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Paul Brand
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Journalist and broadcaster. UK Editor of ITV News, Presenter of ITV’s flagship Tonight programme, Good Morning Britain, LBC. 6 x Royal Television Society Award winner.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · Dec 7
It’s 3 years since we broadcast the explosive video of No10 staff joking about a Christmas party.

It sparked national outrage and brought down a Prime Minister.

You can hear - first hand - from our sources in our award-winning podcast. 1.8 million listeners.

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 3d
Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 3d
Home Secretary says:

“Large, repeated protests can leave sections of our country, particularly religious communities, feeling unsafe, intimidated and scared to leave their homes. This has been particularly evident in relation to the considerable fear within the Jewish community”.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 3d
BREAKING: The Home Office is giving police new powers to restrict repeat protests like pro-Palestine marches.

Police can consider the ‘cumulative impact’ of protests on an area and could ban the protest / force it to move elsewhere.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 5d
BREAKING: Greater Manchester Police say for the first time that they believe the Manchester synagogue terrorist Jihad Al-Shamie was influenced by “extreme Islamist ideology”.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 5d
EXCL: Rabbi Daniel Walker, who helped keep the attacker out of his synagogue in Crumpsall yesterday, has spoken for the first time.

He tells me Al-Shamie shouted “I’m going to get you” as he tried to force his way in, blocked by brave worshippers.

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 6d
Greater Manchester Police confirm:

- Car was driven at public
- Driver then attacked people with knife
- Suspect wore a vest looking like explosive device
- Security staff at synagogue stopped attacker getting in
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 6d
BREAKING: Counter Terrorism Police say the attack at a synagogue in Manchester is terrorism.

They say they believe they know the identity of the attacker but due to safety reasons at the scene they cannot confirm it.

Two further arrests have been made.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 6d
NEW: Counter Terrorism Police are expected to make a statement within the hour on the incident in Manchester.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 6d
A bomb disposal unit has arrived at the scene of the synagogue attack in Manchester.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 6d
The Prime Minister says extra police assets are being deployed to synagogues across the country to keep the Jewish community safe.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 6d
The PM will chair a COBRA meeting on his return.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 6d
BREAKING: The PM is returning from his summit in Copenhagen following the incident at a synagogue in Manchester this morning.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 6d
BREAKING: The Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham says the suspect in the attack on a synagogue this morning is believed to be dead after being shot by police.

Four have been injured after reports of a car ramming and stabbing at the synagogue in Manchester.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 7d
PM wants to 'look again' at ECHR following ITV News investigation www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 8d
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 8d
Previous govts have taken a similar ‘sticking plaster’ approach, while promising reform that never came.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 8d
Health and Social Care Secretary is promising an extra £500m today to improve pay and conditions in the care sector.

Care workers have been promised a better deal since the sector was put under the spotlight during the pandemic.

But long-term, genuine reform is still years off.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d
Hamas has to agree to have no role in the future governance of Gaza. So question is whether they’re willing to accept their own demise. Otherwise Israel will “finish the job” regardless.

“This can be done the easy way, or it can be done the hard way, but it will be done” says Netanyahu.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d
Prime Minister Netanyahu confirms that Israel supports America’s peace plan.

“It will bring back to Israel all of our hostages, dismantle Hamas’s military capabilities and ensure Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel”, he says.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d
BREAKING: President Trump says all parties - including Israel - have accepted his plan for peace in the Middle East.

The only remaining party to give its verdict is Hamas, he says.

If Hamas doesn’t agree, he gives explicit permission to Netanyahu to “finish the job”.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d
Trump confirms that former PM Sir Tony Blair will be on the board overseeing the governance plan for Gaza.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d
BREAKING: President Trump says all parties - including Israel - have accepted his plan for peace in the Middle East.

The only remaining party to give its verdict is Hamas, he says.

If Hamas doesn’t agree, he gives explicit permission to Netanyahu to “finish the job”.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d
Theme of speech is how to remain an “open, tolerant, generous country” - a triad which she repeats.

Mahmood argues that retaining those values - important to Labour members - means having control of borders and crime. A sort of political tough love.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d
NEW: Home Sec Shabana Mahmood hits out at far right.

“In their view of this country I have no place. They are heirs to the skin heads and p*ki bashers of old”.

“Patriotism - a force for good - is turning into something smaller which struggles to believe I can be truly English”.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d
Mahmood says she will introduce new conditions for indefinite leave to remain:

Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d
Mahmood warns Labour members “you may not always like what I do”.

She says she will have to question “Assumptions and legal constraints that have lasted for a generation or more.”

But she says that’s the way to preserve a tolerant country and hold back the far right.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d
But Mahmood says that Labour does have to face head-on the fact that people feel the country is out of control.

Otherwise “our vision of a, tolerant, generous country will wither”.

She argues - as she did to me in her first iv last week - that means securing borders.
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