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BBC South Political Editor. Chasing politics as it happens from Sussex to Oxford to Dorset…. What's YOUR story?

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5 years
Former immigration minister Caroline Nokes tells me “my constituents mean a whole lot more to me than keeping the Conservative whip”
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The Downing Street Dog has arrived
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A&E consultant on duty at a big London hospital tells me today “the virus is back”
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A Tory candidate has stepped in to keep strike hit SW trains running. Chris Loder the Conservative candidate in Oliver Letwin’s former Dorset seat was a train guard at 18. He took a day off the campaign saying “I am doing all I can to make sure our vital train service continues”
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Hampshire naturalist @ChrisGPackham giving the House of Commons Science Committee a graphic illustration of the value and power of 🐞 insects !
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Arch Brexiteer MP Richard Drax says he feels "utterly ashamed of myself" after supporting the PM today, and losing
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Labour take Poole by 18 votes after 3 recounts
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Boris Johnson should personally apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Richard Ratcliffe’s parents say
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So Dan Snow @thehistoryguy is now apologising after suggesting election law might have been broken because he found a @brexitparty_uk leaflet which he thought had been included in his postal vote envelope but the returning officer says could not have been
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Police have led off Steve the anti-Brexit placard man outside Parliament
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7 years
Oxfordshire Leave voter tells Lib Dem Leader Tim Farron "You are an absolute disgrace!" Watch what happens next...
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Four legs are often better than two, and today for politics as well when Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey visited a care home in Wokingham with therapy dog Fraser
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Former Portsmouth Labour Leader @CalCorkery who was expelled from the party is re-elected as an Independent
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OK, that’s different #LocalElections though normal for #NewForest
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I have no idea how thoroughly Conservative HQ investigated allegations of anti-Semitic statements by Salisbury’s first Muslim Mayor @atiqulhoque76 - but this photoshoot with the PM @RishiSunak and Salisbury MP @JohnGlenUK seems rather rushed…
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Bournemouth MP @Tobias_Ellwood helped injured policeman in Parliament - gave mouth-to-mouth. His brother was killed in Bali terrorist attack
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9 years
Huge problems for UKIP members trying to get to conference - no taxis from Doncaster station because most drivers have the day off for Eid
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9 months
The government lost the vote on compensation for victims of the contaminated blood scandal. Hear the gasps!
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Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Ed Davey has been in Winchester today. I asked him if the thought has entered his head that he may be Leader of the Opposition by Friday
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6 years
Labour jubilant in Portsmouth, vote up substantially after Momentum turned out 4x usual number of campaigners, now winning seats they’ve never won before
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Quite the speech from Labour’s @NeilForPoole pointing out how just ten people changing their minds would have stopped him going to Parliament
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4 years
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been released from prison to parents house for two weeks. Will have to wear ankle tag and stay close to home but family pleased
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Queen of Shops Mary Portas has been campaigning with Labour Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves in Aldershot today. She says cash transactions are still vital for the High street
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7 years
Correspondence proves Surrey MPs thought Government had £40m "hidden under the sofa" to help out their largest UK Tory Party
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3 years
The House of Lords is proving considerably more capable than the Commons at making The Government uncomfortable over it’s treatment of Iran’s imprisonment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Audible comments of “disgraceful” at the end
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3 years
Romsey and Southampton North Conservative MP @carolinenokes is making clear her feelings about #DowningStreetParties in replies to constituents who have contacted her..
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Big LibDem reception crowd for @EdwardJDavey in Winchester
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7 years
New hard tone from EU negotiators is "disappointing, unpleasant and unfriendly" according to @DanielJHannan
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7 years
Lights still on in Parliament tonight, and the boys in blue protecting us. That's important.
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3 years
Former Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt says UK £400m tank debt must be paid to Iran “if necessary by getting an RAF plane to fly gold to Tehran”
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tells me Labour are starting a “Class War” over school fees, but he won’t condemn Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s comments about the failure of multiculturalism
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8 years
Raiding the archives again - this time for Nigel Farage - in Eastleigh 1993 #ukip
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Expelled Portsmouth Labour Leader @calcorkery won by 910 over Labour candidate Raj Ghosh with 780
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8 years
Former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says David Cameron will be "mortified" at what is happening to Conservative Party under Theresa May
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Conservative Dorset Council falls to the Liberal Democrats #LocalElection2024
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Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey has been visiting the Chancellor’s constituency in Surrey - a big LD 🎯 target. He ended up pulling pints in The Star in Witley.
