Simon Nixon
@Simon_Nixon
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Journalist and author of the Wealth of Nations newsletter (https://t.co/6iMEgpXKb4). Previously chief leader writer @thetimes, chief Europe commentator @WSJ
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This was a remarkable parliamentary moment.
How can you debate with a man not remotely on top of his brief? ‘He didn't read the protocol, he hasn't read the bill, he doesn't know his stance.’
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Extraordinary stats. Britain rapidly becoming not just the sick man of Europe but the poor man too.
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Extraordinary stat via #WATO: in 2008, when oil prices peaked at $144/barrel, no one in Britain paid more than 120p per litre of petrol. Today, oil price is $113 but pump prices 186p litre. Difference is collapse in sterling from $2 to $1.20. Welcome to the Brexit.
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Arch Remainers parking their lorries on the M20 to make Brexit look bad.
Traffic on major routes in Kent has been brought to a standstill again due to delays in Channel crossings. A 23-mile stretch of the M20 was closed to store thousands of lorries heading for the Port of Dover or Eurotunnel
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Even 8 years later, it’s still extraordinary to think that Britain deliberately chose to shrink its domestic market from 450m people to 65m on the recommendation of a bunch of liars, charlatans and fools.
"The difference in the UK, on your own now, separate from Europe, it's a relatively small market.". David Ricks, CEO of pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, tells #R4Today 'something needs to be quite different' to make the UK interesting in the global markets after leaving the EU.
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Oops. The dead cat appears to have shat on the Downing Street mat.
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Extraordinary intervention: US officials express their "dismay and frustration" at the continued refusal of a Conservative government awash with Russian cash to shut down the London laudromat, undermining the effectiveness of sanctions.
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What a disaster Brexit is turning out to be. Even the fishing industry in whose name Johnson is holding the country to ransom are terrified of no deal. Great piece via @FT
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There’s something deeply unattractive about all these powerful people queuing up say how Priti Patel has never bullied them. It’s really another form of bullying of all those much less powerful people who clearly were abused by Ms Patel.
I have known @pritipatel for many years as a friend and colleague. Yes, she’s strong and forthright in her views which is one of her great assets. I have never seen her bully anyone. She is also empathetic and incredibly kind.
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Grant Shapps on #BBCR4today eloquently explaining what Brexit control means in practice: it enables you to screw British workers by barring them from opportunities to work abroad while exposing them to greater foreign competition. More fool you who thought anything different.
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This is the real scandal: it’s not just that Johnson blocked the report for nine months but that the Tories blocked any investigation of Russian interference for four years.
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The full-scale of the Brexit horror show is starting to become clear. The economically rational response would be to try to reverse some of the damage. Instead the government seems set on making it worse. My latest.
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Extraordinary: Boris Johnson scrapped the cabinet pandemic team six months before coronavirus hit UK to focus on Brexit.
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Truss blames the Treasury for failing to anticipate and manage her budget disaster. That will be the same Treasury whose permanent secretary she fired, whose advice she ignored and who she accuses of peddling a failed orthodoxy 🤦.
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At last, an explicit admission that the Johnson government negotiated the WA in bad faith, never had any intention of keeping its word, and lied to the British public in the 2019 election. Quite a moment.
We took over a party on ~10%, worst constitutional crisis in century, much of deep state angling for BINO or 2REF. So we wriggled thro with best option we cd & intended to get the 🛒 to ditch bits we didn't like after whacking Corbyn. We prioritised. Now time for IM2 #Frosty.
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Boris Johnson has emloyed a lawyer to find a loophole in is own lockdown law that he can wriggle through. Defence now: yes there were parties and it was my job to go to them. 🤥
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Extraordinary nugget here: the Johnson government has been editing its old videos to remove embarrassing evidence of his early misjudgements.
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It appears the Johnson government is so terrified of any narrative that Britain might benefit from European cooperation that it is prepared to take risks with public health to make an ideological point.
No10 confirms that UK is not taking part in EU initiative to bulk buy ventilators and other equipment needed to tackle coronavirus. Asked why, Boris Johnson’s spokesman says: “We are not a member of the EU.”.
