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[neil ross @PeasePud45]

@DPJHodges @chelsey_sharon @JuliaHB1 Will Starmer expel rebels from PLP to prevent them backing an alternative Leader?

[neil ross @PeasePud45]

@DPJHodges There would need to be 20% of PLP (82) supporting an alternative Leader (Rayner).

Then the whole membership and associates would vote, and likely pick someone different like Shabana Mahmood.

It's a big gamble.

[neil ross @PeasePud45]

@DPJHodges 20% of PLP needed. Current 403 Labour MPs. so 82 needed.

Although there may be 15 fewer Labour MPs by the weekend.

Obviously, culling the "rebels" could be used by Starmer to retain the leadership.

[neil ross @PeasePud45]

@DPJHodges The form is fake.

The real form has the
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[neil ross @PeasePud45]

@DPJHodges Out of his depth.

With Emily Thornberry holding his head under the water.

[neil ross @PeasePud45]

@canadiancarol1 @DPJHodges McSweeney needs the 5th amendment.

He is almost certainly talking himself into an arrest.

[neil ross @PeasePud45]

@DPJHodges It's almost like he's on trial.

And the experience may be useful to him in the not too distant future.

[neil ross @PeasePud45]

@DPJHodges Just several hours of intrusive interview with UKSV officers, after which they ticked the red "hell no" box...

but nobody showed that to Starmer of course. Even after the Epstein files were published.

Hard to believe.

[neil ross @PeasePud45]

@Zokko18 @watp78 @Steven_Swinford @DPJHodges Magna Carta and 5th amendment, but the way this applies to job applications is determined by written codes and customary practice. I very much doubt there's a handbook in Nr 10 on how to appoint a UK ambassador to the US.

[neil ross @PeasePud45]

@DPJHodges The questioning is brutal. The man is tying himself in knots and doesn't know what he's saying. If this was a court the judge would have called adjournment.

[neil ross @PeasePud45]

@danwootton Starmer says his wife Victoria gives him the best advice.

Shame he didn't ask her about Peter Mandelson.

[neil ross @PeasePud45]

@Zokko18 @watp78 @Steven_Swinford @DPJHodges Unless you precisely define "due process", it's a meaningless phrase.

It's like defining a "birthday party" as distinct from a gathering of friends over a bottle champagne and a cake with candles on it.

And that is the problem when it comes to Privileges Committee.

[neil ross @PeasePud45]

@GBNEWS McSweeney being destroyed. Very uncomfortable viewing.

"The DD (due diligence) process looked inadequate to me".

He's struggling. Starting to contradict himself.

[neil ross @PeasePud45]

@DPJHodges If McSweeney just said "we were all too pissed to write stuff down or to recall what we were talking about" it would be less problematic.

[neil ross @PeasePud45]

@DPJHodges What is the definition of "due process"?

It's just any process that is accepted as normal practice by those using it.

My plumber's due process is to offer a 20% discount for cash.

[neil ross @PeasePud45]

@DPJHodges Probably right. The same sort of "due process" that netted Baroness Mone £200m of taxpayer money.

There is no proper governance or oversight. The DV process for Mandelson seems to have been an accident, and was therefore ignored.

[neil ross @PeasePud45]

@DPJHodges Starmer's decision making has been woeful, and God knows what corrupt cronyism made rewarding Mandelson the number one priority for the Prime Minister.

But the evidence is that Starmer wasn't told about the DV outcome, did not need to be told, and didn't ask.

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Your own husband posted this btw

[neil ross @PeasePud45]

@daughterofaggie @JoJoFromJerz @FLOTUS Trump has never been shot.