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Robert Peston

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Robert Peston

@Peston

Peston Show, ITV, Rest is Money, Futures for All, Kill Switch (thriller coming soon), Hospice UK, Arsenal, Centrist Dad

Joined March 2008

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Robert Peston
@Peston
Jun 26
My new thriller, The Kill Switch - which I loved writing - is published on 16 July. That evening I will be talking about why it’s nightmarish world may become our reality, at JW3 in north London. With @Gabriel_Pogrund Tickets are available here jw3.org.uk/spektrix/Choos…
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Robert Peston
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Mar 10, 2023
Labour: “The BBC’s cowardly decision to take Gary Lineker off air is an assault on free speech in the face of political pressure. Tory politicians lobbying to get people sacked for disagreeing with Government policies should be laughed at, not pandered to. BBC should rethink.”
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Robert Peston
@Peston
Apr 12, 2022
For the Prime Minister and Chancellor to be fined while parliament is in recess and cannot be held to account by MPs is extraordinary. The Met Police are literally a law unto themselves
Robert Peston
@Peston
Feb 1, 2022
Buried on page 199 of the Department of Health and Social Care’s annual report published yesterday is the shocking disclosure that it has incurred £8.7bn of losses - £8.7bn ! - on £12.1bn of PPE bought in 2020/21. Think about how that money could have been…
Robert Peston
@Peston
Sep 8, 2022
Respect for the late Queen Elizabeth from the EU. Flags at half mast
Robert Peston
@Peston
Oct 12, 2022
A member of Truss's own cabinet tells me Truss's and Kwarteng's governance is so dire that some Tory MPs would vote against her in a confidence vote, preferring even a general election that cost them their seats to the current economic chaos
Robert Peston
@Peston
Oct 3, 2022
Why did @KwasiKwarteng and @trussliz drop the abolition of the 45p top tax rate? Because super wealthy donors to the Tory party told them “we don’t need the money, we don’t want the money and you are bringing us into disrepute”. This is the highest political farce
Robert Peston
@Peston
Jan 12, 2022
Of course @BorisJohnson could have asked his wife, Carrie Johnson, who was with him and drinking (gin, I’m told), whether they were at a party, if he wasn’t sure
Robert Peston
@Peston
Mar 8, 2018
This makes me want to retire as a journalist, because I have been desperate to put Brexit in a simple nutshell, and the bloomin’ PM of Luxembourg has done it perfectly. Impossible to better. Sigh
Robert Peston
@Peston
Jan 31, 2022
Theresa May absolutely savages @BorisJohnson on Downing St parties. The moment of the day
Robert Peston
@Peston
Feb 4, 2020
The Irish leaders’ debate is really quite shocking. The three leaders have a detailed grasp of complex welfare and tax issues, they are polite and courteous, they admit mistakes, they say sorry. They might even be largely honest. Why is all that possible in Ireland but not here?
Robert Peston
@Peston
Jun 9, 2017
Senior Tory MP: "We all f***ing hate her. But there is nothing we can do. She has totally f***ed us".
Robert Peston
@Peston
Dec 8, 2021
Just to be clear, it would be nonsensical for @AllegraCOP26 to have resigned if the Downing Street party had never happened, and she wasn't conspicuously making light of it. So she has just blown up the prime minister's "I've been assured the party never happened"
Robert Peston
@Peston
Apr 12, 2022
The police have today concluded that the PM, the Chancellor and the PM’s wife all attended illegal parties, that breached Covid laws written by the PM. This is most serious for Boris Johnson of the three of them, because it was he who told MPs on 8 December…