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NEW: Here’s our Boris-Trump story in tomorrow’s @Telegraph.

Includes this snippet - senior US admin figures are talking up a Boris-Farage pact, believing it could keep centre-right in power for years.

Story with @gordonrayner: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…
Well-placed US sources believe Trump will reach out to Team Boris for a meeting even though officials are against the move. Would be a notable breach of state visit convention.
Boris and Farage camps say nothing is in the diary yet.

Farage tells Telegraph: “I haven’t pushed it. I will wait to see what happens.”

Winfield House, the US ambassador’s residence, would be most likely location.
UK official says no formal request for a Boris or Farage meeting has been made by White House.

But doesn’t rule one out, saying what president does during his private time in Britain is up to him.
All has echoes of this 2008 row, when Brown was seen to have endorsed Obama over McCain (leading to major back-peddling by No 10).
telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…
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Ben Riley-Smith
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Scene is set for Trump’s 2020 campaign kick-off. At the arena that hosts Orlando Magic. 20k+ people expected. Still two hours to go.
Trump’s rallies aren’t just for messaging - they’re a chance to harvest extra data from supporters.

(Attendees encouraged to text the campaign. They are then in the system to push messages to over next 18 months.)
And we're off. Pastor kicks off the rally two hours before Trump appears with a tub-thumping prayer.

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NEW: London Mayor Sadiq Khan has never been briefed on the Hezbollah bomb factory plot in the city.

He’s been in post for two years+ but kept in the dark by the Met / Home Office.

[He was also a very public backer of proscribing Hezbollah in full]
telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/1…
Sadiq Khan meets the Met’s counter-terrorism chief around every two months. He entered office in May 2016. The Mayor shapes the Met’s budget and four-year plan. Yet @Telegraph understands at no point was he told of the disrupted plot.
The plot was disrupted before Khan took office - which means a briefing was not essential.

But Khan has been weighing how to tackle Hezbollah in the city. He wrote to successive Home Secretaries (Rudd + Javid) about the issue. He wanted a full ban...

...yet was never briefed.
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Ben Riley-Smith
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*EXCLUSIVE*

Iranian-linked terrorists were caught stashing three tonnes of bomb-making materials in London in 2015.

It was just months after the Iran nuclear deal was secured. But MPs + the public have never been told.

Summary thread below...
telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/0…
Radicals linked to Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, were caught stockpiling thousands of disposable ice packs.

The packs contained ammonium nitrate - a common component in homemade bombs. (When mixed it becomes extremely explosive.)
Four properties on outskirts of North West London were raided on Sep 30 2015 - three businesses and a home.

Three metric tonnes of ammonium nitrate found - more than used in the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 and destroyed hundreds of buildings (!!)
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