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So it seems Johnson launched his appeal for British-built ventilators three days before an EU ventilator buying scheme closed and two days after Brussels publicly said Britain was free to join. Hard to square with No. 10 claims of “communication problems”
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It’s increasingly hard to avoid the conclusion that Britain’s failure to scale up testing is a result of the government’s deliberate mass infection strategy that it was pursuing until three days ago.
Excellent piece by @WiredUK on the mystery of Britain’s lack of coronavirus testing. There are British firms supplying tests to the rest of Europe that have not even been contacted by the NHS, plus dozens of labs.
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As some of us have been warning for months, Britain now at risk of a sterling crisis. No evidence at all that Truss and Kwarteng understand the gravity of the situation. Shades of Black Wednesday.
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One of the bleakest days in modern British history. A reckless and naive PM gambled the country's prosperity and security on a half-baked claim that he could renegotiate the terms of EU membership without having the faintest idea what he wanted, or could, change. .
It's 10 years to the day since David Cameron promised an in/out referendum on the UK's EU membership "to settle this European question in British politics". And here we are.
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At this point, even to give oxygen to this notorious liar and the only PM ever to have to resign in disgrace is to collude in his contempt for the public. Shame on any media outlet that gives him and his wretched book exposure.
EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson tells ITV News he regrets apologising for Partygate
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The most jaw-dropping revelation in David Cameron’s memoirs is an implicit admission that he didn’t understand how the EU works. Nor did May and nor does Johnson. Something has gone deeply awry with the British state. My latest.
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Britain facing vegetable 'shortages' due to 'lack of seasonal workers' > what a disaster Brexit is turning out to be via
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Not only did those who pushed for Brexit patently not have a plan, it is also clear they had no idea how the EU works, how the global trading system works or even how the British economy works. No amount of bluster and blame-shifting can hide their cluelessness.
Hey Mr Tusk. Those who pushed for Brexit did have a plan but it required your lot not to bully the UK, for Remoaners & the Establishment not to sabotage the wish of the majority & for Jezza’s mob not to play tribal party politics with a major National issue.
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The penny now dropping. This was not a “mistake” but a deliberate Brexiteer snub of Emmanuel Macron - and the accompanying lobby circus was complicit. It took social media to draw attention to the gross insult.
Nicholaw Watt, "This by Rishi Sunak was planned. It was planned that he wouldn't be there. It was planned that David Cameron would take his place. You can just randomly walk up and stand next to the President of the United States Joe Biden. This was absolutely planned". Really
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Johnson thought Brexit was a debating competition. He is beyond contempt.
On #Brexit. ITV: You told us that we should do this and you hadn't devoted any serious thought to what came next. BJ: I wanted to win an argument. What we expected was that the Cameron gov't would deliver it. ~AA
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UK food and drink exports to EU fall by almost half -"the loss of £2 billion of exports is a disaster for our industry. Brexit going about as badly as expected. via @financialtimes.
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Your daily reminder that parliament passed the second reading of his deal with a comfortable majority of 30. Why launch his campaign with such an obvious falsehood?.
Boris Johnson has officially launched the Conservative election campaign saying he had to call the General Election because MPs "refused to budge on Brexit".
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UK government shelves plan to publicise no deal preparations in case it turns public against Brexit (via @ShippersUnbound)
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Huge test now for Boris Johnson who appears to have said nothing on this so far. Does he stand up for British officials and British institutions or capitulate to this grotesque bullying?.
The wacky Ambassador that the U.K. foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy. He should speak to his country, and Prime Minister May, about their failed Brexit negotiation, and not be upset with my criticism of how badly it was. .
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Astonishing stuff. Worth reading the speech in full to appreciate the depth of ignorance and delusion.
I found video of that Penny Mordaunt US-tour speech and it sounds worse than it even reads. To be clear, Mordaunt is framing Brexit as a war and telling America it has a responsibility to be on our side and against the EU, "because peace and prosperity don't happen by accident".
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This is the important line in Steve Baker’s attack on Cummings. The Brexiteers feel duped because they didn’t bother to read the Brexit deal and convinced themselves you could sign an international treaty one day and renege on it the next. Dishonourable and stupid.
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“A Home Office source said: Sir Philip and [Priti Patel] have a fundamental disagreement about the rule of law. He’s committed and she isn’t.” Extraordinary story.
