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Jul 29 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
In today’s bit of news randomness: spent the morning in the Mayor’s office in l’Aquila Image
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Just doesn’t stop Image
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Jul 28
Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries tells Today the removal of Boris Johnson was a “ruthless coup, led largely by Rishi Sunak.”
She doesn’t rule out a Johnson return: “who knows what the future will hold.” She says BJ has told her she’d like the petition to get him on the ballot to stop as “it’s not right.”
Striking how quickly the rehabilitation of Johnson has happened. Perhaps because he remains as PM, perhaps because of dynamics of Tory contest where no one wants to criticise him. But v little discussion or recognition of what led him to resign, rather than fact of it.
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Jul 25
unpopular take: both did well in their own terms. He knew he had to do something/come out fighting- he did. She had to hold her own against that and show some spark, she did. But net that’s a Truss win, because if polling is right, he’s the one who needs the transformative moment
Most telling things about it

1) economic gulf isn’t getting narrower. 160,000 people have more direct power over immediate economic policy in an unprecedented way.

2) On climate change issues both had little to say. Both proffered ideas to combat climate change which won’t…
…actually combat climate change.

3) both candidates said no when asked (admittedly yes/no Q) whether the Dover queues were linked to Brexit (they are at the least part of the story). Question of honest conversation about Brexit trade offs likely to endure.
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Jul 25
NEW: UK to host Eurovision 2023. Will be the first time UK has hosted since 1998, but this time on behalf of and in support of Ukraine, this year’s winners. Bidding process for host city to begin this week.
Will be the eighth time the BBC has hosted the contest, more than any other broadcaster.
BBC Director General Tim Davie statement Image
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Jul 23
John Keefe of Eurounnel says actual service running well but: “Everyone has to realise there are now different types of border controls so the time it takes to get through the border is longer- that’s a function of the UK being a third country to the EU.” bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
“This infrastructure was created for borderless travel. So when the Channel Tunnel was built [there were] no requirements for passport controls, no requirements for customs controls on goods moving backwards and forwards between the UK and France, and that’s different now."
This is the cost or flip side of “taking back control” that a) in many ways that control was always going to reestablished by the state at expense of ease for business and individuals (which is why it always sat uneasily with much of Conservative thinking for last forty years+…
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Jul 22
Essentially Sunak and Truss are contesting different histories of Thatcherism. What’s striking about that is in 2019 it felt as if the party had shifted to something new in political economy, but now this contest feels as if it’s looking back. My NN piece.
Produced superbly as always by @jasmin_dyer camera: Justin Mills edit: Essi Hardy
And featuring @redhistorian @realVickyPryce and @t0nyyates. Plus some pretty good archive of Nigel Lawson.
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Jul 20
Interested to hear from you if you’re in a Conservative Association and what you think of the choice before you, how you think each candidate will go down in your membership. DMs open.
All views entirely confidential.
Have to say, the sense from many grassroots Conservative members I’ve talked to tonight is one of unhappiness with the choice put in front of them by MPs…
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