This is the one event, while the PM was miles away in Chequers, where the civil service seemed to let themselves down badly. Reminder - this is not ministers, MP's or "the govt". It's the civil service.
@joncraig
So, you're saying MP's are being asked to consider the will of their constituents? No way? I mean, whatever next?! How is that dirty tricks? MP's must, above all, listen to their local associations.
@Femi_Sorry
Very well said by Ms Braverman - she's absolutely correct, and the sooner we accept that there's a problem, the sooner we can move forward to solve it.
@AndyBurnhamGM
Says the mayor of Manchester on ยฃ110k whoโs wife works with the company awarded all the EV charging stations in Manchester. Pretended to get any texts on the steps of town hall lately?
So far, almost 700 council seats have been declared, and Reform have won 0. Not a single one. However, they have cost the conservatives dozens. Never has it been more clear - a vote for reform hands power to Labour, who'll dismantle Brexit as soon as they can get away with it.
@Peston
@BorisJohnson
He'll have 100 before his plane lands. He overwhelmingly won the last VOC, and was ousted by the schemers on the basis of what looks to be a false allegation against Mr Pincher. The membership wanted him on the last ballot, and I suspect he'll win this. Only he can claim mandate.
@piersmorgan
I said weeks ago, without malice as we have often agreed in the past, that you were undermining yourself with your refusal to accept any positives, your technique on GMB of shouting over guests, asking loaded questions, then berating answers you didn't agree with. Its been awful.
@piersmorgan
Also, Piers, anyone who has criticised you has been told to switch you off and go watch something else. Which I guess they're now choosing to do. You've been arrogant, aggressive, self absorbed and determined to pick fault. It's been relentless.
@piersmorgan
Why not blame the individuals Piers? Why do they need constantly telling to stay indoors by govt? If lockdown in London is collapsing, it's not down to Boris. Where's the Mayor? The police? Why aren't you using your platform to remind people of their individual responsibility?
@YvetteCooperMP
@TellMamaUK
Always, always on the wrong side, Ms Cooper. Why not work with Kim Leadbeater to get the Batley school teacher back to work in his community instead?
So, Hertz is selling off 20,000 EV's, including Teslas, with insurers writing them off with minor damage due to huge costs. Who knew?
They'll be replaced with petrol cars instead. EV's are not the answer!
@bbcnickrobinson
Disgraceful that you didn't bother to fact check the Critic article before repeating. The lengths you lot will go to in order to sneer at the govt - just incredible. Where were you with Tahir Ali, Richard Burgon, Stephen Kinnock, Barry Gardiner etc.
@susannareid100
Susanna, your bias is clear. I'm not sure anybody anywhere as accused the PM of "holding gathering". The worst instanced happened when he was at Chequers, and the issue is whether he was present, ie popped in to thank staff at events. JRM is right - we've moved on.
@CarolineLucas
Always on the wrong side of the argument, Caroline. Peaceful protest will go on as always, but police will have powers they need to stop roads being blocked, property being damaged and allow people to get to work. How is that a bad thing?
@Keir_Starmer
Why is this a tory issue? Does everything bad done by any employer automatically fall under govt responsibility? As it happens, your "forensic instincts" are wrong - the employment contacts aren't covered under UK law.
@zarahsultana
Does it mean weโll use more coal, or perhaps just that weโll use less carbon by not shipping it in from other countries, while creating jobs?
@Keir_Starmer
Yes, because you would never flout the rules. Also, you're being deliberately untruthful - nobody has suggested that Mr Johnson was at the alleged party in December, correct? Whether staffers stayed after work is one thing, but that's not Boris "hosting".
@BBCNews
Disgusting
@BBCNews
. What you meant to write was "horse terrified by protesters throwing objects including a bike, and flares, bolts in fear causing its' rider to be seriously injured". There you go - fixed it. And you wonder why thousands are cancelling their licence.
@piersmorgan
You're literally losing your temper shouting, talking over the top and refusing to allow Matt Hancock to answer. This is awful TV, awful interviewing / interrogating / opinionated ranting. His team are people who've worked their asses off - he's not wanting credit for himself.
