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24 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
NEW:🚨@Femi_Sorry fact-checks Boris Johnson’s social care reform plans.

Quiz time! How many minutes into this week’s PMQs did it take Boris Johnson to tell his first lie?

➡️ a) 10.5 minutes
➡️ b) 1.5 minutes?
Or
➡️ c) 1.5 seconds?
Trick question. We regret to inform you that Boris Johnson actually told *2* lies in the first 1.5 seconds..
If you want a reminder of what he said last year, here’s @AdamBienkov with Boris Johnson spelling out in Boris Johnson’s own words exactly what those promises were (that he’s now broken)
What are deferred-payment agreements?
An explainer via @BBCRealityCheck
bbc.co.uk/news/58486476

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26 Nov
No transparency equals no accountability.

This would be a game-changer.
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🔴A damning report by @openDemocracy called #AccessDenied has revealed the ways in which the UK government has attacked the FOI Act.

"Secrecy is now a signature of Boris Johnson’s rule" the report says.

A 🧵on some of the findings of the report.

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25 Oct
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FOIs are essential and they are under threat!

@openDemocracy has released its new report 'Access Denied' today which uncovers the govt's failure to comply to FOI requests, with the 2020 FOI disclosure rates "lowest...since records began in 2005".

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Indeed, @allthecitizens have encountered numerous instances of the Cabinet Office and other departments refusing to answer FOI's.

As with our investigations into Palantir, where they took 145 days to respond, and only did so after a warning from the ICO:
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