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May 18 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
On the Fabricant tweet Simon Hart, Welsh Secretary tells @Jo_Coburn on #politicslive: “It’s idiotic, it’s insensitive, it attempts to make light of a really serious situation- I despair when I read stuff like that.”
Mr Fabricant has called those who have taken issue with his tweet “professional offence takers.” That would therefore now appear to include a Cabinet Minister from his own party.
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May 19
.@EmilyThornberry on @BBCWorldatOne: “Based on the 126 fines…the sheer scale of lawbreaking…what we know now for absolute certain is that when Boris Johnson came to the House of Commons and said there were no parties and no rules had been broken- that was a bare faced lie.”
“There is no possible way that these parties he was attending didn’t break the rules…he should resign.”
Policing Minister @kitmalthouse: “I’m pleased that it’s done, thankful to the police for conducting themselves efficiently…the PM has apologised for the cake incident, and I hope now we can now move on to the really pressing issues.”
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May 19
NEW: Met Police investigation into repeated rule/law breaking in Downing St and Whitehall has concluded. 126 fines in all.

Presumably, this now means that we will finally get…Sue Gray. Image
At this point Sue Gray’s report has something of a ravens in the tower quality
But before we start thinking about Sue Gray, take a step back. 126 fines-Downing St/Whitehall was a national centre of Covid law/rule breaking- something we’d have found incredible in the heart of the pandemic. A long way from repeated No 10 assurances that no rules were broken.
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May 18
On the Protocol, Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s former Special Envoy to Northern Ireland tells @BBCPM: “negotiating further changes- I hope that’s exactly what happens because…if folks start unilaterally changing an agreement it makes it difficult to move forward on future deals.”
On US/UK trade deal Mulvaney says: “If you’re dealing with a party which is in the habit of cutting deals and then unilaterally changing them it makes it really difficult to have trusting, good faith negotiations necessary to cut a massive trade deal between the US and UK.”
As Mulvaney himself noted GFA/NI is one of the few issues where there is a broad bipartisan view in DC. If there were to be unilateral UK action, the govt must know there would be significant diplomatic costs with the US.
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May 18
Conservative chair of Education Select Committee @halfon4harlowMP on @BBCWorldatOne: “I welcome the fact the govt is now considering the windfall tax but they’ve got to do it. Oil companies have made millions in profits- the chief execs are the new oligarchs…it’s a no-brainer.”
Mr Halfon talked about a constituent having to work 7 days a week in a cafe and can’t make ends meet. Said every message he’s getting is about cost of living.
Another Conservative MP saying the Chancellor needs to act now, @JakeBerry tells @BBCPM: “it’s all very well to talk about budgetary measures in November but this cost of living crisis isn’t sticking to a neat parliamentary timetable…urgency is required.”
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May 18
Starmer asks Johnson whether he is in favour of a windfall tax or not

Johnson: "This government is not in principle in favour of higher taxation- they [Labour] love it, they love putting up taxes."

Worth noting that in April the government increased Nat Insurance- a tax.
Indeed the tax "burden" is the highest since the Attlee government.
When Starmer mocked the Chancellor for neither being pro or anti a windfall tax- the Prime Minister responded that Starmer struggled to define what a woman was.
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May 17
Today a good example of why the Brexit wars aren't going anywhere. Questions of the UK/EU relationship are systemic and ongoing. Not only because of NI and the fact the EU is a territorial player within the UK but also that the UK/EU relationship is still on an unstable footing.
The settlement is far from complete, or settled. And the EU is just too big a player to ignore. UK has never really had this before- prior to EEC 1973 accession the organisation was much more diffuse and less powerful. Now UK has to get used to having something of a hegemon...
...on our doorstep, with UK now having to find, on all sorts of issues, a way to deal with it, from without rather than within. Still so much finding of the way, for both sides, to do.
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