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Corbyn reveals dossier of official documents which he says proves NHS 'up for sale' in UK-US trade talks (Politics Live, Guardian)

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Gilsey's question about AN question to Corbyn-raising dividend tax to income tax level,estimated to raise 9billion.If you are a BR taxpayer,currently 7.5% ie treating the same as income.I think ,it is not unknown for me to be wrong

Dividends are currently taxed at a lower rate than income. But in a move that will hit entrepreneurs and the self-employed who pay themselves through dividends, as well as savers with money in the stock market, Labour plans to align dividend tax and income tax.

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NEW: 659,666 people registered to vote yesterday - the highest number on record for a single day

I am, of course, only joking.

Devolution creates some strange anomalies in terms of GE campaigns which become a strange blend of national and regional offers, with an awful lot of the conversation being presented as "national" policy when often it is only relevant to England.

These contradictions are most noticeable when Nicola Sturgeon talks of Boris Johnson selling off the NHS, devolved in Scotland, but vulnerable to UK trade policy, thus revealing the limits of devolution. Her arguments are aimed at independence, but they also make a very strong case for an English Parliament, equivalent to the other devolved bodies, with a higher tier UK wide governance structure to deal with non-devolved matters, with more balanced input from the smaller countries.

Really, one thing that should come out of this whole shebang in the medium term is some kind of reworked and more formally federal UK - there is no other future for the country as it is currently constituted. But it's almost impossible to see it it happening.

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For those asking when Boris Johnson's interview will take place, we're in ongoing discussions with his team but we haven't yet been able to fix a date

According to the G's Saturday TV guide, Andrew Neil interviews scheduled for today, no name given, and tomorrow, Jo Swinson.
Apparently now Jo Swinson 4 Dec, Farage 5 Dec.


I did think the saving grace of JC's interview was that it's over and there's still more than 2 weeks to go.

What are the BBC going to do if BJ never shows, is the question.

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Labour 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 same scrutiny as Mr Corbyn, but his team was told he would be, that's a problem for the BBC. https://twitter.com/RobBurl/status/1199461520780021760 … (Politics Live, Guardian)

There are a number of interesting posts on the graun's daily politics - here and here for example - from people saying that whilst this might not be a picture of a smoking gun in a frame with a label saying 'smoking gun' attached, they are decent evidence of what Corbyn is claiming of them.

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Sturgeon, Corbyn, Swinson, Farage all step up for
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interviews. Johnson’s team “in ongoing discussions”. I’m surprised as I thought the BBC had nailed down all the leaders as part of the week-long programming

Queue of 21 ambulances outside hospital as patients reach 'desperation point'

The prime minister’s senior aide, Dominic Cummings, has resigned as a special adviser, according to a Cabinet Office source.

Cummings, who was a senior figure in the Vote Leave campaign before starting as an adviser to Boris Johnson in July. His appointment at No 10 came only four months after he was found in contempt of parliament for refusing to appear before MPs investigating false news stories during the EU referendum campaign.

Earlier today, he published a blog post warning pro-Brexit voters that a Conservative victory is not yet in the bag (see 5.16pm).

Responding to a query about whether or not the publication of the post constituted a breach of the general election purdah rules imposed on special advisers, a Cabinet Office source confirmed Cummings had “resigned following the dissolution of parliament” on 6 November.

While his resignation is understood to be a formality, it had been reported that Cummings intended to stay on as Johnson’s adviser, with the Tory election campaign being run by Isaac Levido.

the Times reports, at least 30 seats have relatively small projected margins of victory for the Conservatives. And the pollster warned that a relatively small fall in Tory support could deny the party’s suggested majority.