Loving Alex Scott sticking it to people on air who refused to allow their stadiums be used for women's games in previous tournaments - "you've missed the boat now" 👏👏
Rob Powell
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Rob Powell
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Political Correspondent @SkyNews // Dad // For allotment stuff, i’m at instagram.com/herb_ur_enthus… 🌱 // [email protected]
- Women & Equalities Committee Chair Caroline Nokes says she will be contacting the Commons speaker tomorrow to ask if the Political Editor of the Mail on Sunday Glen Owen, who wrote the Angela Rayner article, should have a parliamentary lobby pass.
- Butterkist popcorn trying to cash in on the drama here in Westminster by setting up stall outside Downing Street!
- NEW - Labour calls for Boris Johnson to hold a press conference in the next 24 hours on A-Level results saying the PM "has been watching from the sidelines while a generation of young people are being robbed of their future".
- Sky News understands the Home Secretary Priti Patel has issued a ministerial direction in connection with the Rwanda asylum partnership. Ministerial directions are used to proceed with a spending plan, despite an objection from the department permanent secretary.
- Jacob Rees-Mogg has four officials/advisers with him for his morning interviews about axing a fifth of the civil service. He says that is because he covers a "wide area of public policy" and adds two are special advisers & two are from the Cabinet Office.
- Jacob Rees-Mogg says UNICEF "should be ashamed of itself" for engaging in a "political stunt of the lowest order" by spending thousands of pounds feeding hungry children in the UK when it is "meant to be looking after people in the poorest, most deprived countries in the world".
- A sizeable takeaway order being delivered to the Foreign Office just now as the U.K. works out its diplomatic response to the attacks overnight .
- 🚨 New details on the Bibby timeline this evening... - Dorset Council says it told the contractors running the vessel about the Legionella result on Monday, the day that migrants were moved onto the barge. - The Council says it told a Home Office official verbally on Tuesday.
- Boris Johnson says that he got his Brexit deal “through Parliament” last night. He absolutely did not. He won a single vote on it and then promptly lost the following one (only the second ever time a govt has lost a timetabling vote). #PMQs
- Labour has written to the PM about P&O Ferries calling for... - Suspension of govt contracts with P&O owner DP World. - Removal of DP World from govt Transport Advisory Group. - Clawing back of govt covid support given to DP World. - The outlawing of fire and rehire.
- Former Tory Cabinet Office minister Lord Maude in the Times today saying he worked with Sue Gray for five years and "never had the slightest reason to question either her integrity or her political impartiality" & that "Starmer is fortunate to have secured her services".
- Personal news time - I’ve been off all week & will be away until the end of the month because last weekend I became a dad for the first time 😊 Mum & baby are home & doing well. Thanks to family & friends in & out of Westminster for all your support 😊
- NEW: At the grassroots National Conservative Convention in Oxford - 80% of attendees have voted for there to be no delay to Brexit and for 'no deal' to be left on the table. Clear message there and totally the opposite of what the Rudd/Gauke/Clark piece today calls for #Brexit