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In April 2019, @thetimes reported that @UKLabour had received 863 antisemitism complaints against Party members - 863 too many, but under 0.2% of members, a vital fact omitted from almost all news stories & debates. Antisemitism on the Left WAS exaggerated for political purposes.
Why is there an interior decorator on #Peston talking about politics? 
Oh.
Allsopp is the daughter of Charles Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip, a former chairman of Christie's. Owing to her father's peerage, she is entitled to use the courtesy style The Honourable Kirstie Allsopp. Her net worth is around £16 million, & her husband's around £20 million.🤑
Allsopp is the daughter of Charles Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip, a former chairman of Christie's. Owing to her father's peerage, she is entitled to use the courtesy style The Honourable Kirstie Allsopp. Her net worth is around £16 million, & her husband's around £20 million.🤑
Allsop attended some of the finest schools in England including Bedales (fees currently £38,130).
She sparked outrage for saying if young people gave up ‘luxuries’ such as Netflix & gym memberships they would be able to afford the average house deposit AND buy a home! 🤪
She sparked outrage for saying if young people gave up ‘luxuries’ such as Netflix & gym memberships they would be able to afford the average house deposit AND buy a home! 🤪
New- among the savings on welfare this government is looking at - I understand housing benefit among them. It is currently frozen- and likely to stay frozen. New analysis for #peston from @crisis_uk & @Zoopla tonight shows massive increase in rental prices - across country 1/
Many areas have seen increase in rentals in cheapest 30% of properties (meant to be covered by housing benefit) by £100 or even £150 a month since 2019. Worst in south east but biggest proportional jump in Yorkshire and the Humber 2/
Housing benefit meant to cover bottom 30% but earlier this year was more like 12.5% and looks like will get smaller 3/
On #peston tonight, @Jacob_Rees_Mogg says that if @OBR_UK does not - in Kwarteng's medium term fiscal plan on 31 Oct - show government debt falling after 5 years, other forecasters are available. Mogg: "Its [the OBR's] record of forecasting is not enormously good. So...
"the job of Chancellors is to make decisions in the round rather than to assume that there is any individual forecaster who will hit the nail on the head…There are other sources of information. The OBR is not the only organisation that is able to give forecasts.” Investors...
who've been dumping UK government bonds and driving up interest rates, and who've been looking for the government to make a credible commitment to stop the inexorable rise in the national debt before buying those bonds again, are unlikely to be reassured. Bumpy road ahead. For...
As ITV political editor, what I am interested in tomorrow is US CPI inflation. Because if it’s 8.2% or more, US interest rates are set to go higher as would dollar, and we would be heading for US hard landing (recession) and markets rout. 7.8% or lower and maybe we…
can see peak of US rates. So on higher US inflation, the pound and UK government bonds fall more, and UK interest rates - including mortgage rates - rise yet more. To put it another way, slightly lower US inflation bails out Kwarteng and Truss, higher may well…
see them evicted. That 7.8 to 8.2 US inflation spread is probably the difference between whether Truss and Kwarteng just about getting away with their mini-budget or it wrecking them and our economy. It is all about whether the dollar surge is near the peak. Good…
Explained today on #peston what to think about when interpreting Friday’s results-and trying to map them towards gen election. One is the comparison point. Labour tanked in 2019 general election but vote share in 2018 (comparison for most seats up) was neck and neck w Tories 1/
Which is why so many psephologists stress that in some places Labour standing would still be progress. I ran through some councils that will help us draw conclusions. Eg Bury council- if Labour retains its majority on council that would indicate 2 MP seats could be won by them 2/
Christian Wakeford has since crossed floor, but Tories won both Bury seats in 2019. Labour has to win back to have any chance. As @itvnews election analyst Colin Rallings said-Bury is the foothills in electoral mountain Starmer needs to overcome to have any chance of being pm 3/
Every Tory minister is saying they can't help people stay warm/fed as the economy can't afford it.
Will ANY TV interviewer ask if they'd be able to help more if they hadn't wasted billions on corrupt contracts & trashed the economy via Brexit?
#Ridge #Kuenssberg #PESTON @Peston
Will ANY TV interviewer ask if they'd be able to help more if they hadn't wasted billions on corrupt contracts & trashed the economy via Brexit?
#Ridge #Kuenssberg #PESTON @Peston
I mean, this isn't complicated stuff.
The Tories have spent months saying that there's a ceiling on what they can do to help people.
