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Amber de Botton

@amberdebotton

4 years

I am absolutely thrilled to be the new Head of UK News for @itvnews . Some mighty big shoes to fill, following on from @matt_itvnews , and an incredible team to work with. Really excited to get started in the summer.

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6 years

The Gove clap is back #CPC18

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Exclusive: @CBItweets staff members inadvertently let slip to @ITVJoel what they really think about the deal. Internal email says: "No need to give credit to negotiators I think, because it’s not a good deal."

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@tamcohen Wow, imagine if it had been a full reshuffle

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4 years

@MattChorley ST has now amended the article. We didn’t receive a call from Labour about not airing footage and we wouldn’t negotiate in this way. Not least, the footage that day was pool (shared with the BBC and Sky News) so anything filmed is sent out unedited to all UK broadcasters.

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4 years

Very excited to have @AnushkaAsthana joining @ITVNewsPolitics as our Deputy Political Editor. I can’t wait to work with her again.

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6 years

Ending a sometimes-rough 2018 with this snippet about my husband’s grandparents. Yesterday was their 75th wedding anniversary. Sid is 98 and walks every day to Bubbles’ old people’s home to have dinner with her, hold her hand, comb her hair and talk to her. ❤️

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6 years

I am delighted to say that @DanielHewittITV has been appointed as our new Political Correspondent at @itvnews . Really excited about some of his ideas for our coverage.

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1 year

It has been an honour and a privilege to serve as the Prime Minister’s Director of Communications but I have decided it is the right time to move on. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Prime Minister for his support and his leadership. (1/2)

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3 years

‘Amber de Bottom’ has had her first jab

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6 years

@SamCoatesTimes This is essentially what I do all day, every day...

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5 years

Not now Jeremy

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5 years

Join me for a live Q&A right now on Facebook

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7 years

A bit of a change coming in October - I am off to run the politics desk @itvnews with the very talented @Peston and team

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3 years

Want to build a career in TV news but don’t know how to make it happen? Applications for the ITV News Traineeship are now open. It is a brilliant scheme that propels you into heart of a newsroom

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6 years

Read @ITVJoel 's excellent story here

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7 years

Ridge: You accept that you lost the election though, right? Thornberry: Well, no... I don't think we did. #ridge

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5 months

I am really looking forward to working with so many talented people at such an important time for news media

Guardian Media Group announces appointment of Amber de Botton as chief communications officer

Guardian Media Group has appointed Amber de Botton as its new chief communications officer.

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8 years

"Why are you here?" Juncker asks Farage at European Parliament in Brussels

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6 years

I have to say, this did make me laugh this morning @tamcohen . Everyone’s been there!

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6 years

Loved the disappearing Correspndent @SkyNews . Comedy moment in Downing Street. Like a trap door opened beneath her.

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7 years

@skynewsgirl @tamcohen Freed from the oppression of women and 140 characters

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4 years

So pleased for everyone at @itvnews @ITVNewsPolitics for our two Bafta nominations - ITV News at Ten: Election Results (news coverage) and Election 2019 Live: The Results (live event). Bloody proud to be part of such a brilliant team.

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6 years

And we will turn up in the press gallery to watch Dominic Cummings in the public gallery watch the Commons chamber debate his failure to attend a Commons select committee.

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@SamCoatesSky

6 years

NEW: Dominic Cummings has told friends he *will* turn up to watch the Commons debate on his failure to attend a Commons select committee —— from the public gallery in the Commons. 👽

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4 years

My turn to write the family zoom quiz today. Did a ‘name that politician’ round (idea shamelessly stolen from @MattChorley at the press gallery quiz). Thought I’d share if anyone was especially bored.

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6 years

@MattChorley Worst: Left phone above loo on vibrate on first night of Labour. Someone called and - plop - down it went into the U-bend with all my numbers, diary etc. Best: Bumping into some guy I quite fancied after interviewing him once. Asked me for a drink. Now my husband.

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4 years

Finally, thank you to @andrewdagnell and @RachelCorpTweet for the amazing opportunity - especially when I have spent the last few months doing this equally challenging job. Proud to work somewhere that supports juggling both.

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9 years

Can't get enough of this gesture. FIRE.

