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21 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
EXCL: Tens of thousands of Europeans will have their benefits suddenly cut off next week because they haven't applied for settled status. Ministers were told early this month that 130,000 of the 820,000 European benefit claimants have still not applied

thetimes.co.uk/article/130-00…
A government source says that since then the number has fallen to about 70,000. But the number is still far higher than even EU citizen campaign groups thought - and the deadline to get an application in is next Wednesday
Maike Bohn of @the3million said the leaked figures were “shocking”
Shadow Home Secretary @NickTorfaen warned of a repeat of the Windrush scandal

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25 Nov 19
EXCLUSIVE Ephraim Mirvis, The chief rabbi, has warned that Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of antisemitism allegations makes him “unfit for high office”. Writing only in tomorrow’s Times he the “very soul of our nation is at stake” in next month’s general election
EXCLUSIVE: Here is Rabbi Mirvis’s unprecedented intervention in the election campaign thetimes.co.uk/article/ephrai…
"How far is too far?" thetimes.co.uk/article/ephrai…
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1 Apr 19
I want to stay in the Common Market
I want to do whatever Europeans do
I want to be in the Common Market
I want to be in the Common Market
Number 2
Well what else could Nick do?
He said: "I'll see what I can do."
He came from Wales had a thirst for Brexit
Said he didn't want a referendum
That's where Nick
Caught his eye
Steve told Nick that his Dad's Neil Kinnock
Nick said "In that case I'll have a CFP opt-out"
Steve said "Fine"
And then in thirty seconds time he said:
I want to stay in the Common Market
I want to do whatever Europeans do
I want to be in the Common Market
I want to be in the Common Market
Number 2
Well what else could Nick do?
He said "I'll see what I can do."
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25 Feb 19
EXCLUSIVE: Government planning a "hardship fund" for no-deal Brexit

Here are only some of the "actions arising" from a meeting of the cabinet's no-deal preparedness committee earlier this month. Just direct quotes from the document circulated afterwards.

thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/n…
LOCAL RESILIENCE FORUMS, via the MINISTRY OF HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT to report on potential impacts, including any communities known to be geographically vulnerable to disruptions to food supplies.
HM TREASURY and the DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS to undertake work to consider mitigating consumer impacts of increases in cost of living through tax and benefits policy. This work should focus on consumer groups who would be particularly vulnerable to price increases.
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7 Dec 18
EXCLUSIVE: Ministers will have the power to overrule doctors’ prescriptions in case medicines run out after Brexit. Urgent government consultation launched on Tuesday, leaked to The Times

thetimes.co.uk/article/ab72c6…
Under the plans, ministers could tell pharmacies to give patients:
- a reduced quantity
- an alternative dosage
- a therapeutic equivalent
- a generic equivalent

How does the govt intend to take the power to do this? Remember Henry VIII powers from 2017? Yep. Using those.
Labour’s shadow health secretary @JonAshworth tells The Times: “If these plans were ever implemented they would represent an astonishing power grab by government ministers with some healthcare decisions being decided in Whitehall rather than the GP surgery.”
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31 Jul 18
EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Corbyn hosted an event in parliament comparing the Israeli govt to the Nazis - on Holocaust Memorial Day. The 2010 event was part of a national tour called: "Never again for anyone - Auschwitz to Gaza" thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/j…
Corbyn booked the room and delivered the opening speech. The main talk was given by Hajo Meyer, an Auschwitz survivor who believed Israel was like the Nazis. Quotes include: “Judaism in Israel has been substituted by the Holocaust religion whose high priest is Elie Wiesel"
The meeting was also addressed by phone from Gaza by Haidar Eid, a Palestinian activist, who reportedly said: “The world was absolutely wrong to think that Nazism was defeated in 1945. Nazism has won because it has finally managed to Nazify the consciousness of its own victims.”
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