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1Apr 6, '23From me:35.9×2M10k27221
2Sep 7, '21November 29, 2019 PM: “Read my lips we will not be raising taxes on income, on VAT or National Insurance.”14.2×015k7.4k224
3Mar 2, '23💵💵💵 NEW: Matt Hancock could see his £400k I'm a Celeb earnings "wiped out" if civil servants sue for breach of GDPR law. Meanwhile, FDA union wants Government to "pursue" Hancoc13.9×791k2.5k42445
4Jul 15, '18Bannon to me off-air: "Fuck you. Don't you fucking say you're calling me out. You fucking liberal elite. Tommy Robinson is the backbone of this country."12.8×014k6.2k70
5Mar 23, '20Hoping to be allowed home today. Just a short note to say thank you for all the love. I felt it so strongly during the darkness last week. I so desperately want the wonderful NHS s12.4×023k3.1k20
6Jul 1, '24Ok, so it's been reported Keir Starmer, if he becomes PM, wants to clock off at 6pm to spend time with his kids. The thing is, that's not what he said. (He only wants to ringfence 11.9×676k3.6k1k85
7Jun 8, '22Keir Starmer to Boris Johnson: “Twenty-four hours at A&E used to be a TV programme. Now it’s his policy.”11×022k2.7k62
8Dec 2, '20Regulator doesn't agree with Health Secretary shocker. Matt Hancock: “Because we’ve left the EU, we’ve been able to move faster." Dr June Raine, MHRA boss: “We’ve been able to auth10.4×015k4.3k125
9Jun 24, '22The Tory candidate Helen Hurford in the Tiverton by election has just locked herself in the dance studio at Crediton sports centre.9.9×017k2.1k110
10Apr 6, '23Thank you for everything, James… I am a bit dumb founded by the response from everyone so not for the first time, I am lost for words. But if there’s one feeling above all the othe9.3×528k3.3k685
11Feb 1, '22Miss A, a Savile victim, has told me: "To have the PM say this... I was furious . It was like he was using it as a flippant thing for other people's purposes. "It triggered all the9.1×016k3.2k53
12Nov 27, '19Labour source tells me BBC informed them Boris Johnson would do an Andrew Neil interview next week. Turns out no such agreement had been reached. If Tory leader isn't subjected to 8.5×011k4.4k45
13Jul 12, '22Nadine Dorries and Jacob Rees-Mogg come out for Liz Truss. “She’s probably a stronger Brexiteer than both of us.” Jacob agrees. *Liz Truss campaigned for remain in 2016.8.5×015k2.4k37
14Mar 28, '20Standing in my kitchen tonight, having done bath time and now cooking dinner with my wife, I’ve nothing but gratitude to the wonderful NHS team who saved my life. Tonight, members 7.7×015k2.1k29
15Oct 6, '22I don't know if the Tory press office are taking a day off today but... Sadiq Khan to @LBC: "If your obsession is growth the easiest way, the quickest way, to get growth is to join7.3×013k2.6k45
16Mar 13, '23Turned out it wasn’t such a good idea to pick a fight with Gary Lineker.7.3×414k2.1k32511
17Mar 11, '23Penny Mordaunt - Thursday morning: “This country doesn’t need goal-hangers, it needs centre forwards.” Rishi Sunak - Saturday evening: “Gary Lineker was a great footballer and is a6.9×390k5k58828
18Oct 13, '22James Cleverley to @LBC: "(Liz Truss) is doing exactly what she said she was going to do." Nick Ferrari: "I don't recall her saying she would tank the economy. I must have been out6.5×012k1.9k30
19Oct 20, '23This seems off. You can see the reasoning for a BBC director general facing questions from Government ministers. And of course MPs from across the Commons will question a DG at a s6.3×360k1.9k65623
20May 13, '20By allowing somebody into your home to do a job, you're helping to keep another household financially viable. By inviting your grandma over for a cup of tea, you're not. Sorry to g6.3×09.7k1.5k47
