@JenniferJS_ @SamCoatesSky You haven’t been watching very closely. Sam pursued Boris Johnson with equal fervour. It isn’t a bias thing he knows there is something wrong with this story. I sense most of the public think so too.
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Andy
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Andy
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Politically homeless, can’t stand champagne socialists and populists. Pro free speech.
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Poor @SamCoatesSky - he must be so disappointed that Keir Starmer told the truth, didn't mislead Parliament, hasn't been forced out and didn't resign. In fact he came out of that session stronger and with more support than ever.
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@DanNeidle The world of facts and inconvenient truths have never been popular politicians.
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The "it turned out [Tice] had overpaid tax" thing, which keeps being repeated, is purest nonsense.
Nobody has suggested any way in which Tice could have overpaid tax, even in principle.
I hope a misunderstanding and nothing more than that; but it shouldn't be repeated.
BBC Breakfast@BBCBreakfast
'Last year Richard Tice said Angela Rayner should resign if she had any moral decency after she'd underpaid stamp duty, should he also resign then by his own standards?' Zia Yusuf from Reform UK was questioned on #BBCBreakfast over reports the Deputy Leader Richard Tice had underpaid corporation tax bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cg…
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He’s a yob, he’s a complete loudmouth and a joke MP.
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@markofagenius This is what always happens. They create a narrative so that we can all argue whether something did or didn’t happen to distract us from the fact that Starmer in appointing Mandelson demonstrated diabolical judgement. He needs to go.
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@Anniepop2027 @SkyNews You’re perfectly entitled to your opinion, but you are definitely in the minority.
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I was at the Prime Minister's important statement on the Peter Mandelson scandal. Mistakes were made but the Tory party are all about faux outrage when they presided over scandal after scandal
They even had no anti-corruption tsar after last one resigned following Boris blunders
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@Lawyer_AOthman @zarahsultana @DillyHussain88 It’s not defamation, she said it in parliament as did Lee Anderson. It’s called Parliamentary privilege which gives her immunity from defamation. Far worse gets said in other European Parliaments.
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@zarahsultana @DillyHussain88 You cannot accuse and defame people publicly like that. He is the PM of England. At least have some respect for his position and for the House. AND you publish it yourself. Either you don't know the right from the wrong, or there really is something wrong. What an attitude.
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The whole country knows it: Keir Starmer is a barefaced liar.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Zarah Sultana is suspended and removed from the House of Commons for calling Keir Starmer a liar "I have a duty to my constituents to tell the truth and the Prime Minister is a liar"
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Johnson was an elected politician appointed Foreign Secretary by May; no formal vetting failure, just internal intel access limits over trust. Cummings had lower-level clearance as a political adviser, standard for such roles unlike ambassador vetting. Mandelson failed developed vetting for a top diplomatic post with classified intel, yet FO overruled it after Starmer announced him so your points do not carry any weight.
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Boris Johnson failed vetting, yet Theresa May appointed him Foreign Secretary.
Dominic Cummings was never vetted, yet had free access to Government and Number 10.
Quit trying to bring down Starmer.
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EXCL: Keir Starmer would have blocked Peter Mandelson from serving as the UK’s ambassador to Washington had he known he failed security vetting, David Lammy tells me.
The deputy PM also says:
- it was “inexplicable” that Oliver Robbins opted to leave Downing Street in dark over outcome.
- he was “shocked and surprised” when he first learned on Thursday what had happened.
- neither he nor his advisers at time he was foreign sec had known about – or asked for information on – vetting process or its conclusions
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Petitions, peaceful protest & asking politely, Latest:
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@MiniJet10 @DerbyChrisW Wish the whole lobbyist bs could be banned, if they want to help MPs they should donate the money to charity in their constituencies ffs.
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Well, well, well. I've just received an email from the House of Commons saying the govt won't support a public inquiry into pro-Israel lobbying activity our politics & democracy. Not surprising considering how many cabinet ministers and MPs are bankrolled by pro-Israel lobbyists
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@DrEliDavid We probably wouldn’t get on this case, I think she has been magnificently brave and cognisant of what her electorate actually feels, same as Spain, I wish @Keir_Starmer would have the same backbone and sack his SPADs
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Meloni is the most pathetic world leader right now. Nobody had any expectations from Macron or Starmer, but she lied to her voters and is doing the exact opposite of what she promised.
