Nick Lester retweeted
Why you need someone watching parliamentary debates
£10m House of Lords door does not work
@nickolester
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Well, that was an unexpected mention at business questions from Commons Leader Lucy Powell…
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After 12 years, & almost nine as parliamentary editor, I'll be leaving PA's parliament team at the end of next week.
The decision follows a really tough few weeks after the management proposed cuts to the team.
Not sure what's next beyond a break, but it's a fresh opportunity.
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Great to speak to 'bionic Lord' @cmackinlay ahead of his introduction to the upper chamber today.
Story picked up by the BBC: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly5…
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Related quote from Brian Sedgemore in March 1989
Straight-talking Lord Lipsey identifies main culprit for pollution in River Wye @UKHouseofLords
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With a load of new MPs due to arrive in Parliament after the general election, we also have a vacancy for a new reporter on the @PA parliamentary team…
Details here: pamediagroup.livevacancies.c…
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The King has prorogued Parliament for the first time during his reign for the General Election
✍️: @nickolester
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Defiant peers have again dug in their heels over Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda deportation plan and demanded MPs think again for a fifth time
✍: @nickolester & @Abbie_Llewelyn
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On our way home after a cracking day looking around Parliament, hearing from veteran reporter @nicklester, meeting Forest of Dean MP & Transport Secretary @Mark_J_Harper and watching Education Questions. Now looking forward to a food stop. – at London, England
ALT A group of students smiling on steps inside the House of Commons, with a stained glass window in the background
ALT A man in a suit talks to a group of students in a big hall
ALT A man in a shirt and tie stands at a table and speaks to a group of people
Nick Lester retweeted
If you've longed to have a front row seat reporting on Parliament, including witnessing Jim Shannon intervening on nearly every Commons debate, @PA has a vacancy on its parliamentary team...
pamediagroup.livevacancies.c…
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Peers have inflicted their first defeat against Rishi Sunak’s proposed Rwanda asylum law putting the unelected Lords on a collision course with the Government
✍: @nickolester, @Abbie_Llewelyn & @rhiannonejames
independent.co.uk/news/uk/ri…
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Always room for hedgehog-hunters too …
A vexed @UKHouseofLords clerk has to deal with a mobile phone going off during the introduction of the Bishop of Hereford. The senior cleric is a one-time atheist whose hobbies include riding his motorbike and looking for hedgehogs
Nick Lester retweeted
We’re hiring a parliamentary reporter at @PA
Westminster.
Details on the job and how to apply are here: pamediagroup.livevacancies.c…
Any questions about the job, my email is: [email protected]
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The Government pressing ahead with parliamentary scrutiny of controversial plans to tackle the small boats crisis into the early hours of the morning has been branded “disgraceful” at Westminster
✍️: @nickolester
independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
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Apple and Google app stores should have the same obligations to child safety as corner shops, it has been argued, as Parliament heard youngsters were able to access adult products offering casual sex and gambling on the platforms
✍️: @nickolester
standard.co.uk/news/politics…
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Today in the Lords: Day NINE of the Levelling Up Bill committee stage (and they’re still only on amendment 239A of 515) - and concerns raised over standards at Manston migrant processing centre
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Some big news for me (and him)
@andrew_alex joins #TimesRadio as my new executive producer.
I’m still trying to persuade him to make a speech about the BBC to help promote the show.
Politics without the boring bits.
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