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5:30pm – That’s all from the Politics Live team today, see you tomorrow!
4:49pm – The Beeb has certainly taken a bashing over the past few days. Intriguing take from the former shadow home secretary.
3:47pm – Belarus has faced political outrage across the continent after effectively hijacking a Ryanair plane on its way to Lithuania.
After scrambling fighter jets and diverting the plane to Minsk, Roman Protasevich, a critic of the Belarusian regime, was taken away by police.
Certainly one to watch over the next few days.
3:03pm – An interesting listen.
1:55pm – Wedding bells for Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds.
12:17pm – Kim Leadbeater, the sister of former MP Jo Cox, has been selected to represent Labour in the Batley and Spen by-election this summer.
The seat is being contested after Tracy Brabin stepped down following her victory in the West Yorkshire mayoral contest in May.
Brabin took over in 2016 from Jo Cox after she was tragically murdered in June 2016, during a constituency visit.
11:22am – Priti Patel speaking at this morning’s Bright Blue event.
10:44am – Dominic Cummings has been previewing his appearance at the joint inquiry into lessons learned from the pandemic, with a mammoth twitter thread on the government’s initial covid strategy in March 2020.
55 tweets and counting, his revelations will generate serious questions of the government’s initial handling of the pandemic.
9:47am – The home secretary is due to announce the new immigration reforms in a keynote speech at a Bright Blue event this morning.
8:45am – Paul Waugh previewing the call that Boris Johnson will have to make in the coming days.
8:30am – Here are this morning’s key headlines:
8:00am – It’s going to be a bumper week of UK politics folks. Welcome to a brand new week of Politics Live!
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5:30pm – That’s all from the Politics Live team today, see you tomorrow!
4:49pm – The Beeb has certainly taken a bashing over the past few days. Intriguing take from the former shadow home secretary.
3:47pm – Belarus has faced political outrage across the continent after effectively hijacking a Ryanair plane on its way to Lithuania.
After scrambling fighter jets and diverting the plane to Minsk, Roman Protasevich, a critic of the Belarusian regime, was taken away by police.
Certainly one to watch over the next few days.
3:03pm – An interesting listen.
1:55pm – Wedding bells for Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds.
12:17pm – Kim Leadbeater, the sister of former MP Jo Cox, has been selected to represent Labour in the Batley and Spen by-election this summer.
The seat is being contested after Tracy Brabin stepped down following her victory in the West Yorkshire mayoral contest in May.
Brabin took over in 2016 from Jo Cox after she was tragically murdered in June 2016, during a constituency visit.
11:22am – Priti Patel speaking at this morning’s Bright Blue event.
10:44am – Dominic Cummings has been previewing his appearance at the joint inquiry into lessons learned from the pandemic, with a mammoth twitter thread on the government’s initial covid strategy in March 2020.
55 tweets and counting, his revelations will generate serious questions of the government’s initial handling of the pandemic.
9:47am – The home secretary is due to announce the new immigration reforms in a keynote speech at a Bright Blue event this morning.
8:45am – Paul Waugh previewing the call that Boris Johnson will have to make in the coming days.
8:30am – Here are this morning’s key headlines:
- PM awaits crucial covid data dump
- Cummings builds pressure on government over initial covid strategy
- Jo Cox’s sister runs for her old Batley and Spen seat
8:00am – It’s going to be a bumper week of UK politics folks. Welcome to a brand new week of Politics Live!
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