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Senior UK correspondent @POLITICOEUROPE . DM / ✉️ewebber @politico .co.uk / winters13 @protonmail .com

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4 years
Refusing to turn the heating on before 6 while working from home
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The speaker of the House of Commons says he would not invite President Trump to Parliament
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I'm worried something bad has happened to Theresa May
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4 years
my flatmate just complained about "email culture" me: by that do you mean sending and receiving emails her: yes
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"yep, yep, working from home today, I'm on my mobile"
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2 years
Sky News outside Downing St as we await new government: "We don't know how long this shower is going to last"
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4 years
from December 1st adding a person who lives alone to your household is called a support Bublé
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4 years
Cummings saying the house they stayed in wasn't even that nice is a highly underrated bit of yesterday's press conference
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The UK:
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Arlene Foster looks like she's deciding what score to give on Come Dine With Me
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Arlene Foster DBE PC #ProudofNI.
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Update: I didn’t seek the last four days but a fair and balanced agreement reached with the support of the Health Minister.
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MPs shout "shame!" as Priti Patel leaves the chamber at the start of David Lammy's urgent question about Windrush review and deportation
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Can't believe Starmer wants to ban flirting
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2 months
it's been brought to my attention that Baroness Jenkin is at it again
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2 years
In May we reported claims that a member of the govt had a “minder” to ensure he left events without drinking too much and getting into trouble — and can now reveal the MP concerned was Pincher.
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7 years
Jeremy Corbyn gets standing ovation as he comes into Commons for first time since the election
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6 years
Worth listening to the end of Lord Heseltine's speech from the Brexit deal debate
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7 years
Whoops
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6 years
not sure I've ever seen anyone as angry to be eating an ice cream as Donald Tusk
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6 years
wow me and Viscount Hailsham have the same filing system
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5 years
If I wanted to hear five men speaking over each other about Brexit I'd go to a house party
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5 years
Making Trump land at Stansted is more insulting than not inviting him
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6 years
another bad day for Princess Di's racist ghost
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6 years
My favourite (worst) new gender stereotype in advertising is Incompetent Dad. He has to look after the kids for the holidays/Sunday/five minutes and is saved by Alexa/superfast broadband/instant rice
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the Queen is quiet-quitting
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3 years
realising you're the govt minister on straight after PMQs
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The results are in
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4 years
Get in loser we're going to test our eyesight
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3 years
Sue Gray lights a cigarette, opens Word, new document
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EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson had a birthday party during lockdown in June 2020 despite rules forbidding social gatherings indoors, ITV News has learnt. Up to 30 staff celebrated in the cabinet room where Carrie Johnson surprised him with a cake, we're told.
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me to Sue Gray
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1 year
trying to tell the bouncers your friend is absolutely fine when he's been on it since 11am
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10 months
NEW: Tory MP Andrew Rosindell has been under arrest since May 2022 on suspicion of rape + other offences. During that time he has been absent from parliament, yet has accepted foreign trips worth £8,548. This shouldn't be hard to report, but it is. Read:
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4 years
It's actually a B-turn now
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6 years
John Bercow:
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4 years
So we'll be able to use the Wetherspoons app again before the covid tracing app
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3 years
Amira from Gogglebox has the last word on Cummings' revenge on No10. "Who even blogs anymore? What is this, Gossip Girl?"
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3 years
Not long till they drop the No10 Christmas party Spotify playlist
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6 years
Amazing range of looks from the PM
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5 years
When someone says "we should catch up soon!!" and then they actually follow through
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British women have five (5) outfits that are both smart and suitable for hot weather. Once a heatwave goes beyond ten days they should be allowed to work from home - in this ted talk I will
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5 years
Confirmed: next PM will be a white man in his 50s who went to Oxford
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4 years
just clocked
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How great is this shot of two stern Eagles looking in the direction of a (male) MP intervening on Stella Creasy
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Escaped in Wandsworth, apprehended in Chiswick, the Gail's Bakery caper 😭😭
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4 years
when someone spells your name wrong and it was RIGHT THERE IN THE EMAIL
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3 years
I love that the Tory rulebook is like something dreamed up by teenage girls... we write secret letters saying we don't like you which are then announced by the queen bee
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5 years
video calls that could have been calls are the new meeting that could have been an email
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Tory MP on Truss at the 1922 Committee: "Worst since I've been to since 2015. Unspeakably bleak"
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Donald Tusk: don't waste this time UK: sack the defence sec royal baby? euro elections check facebook woo! summer! front pages about the weather browse Asos new Tory leader? take the bins out oh yeah, Brexit
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7 years
when you rt yourself
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4 years
Extremely excited to say I've just had my first dose of the vaccine. Big welcome to Bill Gates, I hope you like parliamentary procedure and 00s RnB
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2 years
After the Charlie Elphicke saga I thought it was *possible* MPs might think a bit harder about defending alleged sex offenders, never mind convicted ones
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Here goes... I'm very very excited to say I'm going to be joining @POLITICOEurope from next month as senior UK correspondent, covering all the big stories in British politics and some of the nerdier ones too
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Jeremy Corbyn's impression of "the cynics" earlier
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A first? Labour's Dawn Butler asks a question in the Commons in British Sign Language
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5 years
Lorraine Kelly lights a cigarette, takes a single puff, stubs it out
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6 years
Peers have just voted 87 to 23 to make Lord Adonis stop talking
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the Z in ulez is actually silent, like voulez-vous
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4 years
Amazing. Just had it confirmed that while the govt tries to go ahead with physical voting for MPs, the House of Lords is preparing to move to a fully digital system
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Me and my friends comparing battery charge 45 minutes after leaving the house
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Lord Patten on Jacob Rees-Mogg comments about the Lords "playing with fire", "I'll tell you what playing with fire is - blundering into Northern Ireland with a policy which is clueless and deluded with a can of petrol and a box of matches in the other hand"
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Nationalise Pizza Express
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Does Colleen Rooney have any proposals on alternatives to the backstop going
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🐱 Gratuitous cat pictures in @timesredbox 🐱 @LindsayHoyle_MP has helped launch an online mental health forum for parliamentary staff, and says "I find nothing more relaxing than having Patrick, my cat, sitting with me while I listen to some music"
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women of twitter @ their reply guys
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Ever feel like you've met Dominic Cummings before? My @timesredbox today:
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IDS says Priti Patel represents modern Britain because "she's a woman, she's from, um, the subcontinent". She was born in Harrow.
