MP for Chelmsford, 🇬🇧former Minister for Development & IMCO chair. 💙Children, Tech, Investment, Science, helping Women & the NHS 🏏🎣
Oct 21, 2022 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Thread 1/10
I have just returned from Afar in eastern Ethiopia, a part of S&E Ethiopia, Somalia & N Kenya that has been decimated by climate change driven drought.
I am finding it hard to process what I witnessed or the magnitude and speed at which this tragedy is unfolding.
2/10
We drove for two hours along a “dirt track” to reach an isolated community - but even that description is overly positive - if that was a “track” then my local country lane is a motorway.
There is nothing -no buildings, no communications.
The riverbed is dry.
Jan 24, 2019 • 34 tweets • 6 min read
I have just been sent 30 Truths about Leaving on WTO Terms... think of them what you will ...
1 Myth:The UK won’t have to pay £39 bn
Truth:UK owes money for commitments legally entered into while a member. If we walk away, it undermines our reputation as a country which keeps its legal obligations, we won’t get a decent trade deal & they will insist we settle our debts.
Nov 18, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. Those who say the withdrawal agreement risks tying UK into a customs indefinitely are missing a fundamental point.
It is totally not in the EU’s interest to do this as it risks screwing up EU negotiations on trade with other parts of world.
2. Under article 50 the withdrawal agreement can not be the long term agreement so the backstop cannot be the long term agreement.
