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@hmtreasury
pushing out Tory propaganda? This is illegal
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Yvette Cooper: “We’ve had low growth, low opportunities it’s time to something better.”
#BBCLauraK
: “Well there’s plenty of people who come to this studio who disagree with you. Many people watching might disagree with you too”
She *never* does this after interviewing a Tory MP
@bbcquestiontime
@BBCiPlayer
@BBCOne
Why do you keep inviting Tufton Street shills like Kate Andrews onto Question Time? Until they declare who funds them, they should not get a minute of our publicly funded broadcast time.
@Peston
@nadhimzahawi
@HMRCgovuk
HMRC has let Zahawi off big time here, but even if we accept this statement at face value, how can he possibly continue as a cabinet minister when he ‘carelessly’ failed to pay millions in tax for years. If you or I did this, we’d be prosecuted. /1
@kateferguson4
Why do you peddle these lies so endlessly for your Tory masters? She said no such thing. She said that
@UKLabour
would reverse the abolition of the top rate tax on those earning over £150,00. Perhaps you were a bit deaf after loud celebrations of your huge tax saving last night?
@GlennSpratt
@Keir_Starmer
You really don’t know a thing about our Party, do you. Attlee was a staunch supporter of the King through WWII & its aftermath, while Wilson & Blair are known to be 2 of the Queen’s favourite PMs. Btw, try asking the working class whether they support the monarchy.
@BorisJohnson
@England
Who scored Johnson? When were the goals scored? Who provided the assists? What formation did we play tonight? Who was your man of the match? You can’t answer any of these questions because you don’t give a toss about football & are trying to jump on the bandwagon. Fraud.
@TheHoogie
@RishiSunak
if you meant anything when you said that your government would be compassionate, then you will suspend the Whip from Gullis immediately
@nedsimons
Mourdant throwing a strop? Marched into No 10 with more evidence about Leaky Sue & demanded that she goes & Penny be made Home Sec pronto?
Sunak’s really made a serious rod for his back here.
What a shame.
@SamCoatesSky
Decision by PM’s consort results in pets getting priority over Afghans who have risked their lives working for us being bumped down the queue. We have about another day to get as many of the most at-risk Afghans out, but a publicity stunt is more important to Johnson & Carrie.
@AdamBienkov
This makes no sense whatsoever. Shadow Home Secretary
@YvetteCooperMP
has just torn the policy to shreds in the Commons. She won’t have done this without agreement of Starmer.
Yvette Cooper - "The Rwanda policy is just government by gimmick... she should be doing right by refugees... as this shambles is putting our country to shame."
@lewis_goodall
@halfon4harlowMP
To each of these 5 Tory MPs, I thank you for showing heart & conscience. For the rest of the MPs, including my own MP
@lucyfrazermp
I have utter contempt. Billions wasted on Brexit red tape & hopeless Serco Track & Trace.
#Shameless
@MarcusRashford
@pattillmanfnd
@ESPYS
@espn
@Burberry
So richly deserved for everything you have done. Ensuring that our children don’t go hungry when our government wasn’t interested, and getting children who are reluctant readers sticking their noses in your great book. 👑
@paulwaugh
@BorisJohnson
It’s the job of government not to break international law. Both the Rwanda deportation policy & the disapplication of sections of the NI protocol fail in this respect. The world looks on in horror & wonders what we have become.
@LBC
@IainDale
How did you feel about the publication of Gordon Brown’s post interview comment about “that bigoted woman”? I bet you weren’t on your high horse about that disclosure. Quite the opposite. I bet you were haranguing Brown from every possible outlet.
@breeallegretti
@Laura__Farris
Thank you
@Laura__Farris
A heartfelt tribute to a true parliamentary giant in
@HarrietHarman
That it comes from an opponent shows just how much work Harriet has done to blaze the trail for women on all sides of the House. She will be missed.
@Peston
@annemflfc
@bankofengland
Who put that straitjacket on? Who has been in power for 13 years? Who was Chancellor from 2019-2022, losing billions to fraud? Which party gave us the disastrous mini-budget in Oct 22? Which PM & chancellor have consequently seen record debt & borrowing costs of £100Bn/yr?
