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13 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
NEW: The House of Representatives has reached the necessary 217 votes to impeach Donald Trump. He becomes the only President in the history of the United States to be impeached twice.

In this case for incitement of insurrection.
All votes are in- it’s official.

YEA: 232
NAY: 197

Democratic YEA: 221
Democratic NAY: 0
Democratic Non Voting: 0

Republican YEA: 10
Republican NAY: 197
Republican Non Voting: 4

So unlike his first impeachment it is not a strictly party line vote- 10 GOP reps vote for it.
Now to the Senate for a trial. That won’t happen til Biden takes office. Trump can be convicted after he leaves the presidency.

It would require 67 senators to convict. 50 Dems plus 17 Republicans. It’s a tall order-if it is possible, it’s in McConnell’s hands.
Speaker Pelosi: “Today, in a bipartisan way, the House demonstrated that no one is above the law. Not even the president of the United States.”
Indeed, this is already getting played out. Johnson only got impeached once. Nixon would only have been impeached once.

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Big news in Scottish politics ahead of Holyrood elections. Means that Scottish Labour will be on its ninth Leader or Acting Leader since the independence referendum in 2014.
Has been discontent in London about Leonard's performance but Leonard survived a putsch last year.

But Lab's years' long anaemia north of the border is structural, not merely contingent on poor leadership. Were that the only issue one of the eight would have had more success.
Best way of illustrating Labour's structural problems are these maps of 2019 voting patterns in the youngest and eldest groups. In 18-24s Lab dominates everywhere but not Scotland. There, for these voters (as for others), they've lost their place as the party of the centre-left. Image
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12 Jan
Filming at a school in Wandsworth. They have over 100 kids in today. In the first lockdown they only had around 30 in through the doors.

In some year groups they have classes of 20+ in school. Overall they’ve got about a third of their total roll coming in every day. Image
Point is, if schools are having more and more kids sent in, it raises question of utility of closure. Risk is we end up in worst of both worlds which is unfair (some kids missing out) and yet doesn’t suppress the disease efficiently or quickly. They remain “vectors of infection”
Playground as I type is full of parents and kids. You’d barely know the school is meant to be largely closed.
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Hancock: "It's your actions now which can make a difference."

Plays down prospect of immediate introduction of new restrictions.
Few doubt the public must play its part. But legitimate questions about whether the govt has made/is making public's task harder in two key respects:

1) For some there's still a major economic disincentive apropos self isolation. Sick pay still poor. Savings for many exhausted.
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10 Jan
More post-Brexit discontent at the border(s). Stephen Phipson, CEO @MakeUK_: “There are customs experts with 30 yrs’ experience who are baffled by what the new regulations mean, let alone small/medium sized biz who have never had to deal with the kind of paperwork required.”
Continued: “the greater fear is that for many it will proved too much and they will simply choose not to export to the EU.”

It’s in Northern Ireland where some of the effects are being felt most acutely, with some UK businesses even suspending sending goods to NI (and the EU).
Stephen Kelly, Chief Exec of Manufacturing NI: “The reason why the UK&EU originally agreed that there would be an implementation period of 11 months was so that people could get their heads around what was needed and assure their biz was compliant. But we didn’t even have that.”
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Chris Whitty, writing in The Sunday Times says “The NHS is facing the most dangerous situation anyone can remember.” Says the service risks being overwhelmed in a fortnight and “Hospitals won’t have room to take redirected emergency cases.“
Whitty continues: “Staff patient ratios, which are already stretched, will become unacceptable even in places like intensive care. There will be avoidable deaths.”
As striking as the piece is, can’t help feeling might be more effective if Whitty and Vallance were also touring the TV studios this morning to project the message. Outside the confines of the briefings, we’ve barely seen either in interviews for months and months.
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