#  @williamnhutton Will Hutton Will Hutton posts on X about investment, london, starmer, prime minister the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::92398758/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] -60% - [--] Month [---------] -56% - [--] Months [---------] +56% - [--] Year [----------] -20% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::92398758/posts_active)  - [--] Month [--] -81% - [--] Months [---] +19% - [--] Year [---] -18% ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::92398758/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.14% - [--] Month [------] +0.47% - [--] Months [------] +1% - [--] Year [------] +1.40% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::92398758/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [countries](/list/countries) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [us election](/list/us-election) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [stocks](/list/stocks) [currencies](/list/currencies) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [premier league](/list/premier-league) **Social topic influence** [investment](/topic/investment), [london](/topic/london) #1399, [starmer](/topic/starmer), [prime minister](/topic/prime-minister) #1539, [the british](/topic/the-british), [has been](/topic/has-been), [defence](/topic/defence), [china](/topic/china), [ukraine](/topic/ukraine), [tariffs](/topic/tariffs) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@ft](/creator/undefined) [@dal10203040](/creator/undefined) [@bobbualgae01](/creator/undefined) [@slacksoft_uk](/creator/undefined) [@nick_pope](/creator/undefined) [@johnscottie2](/creator/undefined) [@allybig62](/creator/undefined) [@campbellclaret](/creator/undefined) [@esrc](/creator/undefined) [@nytopinion](/creator/undefined) [@court_college](/creator/undefined) [@marc80008](/creator/undefined) [@davidrobjant](/creator/undefined) [@gaardentrasch](/creator/undefined) [@richsandersen](/creator/undefined) [@onlygiles](/creator/undefined) [@olafb168205](/creator/undefined) [@creightonlange](/creator/undefined) [@goodbob888](/creator/undefined) [@angelazhay](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Goldman Sachs (GS)](/topic/goldman-sachs) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Airbus prepares to leave. Pfizer warns UK life science dominance under threat. Our two last great industries - pharma and aerospace - quiver before Brexit. Thank you Nigel Farrage Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg - enemies of manufacturing" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1010124902525997056) 2018-06-22T11:38Z 86.5K followers, [----] engagements "Incredible [--] (thread). Most UK papers think a drunken snog at Strictly is the most important story today. More important than a terrifying new #IPCC report saying we have [--] years to stave off the catastrophic effects of global warming. https://t.co/NuO8OKkrEB [--] (thread). Most UK papers think a drunken snog at Strictly is the most important story today. More important than a terrifying new #IPCC report saying we have [--] years to stave off the catastrophic effects of global warming. https://t.co/NuO8OKkrEB" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1049590744036589568) 2018-10-09T09:21Z 81.2K followers, [--] engagements "Every member of the Labour party should be shamed that the most cogent argument v. Mrs Mays deal is from Jo Johnson. Keir Starmer would make it if he could. But his leaders lack of leadership and europhobe instincts block him. A tragic disgrace that he leads this great party" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1062505150886174721) 2018-11-14T00:39Z 86.9K followers, [----] engagements "Extraordinary Britain in effect has cut Gibraltar loose. Brexit will mean co-sharing its sovereignty with Spain. Poor poor Britain. Our economic and political standing is set to plummet as the Brexit vandals vie for Tory leadership" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1066440919262683137) 2018-11-24T21:18Z 82.4K followers, [----] engagements "Investment in the UK car industry is now down [--] % in [--] years. Increasing paralysis defines the London housing market spreading to rest of the UK. Inward investment has collapsed. This was called Project Fear by Leavers. History will damn their arrogant insouciance" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1090870803124625408) 2019-01-31T07:14Z 86.9K followers, [----] engagements "The EU free trade agreement with Japan launched today now makes the EU [--] and its free trade agreements with [--] countries by far the largest trade-promoting global free trade network. Only purblind ex public school Brexit boys and right wing demagogues cant see it" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1091284657889521665) 2019-02-01T10:38Z 82.8K followers, [----] engagements "Its worth repeating. Today we learn Japanese trade negotiators are stalling over talks to extract every advantage possible. An independent trade policy is a myth: it is a synonym for being savaged. The Brexit shock will cost UK as much cumulatively as the financial crisis" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1094183961604079616) 2019-02-09T10:39Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements "So it comes