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4 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This, from @Gabriel_Pogrund on Greensill/Cameron/Heywood is completely jaw-dropping.
As is this.
There are clearly questions to be answered about this affair, for both officials and politicians. In the absence of an inquiry (not planned as things stand) if Mr Cameron simply refuses to answer- what then? And what does that say about our political culture?
Reminder of the Nolan Principles of Public Life. In one way or another this affair probably raises questions on all seven.

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1 Apr
NEW: Tonight a special investigation I've been working on about working conditions of drivers who deliver for Amazon.

Those we've spoken to present a bleak picture of increased workloads which leave them feeling forced to adopt unsafe (and potentially illegal) working practices.
Drivers tell us they've been given significantly bigger delivery loads as a result of the boom in sales during the pandemic but without extra time to compensate.

As a result, they say that the physical and mental pressure they're under is extreme.
They tell us they've so little time they feel forced to speed, park illegally, can't eat or take a break even though they're on the road for hours on end and even have to urinate in the back of their vans.

Will post more later, for now, make sure you're watching Newsnight, 2245
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30 Mar
Repeatedly of late, we’ve seen cases where at the very least the perception exists that there are inadequate investigative and enforcement mechanisms around standards in public life and holding politicians to account.
What mechanisms do exist have in some cases been diminished. So for example, the Prime Minister’s independent adviser on the ministerial standards Sir Alex Allen resigns, after the PM chose to ignore his finding that the Home Sec in beach of the code- and he has not been replaced
As I’ve pointed out many times, it’s the Prime Minister’s job to adjudicate the code. He’s judge, jury and executioner (especially in the absence of an independent adviser on ministerial standards). Given it’s his government, the potential conflict of interest is clear.
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27 Mar
Yesterday Alex Salmond insisted again and again his new party wasn’t about damaging his old one in any way, indeed his efforts would be of assistance.

And today...
As I said in my piece yesterday, danger for SNP is this all becomes about the ongoing conflict between Sturgeon and Salmond, an ongoing reminder to voters of all which has happened in recent months- and that Salmond forces Sturgeon into conversations she doesn’t want to have.
And though Salmond insists Alba can’t damage them because they’re only standing on the lists, it conveniently forgets the fact that a) what the SNP want most is a majority of their own, which they think Johnson cannot ignore.
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26 Mar
Scottish Electoral system explained

Going to be a lot of talk about whether Salmond's new party is going to work and who it might effect

Thought might be helpful to run through how Additional Member System (AMS) used in Holyrood (and Senedd in Wales) works. Here we go.
AMS (a proportional system used since the inception of the Scottish Parl in 1999) is made up of two components (and electors have two votes) the constituency vote and the regional (list) vote. Together they make up the 129 MSPs.

First the familiar bit, the constituency vote.
Scotland is divided into 73 constituencies. These are all elected (a la Westminster) by First Past the Post. The candidate which gets more votes than all the others (even if it's just one). The remaining votes count for nothing.
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26 Mar
NEW: Alex Salmond is re-entering frontline politics. He’s has announced that he’s starting a new pro-independence party, “Alba”- says the party will contest the May Holyrood elections.

A remarkable next stage in Salmond’s long goodbye from the SNP and his former colleagues.
Note the tag line on his backdrop “For the Independence Supermajority”

His sell isn’t that this will damage the SNP but instead will augment support for independence in the Scottish Parliament, rather than damaging the SNP.
Three things to say about that

1) this could be true in the sense that Scottish Parliament used AMS and you have two votes. But it’s always going to risky to game game and if Alba were to secure a decent proportion of the SNP vote on the list, it could still damage them.
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25 Mar
EXCL: I understand that the Variant and Mutant Taskforce (a joint body of PHE, JBC and Test&Trace) has written to Matt Hancock to inform him they've traced Covid variants being imported to the UK from countries not on the red list incl. France, Germany, USA and others in Europe.
The variant they're especially concerned about is the South African variant (B.1.351) and I'm told that PHE has instructed its regional teams to prioritise contact tracing of that variant over the others "until further notice".
This is of especial concern because internal estimates suggest that the SA variant might reduce vaccine efficacy to sub 50% (though data is shaky).

Officials are also worried because they calculate 24% of the SA cases they've traced don't have a foreign travel connection.
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