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Apr 20 • 4 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
.@RishiSunak has shown more statesmanship on Northern Ireland than @BorisJohnson ever did.

Tonight's #WaughOnPolitics is in your inbox

inews.co.uk/opinion/rishi-…
The Good Friday Agreement anniversary was marked in style this week - but next week there's a more telling anniversary for @BorisJohnson.

It will be 25 years since he was catapulted to national attention by 'Have I Got News For You'.
Go figure.

inews.co.uk/opinion/rishi-…
Speaking of which, @campbellclaret recalled this week that most journalists were hoping the peace talks went well back in 1998...apart from 'the guy with the blond hair from the Daily Telegraph'.

Spookily, in my researches I discovered that @BorisJohnson and @campbellclaret actually shared a page 12/13 spread in the @spectator in 1993. ImageImage

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Apr 21
.@RishiSunak letter to @DominicRaab expresses "great sadness" at his resignation. ImageImage
Key sentence sounds slightly cryptic. "It is clear there have been shortcomings in the historic process that have negatively affected everyone involved".
Surely PM/No10 will have to elaborate on what this means.
NB Sunak also reveals he consulted his independent adviser on ministerial interests.
Yet we have no idea what that adviser advised. Not a lot of transparency so far.
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Mar 28
V interesting at Liaison Cttee, @CatMcKinnell asks @RishiSunak if he wants to declare an interest...as she points out 6 private childcare providers getting taxpayer help [double the rate of individual childminders]. Sounds like she knows something we don't..
One of those providers is Koru Kids, whose website says:
"£600 if you apply to be a childminder directly (independently)
£1200 – yes double – if you come through an agency like Koru Kids who offer community, training and ongoing support."
And here's why @CatMcKinnell question sounded pointed:
Last year, it was reported that Sunak's wife had direct shareholdings in the business that runs....Koru Kids
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Mar 28
At Labour's NEC meeting, @ShabanaMahmood just said: "Jeremy Corbyn is a barrier to winning elections. His behaviour since resigning as leader in the aftermath of one of our worst ever election defeats, is a threat to winning..."
She cited his stance on EHRC/antisemitism.
.@ShabanaMahmood said in past 2 yrs, Corbyn "has failed to move one inch from the position that brought about his suspension".
He failed to take advice offered to resolve the issue. "He failed to do what that party had to do - to acknowledge the problem and change accordingly."
.@jeremycorbyn supporters believe NEC motion out of order cos it fails to mention anti-semitism as reason for blocking him as MP
But @ShabanaMahmood told NEC the issue "cannot be allowed to fester any longer" + Lab needs exlns campaigns "free of the stain of what the EHRC found"
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Mar 28
.@Ed_Miliband tells the @GreenAllianceUK conference that Tory policy restricting onshore wind has changed so many times, @Jacob_Rees_Mogg represented "the glory days" when briefly it was Govt policy to liberalise planning permissions for windpower.
For those wondering about that slide title, "President Biden's IRA" is a reference to the Inflation Reduction Act... not...the Provos.
Miliband tells @RichardVaughan1 Octopus energy boss told him recently that polls show onshore wind is "more popular than pizza or beer".
"He also said it's more popular than the Royal Family, which I can't quite believe.."
Miliband jokes he knows personally that 70%+ratings rare
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Mar 22
.@BorisJohnson now says he was "told a couple of times by Sue Gray" that "the threshold of criminality" had not been reached.
And says Dominic Cummings "has every motive to lie".

Challenging MPs to believe either him or Cummings.
Johnson strongly denying the photos of him at leaving drinks - and their 'sinister pixellations' - prove he knew he was breaking the Covid guidance.

Says it is 'staggeringly implausible' that he would his invited official photographer to an 'illicit' gathering.
Now Johnson is going for Harman's previous "prejudicial" tweets, something he may have been advised not to put in his written submission.
But says that was part of the 'cut and thrust' and accepts her opening statement.
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Mar 22
Damning newly released evidence from Lee Cain. Johnson civil servant 'Party Marty' actually warned against cancelling a lockdown drinks party cos it would be "a communications risk".

Follow the latest on our @theipaper liveblog
inews.co.uk/news/boris-joh…
And as for how socially distanced these events were, new evidence shows one official saying doorway was so crammed they couldn't get out.
“I stood on tiptoes to see what was going on then tried to figure out how the hell to get out. It must have been about 4 deep."
Other evidence from No10 officials supports @BorisJohnson claim that he was repeatedly assured no rules were broken.

BUT the very people who claimed this - and whose job it was to respond to media Qs - were the ones who attended the leaving drinks.
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