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Email from Birmingham Northfield MP (a 2019er) @GarySambrook89 to a constituent about the PM. Says he “would expect anyone who is found to have broken the law to seriously consider their position in the Government and that includes the Prime Minister.”
Another email to a constituent, this time from @kevinhollinrake. Says “There is a requirement within the [ministerial code] that any significant breach would necessitate the rendering of a resignation, and this of course applies to the Prime Minister.”
Constituent letter from Levelling Up minister @NeilDotObrien not exactly a ringing endorsement of BJ: “I would like to assure you I have read the emails on this and understand the strength of feeling here and will be paying close attention to the report and response of the PM.”
Letter from @SteveBrineMP: “I am not even going to try and defend the events in Downing St...they are indefensible in my book.”

Says he’ll wait for Gray report but “I have to make a judgment on not just ‘party gate’...but what I think we will get with the status quo...”
“...and what/who we will get with a change.”
Letter from Stephen Crabb on PM: “He was right to apologise earlier this week but this may not be a sufficient response given the seriousness of these matters.”
Do keep responses coming if you have one
Response from Sir Graham Brady. Says he’s Chair of the 22 but says “it was incumbent on those who introduced them to follow both the letter and the spirit of the regulations that were in force. Like others, I will be looking at Sue Gray’s report into these matters v carefully.”
Chris Loder (admittedly one of the rebels) completely unsparing: “Frankly this situation with No10 is humiliating...I have told the Whip yesterday that an investigation with no timeline’s not good enough and we want this ‘report’ for scrutiny in the Commons urgently.”

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May 22
Did someone say febrile
It seems very weird to allow rumours to build up and not clarify them before PMQs where the PM can be asked about them directly on the floor of the Commons. Not least when in news management terms you have a rare good day and decent story to tell on inflation…
Two scenarios at this point. He calls it today which given immigration figs tomorrow is, well, a big call. Or it’s been allowed to build for no reason, political journalist class annoyed and the rest of the week is dominated by “Sunak isn’t good at politics” narrative.
Read 4 tweets
Apr 28
NEW: Latest @TheNewsAgents Investigates - Britain’s hidden homeless children

Nearly 140,000 kids in Britain are now homeless, in so-called “temporary accommodation”. We went to a school where half of the kids don’t have a home to call their own.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…
It’s having a devastating effect on the educational outcomes of a big and growing group of working class kids. They’re almost forgotten, because they’re not on the streets. But their living conditions are Victorian, often sharing one room with their parents, siblings, shared bath.
Some of the kids come to school not having been able to wash in the mornings because there wasn’t an agailable bathroom in the temporary accomm. They’re embarrassed and have to wash at school. There are sometimes safeguarding issues because the kids are sharing bathrooms with strangers in the TA.
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Apr 3
NEW: Lib Dems call on the govt to suspend arms sales to Israel.

@EdwardJDavey: “Clearly, the thought that British-made arms could have been used in strikes such as these is completely unacceptable.

“The government must take swift action to suspend arms exports to Israel."
There's been (more or less) a fragile consensus between Conservative and Labour on policy towards Israel and the war. Pressure is going to increase on Starmer to move. Possibly (and more importantly) Sunak too...
Flick Drummond, Tory MP for Meon Valley has also said arms to Israel should cease.

“This has been concerning me for some time. What worries me is the prospect of UK arms being used in Israel’s actions in Gaza which I believe have broken international law.”
Read 4 tweets
Mar 6
NEW: Chancellor says that OBR forecasts that inflation is set to fall below 2% target in a few months.
NEW: Alcohol duty to be frozen until February 2025.
NEW: Fuel duty frozen again.

It's been temporarily frozen for 14 years now.
Read 22 tweets
Mar 1
What does the Galloway victory mean?

For the general election, very little. This was a unique by election and little is transferable. But it does change politics before the election and possibly tells us something about the shape of politics after it as well.

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In the short term the result is highly embarrassing for Keir Starmer and for Labour. The Labour vote collapsed by over 40 % points. Labour will point to the fact that they withdrew support. But that reminds us that they had to withdraw support in a safe seat, itself a shambles.
Questions for the leadership as to why the by-election was held so quickly and why the selection process happened so quickly. As it is a safe Labour seat has been handed to one of the party's most implacable opponents.

Galloway will do what he always does...
Read 15 tweets
Feb 21
It’s not like the British Parliament makes everything about itself, no not remotely
Net result of all of this? Starmer has a lucky escape. Speaker is weaker. Commons is farcical. Nothing changes in Gaza. MPs don’t really get their vote. We continue not to scrutinise what matters (and even then not that much) , which is the government’s position and plan.
Btw attack the Speaker’s decisions or not, but the threat of violence against MPs is real. Speaker should be thinking about that. The fact we’ve just come to accept that as a kind of background to our politics is the grimmest thing of all.
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