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@stefanstern Thanks. One thing I learned during 10 years spent roaming around Europe reporting on a decade of crises for the WSJ is that Britain has the most insular, parochial and ill-informed political class of any member state. That's the true British exceptionalism. Deeply troubling.
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Who knew Brexit meant relaxing road safety rules for HGV drivers? #takingbackcontrol.
We’re aware of a shortage of HGV drivers, so I'm announcing a temp extension of drivers' hours rules from Mon 12 July, giving flexibility to drivers & operators to make slightly longer journeys. We've ramped up the number of driving tests available & will consider other measures.
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A depressing enough statistic, but behind every SME that has stopped exporting to Europe lies some entrepreneur or business owner whose hopes have been pointlessly crushed.
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Bizarre for Downing Street to complain it wasn't warned about market chaos. Rishi Sunak literally spent six weeks spelling out the consequences of unfunded tax cuts, not to mention numerous @thetimes leader columns 🤷
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Another remarkable stat from BoE: Core goods price inflation rose to 8.0% in UK in April, compared to 3.8% in euro area and 6.4% in US. What on earth could have happened to the UK to drive inflation to such uniquely ruinous levels? BoE too timid to say the word.
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At least £300 billion wiped off value of UK assets in Truss and Kwarteng's first month as government chaos leaves Britain "uninvestable" say investors.
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Delusional rewriting of history by Liz Truss. She literally side-lined the OBR, decapitated the Treasury and cut the BOE out of the loop so that she could enact her daft mini-budget. The backlash came from the global financial markets, the ultimate check on reckless politicians…
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At this point an apology would be in order to those who did know the first thing about how the single market worked but were accused of peddling Project Fear. And of course an apology to all those persuaded to vote leave on false pretences who will now pay the price.
Chair of Vote Leave, Gisela Stuart, on @SkyNews: "No Deal is not a preferred option for either side, but the solution is now a political one. We probably need to accept that their commitment to how they define the Single Market is even more fundamental than we had appreciated.".
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Remarkable achievement. Macron the first president to win reelection while in control of the government since de Gaulle in 1965. Emphatic rejection of Brexitism/right wing populism. Good news for France and Europe.
🇫🇷 Election #presidentielle2022 : 2nd tour. Estimation des résultats à 20H. E. Macron 58%.M. Le Pen 42%. @IfopOpinion @Fiducial pour @TF1 @LCI
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Interesting acknowledgement by an unnamed minister that for all the government's endless bullshitting about the benefits of Brexit, the public is finding it increasingly humiliating.
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Cummings appears to have landed Johnson in the most gigantic hole and it is not at all clear how he is going to get him out of it.
BREAKING: Tory rebel alliance has emerged from its showdown with PM saying he gave “an unconvincing explanation” of how a deal with the EU could pass before Oct 31st and didn’t give “a reasonable answer” to why the govt still hasn’t come up with an alternative to the backstop.
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So Matt Hancock publicly acknowledged that Britain had been invited to participate in the EU ventilator scheme. That means that Downing Street’s “dog ate my email”/“communications problem” explanations yesterday were patently untrue. Extraordinary.
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Blimey indeed. Extraordinary intervention. A senior US Fed official effectively calling on Truss and Kwarteng to abandon their budget plan to avoid sparking a global crisis. Shades of Suez.
BLIMEY:. US Federal Reserve’s Rafael Bostic in interview with @washpost. UK crisis “not helping” avoid global recession, reaction to plan is “a real concern” for European and US growth. Fed “watching closely” but Kwarteng tax cuts “are just proposals”.
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Blimey. Brexit impact on the City worse than anyone thought. Almost £1 trillion of assets already transferred and far more to shift in years ahead according to authoritative new report by @NewFinancialLLP
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The dilemma for the EU is that even if it was minded to fundamentally renegotiate the withdrawal agreement (which seems unlikely), why would it do so with a government led by Boris Johnson, a PM who has shown his word is not to be trusted?.
Lord Frost concedes the UK's proposals would require 'significant changes to the Protocol text' itself. He adds: 'We hope the EU will see that the prize of a settlement which is durable and which allows us to move on is worth the process. We must keep our eyes on the prize.'.
