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15 Apr, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Back on the election trail
And Bridgend looking gorgeous
Mum’s take on the latest part of my travels
I love all of Britain to my bones but there is nowhere better than 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Not a bad end to the day
All this for a reason- to keep you up to date with the most volatile Senedd election since the parliament’s creation. Piece from me on tonight’s @BBCNewsnight getting underway very shortly.
Genuinely life affirming few hours in Cardiff before heading back to London. Sun out. Shops open. People bobbing about. Best market (full of Welshcakes) you could hope for. Joyous.
And to add to my political statues collection

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15 Apr
NEW: Latest figures from the NHS in England show nearly 4.7 million people were waiting for routine operations and procedures in February. The highest level for 14 years.

388,000 people were waiting more than a year for non-urgent surgery compared to 1600 pre-pandemic.
At the end of Feb, 64.5% of patients waiting to start treatment waited for less than 18 weeks. Way below target of 92%.
And though the pandemic has a big role to play, the 92% 18 week target had been slipping for some years- it hadn’t meet met since 15/16. We went into the crisis in a relatively poor place.
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14 Apr
Starmer kicks off #pmqs by asking if he think that lobbying rules are adequate.

PM responds with an answer on the civil service alone. Clearly Starmer's question is wider than that: "Every day there's further evidence of the sleaze at the heart of this Conservative government."
Johnson: "This is a govt and party which has been consistently tough on lobbying."
Starmer: "Who was it who introduced the lobbying act?David Cameron. Who was it who voted for the legislation? Half of the govt frontbench. We said it wouldn't be tough enough. And where did it lead? 2 years later David Cameron camping out in the Saudi desert with Greensill."
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13 Apr
Willie Rennie asked by Sturgeon asked how Scotland can move to a Universal Basic Income whilst still being part of the UK. Rennie says by persuading partners across the UK.

Sturgeon: "Persuading Boris Johnson?"

Rennie: "Persuading whoever is there."

#stvdebate
Douglas Ross why it is drug deaths in Scotland have been going up.

Sturgeon concedes "We took our eye off the ball”.

#Stvdebate
Sturgeon being taken apart on the SNP's long domestic record

Rennie presses FM on her "defining mission" to close the poverty related attainment gap. Says that it'll take another 35 years to reach the target on the current trajectory.
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13 Apr
🚨 IMPORTANT FOR STUDENTS 🚨

Govt has confirmed today that all students in England can return to their universities from stage 3 of the roadmap-so no earlier than 17th May

In person teaching may resume from this date though there are different policies per institution.
This announcement has been a long time coming- supposed to be announced at end Easter holidays, some terms began yesterday.

“Upon return, all students and staff are encouraged to take three supervised tests (3 to 5 days apart) at an asymptomatic testing site on campus”
Even if stage 3 starts on 17/05, there will be little of the summer term remaining or none at all for some courses. Ergo most students will not have been on campus or taught on campus for much of the academic year, in the case of 2nd years for much of two academic years.
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12 Apr
Sad news in Westminster. Baroness Shirley Williams has died at the age of 90.
Reforming Labour Education Secretary and proponent of comprehensive schools, the 7th female cabinet minister in the country’s history, founder of the SDP, helped steer the party into the Liberal merger and foundation of the Lib Dems. An expansive political life.
The daughter Vera Brittain and at one time one of the most influential and popular politicians in the country. A fifty year political career.

Lib Dem leader @EdwardJDavey: “This is heartbreaking for me and for our whole Liberal Democrat family...”
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11 Apr
Former NI Sec @PeterHain tells @CarolineWyatt that Boris Johnson should visit NI as soon as possible: “He needs to visit Belfast along with the SoS and meet political leaders and loyalist representatives as well...[loyalism] needs to be listened to and it hasn’t been.”
“When you’ve had a prime minister and SoS who simply haven’t told the truth about the consequences of the particular form of Brexit they pursued- a de facto border check system across the Irish Sea, then inevitably the loyalism community feels it’s been lied to.” #bbcwtw
Hain was Labour NI Sec from 2005-07

He goes on

“This is playing out after years of casual indifference to NI. I would support any of my successors regardless of party...but the only good one since 2010, and he didn’t last long as BJ got rid of him, was @JulianSmithUK.”
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