Joe Murphy
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Joe Murphy
@JoeMurphyLondon
Ex-Political Editor of the Evening Standard, the Sunday Telegraph & the Mail on Sunday.
Joined June 2009
- BREAKING .... Matt Hancock calling "urgent review" into a staggering fiasco at Public Health England. They are counting people who die of natural causes as coronavirus deaths if they tested positive at any time previously. Not clear how many deaths were recorded in this way
- Channel 4 News has been consistently excellent this week. Fine reports, sober analysis, brave correspondents @Channel4News
- What an impressive result for @DrRosena Allin-Khan. From a standing start, she overtook everyone except winner @AngelaRayner and cannot be denied a shadow cabinet place. An NHS a&e surgeon as Health Secretary at a time of a health crisis? Why not?
- This is amazing - and, I think, unprecedented. MP Tulip Siddiq has DELAYED THE BIRTH by Caesarean of her son so that she can vote against May's deal. Top exclusive by @kateproctorES, who highlights the campaign for proxy voting for mums in the Commons.
- The extraordinary U-turn by Matt Hancock in the middle of PMQs is a landmark for city-level devolution. An elected mayor @AndyBurnhamGM opposed a Westminster political decision and the Govt bowed within hours. Mayors came of age today.
- Replying to @JoeMurphyLondonThis emerged only because, says source: "We noticed that hospital deaths were falling but community deaths were up and wondered why ... "It turns out you could have been tested positive in February, recovered, then hit by a bus in July and you'd be recorded as a covid death".
- Like him of loathe him, Speaker John Bercow perhaps just delivered the quote he will be remembered by: “If we only went by precedent, manifestly nothing would ever change."
- POLL Disaster for Long-Bailey in @IpsosMORI poll for the @eveningstandard She is LAST as a PM-in-waiting among general public and among Labour voters. And with her as Leader, the party would poll JUST 28%
- I think Chris Whitty just took the controls. “The idea we can open up everything and keep the virus under control is wrong.” “We have probably reached the limits, or near the limits, of what we can open up.” A powerful intervention by the CMO
- "Sir Keir’s technique is one that Alfred Hitchcock would approve. Hitchcock once said: 'There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.' "The metaphorical bomb in this case is the inevitable public inquiry ... " My sketch of #PMQs ...
- Golly EU'S BARNIER SAYS IF UK WANTS TO STOP EU FISHERMEN FROM ACCESSING WATERS, EU MUST HAVE SOVEREIGN RIGHT TO REACT
- BREAKING Dominic Cummings is self isolating at home - he had symptoms over weekend
- We have not had a Prime Minister elected with a clear majority who served a full term since as far back as 2001. Quite a wait.
