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Jun 15 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Keir Starmer accuses PM of wanting “the country to grind to a halt so he can feed off the division” #PMQs #strikes
Starmer says PM “thinks he’s on #LoveIsland … contestants that give the public the ick get booted out” #pmqs
(I should add in the interests of accuracy that contestants give each other the ick, but never mind)
Feels like we’re already in an election cycle… PM accuses Starmer of being on the side of the strikers and the people traffickers. Running election campaign lines now. #pmqs

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Jun 17
NEW: I've done an analysis of every time No10 announced a phone call between Boris Johnson and President Zelensky and it's amazing how many have coincided with his worst crises (full disclosure, No10 have told me this thesis is "ludicrous") inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
So while it may be completely coincidental/just fancy that, here are some dates: 15 June: 6.58pm Lord Geidt resigns / 7.48pm No10 announces PM has had a call with Zelensky
6 June: 8.10am Graham Brady announces confidence vote from MPs / 11.50am PM call with Zelensky announced
19 May: Met probe ends with 126 fines and No10 most fined UK location / 1.21pm PM call with Zelensky announced
5 May: Interest rates go up to 1% to highest level in 13 years/local elections take place with defeats for Tories expected / 3.54pm PM call with Zelensky announced
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Jun 14
Speaking very personally, I am appalled at this case and the way the victim, who was failed by the SNP's own informal investigation, was then implicitly criticised by the Commons investigators for going public about his ordeal. Details in this thread below
My heart goes out to the victim, whose ordeal was in 2016 yet had to wait until today for the outcome. Once again, another MP receives a two-day sanction for a serious breach of the Commons' harassment and bullying policies
But what concerns me is that this case sends a message to victims of harassment by MPs that they must not talk about it publicly. It's as if #MeToo, which laid the groundwork for the very system that investigated this case, never happened.
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Feb 22
The government's daily dashboard will no longer be updated at weekends from this week as part of plans to "live with the virus" @theipaper inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
This is major news for dashboard fans like myself. I interviewed covid dashboard heroes @statsgeekclare and @Pouriaaa a year ago about what exactly goes into the daily update. Pouria said at the time, it will be there for as long as it is needed: inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
Whoops - that piece on behind the scenes of the covid dashboard is here: inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
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Nov 28, 2021
This is correct. The reality is more time/analysis is needed. Senior U.K. health official last week: most cases are 20-40 age group because they’re the most mobile/active in a population. Variant only around a couple of weeks, so cases won’t be going to hospital yet anyway.
Maybe Omicron causes less severe illness, maybe not. Nobody knows for sure yet and anyone claiming they know differently is wrong. This is why govts are taking precautions until they have more evidence
see also:
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Nov 27, 2021
The two Omicron cases in Nottingham and Chelmsford were identified due to overnight sequencing, Dept of Health says.
It’s worth saying the U.K. capacity to sequence Covid genomes - which spot the variants - is world class AND Omicron has a feature which makes it easy to spot in this sequencing. So it’s a concern but our scientists and public health experts are *on it*
It’s also worth saying there are hundreds of people working in public health/virology/Govt through the night and over this weekend to search for and contain Omicron, so a massive thank you to all of them
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Nov 26, 2021
Just going back to all my tweets from April raising concerns about the Indian variant, as Delta was called then, and all the people - including some experts! - who berated me for scare-mongering or “not understanding” the virus
I see some of those “expert” tweets have been deleted. Anyway, this is not about I told you so, this is to say that I spend every day, often into the evening, contacting virologists/epidemiologists/other scientists/Whitehall officials about Covid and I don’t scaremonger
I hope I report things accurately and fairly, based on what experts are saying. I’m not perfect but it is exhausting to go through the same thing this week, be the first journalist to report on Nu/B.1.1.529 and to be yet again berated for even reporting on it
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