Welcoming party ready for President Zelenskky ahead of his meeting with Sir Keir Starmer in Downing Street later this afternoon @Number10cat @SkyNews
Amanda Akass
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Amanda Akass
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Political Correspondent @SkyNews | Formerly @bbcsoutheast @bbcnews | Sounds like ‘ACAS’ | [email protected]
- Despite the door being specially opened for him Larry decides against going inside to join the junior ministerial reshuffle @Number10cat
- Not exactly a packed hall for Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride’s big speech at #ConservativePartyConference @SkyNews
- First full day at work for PM Liz Truss and her new team today - we’re live from Downing Street this afternoon on @SkyNews with @skysarahjane (and @Number10cat - who’s been sleeping through all the drama of the first cabinet meeting, PMQs etc)
- Exclusive: New police figures show 77% of applications by sex offenders to be removed from the sex offenders register are successful - with some forces approving 100%. Now Laura Stewart, who was abused as a child, is campaigning for a change in the law.
- Liberal Democrat Sir Ed Davey is the one British political leader vocally standing up for the BBC this evening....calling on the PM and leaders across the political spectrum to "be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it"It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him. The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK. The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
- Baroness Anderson of Stoke on Trent- who lost her seat as Labour MP for Stoke North in 2019 to Conservative Jonathan Gullis -has been dancing in celebration of her party’s win- saying “it’s such a joy to be at a count where Labour are winning and we’re back on the map” @SkyNews
00:00 - Socially distanced protesting in #Brighton today from angry #BritishAirways staff - chants of “BA Betray- no way”. @HuwMerriman tells them “you must keep up this fight as this fight is there to be won”
00:00 - More than 100 #British_Airways staff have been protesting about the airline’s fire and rehire plans at the #i360 in #Brighton - supported by Labour MPs @peterkyle and @lloyd_rm and Conservative @HuwMerriman, Chair of the Transport Select Committee. More on @bbcsoutheast at 1.30
- It’s been a wild and wonderful ride at @bbcsoutheast and I’m so grateful to all the incredibly talented, brilliant, hilarious colleagues I’ve been blessed to work with there 🙏 Now it’s time for new adventures - I’m extremely excited to be joining @SkyNews from in May 📺🎥
- First day at the new job! Lovely to meet my fabulous new @SkyNews colleagues on The Early Rundown @KamaliMelbourne and @MhariAurora 📺 ☕️
- Breaking: U-turn from Downing St this morning who’ve announced Liz Truss’s new Chief of Staff Mark Fulbrook will be paid directly rather than via his lobbying company - in order to “avoid any ongoing speculation”
- Chair of the Public Accounts Committee @Meg_HillierMP tells me she “could weep for the five years lost”after the decision to scrap the organisation set up to manage Parliament’s renovation in 2018 - after it estimated the bill at £7bn+ (up to £22bn if the building isn’t vacated)
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