to this. [--] DUP MPs not even representing majority opinion in Northern Ireland and an ERG star chamber of Brexiter lawyers determine the fate of the UK. The Labour party may need a makeover; but the Tory party is now broken a menace to country and economy" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1105392019474649088) 2019-03-12T08:56Z 86.1K followers, [----] engagements "A must watch. You can be sure the same dark forces will be at work in the European Parliament elections - exploiting the tragic inability of the Remain parties to make common cause. This is @carolecadwalla being brave and brilliant. Its well worth a watch and a retweet x https://t.co/MGswXfDU9K This is @carolecadwalla being brave and brilliant. Its well worth a watch and a retweet x https://t.co/MGswXfDU9K" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1118790746512011265) 2019-04-18T08:17Z 81.2K followers, [---] engagements "The economy declines in the 2nd quarter. Will be flat in the 3rd and then decline again. Sterling lower than Project Fear projected. Recession in [----]. Housing market frozen. Its a gathering economic calamity. But what Brexiter gives a shit for the blighted lives of millions" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1159933109359583233) 2019-08-09T21:02Z 86.9K followers, [----] engagements "The intellectual tide is turning. The US business roundtable declared [--] weeks ago business had obligations to all its stakeholders - not just shareholders. Now this from EY today. Steward companies - dont sweat them. https://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/Turning-the-tide-to-greater-corporate-accountability/$FILE/ey-turning-the-tide-to-greater-corporate-accountability.pdf https://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/Turning-the-tide-to-greater-corporate-accountability/$FILE/ey-turning-the-tide-to-greater-corporate-accountability.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1171347391229943809) 2019-09-10T08:59Z 81.2K followers, [--] engagements "What Johnson wants asap is a people v parliament election. The Opposition must not give it him: the more he waits the more he is exposed. An interim government must extend article [--] hold a referendum and then a general election. Corbyn would be smart to keep his hands clean" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1177891534613745664) 2019-09-28T10:23Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements "There are occasions when it is fundamental to listen to a parliamentarian in full forensic flow. Hear Keir Starmer out. It is devastating. Johnsons deal is a mendacious self damaging cul-de-sac. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=4K2d8Y5L3Mc https://www.youtube.com/watchv=4K2d8Y5L3Mc" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1185681257465823232) 2019-10-19T22:16Z 86.8K followers, [----] engagements "To Labour voters living in RichmondEsher and Wokingham dont waste your vote. Vote LibDem. To LibDem voters in Chingford Wycombe and Shipley vote Labour. We can be rid of Goldsmith Raab Redwood IDS Baker and Phillip Davies if you vote tactically. #TacticalVote alert #TacticalVote alert" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1198684204193722368) 2019-11-24T19:25Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements "This needs to be said over over and over. Corbyn and his coterie aided and abetted by Momentum have betrayed class party country and Europe. Political ineptitude on a grand scale Yes the heavens wept today. One day it can and must be different. But without them " [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1205251551352303616) 2019-12-12T22:22Z 81.2K followers, 13.8K engagements "An honourable director of strategy and communications after Labours electoral disaster would have resigned. Instead Seumas Milne has manoeuvred a full time staff contract. A shameless malign cancer at the heart of Labour now working for Rebecca Long-Baileys leadership bid" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1208112446851956736) 2019-12-20T19:50Z 86.9K followers, [----] engagements "As the gang round Johnson run amok hyper-centralising power and set to shred the economy on the altar of an ultra hard Brexit CorbynMcCluskey Murphy Lavery and the whole Corbynite crew have some urgent heart-searching to do. They gifted this. They need to be held to account" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1228056348379799558) 2020-02-13T20:40Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements "We must keep saying this and repeating this. The attempt by the British government in the middle of this pandemic to discredit ostracise and delegitimise C4NewsNewsnight and Good Morning Britain by refusing interviews is a democratic and civic outrage. We are all reduced. No one from the government has appeared on @Channel4News for three weeks and for the entire week we have not been given the opportunity to ask a question at the press conference. Extraordinary lack of engagement during a global crisis. #coronavirus No one from the government has appeared on @Channel4News for three weeks and" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1269017044541898753) 2020-06-05T21:23Z 82.6K followers, 22.2K engagements "Both Andrew Rawnsley in the Observer and Tim Shipman in