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12 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Election lovers, it’s been a long, hard, arid road but it’s not long now! We started our election coverage on the programme tonight with a deep dive on the Labour/Tory battle in England. Take a look 👇
Important to remember. The sheer number of contests often with their own different electoral systems plus covid make these exceptionally challenging elections to organise.
And remember, if you don't want to go to the polling station this year, it's very easy to register to vote by post. Form attached. Deadline in England and Wales is 5pm on 20th April. In Scotland it's 6th April. electoralcommission.org.uk/sites/default/…
And you can register to vote here if you haven’t already! Remember that if you’re in Scotland or Wales you can vote in these elections from age 16. 🗳 🗳 🗳 gov.uk/register-to-vo…

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13 Mar
The police were already staring down the barrel of a potentially profound crisis of confidence, especially among women. That just got worse. Parliament is going to demand answers on Monday and ministers almost certainly before that.
Coming days are going to consist of a great deal of political pressure on the Commissioner of the Met to provide an account as to what happened and what went wrong. Secondary pressure on ministers- should special dispensation have been made for this event to go ahead officially?
Had it done so would this have happened?
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10 Mar
Three weeks in a row the Prime Minister has been accused of misleading the House of Commons without correcting the record and thus breaking the ministerial code. I explained more on tonight's programme 👇
This am Speaker Hoyle upped the pressure on Boris Johnson to correct the record, saying ministers “must take responsibility for correcting the record if a mistake has been made. It is not dishonourable to make a mistake, but to seek to avoid admitting one is a different matter."
Yday the Prime Minister’s spokesperson argued that the Speaker had dealt with the matter. He’s making it clear he doesn’t consider that to be the case and (as per convention) it’s up to the PM to correct the record.
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10 Mar
NEW: House of Reps passes $1.9 trillion Covid stimulus bill 220-211. It will now be sent to President Biden to sign into law.

It includes a huge expansion of the social security net, effectively establishing for a year at least, min income guarantees for families with children.
Biden's bill will provide:

$350bn for state/local govt
$19bn for infrastructure
$14bn for vaccine distribution
$130 billion to schools
$45 billion in rental, utility and mortgage help
Several billion for small biz/live performance venues
Direct payments to millions of Americans
It will also

-Extend unemployment insurance
-Establish direct income guarantees for families w/children
-Provide substantial (though temporary) health insurance subsidies

It is probably the biggest expansion of the social security net by the Fed govt since the Great Depression.
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10 Mar
BREAK: The Metropolitan Police officer held over the disappearance of Sarah Everard had been arrested on suspicion of murder. He has also been arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure.
Full statement from Scotland Yard. The man arrested is in the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection command- his primary role was patrol duties of diplomatic premises. He was initially arrested on suspicion of kidnap.
BREAK: Commissioner of the Met Dame Cressida Dick says officers searching for Sarah Everard have “very sadly, found human remains.”
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10 Mar
.@Keir_Starmer asks Boris Johnson: "Who does the Prime Minister believe deserves a pay rise more, NHS nurses or Dominic Cummings?"
In answer to another question PM says we owe NHS staff "an incalculable debt". The point is NHS staff and critics don't think it's incalculable, quite the opposite, it's just the government doesn't want to pay it.
Boris Johnson responds saying there's been a significant increase for the starting salary of nurses and the govt has been successful in increasing numbers of nurses in the system.
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8 Mar
Hard to imagine a worse set of headlines for the Royal Family (and therefore in a sense for the UK state). Worst schism within the royal family since the Abdication (one which seems unlikely to be healed). And a set of allegations which cannot be swept away.
It’s only one side of the story, question will be how the Royal Family responds and choose to give theirs. But as I say, doesn’t feel like one where studied indifference is going to do the trick.
Over a year ago, made this piece trying to set what was happening in some historical context. Said the most telling thing was that the schism had brought the Royal Family into the culture war. The interview has intensified that process further still.
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