At packed meeting with @Barry Gardener's #fireandrehire campaign, @johnmcdonnellMP says "One step to uniting the party is to restore the whip to Jeremy".
Asked about Andy McDonald's resignation, @johnmcdonnellMP describes it as "principled".
"If I was Keir Starmer I would accept the conference motion [on £15 an hour] and invite Andy McDonald back [into shad cab]."
.@jeremycorbyn has arrived. And there's that song again
Asked if @Keir_Starmer is a man of principle given his shift since his leadership promises, @jeremycorbyn says this week's rule changes were "a big mistake".
Asked about Andy McDonald resignation, @jeremycorbyn says he's "a very good friend of mine, I fully support him"
Says he spoke to him yesterday and "empathised with the trauma he was going through".
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Within seconds of @Keir_Starmer starting his speech, some left activists chant 'Oh Jeremy Corbyn'. I don't *think* Starmer heard it.
Best line so far from @Keir_Starmer as leftwinger heckles him. "This time on a Wednesday it's probably the Tories heckling me."
Huge applause from vast majority of audience.
Heckling tactic clearly aimed at disrupting the whole speech. As he talked about "our worst defeat since 1935", one leftwinger shouts "It was your Brexit [second referendum to blame]."
.@RachelReevesMP promises the next Labour govt would introduce "the biggest wave of insourcing of public services in a generation"
Says she's giving notice to firms who failed to deliver PPE and other contracts that Labour would claw every penny back.
Labour would create a new 'Office For Value For Money'.
Some would say that ought to be the Treasury.
But it's clear Reeves knows she needs to add an extra level of reassurance to voters to convince them Labour can be trusted with their cash.
Reeves says "I will be Britain's first green chancellor".
I don't *think* that's a side-eye at Gordon Brown's pro diesel cars tax changes...
I've long thought @trussliz would be Williamson's replacement. Ex minister of state at DfE, comprehensive educated and....more than aware that a certain M Thatcher was Education Secretary.
But if @trussliz becomes the new Foreign Secretary, her future leadership credentials certainly will be burnished even more.
V popular among Tory grassroots and in any final run-off with Rishi Sunak, members could back her.
Chris Whitty just burned @nickiminaj for promoting untruths about Covid jabs and it was a beautiful thing.
❤️🔥
Fair play to @BorisJohnson for saying "I am not as familiar with the works of @nickminaj as I am with the works of Nikki Kanani, superstar GP of Bexley [Medical Director of Primary Care for NHS England], who will tell you vaccines are wonderful'
Whitty: Minaj line re male impotence 'designed to scare' + 'just untrue'.
On antivaxxers who discourage others from getting jabbed: “Many of those people, I regret to say, know they are peddling untruths but they still do it. In my view, they should be ashamed”.
Mic. Dropped.🎤
What's most interesting about their advice is:
🚨 children in most deprived areas hit most by loss of schooling
🚨 serious risk to mental and physical health over short term and long term from disruption to education
🚨 'competent' under-16s can get jab without parental consent
Key line from their advice: "It is essential that children and young people aged 12-15 and their parents are supported in their decisions, whatever decisions they take, and are not stigmatised either for accepting, or not accepting. Individual choice should be respected."