NEW: Russia's intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service, has drafted plans for public executions in #Ukraine after cities are captured, per a European intelligence official
Kitty Donaldson
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Kitty Donaldson
@kitty_donaldson
Chief Political Commentator at The i Paper. Ex-Political Ed for Bloomberg News. I've been reporting from Westminster since 2003. [email protected]
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Joined March 2010
- NEW: Liz Truss’s government is on the verge of collapse tonight after chaotic scenes in the commons 1/
- Replying to @kitty_donaldsonThe agency is also planning violent crowd control and repressive detention of protest organisers in order to break Ukrainian morale
- Replying to @kitty_donaldsonPrime Minister Liz Truss grabbed Wendy Morton’s arm to try to persuade her not to resign but Morton left the lobby trailing the Prime Minister behind her. In the chaos, the premier did not vote.
- "I can tell you, Kay, there are no skeletons in my closet," Liz Truss tells @SkyNews thereby laying down a gauntlet for every hack in the country
- Breaking: Chief Whip Wendy Morton and her Deputy Craig Whittaker have resigned
- Nadine Dorries tells @Channel4 about Liz Truss, whom she is supporting for Tory leader: “They call her a hand grenade because she gets things done.”
- How it started (last night) / how it’s going (this morning)
- Boris Johnson, speaking outside the Capitol, says it’s time for the French to “prenez un grip” and “donnez-moi un break” after the spat over a U.K. submarine deal with the U.S. and Australia
00:00 - Former AG Dominic Grieve said he had received legal advice overnight that the concession ``doesn't change anything.'' "I am quite clear in my own mind it doesn't allow the U.K. to exit the backstop unilaterally,'' Grieve told @BBCr4today
- Replying to @kitty_donaldsonThis is a chart of the UK government bond market while Liz Truss has been on air - investors are worried by her comments, are selling gilts and the yields rise. - short version: they’re not reassured by her doubling down
- NEW: The executive of the 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs has been in en masse to see Prime Minister Boris Johnson
- NEW: Prime Minister Boris Johnson tells the 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs “On a clear road I crashed the car into a ditch” over the Paterson affair.