And NOT ONE OF YOU is asking whether the Tories bear some responsibility for how low that ceiling is now.
Feels like basic journalism to me. 🤷🏿
The Tories have spent months saying that there's a ceiling on what they can do to help people.
And NOT ONE OF YOU is asking whether the Tories bear some responsibility for how low that ceiling is now.
Feels like basic journalism to me. 🤷🏿
FACT:
Every penny they wasted on dodgy contracts & every pound lost on Brexit, could have kept people's homes that little bit warmer and their kids' bellies a little bit fuller.
By not making that link, you're abetting that suffering after-the-fact.
#peston #Ridge #kuenssberg
Every penny they wasted on dodgy contracts & every pound lost on Brexit, could have kept people's homes that little bit warmer and their kids' bellies a little bit fuller.
By not making that link, you're abetting that suffering after-the-fact.
#peston #Ridge #kuenssberg
The Chancellor is tomorrow set to unveil a set of loans, subsidies and rebates to reduce the impact of the expected £700 increase in typical household energy bills that will bite from April. He’ll do so at circa 11am, to coincide with the Ofgem announcement of new price cap…
I’ve said for a while, the cap is set to rise from just under £1300 to circa £2000 - which would be totally unaffordable for hundreds of thousands of low income households. @thetimes says today Sunak’s package will include some kind of loan scheme to energy companies…
to help them reduce (though not eliminate) the immediate price increase, by deferring some of the price rise for consumers to future years. What is unclear is the mechanism for repaying that multi-billion pound loan and whether it is at all linked to future movements in the…
"Hancock Cock Inn Cockup”
Ystdy, @MattHancock tried to get @AnnelieseDodds to withdraw a comment re his helping the ex-landlord of his local pub, the Cock Inn, to get a PPE contract
We’ve see the emails
Hancock & Lord Feldman helped 47 firms win 'VIP' contracts worth millions
Ystdy, @MattHancock tried to get @AnnelieseDodds to withdraw a comment re his helping the ex-landlord of his local pub, the Cock Inn, to get a PPE contract
We’ve see the emails
Hancock & Lord Feldman helped 47 firms win 'VIP' contracts worth millions
Ystdy, @MattHancock went on the attack claiming Alex Bourne "never got a contract from the govt" & this was a "fabrication pushed by the Labour Party"
He was lying
@NAOorguk found PPE suppliers with links to Tory MPs were 10x more likely to win contracts
He was lying
@NAOorguk found PPE suppliers with links to Tory MPs were 10x more likely to win contracts
Digging by @JolyonMaugham reveals the contract went to Alpha Laboratories
That contract stipulates that Alpha Laboratories will sub-contract the manufacturing to Hinpack Ltd, owned by Alex Bourne
This info was redacted before publishing in what seems a clear attempt to deceive!
That contract stipulates that Alpha Laboratories will sub-contract the manufacturing to Hinpack Ltd, owned by Alex Bourne
This info was redacted before publishing in what seems a clear attempt to deceive!
#Peston on @itvnews at ten: "the single issue that voters in this country care about is immigration, & this issue of migrants trying to get here is *at the top* of voters concerns".
This is a blatant, irresponsible, divisive & misleading lie: Peston & @ITV should apologise.
This is a blatant, irresponsible, divisive & misleading lie: Peston & @ITV should apologise.
Asked "Which of the following do you think are the most important issues facing the country at this time?" From the list below, just 22% said 'immigration & asylum', compared to: health, 49%; economy, 43%; environment, 40%; Britain leaving the EU, 27%.
yougov.co.uk/topics/politic…
yougov.co.uk/topics/politic…
This is totally unacceptable @itvpeston - take the opportunity for lying on the #Peston show TONIGHT.
I'm submitting a formal complaint to @Ofcom about this grotesquely misleading & dangerously irresponsible lie, & I encourage others to do the same.
ofcomforms.secure.force.com/formentry/Site…
I'm submitting a formal complaint to @Ofcom about this grotesquely misleading & dangerously irresponsible lie, & I encourage others to do the same.
ofcomforms.secure.force.com/formentry/Site…
The prime minister’s road map rules would logically dictate not moving to stage four of lockdown easing on 21 June but delaying by two or four weeks. Because the increase in the R transmission rate to more than one is driven in part by...
the stage two and stage three easings and not just by the greater transmissibility of the Delta variant. As @nadhimzahawi said on the #peston show last Weds, the more significant characteristic of the Delta variant is that one vaccine dose is not terribly effective...
against it, though two doses provides decent protection. And that good protection kicks in two or three weeks after the second dose. So with all vulnerable groups targeted to have both doses by 21 June, the government would want to add a fortnight to that date before...