21Oct 2, '23Just logged on to find one cabinet minister made up a Labour tax plan, whilst another stood on stage indulging in the 15-minute city conspiracy theory. Meanwhile, the Tory mayoral 5.8×327k3.7k49917
22Mar 30, '22Gordon Brown to Rishi Sunak on @LBC: "There is hardship and they don't hear. "There is suffering and they don't see. "There is pain and they walk on by."5.7×09.9k2.1k35
23Mar 5, '21Nicky, a nurse in Leeds, has rung into @LBC in tears. For her, the 1% equates to less £3.50-a-week. "I was there holding people's hands as they were dying. It's a true kick in the 5.5×08.2k2.4k28
24Jul 6, '24The passage in Keir Starmer's press conference about changing the mindset of the civil service to put country first, party second is important. It was often the case, particularly 5.2×297k2.2k27556
25May 25, '20Incandescent rage on the @LBC switchboard. Judy, from Brentwood: "I'm a complete Conservative and total Boris supporter but I'm leaving. I'm done. I will be Keir Starmer. "What hav4.9×08.5k1.6k23
26Mar 15, '23Tory Red Wall MP: “Nobody in my constituency has a pension pot of £1m.”4.5×256k1.8k2976
27Oct 26, '22Ferrari: "Who's next, Paddington Bear?" James Cleverly: "Nice line Nick, but the point is I've been consistent...." Ferrari: "You've not been consistent. You've been pro-Boris, pro4.4×08.4k1.2k39
28Mar 19, '20Short statement from Theo’s family:4.4×07.2k68825
29Oct 11, '22Nick Ferrari: "Why did you vote against the outlawing of smoking in cars containing children?" Health Secretary Therese Coffey to @LBC: "Probably because I don't think it is the ri4.4×06k1.4k69
30Oct 18, '22Tory MP: “You know who they’re starting to talk about now?” Me: “Who?” Tory MP: “Theresa May.” Me: “You’re taking the p@“*?” Tory MP: “No. She’s competent. She’s boring. She’ll cal4.0×06.4k770106
31Sep 2, '19Dr David Nicholl, consultant neurologist who took part in drafting Operation Yellowhammer, rings in to ask JRM what level of mortality rate he would be willing to accept in the eve4.0×04.5k2.2k58
32Oct 22, '19Glen, from Sidcup, has rung into @LBC. He rejects the Government’s demands to get Brexit done. “When my grandchildren ask me in ten years ‘why did you do this?’ I don’t want to rep3.9×06.5k1.6k9
33Aug 5, '20Adam from Bury, Greater Manchester, has rung into @mrjamesob. His wife is a contact tracer. As part of her job to find contacts of those with Covid-19, she’s made two phone calls s3.7×05k1.9k33
34Jul 15, '20Slow hand clap @MayorofLondon and @TfL - you’re on your knees financially, a world-renowned graffiti artist gives you a mural worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, if not millions3.7×05.9k1.1k63
35Oct 21, '22Will Walden, former adviser to Boris Johnson, tells @LBC: "For Boris the calculation will be not what is in the national interest, it will be what's in my interest."3.5×05.4k1.5k19
36Sep 18, '20Sadiq Khan tells @LBC that Cobra hasn’t met since May 10. He says he has not had any contact with the PM since then.3.2×04.2k1.6k34
37Oct 4, '21“How can you be so selfish?” Desperate pleas from a woman on the A12 this morning, as she tries to make it to see her 81-year-old mother in Canterbury, who has been rushed to hospi3.0×03.9k1k75
38Nov 28, '19Two statements: 1). We won't open up the NHS to US pharmaceutical firms or lower consumer standards to secure a trade deal with the United States. 2). Donald Trump can't wait to do3.0×04.4k1.4k8
39Oct 20, '22🚨🚨🚨Warning to Tories about a Boris Johnson come back. Privileges committee inquiry into partygate slated for beginning of November. Talk of it sitting four-hours-a-day Tuesday, 2.9×04.2k1.3k39
40Feb 6, '24What I find slightly odd about Tory MPs standing down at the next election is that you can still be of public service to your constituents (and beyond) in opposition. Being an MP -2.9×162k1.9k2616
