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Chris Mason

@ChrisMasonBBC

4 Oct 20

@BBCBreakfast

It is Day 2 of Tie Minister. This morning’s beaten finalist on the left, taking on a new entry on the right. I’ll wear the winner @BBCBreakfast in the morn. In a major democratic advance, proper voting options tonight...in the tweet below. Polls close at 4am, when I get dressed

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Tie Minister... over to you @BBCBreakfast

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There’s a lot of love for these fellas at the moment. Which may or may not be a commentary on my neckwear options @BBCBreakfast

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Chris Mason

@ChrisMasonBBC

19 May 20

Professor Martin Green, Chief Executive of Care England, tells the Health Select Committee that despite what others have said "there were cases of people....who were symptomatic discharged into care homes."

Professor Green: "We should have been focusing on care homes from the start of this pandemic. The focus was on the NHS. Support was withdrawn." There was "destruction of our supply chains on PPE. We didn’t see everyone who needed a hospital intervention going to hospital."

James Bullion, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services in England: "We still don’t have an effective supply chain, although things have improved since March."

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Chris Mason

@ChrisMasonBBC

16 Apr 20

The Leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer, has told us on the #CoronavirusNewscast: "I really hated selling myself to the membership."

Asked whether the challenge of getting the Labour party through what had been "a turbulent time" felt "as he expected" he said:

“For me personally, I really hated selling myself to the membership and I much prefer leadership decisions as leader of the Labour Party.”

“I’m much more comfortable in this than I am in the campaign.”

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Chris Mason

@ChrisMasonBBC

6 Nov 19

@BBCShropshire

A Labour candidate who’s been deselected five weeks before the election says she was a victim of a “pretty sustained campaign of bullying and undermining,” reports @BBCShropshire #GE2019

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@BBCShropshire Laura Davies was told on Monday after a phone hearing by Labour’s ruling National Executive that the party wouldn’t support her candidacy – which would have been her third in the Shrewsbury & Atcham constituency.

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@BBCShropshire Speaking to BBC Radio Shropshire, Dr Davies said she wasn’t expecting the decision, and says she was unaware of some of the complaints against her, which she says dated back to 2017 and were completely trivial or fabricated.

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Chris Mason

@ChrisMasonBBC

8 Oct 19

@bbclaurak

The PM spoke to Angela Merkel at 8am where a No10 source says she made clear a deal is ‘overwhelmingly unlikely’, and suggested to Boris Johnson that a deal would never be possible unless Northern Ireland stayed in a customs union, following EU rules (via @bbclaurak)

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@bbclaurak The source described the call as ‘challenging’, and said that if that was the EU’s position a deal is ‘essentially impossible not just now, but ever.’ The source described the call as a ‘clarifying moment’ and made clear...