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Sep 18, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Amal Clooney has quit as a UK govt envoy
And yes - it's over @BorisJohnson plan to break international law
The question for the govt is...which lawyers will they persuade to replace those who have resigned?
(Lord Keen has not been replaced as Advocate General for Scotland yet).
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/amal-clo…
"I have been dismayed to learn that the Government intends to pass legislation – the Internal Market Bill – which would, by the Government’s own admission, ‘break international law’ if enacted..."
And here's the kicker:
"Although the government has suggested that the violation of international law would be ‘specific and limited’, it is lamentable for the UK to be speaking of its intention to violate an international treaty signed by the Prime Minister less than a year ago"

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Mar 19
George Galloway told the voters of Rochdale he would be their voice on Gaza.

Well, there's an Urgent Question in the Commons right now. And Galloway is nowhere to be seen.

Meanwhile, lots of Labour MPs demanding immediate ceasefire and suspension of arms sales to Israel.
.@BenPBradshaw points out both Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair suspended arms sales to Israel to influence policy.

With several Tory MPs also v critical of Israel, notable that @AndrewmitchMP says arms sales under review but not job of minister to "make policy" at despatch box
.@liambyrnemp asks if govt will publish FCDO internal assessment of whether Israel breaching international law.
Mitchell replies Govt bound by convention on publication of legal advice BUT (and this sounds significant) Govt will update the House on this issue "in due course".
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Feb 26
.@RishiSunak tells @BBCYork that "Lee's comments were unacceptable, they were wrong." Says it's incumbent on politicians not to inflame situations. "The words Lee chose were unacceptable"
Note that the PM stresses Anderson's *words* were wrong, not Anderson himself.
Q that needs to be asked: under what conditions would you restore the Tory whip to Lee Anderson?
ie is this just a question of putting him in a sin bin until everyone's attention is elsewhere? Can he demonstrate he has learned and won't repeat his remarks? Or is he out for good?
.@BBCYork highlights one of the many reasons the Conservatives are behind in the polls. Presenter says a paramedic told her to ask Sunak: ‘why are you running down the NHS?’
Also presenter points out 9 hour waits in A&E.
Sunak repeats bromides about stick with his plan
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Dec 2, 2023
Labour's voters are overwhelmingly (75%) pro-EU and want Starmer to be too.

Sir John Curtice: "If indeed it is elected into office by a predominantly pro-EU electorate, it’s then got to think about how it’s going to best keep that electorate.”

inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
Is there little appetite for a #RejoinEU referendum?
Curtice: “This is one of those great myths of our time. If you actually look at the evidence…a majority of those people who want to be inside the European Union are in favour of having a referendum within the next 5 years.”
“One of the myths was, ‘oh, Remain voters have given up and they accept it’. Well, that was the myth about two years ago and we’ve discovered that was a myth.”

Full interview in the Brexit episode of our @theipaper podcast, ‘Labour’s Plan For Power’.

pod.link/1714608436/epi…
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Exclusive: Covid Inquiry verdict on Tory austerity set to be delayed until after the next general election

inews.co.uk/news/covid-inq…
Meanwhile, @CovidJusticeUK have compiled their own analysis of Module 1 of the Covid Inquiry.

The evidence "overwhelmingly and unquestionably demonstrates the significantly negative, dangerous and devastating impact of prolonged austerity”

inews.co.uk/opinion/covid-…
Barbara Herbert, whose husband Paul died of Covid: "Module 1 has revealed in black and white a catalogue of mistakes ranging from failing to address the impact of austerity to the failure of the government to learn from its own crises exercises in the lead up to the pandemic...
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Jun 20, 2023
.@George_Osborne as fluent as ever in evidence to Covid Inquiry. Cites OBR chair Richard Hughes for saying 'in the absence of perfect foresight', the best prep for a pandemic any Treasury can do is to have a healthy balance sheet to allow flexibility of emergency spending needed
Osborne: “No one said to us there could be a health pandemic that is not influenza for which the likely response is you’re going to have to shut down the economy…This is not disparaging the health experts. "
Adds it doesn’t seem any country prepared like that.
Sharp jab at Truss's economic implosion last autumn from Osborne there, when he says her administration showed the need for sound finances [as opposed to borrowing binges]
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Just spotted legendary actor Ian McKellen in the Commons guest gallery, he's currently watching @theresa_may praise the Privileges Committee for its denunciation of @BorisJohnson's lies to Parliament
Top trivia: McKellen using theatre binoculars to watch May speak.
Now McKellen watching @HarrietHarman set out in detail how @BorisJohnson repeatedly misled the Commons about lockdown parties in No10.

The most senior women in the Commons are notably smashing this debate.
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