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Aug 19, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Breaking: Boris Johnson begins his Breixt renegotiation with a letter to Donald Tusk. In short, the backstop must go, completely.
PM proposes the backstop should be replaced with alternative arrangements in time for the end of the transition period. Here’s the new bit: he offers to look at new “commitments” if that doesn’t prove fully possible.
But, and a big but: those commitments must not clash with three major objections that he lays out to the backstop - on sovereignty, the destination of the future relationship, and undermining the GFA.
So: Boris is proposing a new backstop (but nobody will call it that) to keep the Irish border open. What does that look like? That's the million euro question... but still a significant move all the same tonight. It begins.
Meanwhile, Donald Tusk today... “Nanny competition settled”

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Jun 8
One hundred years ago today, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared while attempting to become the first men to climb Mount Everest. They were last seen at 12.50pm as two moving dots through a telescope just 800 feet from the summit, and “going strong for the top” 1/ Image
What happened to these two extraordinary men remains mountaineering's greatest mystery, and their indomitable spirit still inspires many. They wanted to climb Everest "because it's there", as George said. "The struggle is the struggle of life itself, upward and forever upward" 2/ Image
Today relatives of all of the 1924 expedition's members plus climbers and authors meet for a day of commemorations and discussion at the @RGS_IBG, hosted by @Himalayan_HTUK. It's going to absolutely fascinating, and I'm looking forward to meeting some long lost cousins! 3/ Image
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Feb 21
Explosive evidence from Johnny Mercer to the Afghan inquiry today + a major new headache now for Grant Shapps / No10. Accuses ex-Director of Special Forces Roly Walker and Army head Mark Carleton-Smith of concealing information over whether the SAS executed 33 unarmed Afghans (1)
Mercer says Walker and Carleton-Smith (both ex-SAS) allowed him to mislead the Commons by effectively telling him there was nothing to see when they were aware of secret email chains. “I am angry with these people. They did not do their job. I was being gamed the entire time" (2)
Blue on blue: Mercer also accuses former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace of not taking the allegations seriously enough. As Vets Minister, Mercer formally wrote to Wallace to ask permission to make a new Commons statement to correct the record. Mercer says Wallace refused him (3)

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Jul 18, 2022
Kemi Badenoch interview on tonight’s @TheNewsDesk - on the tone of the contest, she tells us: “I don't think it's got nasty actually. I do think that we're just having the arguments which we've all been having behind closed doors just in front of everyone else”.
Says she WOULD delay hitting net zero carbon emissions by 2050 if there is no workable plan to meet it: “Yes, there are circumstances where I would delay it, but I think that the target itself is a bit of a red herring. We need to look at the plan…
…I believe there is climate change and that’s something we do need to tackle, but we have to do it in a way that doesn't bankrupt our economy. We've got to take people with us. What would happen if we moved it to 2060 or 2070? We're not going to be here. Let's be realistic”.
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Mar 13, 2022
A Ukraine/Arsenal thread:

Oleg “The Horse” Luzhny was a tough right back who won the double with Arsenal in 2002. Much loved by supporters and players alike, he was nicknamed The Horse because of his galloping charges up the wing and, well, because he was hung like one (1)
Oleg is Ukrainian, and the first player from his country to win a major trophy in England. He is 53 now, and hasn’t played for Arsenal for 19 years. In solidarity, the club again included him in today’s squad for its home game against Leicester, under his old shirt number 22 (2)
Where is Oleg now? He’s back in Ukraine. Like so many of his countrymen, he has left his job (coaching a football team) to join up and fight (3)
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Dec 8, 2021
Rumours abounding of an imminent Quad meeting to discuss imposing Plan B as early as tomorrow morning, meaning Working From Home and covid passports for large venues. One source tells me it's "85% likely". Let's see. One helluva dead cat.
I've put this to Downing Street, who have not denied it. No10 source simply says "no decisions have been made".
There is disquiet about how quickly this decision process is moving in Whitehall. I’m told the Covid Taskforce is yet to even submit papers to the PM and Health Sec on Plan B, which were due later in the week. A source tells me: “Boris decided to do it last night”.
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Dec 7, 2021
FCDO's head, Sir Philip Barton, admits it was a mistake for him to remain on holiday through out the Afghan crisis. He only returned to work on August 26, 11 days after Kabul fell. Tells FAC: "I have reflected a lot. If I had my time again, I would have come back earlier”.
This is the first time Barton has revealed the date he returned to the Foreign Office. The last US military flight left Kabul on August 30, meaning Sir Philip stayed on holiday through almost the whole of the desperate three week airlift. This is simply staggering.
Tory MP Alicia Kearns, a former civil servant who has worked in FCO crisis centres, asks Barton: “If this isn’t what failure looks like, what does?”
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