the Sunday Times reliably report the growing Tory concern that the party will be politically damned for delivering the highest death rate and deepest recession in the west. Correct. The Brexit right has met its Waterloo" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1272142887409590272) 2020-06-14T12:24Z 81.4K followers, [----] engagements "Britain is run as an extended Brexit campaign - on false belief in British exceptionalism on slogans and overclaiming. Ministers are incompetent: a hollowed-out public administration is ineffective: the economy is fragile. The deaths and unemployment will sweep Johnson away" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1274074946721984513) 2020-06-19T20:21Z 81.2K followers, 10.9K engagements "Universities should have agreed only to bring all their students back when there was an effective national test and trace system + a vaccine in prospect. i saw up close the trials of university life in a pandemic. We should have done better. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/04/i-saw-up-close-the-trials-of-university-life-in-a-pandemic-we-should-have-done-betterCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/04/i-saw-up-close-the-trials-of-university-life-in-a-pandemic-we-should-have-done-betterCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1312673288649412614) 2020-10-04T08:37Z 81.2K followers, [---] engagements "This is Orwellian - an ad in todays Sunday papers. It will take at least five years for additional sales of food and drink to Japan to compensate for food and drink sales lost to the EU in January alone. Taxpayers should not be paying for such rank disinformation. Its propaganda" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1371195497323585536) 2021-03-14T20:24Z 81.2K followers, 11.7K engagements "The recall of Parliament this Wednesday days after the establishment of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is symbolic of the futility of the UKs position and the poverty of our political leadership. Humiliation at home and abroad" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1427038515569872896) 2021-08-15T22:44Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements "If Johnson survives partygate he will move his valued member of the cabinet Rishi Sunak to the Home Office demote Patel and give the Treasury to Gove. He (and the UK) needs a Chancellor who embraces 21st century economics not a 19th century Thatcherite book-keeper" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1508343931511132164) 2022-03-28T07:23Z 81.2K followers, [---] engagements "ITV now brave enough to report the deep economic costs of Brexit. The clouds are darkening as the many chickens come to roost. Brexit cost the UK billions in lost trade and tax revenues research finds ITV News https://www.itv.com/news/2022-06-09/brexit-cost-the-uk-billions-in-lost-trade-and-tax-revenues-research-finds https://www.itv.com/news/2022-06-09/brexit-cost-the-uk-billions-in-lost-trade-and-tax-revenues-research-finds" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1535009080259010564) 2022-06-09T21:20Z 82.5K followers, [----] engagements "What a day. We live in a country whose leader once again breaks the law - and who mandates asylum seekers being sent to Rwanda with no appeal. We are shamed and diminished that such a man with such values in such a broken political party is our Prime Minister. Not in our names" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1536465703280201731) 2022-06-13T21:49Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements "At last Labour makes a tremulous baby step on Brexit. At least no crap about Brexit opportunities or crazed drivel about de-aligning from EU rules. A dose of reality but still a long way to go. Labour unveils plans to seek limited changes to Brexit deal https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/23/labour-unveil-plans-to-seek-limited-changes-to-brexit-dealCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/23/labour-unveil-plans-to-seek-limited-changes-to-brexit-dealCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1540069338824187912) 2022-06-23T20:28Z 80.8K followers, [---] engagements "Our current political discourse is surreal. BBC Today plays [----] Remainer Truss warning that Brexit will cause falling investment and living standards. All her predictions were right. Except she now says she was wrong and instead Brexit is full of opportunity. Except its not" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1550072669307113474) 2022-07-21T10:58Z 81.2K followers, 12.8K engagements "What has happened to the Tory party A Dutch auction over how repressive we can be on immigrationmad obsession with tax cuts over public health and education and baring fangs at European neighbours used to be the preserve of the right wing fringe. Now its the Tory mainstream" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1551279972152664065) 2022-07-24T18:55Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements "Boris Johnson lies has no ethics and respects no rules. But his talent was to mix very right wing policies with levelling up and net zero - all in primary colours. Truss has no such qualities: she is just very right-wing Miscue will follow miscue. She will be derided: then