Joe Pike
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Insight & Investigations Editor at @BBCNewsnight | Author of Project Fear - Books of The Year, The Guardian & The Independent | Story? DM or [email protected]
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Alex Salmond tells Laura Kuenssberg:
Ash Regan has agreed to meet Humza Yousaf in the next couple of days.
Dismisses claims in papers that he is focussing on an electoral pact with SNP.
Alba executive meeting this afternoon to discuss preparations for possible Scottish elections.
.James Cleverly🇬🇧: A Tory leadership contest post-local elections would be a ‘catastrophically bad idea’.
I’m not from Rishi Sunak’s ‘political tribe… I didn’t know him’. But PM is hardworking. Feeding the ‘psychodrama’ is ‘not good government’.
'My operational independence was tested pretty regularly'.
Interesting admission from ex Police Scotland chief constable Sir Iain Livingstone.
He was speaking at the NI select committee in his current role as lead officer for Operation Kenova.
EXCL: Data obtained by Newsnight + analysed by BBC suggests NHS England adult gender clinics facing 10 year backlog of 1st appointments.
NHS Eng confirm they will begin a review into adult services in “coming weeks”.
Full story 22:30 BBC Newsnight
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EXCL: Labour chair Anneliese Dodds writes to Conservative opposite number with more questions about Frank Hester/ Diane Abbott row.
No 10 and CCHQ say they don’t comment on membership or speculate on future donations. One source suggests Hester may never have been Tory member.
Former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng on Frank Hester’s alleged comments about Diane Abbott:
“They are clearly racist and they are clearly sexist… They were very stupid remarks.”
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