Keir Starmer tells @LBC caller Graeme Labour will force a vote in Parliament on Wednesday to ask MPs to "get rid of their paid directorships and consultancies and to change the rules in Parliament."

Says in the main, "second jobs must go."
@LBC Sir Keir Starmer says "second jobs must go" save for "public interest or public service jobs." Says it's the difference between being paid by a commercial firm, and working in A&E during Covid....

Calls Geoffrey Cox "A barrister moonlighting as an MP." @LBC
@LBC Labour Leader Keir Starmer says Claudia Webbe should step down, and if she doesn’t, he would support a recall petition to remove her as an MP.
@LBC Starmer says Dame Cressida Dick has to get on with addressing the underlying issues in the Met Police. Says in his experience just removing the person at the top doesn't fix the problems in the organisation. Agrees she knows she needs to 'lift her game.' @LBC
@LBC Starmer says he WOULD write an article in the Sun again - and defends doing so already, to a caller from Liverpool. While he 'utterly condemns' their Hillsborough coverage, he's focused on the next election and knows "I must get the Labour message across as much as possible" @LBC

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16 Nov
“I’m crapping myself this morning, and I feel like crying.”

Oliver is one of nine Insulate Britain activists at the High Court this morning for breaching injunctions by blocking motorways. He tells me he’s expecting a custodial sentence. @LBC
Nine Insulate Britain defendants are due before the High Court Judge this morning.

The hearing is booked to last three days but they have little legal representation, and tell me they will admit to breaching the injunction - so it could be over much sooner. @LBC Image
Hearing begun. Myriam Stacey QC representing National Highways.

The 9 Insulate Britain activists all took part in a protest on the M25 on the 8th October where they blocked J25 Waltham Cross. That was two weeks after the Injunction had been granted @LBC
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3 Sep
If you're confused by that decision re. jabs for 12-15 year olds

💉The JCVI have said the health benefits alone from vaccination for 12-15 year olds are *marginally greater* than the potential known harms. But that benefit gap isn't enough for them to give the full green light.
/2 Instead they've basically passed the buck over to the Government to weigh up OTHER harms/ benefits for children in getting the vaccine. This will include the damage done by schools being shut due to outbreaks and the wider impact of community covid transmission.
3/ JCVI have just expanded the list of children with health conditions who can get jabbed. An extra 200,000 with chronic heart, lung & liver conditions join the group of 150,000 kids with things like severe neurodisability, Down's & weakened immune systems who were eligible.
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7 May
🚨 20 fire engines on the scene of a fire at New Providence Wharf in East London this morning.

The building’s still covered in ACM cladding - the same type as was on Grenfell. Awaiting updates. @LBC
Back in January the East London Advertiser wrote about the fight to remove the flammable cladding from this building - even though funding had been made available years ago. eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/housing/u…
Latest from @LondonFire.

Called at 8.55, 20 fire engines and around 125 firefighters are there. Parts of the 8th, 9th and 10th floors are alight.

The cause of the fire is not known at this stage.

Thankfully witnesses tell me it looks under control. Pic @IAmAndyPearce
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7 May
Laura Pidcock, former MP for North West Durham tells @LBC "the Labour party have got it wrong."

She blames the leadership for spending "a lot of time attacking the left. That's a dispute that needs to end. People are desperate for that representation."
Laura Pidcock also attacks Starmer and Angela Raynor for not being "relentless enough in taking on this hard-right Tory Government."

Says we need to return to the "magnificent manifesto of 2019."

*That being 2019, when Tories won a massive majority and she lost her seat... @LBC
Honestly, Labour's crisis couldn't be clearer this morning.

If you're on the left, it's all Starmer's fault, they need to return to Corbyn-politics. But for the moderates, it's 'long Corbyn' - they haven't rejected the left enough.

How on earth do you come back from that?
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9 Dec 20
The Grenfell Inquiry has just learnt that mere weeks after the June 2017 tragedy, Kingspan - who made some of the combustable insulation on the tower - hired a PR firm to lobby MPs on their behalf.
WATCH: These politicians are the sort of 'key decision makers' who Kingspan were trying to access. Looks like they wanted to convince MPs that ‘combustible materials are no more dangerous than non-combustible when properly installed’. #GrenfellInquiry
Here’s the reaction from the Fire Brigade’s Union
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3 Dec 20
Gavin Williamson won't say that Brexit helped us to get the vaccine first. Instead, he tells @LBC:

"I just reckon we've got the best people & medical regulators. Much better than the French/ Belgians/ Americans have. Because we're a much better country than every single one."
Full quote here:
This is the moment Gavin Williamson told @NickFerrariLBC the UK was the first to approve a vaccine because “we’re a much better country”
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