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9 Jun, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Excited to be at my first in-person press conference since the pandemic began, courtesy of the EU 🇪🇺 and Maroš Šefčovič. Looking forward to UK govt 🇬🇧following suit!
Maroš Šefčovič says still “numerous and fundamental” gaps in UK implementation of Brexit deal.

EU is “at a crossroads” in its relationship w/ UK. “Trust, which should be at the heart, needs to be restored”

Will act “swiftly, firmly and resolutely” if UK takes unilateral action
Šefčovič warns patience w/ UK is wearing “very very thin” & EU will “assess all options” at disposal.

These incl “cross-retaliation” such as suspending cooperation in some sectors & quota tariffs.

He adds: “I do not want this to happen...”
Maroš Šefčovič says he hopes G7 will help facilitate breakthrough.

“I hope that there will be exchanges among the top global leaders & that we can come back together with David (Frost) & work on solutions which will be permanent”.

Story from last night mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
Sefcovic downbeat about prospects of EU extending grace period for chilled meats.

“It’s very difficult for us to say we’ll just give an extension. There’s a fear we’d not be protecting public health (in EU) and if something went wrong there might be a public health issue”.
Sefcovic confirms this for the first time 👇

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10 Jun
Science committee chair @GregClarkMP confirms that Dominic Cummings hasn't produced any evidence to back up his allegations - and says they must be regarded as "unproven".

"If serious allegations are made against an individual, they must be corroborated with evidence".
Clark going through Cummings allegations...

Did you knowingly lie to the PM?
Hancock: "No"

Did you claim that everybody received treatment they needed?
Hancock: "I did absolutely say that everybody got the Covid treatment that they needed".
Did you blame devastating PPE shortages on NHS chief Simon Stevens and Chancellor?

"No that is not a fair recollection of the situation".

He adds there were "huge challenges" including removing bureaucracy/ ripping up red tape.
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9 Jun
Keir Starmer goes on Kevan Collins £15bn school catch-up plan at #PMQs.

(Which ended up as £3bn after Rishi Sunak said it was too expensive).

"The PM roles over, and children lose out. So much for levelling up."
Keir Starmer contrasts UK's catch-up funding for pupils at £50 p/ppl p/yr with US at £1,600 and
Netherlands £2,500.

Labour leader highlights free school meals, exam fiasco, now catch-up.

"The PM has been all over the place on education and he's on the wrong side of it again"
Schools are fertile electoral territory for Labour after years of cuts and more recent rows over free school meals, exam chaos & now catch-up funding.

School-funding was a massive issue at the 2017 general election... theguardian.com/education/2017…
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7 Jun
Boris Johnson's foreign aid cuts are safe... for now.

But Speaker adds that MPs should get a vote - and drops big hint he'd allow an emergency debate as soon as tomorrow.
I'm told that former cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell, leader of the Tory foreign aid rebels, has applied for an emergency SO24 debate tomorrow so MPs get a vote on the Government's plans. Speaker minded to grant it.
NEW: Former minister Andrew Mitchell applies for emergency SO24 debate on Govt plan for overseas aid cuts. He claims vote would've passed by "probably around 20", warning: "The House of Commons maths is not going to go away."
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26 May
Cummings up again. He says the "whole impetus" of the Government over the summer was to "pretend' everything was back to normal. Govt's biggest concern was economy. But on Sept 21, despite warnings fr scientists/ officials on need to lockdown, PM concluded "not to do anything".
Cummings claims that PM refused to take advice on September lockdown.

"He wasn't taking any advice. He was making the decisions himself. The Cabinet wasn't involved… There wasn't any formal Cabinet meeting to discuss it. Or if there was, it was a purely Potemkin exercise.”
Cummings claims that Boris Johnson didn't take health risks of Covid seriously - and thought economic harm to country was more damaging.

"There's this great misunderstanding because it nearly killed him that he must take it seriously..."
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26 May
Dominic Cummings asked about our story on him breaking lockdown rules driving 260 miles to Durham.

"That whole episode was definitely a major disaster for the Government and for the Covid policy".
Cummings says he left London over security threats. Says he made a "terrible mistake" by not explaining that to public.

"What I said was true, but I left out a crucial part of it all. The whole thing was a complete disaster. It undermined public confidence in the whole thing".
Jeremy Hunt says - rightly - that it was terrible that Cummings' family faced security threats.

But asks: "If you were moving your family out for security reasons, why did you move them back?"

DC says he felt Govt needed him - and would've left wife/ child in Durham if he cld
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26 May
Dominic Cummings starts with mea culpa. “The truth is senior ministers, officials & advisers like me fell short of standards the public has a right to expect. When the public needed us most, we failed. I’d like to say to all the families how sorry I am for the mistakes we made”.
Cummings says there were conversations in No 10 about pandemic in first weeks of January.

He had a "general chat" with PM on Covid in middle of Jan and texted Matt Hancock to check on plans on Jan 25. But he says those preparations turned out to be "hollow".
Cummings says No 10 was not on a "war-footing" on the pandemic in February.

"A lot of key people were literally skiing in February... the PM went on holiday for two weeks".

He says "sense of urgency" only apparent in the last week of that month.
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