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Sophia Sleigh

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2 years

Wearing a knee-length skirt in Parliament today, gonna keep crossing and un-crossing those bad boys in a bid to distract MPs from my lack of Oxford Union debating training...😵‍💫🥴😂

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Rather ironic that Tory MPs are now going to vote on whether Boris Johnson should leave or remain 😉

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Boris Johnson getting a bit shirty with Beth Rigby in interview in India.

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Tough on crime Yvette Cooper tells Labour conference: "Former Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed - 'We are the party of law and order'. "Turns out what he meant was - he’d had a party, broken the law and created disorder."

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Angela Rayner having the time of her life 🤣 "This PM has been reduced to desperately phoning around his mutinous MPs offering out baubles in a doomed attempt to save his own skin. "He should get off the blower and instead get a grip on the passport delays and travel chaos..."

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I’m no body language expert but think this says “I’ve had enough…”

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Tuesday I'll don a bikini to distract from my lack of private school educashun.

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3 years

Tad awkward exchange on @LBC - as Gavin Williamson dodges repeated questions over what grades he got at A-Level. Finally says he's "forgotten". Also dodged answering it on another interview earlier.

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3 years

NEW. Source tells me Gavin Williamson has given a leaving speech in his office.

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2 years

It is remarkable how prime ministers and chancellors can work perfectly well on holiday, but when civil servants WFH a few days a week everything falls apart. 😉

Boris Johnson Is Still Working Despite going On Another Holiday, MP Insists

"He will still be dealing with national security issues where relevant," Brandon Lewis said.

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3 years

@PronouncedAlva Fashion industry gets huge respect, imho. While simultaneously preying on women’s finances, insecurities and perpetuating unhealthy body images. Is it not time we work together to move away from "football is for boys, fashion is for girls" narrative?

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2 years

“Why don’t you get on with the subject of the trip?” he asks Rigby.

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10 months

Big shout out to Hamas’ search and rescue team. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Leo Varadkar

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10 months

This is a day of enormous joy and relief for Emily Hand and her family. An innocent child who was lost has now been found and returned, and we breathe a massive sigh of relief. Our prayers have been answered.

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3 years

Daily Mail, rightly, not holding back. Expertly done: “What The Hell Did They All Die For?” Thoughts with veterans and Afghans tonight.

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4 years

NEW from me:🚴Boris Johnson was spotted seven miles from Downing Street cycling around the Olympic Park on Sunday. A source told the Standard the PM was exercising and later commented to his ministers on how busy the park was.🚴

Boris Johnson spotted cycling seven miles from home in Olympic Park

Exclusive: The PM was ‘concerned’ after his cycle ride around the park

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3 years

Wes Streeting giving it some substance and style. Labour's got an impressive Commons' performer on the front bench there, imho. Quite the extraordinary opener to his speech - pointing out to Tory MPs that govt ministers are "not Nazis".

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3 years

Ladies, unless it’s your *specific* job, never EVER run around for your male colleagues. Ever. I know it’s awkward when you’re young and new to a job but just say “no”. 👎

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2 years

Another clip here, PM tells Rigby: "You promised to get on with this"

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. @BethRigby reminds Boris Johnson that "you said you have nothing to hide", when he avoids answering a question on partygate. He responds saying that he wants to get on "with the priorities of the British people." Latest: 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube

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3 years

All this talk of BYOB makes me fancy a trip Tayyabs. (East Londoners / every city worker ever will know what I’m on about…)

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1 year

You spin me right round baby right round…

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1 year

Suella Braverman, asked if Rwanda flights will take off by summer: "I'm not going to give a deadline. We have to be realistic" @SophyRidgeSky

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3 years

Analysis: Boris Johnson's Savile slur is a foretaste of the next general election campaign. “This wasn’t something said off the cuff - this is something we know people are talking about,” one Tory MP tells HuffPost UK.

Analysis: Boris Johnson's Savile Slur Is A Foretaste Of The Next General Election Campaign

A Tory MP suggested Conservative Campaign HQ would be stockpiling stories on Starmer’s time as Director of Public Prosecutions.

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3 years

Absolutely heartbreaking. Her kidnapper got just 7.5 years.

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The family of a teenager who was left paralysed and unable to communicate after she was snatched off the street are calling for the sentences of her kidnappers to be doubled. Read more:

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3 years

Sadiq wins a second term as Mayor of the greatest city on earth. 🇬🇧💂🏼‍♀️🌆 Congratulations Mayor of London @SadiqKhan !

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2 years

My colleague @nedsimons with a write up here:

Boris Johnson Frustrated With Partygate Questions As Senior Tory Tells Him To Quit

Prime minister looks at his watch and asks Sky News' Beth Rigby "how many" times he will be pressed about lockdown rule breaking.

