Romilly Weeks

Our extended report on Sudan here youtu.be/oZISDG_9IyE

We travelled to the border of Sudan where @YvetteCooperMP told us “the atrocities must not go unpunished”. Our report with @MayaBowles6

Our report on phone bans in school with @MayaBowles6

Trump says on Feb 1 he will impose a 10% tariff “on any and all goods sent” to US from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, UK, Netherlands, & Finland, increasing to 25% June 1 “until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.”

“Our victory against the regime is inevitable.” Day 409 of daily, nonstop protests in 8+ cities across Georgia. This is Tbilisi.

BREAKING: Wife of Renee Good, Becca Good, has just released a statement. : “First, I want to extend my gratitude to all the people who have reached out from across the country and around the world to support our family. This kindness of strangers is the most fitting tribute because if you ever encountered my wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, you know that above all else, she was kind. In fact, kindness radiated out of her. Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn’t wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might think it was just my love talking but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunshine. Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow. Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole. Like people have done across place and time, we moved to make a better life for ourselves. We chose Minnesota to make our home. Our whole extended road trip here, we held hands in the car while our son drew all over the windows to pass the time and the miles. What we found when we got here was a vibrant and welcoming community, we made friends and spread joy. And while any place we were together was home, there was a strong shared sense here in Minneapolis that we were looking out for each other. Here, I had finally found peace and safe harbor. That has been taken from me forever. We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine. On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns. Renee leaves behind three extraordinary children; the youngest is just six years old and already lost his father. I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way. We thank you for the privacy you are granting our family as we grieve. We thank you for ensuring that Renee’s legacy is one of kindness and love. We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love.”

Chilling evidence that America’s democracy is in crisis - superb report from @romillyweeks

My report on the most leaked budget in history with producer extraordinaire @ionanapier

Kemi Badenoch’s attack on Rachel Reeves unusually personal “a woman wallowing in self pity…whining about mansplaining and misogyny” calls her “spineless shameless and completely aimless” Uncomfortable #Budget2025

Rachel Reeves face when Kemi Badenoch says she will go down in history as the country’s worst chancellor #Budget2025

Labour MPs delighted but this policy isn’t supported by the majority of the public

The chancellor makes lifting 2 child benefit cap personal “I came into politics because I believe every child has equal worth” #Budget2025

But she says she is making tax system fairer by increasing both basic and higher rate tax on property, savings and dividends

Chx confirms what we all know she’s freezing tax thresholds until 2030/31

Chx claims she will find 4.9bn in departmental efficiencies and 10bn a year in unpaid tax and fraud. Most chancellors promise these crackdowns few manage to deliver them @ITVNewsPolitics

@kateferguson4 Our edit suite in Westminster this evening

Sian Berry, Green MP, is wearing trainers to the Commons. Shows a sad disrespect for the Palace of Westminster which she is so lucky to work in.

Delegates will leave rather happier than they arrived

Kemi Badenoch’s speech ends - this is the Britain I want to build. After a year of letting Reform make all the running the Tories do now have some policies to shout about and scrapping stamp duty is going down well @ITVNewsPolitics

On housing she promises to get rid of stamp duty altogether

Says she’s not a climate sceptic but a net zero sceptic and we should “drill our oil and gas now”

Kemi Badenoch frames new Tory commitment to paying down deficit and tax cuts as ‘responsibility today opportunity tomorrow’