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At 8 via @itvpeston and at 10.45 on ITV I ask @grantshapps about what government is doing to protect us from Covid19, @Keir_Starmer whether winning votes of Labour members is any route to winning a general election and Weinstein whistleblower Zelda Perkins whether she is...
confident safeguards are now in place to prevent another abuser like Weinstein getting away with it for years. All on #peston tonight.
Also on show, holding all to account, @JustineGreening and @leicesterliz
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Robert Peston
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As I have repeatedly mentioned, the view of the chief medical officer Chris Whitty, which has shaped the government’s response to Covid19, is that the virus is the equivalent of unstoppable bad flu...
But to make policy on that basis is to impose an epidemiological judgement on to what is a social, ethical and political issue...
The fact is that for most British people, 20,000 people or so dying each year from flu is just one of those horrible facts of nature...
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We are likely to see a significant fiscal and monetary stimulus in UK, eurozone and US in coming few days - lots more spending (eg tomorrow’s UK budget) and probably significant easing by Bank of England, ECB and Fed (presumably largely measures to increase flow of cheap...
credit to cash-strapped businesses and individuals, rather than pointless discount rate cuts). But all of that a temporary markets steroid unless spread of virus is decelerated. So what really matters are stats on daily increases in infections, and whether what is...
happening in China and Korea - namely sharp slowdown in new Covid19 cases - is artificial suppression or genuine victory. All eyes therefore on the Italian lockdown and how effective that will be.
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Remember that trade deal with the US that this government has been saying for years is so desperately important and is the big reason why it insists the UK should leave the EU single market and customs union. Well today it published its mandate for trade talks with the US...
and that mandate includes a new forecast that if it gets what it wants from a free trade agreement then there would be an "increase in trade with the US of approximately £15.3bn" after "15 years from the implementation of the agreement". Now I don't want to be a party pooper...
but £15bn in the context of our £2 trillion plus economy is a rounding error, trivial. And Boris Johnson cannot blame the surrender monkeys and defeatists of Theresa May's government for downplaying the possible benefits, because - as he may have noticed - he's in charge
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Jonathan Myerson Katz
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Trump's White House shut down the office that prepares for pandemics, tried to slash funding to the CDC and NIH, then scrambled to respond to #COVIDー19 by putting together a team of former pharmaceutical and auto lobbyists and a science-denying homophobe katz.substack.com/p/calling-in-s…
Chinese officials screwed up their initial response to the outbreak in Wuhan by prioritizing party loyalty over science and public health. They were more concerned about making the leader look good than saving lives.

Sound like anyone you know?
Xi told Trump he "feels they are doing very well" stopping #COVIDー19. Trump took his word for it, natch.

We don't know what else Xi said because the White House won't even publish call summaries anymore, because they think we have no right to know what the president is doing.
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Recently Ellie Reeves #Labour MP was reportedly facing a vote of "No Confidence" and "Deselection" @elliereeves received a lot of support from Jess Phillips, Tom Watson etc. No motion was tabled with her CLP so the furore over a pregnant Labour MP being deselected was nonsense.
So let us move on about 1 week from this bogus story to the equally spurious #PanoramaHatchetJob about #Labour and #Antisemitism The usual suspects showed their sham horror of the apparent problems in Labour. #TomWatson #jessphillips
Tom Watson belittled, harangued, bullied and called into question the reliability and fitness of @JennieGenSec to act as General Secretary. Some might question my point on reliability etc. But the image I have attached which Watson and Phillips promote does exactly that.
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Adam Payne
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Keir Starmer hints on #Marr that Labour's policy is preferential treatment for EU citizens after Brexit: "If you want a good deal with the EU, which we want, it comes with citizens being treated in that way"
Michael Gove tells #Marr he likes the Chequers deal because it will liberate the UK's services sector from the EU's "regulatory orbit." That's certainly one analysis.
Andrew Marr: "I think this is fake sovereignty"
Michael Gove: "Well, I think you're wrong. I think that's a fake question"

Ding ding
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Which party has the oldest average age of MPs? THREAD
First off, we must thank-you all. We launched a poll on Monday expecting maybe 500 responses maximum. Instead we had a whopping three-thousand-two-hundred-and-thirty votes on our Twitter poll.

That’s ridiculous.
We asked you which party you thought had the oldest average age of MPs.

Most of you, 66%, thought it was the @Conservatives, then the @LibDems (15%), then @UKLabour (14%), with the @theSNP coming in last with (5%).

I bet the SNP are feeling fairly youthful right about now.
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Anti-Nazis United
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The noises coming out of #Labour on racism towards Jews (let us call it that) are increasingly hollow.
Let's not even talk about the 1000s of oddballs in & around Labour, who rant on about "Zionists", etc like UKIPers talk about "immigrants", but we know where both are pointing.

One is profiled here in detailed (& mostly ignored by Labour "radicals")

antinazisunited.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/he-…
I asked this question ages ago, with no satisfactory answer:

Labour members, do you like antisemitism or Holocaust denial? Can you spot it?
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