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8 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
NEW: Allegra Stratton resigns over No 10 Christmas party video thetimes.co.uk/article/allegr…
"I will regret those remarks for the rest of my days"

Stratton offered her “profound” apologies in a tearful statement for the comments she made during a mock press conference in December last year

thetimes.co.uk/article/allegr…
Stratton, a former journalist, was poached by the PM from Rishi Sunak to be his official spokeswoman last year. She was intended to present White House-style televised briefings to the nation on a daily basis

💬 Read her statement in full

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The plans were subsequently shelved and Stratton became the PM's spokeswoman for #Cop26

Downing St had repeatedly denied a Christmas party took place but shifted its position after a clip leaked of Stratton and others appearing to make light of the event

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9 Dec
“I tried to do right by you all, to behave with civility and decency and up to the high standards you expect of No 10.”

But how did Allegra Stratton end up taking the fall?
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Stratton, writes @HelenRumblelow, was meant to usher in a new era of Government - a softer, honest approach.

In the end Downing Street’s star hire turn into someone who made the PM ‘furious’
“It looks as though what is caught on camera is not a lie but an epiphany about moral compromise.”

“‘What is the answer?’ Stratton then asks by way of reply, because the question seems to be a different one: how far do you lie for your boss and to the nation?”
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8 Dec
“Dax is an only child,” says @BillBailey

“We would have managed with one more, but it didn’t happen. I was an only child and I’m fine, so we were fine with just one too"

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“I was a very hands-on father and wanted to be, not just to share the load but to bond with the baby. I loved it”

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@BillBailey 🗣 Bill

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8 Dec
A lot has changed since Margaret Keenan arrived at University Hospital Coventry a year ago today

She was the first person on Earth to receive a coronavirus vaccine outside clinical trials – now the number is about four billion 💉

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🔺 Update: It's time for Plan B in England

Boris Johnson announces the return of work from home guidance from next week, tougher rules on facemasks and the introduction of Covid passports in a bid to slow the “extraordinary” spread of Omicron

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🎭 From Fri: Facemasks required in most public indoor venues, ie. theatres, cinemas, restaurants

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🗒 From Weds: Mandatory Covid passports, either vaccination status or negative lateral flow, in large crowd venues
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Olivia Colman and her co-star, David Thewlis, play strange and murderous couple Susan and Christopher Edwards in the hotly anticipated series, #Landscapers

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