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6 years

JOB ALERT: Delighted to say we are advertising for a new political correspondent at @itvnews . Want to cover one of the most challenging times in British politics? Take a look...

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@amberdebotton

6 years

It's the final 'no' and then the door-slam that makes this

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6 years

Michael Gove reveals what he thinks about Boris Johnson and David Davis's resignations from the cabinet and the PM's future

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5 years

@PaulBrandITV "Telegram! Signal?"

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5 years

Britain’s Next Prime Minister: The ITV Debate Watch @BorisJohnson and @Jeremy_Hunt live and head-to-head tomorrow evening at 8pm on @ITV (moderated by the great @julieetchitv )

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7 years

This made me laugh this morning

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8 years

Telling women to calm down is generally not a winning political strategy. Just ask the PM.

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7 years

Home secretary @AmberRuddHR on whether she told @BorisJohnson to stand up during the PM's speech

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1 year

The team he has built around him is dedicated and focused because those are the qualities he inspires. I also want to thank my colleagues - No10 is a demanding and high pressure place to work - yet the professionalism and talent they display every day is exceptional. (2/2)

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8 years

@DPJHodges Can we all just agree that unless you are taking GCSE history, you really don't need to use Hitler to make your point?

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6 years

Deep undercover work from ⁦ @JasonFarrellSky ⁩

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8 years

Watch the "This seems a bad idea" Corbyn shadow cabinet video in full here:

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3 years

Knappers was at the heart of our team in Westminster and we will all miss him a lot. You may not have known him but you will have seen work on the news - he shot some of the most significant moments in recent political history. Carl’s tribute below says it better than I could.

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3 years

We said goodbye to one of our own today. Chris Knapman was ITV News’s Westminster cameraman for more than 20 years. 1/3

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6 years

Among today's main achievements, I have removed a dead mouse from under @paulwaugh 's desk and dialled into a conference call with the two people sat opposite me. I'll never forget days like today.

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@amberdebotton

3 years

My first day in the new job and it coincides with the business team’s stonking exclusive investigation into what happens to unsold Amazon stock. Well worth your time (credit to @richpallotitv @PatrickrussITV @MariahHedges @JessicaOmari @imogenbarrer )

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Exclusive: Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses every year, an ITV News investigation has uncovered. Many of the products - including smart TVs and laptops - are often new and unused. #AmazonWaste

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7 years

German magazine Der Spiegel calls Theresa May "Die eiernde Lady", meaning wobbly like an egg. It's a pun on Thatcher's "Eiserne Lady".

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6 years

Responding to the draft press release, another member of the CBI team, writes: "Have left the credit [to negotiators] in given we ‘want’ this to go through." Full story online at @itvnews shortly.

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5 years

Toddler playing independently

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ITV Westminster talking about what Brexit has done for healthy eating. Late-night voting highlights include @Rachel_Bradley1 wolfing down a Tuesday night kebab and @DanielHewittITV putting his feet up at midnight with a 1 litre bottle of Irn-Bru and a Pot Noodle

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5 years

@SophyRidgeSky My toddler is definitely learning some new language with mummy working from home🤐. Juggling WFH with keeping him amused/fed/exercised... there is no article to solve this.

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5 years

My Assistant News Editor had a dream last night that I appointed her as Minister for Food and Sweets. I can get on board with that kind of reshuffle.

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@amberdebotton

6 years

Huge congratulations to @SamCoatesTimes ... Look forward to seeing what mischief you can get up to now you are armed with a camera as well x

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6 years

Good scoop @skynews getting the excellent @SamCoatesTimes on board! Big congrats all round

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3 years

He told me: “Be bold and set standards. Throw everything at the big ones.” Thank you, Geoff. Like so many of our colleagues, I feel very lucky to have learnt from you.

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3 years

Tributes to former ITV News editor Geoff Hill, who has died aged 52

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6 years

Really pleased that @ShehabKhan will be joining the @itvnews politics team as a Trainee Political Reporter next month. And @DanielHewittITV and @Dominique_ITV have started this week as our new Political Correspondent and Politics Producer. More exciting stuff coming soon!

