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My new book, Fair or Foul - the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition, coming July 2024. Pre-order! I write for FT/Guardian/Prospect; Visiting Prof @BayesBSchool
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The first copies of my new book have arrived, so I get to do the box-opening clip. What could possibly go wrong..?
@unbounders
#ambition
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He rarely pulls his punches, but I have never seen Martin Wolf be so blunt. Truss and Kwarteng are "mad, bad and dangerous" and "have to go". (This is in the
@FT
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I take full responsibility. In the circumstances the only honourable course of action is to resign.
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This is shattering for Johnson. He wanted the top job for so long. And he knows - he knows - that this task is utterly beyond him and unsuited to him. Live on national television.
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We will be led by the science except when we're worried what the scientists might say.
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If you give him 2.54cm he'll take 1.609km.
EXCLUSIVE:
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
instructs his new office to use imperial measurements and refer to “non-tiled males” as Esq in list of rules to staff.
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"The standards of leaders in this country in the last couple of years has been poor. And looking at that man there [Southgate] that's everything a leader should be: respectful, humble. Tells the truth."
Well said
@GNev2
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You can study the plans for the £100bn Covid testing moonshot - they're kept in the viewing gallery on the garden bridge, which you can get to on a shuttle from the new Thames estuary airport.
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"I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Manchester..."
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She is so finished. And possibly the only person on the planet who doesn't realise it.
#pmqs
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This is what a persistent 20 point poll deficit will do to a glib young man who doesn't understand politics and isn't used to losing.
This is what we’re up against.
The Labour Party, a subset of lawyers, criminal gangs - they're all on the same side, propping up a system of exploitation that profits from getting people to the UK illegally.
I have a plan to stop it.
Here’s how 🧵
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Former controller of editorial policy at the BBC:
If this story as reported is true then Robbie Gibb should resign. It is a cardinal rule that when you join the BBC,whether as a junior reporter or a board member, you leave your politics at the door.// BBC director sought to block senior editorial
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My 94 year old dad says it's a shame to see the world repeating the errors he witnessed and lived through eight decades ago
#remembranceday
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Managed no meal.
Times EXC
Whitehall planners will tell Britons to “vary your diet” in event of disruption at the border
- Cumbria amongst the locations of big hangars needed for food storage
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Startling quote from Lord (Jim) O'Neill (ex Goldman Sachs chief economist) in the Sunday Times today: "I find myself struggling to be that scared by the prospect of a Corbyn government. They have captured the mood of the times."
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It was a little gem.
Liz Truss tells a conference in Dublin the live stream that saw her outlasted by a lettuce was “puerile”
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On being a minister, by
@RoryStewartUK
: "As soon as I developed an understanding of my brief, I was reshuffled. And I was promoted because of loyalty, not performance. No civil service can compensate for such ineptitude." (Intro is quite something too.)
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Sad moment, but what a classy sign-off after decades of brilliant service. Bravo
@MarkUrban01
! Intrigued to see what's coming next.
#newsnight
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T Ellwood bravely struggled to try and save PC Palmer's life during a terror attack. That's Keith Palmer's memorial in the picture.
Absolute shame on this man.
Of all the images to emerge over these few testing days I find this one of most abhorrent.
Please help identify him.
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Wait for the punchline.
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Cummings is that guy at chucking out time promising to take everybody on. And the EU's response will be: "Leave it, he's not worth it."
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If only people didn't get ill the NHS would work fine.
Health secretary blames flu and COVID for NHS crisis as pressure mounts on government to act
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Together Blair and Major have almost 17 years of experience of being PM. Their views on Europe shouldn't be dismissed with a glib put-down.
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EXCLUSIVE - full version of government's legal advice revealed.
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@Sathnam
Once put a large dollop of strawberry jam onto my plate of scrambled eggs at The Wolseley, thinking it was ketchup. But you win.
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On the news just now they said Uber is worried about people "losing their jobs". But the company keeps insisting it is not an employer.
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Has this been leaked deliberately?
Boris Johnson told James Dyson he would “fix” tax issue for employees
The PM and the inventor exchanged texts in the pandemic about Dyson making ventilators
The government says it did everything it could to access medical equipment
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@Simon_Nixon
Really good piece. An old Brussels hand told me this morning that the UK govt still seems to think all the Irish problems can be settled by nice reasonable people promising to be reasonable with no need for fussy old laws. Amazing Anglo-centric ignorance of what the EU is.
