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Jeremy Corbyn: I've never met a billionaire
Jeremy Corbyn in a speech in Liverpool at a general election debate says that he has never met a billionaire

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Jeremy Corbyn‏Verified account@jeremycorbyn Jan 24
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I met @BillGates today to talk about aid and development, public health and preventable child deaths. We discussed his foundation's work, the need for more effective taxation and Labour’s commitment to do much more to support the work of @DFID_UK.pic.twitter.com/HtJ6rrQETa
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Johnson calls Tory candidate’s rape comments ‘unacceptable’
Kate Devlin, Chief Political Correspondent
November 7 2019, 5:00pm, The Times
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Nick Conrad left BBC Radio Norfolk after saying that women should “keep their knickers on”
Boris Johnson was under pressure tonight to ditch a Conservative parliamentary candidate who said that women should “keep their knickers on” during a radio discussion about rape.
The prime minister criticised Nick Conrad today for the remarks, which were made in 2014 while he was a presenter at BBC Radio Norfolk, but did not remove him as a candidate.
Mr Conrad, 34, left his job as the breakfast show host last week and was selected to stand in the safe Norfolk seat of Broadland last night.
He made the remarks during a discussion in 2014 about the footballer Ched Evans’s rape conviction, which was overturned on appeal in 2016. Mr Conrad said at the time that women who “don’t wish to give out the wrong…
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Evening all! I had the displeasure of listening to that slimy smooth talking Chukka on the radio tonight. <yikes> God to he talk a load of old crap?
 
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