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11 years

An unfortunate moment while filming @adamboultonSKY at the Titanic museum ahead of the G8 (rude word warning) http://t.co/bQxXWWjcUZ

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6 years

Bad Jam is better than No Jam

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5 years

Important discussion in the @itvnews morning meeting about what we all had to dress up as when we started in journalism. I was Tim Henman. @mattbrindley1 was put in a giraffe costume to comfort a lonely giraffe at Dudley Zoo.

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6 years

Seems a good time to retweet this...

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@amberdebotton

6 years

JOB ALERT: Delighted to say we are advertising for a new political correspondent at @itvnews . Want to cover one of the most challenging times in British politics? Take a look...

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6 years

Just been described as an ‘entitled MSM Presstitute’. And how’s your day going?

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6 years

This is worth a watch

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6 years

How do MPs actually vote? Take @carldinnen 's two-minute behind-the-scenes tour of the Commons ahead of Tuesday's crunch Brexit count

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7 years

Just so much love for this

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Police officer dancing with young kids at #OneLoveManchester

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5 years

Viewing figures from last night’s #itvdebate - average of 6.7m, peak of 7.3m

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@amberdebotton

7 years

So this is a winter crisis for the NHS then?

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7 years

Tony Blair's memory is as selective in office as out of office: does he not remember his own regular NHS winter crises? Perhaps he was too focused on joining the euro to give his full attention to the NHS...

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2 years

Really delighted that @AmyLewisITV and @MartinStewITV will be joining us on @itvnews from @itvlondon for six months. And also welcoming @KuriousKaf who is coming to us in September. All of them have impressive bodies of work and excited to see them get started.

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@amberdebotton

4 years

Very proud of the husband. I remember when @school21_uk was just a slightly mad idea conjured up around our kitchen table with @PeterHyman21 and Ed Fidoe a decade ago. I only watched from the sidelines but, gosh, how far it has come. A lovely send-off yesterday

Oli de Botton

@olidebotton

4 years

Totally in bits today as we start the search for my successor @school21_uk . It has been the experience of a lifetime - a total privilege. From an idea to a school to a movement. Thank you to everyone for their support along the way.

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6 years

We think this *might* be the first time a baby has been in the Commons chamber during a debate (not during a vote). Anyone know? @joswinson ?

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6 years

Baby in the chamber alert!

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7 years

The problem with this election is everyone thinks they've won when actually no one has

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@amberdebotton

5 years

This is mainly how I interact with him but I have learnt a tremendous amount about making good telly from that little head at the end of the table. Thank you @FredianiITV - you loud, rude, wonderful person. @BBCBreakfast is very lucky to have you.

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8 years

@DavidLammy Tweet could also apply to Boris's running outfit!

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5 years

Best moment of today. You two...

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5 years

Thanks ⁦ @BethRigby ⁩ helping get rid of the Mars bar

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3 years

I am really looking forward to @yasminbodalbhai joining us at @itvnews as our Midlands Reporter while the brilliant @staceyitv is on maternity leave. Yasmin started out with us as a trainee in 2014 so it is wonderful to see her return.

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@amberdebotton

7 years

@christopherhope Pedant point incoming - the Sky crew onboard the boat was pool so the BBC would have gotten all the footage without actually needing to send a camera themselves

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@amberdebotton

6 years

She loses by 149 votes. Fwiw, @Peston on @ITVEveningNews predicted 150.

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@amberdebotton

7 years

Marr: What did she [May] say when she sacked you? Osborne: She said I needed to get to know my party better. [Shrugs] So...

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2 years

The incredible @RachBradleyITV looks after our Westminster team and is a huge talent. Delighted for her to receive this kind of recognition.

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2 years

This year's MHP Mischief #30ToWatch Young Journalist Awards winner in the Best Producer category judged by @samtaylornews is: @RachBradleyITV . See the full list of all 30 winners at:

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5 years

So very proud of @paulbranditv (and super producer @imogenbarrer and @andrewdagnell ) on such an important issue

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5 years

Paul Brand @PaulBrandITV accepting award for his report on gay conversion therapy. Dedicated it to teen friend who took his own life after coming out. “I’ve lost of the friends I’ve lost” Brand says

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3 years

Some brilliant opportunities at @itvnews at the moment. Take a look here: #journojobs

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@amberdebotton

7 years

#babiesatpollingstations

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@amberdebotton

4 years

Going to hugely miss Paul as part of the Westminster team but so delighted to see him get this role. Dedicated, thoughtful and a great story-teller.