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how you walk past your mum when you come home after a few wines
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the deputy chief medical officer told your boyfriend to grow up
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Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Jenny Harries says couples should “test the strength of their relationship” and either permanently stay together or keep apart during the coronavirus outbreak to avoid people “switching in and out of households”
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Woah. Here's the Lord Speaker getting a bit shirty because somebody wanted the Lords to act like the Commons
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3 years
Big "sorry just seen your message!" vibes
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I’ve been on a visit all day today continuing work on our #PlanForJobs as well as meeting MPs to discuss the energy situation. The PM was right to apologise and I support his request for patience while Sue Gray carries out her enquiry.
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4 years
When I have to "catch up" with people again
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6 years
IT'S HAPPENING
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5 years
When you sneeze and you're on your period
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Extinction Rebellion have sprayed 1,800 litres of fake blood on the Treasury using an old fire engine
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bad day for Princess Di's racist ghost
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Between the second homes and married lovers scientific advisers to the government live a way more glamorous life than I imagined
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Lord Hall tells cttee: "I don't believe there is an old boys' network. I believe in equality of opportunity." Jo Stevens asks how he got his job, and he says he was approached by Lord Patten and a headhunter
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Tbf it would be difficult for Bill Gates to sustain his marriage now he's in the arms of so many women
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Leadership race summary so far: - Rory Stewart has faked holding his own phone - Raab wants to cancel parliament - Gove drug shame - Hancock knows some swearwords - Esther McVey has been murdered by Lorraine Kelly Fine, good
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This is the moment an opposition teller took his place on the outside of the dispatch box, signalling the government had lost
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FIIIIIIIIIIGHT
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Only in the House of Lords: top lawyer explains terms of Article 50 as one of its authors shakes his head behind her
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Bringing ID to vote, apart from anything else, is lame and lacks spontaneity. The democratic equivalent of having to book a table for drinks in the pub
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Boris Johnson:
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Tory MPs Natalie Elphicke, Sir Roger Gale and Theresa Villiers have been suspended from the Commons for one day (tomorrow). They tried to "improperly influence" judges not to release character references written for Charlie Elphicke after he was convicted of sexual assault
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When someone asks what happens if the deal gets voted down
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Monday: seven Labour MPs quit Tuesday: eighth Labour MP quits Wednesday: three Tory MPs quit Thursday: brief sit-down and a Twix Friday: ninth Labour MP quits
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Andy Burnham has the most powerful dad energy ever recorded
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6 years
It occurs to me with Sir Eric Pickles' elevation we now have the full picnic of Baroness Kingsmill, Lord Pickles, the Earl of Sandwich, Lord Eatwell, Lord Crisp and two Baroness Bakewells. Only the cheese is missing.
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I have swiped the cup that was in your hand and which you were probably hoping to drink Forgive me it was single-use and so disposable
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3 years
... is the message here: he CAN use the phone
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Conservative MP plugged in to several wings of the party texts: "It is over. More resignations on way"
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the invite: smart-casual the UK:
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I'm sorry. I've seen this now, I don't understand it and this is all I can do with it
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not everything on the BBC News site should be a live page! sometimes I just want to read a story telling me what has happened!
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What is the most boomer complaint you have? Mine is I think people take their dogs too many places for my taste and also I think everyone should be more punctual.
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8 years
"Now we've just got to beat Spurs on Sunday" - Commons mic picks up Speaker Bercow and Jeremy Corbyn talking football after #PMQs
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So @bienbutcher alerted me to this tense exchange between Andrew Boff and Sadiq Khan earlier - worth sticking to the end
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Baroness Hale, leaning against her doorframe, coffee cup in hand, takes a drag on a cigarette, thinking about how she's going to fuck us all up today
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