Bizarre interaction this morning just before going into an interview at the BBC.
Was asked *how I voted* at the last election as a precondition for coming on air. Is this standard practice for guests now??
*Some professional news*
Beyond excited to start work tomorrow launching and producing the new Andrew Neil show on Channel 4
@afneil
@Channel4
My stint on
@itvpeston
has been my favourite yet, mostly because of the brilliant team, some of the best (and loveliest) in tv.
George Osborne on the Andrew Neil Show:
* “touch and go” whether Kwarteng can survive
*he would scrap 45p tax cut
*bring forward budget
* the mess of the last week is “entirely self inflicted”
*Labour odds on favourite to win the next election
@afneil
#AndrewNeilShow
NEWS: I’m really looking forward to starting as a Director at
@JLPartnersPolls
next month.
It’s time for a change, but I’m grateful for the bulk of my twenties spent in political TV/radio. I’ve loved it - especially launching and producing the inimitable
@afneil
’s C4 show
“Jeremy Corbyn wasn’t going to be Prime Minister, the polls showed that consistently and I wanted to help Labour MPs get across the line and not lose their seats. Sadly many of them lost their seats.” -
@JonAshworth
on the
#AndrewNeilShow
George Osborne not holding back on Boris Johnson...
Accuses him of trying to ‘bring down Rishi Sunak.' Says he's only ‘interested in becoming PM again’ and won't do the ‘grown up sensible thing’ if there’s ‘political opportunity in causing trouble’
@AFNeil
#AndrewNeilShow
‘Boris Johnson is interested in becoming Prime Minister again… he wants to bring down Rishi Sunak and he will use any instrument to do it.’
Watch
@George_Osborne
on Boris Johnson’s latest intervention
@AFNeil
#AndrewNeilShow
C4, 6PM
Gary Lineker’s had a ‘good week’ according to
@George_Osborne
He tells
@AFNeil
that ‘some of the language used on immigration by some Conservatives… is not acceptable’ but
@GaryLineker
‘should help the BBC find a ladder down which to climb’
#AndrewNeilShow
C4, 6.15pm
‘Britain’s mortgages will go up in cost’ & ‘you will have a version of what we’ve seen over recent weeks’
Former Chancellor
@George_Osborne
warns against a Johnson return, saying the ‘markets will vote’ and
@RishiSunak
must be the next PM
Watch
#AndrewNeilShow
, 6.15pm
@AFNeil
Excited to say today is my first day at
@JLPartnersPolls
Drop me a line on SMaguire
@jlpartners
.co.uk for any polling, politics questions or media bids
On the back end of an all-nighter talking to
@bbcone
@bbclaurak
about the damage Reform UK are currently inflicting on the Conservatives and the potential mirror image of a headache the Greens could give Labour in the years to come for
@JLPartnersPolls
⬇️
George Osborne blames Brexit for Britain's bleak long-term economic forecasts but says no one - the Conservatives, Labour and 'national broadcasters' -is prepared to talk about it...
@afneil
#AndrewNeilShow
‘What he can’t talk about, indeed no one in the political establishment will talk about, is Brexit.’
@George_Osborne
tells
@GrantShapps
Brexit is the reason ‘Britain is stagnating’ but that Conservatives, Labour and national broadcasters won’t talk about it. |
@AFNeil
C4, 6pm
‘Handing over your entire WhatsApp library over to Isabel Oakeshott is not actually a particularly sensible idea’
@George_Osborne
says he ‘won’t defend’
@MattHancock
giving 100,000 WhatsApps, including some of his own messages, to Isabel Oakeshott
#AndrewNeilShow
C4, 6pm
George Osborne says Rishi Sunak being 'pulled down by a series of scandals' and might meet the same fate as John Major 'unable to escape the downward pull of the Tory party.'
Watch the
#AndrewNeilShow
tonight at 6pm on Channel 4
@afneil
George Osborne says Prime Ministers should have to publish their resignation honours *before* they leave office anticipating trouble coming down the track…
“Prime ministers should publish their resignation honours before they leave office rather than leaving it to their successors as we’re about to discover with Boris Johnson and Liz Truss”
@George_Osborne
predicts another political storm on the horizon…
@AFNeil
#AndrewNeilShow
On
@BBCNews
talking about some of the latest
@J_L_Partners
@DailyMailUK
@robcrilly
🇺🇸 polling after Biden’s NATO gaffes
Only 1 in 4 (24%) think Biden could stay up for a Cuban Missile Crisis situation.
Only 3 in 10 (31%) think Biden will stay alive for the next four years
The Conservatives lost nearly 3 million voters to 'the sofa' this election
* 1 in 3 of those who stayed at home in this election voted in 2019
*Of those, HALF voted Conservative in 2019
New
@JLPartnersPolls
@Policy_Exchange
poll of non-voters in this morning's
@politico
Former Deputy PM
@DamianGreen
tells
@AFNeil
the cabinet should 'take some action' against Boris Johnson now, but that 'many of them are setting up leadership campaigns' and don't want to wield the dagger for fear of losing the crown...
#AndrewNeilShow
We need a radical and immediate overhaul of our infrastructure to help reduce the risks from the damage already caused by climate change, writes
@ScarlettMagu1re
.