hated" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1556564571560845312) 2022-08-08T08:54Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements "Ardently hoping and praying that Salman Rushdie pulls through. Unbelievable mediaeval hatred to have triggered such a stabbing - from someone only [--] years old. Who is happier or better as a result And how is such hatred nurtured and sustained So important Rushdie survives" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1558201224654118912) 2022-08-12T21:18Z 81.2K followers, [---] engagements "Kwarteng is putting immense pressure on the Bank of England not to have an emergency interest rate rise. It would be a Black Wednesday moment kill his agenda his Chancellorship and the government. So sterling is in vulnerable no-mans land.The worst Chancellor for [--] years" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1574526606890131467) 2022-09-26T22:29Z 82.9K followers, [----] engagements "Unrepentant Truss learned nothing in Washington peddling her nonsense and being feted. The Tory party is an ungovernable rabble https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/01/30/liz-truss-republican-party-00080280 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/01/30/liz-truss-republican-party-00080280" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1620377371303096321) 2023-01-31T11:04Z 86.9K followers, 38.8K engagements "Fox acknowledges some claims about Dominion false pay an incredible $787.5mn to avoid cross-examination but crucially make no apology. Murdoch will see that as a win. Rupert Murdochs Fox agrees $787.5mn settlement in Dominion defamation case via @FT https://on.ft.com/3mIr6A3 https://on.ft.com/3mIr6A3" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1648453705103212547) 2023-04-18T22:29Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements "Once a country makes a mistake of the scale of Brexit which the perpetrators refuse to acknowledge the cascade of consequences is profound. Everything is polluted. Britain in Crisis: The UK Faces a Steep Climb Out of a Deep Hole - DER SPIEGEL https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/britain-in-crisis-the-uk-faces-a-steep-climb-out-of-a-deep-hole-a-6b61dc6f-e33f-46f3-bd27-743364dd675c https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/britain-in-crisis-the-uk-faces-a-steep-climb-out-of-a-deep-hole-a-6b61dc6f-e33f-46f3-bd27-743364dd675c" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1650242334813036549) 2023-04-23T20:56Z 87K followers, 553.7K engagements "The Brexit fantasy has no limits. Here is Jacob Rees-Mogg claiming that Brexit stopped Russia from succeeding in Ukraine because it allowed UK freedom to lead. US leadership money and arms NATO Would EU prevent UK action He lives on planet Bonkers. https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-stopped-ukraine-invasion-from-succeeding-jacob-rees-mogg-says-12880590 https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-stopped-ukraine-invasion-from-succeeding-jacob-rees-mogg-says-12880590" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1657700482532401157) 2023-05-14T10:52Z 82.4K followers, 176K engagements "This deranged individual has a weekly column in the Telegraph and allegedly edits the Sunday Telegraph. This piece goes into paranoid la-la-land: but an insight into the recesses of the ideological right. DeSantis to the rescue What can he be smoking" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1661828861833650194) 2023-06-29T21:17Z 84.9K followers, 36.4K engagements "A propos the mortgage rate - a [--] year fixed rate mortgage in France is [---] per cent. An advantage of euro membership is cheap long term fixed rate mortgages. Will be a good argument to make if and when the next EU referendum comes around" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1670477525523333122) 2023-06-18T17:04Z 81.2K followers, 508.9K engagements "The interest rate rise to [--] per cent after yesterdays inflation numbers was inevitable. So now is a recession. The root of our dismal inflation performance is stagnant productivity caused by stagnant investment - the collapse of confidence in post -Brexit UK with no strategy" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1671842568949190656) 2023-06-22T11:28Z 86.9K followers, 63.7K engagements "Thames Water built up [--] bn of debts eleven years ago to pay dividends to a consortia of private owners in tax haven Luxembourg. Its downfall was obvious then. Thames Water a private equity plaything that takes us for fools Will Hutton The Guardian" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1674293529886052352) 2023-06-29T05:47Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements "What an anti British tribe the Tories have become. An ex PM expelled from the House of Commons as a liar. A current PM and Home Secretary determined to breach the rule of law at home and abroad over Rwanda. They are a national and international embarrassment" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1674396520303525891) 2023-06-29T12:52Z 84.9K followers, 104.5K engagements "When Suella Braverman talks of the Rwanda policy expressing the will of the British policy (challenged by British courts) what she means is the will of the Tory right and the Daily Mail. It is existential for