@BarristerSecret
I think
@Keir_Starmer
as a leading QC will be thinking exactly the same thing and rubbing his hands together. You can’t say you didn’t do it after you’ve been found guilty, & pleading ignorance of the law is not a defence for anyone & certainly not for the person who wrote it!
@bbcquestiontime
So,
@bbcquestiontime
tonight has Qs on whether doctors are greedy, whether environmental protesters are scum, & ‘has Labour lost the moral high ground?’ Nothing else happened today worth talking about, rather than these handpicked pro-govt Qs? You scared of Raab too?
@Peston
@nadhimzahawi
@HMRCgovuk
Zahawi didn’t voluntarily bring it to the attention of HMRC. It was dragged before them by Dan Niedle’s investigation (after he was threatened by Zahawi’s lawyers). The story changes day by day, every time a new lie.
#ResignNowNadhim
@RachelReevesMP
Be honest here
@RachelReevesMP
You know as well as we do that the chaos hitting supply chains is largely down to the ‘oven ready’ Brexit trade deal that you,
@Keir_Starmer
& nearly all of the PLP predicted would be the disaster it is now turning out to be in practice.
@JMPSimor
You’re thinking what many of us are thinking. The red face. The sniffing. The rambling incoherence. Johnson’s had a ‘pick me up’ after the result, hasn’t he?
@Haggis_UK
Apart from the long-term 4.5% reduction in our GDP, as estimated by the Treasury, the OBR and the BoE. Many economists believe that the true figure is greater. Don’t let the Tories get away with these constant lies. Challenge them with the facts.
@tamcohen
Crooks, every last one of them. Paving the way, setting the precedent for a 9 day suspension for Johnson & no recall. 13 years of corrupting every democratic process of our Parliamentary system.
@maitlis
So sorry to see you leave the BBC. I sadly believe that your fearless, unbiased interviewing style has ruffled more than a few feathers high up at the BBC, leading to your move. I wish you all the very best in your new venture. You deserve every success.
@Haggis_UK
No he wasn’t. He was making a date rape joke. This was completely unacceptable from Cleverley, the Hone Secretary responsible for trying to enforce policing against this increasingly frequent concern for women & men on evenings out.
@Haggis_UK
The Met should reopen their inevestigation immediately. These are flagrant breaches of the COVID regulations, a slap in the face to every one who lost a loved one during the pandemic and wasn’t able to say goodbye.
@guardian
Utterly disgraceful. How dare they censor such an authoritative voice. Is the truth so terrifying for the Tories now? Handy that they have their lackeys like Sharp & Davie to prevent Attenborough pointing out these inconvenient truths.
@StevePeers
This entire press conference has been a string of untruths and evasions. It is clear that the deal is, as expected, a disaster. Looking at the readout of answers from
@MichelBarnier
from the technical conference, it’s terrifying how far from reality Johnson’s answers lie.
@bbclaurak
@AndyHolmesMedia
On the money again
@bbclaurak
I assume that this was the message you were fed from CCHQ. Dear oh dear, it would be nice if we had a journalist rather than someone who is little more than an official spokesperson.
@itvnews
@Peston
Glad he thinks it’s funny. For the 1000s of businesses, 100s of 1000s of jobs, the supply chains of food, medicines & materials that we all rely upon, this is deadly serious. Our country is already crippled by the Tories’ mishandling of Covid. No deal will push us over the edge.
@Haggis_UK
What a very rude little man. Sunak is so thin skinned when he is questioned on anything. Thinks he’s above us. When people get to really see him under the constant exposure during a General Election, the public will be even more repelled than they are at the moment by the Tories.
@CommonsSpeaker
Please follow through the logical consequence of this. Insist that the Prime Minister comes to the House & get him to withdraw his awful slur against
@Keir_Starmer
& apologise unreservedly.
@dave43law
@radiotaxis_boss
Prolonging the agony for the poor victim until she finally gives up, unable to cope with the ordeal of the case w/o the accused even being charged. Case dropped. Tory MP quietly returns to Parliament w/o ever facing the consequences of his alleged actions. Plus ca change.