A simple and compelling point made on #Peston by @globalhlthtwit last night: the UK already has a potentially world class network for track and trace in its GP surgeries; but these are being sidelined as outsourcing giants Serco and Sitel have been hired to organise clinical...
and non clinical people to sit at the end of a phone to have conversations with symptom sufferers to get them tested, trace who they’ve been with and (presumably) monitor their progress. According to Costello, GPs are not even allowed to order a #Covid_19 test for patients...
(those patients have to do it for themselves). Now it may be that the risk was thought to be too high for GPs that all their other primary care responsibilities would fall by the wayside if they became the port of call for Coronavirus sufferers. Or maybe...
The threat of #Covid19 to wreck our way of life was already clear to senior health experts on 22 January (this date is etched on my brain because I argued that day with colleagues that we had to discuss it on #Peston show). And on 11 February...
I emailed ITV colleagues that a senior government source had told me “we should know within a fortnight or so if we are looking at a pandemic in the UK...The risk is 60% of population getting it. With mortality rate of perhaps just over 1%, we are looking at...
not far off 500k deaths”. Ministers knew by 2nd week of February the gravity of what confronted us. So I am literally gobsmacked by the @thesundaytimes disclosure that the PM was not prioritising the looming Coronavirus catastrophe till March. thetimes.co.uk/article/corona…
For those who delighted in saying my question on #Peston to the deputy CMO Jonathan Van Tam about possible use of antibody tests (blood tests) to detect live virus was pointless and stupid, this may be worth a read. To repeat, I was not arguing FOR the antibody tests to be...
used to assess who are ill with #Covid19, though this Nature paper says "seroconversion" (presence of antibody in blood) happens after 7 days in half of all patients and all patients after 14 days. It may of course be that NONE of the so-called rapid flow strip tests will...
ever be accurate enough to confirm live virus. I don't dispute that. But surely it is the job of a journalist to probe an expert like Van Tam, especially since the government has spent several million pounds buying kits from China's Wondfo that claim to be able to...
Some 2.6m of you are not washing your hands more than usual, 3.1m still shaking hands and hugging, 5.8m shopping for the fun of it, 3.6m still socialising. Those behaving antisocially like this are mostly young men. FFS. Attached is @Jack_Blanchard_ take on exclusive...
JL Partners poll for last night’s #Peston - and full results here #Peston jlpartners.co.uk/polling-result… #COVID19 @itvpeston
The majority of us are taking the threat to our healthy seriously and say we are committed to proper social distancing. The absolute numbers quoted by @Jack_Blanchard_ reflect quite small percentages (although he understates a few of these - as attached shows). However...
Tons to discuss on #peston tonight with @UKRI_CEO - who knows more than most about viruses - boss of EasyJet Logan Lundgren, @Scaramucci on how Trump is managing or mismanaging the crisis, and @jessphillips @Tobias_Ellwood. All live at 10.45 ITV or here via @itvpeston. Tell me...
what you want to know, and I will try to put as many questions as I can to our experts
It's "Johan" Lundgren of Easyjet. Sorry. Weird autocorrect
The UK HealthSec - paid £141k+expenses from taxpayers' £ - has chosen to put his #Coronavirus update behind a paywall.
For those of you who don't have a Telegraph subscription, here are the main points.
(Frankly, @MattHancock you should be ashamed of yourself.)
/1.
For those of you who don't have a Telegraph subscription, here are the main points.
(Frankly, @MattHancock you should be ashamed of yourself.)
/1.
"The coronavirus outbreak is the biggest public health emergency in a generation.
It calls for dramatic action, at home and abroad, of the kind not normally seen in peacetime."
Then goes on to express sadness at 21 deaths. All victims had underlying health conditions.
/2.
It calls for dramatic action, at home and abroad, of the kind not normally seen in peacetime."
Then goes on to express sadness at 21 deaths. All victims had underlying health conditions.
/2.
Hancock claims we have a plan "based on the expertise of world-leading scientists" and that #HerdImmunity is not a part of it.
"The over-riding objective is to protect life."
[Note: Telegraph earlier reported #coronavirusuk could be a way to *cull* the elderly...🙄)
/3.
"The over-riding objective is to protect life."
[Note: Telegraph earlier reported #coronavirusuk could be a way to *cull* the elderly...🙄)
/3.