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3 years

Good morning to everyone, except Spready McSpreadLegs. I miss lockdown tubes…😂🤣

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Or you can have an informed moderate measured opinion that falls between these extremes. So tired of the culture wars. Why does everything have to be framed as a battle between snowflakes and gammons. This country seriously needs more moderate voices. Boring, I know…🙄

Piers Morgan

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3 years

Watching ‘Darkest Hour’ on BBC1 (brilliant film) & suddenly realised that the entire woke debate comes down to one question: do you think Churchill was a hero or a villain? If you think villain, you’re so dumb, deluded & ill-informed that I want nothing to ever do with you.

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If ever there was a moment for Starmer to ditch the “forensics” and go full-on berserk in #PMQs it’s got to be tomorrow, right? 🙏🏼

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3 years

This sneering line in a Sunday columnists’ piece today.🙄🤢 Must be so hard feeling so threatened.😉🤣

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2 years

Exc: Suella Braverman’s letter to MPs admits the Illegal Migration Bill might break international law.👇

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3 years

This is a scandal: "Talks to remove the flammable ACM cladding the private development is covered in have been going on for more than two years now," @RachaelBurford reports.

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Firefighters tackling a blaze at New Providence Wharf in Tower Hamlets this morning. Talks to remove the flammable ACM cladding the private development is covered in have been going on for more than two years now

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My Department for Common Sense is going to have a Minister of Manners…😡

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3 years

That moment UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace broke down on LBC when talking about #Afghanistan .

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Keir Starmer tells the PLP: "Our party is in a better place than it was two years ago because of all the work we have done."

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4 years

Winston Churchill’s grandson with the most on point take... #Trump #America

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3 years

It’s taken me nine days, but I’ve just decided I shan’t be doing dry January this year… 😂🍷🤩

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3 years

🐈⬆️💼 🚨Professional news alert🚨 Can’t wait to start @HuffPostUK next month. It’s been bonkers & brilliant working for the Standard on/off since 2014. But time to stretch my legs. Can’t wait for the new chapter! Send over your stories - left, right, centre - I want them all!

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Labour’s @jreynoldsMP tells #SkyNews Operation Save Big Dog is an “insult to the good name of animal rescue”. 🤣

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1 year

🚨Professional news🚨 Super excited to join the brilliant scoop-breaking teams @ The Sun on Sunday & @TheSun from July 18. 📰✍️🗞️ After a rollercoaster few years in British politics, I can’t wait for the next chapter as we hurtle towards the general election. 🗳️💥

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4 years

Bizarrely some angry keyboard warriors have interpreted this as me criticising Sturgeon. Not remotely. I think she’s easily one of the best media performers. Comment was about the noticeable grilling Marr gave her compared to others. But, you know, anonymous trolls gonna troll!

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2 years

Team Rishi charming the Lobby with chocolate, sun cream and Coca-Cola.

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3 years

No no officer 👮🏻‍♂️ you’ve made a mistake! I’m definitely not going to *work* I’m off to an early morning Christmas *party*… #CovidPlanB 🥴

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3 years

Stop writing about the Taliban like a 90s pop band have reformed. Don’t fall for the spin.

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3 years

Exclusive: Boris Johnson's pleading email to furious Tory MPs. "I want colleagues to have a direct line into 10 Downing Street."

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4 years

I’m 31 you weirdo. Why would you want to infantilise me? It’s creepy mate.

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4 years

@SophiaSleigh Really ridiculous question from this CHILD!

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3 years

"Every living Prime Minister thinks this is wrong - there's only one Prime Minister who is prepared to do this and he is sitting there," Sir Keir Starmer tells the Commons during the debate on the cut to foreign aid.

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2 years

Matt Hancock there, speaking from Hell. 🔥🤣

Matt Hancock

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2 years

If we get the regulation right crypto will not only accelerate growth but make financial systems more transparent and reduce crime We must understand and harness the potential of new technologies, not fear and avoid their disruptive power My comments to the London Crypto Club⬇️

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2 years

The font has set me off... 🤣

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2 years

God's sake

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4 years

Strongly disagree with this. I covered crime for most of my career. I spent more than two years as a full time night reporter for the Standard. It involved a lot of crime scenes, in v.rough areas, very late at night. My sex will never hold me back or stop me doing what men do.

Harriet Marsden is harriet1marsden on Threads

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4 years

Just a thought, maybe publications could stop sending female reporters out on their own to cover missing women cases?

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NEW: Labour's national campaign coordinator Shabana Mahmood tells me the bitter Tory leadership race is providing them with a “wealth of material” ahead of the next election. “They’re taking primetime broadcast slots to tear lumps out of each other.”

Tory Leadership Race Is Giving Us A 'Wealth Of Material', Labour Party Says

"We're going to be ready for that election whenever it comes," Shabana Mahmood said.

