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Feb 9 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Starmer: "Talking of scams. Households are going to have to fork out billions in extra energy bills. The govt is insulting people's intelligence by pretending its giving them a discount. But it's not. It's a con. A buy now pay later scheme. A loan not a proper plan."
Starmer: "The PM shakes his head so let me give it to him in language he might understand: when his donors give him cash to fund his lifestyle and tell him he has to pay it all back later- are they giving him a loan or a discount?"
PM responds that "our plan is faster, more generous more effective than anything they've set out"
Says govt can afford it because we have fastest growing economy in G7.

Hmm. We've been through this one before.

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Feb 10
NEW: Sir John Major accuses Boris Johnson of breaking the law: “Brazen excuses were dreamed up. Day after day the public was asked to believe the unbelievable. Ministers were sent out to defend the indefensible- making themselves look gullible or foolish.”
“Collectively this has made the Government look distinctly shifty, which has consequences that go far beyond political popularity. No Government can function properly if its every word is treated with suspicion.”
Major: “The Prime Minister and our present government not only challenge the law but seem to believe that they and they alone that they need not obey the laws, traditions, conventions, call them what you will, of our public life.”
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Feb 8
Speaker Hoyle on yday's abuse directed to Starmer: "Regardless of yday's incident I made it clear last week that while the PM's words were not disorderly they were inappropriate...these sorts of comments inflame opinions and generate disregard for the House and is not acceptable"
Hoyle: "Our words have consequences and we should always be mindful of that fact."

So the Speaker of Commons drawing a pretty clear line from the PM's words to what happened to Starmer yesterday. Ministers have spent the morning saying the suggestion of such a link is nonsense.
Hoyle says that he's asking the Met for an update as to how the incident took place.

Hoyle has been and clearly is very concerned about the security of those coming and going to and from the parliamentary estate.
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Feb 7
Quite the intervention. Former Conservative Chief Whip (who had previously condemned the PM's Savile intervention) links what happened to Keir Starmer with the Prime Minister's words.
And now another Conservative MP does the same. He told us he put a no confidence letter in on Friday.
.@RhonddaBryant on C4News: "This could be ended easily. The PM could come to the Commons and properly apologise and withdraw the remarks. It's extraordinary to me that minister after minister have come on the airwaves to effectively repeat them. It's got to stop."
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Feb 6
INCYMI my take on the PM’s week and why it’s important not to get lost in the dizzying events and remember the big picture: ie that even if we take just the events of this week alone, the premiership of Boris Johnson is taking British politics to a very unusual place.
I didn’t have time to add a fifth reason on the list but it’s also important: it is very unusual to have a prime minister’s personal integrity and personal behaviour so consistently at the centre of politics, even if integrity in overall politics is a more familiar theme.
Eg to have MPs of the PM’s own party effectively accusing the prime minister of the day of misleading the House and not telling the truth (eg this week Aaron Bell and Nick Gibb). It happened a bit under Blair but it is rare.
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Feb 5
Belfast is completely magnificent, and for once I’m not talking about the city
Spent half of it laughing, the other crying (and I’m not usually a big film cryer). The perfect yet understated study on Ireland, class and family.
And that’s not even to mention the soundtrack. Go see it.
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Feb 4
If you go on No 10 Flickr page you can see the No 10 photographer Andy Parsons was in Downing St on several of the major partygate dates- because he was taking official pics

Eg the birthday party date he'd been with PM in the morning at Bovington School
flickr.com/photos/number1…
20th April 2020
flickr.com/photos/number1…
27th November 2020 flickr.com/photos/number1…
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