'Trump can't hide his hurty-feelings. Protecting free speech is washed away, it is in the gutter, down the sewer."
Jimmy Kimmel is back on air, the president is fuming and doesn't care who knows
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"London is being set up as this dystopian hellhole where you can barely walk out of your door... it's a Trump import!"
Has the UK borrowed America’s favourite political tactic, scaremongering the "city"?
@jonsopel | @lewis_goodall
A pay rise of 28.9%.
The highest pay rise in the entire public sector this year.
A genuine commitment to work together on things like rotations, placements, progression.
These are NOT the conditions for strike action.
I urge the BMA to work with me.
Today a reminder that politics is the toughest business. Most of us have no idea how hard these jobs are, the pressure, especially governing right now.
That said, the it’s undeniable that the last 24 hours have sent out one message to the voters and markets- the govt has not been in control. The situation is nowhere near irrecoverable, but the govt is rapidly running out of lives.
“If they’d explained everything about Brexit, I’d probably have voted Remain!”
@lewis_goodall visits The Talbot in Blackpool, the UK’s first Reform pub, where the owner regrets Brexit - but stops short of blaming one of the key figures who sold it to him: Nigel Farage.
"Why do you 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 talk about Pakistani grooming gangs? There are 𝙩𝙚𝙣 times as many white grooming gang suspects?"
@maitlis asks ex-Reform MP @RupertLowe10 why he won't denounce all perpetrators of grooming gangs equally.
"Nigel Farage is running a 𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩... he's surrounded by people whose idea of policy is to wander to The Marquis Of Granby for a pint."
Ex-Reform MP @RupertLowe10 says Farage is "not fit to be Prime Minister."
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"I'm unhappy senior politicians are using language reminiscent of [Enoch] Powell and I'm sorry Starmer used some of those phrases."
Lord @AlfDubs on the "regrettable" language used in the PM's 'island of strangers' speech.
@maitlis | @lewis_goodall
'In Britain and across Europe free speech, I fear, is in retreat'
US Vice President JD Vance spoke at the Munich security conference and took a swipe at Brussels, Germany, Sweden and the UK.
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"We 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 to believe women while they are alive. We cannot wait for them to die before saying 'Oh, ok, maybe she 𝘸𝘢𝘴 in pain.'"
@maitlis reflects on Virginia Giuffre - a woman unafraid to point the finger at those in power - who took her own life aged 41.
“𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮 𝘴𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘮 - 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘥𝘪𝘥, 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘏𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘥.”
Marine Le Pen has been barred from running for president in 2027 - but Philippe Sands tells @maitlis the verdict will enhance her political currency.
“I’ve been no influence on Keir Starmer. We have never talked about the Chagos archipelago.”
Philippe Sands, international lawyer and friend of Starmer, says both would be "slaughtered" if they discussed the Chagos deal
"My son deserves compensation."
As @lewis_goodall investigated the devastating Sodium Valproate scandal, he discovers his @LBC colleague Martin Stanford’s family has been directly affected.
The special report will hit your podcast feed later today.
"I'm not surprised Russia has taken this stance."
PM @Keir_Starmer responds to the Kremlin rejecting a US-Ukraine backed 30 day ceasefire.
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"They're joyous and 𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 that might be hard to accept 𝑏𝑢𝑡..."
As MAGA celebrates across the US, a question remains unanswered... Where does this movement go in 4 years' time?
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"When something so horrific happens you can either shut up shop, or try and make a difference."
MP @kimleadbeater reflects on worsening divisions in British politics since the tragic murder of her sister, MP Jo Cox.
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"‘People feel like criminals, and the reality is that potentially, they are criminals.’"
MP @kimleadbeater tells @lewis_goodall the fear people endure when accompanying loved ones overseas for assisted dying is ‘wrong on so many levels.'
"He's on the verge of the greatest comeback in political history."
As it stands, Donald Trump looks set to take back the White House with huge gains across the key battlefield states.
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