Foreign Secretary @DominicRaab now live with @SophyRidgeSky:
-Checks will be strengthened at border and in isolation.
-Suspension of travel corridors is 'precautionary measure'.
-Avoids Q on whether hotels will be used for people isolating on arrival.
-Checks will be strengthened at border and in isolation.
-Suspension of travel corridors is 'precautionary measure'.
-Avoids Q on whether hotels will be used for people isolating on arrival.
Raab on quarantine hotels: we've 'considered all the possibilities'.
'People shouldn't be going on holiday. That is not appropriate.'
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'People shouldn't be going on holiday. That is not appropriate.'
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Will people get second vaccine within 12 weeks?
Raab: 'If we follow road map... we ought to be able to deliver on that... We can be quietly confident.'
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Raab: 'If we follow road map... we ought to be able to deliver on that... We can be quietly confident.'
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Raab on loosening restrictions:
'We won't do it all in one big bang' and phase through the tier approach.
We will publish the exit plan 'in due course'.
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'We won't do it all in one big bang' and phase through the tier approach.
We will publish the exit plan 'in due course'.
#Ridge
Raab on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe:
-'Pushing as hard as we can' for her release.
-'We have intensified those negotiations'.
-We want here released 'as soon as possible... we are pushing very hard'.
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-'Pushing as hard as we can' for her release.
-'We have intensified those negotiations'.
-We want here released 'as soon as possible... we are pushing very hard'.
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Raab on British QC David Perry prosecuting pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong:
-'I don't understand how anyone in good conscience' would do this.
-'This would be a serious PR coup' for Beijing.
-'Pretty mercenary' to take up case.
-Could be resisted under Bar ethics rules.
-'I don't understand how anyone in good conscience' would do this.
-'This would be a serious PR coup' for Beijing.
-'Pretty mercenary' to take up case.
-Could be resisted under Bar ethics rules.
On treatment of Uighur muslims:
-It is 'absolutely disgraceful, appalling, shocking'.
-UK 'leading the way' in response.
-Making sure we don't have any UK business supplying to or profiting from camps.
-Asks for UNHR commissioner to be given access to investigate.
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-It is 'absolutely disgraceful, appalling, shocking'.
-UK 'leading the way' in response.
-Making sure we don't have any UK business supplying to or profiting from camps.
-Asks for UNHR commissioner to be given access to investigate.
#Ridge
Is treatment of Uighurs genocide?
-'For a court to decide' if it's genocide. -But 'convincing and persuasive' reports of serious violations of human rights on a 'appalling industrial scale'.
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-'For a court to decide' if it's genocide. -But 'convincing and persuasive' reports of serious violations of human rights on a 'appalling industrial scale'.
#Ridge
Ex FBI boss James Comey (@Comey) tells @SophyRidgeSky:
-Donald Trump 'is the dictionary definition of a demagogue'.
-'Lying works' and that's why we all need to fight back.
-Capital rioters are 'crowd of criminals... we saw a radioactive spill on Capitol Hill'.
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-Donald Trump 'is the dictionary definition of a demagogue'.
-'Lying works' and that's why we all need to fight back.
-Capital rioters are 'crowd of criminals... we saw a radioactive spill on Capitol Hill'.
#Ridge
Comey on Capitol Hill:
-'It was a failure' of law enforcement.
-'Worried' about these 'armed disturbed people' who are a serious threat.
Comey on impeachment:
-'I would' like to see DT impeached.
-'There has to be an historic sanction for this behaviour'.
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-'It was a failure' of law enforcement.
-'Worried' about these 'armed disturbed people' who are a serious threat.
Comey on impeachment:
-'I would' like to see DT impeached.
-'There has to be an historic sanction for this behaviour'.
#Ridge
.@Comey on Donald Trump's character:
'I have never seen an adult with a greater hunger for affirmation... affirmation if like air, he needs it constantly'.
'There's a menace to him in private that you don't pick up in public... It constantly reminded me of a mob boss'.
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'I have never seen an adult with a greater hunger for affirmation... affirmation if like air, he needs it constantly'.
'There's a menace to him in private that you don't pick up in public... It constantly reminded me of a mob boss'.
#Ridge
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