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@heawood
Yes my old burgundy passport still says European Union at the top and at Vienna airport I went through from the EU queue. "Ehemalig!" I said in my best German accent with a regretful smile ("Former!"). Of course the nice lady let me through.
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Johnson didn't tell officials about his meeting with Alexander Lebedev and can't remember what was discussed. Lucid analysis from
@davidallengreen
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Brexit intellectual heavyweight IDS says he looks forward to Britain "dominating the world again".
You call that statesmanship? It is an emotional spasm.
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I wonder if Lukasz would have been allowed to come and work in the UK under an "Australian points based system".
The Chief Executive of Fishmonger's Hall pays tribute to the bravery his staff showed during the London Bridge attack.
#BBCBreakfast
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New year's thought: surprising how much one person (
@andrew_adonis
) has got people rattled. Perhaps Brexit's even flakier than it looks. HNY
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Truss is in shock, no doubt. Probably finding it hard to think straight. She will need friends and family to give her good if upsetting advice.
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"He had all the virtues of a Scottish Presbyterian, but none of the vices." - Ming Campbell on John Smith, who died 27 years ago on this day, aged 55.
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Oh no the person we knew wasn't remotely suited to the job isn't remotely suited to the job how could this have happened
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Quite a few people telling Adrian Chiles on this prog that they don't know what the hell Brexit is and genuinely hadn't thought through what leaving might mean. Several regret voting leave, especially the mother of a Jaguar Land Rover worker.
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On
@bbcpm
their reporter
@nickeardleybbc
says there was no punch in Leeds and no scuffle but perhaps an accidental collision.
So it looks like reports of a punch and an arrest may have been somewhat over-spun, for some reason.
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"My comments have caused confusion" is the new favoured euphemism for "I got it totally and utterly wrong."
Brexit minister apologises for incorrectly saying Supreme Court had ruled Article 50 was irreversible:
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Lying as strategy.
Lying as strategy.
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@RobBurl
Given that we don't know how this story will end, wouldn't it be wiser to tone down the sarcasm a bit?
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Robert Jenrick assures the
@BBCAnyQuestions
audience that Matt Hancock is "on the job", a detail the audience appears to find amusing.
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Possible I may start saying "approved" at home instead of "yes".
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Apparently this person is on a ministerial salary at the department of health.
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Met Commissioner is not the home secretary's no.1 fan.
Emily Maitlis - What is a hate march?
Mark Rowley(Met Commissioner) - "You'd have to ask Suella Braverman that... she's picked two words out the English language & strung them together... I don't know whether she means everybody there or some of the people there.. "
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Marvellous work by David Allen Green
@law_and_policy
. A timely debunking of some dreadful "fake news". Without high calibre truth-tellers we are lost.
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More embarrassing stuff from Sunak here. Why can't he (or the home secretary) thank and congratulate
@metpoliceuk
for a pretty remarkable job well done today, under extraordinary pressure? A job made much harder by the home secretary herself.
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If you'd spent all those years arguing for Brexit it would be embarrassing to admit that in reality your deal is a bit shit.
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@jdportes
Well my dad did his best: after German, Czech, then French he finally learned English and became fluent in it, but I fear it will never be his first language.
He is far less ignorant and offensive than Boris Johnson, however.
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I've just signed
@DailyMirror
's 38 Degrees petition calling on
@bbc
to re-instate
@GaryLineker
to
#motd
#BringBackGary
#ImWithGary
- please sign and RT via
@38degrees
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Can anyone name anything in Britain that is functioning well at the moment?
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@IanDunt
Exactly. A grown-up business figure once told me: "the lowest standard of behaviour you are prepared to tolerate is the highest you can expect".
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"That may involve tougher measures in the weeks ahead".
Pathetic.
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Investment banker meets real person. It does not go well.
"It's a pity you don't pay [NHS staff] more... you need to try harder"
On a visit to Croydon University Hospital, patient Catherine Poole, 77, tells Prime Minister Rishi Sunak "you need to look after [the NHS]"
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@RobBurl
I suspect you have colleagues who are very interested in how the story ends and are working on that right now. Charles Wheeler used to say that "balance" was a poor lodestar. Evidence is what journalists should be pursuing.
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Johnson is now on the record at the despatch box denying the bodies comments. There are three non-Cummings witnesses to it.
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There was a reason Britain's policy was an outlier. It was wrong.
