@supertanskiii @SamCoatesSky @samcoates Should be an apology - this is a serious moment for the country and @SamCoatesSky is acting like a damn fool. He should get himself over to GB News where he clearly belongs.
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Duncan Field
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@SamCoatesSky He was forced to admit that they were Associated Press photos minutes later, but the damage had been done. On what basis did you decide to initially refer to the photos as “government propaganda” and “fake news” while ardently warning the public not to trust them @samcoates ?
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What the FUCK?
Sam Coates at Sky News warning the public that photos released by No 10, of Starmer, are “government propaganda” and “fake news”.
He repeatedly tells people to NOT trust the photos.
No broadcaster should show this level of overt bias. It is BEYOND fucked up.
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Sam Coates: "These are govt propaganda pictures... this is as close to fake news as you can get... you can trust pictures from PA... you're looking at fake news pictures... that come from No.10"
Mark Austin: "These are PA photographs & not No.10 photographs as we said earlier."
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Extraordinary story indeed. Presumably, if it's not true then Farage, Johnson & Harborne will want to sue Ben Habib for defamation to clear their names. Thevm Electoral Commission also newd to get a grip on the Harborne story and show they have some backbone.
Narinder Kaur@narindertweets
Extraordinary allegations from @benhabib6 !! Ben Habib alleges that Nigel Farage & Boris Johnson were paid £1m each by Christopher Harborne to essentially rig the election in favour of Johnson. He also claims the undeclared £5m "gift" Farage received in 2024 from Harborne was payment for Farage to take over as party leader of Reform UK and stand in Clacton.
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Worth investigating surely?
Narinder Kaur@narindertweets
Extraordinary allegations from @benhabib6 !! Ben Habib alleges that Nigel Farage & Boris Johnson were paid £1m each by Christopher Harborne to essentially rig the election in favour of Johnson. He also claims the undeclared £5m "gift" Farage received in 2024 from Harborne was payment for Farage to take over as party leader of Reform UK and stand in Clacton.
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I’m hearing that Andy Burnham has purchased a meal deal at WH Smith in Euston station. Beth, Sam and Sophy are en route to ask the checkout assistant what flavour crisps he chose.
Meanwhile Nigel Farage trousered a £5m bung and didn’t declare it.
Back to the crisps story.
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@johnmcdonnellMP Please stop this. All you are doing is tearing the party apart in public making it vanishingly unlikely it will ever be trusted with government again. You’ve blown it in 22 months.
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This is a big blow
Very able and good minister
In danger of a trickle becoming a flood now
Another @UKLabour government and prime minister in danger of being brought down by our own people
In my view it is reckless and politically dangerous
Farage myst be laughing over a pint
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@Rob_dronfield @JackElsom @BethRigby She didn't resign and Starmer stood by her at some political cost to himself.
So much for deeds, eh? 🙃
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@JackElsom @BethRigby Not wanting to disagree with you/Jess Phillips but we shouldn’t forget that in the not too distant past people were not happy with her performance but she didn’t resign. Never bodes well when the elected leader is forced out. Remember Brown, Major, those after Johnson.
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That is one of the most blistering resignation letters I've ever read. Up there with Suella Braverman in wanting to burn the house down on her way out.
Beth Rigby@BethRigby
EXCLUSIVE: Jess Phillips, safeguarding minister, resigns from govt. “The desire not to have an argument means we rarely make an argument..."
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@AlexDaviesJones Are you advocating abandoning the manifesto that is being delivered? Because you know where that leads, right? 🗳️
fullfact.org/government-tra…
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It is with a very heavy heart that I have offered my resignation to the Prime Minister.
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@SophyRidgeSky Political journalists are genuinely asking themselves this question?! 🤡🤣
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BREAKING: Labour’s influential Tribune group of more than 100 MPs has called for less “caution” on fiscal policy in a new pamphlet that demands a change of direction to the left
Louise Haigh, the Labour MP who chairs the group, says the current structure of the UK Treasury’s role in fiscal policy “resolved in favour of caution”
She says Britain’s “fiscal and institutional framework” is “unfit for purpose”
She also calls for major tax rises on wealth
With extraordinary timing, Tribune has published this pamphlet at the exact same time as the bond market opens this morning
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Don’t suppose anyone’s seen what’s happening in the bond market this morning?
Alex Wickham@alexwickham
BREAKING: Labour’s influential Tribune group of more than 100 MPs has called for less “caution” on fiscal policy in a new pamphlet that demands a change of direction to the left Louise Haigh, the Labour MP who chairs the group, says the current structure of the UK Treasury’s role in fiscal policy “resolved in favour of caution” She says Britain’s “fiscal and institutional framework” is “unfit for purpose” She also calls for major tax rises on wealth With extraordinary timing, Tribune has published this pamphlet at the exact same time as the bond market opens this morning
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If Starmer goes that would be 5 different PMs in five years, despite two of them having historically large Parliamentary majorities…
Impossible to plan, strategise and deliver even medium term economic plans, let alone long term thinking going on elsewhere…
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💯- it beats me how @UKLabour MPs can't see this - it's a bear trap and they're falling straight into it
Matthew Syed@matthewsyed
The ministers urging Starmer to go are feeding the hysteria. The next leader will be subject to instant leadership speculation and the next, and the next, whether Labour, Reform or Tory. Britain is becoming ungovernable. And the media fixation on this tittle tattle is not helping
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The ministers urging Starmer to go are feeding the hysteria. The next leader will be subject to instant leadership speculation and the next, and the next, whether Labour, Reform or Tory. Britain is becoming ungovernable. And the media fixation on this tittle tattle is not helping
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Some thoughts this morning: Don’t like Starmer’s politics but seeing some of the media giddy at prospect of chaos is grim.
When a government falls, markets react, bond yields rise & families pay for chattering classes’ dysfunction. This isn’t a fucking game….
And anyone who thinks there’s such a thing as an “orderly transition” in the middle of a governing crisis is living in cloud cuckoo land
If Labour MPs learned anything from the Tory meltdowns it should be this: voters have no appetite for parties tearing themselves apart in office. I say that as a lapsed Tory member
If Labour can’t govern coherently then put it to the country. The British public didn’t vote for chaos. Rant over
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@CMcKinnellMP @BethRigby Indeed - and not always in good way.
I'm sure she's also grateful that Starmer stood by her when many PMs would not have done and it's just that she hasn't got around to expressing those words or combining them with deeds 🙃
Ed Conway@EdConwaySky
👀UK 10yr bond yields shoot up to 5.1% amid speculation about the fate of the PM. Here's the chart of the past three trading days 👇
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Jess Phillips is the epitome of combining deeds AND words 👇
Beth Rigby@BethRigby
EXCLUSIVE: Jess Phillips, safeguarding minister, resigns from govt. “The desire not to have an argument means we rarely make an argument..."
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Starmer and Reeves are not kidding when they say this political uncertainty causes economic damage. The only “reset” being achieved at the moment is higher borrowing costs. Result? We’re all worse off. So deeply depressing.
Ed Conway@EdConwaySky
👀UK 10yr bond yields shoot up to 5.1% amid speculation about the fate of the PM. Here's the chart of the past three trading days 👇
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