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1 year

Good morning, nearly choked on my coffee 😂

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2 years

Just ordered full English breakfast only to be asked: “Beans don’t come with it, would you like to order them on the side?” This country has gone to the dogs! 🤣😂

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2 years

Nick Ferrari tells the minister there's only one more U-turn Truss has left: returning to the Lib Dems.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg launches an attack on Sadiq Khan who he dubs “Red Khan” over the mayor’s commission on diversity in the public realm. Says he’s more left wing than Ken Livingstone. Says it’s quite wrong: “Loony left-wing wheezes should be inflicted upon our great metropolis”.🤔

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Funny how last week the govt was apparently too busy dealing with the cost of living crisis and Ukraine to ban conversion therapy. But this week they’ve found time to flog Channel 4. Where there’s a will there’s a way…

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6 months

Shame Diane Abbott wasn’t picked while everyone around her discussed…her. 🤔 #PMQs

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2 years

Never fails to amaze me how threatened some men still feel by strong women. #Nazanin Really gets up their nose, doesn’t it?

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Keir Starmer: "His defence that he didn't realise he was at a party is so ridiculous that it's actually offensive to the British public." #PMQs

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👀 Ex-Tory councillors tell voters to back Labour and Lib Dems in local elections. I also understand that some Conservative associations have shunned visits from cabinet ministers as campaigners warn that brand Boris is “shattered”.

Ex-Tory Councillor Tells Voters To Back Labour In Local Elections

Conservative candidates have put disclaimers on their leaflets pleading with the public not to “punish” them for “mistakes made in Westminster”.

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Just saw one of our best British actors in one of the best solo performances I’ve ever seen. Fabulous. Lots of people sobbing in the audience. Jodie Comer is one of our greats. ❤️ @HPinterTheatre 🎭

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3 years

Separate source tells me: “He knows he’s done.”

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Boris Johnson shakes the hand of Jacinda Ardern in front of No.10 as reporter shouts at him: "Are you drowning in sleaze?!"

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Just thinking how cool Radio 2 has suddenly become and how the music is banging these days. Then I realised, I've just moved into their demographic. Excellent.

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Truss's comments are getting quite a lot of backlash now. I asked for evidence of an antisemitism problem in the civil service...

Liz Truss Sparks Backlash Over 'Woke' Civil Service Antisemitism Claim

A civil servant told HuffPost UK: "Every single day I consider leaving the civil service because of these people.”

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2 years

This is heartbreaking. NHS staff are slogging their guts out to help patients. I feel for them as much as the patients.

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EXCL: This is the NHS as you’ve never seen it. 19 patients crammed on trolleys in corridors unable to get into a full A&E. 92 year-old May has been stuck on hers for 3 days. Outside, ambulances queue, delayed getting to other calls. Patients have died waiting. #ITVTonight

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My main takeaway from the great Gavin Williamson texts scoop - isn’t the content. It’s that the Tory civil war is still in full swing. And brutally public. One faction’s bully is another faction’s friend…

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3 years

Good morning! Today's my first day at @HuffPostUK 😊 and while I try to wrap my head around the IT 🥴 please do send me your political stories, ideas and tips. Left, right, centre - I'm interested.🔎✍️ email: sophia.sleigh @huffpost .com Quiet week, ey?😉

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I’m in a goddamn central London bar, drinking a goddamn cocktail and they just played George Michael followed by Prince! #NatureIsHealing 😂😍🤩

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This got people a bit heated. Let’s not get snobby / nasty / personal. I’m here to point out when people in authority don’t answer straight Qs. Don’t care who you are, what party you’re from or what your grades were 27 years ago! And everybody breathe! 🙃

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Vaccine passports was never really going to happen, was it? (Too cynical?)

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Starting to feel a bit Fyre Festival...🥴

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Utter chaos at security for COP26. It's not as if they couldn't plan for this is it?

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Just had my vaccine. Got my GP text yesterday. I assume because of underlying health conditions (asthma). Absolutely in AWE of this incredible operation. #LoveTheNHS ❤️ Thank you to our *amazing* NHS, volunteers, super scientists and those in Govt who made it all happen

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Honestly have zero interest in billionaire men blasting themselves into space. 🚀🤷🏼‍♀️

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"get off the blower" - I particularly enjoyed.

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Oh Dry January can get stuffed. I’m opening the Malbec...🍷

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Whenever I make tongue-in-cheek lighthearted jokes on this hellsite, it never fails to amaze me how many angry trolls take it LITERALLY. 🤣 Honestly, it's a *joke*. Breathe Reply Guys, breathe...

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Great read, respect 👇 “This time last week, while out knocking doors, a man shouted from his doorstep: “you’re a f****ing c***”. I realise I can now, without fear of penalty, go back up there and do exactly the same to him.”