41Mar 23, '20This was my call with James earlier. In short, the team who treated me needed time and space to come up with a combination of drugs to successfully fight the infection. They were a2.8×04k1.2k100
42Jun 30, '20Can't remember a former PM shredding the decision of the current PM from the same party to this extent. Ever.2.8×04.5k93028
43Nov 17, '22Rachel Reeves: “Never before have people paid so much in tax and got so little in return.”2.8×04.9k9819
44Jul 6, '22Understand the men in grey suits will tell the PM this evening that he has to leave or face a second confidence vote.2.7×04.8k75713
45May 5, '20Speaker Lindsay Hoyle says it is a “matter of regret” the PM will be making a statement about lifting the lockdown on Sunday. He says such statements should be made to the Commons 2.6×03.9k1.1k9
46Sep 22, '22Tory MPs very cross in the Commons over lifting of the fracking moratorium. Jacob Rees-Mogg: “It is sheer Ludditary that opposes (fracking).” Mark Menzies (Con, Fylde): “There’s no2.6×04.7k71918
47Sep 25, '19If you're going to criticise the BBC, I might gently suggest this is where you take aim. If journalists can't walk outside and tell you if it's raining, then there is little point 2.5×04k94318
48Oct 22, '19Nick Ferrari's take on news MPs could delay Brexit legislation so they can spend more time scrutinising it. "We have paid MPs £250,000 since the referendum and we are asking them t2.4×03.5k8781
49Dec 7, '21At lunchtime Number 10 said a whistleblower’s claim the PM and his wife were involved in the evacuation of Nowzad staff was “untrue”. Just been passed a letter from the PM’s PPS Tr2.4×02.4k1.3k66
50Feb 8, '22Exc: Liz Truss held a belated 50th birthday dinner party for Therese Coffey, at her grace-and-favour residence Chevening on January 29th. Two days later she tested positive for Cov2.4×03.4k63523
51Jun 15, '22Ian Blackford: “Isn’t it the case that Scotland can’t afford to stay in the failed Westminster system?” PM: “What could be more foolish than a project that envisages trade barriers2.3×03.8k60818
52Nov 21, '22ERG holds its regular Monday meeting later in Westminster. Senior member tells me they'll go "completely and utterly berserk" if there were any move towards a Swiss-style arrangeme2.3×02.2k51424
53Nov 5, '21Deputy Labour leader @AngelaRayner has written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Stone to ask whether the PM has broken the rules by failing to declare the va2.3×03.6k90821
54Sep 22, '22Wes Streeting to @LBC: "I can't believe after 12 years in Government, the Health Secretary is presenting a two-week wait to see a GP as some great news for patients. "When we were 2.2×03.8k8496
55Dec 3, '21Labour MP for Brent North Barry Gardiner has now written to Met Commissioner Cressida Dick asking her officers to investigate parties at Number 10 in breach of Covid lockdown rules2.2×03.3k9178
56Jun 24, '19“If we don’t leave on October 31st, then there won’t be a Conservative party,” Rees-Mogg says.2.2×01.8k3427
57Dec 17, '21What’s extraordinary about this impending Lib Dem win is that North Shropshire is not Chesham and Amersham. This is Leave country. Five years on from six in ten voters in North Shr2.2×03.9k63624
58Oct 28, '22Ferrari: "This is a rum state of affairs. So the PM won't go to COP27 for the environment, but the Foreign Secretary will go to Qatar for the World Cup? "Clearly football is more i2.1×03.3k9079
59Sep 5, '19Dr David Nicholl responds to Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg claiming that he is as irresponsible at the anti-vaccine campaigner Dr Andrew Wakefield. “I am speechless. I challenge h2.0×02.8k94111
