Idler. Journalist. Former Political Editor of the London Evening Standard, the Sunday Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday.
Jul 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
BREAKING ....
Matt Hancock calling "urgent review" into a staggering fiasco at Public Health England.
They are counting people who die of natural causes as coronavirus deaths if they tested positive at any time previously.
Not clear how many deaths were recorded in this way
This emerged only because, says source: "We noticed that hospital deaths were falling but community deaths were up and wondered why ...
"It turns out you could have been tested positive in February, recovered, then hit by a bus in July and you'd be recorded as a covid death".
Apr 30, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
LONDON POLL - Tories slump to fourth place in London in new Euro elections poll
In a week that Cabinet unity collapsed before our eyes without any minister being sacked ...
... a lowly PPS has been made to resign on a technicality
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Nice backbencher @AlbertoCostaMP has been given the boot for putting down an amendment calling on the PM to seek a separate treaty on EU citizens' rights as an insurance against no-deal.
It's widely backed by all sides, from Jacob Rees Mogg to Caroline Lucas
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Apr 26, 2018 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
POLL of LONDON
Lab - 51% (down from 54 in February),
Con - 29 (+1)
Lib Dem 11 (nc)
Greens 4 (nc)
Ukip 2 (f***ed)
