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'An orgy of pain, abuse and humiliation': How Boris Johnson really viewed the Sue Gray investigation, revealed in episode 1 of Unprecedented: Inside Downing Street a new

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Boris Johnson described Sue Gray's investigation into lockdown-busting parties an "orgy of pain, abuse and humiliation", his former Downing Street director of communications has revealed.

Guto Harri

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New series of podcasts on my time at No10 - a fascinating and turbulent period in British politics …

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Listen exclusively to Unprecedented: Inside Downing Street on @GlobalPlayer l-bc.co/3Mh8wZO

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‘Can you guarantee by the next election there will be no boats crossing the channel?’

@AndrewMarr9

puts this question to

@RobertJenrick

who says the Tories will do 'everything in their power' to tackle the immigration crisis.

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Incredible to see ministers making things up like this. The Refugee Convention simply doesn’t say this.

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"They're not asylum shoppers they're asylum seekers... That's not true." @krishgm challenges immigration minister Robert Jenrick after he claims "asylum shoppers" should seek sanctuary in the first safe country they reach under the "Refugee Convention".

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John Stevens

@johnestevens

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🚨 Rishi Sunak’s press secretary repeatedly refuses to rule out post-election deal with another party if Tories fall short of a majority Won’t rule out deal with DUP, Reclaim or Reform

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Rishi Sunak takes VIP helicopter for trip that would have taken 1h15m on train

John Stevens

@johnestevens

May 9

EXC: Rishi Sunak takes VIP helicopter for trip that would have taken 1h15m on train

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The PM, whose taste for short-haul flights has become infamous in his first few months in office, flew on a government chopper to Southampton as he attempted to brush off his local elections humili...

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Sir Mark Rowley: Protest is an important right, but it is limited

Henry Mance

@henrymance

May 9

Sorry, it's not credible for the Met to say: we have a few regrets, but overall coronation policing went well. They wrongly locked up the leader of the main republican campaign group on the most relevant day for his cause in decades. That is very bad.

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Full piece here:

The Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III and Her Majesty Queen Camilla was an historic moment of huge national significance. We are proud to have successfully ensured its safety and security...

Very strange paragraph in Mark Rowley’s Evening Standard op-ed. Arresting protestors is OK because the people nearby approved?

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Rishi Sunak’s visit to Southampton seems to be going well

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Lizzy Buchan

@LizzyBuchan

May 9

Health Minister Neil O'Brien tells

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the Tory manifesto pledge to recruit 6,000 GPs by 2024 will not be met. He says ex-Health Sec Sajid Javid had already admitted we "will not be able to hit that target

Henry Pryor

@HenryPryor

Over the past 20 years the UK population has increased by roughy 10m - that's about the populations of Scotland & Wales combined. Over the past 20 years we have built about 5m new homes. Any solution that doesn't include building a hell of a lot more houses just isn't credible.

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Iain Dale

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So The Stand refuses to retract its noplatforming of

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, yet we learn today they've replaced her with Ken Loach, a man expelled from Labour over antisemitism. Are the snowflakes at The Stand sure they feel safe? Or do they not care about the feelings of Edinburgh jews

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Joanna Cherry KC

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My solicitor’s letter to @StandComedyClub in respect of their unlawful discrimination against me & a media statement are attached. I have a supporting Opinion from the eminent & leading #HumanRights advocate Aidan O’Neill KC which I will post separately 1/2

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Robert Colvile

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Cabinet election fears over fall in new homes in England

There's no issue as toxic for the Tories as housebuilding. Because nothing else pits their present so squarely against their future. I've written today for

@thetimes

on the housing crisis. But here are the key facts (1/?)

thetimes.co.uk

Rishi Sunak is facing a cabinet backlash over new planning restrictions after an analysis found that the number of homes built in England could fall by a third.The prime minister bowed to rebels in...

