The mammoth US unemployment claims in their historical context.
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Ben Riley-Smith
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Ben Riley-Smith
@benrileysmith
Chief Political Commentator, The Telegraph. Former Pol Ed and US Ed. Help present BBC R4’s Week in Westminster. First book, BLUE MURDER, available here👇
- Breaking: Scotland Yard just said they've been handed more than **300** photographs as part of their partygate probe. Wow.
- HOW AGES VOTED (YouGov poll) 18-24: 75% Remain 25-49: 56% Remain 50-64: 44% Remain 65+: 39% Remain #EUref
- BREAKING: Priti Patel's PPS Paul Holmes has quit from the role over the Sue Gray revelations. Says there was a "toxic" and "distasteful" culture which permeated Number 10.
- 🚨BREAKING: The fracking ban will be scrapped **tomorrow**. Planning requests for new drilling expected within weeks. Major change in UK energy rules. More in @Telegraph.
- Worth watching in full. Boris Johnson’s pitch perfect tribute to the Queen.
- Talked to a dozen+ government figures yesterday afternoon about Covid policy and no one was suggesting Plan B would be announced today. All pinned on next week. Less than 24 hours later...suddenly an announcement is imminent. What sped up the thinking overnight I wonder?
- Well this is something I thought I’d never see. National Guard members getting rest in the Capitol, guns by their sides, under the busts of Lincoln and Washington.
- Donald Trump Jr is doing a Florida bus tour with a cage fighter, Jorge Masvidal. It’s called Fighters Against Socialism Jorge wore a black+gold Adidas tracky and talked about how his father fled communist Cuba by floating on a tyre for 6days This is him introducing ‘The Don Jr’
00:00 - Replying to @benrileysmithTrump campaign adviser @JasonMillerinDC says by end of tomorrow it will be clear Trump has won and will stay president.
- EXC: The Tory whips office has calculated Boris Johnson would get the backing of just 65 Tory MPs in a second confidence vote. That’s out of almost 360 Tory MPs - so support from less than a fifth. Boris allies have been discussing that today. More in @Telegraph tomorrow.
- NEW: Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has just urged colleagues to oust Boris Johnson Said on BBC WorldAtOne that telling Johnson to go is now a "requirement", however hard it may be “I think we’re kidding ourselves if we think that everything’s okay..."
- We’ve crunched the numbers on the 30 Tory rebels calling for PM to go - 17 Leavers, 13 Remainers - Every intake in last 40yrs represented except 2017 - Tiny majorities (3 have below 1k) and huge ones (8 have 20k+) - 9 had Lib Dems 2nd, 21 Labour Ie fires breaking out all over!