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Ah, spoke too soon. Now @EdwardJDavey is trying paddleboard yoga…
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Labour Leader Keir Starmer is in Southampton - all the talk is about the cost of living
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5 years
Heading for the #brexitday Cake and Eat it Party 🎉 🇬🇧
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3 years
Big turnout from MPs of all parties for #freenazanin Westminster Hall debate
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3 years
Day 19 of Richard Ratcliffe’s hunger strike to #freenazanin and there are some specific objectives for the meeting today between Iran’s Dr Bagheri and @JamesCleverly at the Foreign Office
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Southampton’s traffic has been completely gridlocked all morning and we’ve just found out the reason why… “impromptu checks by Border Force” on all cruise ship passengers according to the city council. Bet some of those passengers miss the sailing.. apart from damaging chaos …
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3 years
That was a BiG bang 💥
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Lib Dem Leader @EdwardJDavey has been having a fun time supporting election candidates in Berkshire - tennis to illustrate their policies on staying healthy, and crazy golf with a comment on the problems of potholes!
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At Aldershot Football club today Sir Keir Starmer tells me he is “the only leader campaigning positively” and has a spring in his step - not tired like #Biden .
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6 years
Superb on board shots from #RedArrows over #3Queens in the Solent on @BBCSouthNews this evening
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8 years
That's new - tap to pay - contactless giving
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8 years
Portsmouth is looking like 57% Leave, Southampton 60% Leave. Both were expected to be more level.
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Labour take Rushmoor Council - Aldershot and Farnborough in Hampshire - for the first time in fifty years. Labour 21 Conservative 15 Lib Dem 3 #LocalElections2024
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4 years
It is so FRUSTRATING that we cannot be on BBC1 this morning to talk about how this lockdown crisis is being handled locally in Ox, Berks, Bucks, Wilts, Hants, Surrey, Sussex and Dorset .. aaaargh! .. so much to say ....
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Oh, look who’s at #ToryPartyConference tonight - Aquind boss and mega donor Alexander Tomerko - telling me the #Panorama allegations are “ridiculous” before he heads off for a meeting.. with.. ?
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8 years
For calling the PM "Dodgy Dave" the speaker orders Labour MP for Bolsover Dennis Skinner to leave Commons Chamber
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6 years
Oooo. That’s the sort of anonymous envelope with a secret recording that you like to open on a quiet Thursday morning ....
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7 years
Love the 🌺poppy Spitfire by the old walls in Southampton. A reminder of the bravery of production workers during the bombing #LestWeForget
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BREAKING - Secret recordings of Surrey Council's "gentleman's agreement" with government over the 15% council tax rise on @BBCSurrey shortly
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4 years
Plane crash landed in Solent off crowded Calshot beach. Two people rescued. Seems they managed to deploy a parachute
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9 years
There's now a food bank outside Iain Duncan Smith's house - courtesy of Buckingham Green Party http://t.co/eOvlMSEY0b
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Lib Dems’ Leader Ed Davey managed to stay on the paddleboard on the Thames this afternoon. Those shorts though…
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6 years
Outside the High Court for the all-night vigil for @abcpoppins legal challenge to Brexit
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Spot the man keeping the cheering going..
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The new Foreign Secretary has said he's prepared to travel to Iran to get #Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe out of jail. Jeremy Hunt made the promise in Parliament this afternoon
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Lib Dem leader Ed Davey’s drumming up election support at a care home in Romsey and taking about the need for better support for carers
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2 years
Fareham MP @SuellaBraverman says she doesn’t regard being knocked out of the Leadership contest at this stage as a defeat
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3 years
Oh someone at Breakfast News has a sense of humour.. who put this reporter on the fuel shortage story?
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7 years
Foreign Office Minister & former soldier Tobias Ellwood fought to stem stabbed policeman's bleeding and performed CPR until medics arrived
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Are these the numbers you are looking for? Govt Proposal to give Surrey County Council more cash - released tonight after a BBC FOI request
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4 years
Wow! ... just heard the title of the new Banksy at Southampton General Hospital... “Game Changer”
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8 years
Spot the difference: #Cameron won't debate directly with #Farage on #itvdebate tonight - He did on #bbcsp in 2003..
