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11 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
President number 13. Image
Am quite enjoying the strong wedding vibes
Reminder that she’s 95. Monarchist, republican or indifferent most would agree her personal dedication as sovereign is extraordinary.
This is especially so with Trudeau who looks like the uncle who might have enjoyed a shandy too many

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13 Jun
Main takeaways from G7 (🧵)

1) we’re all spenders now: the economics were perhaps the least remarked upon bit of the summit but perhaps the most remarkable. The consensus in the West now is that spending and stimulus should continue and is necessary. There is no major...
...2009 style split between N America and Europe about fiscal or monetary policy. Remarkable turnaround from only a decade, only five or so years ago. All eyes now on inflation numbers but Biden believes that greater spending is necessary not only to arrest domestic economic...
...decline but also to address Western strategic imbalances with China.

2) The West has a leader again: There can be no doubt after this summit that the West, to a greater or lesser extent, has a leader again. Biden wants to fill those shoes in a way Trump did not, in some...
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12 Jun
“Our friends here need to understand that the UK is a single country, a single territory, that’s what they need to get into their heads.”

And they’ll say PM needs to get it into his head that his deal by necessity means that NI would not always be treated like the rest of the UK
This is presumably one of the reasons why Theresa May said no British prime minister could never countenance such an arrangement and indeed why Boris Johnson at one time said much the same.
Clearly flexibility on both sides is going to be required but some already saying this is precisely the opposite tone of what’s needed to resolve this.
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12 Jun
Important subtext to this year’s G7-it’s Angela Merkel’s last. Here is her first in 2006. Leaders include Blair, Prodi, Chirac, Koizumi, Bush, all passed into history. She’s outlasted them all and indeed, in most cases their successors’ successors. ImageImage
She has not outlasted Putin who was also in attendance, indeed the host in 2005- it was the G8 at that time. But then he doesn’t really have the petty encumbrance of democracy to worry about.
Important subtext flowing from this subtext, with Merkel gone and save for Baerbock emerging as Chancellor after the German elections seems likely that when the G7 next meets it’ll be an all boys club again in terms of elected leaders. Hasn’t been all men since 2005.
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10 Jun
On Matt Hancock repeating his “no national shortage of PPE”
And here.
Sigh. Hancock repeats the claim that the NAO has said there was no national shortage of PPE. Have been through this before. Yes the NAO said that NHS providers said they could get what they needed. They also said that that being the case front line workers reported shortages.
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9 Jun
Yesterday I visited Transport House in Salford. The leaseholders there are part the next stage in the cladding crisis. But their problem isn't really what's on their building. It's what's in it. Their freeholder has told them it will cost £3m to make safe. Over £100k each.

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First some backrgound.

You'll have heard about the cladding crisis. Post the catastrophe at Grenfell Tower, government regulations on cladding changed, requiring the removal of ACM cladding systems (flammable) on buildings over 18m

But cladding isn't the only issue...
...new regs require lots of other fire safety improvements, including changes on fire cavity barriers and insulation within walls.

This is the problem Transport House faces. The leaseholders were recently sent this letter by their freeholder outlining the cost of the works. £3m.
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9 Jun
The President is in the UK.
Biden says after he's done with the initial stages of his European trip he'll be going "to speak to Mr Putin to let him know what I want him to know."
Biden: "The US will respond in a robust and meaningful way when the Russian government engages in harmful activities...they'll be consequences for violating the sovereignty of democracies in the US, Europe and elsewhere."
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