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BREAKING: Having achieved nothing in many months of lockdown, today some good news. I have helped reunite a Syrian child with their mum in Britain. It is the single greatest achievement of my life.
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@daisyayliffe
Journalist, Grierson / BAFTA winning doc maker & Fawcett Soc Trustee
Grenfell: The Untold Story (C4)
State of Chaos (BBC)
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Joined March 2010
- This Wirral pub has changed its name to ‘The Three Bellends.’ In protest at the new Tier 3 restrictions placed on the Liverpool city region.
- Replying to @daisyayliffeThere are thousands of Syrian children like the little one we helped this week, there is much more to be done. But for the child whose life we have transformed, for the family we reunified, for the love we have spread, I am grateful all the same. #chooselove
- Replying to @daisyayliffePoliticians, civil servants and exemplary British officials overseas have worked around the clock to make this reunion possible. Words will never be enough to thank them. And we don’t thank our politicians and civil servants enough.
- When I asked Qs of Tulip Siddiq about her political links to Bangladesh in 2017 she warned me to “be v careful” then complained to Ofcom, the police & my bosses. (No complaints were upheld.) Fortunately what actually happened was recorded. If not, she could have cost me my job.Mail on Sunday exposes the "cover up" by anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq of the gift of her Kings Cross flat by an Awami League aligned property developer. When we contacted her three years ago, then shadow Treasury minister, she lied and said it was purchased from the
- A great-grandmother and Windrush campaigner who has terminal cancer has begged the Home Office to resolve her immigration status before she dies, but it has refused to expedite her case.
- A hare and a blue sky in charcoal. By my daughter aged eight. (She says charcoal is best because you can rub things out then go again.)
- Tonight is the end of @BBCNewsnight as we know it. A bodyblow to investigative filmmaking and to so many old friends. #BBCNewsnight
- An outpouring of love from every corner of the world for our little Syrian friend! I will make sure child and mum know how loved they are. Thank you everyone for being so kind. ❤️#chooselove #helprefugees
- In France they’re saying he’s the best diplo cat in the world...are you gona just lie down and take this? @Number10catAccueil de choix ds le Salon de l’horloge : meilleur diplomate du monde 😻#CatsofTwittter #diplocats @francediplo
- My article in @spectator is now free to read. Thank you to everyone has sent me kind comments, they really mean a lot. Thank you also to @FraserNelson for believing us, caring about this and allowing me to write.
- The perils of being a pregnant journalist: An MP might use it against you. From tonight’s amazing #c4newsMoment @TulipSiddiq repeatedly warns @alextomo and the Channel 4 News team to "be very careful" before telling our pregnant producer "Thanks for coming Daisy, hope you have a great birth, because child labour is hard! See you!"
