Ruth Davidson posted a photograph of herself running through wheat at an Edinburgh city farm, playing on Theresa May’s account of doing the same thing as a child.
May’s interview answer had become a campaign-era joke. Davidson, who led the Scottish Conservatives, gave it a second run on Twitter by staging her own version.
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stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband
Days before the 2015 general election, David Cameron presented the choice as one between stability under him and chaos under Labour leader Ed Miliband.
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The Conservatives won a majority in 2015. After the Brexit referendum and the instability that followed it, the slogan took on a second life as people quoted it back at the Conservatives.
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I’m starting Conference with this new Twitter feed about my role as Conservative Leader.
David Cameron opened his personal Twitter account on the eve of the Conservative Party conference. He said he would use it to post about his role as party leader.
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The first post joked about how often he would tweet, recalling a remark he had made about Twitter in a 2009 radio interview. As a sitting prime minister, he was opening a new channel alongside the official Downing Street account.
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@BorisJohnson very clear today.
Nadine Dorries backed Boris Johnson’s evidence to the Commons Privileges Committee and said she expected him to be exonerated.
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The committee was examining whether Johnson had misled Parliament about gatherings in Downing Street. It later concluded he had deliberately misled the House. Dorries’s post records a public defence of his testimony on the day it was given.
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After the final Sue Gray report was published, Alok Sharma called the behaviour it described unacceptable and said Boris Johnson had apologised and implemented changes.
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Sharma, who was president of COP26, also said Johnson had his full confidence. His public statement is part of the record of how Cabinet ministers responded to the report.
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Brexit new year
Peter Bone tweeted his Christmas card depicting himself as Father Christmas passing over Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker. The card wished recipients a Brexit new year.
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The card turned Westminster’s Brexit argument into a festive cartoon. The Guardian picked it out in its 2017 roundup of politicians’ Christmas cards.
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Gavin Williamson posted his resignation letter amid allegations of bullying and an ongoing complaints process over messages he had sent to a colleague.
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Williamson said he was leaving government to take part in the process and clear his name. The official exchange records his reasons for stepping down and Rishi Sunak’s response.
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I have resigned from Cabinet and surrendered the Conservative Whip.
Amber Rudd shared her decision to resign as work and pensions secretary and surrender the Conservative whip.
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Rudd objected to Boris Johnson’s expulsion of 21 Conservative MPs who had rebelled over Brexit. Her resignation took that dispute into the Cabinet and put further pressure on a government that had lost its Commons majority.
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Michelle Thomson commented on Ukraine’s application to join the European Union and asked readers to draw a lesson for Scotland.
Thomson apologised after criticism. The episode was reported alongside Nicola Sturgeon’s statement that there was no comparison between the war in Ukraine and Scotland’s independence debate.
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Crispin can no longer provide that leadership.
Stewart McDonald announced his resignation as a vice-chair of Parliament’s all-party group on global LGBT+ rights and called on its chair, Crispin Blunt, to leave.
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The departures followed Blunt’s public criticism of a jury verdict against another MP. Blunt retracted his remarks and announced his resignation as chair the following day.
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