This is not a real news conference. The Chief Medical Officer & Chief Scientific Officer have either been gagged &/or have told No 10 that they will not publicly back the PM’s defence of Dominic Cummings. Follow up questions have been stopped.
Nick Robinson
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Nick Robinson
@bbcnickrobinson
Presenter of the BBC’s Today programme & Political Thinking. Former BBC/ITV Political Editor, author & Speaker
- Trump’s attack on @CNN’s Jim Acosta is an attack on the right of all journalists everywhere to ask tough questions of people in power. That’s our job
- You know what ? Football did come home - brought us together, made us proud, gave us something to cheer 🏴
- Thought for the day : Those you disagree with aren’t enemies or traitors. They don’t deserve to be “knifed or lynched or hanged”. They are just people you disagree with. Those who report news you don’t like aren’t fake or frauds or enemies of the people. They are just reporters.
- I confess that I was moved by the Queen’s closing declaration “We will meet again”. A message only she could have delivered.
- Agree to election on 12th Dec & you can have a few more days to scrutinise my Brexit deal @BorisJohnson says. Translation = I said I’d leave the EU do or die & no ifs or buts on October 31st but I can’t. So, let’s have a row about an election rather than a pledge I can’t deliver
- So @jeremycorbyn won’t talk unless No Deal is ‘off the table’ & won’t decide about a referendum but wants to keep it ‘on the table’. Perhaps it would help if he just got rid of the table?
- What about the chance to become Prime Minister within weeks first attracted @BorisJohnson to the idea of backing a Brexit deal he’s spent months condemning ?
- Say what you like about Britain we throw a pretty damn spectacular party (Oh and we have the BBC to stage it and bring the nation together) #PlatinumPartyatthePalace
- I’ve heard it all now. The Brexit Secretary has just voted against the motion that he’d just been arguing for. Anyone got a better word than Omnishambles?
- How dare you ask me about things I’ve said in the past & the views I hold says man who wants to take back control of British politics. Mmmm#Marr asks the Brexit Party Leader Nigel Farage if he’s changed his views on the NHS, climate change, gun control and Vladimir Putin #Brexit bbc.in/2vUc0JQ
00:00 - “It’s the morally right thing to do”. Admissions tutor at Worcester College, Oxford explains why they’ll respect all offers made & ignore grade downgrades affecting 1/4 of state school applicants but only 1/10 private school applicants. Will others use this approach? @BBCr4today
- My grandparents were amongst the lucky few to flee Nazi Germany. Sadly they're no longer around to ask whether vaccine passports was the final straw for them ...Conservative MP Marcus Fysh tells @BBC5Live he will be "voting against vaccine passports" as the UK is not "Nazi Germany" "It's the thin end of an authoritarian wedge" bbc.in/3lZpiPy
- Deciding when, how & what to tell those you love and who love you about a cancer diagnosis can be as traumatic as hearing about it for the first time yourself. I hope those who casually spread gossip, rumour & conspiracy theories about the Princess of Wales now stop & think about"I am well and getting stronger every day" says Kate in video message after cancer announcement bbc.in/3TKOdI2
