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No British official forced Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to sign a false confession, UK government says
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PM's spokesman has said that Boris Johnson takes revelations about what happened in Downing Street during lockdown "very seriously", after our insiders' evidence - 10 said Sue Gray's interim report "raised some of these challenges" -more at 7pm on
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"[The PM] wasn't there saying this shouldn't be happening. He wasn't saying 'Can everyone break up and go home? Can everyone socially distance?'
"No, he wasn't telling anybody that. He was grabbing a glass"
Insiders describe No 10 lockdown parties
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Ukrainian mother and son housed under Homes for Ukraine scheme says she's homeless after host demanded money
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Tonight on
#BBCPanorama
, Partygate: Inside the Storm
Insiders tell
@bbclaurak
some parties went on so late, staff ended up staying the night, empty bottles littered offices and some staff were mocked for trying to stop parties
7pm,
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Typical energy bill set to rise to £2,800 a year in October
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan asks Met Police for "detailed explanation" of how it decided who to fine during Partygate investigation
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"This government is not a fascist government... but we're building a scaffolding which has the potential to go a very dark direction" - Labour's Clive Lewis on SNP MP Mhairi Black's speech about rising fascism in UK
Tory MP Mark Harper calls it "nonsense"
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: ‘If anything our love has gone a lot deeper’
Nazanin pays tribute to her husband Richard who campaigned tirelessly for her release.
Listen back to Nazanin’s exclusive interview with
@emmabarnett
now:
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"We saw it as our own bubble... everything just continued as normal. Social distancing didn't happen. We didn't wear face masks. It wasn't like the outside world"
Insiders describe bins overflowing with bottles and colleagues sleeping over in Downing St
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"We all sat around the tables drinking. People stayed the night there"
Insiders tell of packed No 10 lockdown parties
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@bbclaurak
You can watch
@BBCPanorama
Partygate: Inside the Storm on BBC 2 tonight at 7pm on BBC 2
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"They were every week... wine time Fridays"
Insiders who attended lockdown gatherings in Downing Street tell
@bbcLauraK
that social events were held regularly and the prime minister was there "grabbing a glass for himself"
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