Assistant Editor, Digital Politics @SkyNews | Father of son who has been through a lot politically | 📧 Alan.McGuinness@sky.uk | My views |
Oct 19, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
My son has lived through four chancellors, three home secretaries, two prime ministers and two monarchs.
He's four months old.
Am I ready to cover a seemingly looming general election with a child under the age of 1?
Sep 22, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
🚨 Environment Secretary George Eustice tells Sky News the row over the Northern Ireland Protocol is "very complicated" and "I'm not sure he [Joe Biden] does fully appreciate all of that".
"He is probably at the moment just reading the headlines, reading what the EU is saying, reading what Ireland might be saying, which is that they would like the NI Protocol to work in the way the EU envisage," he says.
Jun 10, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In a punchy Commons intervention, former PM Theresa May says it is "incomprehensible" that the UK, which is "one of the most heavily vaccinated countries in the world", is the nation that is the "most reluctant to give its citizens the freedoms those vaccinations should support".
May says Boris Johnson needs to be "upfront" with the public about what the future will look like and tell them that "we will not eradicate" COVID from the UK.
Nov 9, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Former PM Sir John Major says the UK Internal Market Bill has "damaged our reputation around the world".
"Lawyers everywhere are incredulous that the UK - often seen as the very cradle of the Rule of Law - could give themselves the power to break the law," he says.
"Moreover, at a moment when we need to maximise our commercial activities, this Bill has had a corrosive impact on the reputation of English and Welsh jurisdiction," he says in a pre-recorded lecture to Middle Temple.
"This may have a practical cost...
Nov 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The government says the results are "very promising" and it has procured 40 million doses of the vaccine.
"While we are optimistic of a breakthrough, we must remember that there are no guarantees," a spokesperson says.
"We will know whether the vaccine meets our robust standards of safety and effectiveness once their safety data has been published, and only then can the medicines regulator consider whether it can be made available to the public...
Nov 7, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: Joe Biden is president-elect. Sky News is projecting that he will win Pennsylvania and its 20 Electoral College votes, putting him past the 270 mark required to win.
Full story from colleague @breeallegretti in DC: news.sky.com/story/us-elect…
