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Its much better for labour if the tories do the damage to themselves Ritchie. If Starmer gets tore in then it makes it more likely they will just all rally round the flag, and the media might turn on them. There might come a time for them to go for it, but not yet.

The polling figures show Starmer is playing it right so far I think.

I take your point, jim, but you run the risk of allowing the Tories to set the agenda. I see the Durham Police are doing their best to keep the pressure on.

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Ben Bradshaw
@BenPBradshaw
Dido Harding just told me on an MPs’ conference call that Test, Trace & Isolate won’t be fully operational at local level till the end of June. Not sure where that leaves Johnson’s promise of a fully operational “world beating” system by Monday.


Mans a lying bastard.

Google Harding and talk talk data breach. Not sure I would be wanting let her have access to my private information.

Re Harding, her "utter ignorance" does make her a suitable candidate for a top Government job. Added to that, she seems to be a board member of the Jockey Club, which runs the Cheltenham Festival, generally considered to have been a prime breeding ground for Covid-19. That surely guaranteed her the new job.