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Jan 24 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
BREAKING: a minister has just resigned from Boris Johnson's government
Lord Agnew, minister responsible for Whitehall efficiency, has just quit dramatically in the House of Lords after criticising the UK government’s “lamentable track record” in tackling fraud in a flagship state-backed coronavirus business loan scheme
scoop from @SebastianEPayne

ft.com/content/805fa7…
Agnew, an ally of Michael Gove, said that his resignation was *not* a personal attack on the prime minister

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Jan 19
Bury South MP Christian Wakeford has defected from the Conservatives to Labour, telling Boris Johnson “you and the Conservative Party as a whole have shown themselves incapable of offering the leadership and government this country deserves”
by my calculations this is the first Tory MP to jump ship to Labour since Quentin Davies in 2007

before that Shaun Woodward shifted from Labour-Tory in 1999

John Bercow joined Labour in 2021 but was no longer an MP
not a co-incidence that the announcement at 11.45 (which @SebastianEPayne scooped just beforehand) is just before prime minister's questions
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Dec 23, 2021
whenever you question your own political analysis there’s always someone worse
or this one
and this one via @mikeysmith
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Dec 3, 2021
for now let’s focus on the actual facts ie that taxes are about to go up to their highest level for 70
years
your regular reminder that the corporation tax (CT) rate will go up from 19 to 25% with effect from 1 April 2023
and that employees, employers and the self-employed will all pay 1.25p more in the pound for National Insurance (NI) from April 2022
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Nov 27, 2021
Breaking:

Boris Johnson has announced mandatory mask-wearing *in shops and on all public transport*
with a review in three weeks
to be more precise he said the rules around face coverings in shops and public transport would be “tightened”, let’s see what that means in practice
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Nov 26, 2021
- the official report into Boris Johnson’s plan for a bridge or tunnel between Northern Ireland and Scotland has just been published

- tunnel would cost up to £208bn

- bridge would be up to £335bn Image
"planning, design, parliamentary and legal processes,
and construction would take nearly 30 years before the crossing could become operational, even given a smooth passage of funding and authority to proceed"
respect to Peter Hendy for at least pretending to take the whole thing seriously, with actual charts and visual designs etc ImageImageImage
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Nov 11, 2021
-Johnson took the moral high ground with Tory MPs yesterday, saying:

“you must put your job as an MP 1st and you must devote yourself primarily and above all to your constituents”

-we calculate the PM himself has made over £4.3m from outside interests

ft.com/content/a256fc…
- Johnson also juggled job of being MP with editing Spectator mag from 2001 to 2005

- the @FT calculation of £4.3m doesn’t even include his first stint in Westminster from 2001-2008 because the register didn’t demand disclosure of precise payments then

by me with @kadhim
it’s on the @FT front page tonight Image
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