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Ridiculous. The start of the implosion of the London stock market can be traced with absolute precision to the day after the Brexit referendum. Deliberately misleading to suggest otherwise.
The Telegraph backs Brexit which cuts the City off from Europe. And then and inevitably when the London markets shrivel away it doesn't blame the Brexiteers it blames the Labour party
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Why on earth would Trump not include Britain when UK is only country in the world whose stated policy is to infect 60 per cent of the population in 3-4 months?.
Trump says he might now have to include the UK in the travel ban after the increase in cases in past 24 hours.
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What a shameful moment for Britain.
This is truly disgraceful. Despicable. Any thought of inviting this man to an 🇪🇺 summit should be shelved.
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The Times famously sacked one of its journalists for making stuff up. He went on to have a long and lucrative career at The Daily Telegraph.
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Right-wing snowflakes who devoted their careers to advocating unbridled free markets for everyone else now back economic nationalism for their own industry. Who knew that “mainstream centre-right thought” (haha) was such a fragile flower that it requires government protection?.
‘The idea that these two vital vehicles of mainstream centre-right thought shld be owned by Arab money & controlled out of New York by a left wing Democrat beggars belief’. Chair of The Spectator @afneil explains why a UAE/US bid for his mag & Daily Tel, headed by ex CNN’s Jeff
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Is this the same No 10 source that said they'd never ask for an extension?.
No 10 source says, 'if Parliament votes again for delay by voting down the programme motion, and the EU offers delay until 31 Jan -- then we will pull the Bill, there will be no further business for Parliament and we'll move to an election before Christmas'.
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Theresa May says her deal means an end to freedom of movement, CFP, CAP, big payments to EU budget etc. Of course it guarantees none of these things. It allows for a “spectrum of outcomes”. Straightforwardly and characteristically dishonest.
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Britain's financial crisis is the result of a six-year, Brexit-driven flight from reality in which any institution that provides unwelcome advice is dismissed as part of a giant left-wing, woke Remoaner plot, a conspiracy that now…
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A shameful day. What serious country walks away from an international forum that projects its global power? A moment of national humiliation that leaves Britain weaker.
Thank you all 🇪🇺 Ministers for your kind words at our final Council meeting. We’re leaving the EU, but we’re not leaving Europe: with our European friends we will continue to champion free trade, tackle injustices, and defend shared values. We look forward to the next chapter.
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Could the rebellion be even bigger tomorrow? I bet some decent centre right MPs already regret not being on this list alongside these brave and principled heroes many of whom I suspect will continue to play a leading role in our politics for many years to come.
The 21 rebels. All prepared to lose the whip and their jobs to block No Deal.
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Desperate stuff. I'm old enough to remember when the driver crisis was supposed to be a benefit of Brexit which would boost wages. That was four days ago.
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A double whammy for Liz Truss in @thetimes today from Matthew Parris and the leader column following her atrocious speech speech at Chatham House. As Matthew says, do read it to see for yourself to appreciate the depth of abasement of British foreign policy.
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The problems with the Brexit divorce deal were “unforeseen” says the prime minister who refused to allow MPs more than three days to scrutinise it.
Tomorrow’s Telegraph front page: “Brexit deal never made sense, PM to tell EU”. #TomorrowsPapersToday. Read more:
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Brexit disaster latest. What happens when you deliberately shrink your domestic overnight from 450m people to just 60m and surround yourself with new trade barriers.
Car production is crashing in the UK, and now Jaguar Land Rover is in talks with battery makers about making electric vehicles elsewhere
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Amid the political chaos, so important not to lose sight of this. Johnson's imminent departure must pave the way for a full investigation of Russian influence in British politics.
As a matter of priority, we need to know the full details of Johnson’s relationship with the Lebedevs and especially what transpired at the meeting with Aleksandr Lebedev in Italy in 2018. This is an issue of real national security importance and a thread that must now be pulled.
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What a disaster Brexit is turning out to be in so many unexpected ways, on top of all the expected ones. .
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This is toe-curlingly embarrassing. What must the rest of the world think that the leader of a permanent member of the UN security council and supposed global power should demean the organisation with such drivel? Shame on the British officials who cravenly giggled along.
