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16 Mar, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Can Sarah Everard’s Killing Spark A Newly Urgent Consensus On Women’s Safety?

The latest WaughZone:

huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/sarah-ev…
Includes a reminder of just what the PM was like a year ago..
ie this:
.@bbclaurak reports the PM privately said at start of pandemic 'the best thing would be to ignore it'.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
I also remember sitting in that 'I was shaking hands with everybody' press conference, and seeing the reaction on Chris Whitty's face. This from the time:
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/coronavi…
.@bbclaurak now reports that aides had indeed told Johnson just *before* this March 3 press conference to say people should stop shaking hands.
Full @bbclaurak special report here bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09…
And here too: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

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17 Mar
Cttee is told that the Sunday before he became PM, @BorisJohnson was in Cummings' living room asking if he could "come into Downing Street to try and help sort out the huge Brexit ...nightmare"
Cummings says his conditions for joining No.10 were:

- is PM 'deadly serious about actually getting Brexit done and avoiding second referendum'?.
- double the science budget
- support me and try to change how it all works given Whitehall is a 'disaster zone'
"I think there's a tendency to think of the science funding system like as people running the system, but that's not the reality. The reality is, the system runs the people."
#classicdom
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16 Mar
Another great scoop from @singharj
HuffPost UK understands the foreign secretary also used the meeting to name countries where the UK had raised human rights issues with key trade partners.

See our latest update for extra remarks @DominicRaab made in the Q&A.
He added:"We don’t junk whole relationships because we’ve got issues – we have a conversation because we want to change the behaviour.

“And I think we’re in a much better position to do that if we’re willing to engage.
Read 6 tweets
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15 Mar
BREAKING: House of Lords have PASSED amendment to tighten law on stalking. 327 votes to 232.

Big victory for campaigners

huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lords-ti…
.@laurarichards99:
"This amendment has been 20 years in the making and I want to pay tribute to Baroness Royall and all who spoke in favour today. Domestic abuse and stalking are patterned crimes and for too long these patterns and dangerous men have been largely ignored."
Within mins of the defeat ,@BorisJohnson has announced Criminal Justice Taskforce to take "immediate steps to provide further reassurance for women and girls".
inc doubling of 'Safer Streets fund' [cctv/ighting] to £45m + ‘Project Vigilant’ rollout
Coincidental timing?
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13 Mar
Seeing tonight's awful events on Clapham Common jogged my memory of something Patrick Vallance told MPs this week about outdoor protests, but which was not picked up at the time: there is little evidence such events cause Covid spikes. 1/3
Vallance said outdoors not completely risk free but stressed: "It is the case that it is difficult to see how things like large beach gatherings and so on can cause a spike. The same was the case in a protest march in New York. *They did not really see any spikes
after that*" 2/3
Vallance then said to Chris Whitty: "Chris, do you want to add to that?"
Whitty replied: "No, I completely agree."

Surely ministers + @metpoliceuk need to take heed of this, quite apart from all the other failures tonight?

[This was evidence to @CommonsSTC] 3/3
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12 Mar
Love podcasts cos they allow a topic to breathe a bit more.
Among @RishiSunak words to @Jack_Blanchard_ I was struck by
- his biggest regret of pandemic was he hadn't helped more of the 'excluded'
- his hint UK will adopt more local hotdesk offices

politico.eu/podcast/meet-c…
Asked what one thing he wd've liked to do differently: "I think that there will be people who feel they haven't been helped in the way that they would like to have been helped and supported". Suggests real answer is real-time digital data for self-employed + others
Also suggests ppl will commute less but will still want v local office to get away from working at home. Cites New York.
"It's a slightly different serviced office, hot-desking thing, in neighbourhoods."
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11 Mar
Agreed by Labour's NEC today: the party will introduce new codes of conduct and training on Islamophobia and anti-Black racism – to both complement its disciplinary procedures, and support the culture change pledged by @Keir_Starmer and @AngelaRayner
Separately, new training courses on Islamophobia and anti-Black racism will be developed for elected representatives and staff, in particular those who handle complaints. This complements training on antisemitism as part of action plan agreed with EHRC
The NEC also agreed to create a new party-wide organisation for Black, Asian and ethnic minority members, with a national committee and annual conference.
All Labour BAME members will automatically be part of a new Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Members Organisation (BAMEMO)
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