Shaun Lintern

🚨 Donna Ockenden says midwives should train first as nurses as she warns of concerns across England. Next week Baroness Amos WILL call for a review of education & a National Maternity Comissioner to oversee a redesign of maternity services READ:thetimes.com/article/5cf0b3…

Good to see @andyburnham reference sodium valproate in Parliament. The Sunday Times continues to campaign for the affected families. Burnham must now act.

Yesterday, 160 harmed families, individuals and supporting organisations wrote to to @jamesmurray_ldn to demand a Statutory Public Inquiry into maternity and neonatal services in England. You can now add your name alongside the original 160 signatories: openletter.earth/we-demand-a-st…

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: The convicted fraudster George Cottrell had access to Nigel Farage’s emails, and covered party costs without the Electoral Commission knowing thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

@annalouisedixon raises concerns about the lack of “pace and urgency” in delivering the National Care Service. She calls for national commissioning standards, a workforce strategy, and a fairer and more sustainable care market.

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A murder investigation has been launched into the death of former MP and MEP Ann Widdecombe at her home on Dartmoor, Devon and Cornwall Police have said.

#valproatescandal #Justice Thank you @GregoryStafford for asking this question on the Hughes Report to @jamesmurray_ldn @DHSCgovuk Appalling response!!💔 @JanetWilliams99 @ShaunLintern @thetimes @LaylaMoran @DHSCgovuk @andyburnham @andyburnhamHQ

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As Minister for Patient Safety, I know that when things go wrong, patients and families need to know their voices have been heard and that lessons lead to real change. This Government is focused on turning investigations into action. I responded to adjournment debate on HSSIB 👇🏽

Another bomb from @Annaisaac who reports the NCA examined other transactions exceeding £1m involving Richard Tice, George Cottrell and Cottrell’s mother, Fiona. She also reveals the below was leaked to the Telegraph yesterday as a spoiler designed to thwart public interest journalism. Significantly her report relates to Tice’s network of companies, which, we’ve previously reported, unlawfully failed to pay six-figure sums of tax — and avoided hundreds of thousands more using highly unusual means. Enclosed below are our three previous reports on Tice’s tax affairs. They relate to £100k, £92K plus, and £609K of tax that should have been paid or was avoided, and which benefitted a company that donated to Reform. The latest disclosures add context to why he may have been so determined to forestall our reporting.

Oh my god… She’s had an absolute mare here I genuinely felt for her at one point Apparently Farage was not ‘politically active’ when CEO of Reform Maaaaaaaaate.

Here are a couple of details in our investigation you may have missed, but on which we await answers. — why does Mowbray Jackson (below left), Reform UK’s serving “data protection officer” and a friend of both Farage and Cottrell, own a company which has been used to make secret and potentially illegal payments destined for Tether.bet, the crypto gambling platform in which Cottrell is involved? — how much did George Cottrell pay Reform treasurer Nick Candy for the £8.5m house in Chelsea he now owns, which, according to Land Registry, was “not for value” (ie free), but according to Candy involved a purchase of shares of an offshore Guernsey entity?

On my way, Clacton.

Phone hacking was and is a stain on UK journalism that we may never fully clean away. But every day me and colleagues across the industry work hard to live up to the ideals of the job. Something very dodgy went on with this court case and Fraser's analysis is bang on.

I for one think it was nice that Farage's daughter appeared with him on I'm a celebrity.

Nigel Farage is complaining about The Times publishing a picture of this house, owned by him, that’s been in the public domain for over a decade after previously posing in front of it.

@anothermarcusa @Andywebster @Gabriel_Pogrund There are loads of photos of him posing outside the house for photo shoots. Google it. His supporters are being taken for fools by him and his funders.

@Andywebster @ShaunLintern @Gabriel_Pogrund Farage did? Where?

Nigel Farage has a little rant on TV - takes no questions. Does not address any of the facts in @Gabriel_Pogrund Sunday Times investigation. It's all deflection. Resigns as an MP to trigger a by-election in Clacton but says he will stand in it again to let the people decide.

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