Tamara Cohen
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Tamara Cohen
@tamcohen
Former Sky News Political Correspondent
Westminster
Joined July 2010
- Exclusive footage of Rishi Sunak challenged this morning by a former health worker on the state of the NHS, - captured by an off duty @SkyNews camera operator
00:00 - Former special adviser Claire Pearsall tells @SkyNews a private secretary is unlikely to have organised such a drinks unless “the instruction came from the top… the private secretary works on behalf of the PM in this case”
- 🔥 Tobias Ellwood tells @KayBurley he will be submitting a no confidence letter to the 1922 committee today. He says the PM does not appreciate the depths of concern among his colleagues about having to defend these stories
- Exclusive After years of delays, I understand laws to introduce a register, which would unmask the owners of properties owned by Russian politicians and oligarchs in the UK via offshore companies, will be brought forward as soon as next week. More on @SkyNews shortly
- Richard Harrington on @SkyNews says the Leave campaign in 2016 was “one of the most dishonest campaigns in history”
- Hard hitting report by MPs today says the #Afghanistan withdrawal was “a disaster and a betrayal of our allies that will damage the UK’s interests for years to come.” The absence of ministers & civil servants on holiday was “a grave indictment” of the FCO & “likely cost lives”
- Former head of the foreign office Sir Peter Ricketts @SkyNews says Boris Johnson should withdraw his Brexit/Ukraine remark, saying it was "seen as desperately insulting and insensitive all of Europe... we should be trying to heal wounds with the EU not doubling down on them"
- Starmer says in opening remarks to the summit that the Uk “ will never withdraw from the ECHR” - as threatened by Rishi Sunak. He said it was “built on the blood bond of 1945” and since first reading about it as a student 40 years ago it “inspired me and everything that I have
- Centrist Tory MP tells me has received **800 emails** in past 48 hrs about Cummings: "I've never seen anything like it". About 10 in support. Not many of the negative ones from people who hate Boris/ Brexit. It's why they've privately made case that Cummings position untenable
- First footage of the PM at controls of a Typhoon last week. In a speech this morning he'll compare the flight to to his leadership of the Tory party: "I hauled the joystick right the way back and we did a loop the loop..."
00:00 - Rishi Sunak sacked Suella Braverman by phone this morning. And Downing Street say there won’t be any exchange of letters between the two - almost unheard of.
- NEW Explosive testimony from a senior FCDO whistleblower about the evacuation of Afghanistan - saying she is speaking out because civil servants have a duty to dos o when "the public and Parliament has been deliberately misled by the government"
- Exclusive The minister for Afghanistan Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon was also on leave last week, as Kabul fell. He was on a staycation and not back at his desk until Monday. Although he knew Afghan FM Haneef Atmar, he was not asked to make the call on Friday. More on @SkyNews now
