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6 months
@DPJHodges Dan, wee Willie Wragg and James Bamford are the stories you should be covering and not the 4th day of your deflection
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@trussliz @MPIainDS @JackLopresti Liz, I trust your American sponsors are paying for your little jaunt with the right supporting side of the republican’s and not the UK taxpayers?
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@JohnSimpsonNews I’m not sure how the likes of Robbie Gibb can be called left wing?
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8 months
@implausibleblog Out of curiosity, how much per hour are MP’s and ministers paid? Their role is in no way comparable to a junior doctor potentially dealing with life saving decisions every day
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@KemiBadenoch Kemi, it’s not that long ago that a major Tory donor (£15 million) said that looking at Diane Abbott makes you “want to hate all black women” and said the MP “should be shot” which you dismissed at the time. Has your party handed the donations back? No
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4 months
@DPJHodges Dan, will you and the Mail be asking the three Tory MP’s highlighted recently for not paying their capital gains taxes to do the same thing as it would be interesting to see heir correspondence from the HMRC also?
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9 months
@Peston Robert, none of the parties come out well from this but perhaps the question is why Fujitsu was allowed to bid for more contracts during the current government’s reign? Then infosys are linked and suddenly the £3 + billion subsequently given to Fujitsu since 2019 makes sense
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@Peston Unlikely Robert as he’s not going to say that he called the election to stop him from being overthrown by leadership contenders due to the number of letters of no confidence. Perhaps you can confirm this with your Tory party links?
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1 year
@Helen_Whately Helen, the Tory Government allocates funds for the NHS in Wales, so perhaps more funds would help? Just as they would for the NHS in England, which has been cut to the bone by Tory austerity.
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10 months
@implausibleblog The PM appears worryingly forgetful for someone who is allegedly running the country
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6 months
@DPJHodges Day 5 Dan? Your editor really wants you to keep pushing this story. Still not looking at the Bamford family and a £500 million tax bill? Wee Willie effectively sacked himself, but who are the other MP’s who sent a photo to the blackmailer? Is there a security risk?
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1 year
@Peston Why is this up for a metaphorical debate Robert? Johnson is not an MP now and so it’s important the House of Commons follows its process without special measures, which would then set a new precedent
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6 months
@DPJHodges Day 6 Dan? Your editor and owner are definitely still trying follow the government line. Have you mentioned the fake Tory protest including a Tory counsellor being investigated for misogyny against Angela Rayner during her visit to Tees Valley?
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6 months
@D_Blanchflower You haven't missed anything apart from raw sewage being dumped into our rivers and lakes, making it unsafe for the recent Cambridge and Oxford boat race competitors to jump into the Thames. Over 220 Tory MPs voted for this to continue.
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@ByBellaArtist Absolutely
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@Conservatives Whereas a Tory MP compared the banning of smoking in a pub garden to the holocaust. The Tories spent £5 billion a month on borrowing and hid this from the OBR and Labour. Oh and the Home Office was annually spending over £2 billion instead of the declared £110 million.
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Bernard Payn
10 months
@paullewismoney @ofgem Surely this is Ofgem failing in its role to protect bill payers? Given the vast profits they have already been making on inflated bills?
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10 months
@RobertJenrick @Telegraph Robert, people are worried about the cost of living crisis, can they afford food for the table and then put the heat on. Immigration is low unless somebody like yourself keeps espousing the Rwanda deal. The £290 million would have cleared the asylum seeker backlog
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Bernard Payn
1 year
@JohninBucuresti A super injunction is stopping us funding out that very question
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1 year
@CatharineHoey Really? We are no longer part of the EU after Brexit, so how can the EU impact our sovereignty as we are a sovereign nation albeit a third world country as a result of Brexit.
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1 year
@Peston @NathanLeeTV Come on Robert, politicians lie daily as we are seeing with the Covid enquiry and the Tory party conference, but we expect you to challenge their lies now, rather than follow the party line, especially with an election coming up
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11 months
@Peston Robert, how about a Home Secretary who labels a protest for peace in Gaza as 'hate marches'
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@trussliz Liz, your parties policies led to UK debt being over 100% of GDP and you uncosted mini budget contributed to this. Taxes are at the highest levels since the war under a Tory government, and trickle down economics don’t work and is a failed model
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@implausibleblog As Fiona is a Tory shill, she neglected to mention that PFI’s were introduced and started by the Tories prior to Labour being in power in the early 90’s. Labour continued to use the PFI’s from 1997
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@JohnGlenUK John, I assume you are Tory as your profile doesn't say? The 4th biggest exporter in services I believe? 73 trade deals are rolled over EU deals and the Australian and New Zealand deals disadvantage UK farmers
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11 months
@Peston @lisanandy @andreajenkyns I trust Robert, that you will also ask about when the PM will share his WhatsApp messages to the Covid enquiry and not accept his response that he is cooperating in full with the enquiry, as he is plainly not
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Bernard Payn
1 year
@grantshapps @Keir_Starmer Grant, you were the minister who threatened Sadiq Khan with cuts to funding to TFL if he didn’t expand ULEZ. The mayor is doing what you told him to do but that’s not the right thing to do now Grant?