them. To leave the European Court of Human Rights plumbs new depths" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1674541524187590659) 2023-06-29T22:13Z 85.5K followers, [---] engagements "People have argued for a reset of capitalism for years to show how it can work for all - investing innovating acting socially responsibly. Have we arrived at the moment Now water bosses you must show how capitalism can work for the common good" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1675425212697829376) 2023-07-12T22:40Z 84.9K followers, 415.6K engagements "UK car industry RIP - killed by Johnsons absurd hard Brexit. Production has halved since 2016: it will half again by [----] and be dead by [----] as EV becomes the norm. Brussels to stick with plan for post-Brexit tariffs on UK EV imports from [----] via @FT" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1676867976706883584) 2023-07-09T09:16Z 85.5K followers, 763.2K engagements "The Sun achieved its aim. It set out to wound the BBC whatever the collateral damage and however contestable its journalism. The result is one more step to a world the right cherishes - where there is no trusted source of news. And the BBCs own OTT coverage made it worse" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1679239242445201410) 2023-07-13T00:40Z 85.5K followers, 312.2K engagements "It becomes ever harder to understand the British American and European right wing on the impending global super heating. Would they literally prefer to fry rather than act" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1680941380468654080) 2023-07-17T21:14Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements "Amazing that fellow GB News presenter - Lee Andersen Deputy Chair of the Tory party - hasnt already declared GB news a safe haven for sex pests.He did the BBC on similar allegations. Sun and Mail publishers examine claims against journalist Dan Wootton" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1681404427423367186) 2023-07-18T20:48Z 85.5K followers, 25.2K engagements "Its obvious the Tory leadership keen to appease Farage is going to lean on NatWest to sack Alison Rose over the Coutts affair. She has done a great job and is a superb CEO. Besides her decency and integrity Farage is a pygmy. A bad day for UK business if the mob gets her" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1683952852501245953) 2023-07-25T21:30Z 88.2K followers, 580.9K engagements "NatWest is woke capitalism says Farage. Under Rose it was transitioning to a bank Britain needs: engaged with Small and Medium sized companies improving financial literacy ready to support net zero - and profitable . Woke Only Farage Sunak and Tory right can think that" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1684301980297048065) 2023-07-26T20:37Z 82.3K followers, 80K engagements "The Brexit mob have got NatWest in its crosshairs. Now the CEO of Coutts goes (if anyone is at fault its him) Farage backed by Sunak is after the chair next. This is wild disproportionate carnage. A good bank laid low by one mans cupidity. But he is a Brexiter so thats OK" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1684590014989045761) 2023-07-27T15:42Z 83.1K followers, 172.1K engagements "This mornings Express. Right-wing press now going after inheritance tax. We live with breathtaking wealth inequality very lightly taxed. Every civilisation has taxed bequests because every civilisation recognises we are all part of society. Except the Tory press and its allies" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1684613708977143830) 2023-07-27T17:16Z 85.5K followers, 27.2K engagements "Now. Will those fighters for the democratic right of every citizen to have a bank account (Farage was offered an account at NatWest) etc rally to Gina Millers side I doubt it. Gina Miller voices fear for democracy over closure of her partys bank account https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/28/gina-miller-true-and-fair-party-monzo-bank-accountCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/28/gina-miller-true-and-fair-party-monzo-bank-accountCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1684902407367487488) 2023-07-28T12:23Z 87.3K followers, 131.2K engagements "A chorus of right wing commentators and politicians decry woke NatWest and side with Farage - and not only them. It is a purpose driven bank producing startling profits and performance as todays results proved. Its the future. Faragist antediluvian capitalism the past" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1685057019781214209) 2023-07-29T05:51Z 85.5K followers, 13.9K engagements "You made a wrong call Matthew. Rishi Sunak is a very right wing politician with very limited views. His decency is surface only. Youll see in the months ahead as our politics hits new lows. Our decent PM isnt one of natures shin-kickers" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1685177728062963712) 2023-07-30T18:32Z 85.5K followers, 121.3K engagements "Telegraph joining the Express about cruel inheritance tax dragging another [-----] families into paying. The right is good at provocative words. Here are others. [--] million go hungry daily. We have among the shortest [--] year olds in Europe. Any comment" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1685789655067738112) 