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@narindertweets When electorate have the outcome of an official enquiry we can decide, it won’t be based on some hearsay on X.
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So, Starmer WAS telling the truth.
Can we all calm down now..
Alex Wickham@alexwickham
BREAKING: Sources say Olly Robbins felt bound by the rules of the security vetting process NOT to tell the PM, No10 or the foreign secretary about the concerns raised about Mandelson That means it appears No10 WERE in fact unaware he had issues with his vetting And sources say in fact Mandelson DID NOT simply fail his vetting. Instead issues were raised and the FCDO security team and ultimately Robbins had to make a decision on whether to grant him DV clearance. It was their decision and there was no “overturning,” sources say As @SamCoatesSky reports via former security official Ciaran Martin, Robbins was prohibited from sharing information about what happened with anyone outside the FCDO security team Sources say the point of the vetting process is that it is extremely invasive and people who go through it must be confident they can tell the whole truth and not have highly embarrassing information about their personal lives leak or be spread around colleagues That means the circle of people allowed to know about what happens in each vetting case is very small and the information is highly privileged The decision on whether to approve Mandelson’s clearance, according to the vetting rules, is taken by a small team of FCDO security officials and ultimately Robbins, sources say Under no circumstance is Robbins or that team able to share the details of the vetting case with No10 or anyone else, sources say. Robbins felt he could not share it with any minister or private office, sources say It appears the PM and No10 were unaware of how these rules were perceived by Robbins and FCDO, and think he should have told them. Allies of Robbins think it is unfair he was sacked But crucially it appears right now that Robbins did not tell No10 and they were actually in the dark about all this until Tuesday. What an unbelievable mess
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OMG it's not just engagement farmers making false claims that the "richest people in society" have failed to pay £500bn tax.
The Green Party@TheGreenParty
"You’ve got to start taxing the rich and actually making them pay." Green Party peer Jenny Jones on making sure the wealthiest actually pay what they owe on BBC Politics Live.
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@ImtiazMadmood Are you ever going to post any context or evidence with your bile, it’s like reading a Zionist AI bot ranting, honestly anyone human liking this stuff is either pathologically ignorant or brain dead.
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Brits thought the UK ranked 7th against US states in income per person — it actually ranked 51st.
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@nicksortor Is that same for the Zionists living in the USA? Pretty sure a shit ton of money and effort goes into supporting them..
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🚨 WOW! JD Vance just said LOUD AND CLEAR that we are NO LONGER pretending that "America First" includes ANY other country
"[A Ukrainian-American] was sticking his finger in my face saying 'you need to support my country!'"
"I said, 'sir, with all due respect, if you're an American, your country is the United States of America—NOT a place that you immigrated from.'"
"Whether your family's been here for 300 years or one second, to be an American means to look out for Americans FIRST — and that's the perspective we have to take to our immigration policy."
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@RobertJudd4 We don’t need something else to put off tourism revenue, my main concern is their systems are open to hackers like most and there will be very serious risks for our biometrics being stolen by bad actors for the wrong reasons just for taking a week in Benidorm.
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With EU punishing holiday makers at airports, why are we not doing the same to EU travellers come into UK?
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@ChaiLife613 Who decided the answer to that was to have a nuclear weapon?
Ukraine were forced to give up theirs when Russia signed the treaties yet they aren’t allowed to defend themselves from invasion..
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Why does Israel believe it has a right to possess nuclear weapons but that Iran does not have that same right?
FACT:
Israel is the only country in the world that has been openly threatened with extinction by its neighbors since its rebirth in 1948. Discussion about Israel’s nuclear weapons should begin only when Israel’s existence is accepted in the region. If Israel does have nuclear weapons, we will never know about them unless Israel is attacked. In contrast Iran has been threatening to annihilate Israel for years and is promising to enrich enough uranium to do so. There is a difference. Israel is not threatening its neighbors. Iran is.
- Naveed Anjum
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