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Arj Singh

@singharj

23 Mar

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg

Update @Jacob_Rees_Mogg: He has conceded on his podcast he was wrong to claim @HuffPostUK had doctored the recording we were leaked of Dominic Raab on human rights.

He also wrongly claims our report was "inaccurate in its quotation".

@HuffPostUK

He also says @HuffPostUK left "a false impression as to what has been said".

Reminder: Raab reconfirmed yesterday that what we quoted is, in fact, government policy.

huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dominic-…

@HuffPostUK

He also claimed The Times reported the story "fairly", but @HuffPostUK didn't. Both stories contained the exact same quotes from Raab.

Asked to apologise, Mogg said: "I don’t suffer from that particular temptation.”

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Arj Singh

@singharj

13 May 20

Boris Johnson writes to Keir Starmer to highlight the fact that the guidance on care homes was written when there was no community transmission.

But it was not replaced until March 13, eight days after CMO Chris Whitty said there WAS community transmission.

This means the advice was still that infection in care homes was "very unlikely" for eight days while coronavirus was being spread in the community.

There were also 798 cases and 10 deaths before new guidance was issued.

Here is that revelation from Whitty on March 5

bbc.co.uk/news/av/health…

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Arj Singh

@singharj

6 Feb 20

EXC Frustrated home secretary Priti Patel orders officials to explain the status of the long-awaited grooming gang ethnicity review

huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/grooming…

Her predecessor Sajid Javid ordered the review in July 2018 but Patel has been met with “obfuscation” from Home Office officials when asking what’s happening with it.
“She’s not best pleased,” a source said.

@nazirafzal

Ex-senior prosecutor @nazirafzal says the lack of proper research into the disproportionate number of mainly Pakistani-heritage men involved in grooming is “exploited by the far-right”

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Arj Singh

@singharj

25 Sep 19

Jo Cox’s friend Rachel Reeves describes Commons scenes as an “horrendous spectacle” and accuses PM of sowing division with language of “surrender and betrayal”.
Furious Labour MPs point to Cox’s plaque behind them.
“Remember that?” shouts Jess Phillips. “I remember every day”

Alison McGovern now accuses Johnson of using violent language and begs with him to tone it down

Jess Phillips now walking out as Johnson again describes the anti-no deal Benn bill as the “surrender act”.
Liz McInnes: “it’s so inflammatory”

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Arj Singh

@singharj

4 Jan 19

Long-ish read following several chats with Tory backbenchers this week. Increasing numbers numbers are considering a no-deal Brexit as a viable 'plan B'.

huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/increasi…

One Remain-voting ex-minister says: "When I go to constituency events and say I voted Remain but I would rather we were ‘all in’ or ‘all out’ everyone nods their heads and see it as entirely reasonable."

We'll still have food, says a senior Leaver: “We won’t be able to get certain foods like bananas or tomatoes but it’s not like we won’t be able to eat. And we’ll be leaving at a time when British produce is beginning to come into season so it’s the best possible time to leave.”

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