60Oct 19, '19DUP suggesting they'll support a second referendum.... mumble, mumble, revenge a dish best served cold.1.9×02.9k72610
61Aug 31, '22Liz Truss says she “sees a lot of support” for the idea of the Met Commissioner reporting directly to the Home Secretary and effectively removing the London mayor’s responsibility 1.9×03.1k5547
62Jun 17, '22Sir Martin Sorrell, founder of WPP, blames Brexit for sluggish growth in the UK compared to the rest of the world. "I think we're in a very tough position post-Brexit. Covid papere1.8×02.8k84021
63Oct 23, '22Sanguine message from a Tory insider on where it all goes from here. “We’re going to crash. “If Boris gets to Xmas we can have an election in May. “Other two (Sunak and Mordaunt) w1.8×03.2k51134
64May 30, '22Lisa Nandy on @LBC: "Reading the papers this weekend, I felt like I had banged my head and woken up in the 1970s."1.8×03.6k3132
65Oct 5, '22Mike Pickering, M-People founder, is speaking @mrjamesob He says “without a doubt” he’d have sent a cease and desist letter to the venue asking them not to play the song had he kno1.7×03k5677
66Sep 8, '22Conservative party donor Lord Spencer says there are "many" benefits from leaving the EU when it comes to cutting regulations. Top of his list: "We should take away the cap on bank1.7×02.1k79628
67May 26, '20Michael Gove starts an answer about driving 60 miles to test his eyesight, just like Dominic Cummings said he did over the Easter weekend. He gets half way through his answer, stal1.6×02.1k77230
68Mar 15, '22Guy Verhofstadt to Nigel Farage: "I saw him the last years in the European Parliament... and there he was defending Putin. "I found it a shame, and I'm thinking to Winston Churchil1.6×03k54914
69Nov 6, '19James Cleverly has just taken two different positions on doctored @GMB interview. 0710, GMB: "Sir Keir Starmer… was unable to credibly explain Labour’s Brexit position and that’s w1.6×01.9k86212
70Nov 30, '20Government by pub snack. 13/10: Robert Jenrick says a Cornish Pasty is not a substantial meal, unless served with chips and side salad. 30/11: George Eustice says a Scotch Egg is a1.6×02.1k43721
71Oct 2, '19The last time I was at a Labour conference in Manchester, Ed Miliband gave his speech without notes and he forgot to mention the deficit. He got hammered. Five years on, I wonder w1.6×02.5k7006
72Aug 23, '22Barrister Karlia Lykourgou makes the case for strikes on @LBC, saying the current situation is unsustainable. Last week she defended a client in a child cruelty case. She worked 151.5×02.2k75114
73Jun 24, '22Not sure this PM trip abroad is going to last the full eight days.1.5×02.8k2451
74Dec 15, '22Mark, an A&E nurse at St Thomas’s, tells me a 19% pay rise will make the job easier as the NHS will be able to keep experienced staff. As opposed to paying agencies to fill gap1.4×02.3k53711
75May 26, '19News from @LBC colleague: Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, hasn't been selected as an MEP. He only won 2,171 votes in Manchester.1.4×02.3k3566
76Oct 24, '19Tory narrative this morning that the country needs an election to form a stable government in the national interest to deliver Brexit bears similarities to Tory narrative in April 1.4×02.2k5466
77Sep 7, '22Health Secretary Therese Coffey's phone alarm has just gone off live on @LBC. It's Dr Dre's hit, Still Dre.1.4×02.6k19435
78Jan 17, '22Keir Starmer tells @LBC the picture of the PM and his staff enjoying drinks in the garden of No10 is a "million miles away" from him drinking beer ahead of last May's local electio1.4×01.8k4216
79Sep 5, '18Jacob Rees-Mogg on @LBC now.... taking your calls on 0345 60 60 973. Ferrari: "Pronounce on the health of the Chequers' deal..." JRM: "The pulse is very faint. Brexit is a fundamen1.3×01.8k6016
