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The prime minister sparked fury yesterday when he dismissed concerns about his language when speaking about Jo Cox and Brexit as ‘humbug’

Full story: Labour fury as Johnson goes on the attack
‘Man with no shame’: how the papers covered it

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Luciana Berger, who joined the Liberal Democrats after leaving Labour, will give up her Liverpool constituency to fight for a London seat once held by Margaret Thatcher, PA reports.
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Nicholas Soames, one of the 21 rebels to have lost the Tory whip, said he was “appalled” by the language of the prime minister and said it made the prospect of getting a Brexit deal through the Commons more difficult.
But the grandson of Winston Churchill stopped short of calling on Johnson to resign.
I have grown up in a House where I believe the job of the prime minister, even under very difficult circumstances, is to try to bring the country together. And what the prime minister did yesterday, was to drive it further apart.
I want Boris Johnson to start behaving like a prime minister and what he did yesterday makes what he has to do so much harder, which is to reach out across the House of Commons to build a compromise to get a deal. He needs to calm the thing down. Continue reading...