@IainDale
Ian, I hope after reviewing the footage YOU will do the right thing and retract this. This was a left wing, momentum backed anti vax protest with Piers Corbyn in attendance. They were angry with Starmer for supporting lockdown, abandoning working class and prosecuting Assenge.
@Bibbeth6
It's not a gaffe - the SNP were asked specifically by the UK Govt not to reveal this data in a meeting with Sturgeon, to avoid other countries trying to pay extra and get those supplies. As always, SNP want to look more important, and on this, it was shameful.
@NAJ562
The pearl that hangs in the middle of that crown was worn by Elizabeth I. That's the heritage we have in our country, going back centuries. I feel very proud of events today, and don't begrudge a penny of anything I might have paid towards it.
@andrewmeyerson
We fought for you too. We wore our masks, had our jabs, stayed at home - all to "protect the NHS". And this is the thanks we get? No thanks - no support here.
@paulmasonnews
@lisanandy
Said without a hint of irony. Why is it only mudslinging when itโs coming in your direction. Itโs labour who made such a big issue of Covid rules being broken. You reap what you sow.
@Geetagurumurthy
If that's what you think you did, then you should look again at yourself. "he lied to the queen, he lied etc". There's no "some people might say" - you're absolutely pushing your own opinion as fact.
I must have missed
@AngelaRayner
tweeting about this today! She's normally all over any whiff of a sleaze story. Well, unless it's one rule for them etc....
Labour MP Barry Gardiner received a rap over the knuckles last week from the Standards. Commissioner. Gardiner had failed to register ยฃ30,000 of donations from two trade unions. Staff problems he said. He should have a word with his constituency office manager. Itโs his wife.
@Keir_Starmer
If you remove the whip from Tahir Ali, Stephen Kinnock, Richard Burgon, Barry Gardiner, Nadia Whittome and the other rule breakers, then you can take the moral high ground. Meanwhile, you lied at the despatch box today about the PM's comments on the BBC - so much for honesty!
@AaronBell4NUL
Bitterly disappointing. Now's a time for unity, to focus on the successes that have been delivered & the plan for the success of Britain. As you mention, your constituency has been awarded ยฃ35m of funding, Brexit delivered, a strong economy and winning against Covid. Some thanks.
@KayBurley
You just can't give Boris Johnson credit, can you. He absolutely did not refer to "thanks to pressure from the British people". The PM has led the way on this, and the country is behind Ukraine.
@AngelaRayner
She did neither of those things, but of course, deep down, you know that. Meanwhile, 1st class trains, Ipods, hotel stays while claiming rent - how's that working out for you?
@zarahsultana
Important to note that their profit margin, before tax, is single figures, maybe 5% - they turn over in excess of ยฃ50bn, so while your terrible attempt at smearing profits as "obscene", how much tax do they pay, how many salaries, how much in employer NIC?
@Peston
@WHO
So, when Mr Hancock and the PM were suggesting we had to wait for a while to be able to properly measure deaths, and reflect on the pandemic, perhaps they were actually telling the truth rather than being pilloried by the media constantly.
@Mike_Fabricant
Itโs not โcutting throughโ - we, the membership, detested the disloyalty and betrayal right from the start, but we havenโt been asked yet! It can never be Rishi.
@jessphillips
Absolutely. I remember your show of support for Jacob Rees Mogg and Michael Gove last year when the same happened to them. Solidarity, and all that.
@CatherineWest1
Can you please also give credit to the Government, who got ahead of this, placing orders early, and for various vaccines? It's symptomatic of labour to blame govt for the failures, and praise NHS for the successes. I think some credit where credit's due.
Look at the names on this list. We know at least one person removed from the Jamaica flight went on to murder. Sir Keir Starmer's name is on this letter. He agreed with it's contents. Why aren't more people shouting this from the rooftops today?
