Starmer totally destroyed Badenoch at today's #pmqs
Starmer totally destroyed Badenoch at today's #pmqs
Kemi Badenoch says the Prime Minister is prioritizing his job security over national security.
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Keir Starmer: What I was not prepared to do on Saturday was for the UK to join a war unless I was satisfied there was a lawful basis and a viable, thought through plan.
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Kemi Badenoch: The US has taken offensive actions to destroy missile launch sites to defend British territory.
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It still exists?
BREAKING: Green Party candidate Hannah Spencer wins Gorton and Denton by-election. Reform came second and Labour third.
Badenoch says Starmer is only talking about student loans because she has raised it.
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Trade minister Chris Bryant says Tory ministers and prominent journalists were defending Andrew in 2011 when Bryant was saying he should lose envoy job.
Trade minister Chris Bryant says government will support Lib Dem motion for publication of Andrew trade envoy papers.
Yvette Cooper and Priti Patel will be joining Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
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What can you expect from Murdoch paper
NEW: PM told political cabinet βthe whole of the Labour Party wants Anas Sarwar to become FM and will fight for a Labour government in Scotlandβ.
It comes after Sarwar called for the PM to resign.
The PM thanks political cabinet colleagues for their support and said βthey were strong & unitedβ.
And Lucy Powell
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And Bridget Phillipson.
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Seeing quite a lot of the Cabinet now publicly posting their support of the PM
Eyes will now be looking to see who stays silent π
David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Darren Jones, John Healey, Heidi Alexander etc have all rallied round the prime minister - keep an eye on which cabinet ministers don't π
NEW: Leader of Scottish Labour is expected to call on the Prime Minister to resign.
Anas Sarwar MSP has hastily arranged a press conference for this afternoon. Itβs understood he will set out his position on Sir Keir Starmer
NEW: Deputy Prime Minister posts his support on X (Twitter) backing Sir Keir Starmer
Am told Eluned Morgan, First Minister of Wales, is going to follow Anas Sarwar in calling for the PM to stand down;
Also that there will be "Scottish MP ministerial resignations" afterwards
Ministers saying it's the end game...
π¨ NEW: The MI5 gave all UK political parties the first-ever security briefing last week on how to spot foreign interference
It comes after former Reform UK Welsh leader Nathan Gill was jailed for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements while an MEP
Pat McFadden, Alex Burghart and Plaid Cymru Leader Rhun ap Iorwerth will be joining Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
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Dan Thomas has been unveiled by Nigel Farage as the leader of Reform UK in Wales ahead of the Senedd elections in May.
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Steve Reed and Zack Polanksi will be joining Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
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Why does it need US approval?
I check it on Facebook.
At the risk of preaching not just to the choir but to the house of bishops, for my New Statesman column this week I have written about leaving Twitter a year ago, and how surreal it's been watching people make excuses for sharing a site with an AI sex pest tool
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Kemi Badenoch says she still regards the US Republican Party as a sister party of the Conservative Party.
Kemi Badenoch is now delivering a speech about "the future of the Conservative Party" after a series of defections. From what she says, it seems like she has no intention to seize this opportunity and move the party towards centre.