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Bernard Payn
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@AllisterHeath Well your paper has been a mouthpiece for the government for fourteen years, so perhaps your paper should take some ownership of the skip fire the UK has now become under Tory rule and of course, Brexit
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9 months
@SimonClarkeMP It’s a shame Simon that you have not distanced yourself from the disgraced ex PM who was thrown out by your party
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9 months
@toryboypierce @TataSteelLtd @Keir_Starmer Andrew, how about the £500 million of taxpayers money given to Tata to keep the steel plants open which lasted 4 months?
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7 months
@PalmTreeMom Tan lines
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11 months
@PennyMordaunt Penny, in the middle of a cost of living crisis, a Tory MP yesterday saying that gas and electricity bill will come down in 10 years. Mortgages still sky high as a result of the previous Tory MP breaking the economy and you are talking of Labour who your party defeated in 2010
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9 months
@TottenhamConse1 Interesting as Nick Brown is suspended by Labour, whereas a Tory MP accused of rape, and has active police involvement, is still an MP, sitting in the HoC and is not even suspended by your party
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6 months
@toryboypierce @RachelReevesMP @AngelaRayner James Bamford and up to £500 million owed in taxes to HRMC? Despite being a substantial donor. Andrew, for some reason, I’ve not seen this in your paper?
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2 months
@bbclaurak @BBCPanorama @BBCOne @BBCiPlayer Laura, the Tories were in power for 14 years and to my recollection you never used "Labour must deliver or face populist rise" Labour has been in power less than a month and yet Labour has to deliver whereas 14 years of Tory failure was unchallenged
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@uhXena Yes please
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@itsmommymaster Hi and that’s a lovely photo too!
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@ByBellaArtist Not at all
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11 months
@grantshapps Grant, respectfully, the Palestinian march for peace, is planned for Saturday and not Remembrance Day which is Sunday. The National Front are also marching to the Cenotaph and yet, I don’t see this described as a ‘hate march’ despite their right wing political stance and ethos
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@PalmTreeMom Good morning to you too
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9 months
@Jeremy_Hunt Well Chancellor, your party privatised the water sector when Margaret Thatcher was in power (Thames Water) and now you are reaping the benefits of this lack of investment
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@OnlyKateBackup Definitely not!
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@amandalaura1976 Sounds like a good stress management plan to me
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@DPJHodges Dan, HRMC and the Police have both looked into this and decided no case to answer. Look at Dan Neidles piece too on this matter. Will you apologise to Angela Rayner and the Labour party when this is resolved for accusing them of lying?
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9 months
@montie Yes and that was 5 years ago. However, the Tories selected a PM at the same time, who was thrown out by his party, lied daily, broke his own guidance, and was vulnerable to kompromat and put the son of a KGB/FSB officer into the House of Lords
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1 year
@DavidGHFrost David, as an unelected bureaucrat, who is now in the House of Lords, whilst you absolutely have the right to express your opinion (for now), surely you would appreciate that the elected leader of the Republic of Ireland also has the right to express his opinion on the UK?
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Bernard Payn
6 months
@toryboypierce @TheBMA No Andrew, a deliberate policy by the government who have even refused to negotiate pay settlements whilst bringing in physician assistants who have 2 years training and are calling themselves doctors
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Bernard Payn
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@OhAmandaPlease Happy Tuesday 🙌
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Bernard Payn
7 months
@TottenhamConse1 This is getting tiresome, mayor Khan is not responsible for fighting crime, he has Sir Mark Rowley to do that. The government does however allocate police funds and the Met had its budget cut by a billion pounds by ex mayor, then PM Johnson
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7 months
@michaelgove Respectfully Michael, the previous Tory council saddled Labour with significant debts which the government also refused to help out with
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10 months
@implausibleblog Cygnus was all about preparedness for a pandemic and its recommendations for improvement were not followed. We know why now because of Brexit and the focus on that and nothing else and people died
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11 months
@toryboypierce A precautionary measure to offset the recent race/hate vitriol from the Home Secretary with her hate march rhetoric and the far right are answering the call to ‘defend’ the cenotaph. Hence the police presence who would not have been required in such numbers without the HS input
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1 year
@Peston Robert, he’s lying again as he sent a letter just before midnight last night which has to be actioned, so he has deliberately stopped publication of the report for tomorrow
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Bernard Payn
7 months
@EstherMcVey1 Esther, it’s called compressed hours which is available in the public and private sector now and has been for some time under your government. You work more hours in four days to work your weekly allocation of hours, so say 10 hours a day, something an MP from your party doesn’t
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1 year
@toryboypierce @MailOnline No, she was thrown out by the Tories after destroying the economy with a vote of no confidence from the Tories and nothing to do with the ‘blob’. The legacy of this is still reflected in the high cost of mortgages and rents
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@toryboypierce Andrew, with Tata closing the steel plants in Port Talbot after being given £500 million of tax payers money to stay open last year amongst great fanfare from the PM and the business minister, which lasted 4 months and you are obsessing about Harry and Meghan?
