NEW: Health Secretary Sajid Javid says he ducked out of interviews yesterday because he was “upset by that video” leaked to ITV News of Downing Street staff “laughing and smiling about Christmas parties”.
Sajid Javid says it wouldn’t be appropriate to “prejudge the outcome of the internal investigation”, which is exactly why Boris Johnson promised one. It buys the government time and allows them to bat away every question from now until it concludes.
“I’m not quite sure why she resigned” says Sajid Javid of Allegra Stratton. If the rules were followed, then what was the need for her to go?
“I have received assurances which are very important to me” that no rules were broken, says Sajid Javid.

You get the distinct impression that he has only agreed to go on the air waves this morning with the explicit promise that there was no party… if there was, does he resign?

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8 Dec
BREAKING: Allegra Stratton is resigning.
In tears Allegra Stratton tells broadcasters outside her home “The British people have made immense sacrifices… I now fear my comments have become a distraction in that fight. My remarks seemed to make light of the rules. That was never my intention.”
“I will regret those remarks for the rest of my days… To all of those who lost loved ones, I am truly sorry. And this afternoon I am offering my resignation to the Prime Minister.”
Read 4 tweets
8 Dec
“I understand and share the anger at seeing No 10 staff seeming to make light of lockdown measures and I can understand how infuriating it must be. I was also furious to see that clip. I apologise unreservedly”.

BUT the PM still denies there was any party. #PMQs
PM says he’s asked the Cabinet Secretary to investigate. But he has been assured there was no party and no rules broken. #PMQs
Keir Starmer going hard:

“The PM, the government, spent the week telling us there was no party. The public now think they PM was taking them for fools that he was lying. They’re right aren’t they?”

“I’m sickened” replies the PM by the video we showed last night. #PMQs
Read 6 tweets
7 Dec
EXCLUSIVE: Video obtained by ITV News shows Downing Street staff joking about a Christmas party on 18th December last year.

No 10 has spent the past week denying any rules were broken. This new evidence calls that into question.

Full video here: itv.com/news/2021-12-0…
NEW: In response, Labour leader Keir Starmer says…

“To lie and to laugh about those lies is shameful.

The Prime Minister now needs to come clean, and apologise. It cannot be one rule for the Conservatives and another for everyone else.”
Read 7 tweets
5 Dec
Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab says “people should enjoy Christmas and get their loved ones around them” despite soaring cases of omicron.

“I think it’s going to be a great Christmas”, he says, continuing to repeat the line of other ministers earlier this week.

#Marr
“People should go to their parties” he says. It’s up to employers to use their “common sense” he adds.

#Marr
Dominic Raab says the claims of a Downing Street party are “unsubstantiated”. #Marr
Read 4 tweets
26 Nov
BREAKING: Priti Patel’s meeting in France on Sunday has been cancelled by the French government.

A remarkable snub as the French fume over the PM’s letter yesterday setting out a five point plan which placed much of the onus for the migrant crisis in the channel on France.
Anglo-French relations appear to be at rock bottom just as cooperation is desperately needed to stop more people dying on the perilous journey across the channel.
UK officials had been due to meet French officials today too. Not clear if that meeting will still go ahead.

And Sunday’s meeting between Priti Patel and her French counterpart had also been due to include representatives from other European governments. Will they still meet?
Read 4 tweets
25 Nov
BREAKING: Home Secretary says she has asked France once again to allow joint patrols on French beaches to do “absolutely whatever is necessary to secure the area”.

Yesterday’s deaths were a “shock, but not a surprise” she says.

Effort must be focused on “smashing” traffickers.
Priti Patel insists she is not heartless.

“We are not working to end these crossings because we don’t care or are heartless. The UK has a clear and a generous and a humane approach” she insists. But people “must come here legally”.
Home Secretary is essentially making three arguments here:

1. The first problem is smugglers

2. The second problem is France

3. The solution is international cooperation and the government’s tougher measures contained in the Nationality and Borders Bill.
Read 9 tweets

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