Nick Robinson: “Chancellor, it’s no use saying ‘well of course we’ve listened’ - for 2 weeks you’ve done the opposite of listening.”
Kwarteng: “Well, it was about 9 days” @BBCr4today
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- Keir Starmer responds to accusations that he's boring - says what's needed is "a serious person steering the country calmly and confidently" "If I came on and said I'd done a bungee jump, you wouldn't say 'Well great, now we have the PM we need'" he tells @BBCr4today
- Brandon Lewis tries to compare the PM's Partygate fine to getting a speeding fine then backs out. "I'm not in any way trying to equate a speeding ticket with the sacrifices people have made through Covid", he says Mishal Husain: "You've actually literally just done that."
- Rishi Sunak attacks Keir Starmer for saying: “Smash the gangs’, ‘smash the gangs’ "A slogan is not a plan" the PM says - after spending 18 months shouting "stop the boats"
- “Maths until 18 and then off to war”ARE YOU SURE THAT'S WISE? Rishi Sunak unveils bonkers plot for return of national service mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
- Absolutely savage exchange at the Covid Inquiry where epidemiologist Carl Heneghan is asked about being called a "fuckwit" by other experts
00:00 - 🚨Michael Gove puts pressure on Liz Truss to extend free school meals to ALL households on Universal Credit. He says in an “ideal world” he’d want universal free school meals in primary schools
- 🚨 Police have been given 500 pieces of paper AND 300 photographs of evidence on partygate, Commander Catherine Roper told reporters. [via Reuters] 🚨
- Nigel Farage's 'PMQs strike' mocked as records show he hasn't asked for extra questions in months
- Margaret Aspinall, whose son died at Hillsborough, introduces Keir Starmer for his conference speech She says it’s been a long road to Hillsborough Law and promises have been broken. “I’ve met a few PMs who have let me down… but I’ve met a PM who kept his promise”
- Rachel Reeves jokes to @bbclaurak she's not used to being called Chancellor. "Keir Starmer said the other day, 'this afternoon the Chancellor...' and I thought what's he done now? "Then I remembered it was me."
- Starmer tears into Farage, getting a standing ovation. “I’ve had enough of lectures from self appointed spokespeople for the working class. Politicians who lie to this country, unleash chaos and walked away after Brexit. Labour is the party of working people. Labour is the