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11 months
@Jeremy_Hunt Chancellor, George Osborne in 2015 when Chancellor, changed the name to National Living Wage, but it was a Labour policy bought into legislation in 1998 as the minimum wage. Please don't gaslight us Chancellor
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1 year
@grantshapps @Keir_Starmer Grant, can we expect an apology from you regarding the mishandling of the gas and electricity companies regarding prices similar to our European neighbours?Especially given the UK has arguably the most expensive gas and electricity bills in the world
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9 months
@OnlyKateBackup Good morning and later than on a workday. How about you?
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Bernard Payn
7 months
@RobertJenrick Honest Bob, you talk about crossing the rubicon of liberal democracy which cannot be crossed. You’ve successfully and regularly marched over that particular rubicon. Ask the people on the Bibby Stockholm and the Angola project and the plan to leave the ECHR also.
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3 months
@LittleMissRed_x Fabulous too
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1 year
@grantshapps Grant, the average bill is still twice the amount that they were before the Ukraine war. Government help has now been withdrawn so people will actually be paying the full costs. What are you doing to reduce the utility bills back to their true costs and address the profiteering?
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8 months
@toryboypierce Andrew, conversely what did Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have to hide with their deleted WhatsApp messages?
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@DPJHodges Dan, presumably that’s what James Bamford is doing regarding his tax bill of up to £500 million? Why hasn’t your paper being covering this story given the scale of this plus he’s given up his role as Lord
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@_AleyKat Happy birthday 🥳🎂🎉
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@DPJHodges Dan, the BBC journalist who broke the story is on more than this and Simon Case was on £200,000 when Boris Johnson was in power. The head of Westminster City council is also on more than what Sue Gray is being paid but hey, that's ok as it's a Tory council
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@fitlilredhead Good morning and simply stunning
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1 year
@LordAshcroft @idualliance @BorisJohnson @ScottMorrisonMP Except it wasn’t a kangaroo court and other MP’s who repeated this mantra from ex PM Johnson, will be cited in the next privilege committee report and face sanction also
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5 months
@markjenkinsonmp Except your party didn't. If the NHS received that money weekly, why are there 9 million people on the NHS waiting list as hospitals would be fully staffed and have access to the latest tech which would have reduced the waiting list
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4 months
@bbclaurak Laura, allegedly there were so many letters of no confidence, the PM went for the election early rather than be deposed by at least three other potential leadership candidates, so please hold the Tory gaslighting
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3 months
@ClaireCoutinho Claire, UK utility bills are the highest in Europe and bills will be again higher in October and yet prior to a change of government, you have done nothing to reduce the standing charge or help those faced with a choice of heat or eat in the winter
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8 months
@MichelleMone Michelle, did you have to wear bin bags as protection when treating active COVID cases because there was not PPE from a company like MedPro for example as it was not fit for purpose?
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@baseballchickie Happy birthday 🥳🎂
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@implausibleblog The hypocrisy is truly sickening
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@bbclaurak Laura, as one of two journalists that apparently had the ear of the inner circle of the government. Why didn’t you hold the PM especially to account? You palpably failed at this and are now trying to gaslight us
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@nkh12349 Good to see and that your aunt is ok too
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@ByBellaArtist Pleased to say, yes I can
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@Tania2sx Yes please
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@aaamaryllisss That is a particularly good angle but to show you and your bikini off, we may need some more photos
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@winterwoman1818 Fabulous and hope you enjoy!
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@OnlyKateBackup Delightful choice if I may say
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@toryboypierce @newyorkpost Well Andrew, even the UN has reprimanded the Home Secretary, so apart from your paper and the post, amnesty and media around the world is horrified at a return of BNP dog whistles, from the UK's Home Secretary no less who spoke in front of 40 people in a right wing, neocon room
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@JamesCleverly Home Secretary, have you restored the billion pounds taken from the Mets police budget in 2019?
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@Dr_JGreenn 🙌🙌
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