Paul Brand

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🎉 Delighted to be promoted to UK Editor for @itvnews covering the major stories facing the UK across home & social affairs and the policy & politics behind them. Predecessors @HMTAllegra @tombradby @RohitKachrooITV et al leave huge shoes to fill but excited to start next year.

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6 years

I mean, it WAS worth a watch...

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3 years

I was lucky to spend one of the most turbulent periods in political history with Libby and she is exactly who you want on side - the most tenacious doorstepper, the calmest live performer, the sharpest news judgement, the loveliest woman. Will miss working with her a lot.

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3 years

Some personal news - leaving @itvnews after 34 yrs reporting from Westminster, Brussels,Paris,Berlin & Sydney. Worked with some amazing cameramen/women and producers. Will miss my lobby colleagues too. Admire politicians that answer the question, saves a lot of running around!

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4 years

I’m also saying goodbye to the lobby after 12 years. Fights over embargoes, massive tea rounds, secret phone calls outside the press gallery men’s loos, mouse hunts - I have loved it and hated it... and made friends and memories for life.

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6 years

I wrote a couple of chapters for this rather large tome. There will be the female MPs you’ve heard of and then a tonne of other stories about women who altered political history in ways you probably never realised.

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So excited to see my first hard copy of THE HONOURABLE LADIES. Profiles of every woman elected to Parliament between 1918 and 1996. Written by other women there are some great stories. Published next week and edited by me and @IainDale Thanks to all our great contributors.

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5 years

The day after the @DailyMirror chicken splash, Boris Johnson has visited an egg farm.

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7 years

Women political journos who influence every day. @hansmollman @estwebber @NatashaC @jessicaelgot @jessbrammar @JenWilliamsMEN @helenlewis

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7 years

Hearing, as expected, @PennyMordaunt to be made new international development secretary. Will be heading to Downing St shortly.

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6 years

Finally, proof that these last-minute weekend negotiations will have punishing repercussions... But whose ear?

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7 years

First proper day back after mat leave. Damian Green's in charge, we're extending mental health services & Hammond's been chatting tax havens

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@amberdebotton

7 years

@ShippersUnbound May's 'tingle factor' is not something I should have to contemplate before 9am. Actually, ever.

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7 years

Feel a bit sorry for May. It's her birthday today, she's up early for Marr and losing her voice. I can think of better ways to enjoy it.

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7 years

@indiaknight @MattChorley And this in the Telegraph in 2008 - "charity begins away from the wife"

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6 years

Politics is not normal when 4 of the team are on @FredianiITV ’s bulletin: * @romillyweeks on Brexit + exclusive w/ Sir John Major * @Peston on customs union defeat * @carldinnen on Vote Leave fine + exclusive with @matthew_elliott * @PaulBrandITV exclusive on train timetable mess

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3 years

Please watch this report from @DanielHewittITV @SophieAlex1 and @imogenbarrer - as Dan says, totally unacceptable

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@amberdebotton

5 years

He's in Switzerland...

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5 years

"Of course I will be running for prime minster" said Boris Johnson at #SEF19 @borisjohnson

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3 years

We are looking for a new Head of Planning @itvnews to help shape coverage for all of our UK news - it's a proper opportunity to drive change

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Happy #EdBallsDay http://t.co/SPAoR5gFsX

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3 years

The report on @ITVJoel ’s second big exclusive in two days - Tesco on Wednesday and BP yesterday

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3 years

BP has told the government that it plans to restrict deliveries of petrol and diesel to its network of service stations to ensure continuity of supply. @ITVJoel reports:

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6 years

@PippaCrerar This exact thing happened to me last week. I think there is a mouse with a foot fetish doing the rounds.

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7 years

Long few days ahead for politicians, their staffers & journo friends. Knowing this, my 10 month old considerately woke me up at 4.30am.

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4 years

I will be terribly sad to leave @itvnewspolitics . We’ve had a punishingly busy few years & I can’t think of a better team to have weathered the storm with. An enormously talented, bloody lovely bunch who dedicated every day to reporting politics in a way that matters to viewers.

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9 years

No cuts in the police budgets at all, says Osborne #spendingreview

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