Boris Johnson draws on Greek myths and hangover cures in rambling speech to UN General Assembly
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Good thread. A reminder that before Boris Johnson reinvented himself as the hammer of the West against Putin he spent 18 months trying to bury parliament's Russia report and has subsequently failed to implement any of its recommendations.
Thinking about where we are with Sue Gray’s report, it’s worth remembering how Boris Johnson ruthlessly attempted to suppress and delay the Russia Report in 2019-20 out of personal political convenience and ahead of the national interest. A thread. 1/6 🧵.
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Priti Patel’s plans to deport asylum seekers “break international law”, are “unworkable”, “undermine the UN refugee convention”, “damage Britain’s credibility” and have failed to gain cooperation of a single EU country.
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So much extraordinary stuff in this piece but this stood out for me. What kind of PM allows a junior spad to tell a cabinet minister to do something as momentous as announce a breach of international law without thinking through the consequences?
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First the government lied about the Yellowhammer no deal papers leaked last month, then they tried to water them down, now they have decided they are still too alarming to be officially published. Outrageous.
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What this story reveals is that some at that top of the government have realised that Brexit is an economic disaster but have no idea what to do about it. A Swiss deal is no more attainable now than it was in 2016.
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Sadiq Khan’s decision to push ahead with ULEZ has been utterly vindicated. Meanwhile those Tories and their media cheerleaders who seized on a single by-election result to dump climate commitments have been made to look ridiculous, as well as cynical, reckless and irresponsible.
Swings to Sadiq Khan fr Tories in London mayoral race so far 👇🏼. Greenwich & Lewisham 4.5%.Merton & Wandsworth 5.1%.North East 6.9% .West Central 5%.South West 2.75%. He wins majority in all. Last time Cons took West Central & South West….
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Matthew Parris vg here on what should surely by now be blindingly obvious: only a second referendum can bring an end to the Brexit debacle .
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Brexit Britain looking more and more like 1970s Britain: higher taxes, bigger state, higher inflation, less choice, more bureaucracy, rampant cronyism. But hey, at least we've got our freedom back.
The Food & Drink Federation's Ian Wright says he's been led to believe the government might announce a further delay to EU import checks as soon as this afternoon. Here's @politicshome's exc from earlier this week on gov discussing another postponement
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Hard to know which was more insulting to the Greek PM: Sunak cancelling the meeting in the first place or offering a meeting with deputy PM Oliver Dowden instead. What a way to treat a close ally at a time when Britain needs all the friends it can get.
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@GavinBarwell Just as well a previous generation didn’t take that approach to democratic scrutiny in a crisis or Britain would have been stuck with Chamberlain for the duration of WW2. Strong leadership requires challenge not groupthink.
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This is the heart of the Brexiter paradox so brilliantly nailed by @fotoole - Britain is a great global power that has no need of the EU but also an oppressed slave that needs to break free of its chains.
"There is a pattern consistent throughout history of oppressed people turning on their oppressors, slaves against their owners, the peasantry against the feudal barons, colonies Mr Verhoftstadt against their empires and that is why Britain is leaving," said Widdecombe to jeers.
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Except he didn’t leave Kabul. He went to the airport to hand out visas.
The French ambassador to Afghanistan has filmed himself leaving Kabul and tweeted it. Social media diplomacy. Surreal.
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"European truck drivers are not going to come and help you get out of the shit you created for yourselves" says Dutch truck drivers union boss. Another priceless Dutch welcome to the Brexit moment. #r4today.
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Great forensic examination of Dominic Raab’s leadership credentials here by @mrjamesob - Britain’s political meltdown may have so much further to run.
James O'Brien takes a look at Tory leadership hopeful Dominic Raab's interviews and pulls them apart one-by-one. @mrjamesob
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If Boris Johnson was telling a DUP MP that he was planning to tear up the WA, you can be sure he said the same to his own ERG colleagues. Yet they all went into the election claiming to have a great oven ready deal. The stain of dishonour runs wide and deep. .
"The Prime Minister went to the country in the 2019 General Election with an "oven-ready deal", as he called it, which he believed needed to be torn apart". If this is true, what it reveals is not just a contempt for Britain's word abroad. It's a contempt for democracy at home.