80Dec 17, '21In a parallel universe, Owen Paterson decided best to keep quiet. He accepted his 30-day suspension, the news juggernaut rolled on and nobody mentioned a recall petition. Re-electe1.3×02.6k26517
81Feb 28, '22This is the harrowing text ⁦@ShelaghFogarty⁩ read out on @LBC just now from listener, Denys. Desperate situation but going by the current Home Office rules, his sister-in-law and h1.3×01.7k64010
82Feb 19, '21BREAKING: Supreme Court "unanimously" rejects Uber's appeal against earlier ruling that its drivers should be treated as workers and not self-employed. *Massive implications for th1.2×02k4299
83Feb 1, '22Understand Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle is to make a statement in the Commons at 12.30 on Boris Johnson’s slur about Jimmy Savile to Keir Starmer yesterday. Story will be on @mrjameso1.2×02.2k29010
84Oct 21, '22Sir Ed Davey tells @LBC that after 44 days in office Liz Truss should not be entitled to the £115,000 annual allowance usually afforded former Prime Ministers. "Most people have to1.2×02k4804
85Jul 15, '18Just FYI, as a Bannon-appointed member of the liberal elite I am going home for brunch of smashed avocado and poached eggs. And there will be no snowflake tears. x1.2×02.1k3833
86Dec 16, '21Tory view from the North Shropshire count is that from looking at the contents of the ballot boxes that have arrived first, it looks like the protest votes have coalesced around th1.2×02.1k2868
87Jun 28, '18Sadiq Khan booed by the audience as he finishes his speech. They are very angry at the level of crime in London.1.2×01.7k4961
88May 1, '20Nick Ferrari has just cut Matt Hancock some slack. If the Government gets to 90,000 tests today, he'll count it as a win for the health secretary and donate £100 to a hospice of hi1.2×02.1k2041
89Dec 12, '22👀Lord Dannatt, former head of the Army, to @LBC: "The Government needs to think long and hard about the appropriateness of using military labour, which has less than a 4% pay rise1.2×02k40718
90Dec 3, '21Met Commissioner told @LBC earlier she needed a letter of complaint on parties in Number 10 during lockdown before deciding on any next steps. *Could possibly include an investigat1.1×01.9k3953
91Oct 25, '22Rees-Mogg out of Government, source confirms,1.1×02k1253
92Sep 22, '22Wes Streeting: "Maybe after 12 years expecting the Conservatives to fix the crisis in the NHS is a bit like expecting the arsonist to put out the fire they created. "It's not going1.1×01.9k4415
93Oct 24, '22Will Walden: "James Duddridge, poor guy... Boris was messaging him on the way back from the Caribbean. 'Come on Dudders, let's go for it'. All the usual nonsense. I thought from th1.1×02.2k26415
94Nov 10, '22Libby, a nurse, has rung into @LBC. She bursts into tears. "We're burnt out. I feel like we're at breaking point. "My family - people I know - are waiting for cancer services. It's1.0×01.7k3882
95Oct 20, '22Tory MP: “She fought the lettuce and the lettuce won.”1.0×02k2573
96Mar 10, '21Michael, an Army vet, served in Afghanistan at the same time as Prince Harry. He tells @mrjamesob the prince should keep his military titles and protection. “Here’s a royal who fou1.0×01.8k2647
97Apr 25, '22Working From Home in the Civil Service? Rachel Reeves: "This sort of bullying behaviour from the Brexit Minister, that says people have to be at their desks for every day of the we1.0×01.8k2002
98Jul 2, '21A cut out and keep banner for Kim Leadbeater this morning.0.9×01.8k2238
99May 6, '22Tory source says it’s looking like Westminster council has “gone”. Hugely significant.0.9×01.9k1953
100Oct 20, '22Getting the impression senior people in Number 10 know the game is up.0.9×01.7k1743

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