At 8 via @itvpeston and at 10.45 on ITV I ask @grantshapps about what government is doing to protect us from Covid19, @Keir_Starmer whether winning votes of Labour members is any route to winning a general election and Weinstein whistleblower Zelda Perkins whether she is...
confident safeguards are now in place to prevent another abuser like Weinstein getting away with it for years. All on #peston tonight.
Also on show, holding all to account, @JustineGreening and @leicesterliz
As was discussed in last night’s #Peston the case against Labour’s £58bn for the WASPI women, those born in the 1950s whose pensionable age was increased and equalised with men, is NOT that many have not suffered hardship. It is that 1) it provides substantial £30,000...
payouts to many well off women (like @theresa_may) so is not well targeted; 2) the policy sets a serious precedent, namely that any long-term welfare reform to put public finances on a more stable footing is vulnerable to being reversed (the big pension reform happened in...
1995) and that undermines confidence in the long term strength of the public sector’s balance sheet; 3) a much fairer use of much of the £58bn would have been to use it to reduce in-work poverty, especially for families with young families. As @TheIFS says,...
@Peston the faithful Johnson Retainer part 3
1) a few weeks ago I ranted on the cozy, soft lighting, barely present "interview" #peston gave Johnson, and the contrast with his heckling of other politicians, even laughing off Johnson's self serving nature
1) a few weeks ago I ranted on the cozy, soft lighting, barely present "interview" #peston gave Johnson, and the contrast with his heckling of other politicians, even laughing off Johnson's self serving nature
On #peston tonight, I'll be speaking with the last avowed Remainer in the Cabinet, @NickyMorgan01, the arch Brexiter too Brexity even for @BorisJohnson, Mark Francois, the SNP's @joannaccherry - who won a case in Scotland that ruled Johnson lied to the Queen, @RachelRileyRR...
on how to beat the trolls, Labour's @GloriaDePiero on why she is quitting parliament and @SamGyimah on why he went so fast from being a Tory leadership candidate to joining the LibDems. We'll be talking about that Supreme Court case, that Brexit deal, and that Sun...
front page about @benstokes38. All at 10.45 on ITV or here live on Twitter via @itvpeston at 8.30ish. Please join us
@Peston @BorisJohnson 1) @peston the Johnson faithful retainer
Woken up this morning with a cold fury at #Peston's craven behaviour last night
One of the main reasons #Brexit hasn't been put out of its misery is the utter failure of some TV media to hold brexiters to account
Woken up this morning with a cold fury at #Peston's craven behaviour last night
One of the main reasons #Brexit hasn't been put out of its misery is the utter failure of some TV media to hold brexiters to account
@Peston @BorisJohnson 2) the BBC has been attacked in particular but even the BBC is finding it impossible to not report on the destruction that Johnson and Brexiters are causing
But Johnson it appears can always get a safe harbour when he needs it on the #Peston show
But Johnson it appears can always get a safe harbour when he needs it on the #Peston show
@Peston @BorisJohnson 3) to recap the last few days - Johnson has clearly been manoeuvring for a GE and to force thru no deal #Brexit and has failed. He's kicked out 21 decent long standing Tory MPs for his own purposes. He's lied about non existent negotiations & being close to a deal.
Much Twitter disappointment with @Peston fawning on #NotMyPM #Johnson. We must write him off until fall of J. They have Siamese tendencies: Balliol, Brussels, @spectator, @Telegraph. He’ll get 1st dibs on a few propaganda titbits, but u can forget objective reporting. @itvnews 1/
Remarkable how little known r these connections between #Peston & #Johnson. But it explains why Peston goes weak at the knees & offers his tummy when #Johnson winks at him. I’m sure @Peston wakes up determined 2b objective, but that resolve doesn’t make it 2 his first espresso.2/
@threadreaderapp unroll please
If you ignore my lamentable performance (not easy, I know), #peston at 10.45 on ITV is gripping tonight: @Jeremy_Hunt on whether he would defy parliament to take UK out of EU without deal, @DawnButlerBrent on whether @jeremycorbyn is right to prevaricate over whether Labour...
should support remain and on whether @DerbyChrisW has been properly punished, and @DavidGauke on whether he could serve as a minister under @BorisJohnson. Oh and @willyoung on why schools are right to teach about the importance of all forms of diversity. Mark Francois reveals...
all about @BorisJohnson’s Brexit and @BenPBradshaw spills the beans on why the gulf between Corbyn and his MPs is widening again.