#NeverLabour
@ArchRose90
@NickFerrariLBC
Sir Kier Starmer is on that list, example is this letter objecting to foreign criminals being deported!
BEWARE of what and who you vote for
#NeverLabour
@GBNEWS
ยฃ400 million paid to secure her release, and she doesn't agree with her husband that the govt deserves thanks? Wow. I'm sorry for her ordeal at the hands, and instructions of the Iranians, but this is not a good look.
@adilray
Jack Letts (Jihadi Jack) also had his citizenship revoked. A little actual research, rather than pathetically stoking tensions, and you might learn something.
@GaryLineker
You're missing the point Gary. Have you been to Liverpool? That was a city built on slavery, and it's money. Are you suggesting it be torn down? Same with Glasgow. Penny Lane in Liverpool was named after a slave trader. Shall we destroy all copies of the Beatles song?
@darrengrimes_
Everything that's wrong today in our cities especially. No respect for the police, everything is against someone's "human rights", and when it's the police getting attacked, people just film, but when trying to do their jobs, everyone jumps in. Until that is, they're needed!
@SocialM85897394
haha - we'll have our ยฃ16bn deficit with Scotland back then, shall we, along with the Covid funds they're squirrelling away for Indyref?
@AngelaRayner
This is ugly politics. Indian Law prevents dual citizenship, and there's no question that Mrs Sunak pays uk tax on UK earnings, and also tax elsewhere. There's no wrong doing here, and she's his wife, not at MP. Meanwhile, Stephen Kinnock?
@HakunaMatata26C
@gba390
@PaulBrandITV
They're all the same Irene. Pippa Crera blocked me for wondering if she'd soon be getting a knock on the door about the photoshopped tinsel pics.
@EmilyThornberry
That's already been done - an extra 25% levy on UK profits, taking the total tax on UK profits to 65%. What would you do differently, Emily, and how much specifically would it raise. Are you accepting you can only tax UK profits, so the ยฃ170bn figure is a fallacy?
@UKLabour
But didn't you want tougher, more expensive restrictions? Want to give everyone 100% salaries, pay rises for public sector, multiple circuit breakers etc? Can you point out how specifically you would have reduced the impact?
@CarolineLucas
@TheGreenParty
Well done. 1 MP and one council, and once the locals start to feel the "benefit" of green measures preventing planning applications, cause traffic chaos and whatever other nonsense you try to implement, they'll soon regret it.
@RupaHuq
I remember the letter labour MP's wrote to Pritti Patel, commenting to her about how she didn't have the right to comment on her own experience of racism. This is ingrained in labour.
@LHolt99
@willie_rennie
@WaidAcademy
@NicolaSturgeon
@ScotGovFM
Surely that kick to the head is a police matter? People have been killed that way. Are the police involved? Also, what on earth is possessing those kids to literally look the other way and not intervene. Shocking.
@piersmorgan
Nurses have job security, pensions etc. No furlough in the public sector - the private sector has been hammered. We're all grateful to nurses - of course we are, but just as grateful to lorry drivers, shop workers, drivers etc. Most people don't have the luxury of pay rises.
@AngelaRayner
A statesperson like response, as deputy leader of the labour party, to the chancellor announcing $50m of new funding for Ukraine through the EBRD at the G7.
@Keir_Starmer
is this labour policy to "do one" at Ukraine funding?
@PaulBrandITV
Wow - what a misleading tweet, but unsurprising from you. The BYOB event was around 30 people. The invite went to a distribution list, but many weren't in the office. The PM wasn't invited, but saw people in the garden and went to thank them for their efforts, and long hours.
@Digbylj
Yet again, Boris quietly getting on with the job at hand. Now he's confirmed no extension, EU taking notice. Ban on protests is genius on many levels. He said we'd have CV under control in 12 weeks. Now this - he's working through manifesto promises in unprecedented times. Superb
@Keir_Starmer
@SadiqKhan
You can't genuinely be serious? TFL bankrupt, mayoral tax massively increased, crime rocketing, and a smug, contemptible mayor dismissing any questions against him in the committees.
