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As always please get in touch with any stories / tips / if you fancy lunch — even if you’re not free for six weeks…
Alex Wickham
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Alex Wickham
@alexwickham
UK Political Editor for Bloomberg [email protected]
London, England
Born January 5
Joined November 2011
- Elon Musk has called for far-right agitator Tommy Robinson to be released from prison, suggested the US should exert economic pressure on the UK to get him out, said Jess Phillips should be jailed and said there should be fresh elections to oust Labour
- BREAKING: Boris Johnson says the NHS will be "overwhelmed" and Britain will become like Italy unless people immediately follow social distancing orders His starkest warning to the nation yet about what is coming PM says people must not visit their mothers on mother's day
- BBC inexplicably cut away from Hancock press conference for the weather. Would politely suggest that when none of us can go outside the health secretary's update is slightly more important FFS
- Hearing from a source with knowledge that one of the big six English clubs is now seriously considering pulling out of the Super League They are accusing Liverpool and Manchester United — the 2 clubs leading the breakaway — of lying to them and “f***ing up” Major split in ESL
- NEW: The German Health Ministry has DENIED the Handelsblatt report claiming the AstraZeneca vaccine had only 8% efficacy for over-65s They say there has been confusion and 8% actually refers to the number of people in the study between 56 and 69 years old Oh my word...
- Sunak says as a Southampton fan he wants to get back to winning ways by beating Man United this weekend. Southampton are playing Leicester on Saturday.
- Huge story… leaked memo shows Biden promised Boris Johnson and G7 leaders in June that the US would maintain enough of a security presence in Afghanistan that they would keep Kabul safe — then failed to keep that commitmentNEW: Biden assured key allies in June that US security enablers would remain in place in Afghanistan as NATO troops withdrew, so much so that U.K. thought it could maintain its Kabul embassy bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
- Tory MP: “I’m afraid Keir Starmer asked the killer question. Is there a single phrase of the withdrawal agreement different from what was agreed in November? The answer is no.”
- ITV report on the govt’s new plan to get convicts to fill lorry driver shortages going very viral on Tik Tok… “Here’s Dean, he’s on day release from jail working in haulage. His offence was importing drugs, involving a lorry” x.com/BrexitFails/st…
- Ahead of new PM statement — total fury across govt tonight at people flouting social distancing orders — in particular men and younger men — images of London parks packed with people over the weekend have shocked Whitehall — they believed people would behave more responsibly
- NEW: A furious Keir Starmer says the overcrowding crisis in prisons is worse than he previously thought and it’s become his main domestic priority He blasted the “terrible” state of public services left by Sunak “Some of what we’ve found is shocking”
- A senior government source wishes Bercow well “Bercow thinks he’ll walk away as a hero, when most people in the country don’t know who he is and those that do think he’s a nauseating wanker. The man has been central to stopping Brexit - the nation won’t thank him.”
- What a story - firm had profits of just £317,000 pre-pandemic, now up 21,700% to £69 million after getting a £149 million PPE contract from the govt. £108 million of the equipment was useless.EXCLUSIVE: A businessman made £70m in profit on contract for PPE that was 70% unused — and celebrated his birthday last week by eating “briefcase of cash” cake on private yacht Philip Johnson has paid himself £13m dividend as family lives life of luxury thetimes.co.uk/article/dde89e…
