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We won a radio Oscar......all of us together a family!! I have never in my career seen a day like this....Xx
Michael
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Michael
@michaelkeohan
BBC Political Reporter
- NEW: The Home Office have confirmed to me that last night the Border Force vessel Ranger, returned migrants back to France, after rescuing them in French waters. The FIRST TIME this has EVER happened. It's not yet clear if this is a direct change of policy from the Home Office.
- 🚨NEW: Kent and Medway council leaders say Kent is "at breaking point" in an extremely strongly worded letter to the Home Office. Possibly one of the most critical I've ever seen from Conservative council leaders to a Conservative Home Secretary.
- In her only interview ahead of Canterbury pride @RosieDuffield1 has told me she’s staying away from Pride this weekend because she “wouldn’t be welcome”, she doesn’t “want to cause upset or cause problems for the police. She also said she has no regrets in speaking out for women.
- NEW: Reform suspend 4 councillors at Kent County Council following a leaked recording of an internal email
- Every now and again a mate steps up to help you out! @mrjamesob doesn't just talk about supporting our lifeboat crews @RNLI when it mattered he stepped up and gave our Dover station his entire back catalogue of best sellers to auction! Thanks mate, means the world 🙏
- NEW: Leader of Kent County Council responds to the weekends story and subsequent 4 suspensions as "Business as normal"
00:00 - 'Chaos at KCC' as Reform expelled 2 cllrs from the party yesterday. The Guardian reporting tonight that Council leader Kemkaran failed to disclose personal interests. Opposition groups up calls for Council leader to resign.
- Reform suspended Kent County Councillor Rob Ford after complaints from several female members. I've approached Cllr Ford for comment.
- NEW: Maxine Forthergill one of Reforms suspended KCC Councillors gives an emotional statement, after showing up for work unaware she'd been suspended.
00:00 - NEW: 7 Labour MPs write to Nigel Farage demanding he asks leader of KCC Linden Kemkaran to step down after the weekends guardian story. After she told me it was business as normal the 7 Labour MPs say it "shows she isn't up to the job."
- I don't often talk about my volunteering for the RNLI, but on Monday as we marked being 200 my old pal @mrjamesob kindly invited me onto his show... That evening our entire crew marked the special day with a team photo at Dover Castle. Being part of the RNLI is always an honorTo mark the #RNLI200 celebrations,@DoverRNLI were proud to come together for an official #onecrew photo at #DoverCastle. Many thanks to Matt Hayward, @EHdovercastle & @DoverGroup. We may have been founded in 1824 but our mission remains the same - to save lives at sea. #RNLI200
- No signs of @RosieDuffield1 at the Labour election launch in Kent. A lot of hopeful faces; but none of the current Kent Labour MP's..... Starmer tells me if Kent wants change, then he is the only option for them!
- NEW: Dartford Borough Counillor James Buchan has defected from Reform to the Conservatives. In a statement he warned "the more I saw of Reform the more uncomfortable i felt" adding that Reform has "neither the experience or ambition" to represent real families
