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@Peston "Part of the deputy National Security Adviser Collinss equivocal statement in August 2025 about relations with China is a straight cut-and-paste from Labours 2024 general election manifesto. Collins: The Govemment's position is that we will co-operate where we can; compete where we need to; and challenge where we must including on issues of national security. Labour manifesto: We will co-operate where we can compete where we need to and challenge where we must. Presumably therefore if Collins believed he was doing no more than describe the UKs position when the alleged spying offences took"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-16T06:39Z 1.3M followers, 36.2K engagements

"I suspect the following statements by the assistant national security adviser Collins are why the DPP abandoned the China spy case. They appear in his witness statements of XX February 2024 when Sunak and the Tories were in office and then on X August 2025 with Starmer in No.10 respectively 1) It is important for me to emphasise however that the Goverment is committed to pursuing a positive economic relationship with China. The Govemment believes that the UK must continue to engage with intemational partners on trade and investment to grow our economy while ensuring that our security and"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-15T21:26Z 1.3M followers, 33.2K engagements

"Mel Stride on Farage and Reform: They are marching to the left. They are the party of spending and more state control"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-06T09:17Z 1.3M followers, 56K engagements

"Why the decline and fall of the London Stock Exchange is so bad for Britain and what can be done about it. New Rest is Money podcast"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-06T08:49Z 1.3M followers, 24.2K engagements

"Stride: the Conservative Party will never ever make fiscal commitments without spelling out precisely how they will be paid for - his 47bn of cuts are to bring down debt not fund tax cuts"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-06T09:20Z 1.3M followers, 141.1K engagements

"Bloomberg has a stash of more than XXX emails between Peter Mandelson and convicted paedophile the late Jeffrey Epstein. Their disclosure are humiliating for the British ambassador to Washington and highly damaging for the man who appointed him Sir Keir Starmer. I have attached tasters below"
X Link @Peston 2025-09-10T20:09Z 1.3M followers, 568.9K engagements

"They are waiting for their leader"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-08T10:17Z 1.3M followers, 24.9K engagements

"How to run Britain for only 99p"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-13T16:53Z 1.3M followers, 32.3K engagements

"How should Rachel Reeves fill the 30bn budget black hole Steph and I discuss the tax options with ex Treasury official and now Resolution Foundation director Ruth Curtice"
X Link @Peston 2025-09-29T08:15Z 1.3M followers, 24.4K engagements

"Rest is Money and Political Currency pods both this week try to unpack the risks for Reeves and stability of the UK government bond market of the chancellors plan to cut the number of OBR forecasts. @edballs says That would be a huge move away from transparency and scrutiny in the UK. That is the opposite of her respect for the institution and its role in guaranteeing stability. She can't possibly do that. @PJTheEconomist is only slightly less critical. Links to both below"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-04T10:03Z 1.3M followers, 124.6K engagements

"Heseltine has just addressed a packed meeting of the European Movement at Tory conference. He does not show the restraint of most party leaders in his critique of Farage and Reform: right wing equivalents to the fascists of the thirties are back on the march: Le Pen in France AfD in Germany Fdl in Italy Vox in Spain and conspicuously Reform in this country. Much of President Trump's language in America coincides with words here in Europe. The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem which needs a solution although recent events here have cast a dark shadowWe must make clear that we will"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-07T15:26Z 1.3M followers, 447.9K engagements

"What is exquisite about the furore over the controversial decision by the DPP Stephen Parkinson to can the China spy case is that - shortly before being appointed DPP by the Tories - Parkinson described a predecessor as an average DPP who was over reliant on advice given by others; he had no in-depth experience of prosecuting . . .and was a defence and human rights lawyer. Parkinson was talking about the present prime minister Keir Starmer"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-15T18:31Z 1.3M followers, 86.2K engagements

"Starmer: wave your flag"
X Link @Peston 2025-09-30T13:49Z 1.3M followers, 1.1M engagements

"I suspect the following statements by the assistant national security adviser Collins are why the DPP abandoned the China spy case. They appear in his witness statements of XX February 2024 when Sunak and the Tories were in office and then on X August 2025 with Starmer in No.10 respectively 1) It is important for me to emphasise however that the Goverment is committed to pursuing a positive economic relationship with China. The Govemment believes that the UK must continue to engage with intemational partners on trade and investment to grow our economy while ensuring that our security and"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-15T21:02Z 1.3M followers, 28.8K engagements