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This explains a lot. The more you lie the easier it gets. Becomes second nature. You don't even realise you're doing it.
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@Sathnam
For a lot of people (my family included) the answer to "why did they come here?" is "to avoid getting killed".
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Pretty clear that Gove went on TV this morning with the primary aim of defending Boris Johnson. The well-being of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is merely a secondary and much less important concern.
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Sack the board.
Gary Lineker is worth 100x Richard Sharps to this country. I won't be watching MoTD until he's back.
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@Sathnam
He was just asked how he felt and he said effectively that it's more important how the team feels. Very rare low ego kind of boss.
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Cummings is not merely unsackable but also above criticism as far as Johnson is concerned. The British government ladies and gentlemen.
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@drjennings
"This is such a dangerous moment that we must keep in place a PM whose word cannot be trusted..."
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A bemused Whitehall source: "Why can't the Tories see that Boris has gone from Heineken to Marmite to shit sandwich?"
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Is it possible that the best (perhaps only) reason for going back into the office is to have access to a working printer? Asking for humanity.
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I'm not giving up on facts and the truth and neither should you. Me for
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All those people sagely declaring "It's over" were not reckoning with Johnson's monstrous and out-of-control ego.
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"Minister for Brexit Opportunities"?
"We have sailed many months, we have sailed many weeks,
(Four weeks to the month you may mark),
But never as yet ('tis your Captain who speaks)
Have we caught the least glimpse of a Snark!"
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Some journalists' over-excitement about Boris Johnson is very much part of the problem that we all face.
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@IanDunt
I had such a good day yesterday in Munich talking to clever continentals who are getting on with their lives, doing useful things, and I've come back to the situation you describe accurately in your TL;dr summary.
When you let the kids take over at the play-group = UK today.
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Acute point by
@paulwaugh
here: "It was the careful way [Starmer] urged Johnson to change his mind that helped liberal Tories to coalesce." The leader of the opposition is most effective when the members sitting opposite realise what's being said is true.
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Sunderland is so Brexity that a lot of Ukippers are going blue. Doesn't mean exit poll nationally is miles out.
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I don't want to say Andrea Leadsom is stupid + insensitive, because that would be horrible. But I am intelligent and that gives me an edge.
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Danish ambassador to UK
@ifgevents
says if the UK withdrew its article 50 notification before a deal is done we remain a member
#ifgbrexit
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It's so tiring watching the harm being done to the country by self-serving, dishonest and incompetent people. Trashy people.
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The Rwanda nonsense is like Brexit in miniature: endless agonising and tortuous tweaking to try to salvage something that is a bad idea and cannot work.
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Not sharing that Home Office video. But Jesus fucking Christ. One day, quite soon, Sunak is going to be deeply ashamed of himself. I hope other Conservatives will feel some shame too.
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Just been sold one of these on the North Shields fish quay. It was offered up as "Tory Fanta".
#ToryFanta
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Possibly worth remembering that in 1992 most observers seemed to think John Major was cutting a sad and defeated figure and that the polls said he was heading for defeat.
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Over 20 years since the GFA, now 12 year olds are on the streets throwing rocks. Is it too much to ask the UK government to get a grip? By
@campbellclaret
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News to me: "I wrote a 20-point crisis guide + a 10-point crisis comms guide + shared it as requested with some in government, incl ministers, while being advised they didn’t want Johnson + Cummings to know." -
@campbellclaret
(NB advice was not followed)
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"You spend a lifetime cringing at Prince Philip insulting people, and the one time you want him to, he’s retired." Get a dose of this essential
@MarinaHyde
post-Trump detox treatment.
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Are many people saying that Kwasi Kwarteng is a spineless careerist? I'm not saying it - but I wonder perhaps if many people are.
“The more the courts get involved in politics that is of detriment not only to politics but also the courts”
Business Minister Kwasi Kwarteng says judges involved with decisions on
#Brexit
are not biased, but says they are “interfering”
#AndrewNeilShow
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David Cameron called Dominic Cummings a "career psychopath". Cummings now apparently co-chairs the 8.15 morning meeting at No.10. You may or may not find this encouraging.
#coronavirus
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No consultation, no broadly-based discussion, no cabinet meetings or sub-committees, just a barely dry press release, a couple of soundbites and a press conference.
What could possibly go wrong?
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Not really post- or neo- but pre-Blairite: Keir Starmer reminds me of another Labour leader - my latest
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