News UK spokeswoman: "There's been a medical issue, it's not a security issue and the candidates are okay" - "if we can get back on air we will" #TalkTV
Update @Jacob_Rees_Mogg: He has conceded on his podcast he was wrong to claim @HuffPostUK had doctored the recording we were leaked of Dominic Raab on human rights.
He also wrongly claims our report was "inaccurate in its quotation".
He also says @HuffPostUK left "a false impression as to what has been said".
Reminder: Raab reconfirmed yesterday that what we quoted is, in fact, government policy.
Her predecessor Sajid Javid ordered the review in July 2018 but Patel has been met with “obfuscation” from Home Office officials when asking what’s happening with it.
“She’s not best pleased,” a source said.
Ex-senior prosecutor @nazirafzal says the lack of proper research into the disproportionate number of mainly Pakistani-heritage men involved in grooming is “exploited by the far-right”
Jo Cox’s friend Rachel Reeves describes Commons scenes as an “horrendous spectacle” and accuses PM of sowing division with language of “surrender and betrayal”.
Furious Labour MPs point to Cox’s plaque behind them.
“Remember that?” shouts Jess Phillips. “I remember every day”
Alison McGovern now accuses Johnson of using violent language and begs with him to tone it down
Jess Phillips now walking out as Johnson again describes the anti-no deal Benn bill as the “surrender act”.
Liz McInnes: “it’s so inflammatory”
Long-ish read following several chats with Tory backbenchers this week. Increasing numbers numbers are considering a no-deal Brexit as a viable 'plan B'.
One Remain-voting ex-minister says: "When I go to constituency events and say I voted Remain but I would rather we were ‘all in’ or ‘all out’ everyone nods their heads and see it as entirely reasonable."
We'll still have food, says a senior Leaver: “We won’t be able to get certain foods like bananas or tomatoes but it’s not like we won’t be able to eat. And we’ll be leaving at a time when British produce is beginning to come into season so it’s the best possible time to leave.”