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Nov 28, 2017 • 20 tweets • 11 min read • Read on X
Thread: at 09:30 @CommonsEUexit meeting to discuss redacted and edited Brexit economic impact assessments. Is Govnt in contempt of Parliament? Did the Govnt mislead Parliament and the public? Did the reports ever exist in the first place? Let's look at the evidence (1)
(2) In August 2017 then Brexit Minister David Jones confirmed that @DExEUgov had "conducted analysis of over 50 sectors of the economy. Spokesman confirmed that a list of the sectors would be published, but not the analyses themselves. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

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Jul 28, 2022
1/ The Conservatives have decimated Britain's global influence by failing on both the strategy and implementation of foreign policy.

This damning report published today by @instituteforgov shows how 🧵👇🏿

theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
2/ As Labour has argued, the government's Integrated Review wrongly de-emphasised European security.

Nearly three times as many staff work on the Indo-Pacific than on Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

The report found the FCDO's 'softened' focus on Russia is 'not sustainable'.
3/ The reduction in the number of postings abroad has badly hampered Britain's influence.

Around half of UK-based staff were based overseas in in 1998, but in 2021 only 29% were.

The IfG found this has "reduced Britain’s capability".
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May 24, 2022
The FAC report on the UK's evacuation from Afghanistan is one the most damning I have read in my 22 years in Parliament.

It shows the scale of the government’s incompetence, laziness and mishandling that likely cost lives and has badly damaged the UK’s reputation.

A thread👇🏿
A chronic planning failure where the worst-case scenario of the rapid collapse of the Afghan government was simply not prepared for. When Kabul fell, the PM, the Foreign Secretary, the Minister for South Asia and the Permanent Secretary were all on holiday.
People who supported the UK government’s work or were especially vulnerable to the Taliban were left behind. Sensitive documents were abandoned in the Embassy because the evacuation was rushed and under-rehearsed.
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Jun 14, 2021
4 years ago we woke up to the terrible news that Grenfell Tower was on fire. For years before, residents had been raising the alarm that the building was unsafe.

They were ignored. The result was that 72 people lost their lives. It still breaks my heart.
The government promised to make buildings safe and to ensure that a fire like Grenfell would never happen again.

But so many years later, thousands still live in unsafe homes - and millions of people across the country are affected.
Leaseholders who saved for years to become homeowners are trapped in unsellable, unmortgageable properties, facing enormous bills and receiving little to no help.

The @Conservatives know this but they have turned their backs on them.
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Mar 29, 2021
Today Labour is calling for emergency action as analysis reveals the total number of convictions has fallen to a 10-year low.

It plummeted by more than a half for robbery, by 55% for theft, by 78% for criminal damage and arson and by 65% for fraud over the past decade.
The drop in convictions has come despite rising crime levels – with police dealing with a record 4,900 violent crimes per day.

Increasingly, this government is letting criminals off the hook.
Victims are being let down by these failures and the record-breaking backlog of more than 56,000 cases.

New data shows that 18 per cent of cases had been outstanding for a year or more in the three months to December last year – up from 6% in the previous year.
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Jan 14, 2020
Boris Johnson says he wants to see county lines drug gangs 'totally wound up'. We can all agree on the importance of tackling gang crime and violence. Here's a thread on how we can actually make progress 👇🏿
We need to recognise that the war on drugs has failed. 2,000 "county lines" routes are worth £3 million per day. Demand for cocaine and other drugs has rocketed. We need a new evidence-based approach to drugs policy. news.sky.com/story/line-18-…
Let's start by legalising cannabis. This could take up to £2.5 billion out of the hands of criminals. The Canadian model is not perfect, but it shows that a legally regulated market can help protect children from harm and reduce profits for gangsters. theguardian.com/society/commen…
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Dec 13, 2019
After last night's decimation, Labour needs to answer serious questions. How do we end factionalism, and come together as a party? How do we reconcile liberal Londoners with more socially conservative voters in the north? And who is best placed to lead us?
The worst thing we could do is descend into tribal infighting. We are strong when we are united. The leadership made serious mistakes, but built a huge movement that will be vital to our future. Let's bring all sides of our party together behind a new and credible offer.
Across much of the developed world, the challenges are the same. Social democratic and socialist parties are struggling in the face of populist nationalism. We need an offer that appeals to people's need to belong, as well as their pockets. Culture as well as economics.
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