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Poor Larry, left out in the rain #brexitmeansbrexit
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While you wait for the #PokemonGo server to work again ;-) here's a guide to gyms & winning Pokemon Go battles
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6 years
Winchester University lecturer Jane Dipple has been suspended by the Labour Party over alleged anti-Semitic posts, the BBC understands. The University has also launched an urgent inquiry saying “We are shocked by the content in these posts”
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The first PMQs for 14 years with a Labour Prime Minister… and asking the first question Oxfordshire #LibDem MP @CalumMillerLD (spoiler.. it’s about Thames Water..)
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Tonight two people who were very special to me get a personal mention on @bbcsouthnews . Shirley and Terry Reed, my mother and father in law, both lost to the covid pandemic
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Hearing that the PHE Porton Down high definition anti-body test has found a winner.. “the new Roche SARS-CoV-2 serology is a highly specific assay with specificity of 100%” Govt now plans to buy millions of at-home kits and we’ll know who’s had Covid for sure
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Conor Burns loses to Labour in Bournemouth West
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7 years
Who would like to hear some of the secret recording of Surrey's Council Leader telling his councillors about the "gentleman's agreement" ?
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Still awaiting a result but the press room is having to empty at the Poole count.. there’s an art life class who need the room.. and the original centre was unavailable because of a cheerleading convention.. they know how to live in Dorset!
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Many, Many thanks to all the good people who helped me when I blacked out on the train coming back from Parliament last night. Fellow passengers, especially Sam and girls with the water, the doctor from Ringwood (who’d been on the march!) the excellent @SW_Railway staff and
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Hearing about Labour resignations planned for tomorrow morning and calls for PLP to form new party. Is this co-ordinated?
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“Taxi for Sunak” Liberal Democrats have tracked down the PM Rishi Sunak’s campaign bus on his last day of campaigning in Hampshire
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7 years
In response to a BBC Freedom of Information request Surrey County Council tonight released these documents proposing a unique arrangement
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On Day 17 of his hunger strike Labour leader Keir Starmer and Deputy Angela Rayner have come to see #NazaninZaghariRatcliffe husband Richard
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7 years
Boris Johnson has just told the House of Commons he will support proposals to build a new Royal Yacht Britannia
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2 years
Interesting that the Foreign Secretary is referring not just to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe close to release from Iran today but also Anoosheh Ashoori, who was jailed for ten years in 2017. His daughter Elika has been campaigning with Richard Ratcliffe
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Happy Birthday to my dad #anooshehashoori ,66 today,970 days captive,forever loved.Never forgotten.This is my birthday gift to him,I sincerely hope you have a minute to spare to see him as a human being rather than some guy on the news #freeanoosheh
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Liberal Democrat Leader @EdwardJDavey was in Hampshire today - usual Hoop-la! - And he spoke to me about how he was trying to win over voters who are angry and frustrated with the election choices
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Lib Dem call for Tory MP to be sacked over "McCarthyite" letter to Universities teaching About EU @LaylaMoran says Unis should not reply
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The Green Party candidate is standing down in Oxford West constituency to allow Lib Dems more chance to beat Conservative @nicolablackwood
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Poole Labour gain Lab 14168 Con 14150 Reform 7429 LD 5507 Green 2218
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Conservative @carolinenokes calling for Nadhim Zahawi to stand down
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6 years
A by-election last year saw the first Labour councillor at Worthing in Sussex in 40 years. This morning voters have elected FOUR more
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She’s back! ⁦ @SallyTaylor_tv
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4 years
Some big questions from Tice/Oakeshott/Seely/Gray BarBQGate .... Were they all using the Isle of Wight testing app, as they should? Did it register their lockdown busting social? Who can get the data?
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Brianna Ghey’s mother Esther is still in Parliament, despite the row at PMQs over Sunak comments. Now sitting behind former Lib Dem Leader Tim Farron as he pays tribute to her, calling for more tolerance of difference in schools.
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Dorset Conservative MP @chrisloder has written to ministers about safety on board the immigration barge #bibbystickholm calling for an immediate halt to operations
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4 years
Another big bang this morning as Fawley power station gradually disappears
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4 years
Inflammatory politics - Sign today in the New Forest
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More on water pollution💩 from @Feargal_Sharkey 🎤 (and he takes no prisoners…) on @BBCSouthNews at 18:40 📺 BBC1
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Shenanigans! @LaylaMoran says multiple scandals are driving Conservative voters over to the Lib Dem’s in #Oxfordshire seats, not least the suspension of candidates over allegations they placed bets with insider knowledge on the timing of the election.
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The moment Barbara and John Ratcliffe knew Nazanin was safe #FreeNazanin
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