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Jul 29, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read Read on X
why oh why won’t sterling believe in Britain

ft.com/content/c240cc… via @financialtimes
frankly it’s very disappointing
if only @GeneralBoles could photoshop this on to a £50 note or something
here’s tonight’s @ft front page
This. Is. A. Disgrace.

ft.com/content/75139d…

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More from @PickardJE

Jan 3
- Morgan McSweeney, Labour's head of campaigns, gave an anti-complacency presentation to the shadow cabinet before Christmas

- his slideshow (which I've got hold of) features recent elections which defied almost all predictions when voters actually went to the ballot box
- the presentation is a useful tonic for the surprisingly widespread view that Labour is cruising for an easy landslide victory

I've written an @ft column on it today here:

ft.com/content/6d51dc…
At one point in 2019, the SPD was only the fourth most popular party in the German polls, on a meagre 13 points

Yet Olaf Scholz’s party somehow emerged victorious in September 2021, confounding forecasters Image
Read 12 tweets
Aug 25, 2023
remember when Boris Johnson’s distant cousin was offering to guarantee an £800,000 loan for him?

and a few weeks later he popped up on an FCDO list of four suggested candidates to be chief executive of the British Council?

and no one could explain how that happened?
we only knew any of this thanks to dogged reporting by @HarryYorke1 and @Gabriel_Pogrund at the Sunday Times
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@HarryYorke1 @Gabriel_Pogrund I put some FOIs into the Foreign Office in January which they’ve finally answered after seven months of prevarication and stonewalling

(albeit heavily

and it turns out Nigel Adams, one of Boris Johnson’s closest ministerial allies, was involved in the recruitment process
Read 7 tweets
Mar 22, 2023
Rishi Sunak paid an effective tax rate of 22% on his almost £2m of income, the same rate (21%) as the average nurse

Tax Justice UK says: “our tax system is set up to allow the super-wealthy people to pay low levels of tax"
as the @ft explains

ft.com/content/ae6746…
should have namechecked @robertnpalmer and @TaxJusticeUK
Read 4 tweets
Mar 14, 2023
the UK government is planning to eliminate import tariffs on palm oil from Malaysia, a product blamed for widespread deforestation, as the price of joining an Asia-Pacific trade deal, prompting outrage from green campaigners

ft.com/content/eb8b75…
Clare Oxborrow, senior sustainability analyst at Friends of the Earth, said the plans could lead to more devastating loss of forest ecosystems.

“This concession is completely at odds with the government’s commitment to curb deforestation from UK supply chains”
Compared with EU, which retains palm oil tariffs and is planning tough new rules against imports linked to deforestation, the UK has a relatively light regulatory approach, with a law that only addresses deforestation defined as illegal under local laws in producing countries
Read 4 tweets
Mar 13, 2023
🚨 London and Edinburgh are heading for another constitutional clash as Rishi Sunak’s government prepares to thwart a controversial bottle recycling scheme in Scotland

ft.com/content/25d4a3…
the Scotland bottle scheme may sound esoteric but it’s set to become a major constitutional flashpoint - and a key test of devolution
reaction from @GreenpeaceUK which says the Westminster government is failing to live up to its own "mantra" of tackling plastic waste:

"not content with fumbling their own attempts at an effective DRS, the UK government is trying to kibosh Scotland's more ambitious scheme"
Read 4 tweets
Mar 9, 2023
🚨

People briefed on Johnson’s latest list said he had for a second time put forward former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre for a peerage, despite his rejection last year by the House of Lords appointments commission, which vets nominations

ft.com/content/77b883…
fascinating dilemma for Rishi Sunak, especially if Holac reject Dacre again:

does he?

1) accept Holac advice and make enemy of one of the most powerful figures in UK media, months before election

2) capitulate and push through the appointment regardless and keep Dacre happy
meanwhile Johnson has slashed the number of people on the resignation honours list from a rumoured 100 to as few as 50 after he was urged by officials to cut back the list
Read 4 tweets

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