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Excl. - Tories demand Angela Rayner hand back the £16,876 payoff she received for quitting as a Cabinet minister last year... now that she is back in her old job
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New - Cabinet minister Peter Kyle takes a thinly-veiled swipe at Andy Burnham as he warns: 'Entitlement is not a qualification for leadership' 🔥
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Greg Heffer retweeted
Congratulations @KirstyHickey, @SkyNews, for being named one of this year's #30ToWatch winners in the Production category.
Thanks to our category judges @matt_itvnews, Executive Digital Editor of @itvnews and @DanielHewittITV, Investigations Editor at @itvnews.
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It is apparently 'an exciting time to join' UK Security Vetting ...
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Greg Heffer retweeted
We’re in the truly weird position where McSweeney had to go for giving the PM the advice to appoint Mandelson and Robbins had to go for not stopping him.
Labour backbencher Alison Gardner has just read out this question almost word-for-word in the Commons...
Here are the “lines to take” given to Labour MPs for Keir Starmer’s statement.
Going all guns blazing on blaming the Foreign Office
- For a 63 week wait between Mandelson being granted DV status to the PM being told by about the UKSV recommendation
- “An appalling and inexplicable lack of judgement”
- Quoting an Epstein abuse victim to attack Mandelson
Greg Heffer retweeted
This was a response to my Q: "Even tho you did not know the FULL extent of Mandelson's ongoing friendship with Epstein, it was never a good look at the time. Did u not personally have any reservations about what u DID know about the ongoing friendship. Any doubts, curiousities?"
Starmer on 5 Feb: "There was... security vetting carried out independently by the security services, which is an intensive exercise that gave him clearance for the role, and you have to go through that before you take up the post."
EXCL: Peter Mandelson failed his security vetting clearance but the decision was overruled by Foreign Office to ensure he could take up his post as ambassador to US - a Guardian investigation by @PaulLewis @Direthoughts & me
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NEW: Andrew Gwynne, the ex-Labour MP, has been given a coveted parliamentary security pass despite still being subject to a sleaze probe.
He quit the Commons earlier this year on health grounds after agreeing an exit package said to worth around £1m.
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Greg Heffer retweeted
EXC: Newly unearthed audio shows Zack Polanski stood by his claim that hypnosis could enlarge a woman's breasts.
Polanski has repeatedly said he was misrepresented and apologised on the BBC the day after the 2013 Sun article.
But that's now in doubt👇
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New - Suspended Labour MP gifted £2,400 by her husband's firm just three weeks before he was arrested on suspicion of spying for China - when she insisted she was 'not part of his business'
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Excl. Labour's Shabana Mahmood hands back £2,500 donation to businessman linked to Jhoots Pharmacy row
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New - Labour delays decision on new Chinese super-embassy in London amid furious row over spying case
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. @lukedepulford says: 'We know the UK is under heavy diplomatic pressure to green-light the application.
'It is v difficult to believe that this delay has not been caused by the current spy scandal, making it impossible to approve the application without seeming weak on China.'