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Sep 4 7 tweets 3 min read
.@NicolaSturgeon tells @SophyRidgeSky the SNP "can be better" and has "lessons to learn" on sexual harassment after Patrick Grady case.

Nods to Salmond as proof she doesn't sweep allegations under the carpet.

#Ridge
David Davis says broad top team is necessary for Tory unity:
"Greatest mistake BJ made... was creating a cabinet of loyalists. It wasn't a meritocratic cabinet."

"Slightly worried" Truss will make same mistake.

#Ridge
Davis argues next PM has a "ninety something percent probability" of leading the Tories into the next election.

But he thinks an early general election is unlikely.

#Ridge
Liz Truss: "I am ready if I am selected... Under no illusions" about challenges UK faces.

#Kuenssberg
Liz Truss: "I will act immediately on bills and on energy supply".

"Within one week" details will be announced.

#Kuenssberg
Liz Truss: I'll announce an economic plan "within a month".

#Kuenssberg
Liz Truss levels with the public:

"There will be challenging circumstances. There will be difficult decisions... but Britain has been through worst."

#Kuenssberg

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Sep 6
Boris Johnson & Liz Truss are now heading to Balmoral to meet the Queen.

Lord Salisbury likened the castle to Siberia.

Tony Blair said his weekends there were "a vivid combination of the intriguing, the surreal and the utterly freaky".

🧵A thread on PMs visiting Royal Deeside:
PM visits to the private castle date back to Queen Victoria's reign.

They typically take place over a weekend in early September.

The estate was bought by Prince Albert for his wife in 1852, and features monuments to Victoria's consort, children and her close friend John Brown.
Disraeli complained "carrying on the government of the country 600 miles from the metropolis doubles the labour".

Thatcher regarded her trips as purgatory.

In contrast Cameron recalls the "bliss" of leaving his close protection team behind as he walked the hills with his wife.
Read 12 tweets
Sep 4
Meeting a Queen, making a speech, appointing a cabinet and writing top secret letters to nuclear submarine commanders.

My guide to the PM’s first weeks in office with @LouisDegenhardt & @AgnesChambre:
BREAK: Liz Truss elected new Conservative leader. She will be appointed PM tomorrow.

Total voters: 172,437

Sunak - 60,399
Truss - 81,326
Truss: "It's an honour". Thanks the party, Sunak and pays tribute to Boris Johnson:

"You are admired from Kiev to Carlisle", she says. Awkward pause then applause.

Truss - 57%
Sunak - 43%
Read 5 tweets
Apr 11
BREAKING: Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan, 48, has been found guilty at Southwark Crown Court of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy at a house in Staffordshire in 2008.
By-election now expected in Wakefield, a marginal ‘red wall’ seat.

Tories won it from Labour’s @MaryCreagh_ in 2019 with a majority of 3,358.
NEW: Labour call for convicted sex offender Imran Ahmad Khan to resign as MP for Wakefield.

“Imran Ahmad Khan should immediately resign so a by-election can take place and the people of Wakefield can get the representation they deserve.”
Read 4 tweets
Jan 18
NEW: PM on Dominic Cummings accusing him of lying:

-'No' I haven't lied.
-'I can tell you categorically that nobody told me... this was against the COVID rules'.
-'When I went out into that garden I thought that I was attending a work event'.
PM:
‘I'm deeply sorry for the mistakes I have made.'
-'I only saw [Reynolds email] the other day.' 
-'I can't believe that we'd have gone ahead with an event' if warned. 'I'd remember that.'
-Will you resign if you've misled parliament? 'We'll have to see what [Sue Gray] says'.
PM seems on verge of tears when asked about apology to Queen after parties on eve of Prince Philip’s funeral:

'I deeply and bitterly regret that happened. I can only renew my apologies both to Her Majesty and to the country.'

He does not rule out resigning.
Read 36 tweets
Jun 26, 2021
BREAKING: Matt Hancock resigns. Image
PM’s response to Matt Hancock’s resignation. Image
Read 7 tweets
May 5, 2021
NEW: Hearing there is a COVID scare amongst India’s G7 delegates. Foreign Office keeping tight-lipped about who or where.

India not a member of G7 but they are attending and there is Indian delegation in London.

Nadhim Zahawi told @skynews this morning it was ‘news to me’.
Senior government sources not denying there have been 2 positive cases amongst Indian delegation.

Questions for organisers about COVID safety precautions at event. Especially ahead of main G7 summit in Cornwall this June.
BREAKING: Indian G7 delegation are now self-isolating, but will be attempting to attend meetings virtually.

Home Secretary @pritipatel met Indian Foreign Minister yesterday but as he hasn't tested positive I understand she will not be self-isolating.

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