"Keir Starmer has defined his time in office by the absence of a big regime-defining idea an ism. This is largely through his own choice and instinct. But maybe the introduction of compulsory digital ID cards which he will announce in a speech tomorrow could be that idea whether he wants it or not. There is no question this could represent an ambitious redefining of British citizens relationship with the state because it has the potential to simplify our access to public services - from the NHS to HMRC - and to centralise important health and financial records about us. For that reason it will"
X Link @Peston 2025-09-25T15:38Z 1.3M followers, 123K engagements

"Dominic Cummings: China wants to build 'spy centre' under new London embassy ITV News"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-16T18:36Z 1.3M followers, 31.3K engagements

"I am told that the director of public prosecutions Stephen Parkinson has just told some of parliaments most senior MPs - chairs of home justice foreign and security committees - that the evidence provided by the governments witness in the China spy case the deputy national security adviser was X% less than the evidence threshold that was needed. Parkinson told the MPs that the deputy national security adviser Matthew Collins had made it clear to the Crown Prosecution Service he was not going to provide the additional 5%. Which is why Parkinson canned the case. And as I said earlier he"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-15T18:11Z 1.3M followers, 360.1K engagements

"Huge show now on Trump in Israel and Egypt as per below"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-13T20:09Z 1.3M followers, 43.9K engagements

"Feels an important Peston show tonight on the implications of the Manchester synagogue murders prospects for Trumps Gaza peace plan and whether Badenochs and Strides policy bonanza will be heard by any of you and will stem the Tory slump. ITV at 10.45"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-06T18:54Z 1.3M followers, 44.7K engagements

"Are Tory cuts credible I speak to shadow chancellor Mel Stride in new Rest is Money podcast"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-09T08:48Z 1.3M followers, 24.4K engagements

"Stride also promises to abolish business rates for all shops and hospitality businesses. My Rest is Money podcast partner @StephLunch is likely to approve. I will find out in next episode"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-06T09:27Z 1.3M followers, 38.9K engagements

"What are the jobs of our AI future How weak is todays jobs market And are Tory plans to stop paying disability benefits to those with mild mental health conditions cruel or a spur to these people finding work I discuss with Reed Group chief executive James Reed in new Rest is Money podcast"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-16T08:02Z 1.3M followers, 29.2K engagements

"There is a wrinkle to what @PippaCrerar says. If it was the CPS which dropped the ball - as @ShippersUnbound was told - surely the DPP would have consulted the Attorney General Hermer first before abandoning such an important and sensitive case relating to national security especially if it all hinged on a new interpretation of the 1911 Official Secrets Act from from the trial of Roussev and the other Bulgarians. On a point of law like this wouldnt the AG been consulted as standard practice The whole farrago feels a monumental cock up"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-15T15:48Z 1.3M followers, 139.1K engagements

"Stamp duty is a terrible tax. It is not a tax on bad actions and behaviour the kind of tax that may have a legitimate social purpose like the duty on cigarettes. It actually discourages activity that would be good for the economy and good for society. The duty dampens the market for houses. It discourages people from selling and buying homes. As such it means older people stay in homes that have become far too big for them. It keeps house prices out of reach for young people. And it creates a disincentive for people to look far and wide for a new job because of the incremental cost of selling"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-08T14:54Z 1.3M followers, 246K engagements

"Nigel Farage told me this morning that a Reform government would use the UK fleet to drive small boats back to France in breach of Frances sovereign territorial waters as a last resort. Farage: If it came to it we would do it. When I put to him this would be the equivalent of declaring war on our nearest neighbour he laughed"
X Link @Peston 2025-09-06T13:26Z 1.3M followers, 595.4K engagements

"At the heart of the Tory conference exhibition is a mocked-up funfair stall called whack-a-taxpayer. Its a bit of joshing at Labours expense but it is also the intellectual heart of Kemi Badenochs project to revive her ailing party. She and her shadow Chancellor Mel Stride believe that at some point in the next three and a half years British voters will suddenly panic that the budget sums of Reform and Labour dont add up and will surge back to the party of Thatcher. It is why Mel Stride is today pledging spending cuts that he says will save 47bn by taking away disability payments from young"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-06T07:49Z 1.3M followers, 75.5K engagements

"Watch the whole hugely interesting interview with the foreign secretary Yvette Cooper on #Peston on ITV at 10.45"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-13T20:41Z 1.3M followers, 65.2K engagements

"A few seats are still available for the shadow chancellors remaking of Tory fiscal policy"
X Link @Peston 2025-10-06T09:06Z 1.3M followers, 43.3K engagements

"How to fix Britain Kish and I have a few ideas. You can read them today"
X Link @Peston 2024-09-19T08:16Z 1.3M followers, 763.6K engagements