2023-07-31T08:34Z 85.5K followers, 12.2K engagements "When Joe Biden hears the word climate he says he hears the word jobs - and the US economy is responding amazingly to his Inflation Reduction Act. When Sunak hears climate he hears the rabid Tory right the Telegraph and Mail and a wedge issue against Labour. He is wrong " [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1686092230040162304) 2023-07-31T19:11Z 87.2K followers, 60.7K engagements "This is a phenomenal U turn. Britain drops the ludicrously expensive proposal to create a UK safety kitemark and continue with the EU system - less red tape says minister. Brexit is a debacle. UK government climbs down on post-Brexit product mark via @FT" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1686446527894405122) 2023-08-01T18:39Z 85.5K followers, 275.3K engagements "Good commentary on the governments correct decision to abandon UK only safety and standards regulation and maintain the cheaper and effective EU system. UK as rule-taker. The Brexit red tape illusion has been exposed by the Tories CE mark climbdown" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1686643838918471680) 2023-08-02T07:43Z 85.5K followers, 13K engagements "More magical Brexit thinking bites the dust. What a debacle.The EU can export freely to us with no checksWe cant export freely to the EU.Masterly negotiating by Frost and Johnson. Post-Brexit UK border food checks delayed again on inflation fears via @FT" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1686877420543000576) 2023-08-02T23:11Z 85.5K followers, 146K engagements "Todays expected interest rate rise of [----] per cent is overshoot. The housing market is in deep trouble: inflation unwinding rapidly: manufacturing confidence fading: investment flatlining. I hope the Bank now pauses. A rise would be over compensating for past mistakes" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1687013057979957248) 2023-08-03T08:10Z 85K followers, [----] engagements "Todays interest rate increase is an increase too far driven by machismo not economics. The Bank is at sea. Squeezing the economy this way is now wrong. It risks freezing the property market and provoking an investment strike.Curtail demand if we must by tax increases on top 10%" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1687062611269939201) 2023-08-03T11:27Z 85.5K followers, 23.9K engagements "Brexiter Douglas Carswell was praised by Brexiter Lord Hannan - his great friend - for his illuminating insights into why Mississippi was doing well proof of why economically Brexit was right. Turns out the numbers were completely false. Like the case for Brexit. Surprise" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1688332813332783104) 2023-08-06T23:34Z 85.1K followers, 229K engagements "So if Asylum seekers dont like the barge they can fuck off back to France says Lee Andersen deputy chair of the Tory party - speaking for the government No [--] says. But they dont speak for me - or the majority of British. This is a right wing silo talking to a right wing silo" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1689053132343447552) 2023-08-08T23:17Z 85.5K followers, 115.5K engagements "Britain has been astonishingly badly run. [--] years of lost growth by [----] reports one of our top economic forecasters today - with the bottom [--] per cent hardest hit. Risk of UK recession at next general election is 60% says thinktank" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1689199092503568384) 2023-08-09T08:57Z 85.5K followers, 33K engagements "US Republicans have been weaponising culture wars for twenty years. These attacks on lawyers and the rule of law come from the same playbook. All of us who believe in the idea of the rule of law and those who operationalise it must unite. Never vote for: never support a Tory" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1689392515353378816) 2023-08-09T21:45Z 85.5K followers, 16.7K engagements "This is mad. Education spending in real terms down on [----] shortchanging the young defence inadequate and the police under siege.But the Tories electoral pensioner base flourishes. State pensions to cost more than education policing and defence combined" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1689540844448022528) 2023-08-10T07:35Z 85.5K followers, 13.9K engagements "Downing Street close to signing off Britain rejoining the EU Horizon science collaboration programme. Sources tell the Times Sunak does not want to hand Labour a good election issue. Interesting bell-weather of changing times. It pays electorally to be pro European" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1689547728785752064) 2023-08-10T08:02Z 85.5K followers, 152K engagements "Without London Britain would be one of the poorest countries in the west. Our assets squandered and our economy chronically mismanaged - thank you the British right. Is Britain really as poor as Mississippi via @FT" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1689918489690042368) 2023-08-11T08:35Z 85.5K followers, 293.6K engagements "My father always used to say the first Tory instinct in the face of any protest was not to understand engage and come up with an answer - but to repress. I can only imagine what he would have made of Suella