Paul Brand
@PaulBrandITV
UK Editor @itvnews. Presenter @ITVTonight @LBC. 6 x Royal Television Society winner. Award-winning podcast Partygate: The Inside Story 🏴
EXCL: Boris Johnson joked about being at ‘the most unsocially distanced party in the UK’ during lockdown. Explosive new revelations in our podcast series Partygate: The Inside Story have key implications for Privileges Committee. itv.com/news/2023-01-1…
Here’s Jeremy Corbyn telling @Peston in fairly certain terms that he intends to launch a new party.
"That grouping [of Independents] will come together, there will be an alternative" Ex Labour Leader @jeremycorbyn says he is "here to serve the people" as he outlines plans for a new party #Peston
MPs urge health secretary to take action over cancer-linked pregnancy drug - exclusive by @SarahCorkerNews itv.com/news/2025-07-2…
Black Sabbath front man Ozzie Osbourne has died aged 76 itv.com/news/central/2…
The building opposite Labour HQ has been covered with a large scene of devastation from Gaza, in protest at both the war and the approach to protest in the UK. Stunt by @ByDonkeys


A reshuffle of the Conservative front bench is under way. Kemi Badenoch’s leadership rival James Cleverly will return to a major role. But what about that other rival Robert Jenrick? All eyes on whether she moves / promotes him, given his soaring profile.
'It's really important that 16 and 17 year olds have the vote' @Keir_Starmer tells ITV News Westminster Reporter @DennyTheJourno that he will lower the voting age to 16 by the next general election itv.com/news/2025-07-1…
NEW: The government has announced that 16 and 17 year-olds will be able to vote at the next general election. But do they want to? Some interesting polling here by @itvnews might surprise you. itv.com/news/2025-07-1…
And get suspended for it...?
Rachael Maskell: How to organise a government rebellion newstatesman.com/diary/2025/07/…
NEW. Seven Labour MPs have been punished for repeated breaches of party discipline Four lose the whip: * Neil Duncan-Jordan * Chris Hinchliff * Brian Leishman * Rachael Maskell Three more no longer trade envoys: * Rosena Allin Khan * Bell Ribeiro-Addy * Mohammed Yasin…
Sources confirm Labour have suspended three MPs - Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman and Chris Hinchcliff, who were active in the welfare rebellion - over "breaches of party discipline." Rachel Maskell understood to be meeting whips now.
A Labour party source tells Geri they've been suspended for "persistent knobheadery".
Excl: Sir Keir Starmer is having a clear out of MPs he believes to have committed "persistent breaches of party discipline". Multiple sources tell me at least three MPs have so far lost the whip - with more to come this afternoon.
NEW: A report commissioned by the Home Secretary into the Southport and Southend murderers has concluded that the Prevent programme should be widened to include individuals who have a fascination with violence but not necessarily a driving ideology. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statem…
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman's husband has left Reform UK after defecting to the party last year.
I have left Reform effective immediately.
🚨 Tonight, ITV1, 1045pm 🚨 I've got the full story of the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, hearing from those who lived it, those who looked after it, and the police officer who cracked the case. | Sycamore Gap: Britain's Lost Landmark |
This investigation just gets more and more shocking. Outstanding journalism by @SarahCorkerNews.
Stilbestrol, a dangerous drug linked to cancer, was prescribed to mothers for nearly a decade after it was banned, @SarahCorkerNews reports itv.com/news/2025-07-1…
I had the pleasure of interviewing Emma last month. Whatever your position on assisted dying, this is incredibly sad news. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/e…
Joining @WA_Comms today for ‘The Future of Broadcast: What’s next for News?” with @PaulBrandITV Rosie Cutler from @TimesRadio and @adamfleming
New: P&O Ferries’ long-overdue accounts have finally been filed. They reveal the chief executive’s pay soared in 2023. In the same year the company lost £91 million, despite having fired 786 staff to cut costs. Full story 👇 itv.com/news/2025-07-0…
Jeremy Corbyn says on @itvpeston tonight that he thinks independents in parliament and across councils will form a new party and offer an alternative to Labour from the left. He doesn’t rule out leading it himself. Another potential nibbling of the Labour vote.
The Health Secretary tells @Peston that Rachel Reeves was upset about a personal, not a professional matter. This is the clearest answer yet in explanation for the Chancellor's tears at PMQs.
“We are all humans as politicians” Health Secretary @wesstreeting defends Chancellor Rachel Reeves, reiterating that her tears in the Commons were due to ‘something going on personally, not professionally’ #Peston