Liz Bates
Political Correspondent at Sky News
Political Correspondent @SkyNews Not from New York City I’m from Rotherham
Articles
-
1 week ago |
msn.com | Liz Bates
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
-
1 week ago |
news.sky.com | Liz Bates
The House of Commons is a place defined by confrontation where political battles play out and engage more actively with their constituents. But the atmosphere could not have been more different on Friday, as those on both sides of the assisted dying debate listened respectfully, almost solemnly, to one another in the final hours before the crucial vote. As MPs headed for the division lobbies, the bill's supporters seemed confident but nervous.
-
1 week ago |
news.sky.com | Liz Bates |Sam Coates
Whitehall officials tried to convince Michael Gove to go to court to cover up the grooming scandal in 2011, Sky News can reveal. Dominic Cummings, who was working for Lord Gove at the time, has told Sky News that officials in the Department for Education (DfE) wanted to help efforts by Rotherham Council stop a national newspaper from exposing the scandal. In an interview with Sky News, Mr Cummings said that officials wanted a "total cover-up".
-
2 weeks ago |
news.sky.com | Liz Bates |Josh Gafson
A monumental decision for MPs that has been looming on the horizon is now approaching at speed. The Assisted Dying Bill, which would give some terminally ill adults the right to end their lives, is back in the Commons for votes on amendments, with the final vote likely to come next week. There are not many issues like this - literally a matter of life and death - that require MPs to search their consciences and make a personal decision with profound and irreversible consequences.
-
1 month ago |
v2radio.co.uk | Liz Bates
The former Number 10 aide also claimed the Conservative Party "might be dead". Listen to the full interview at 5pm on the Sky News Daily podcast - tap here to followHis remarks came in a wide-ranging interview with Sky News, in which the controversial figure, who served as Boris Johnson's chief adviser from 2019 to 2020, said Nigel Farage could "definitely" become the next prime minister.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 27K
- Tweets
- 8K
- DMs Open
- Yes
RT @SkyNews: Dominic Cummings has told @wizbates he thinks Nigel Farage could be the next prime minister if the Reform leader follows his a…
RT @SkyNews: 'She's a goner' Speaking in a wide-ranging interview with Sky's political correspondent @wizbates, Dominic Cummings says Kemi…
RT @SkyNews: Dominic Cummings has told Sky's @wizbates he wanted to 'get rid' of Boris Johnson after he went 'rogue' and 'started doing the…