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Lisa O'Carroll
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Lisa O'Carroll
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Guardian senior correspondent. Brexit, EU affairs, Disinformation, Ireland. bsky.app/profile/lisaoc…. Send tips: [email protected] o
- Helen from Wales held her phone for an hour to livestream Kneecap… she’s says she thinks it was important and got 1.7m likes.
00:00 - Chemotherapy nurse being interviewed on BBC World at One How much do you earn? £22,000 no wonder they are on strike
- Two ladies who brought toiletries and other goods in lovely gift bags so it would create more dignity. So thoughtful
- Lord Frost on Boris Johnson refusing to correct claims that there are more people in employment than pre pandemic. "I wish he wouldn't say things like that, they're obviously not true. I'm not gonna defend, making factually incorrect statements"
- Extraordinary scenes at Boris Johnson press conference. Attacked by journalist for not doing enough. You are not sanctioning Abramovich. She says he is still in London. Putin's children in the EU...yet people in Ukraine are dying.
- NEW: Ireland has now taken in 2,500 Ukrainian refugees - justice minister Helen McEntee just now. She is at airport welcome building "We have rooms for children, we have toys, cots, food, you know we even have the companies that have donated chargers, adapters and sim phones"
- FULL STORY Boris Johnson’s government concedes Brexit will mean checks on goods going into Northern Ireland. Belfast, Warrenppint, Larne, He previously boasted that deal, which he agreed, meant no checks and businesses could put paperwork “in the bin”
- NEW: Leo Varadkar alarmed by Cummings comments that NI protocol was always going to be ditched. Varadkar who negotiated NI protocol with Johnson October 2019 tells RTE. "these comments are very alarming bcs that wd indicate that this is a government that acted in bad faith" 1/2
- John Redwood challenges David Lammy to state what his alternative is to this bill. Leaning forward, raising his voice he says: "You negotiate". "You do not break international law"
- Mark Easton on BBC News just now - the home office has just confirmed there is no visa centre in Calais. @BBCMarkEaston The "surge" in effort it claimed at weekend was three or four staff and a few bottles of water and packets of crisps.
- Sober moment in House as shadow leader of the house Valerie Vaz asks Rees-Mogg where is the risk assessment for BAME staff and MPs. "We are twice as likely to die" from Covid, she tells him. She also tells him to "please stop peddling the myth that we only work when we are here"
- NEW Gove confirms a de facto internal border in Kent - rephrasing previous tweet (this is something transport industry been v worried about) Truckers will have to have a "Kent Access Permit" to get into the county says Gove. It will use police and ANPR to enforce
- NEW and WOW: Steve Baker, former head of ERG apologises to Ireland and the EU for “not always behaving” in a way that they would “trust us” in Brexit negotiations . “I am really sorry about that because relations with Ireland are not where they should be”
