Exc: Liz Truss held a belated 50th birthday dinner party for Therese Coffey, at her grace-and-favour residence Chevening on January 29th.

Two days later she tested positive for Covid, and had to cancel her trip to Ukraine.

Tory source: "So arrogant, so tone-deaf, so stupid."
A number of special advisers and former special advisers also attended, giving them the opportunity to do some leadership plotting away from London.

No rules broken but the party happened just two days before Sue Gray published her redacted report into Downing Street parties.
LBC also understands one official who attended the event also tested positive for Covid afterwards.

The Foreign Secretary’s team say they don’t comment on private events.
Nick Ferrari: "Were you at this party?"

Technology minister Chris Philp: "God, no. I haven't been invited to any of these parties. I'm not on any of these invite lists.

"I don't think we should begrudge Therese Coffey and Liz Truss a birthday dinner..."

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New: leaked email shows Boris Johnson supports the continued use of real black bear fur for hats worn by the Coldstream Guards.

Animal charity Peta, who named his wife Carrie as their "person of the year", tells @LBC the bears "shouldn't be slaughtered for ornamental hats".
Each of the famous hats worn by soldiers on ceremonial duties outside places like Buckingham Palace requires the pelt of one bear.

In 2020, the Ministry of Defence spent £145,000 on the pelts from Canada. That's enough for 110 hats at a cost of £1,315 each.
Sources tell me Carrie Johnson is supportive of Peta's campaign.

But the PM is taking the MoD line.

In December, MoD wrote to a complainant, saying a fake alternative didn't keep the rain off and lost shape.

Also "performed poorly on visual assessment".

*Didn't look right.
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Nov 5, 2021
Deputy Labour leader @AngelaRayner has written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Stone to ask whether the PM has broken the rules by failing to declare the value of his holiday in Spain last month in the MPs’ register of financial interests.
The Prime Minister did declare the holiday in his ministerial register of interests yesterday, insisting that he received the holiday free of charge.

The villa itself rents for a reported £25k-a-week. But the holiday wasn’t mentioned in that entry.
Kathryn Stone’s investigation into the Mustique holiday concluded the PM was right to declare its value in his MPs’ register of interests.

“The Commissioner concluded that Mr Johnson was required under the House’s rules to register the holiday accommodation he received.”
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Keir Starmer first main topic: the petrol crisis: "Level up? You can't even fill up!"
Puts down a marker on the end of the Corbyn era:

"To the voters who thought we were unpatriotic, irresponsible or looked down on them, I say these words, 'We will never under my leadership go into an election with a manifesto that is not a serious plan for government'."
The heckles start:

Quick reply from Sir Keir: "At this time on a Wednesday, it's usually the Tories that are heckling me. It doesn't bother me then and it doesn't bother me now."
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Sep 28, 2021
New: On Sunday, Keir Starmer said he had "closed the door" on anti-Semitism in Labour.

But LBC has discovered one member who shared vile content on Facebook was until yesterday at the Brighton conference, despite an official complaint being made nearly two months ago.
Labour sources say that Tony Mcdonough has now been suspended from the party and has had his conference pass revoked.

But on August 2, a complaint was made to the party. Nothing appears to have been done and Mr Mcdonough was allowed to attend conference.
These are some of the posts he shared.
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Sep 26, 2021
I have just been been forcibly removed from the JVL fringe event at the Labour Party. It is an official event in the Labour Party guide.
I was assaulted by Tony Greenstein, who was in the event, and was expelled from the Labour Party for anti-semitism. This is the moment he grabbed my phone.
Allowed back in.

Now listening to one speaker declare the EHRC findings are being used by “Starmer to run a tyrannical regime”.
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May 4, 2021
Keir Starmer tells @LBC people in Hartlepool are worried about “jobs, jobs, jobs”.

He says the fight for the seat was “always going to be tough” after 2019.

*Jeremy Corbyn won the seat twice in 2017 and 2019.
Nick Ferrari puts the Survation poll to Sir Keir that the Tories have a 17 point lead in Hartlepool.

But he admits that “nobody is particularly interested in the details” of wallpaper-gate.
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Whilst he said people weren't interested in details of PM's flat, he says "general sense" there "is one rule for them and another rule for everybody else" is "breaking through".
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