@PippaCrerar
I cannot believe that someone that has even a passing involvement with economics can seriously have just said this.
@trussliz
is either the thickest PM we have ever had or this is some bizarre ruse to try to blindside us.
@bbcquestiontime
@lucyfrazermp
No it isn’t. It’s watering down the original proposal to really force water companies to stop pumping sewage into our rivers and seas. A ‘brownwash’ to help privatized water companies carry on making massive profits.
@JolyonMaugham
5 visas/day in the first 10 days of the worst humanitarian crisis in Europe since the Second World War.
@pritipatel
have shown their true colours rather than extending the warm welcome that this country demands at this terrible time. I’m beyond furious.
@Peston
No,
@RhonddaBryant
is rightly ensuring that people are aware that
@trussliz
was forced to correct the record after disgracefully, incorrectly trying to blame him for actions that were solely at the door of her & her government.
@brexit_sham
@tshep42
That was the confident play of a barrister asking a question he knows the answer to.
@BorisJohnson
has walked straight into his trap by denying in HoC that he said that he would rather see bodies ‘pike high in their thousands.’ Don’t forget the witnesses yet to come...
@BladeoftheS
@Bella_healtheco
Damned socialists. Happily paying their taxes, high quality public services, great life/work balance where everyone gets paid fairly AND DK has a hugely successful economy. Why can’t they see the ‘advantages’ of austerity under hardcore neoliberalism we’ve had under the Tories?
@GBNewsSpin
@BrexitBuster
And what does
@Ofcom
think about all those broadcasts in which Tory MPs like Rees-Mogg & 30p Lee Anderson who are being paid £100K interview Tory cabinet ministers where they jovially agree on everything & attack the Labour Party?
BREAKING: Dominic Cummings accuses Raab of "misleading" the House of Commons over the Evgeny Lebedev peerage
He says he was in the room when PM was told by Cab Office officials that intelligence services had "serious reservations" about the peerage
@ITVNewsPolitics
You really don’t look or sound like you are apologising
@GillianKeegan
Every word, your defensive body language, cries out that you are still blaming everybody except yourself for the catastrophe that has hit our children’s schools as a result of your mismanagement & complacency.
@ShippersUnbound
The intention was clearly intended & repugnant. Good you’ve been forced to make this grovelling apology, but the hurt caused to those involved is a disgrace. Another right-wing journalist who fabricated stories was fired. Sadly, he’s now PM. Hoping to follow in his footsteps?
@TulipSiddiq
So happy for Nazanin, Richard & Gabriella. Soon to be reunited after so long. Thank you
@TulipSiddiq
for your astonishing work in support of the family. Delighted also for Anoosheh. Fingers crossed now that Morad Tahbaz will be home soon too. 🌹
@Chislehurstian
@jessphillips
Having worked in women’s refuges for years, with all due respect I think that
@Jessphillips
is rather more of an expert on the subject than most of us, so unless you want to make yourself look more of a fool, I suggest you wind your neck in.
@ITVNewsPolitics
Er, because it is? And it’s the job of the interviewer to ask why things have gone wrong. Not to just ask you easy questions that you can tell people everything is OK when they can see that their kids schools are in danger of collapsing on them.
@bbcquestiontime
@BBCiPlayer
@BBCOne
In advance, is there any chance whatsoever that Fiona Bruce will prevent bully Mercer from hectoring and talking over the answers from
@bphillipsonMP
& Dale Vince? Go on Fiona, just for once do your job as a chair to ensure balanced debate. No? Didn’t think so…
@JonathanPieNews
@JaneFeathersto1
And, believe it or not, she is a KC. Imagine her trying to run that argument in front of a judge. “The evidence is that some people think this witness is biased against my client, and that’s good enough for me.”
@Bill_Esterson
Well colour me shocked. Add this to the ever-growing list of government contracts handed out without tender to relatives of Tory MPs, Tory donors &/or parts of Cummings’ Leave EU network.
@GoodLawProject
another one for you to look into. Corruption, pure & simple.
