Kieron Clarke
@kieronishere
Senior Political Producer for Good Morning Britain @GMB on @ITV | [email protected]
FOUR TIMES the Home Secretary refused to say she agreed with or would echo the PM’s comment that Britain ‘risks becoming an island of strangers’. Starmer was accused of aping the language of Reform and imitating Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech by one of his own MPs. #GMB
'Is it [Island of strangers] one that you agree with and would use?' @susannareid100 challenges Home Secretary Yvette Cooper over the language the PM used while unveiling measures to crack down on immigration.
At some point it will need to sink in to those around the Conservative Party leadership, and Badenoch herself, that choosing high octane moments to run full face against the winds of public opinion is not an optimal electoral strategy.
Kemi Badenoch weighs in on JD Vance "random country" comments. "I know JD Vance quite well. I've looked at the comments, I don't think he actually said that. A lot of people are getting carried away. They're saying loads of things and getting quite animated let's keep cool…
No St Patrick’s saltire… Is this Lee Anderson subtly coming out for Irish unification?
My new jacket. Beautiful 🇬🇧🇬🇧
The amendment opposing the Govt’s Welfare Bill has been tabled. I understand 80 MPs have signed and that doesn’t include any of the Socialist Campaign Group who are also opposed. So unless they come up with concessions the Govt would be heading for defeat next wk @itvnews
Tweet in haste, repent at leisure… or, at least, for 48 hours.
Over the last 24 hours I have received a huge number of lovely and heartfelt messages from people who have expressed their dismay at my resignation, urging me to reconsider. After 11 months of working as a volunteer to build a political party from scratch, with barely a single…
Rachel Reeves is facing calls from her own local members to abandon proposed welfare cuts, as @PA report. I understand this is the motion passed by her CLP on Thursday stating their opposition to cuts and belief ‘disabled people are not responsible’ for the national finances.
✉️ So, this afternoon I used a Post Office to post a card to a UK address (Sunday is an important day) 🤦♂️ 1st class not be guaranteed to arrive until Mon or Tues 👎 24hr tracked also not guaranteed to arrive on Saturday 🤷♂️ Or pay £13 for special delivery to guarantee next day
An investigation by this GMB suggests Royal Mail is failing to meet its delivery targets, with more than a third of first class letters arriving late, according to our research. The cost of a first class stamp is due to increase to £1.70 a week on Monday. @nickdixonitv explains.
This is pretty amazing. The "people getting carried away", as Kemi puts it, include her own shadow defence secretary @jcartlidgemp, who said Vance's comments were "deeply disrespectful". Looks like Badenoch has no control over the Tory frontbench.
Kemi Badenoch weighs in on JD Vance "random country" comments. "I know JD Vance quite well. I've looked at the comments, I don't think he actually said that. A lot of people are getting carried away. They're saying loads of things and getting quite animated let's keep cool…
Donald Trump complements Keir Starmer on "a beautiful accent"... "I would have been President 20 years ago I had that accent"... The prime minister must be thinking that voice coach he paid for was worth every penny.
Was @BearGrylls tapped up by the government to become the UK's ambassador to the US? Asked by @edballs on @GMB this morning, Grylls gave a diplomatic response, but he didn't deny it... I love America. I love our country. I love seeing them work together."
Labour Split As Cabinet Minister Slaps Down Colleague Over Elon Musk Comments huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour-s…
👀 Treasury minister Darren Jones leans in to the suggestion the govt’s plans for the Spending Review are like a Hunger Games style game show, where ministers pitch cuts to other ministers’ budgets instead of their own … Jones suggests Ed Balls could host it.
'It sounds like the Hunger Games. Is this a joke?' @edballs challenges the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones over reports about how the government plans to tackle spending reviews.