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Iain Dale

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Locking up peaceful protestors, arresting women’s safety volunteers and shooting dogs - another great couple of days for the Met

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This evening all six have had their bail cancelled and no further action will be taken. We regret that those six people arrested were unable to join the wider group of protesters in Trafalgar Square and elsewhere on the procession route. news.met.police.uk/news/update-ar

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'It was an act of political cowardice and economic self-sabotage.' Rishi Sunak 'prioritised party unity' over the needs of the economy and younger people when he dropped housebuilding targets, says

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Thank you 🙏 We’ll keep going until someone does something about it

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Macky

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@BenKentish on LBC has done more to highlight the housing emergency over the last year than the entire British media have for a decade. He is awesome. Well done Ben. I feel passionately about this issue. Please don’t stop calling out the disgraceful system that exists.

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speaks up for the 'resentment' people feel when they can't afford to get onto the housing ladder after this caller claimed landlords are being unfairly criticised.

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‘How are you going to tell a kid, who has just seen their friend get slashed by two guys with machetes, to not retaliate?’ Caller Kacey describes to

how her school is ‘riddled with knife crime’, explaining how children are ‘groomed’ into committing violence.

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Kacey has given me more enlightenment on the issues surrounding knife crime than almost every article I’ve read on the subject. Impressive young woman.

Iffy Edges

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🌈Thankyou THANK YOU! to LBC for hosting a proper conversation about ADHD, raising the cost of living without diagnosis plus the high risk of suicide in undiagnosed women and girls. Conversation at 2:0:0 globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/lo #ADHD

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For £240m you could pay the wages of 2,100 new GPs for a full year, or you could upgrade their phones.

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'The only Prime Minister who has tried the sort of agenda you're talking about went on to become the least popular PM in history.' 'I blame the BoE', says Tory MP Sir John Redwood when quizzed on the failure of Liz Truss' budget by

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'A slow but steady march towards a much more authoritarian and draconian country.' Do you agree with

that the arrests made at the Coronation show a worrying 'erosion of freedom.'

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"I don't feel ashamed anymore." This

caller shares how her ADHD diagnosis 'changed her life'.

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'The police went back on their word... the police are abusing their rights and powers.' Human rights campaigner

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the Coronation arrests are part of a 'growing trend.'

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Rich Felgate

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Yesterday I got arrested whilst filming a

@JustStop_Oil

supporter holding a banner on the pavement near the coronation route. I'm a filmmaker and had my

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press accreditation visible around my neck. Police deemed this to be "conspiracy to commit a public nuisance".

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What a league the National League is. Give it a go - get down next season and support your local team.

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Presumably the same logic applies if you live in a country with a long tradition of allowing peaceful protest, and you don’t like it.

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Lee Anderson MP

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May 6

Not My King? If you do not wish to live in a country that has a monarchy the solution is not to turn up with your silly boards. The solution is to emigrate. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1

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Amnesty UK

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May 6

Protest is a human right. Our right to protest is protected by the Human Rights Act. Our right to protest is protected by international law. Don’t let anyone tell you different

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A lovely tribute to UEFA there.

Suggestions of losing 1,000 councillors was Tory expectation management - they thought it would be less. Instead they’ve lost more, with 4 councils still counting. Perhaps most worryingly for the Tories, they’ve been hit right across the country: Blue Wall, Red Wall & in between.

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A man has been elected as a Liberal Democrat councillor in two different places: Salford and Gloucestershire. And yes that’s allowed.

Lab will be buoyed by the clear anti-Tory vote we’re seeing in these results. There’s no sign at all today of Rishi Sunak having revived his party’s fortunes. These results are dire for them. Scotland + tactical voting likely to be key. Lab well-placed but a lot more work to do.

Philip Cowley

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Labour led by 21 and 16 points on the PNS in 1995 and 1996 and the Conservatives led by 18 and 15 points in 2008 and 2009. This set of local elections do not look *quite* on that scale.

Keiran Pedley

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