The DUP will be tabling two amendments to the IM bill, one on state aid, including NI within UK arrangements, and a second one exempting NI businesses from export declarations on shipments where the goods are for consumption in NI and not at risk of being sold in into EU
Foreign office Minister Andrew Mitchell tells
@afneil
contrary to reports Govt is not considering leaving ECHR saying it would be an “extraordinary thing to do” doesn’t rule out resigning over it either …
‘I think it would be an extraordinary thing to leave the ECHR’
Foreign Office Minister
@AndrewMitchMP
says that, despite reports, leaving the ECHR is not ‘on the table’ and it’s ‘not being seriously considered’ by the government.
@AFNeil
#AndrewNeilShow
C4, 6pm
On Danny Kruger’s Small Boats amendments George Osborne tells
@afneil
leaving ECHR would be a “disaster” for the Tories and would “blow it all up” rather than solve the problem
‘It would be a disaster for the Tory Party.’
With a backbench rebellion brewing on the government’s Small Boats Bill
@George_Osborne
tells
@AFNeil
that leaving the ECHR would be a ‘disaster,' and a ‘complete red herring’
#AndrewNeilShow
3.15pm
The race is still Donald Trump’s to lose but the Democrats might as well take a chance on Harris rather than Biden
Back on
@SkyNews
outside the Capitol for
@J_L_Partners
What does Foreign Office Minister
@AndrewMitchMP
think of the government’s Rwanda asylum plan?
He tells
@AFNeil
that ‘cost is a serious issue’ and that the scheme would only be of ‘marginal benefit’ when it comes to tackling channel crossings.
@AFNeil
#AndrewNeilShow
Will the Government proceed with a Brexit deal without the DUP’s support?
Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab tells
@AFNeil
‘There’s no de facto veto’ for the DUP
#AndrewNeilShow
C4, 6pm
53% think UK should support Ukraine for as long as it takes
Only 15% think Chinese tech companies like TikTok should be allowed to operate in the UK
41% Lab voters back Illegal Migration Bill
@JLPartnersPolls
polling for
@TheBFPG
annual report in this morning’s
@politico
Subbing in the most unpopular VP in recent history just a few months before the election election was an extraordinary move - even more extraordinary it was in all likelihood the right decision
@J_L_Partners
Watch the Andrew Neil Show at 6pm this evening for George Osborne’s first response his own messages being made public in the Matt Hancock WhatsApp leaks
@AFNeil
#AndrewNeilShow
👇👇
Does
@George_Osborne
agree with
@AFNeil
that ‘It seems quite easy to get on [his] front page’ when he was editor of the Evening Standard?
Watch
@George_Osborne
’s first public response to *those* WhatsApp messages exclusively on the
#AndrewNeilShow
, C4 at 6pm
New
@JLPartnersPolls
local elections poll
We asked people what would determine their vote today: Local issues inc hospitals and road maintenance came out top.
Despite significant news coverage, the handling of sewage disposal and migrant accommodation ranked last
Bad news for the PM in new
@JLPartnersPolls
report: share of Conservative 2019 voters sticking with Sunak is now lower than with Truss + the party has shed 500,000 votes since Tory conference…
Exclusive
— Rishi Sunak is now polling **worse than Liz Truss** with the key voters who decided the last election
— Sunak has presided over a “year of decline” that’s caused an “implosion” in the Tory vote, according to a major study by
@JLPartnersPolls
The voters the Tories need back the National Service plan. But ‘time for a change’, the dominant mood in the country, matters a lot more to what happens on July 4th.
On
@SkyNews
for
@JLPartnersPolls
earlier this evening
"Apathy may well end up being the biggest winner in 2024, with both parties potentially struggling to persuade people to turn out to vote at all."
@Scarlett__Mag
on the findings of
@JLPartnersPolls
' latest focus group for Times Radio: 👇
Our
@JLPartnersPolls
@38degrees
research implied voters will be unlikely to change their mind after last night’s debate
Sunak seen as “smarmy” and “out of touch”, Starmer as “dull but honest” but once again a pervasive mood of frustration and anti-politics
@BBCNews
What do Americans think of Harris and Vance?
NEW
@J_L_Partners
wordclouds for Breaking Points
We asked a nationally representative sample of 1,000 people what they think about Kamala Harris and JD Vance 👇
As a student I inadvertently sat down for lunch next to Peter Hitchens’ wife. It came up that her husband was a journalist. When I asked what he wrote about she answered with just one word.
“Decline.”
"Declinism about Britain is just wrong — it's always been wrong in the past and it's wrong today"
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt attacks the "gloom" around the UK economy, saying that since Brexit, "we've grown at about the same rate as Germany"
Crispin Blunt becomes the first MP to break cover and call for Liz Truss to go now
Watch the
#AndrewNeilShow
in full tonight at 6.15pm on Channel 4
@afneil
‘The game is up’ for Liz Truss
Former Minister
@CrispinBlunt
becomes the first Tory MP to break cover since Kwasi Kwarteng was sacked, telling
@AFNeil
the PM has got to go
Watch a special edition of
#TheAndrewNeilShow
: Can Liz Truss survive?
Tonight,
@Channel4
, 6.15pm