@piersmorgan
@GMB
One things is obvious - your haranguing of your guests, butting in, not letting them answer makes your guests, and your viewers deeply uneasy. Her reaction isn't laughter of the stats, it's a nervous / natural reaction to your interruption. Dr Jones is the shining light of GMB.
@RhonddaBryant
Pincher - the "allegation" that mysteriously vanished without trace or investigation as soon as the PM was ousted? The biggest problem with Boris, for labour, is that he'll beat you!
@trevor8sinclair
I'm only replying here because you switched off replies. You apologised for the timing of your tweet, but not the content, yet YOU are the one with the racism conviction? An utter disgrace, and I hope you never work in sports broadcasting again.
The civil service is not fit for purpose. It undermines the govt at every opportunity, claims bullying when being asked to it's job, and was the main culprit in Downing St "parties". Time for a clear out - it needs to be run like any private sector company, on performance.
We donโt know where 17,000 rejected asylum seekers are, says Home Office deputy ๐คก
"Simon Ridley, a senior civil servant, told MPs he did not know the whereabouts of most of the 17,316 asylum applicants whose cases have been withdrawn in the past year."
Ridley: "In most cases,
@MitchBenn
It was Sir Keir and labour who made any gathering a resigning matter, an issue of "criminality" and chose to politicise people who lost their lives. They are now reaping what they have sown. How is it only mudslinging when it's aimed at labour?
@helen_spirit1
This has been my point ever since the start of covid - you can't hold one man responsible for every decision that was made. He, and his department worked long days and nights trying to manage an unprecedented situation. That so many hold any one individual responsible is awful.
@Rogerra10796892
Absolutely horrific on the streets of London in Broad Daylight. Apparently a phone theft where the victim fought back and 2 others tried to help. What has London become under
@MayorofLondon
.
@thecarolemalone
They've been immense Carole, responding magnificently to an unprecedented, ever evolving crisis. Anyone who thought Boris couldn't be statesman like, or that he had the wrong people around him couldn't be more wrong. Fantastic job by or PM, and government.
@RhonddaBryant
"UK selling it's birthright" coming from the party that brought us years of mass immigration, and, for the record, introduced the golden visas and welcomed the likes of Mr Abramovich with open arms? Desperate stuff.
@Scarborough_GB
Absolute nonsense. She was already arrested and serving a sentence before Boris Johnson said anything, and this was always about the money. Further, this was a debt going back to the 70's - why didn't labour sort it out when they were in power? Sanctions were placed 2002.
@RachelReevesMP
While you continue labelling it a Tory cost of living crisis rather than acknowledging the global, pandemic and war related factors that have actually caused it, nothing else you say can be taken seriously.
@Kevin_Maguire
Some issues, like the deficit labour left, will take a generation to repair. PFI debt, pensions, gold. There are things that it's perfectly reasonable to blame labour for, and the creation of golden visas, welcoming the Abramovich's of the world to London was under a labour watch
@MichelleDewbs
@BorisJohnson
The difference is that there's no suggestion Boris was there, or even aware, but likes of Barry Gardiner, Stephen Kinnock, Tahir Ali, Ian Blackford and Keir Starmer himself were all actually photographed breaking the rules. Perhaps they are the details that need to go to police?
@LukePollard
Since when was the Govt in charge of BBC programming? Here's an idea - pay Gary Lineker a bit less, stop sending dozens of presenters / staff to Glastonbury every year on a massive jolly and look at the organisation itself. The BBC were happy with it's last settlement.
@GNev2
What about the photos of you using your phone while driving? Given the evidence did you own up to the police? If not, is this lying? Should you resign? Be fired? Those in sales type jobs would lose if if they lost their licence.
@benjaminbutter
You must be equally livid with those labour MP's who went to various protest marches around the same time, flouting the same rules then?
@electpoliticsuk
As Iโve said elsewhere, Iโd the privileges committee is leaking information that is damaging to the subject of their inquiry, then surely it canโt be allowed to continue, as it is no longer fair or impartial?