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1 Nov, 9 tweets, 2 min read
Utter chaos at security for COP26. It's not as if they couldn't plan for this is it? Image
It's an international embarrassment. All nationalities in this queue. #globalbritain
Thank god it ain't raining. But it's nippy.
Just noticed the *very small letters* that say "In partnership with Italy".
Something tells me Mario Draghi will be happy to own the chaos Image
Message from someone who works for UN, who arrived yesterday Image
The queue inside is moving, slowwwwly, but moving.
This thread is giving me flashbacks to yesterday.
#willigetsentback? Image
Just chatting to some overseas delegates and they joined the queue outside at 9am.
Nearly a 90 minute wait outside.
Made it. I'm now in the little bit of Glasgow that is United Nations territory for the next 11 days (their UN badged cops actually guard the cop)
Last time I was in this building was LibDem conference 2013.
But today made any party conference delay feel like a picnic Image

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3 Nov
BREAKING Standards reform passes: 250 votes for, 232 votes against.
Shouts of 'shame!' from Labour. And one MP: 'What have you done to this place'.
On those figures, more than 100 Tory MPs may have defied their govt whip. Which is some 'rebellion' but not enought
MPs vote now against Paterson 30-day suspension by 248 to 221.
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2 Nov
And here he is. @JeffBezos tells #COP26 that 'when I was in space' earlier this year he realised just how thin the globe's atmosphere was.
Think he forgot to mention just how many fossil fuels he spent getting into space. Image
Bezos announces 'I am pleased to announce a £2bn pledge to restoring nature', part of a £10bn Bezos earth fund.
Proof that he has the same clout as many world leaders here. Wonder if he will reference how much tax he pays in individual countries..?
Bezos says Amazon aims to power all its operations by 100% renewables by 2025 and is ‘working towards’ making its vehicles electric. 'Working towards' is doing a fair bit of work there.
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1 Nov
India's PM Narendra Modi deploying characteristic modesty: "Today the entire world acknowledges that India is the only big economy in the world that has delivered both in letter and spirit on its Paris commitments.."
#COP26
"India represents 17% of the world's population, but is responsible for only 5% of global emissions.."
Modi unveils 5 point plan, includes:
India will fulfil 50% of its energy requirements from a renewable energy sources by 2030
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3 Oct
In the @ConHome fringe, @michaelgove namechecks Marc Stears for his work on the way communities can save capitalism.
Stears was @Ed_Miliband's chief speechwriter.
Among other "political thinkers engaging with the big questions of the moment", he also namechecks Robert Puttnam and Paul Collier.
Gove says her prefers a 'covenant' approach to a 'contractual' approach to politics. Building societies, mutuals etc, part of the debate.
If you want to know what senior Conservatives like Gove are thinking, follow this fringe live here:
conservativehome.com/video/2021/10/…
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3 Oct
In Manchester for Tory conference and the first thing to note is just how small the auditorium is. They've shrunk the normal space significantly.
One drawback is that @OliverDowden speech is being conducted against a background of hubub noise from exhibition stalls/cafes outside the auditorium, over the other side of this partition.
Then again this is for graveyard slot. Mere smattering of applause so far. Actually so little at the end it was difficult to even realise he'd finished.
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3 Oct
Striking how combative and self-confident @BorisJohnson was on Marr.
Plus his direct messaging ("trust the police", wages growing, fastest ec growth in G7, pandemic triggered 'fiscal meteorite' neither Thatcher nor Wilson faced)
Big contrast to Starmer just 1 week ago.
Of course there were also the usual evasions and misdirection. The point is he's still ahead in the polls and held onto reservoir of public good will in part because he's v good at simple messaging. And also because Labour often isn't.
Note direct message to Leave voters (esp Red Wall): “When people voted for change in 2016 and when people voted for change in 2019, they voted for the end of a broken model of the UK economy that relied on low wages and low skills and chronic low productivity."
But problem is...
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