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CCO at the Guardian Media Group

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Joined January 2009
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@amberdebotton
Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
6 years
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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Amber de Botton
7 years
@tamcohen Wow, imagine if it had been a full reshuffle
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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
3 years
‘Amber de Bottom’ has had her first jab
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Amber de Botton
6 years
@SamCoatesTimes This is essentially what I do all day, every day...
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Amber de Botton
5 years
Not now Jeremy
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Jeremy Hunt
5 years
Join me for a live Q&A right now on Facebook
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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
6 years
Read @ITVJoel 's excellent story here
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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
8 years
"Why are you here?" Juncker asks Farage at European Parliament in Brussels
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Amber de Botton
6 years
I have to say, this did make me laugh this morning @tamcohen . Everyone’s been there!
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Chris James TX
6 years
Loved the disappearing Correspndent @SkyNews . Comedy moment in Downing Street. Like a trap door opened beneath her.
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Amber de Botton
7 years
@skynewsgirl @tamcohen Freed from the oppression of women and 140 characters
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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Sam Coates Sky
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
9 years
Can't get enough of this gesture. FIRE.
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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
6 years
It's the final 'no' and then the door-slam that makes this
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ITV News
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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Amber de Botton
5 years
@PaulBrandITV "Telegram! Signal?"
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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
7 years
This made me laugh this morning
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Amber de Botton
8 years
Telling women to calm down is generally not a winning political strategy. Just ask the PM.
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Amber de Botton
7 years
Home secretary @AmberRuddHR on whether she told @BorisJohnson to stand up during the PM's speech
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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
6 years
Deep undercover work from ⁦ @JasonFarrellSky
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Amber de Botton
8 years
Watch the "This seems a bad idea" Corbyn shadow cabinet video in full here:
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Amber de Botton
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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Carl Dinnen
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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ITV News
3 years
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
5 years
Toddler playing independently
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Amber de Botton
6 years
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Laura Kuenssberg
6 years
Good scoop @skynews getting the excellent @SamCoatesTimes on board! Big congrats all round
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Amber de Botton
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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ITV News
3 years
Tributes to former ITV News editor Geoff Hill, who has died aged 52
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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
6 years
Bad Jam is better than No Jam
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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
6 years
Seems a good time to retweet this...
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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
6 years
Just been described as an ‘entitled MSM Presstitute’. And how’s your day going?
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Amber de Botton
6 years
This is worth a watch
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ITV News
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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Amber de Botton
7 years
Just so much love for this
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Jack Blanchard
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Police officer dancing with young kids at #OneLoveManchester
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Amber de Botton
5 years
Viewing figures from last night’s #itvdebate - average of 6.7m, peak of 7.3m
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Amber de Botton
7 years
So this is a winter crisis for the NHS then?
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Jeremy Hunt
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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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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
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Oli de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Alain Tolhurst
6 years
Baby in the chamber alert!
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Amber de Botton
7 years
The problem with this election is everyone thinks they've won when actually no one has
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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
5 years
Best moment of today. You two...
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Adam Boulton
5 years
Thanks ⁦ @BethRigby ⁩ helping get rid of the Mars bar
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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
6 years
She loses by 149 votes. Fwiw, @Peston on @ITVEveningNews predicted 150.
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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
5 years
So very proud of @paulbranditv (and super producer @imogenbarrer and @andrewdagnell ) on such an important issue
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Ailbhe Rea
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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Amber de Botton
3 years
Some brilliant opportunities at @itvnews at the moment. Take a look here: #journojobs
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Amber de Botton
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.
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Paul Brand
4 years
🎉 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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Amber de Botton
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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Libby Wiener
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Jacqui Smith
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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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Amber de Botton
5 years
The day after the @DailyMirror chicken splash, Boris Johnson has visited an egg farm.
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Amber de Botton
7 years
Hearing, as expected, @PennyMordaunt to be made new international development secretary. Will be heading to Downing St shortly.
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Amber de Botton
6 years
Finally, proof that these last-minute weekend negotiations will have punishing repercussions... But whose ear?
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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
7 years
@ShippersUnbound May's 'tingle factor' is not something I should have to contemplate before 9am. Actually, ever.
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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
7 years
@indiaknight @MattChorley And this in the Telegraph in 2008 - "charity begins away from the wife"
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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
3 years
Please watch this report from @DanielHewittITV @SophieAlex1 and @imogenbarrer - as Dan says, totally unacceptable
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Amber de Botton
5 years
He's in Switzerland...
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startupticker
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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3 years
The report on @ITVJoel ’s second big exclusive in two days - Tesco on Wednesday and BP yesterday
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ITV News
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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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
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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Amber de Botton
9 years
No cuts in the police budgets at all, says Osborne #spendingreview
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Amber de Botton
5 years
💪 women making the #itvdebate (plus the brilliant @kishan_koria and @HLeadbeater01 too 😉)
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6 years
The 118 Conservative MPs who voted against May's deal
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Amber de Botton
7 years
Mariah Carey live on @GMB with a Christmas tree in the background
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