Jane Merrick

Policy editor @theipaper, a @Time Person of The Year 2017

[Jane Merrick @janemerrick23]

NEW: Strategic Defence Review: cyber experts to be deployed on battlefield alongside the regular armed forces as part of a major modernisation of the British military to prepare for drone warfare, by me @theipaper https://t.co/l90n5UyeMb

[Hatty Collier @HattyCollier]

Putin growing more reckless as his inner circle shrinks, UK security insiders fear - Exclusive insight into the UK’s thinking on the threat from Russia by @janemerrick23, @cazjwheeler and @connie_dimsdale for @theipaper https://t.co/MOlOVqv4dk

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▫ Britain's royals face Russian cyber threat in 'grey war'

▫King’s household admits “ageing” computer systems need replacing to protect the monarchy from security threats
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[Jane Merrick @janemerrick23]

To any followers in #Lisbon #Portgual have you seen Julian Amaral? He has been missing since last night
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[The i Paper @theipaper]

Russian hackers targeting the Royal Family have led to a major taxpayer-funded cyber security overhaul for Buckingham Palace

🔴 Exclusive from @cazjwheeler & @janemerrick23

Read more: https://t.co/iA7ZAzShfj

[The i Paper @theipaper]

Nigel Farage has broken parliamentary rules by filming on the roof of the Palace of Westminster

🔴 Exclusive from @janemerrick23

Read more: https://t.co/rVdPZ8KPEw

[Arj Singh @singharj]

🇬🇧🇧🇪EXC: UK on brink of migration deal with Belgium to cut small boat crossings https://t.co/MDdGbo0bCF

[caroline wheeler @cazjwheeler]

Exclusive: Prime Minister Andy Burnham is exploring a bid to host the men’s World Cup in the UK, alongside plans for a Northern Olympics, The i Paper can reveal.

The move would bring the World Cup back to the UK for the first time since England hosted in 1966 and forms part of a growing push by Burnham to use major sporting events to drive investment, tourism and regeneration beyond London.

Burnham told colleagues at a Friday morning meeting at No 10 North in Manchester that he is looking at how Britain could host the tournament and is already in talks with the nation’s footballing bodies about how a campaign could be delivered.

A source familiar with the discussions said the bid was raised as part of talks on “stadium regeneration”.

The next available World Cup is in 2038, followed by tournaments in 2042 and 2046. FIFA has yet to begin the formal process for awarding the 2038 tournament, and the Government has not said whether its ambitions are focused on the earliest available opportunity or a bid further into the future.

The World Cup plan is being considered alongside the previously reported ambition to bring the Olympics to the north, with Burnham understood to be pursuing both projects as part of a wider push to attract major sporting events, investment and tourism to the regions.

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[The i Paper @theipaper]

Trump’s officials discuss takeover of China’s ‘mega-embassy’ site https://t.co/2EPaVObH9o

[The i Paper @theipaper]

Labour take five-point poll lead over Reform in new Burnham bounce https://t.co/YfPPyqUQgo

[Jane Merrick @janemerrick23]

He has also said he wants care worker pay to have parity with NHS staff and have good career progression - as I also revealed earlier this month: https://t.co/oD2sFRVDOR

[Jane Merrick @janemerrick23]

Andy Burnham announces he is fast-tracking the Casey commission on social care - as I revealed in @theipaper earlier this month https://t.co/xTidL7P3dW

[Connie Dimsdale @connie_dimsdale]

Andy Burnham is prepared to limit cash benefits for young people and attach work-related conditions to payments, his key ally, Labour grandee Lord Blunkett, has suggested.

https://t.co/t4eGTTLtGW

[Connie Dimsdale @connie_dimsdale]

Andy Burnham’s plan to cap bus fares at £2 nationally could come as soon as tomorrow, according to well-placed sources.

The measure to support people with the cost of living would be an expansion of Burnham’s fare cap on the Manchester bus network.

[Jane Merrick @janemerrick23]

Here are the five things Andy Burnham has to do this week, with help from @AlexGAThomas @theipaper: https://t.co/oDESYkQdVW

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▫ Care workers to get NHS-style annual pay rises

▫Health minister Stephen Kinnock says England's 1.5 million care workers 'make such a vital contribution to our country and communities'
▫@janemerrick23
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@theipaper #frontpagestoday #UK 🇬🇧

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

The landmark Hillsborough Law legislation has now been passed by MPs in the House of Commons.

We would like to reaffirm our enormous admiration, respect and appreciation for all those who have campaigned for the introduction of the Hillsborough Law. The 97, their families and survivors are forever in our thoughts.

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[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

The Hillsborough Law will change the way this country thinks about justice.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

This is a moment of real significance for our country.

[Jane Merrick @janemerrick23]

The news of her death in such distressing circumstances is utterly shocking, and my condolences to her family and friends in politics and out of it 3/3

[Jane Merrick @janemerrick23]

I first met Ann Widdecombe in 2001 when I arrived in Westminster. She was always kind and courteous to journalists, understood the necessity of the pithy quote, but always principled - never gave a quote just for the sake of it 1/

[Jane Merrick @janemerrick23]

Westminster in the very early 00s wasn't an online place, but she was one of the first, if not the first, MPs to have her own website, the "Widdy Web" - which said a lot about her defying of people's perceptions of her 2/