@REWearmouth
It was satire
@REWearmouth
This became ever more clear as the show went on. This compare & contrast shows what he was doing. He exposed
@bbclaurak
as an enabler of so much of what we have suffered in recent years as well as the emptiness of the Truss rhetoric.
@LordCFalconer
The role of the Attorney General is to provide independent legal advice to government.
@SuellaBraverman
by acting as a political cheerleader is thus failing in her role.
@AngelaRayner
Now we know. They had their meetings & broke civil service rules by failing to keep minutes of what was said. So there is no accountability. This is
#corruption
No other word for it.
@BBCLauraKT
It doesn’t & never will, unless you throw into the mix the awkward recognition that too many people, whether they care to admit it or not, are racist.
@BBCPolitics
I am now convinced that
@BBradley_Mans
is a parody MP. Week in, week out, Bradley delivers comedy gold on a level with Alan B’Stard in The New Statesman, only not as likeable.
@Peston
A political journalist, you say? Labour removed all support & told voters they shouldn’t vote for Ali. The history of voting for other mainstream parties in Rochdale is feeble. This inevitably gave independent parties a chance THIS TIME. At the GE, normal service will be resumed.
@SamCoatesSky
Because it’s really not remarkable. Starmer’s saying we don’t want to cripple business, trash employment laws & let chlorinated chicken & the like enter our daily diet. What you should be questioning rather more seriously is why the Tories are so keen to do this.
@BBCPolitics
If you even reported a fraction of the abuse that
@AngelaRayner
has received from the Tory benches since her election, maybe you might reflect a little on your uncritical coverage of their faux horror of her mild comment on Wednesday. Trust me, she’s put up with a lot worse.
@DCBMEP
@LadyJLondon
She met with Sue Grey as Chair of the Privileges Committee to establish whether she was a potential witness who could usefully contribute to the inquiry. It was decided she had no additional information to that in her report. This is all public knowledge. Try harder next time.
@RobertoSanPier1
@CorbynistaTeen
@marysweeney0
The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the intentional buying & selling of a people based solely on their skin colour. Their treatment both in transit & once they were working led to a high % of them being killed by their slave masters. This is to all effects & purposes genocide.
Lord Agnew's resignation over this Government's failure is more integrity than Boris Johnson can manage.
It is no surprise that a Minister feels unable to defend the waste of billions of taxpayer pounds on crony contracts and fraud.
"Arrogance, indolance and ignorance" indeed.
@globalhlthtwit
We really are stuffed. It is no wonder it has failed so spectacularly. A serial boardroom failure has gathered around her the sort of people that she is used to working with. None of them have a clue how to run a public health programme critical to suppressing a deadly virus.
@lucyfrazermp
Sharp has not resigned because of a technicality. It is because Sharp secured an £800K loan for Boris Johnson in return for this post. He unsurprisingly failed to mention this at the interviews. Tory corruption that is damaging the BBC’s reputation. Don’t whitewash this.
@georgeeaton
And Boris Johnson continues as Prime Minister after it’s revealed that he was discovered being given a blow job by a then office junior (Carrie) in his room at the Foreign Office. But hey, it’s Boris. 🙄
@bbclaurak
Sorry, but this does not provide anything like a coherent explanation for your original story. This is propaganda pure & simple covering up for a huge mistake by the PM. Don’t take people for fools
@bbclaurak
@laughingginge
So sorry that it has come to this due to the lies & stupidity of
@BorisJohnson
& Cummings. We’re driving excellence like yours from our shores & a rising tide of unemployment beckons as a no deal hits at the end of the year. All that’s to come is low-paid jobs with no rights.
@TuomoSuni
@RichardJMurphy
This is extraordinary. How can we criticise China for rewriting history for the benefit of ‘the Party’ when this sort of thing is happening here in the UK?
@JolyonMaugham
Trust me, on this one he’s got it desperately wrong. People know that
@GNev2
&
@Keir_Starmer
in a later interview are right on this. You can’t fan the flames of racism with dog whistle signals & then pretend to be shocked when racists do their worst taking their lead from the top