I sobbed into a glass of wine, my phone melted down: the story of losing as a Tory MP

“Don’t let them see you cry,” is the kind advice from my Labour opponent. We’re standing in a small huddle; gathered around the Returning Officer as she briefs us on the votes counted in my former...

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Remember once being on a crime scene late at night & ringing Scotland Yard for their latest lines. A Met press officer laid into me about how dangerous it was for me & I shouldn't be there as a lone woman etc. I'm happy to reciprocate and offer them free comms advice today.

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Watching Gabriella Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Channel 4 news tonight - just heartbreaking. She’s growing up so fast without her mother. Get Nazanin home. #FreeNazanin

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🔥 "Jacob Rees-Mogg stalks the halls like a Victorian prefect leaving passive aggressive slips of paper on people’s desks, while ministers are apparently perfectly capable of working from home whilst on holiday or at Chequers."

Inside The Deteriorating Relationship Between Ministers And The Civil Service

They accuse the Tory leadership hopefuls of using them as a "scapegoat" in their culture war.

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This is Starmer's best #PMQs performance yet, imho. Allowing himself to show a bit of passion.

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Sometimes I really miss general news as it’s far more in touch with real people than all this politics stuff.😉🤪 But, today, not so much! This was 7 years ago, when we thought 34C was hot!!! 🫣☀️🥵🔥

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Caught on Newsnight looking for my next fringe. 😂

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4 years

Oh my, that escalated! 😬

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STAR: Honk! Honk! #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Cooper: "Liz Truss tells us she has a big idea to turn it all round. "She says she’s going to tell the police they need to investigate more crime. "Genius!"

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Look, I know y’all think you’re journalists nowadays 🥱👍 but, FYI, the PM getting cheered among cheers is NOT a *news* story. The PM getting booed IS a *news* story. It is the very essence of a *new* news line. Welcome to NCTJ day one. You can have that one for free.

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21 minutes before female MP speaks at #PMQs dominated by women’s rights. Six men spoke (excluding the Speaker) before @CarolineLucas took part.

21 minutes before female MP speaks at PMQs dominated by women’s rights

In the full 40 minutes of PMQs 15 men spoke, compared to six women

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Mayor of London @SadiqKhan slams the Home Secretary for her language to describe immigrants - saying it’s “divisive and inflammatory”. In a punchy speech, he tells Suella Braverman that London is one of the greatest cities in the world because of the contribution of immigrants.

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2 years

Complete with the “covid alert level” at the top… They have backed themselves into a tricky corner on this one.

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Mail on Sunday obtain the operational note for April 30 2021 - “beergate” day The curry at the heart of the police investigation features on it as a preplanned event

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99.9% sure Boris Johnson just cycled past me in the Olympic park with an entourage of fellow security cyclists. Complete with his TfL hat on🚴‍♂️ Alas, I did not have time to ask him my follow up question...

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Tory insider on Braverman and Jenrick's migrant comments, tells me: "Utter stupidity. They keep inflaming the situation with their comments whilst failing to come with sensible proposals that will actually tackle channel crossings...

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2 years

The civil service comments aside, the attack on Starmer seems unfair, his wife is Jewish and he’s specifically worked to try and stamp it out of his party.

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Yvette Cooper: "In 94 per cent of crimes now no one is charged. Time and again no one pays the price. There are no consequences. There is no justice... "A laissez-faire approach that isn’t an accident, it is Tory ideology."

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Happy New Year East London - you absolute beauty!! 😍💥🎇🎉

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Boris Johnson's face to Sir Desmond Swayne as he bemoans the "assault on liberty and livelihoods". 😂

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Keir Starmer points out how Hancock resigned when he broke the rules and the PM said he was right to do so. And also points to Allegra Stratton's resignation. "Why does the Prime Minister still think that the rules do not apply to him?" He asks. #PMQs

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Shadow justice secretary @DavidLammy hits back: "The only thing Dominic Raab has demonstrated today is that the Conservatives have no plans whatsoever to fix the crisis they’ve created in the criminal justice system."

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Dominic Raab vows to overhaul Human Rights Act to 'restore common sense'

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Well, I’m not sure the PM answered my question about when I can hug my grandma again. 🥲 But Sir Simon Stevens pronounced my name spot on! 👌🏼

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3 years

What are you chatting? Wayne Couzens literally WAS a police officer.

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3 years

Any lone, plain clothed police officer who engages with a woman on her own will now verify their identity through a new process. We know we need to regain women’s trust. We fully accept the onus is on us to verify we are who we say we are & that we are acting appropriately.

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@AdamBienkov I am enjoying the juxtaposition of this and a recent column on how meritocracy is supposedly dead because of, errrr, diversity…😉🤣

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Cooper says she would work with France to prevent small boat crossings with a new cross-border police unit – paid for by cancelling the "deeply damaging, extortionately expensive, unworkable and unethical" Rwanda plan.

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