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Now Yellen wades in. Clearly huge global anxiety that Truss and Kwarteng's budget is a risk to global financial stability.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Treasury secretary Janet Yellen said the US is "monitoring developments very closely” in the UK @JamesPoliti.
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Stand-off in Downing Street as official inquiry refuses to exonerate Priti Patel over bullying allegations.
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Increasingly clear that the UK’s inexperienced and ideologically driven negotiators had rings run round them by the EU. Too late to renegotiate now. Any future changes will inevitably carry a high price.
Only ten days into Brexit and the demands to renegotiate the deal are in full flow. Unfortunately for British business, this isn’t going to happen unless UK gov wants a fundamentally different relationship.
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This is pretty extraordinary. The Rwanda policy to deport refugees is apparently "toxic" to Tory voters in the party's blue wall heartlands yet not one of the five candidates for the party leadership is prepared to speak out against it.
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Johnson should be grateful to Cummings for deflecting attention from this deeply reported and utterly devastating account of his dithering and incompetence in the weeks before lockdown.
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What on earth is Sberbank still doing trading on the London Stock Exchange? Bizarre that the British government has not sanctioned Russia's largest bank, as the US has done, or indeed sanctioned a single oligarch with significant assets in London.
⚡️London-traded shares of Russia's largest state-owned bank Sberbank dropped by 68%. The decline was the result of severe economic sanctions imposed against the aggressor state, including the anticipated cutting off selected Russian banks from the payment order system SWIFT.
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Extraordinary to think Theresa May was still spouting this nonsense as late as January 2018. The breadth and depth of Tory ignorance about how the EU and global trading system work lies at the heart of the Brexit debacle.
Sir Ivan Rogers to European Scrutiny Committee: "Ministers told me repeatedly, 'Don't worry Ivan, you don't understand, we're going to have a trade deal in place on the day after exit'. I said, 'with the greatest respect, we're not'. I think I've been proven right".
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Ridiculous argument. The Tories have delivered one gigantic supply side reform. It was called Brexit and it has been an unmitigated disaster, which is a large part of the reason why taxes and spending have had to go up. Pure gaslighting to suggest otherwise.
I think you must have been AWOL for the past decade or so if you think that’s what Tory policy has been. The tax burden is now the highest for 70 years. State spending as a share of GDP is the highest since the 1970s, when your approach to the economy took us to the brink of.
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Brexiteers always insisted Brexit was a process, not an event. They were right. The danger is that it is a process that is only going one way. My latest.
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Extraordinary. Theresa May is not being humiliated by the EU, she is humiliating Britain by turning up to international summits at a moment of crisis proposing half-baked solutions that she’s can even explain herself.
I also hear @theresa_may pushed for a 2021 deadline target for the backstop but one EU leaders pushed back and said how can this possibly be made legally binding. She had no answer. Result: they quickly decided among EU27 not to even consider offering further assurances. #Brexit.
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Frost seems to forget that the timetable to set out new state aid rules was set by Boris Johnson who refused to extend the transition period. Astonishing that with weeks to go Johnson hasn’t even published a white paper on such a vital plank of domestic economic policy.
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Johnson's Brexit deal will be almost as bad as no deal for many businesses. No wonder the prime minister refuses to be honest with voters about the trade-offs. My latest.
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Good letter to @thetimes. It’s clear that Britain has all the facilities necessary for the government to have massively ramped up testing weeks ago. Baffling why it hasn’t happened.
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With the caveat that I never believed any good deal was ever possible, this is excellent by Jonathan Powell on how Britain was humiliatingly out-negotiated over Brexit with consequences that the country has barely begun to grasp,
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No wonder Johnson did everything possible to delay/undermine the report. Tories awash in Russian cash. Not just donors but City enablers of oligarchic capitalism.
My initial take on Russia report: This is a strong report. The ISC recognizes the whole Russian enabler problem in London-lawyers, accountants and consultants getting rich off dirty Russians and refers to link between Russian state and organized crime
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This is so good by @DavidLammy on why it is the far right that need to integrate and learn what it means to be English. The foreign secretary showing once again that he is one of the most thoughtful and insightful politicians in the country. No wonder he drives right-wingers
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