Braverman" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1689923350074712064) 2023-08-11T08:54Z 85.5K followers, 32.7K engagements "Of course Braverman and Jenrick should both go after the barge fiasco. Ideology over-rode good sense and the state that the right hollowed out cant deliver. But be sure both will stay" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1690277772361383936) 2023-08-12T08:23Z 85.5K followers, 23.5K engagements "Janan Ganesh is right. The military coup in Niger with the threat of wider war in West Africa is a huge story. The loss of life destabilisation and migrant exodus will affect us all. Yet silence reigns. Why isnt everyone talking about Niger via @FT" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1690460380563177472) 2023-08-12T20:28Z 85.5K followers, 21.7K engagements "Lets stop kidding ourselves were a rich nation and get real the UKs gone bust" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1690619059287805953) 2023-08-13T06:59Z 85.5K followers, 187.2K engagements "This is the unspoken truth about the small boats crisis. Outside the EU Dublin Refugee Convention it is harder to control the cross channel migrant flow. Re-association with the EU crucial not only for our trade but to control our borders and our security" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1690631055961636865) 2023-08-13T07:47Z 85.5K followers, 244.2K engagements "The trouble is less inside /outside SW1. Its how to break free from the right wing ecosystem of which Matt Goodwin is part that has pursued policies - Austerity Brexit anti-investment anti R and D anti social obligation and more - that has brought the UK to its current pass" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1692454990965534990) 2023-08-18T08:34Z 85.5K followers, 17.5K engagements "The gap between the Tory party and the vast majority of us who arent in the shrinking echo chamber grows by the week. The Conservatives risk driving a wedge between themselves and the electorate via @FT" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1692671624711905510) 2023-08-18T22:55Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements "Yes Matt. Most Brits think the young should flee the world your allies have built. Triple lock for pensioners protecting the Tory base while sky high rents for 20-somethings. Of course the young and enterprising want to emigrate. Brexit was the last straw. Little for them here. How depressing. More Brits now think young people would do better in life by moving abroad than staying in the UK. 18-24 yr olds break [--] vs [--] in thinking they'd do better abroad . YouGov https://t.co/AEfb2cqyy7 How depressing. More Brits now think young people would do better in life by moving abroad than staying in" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1692982907873247547) 2023-08-19T19:32Z 86.9K followers, 58.9K engagements "You have to marvel at the sheer mutton headedness of the Brexit right. We set all these great brands backwards on a fateful June day in [----]. And its been downhill ever since The UK is home to a number of iconic fashion brands yet we are losing out on their economic advantage. We should aim to be attracting more tourists than places like Paris reap the economic rewards and render London more attractive. https://t.co/1AA8d9sjZX The UK is home to a number of iconic fashion brands yet we are losing out on their economic advantage. We should aim to be attracting more tourists than places like" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1692986511975678358) 2023-08-19T19:46Z 86.4K followers, 36.6K engagements "All this ambition enterprise and hard work from young entrepreneurs sacrificed on the altar of Brexit lies. The EU market has just gone. I find it heartbreaking. It all disappeared with Brexit: Craft beer boom ends as more than [---] UK firms go bust" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1693325343212417370) 2023-08-20T18:13Z 85.5K followers, 54.6K engagements "The bankruptcy of modern Toryism is its belief that tax cuts are the answer to everything. On spending to boost R and D or relieve child poverty there is not a murmur. Jeremy Hunt urged to cut UK taxes after better than expected borrowing data via @FT" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1694059676390850991) 2023-08-22T18:51Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements "Such a condemnation at every level of Brexit - the non-existent overarching case the poverty of forward planning and zero capacity to implement. A first order debacle. UK government announces fifth delay to post-Brexit border controls for food via @FT" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1696755889984647599) 2023-08-30T05:25Z 85.5K followers, 55.4K engagements "The solution to todays ills Invest in ourselves. Its not so hard. Chaos in our skies crumbling concrete in our schools: grim symptoms of a British disease https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/03/chaos-in-skies-crumbling-concrete-in-schools-grim-symptoms-british-diseaseCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/03/chaos-in-skies-crumbling-concrete-in-schools-grim-symptoms-british-diseaseCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1698249008483872922) 2023-09-03T08:18Z 86.9K followers, 15.6K engagements "Sunak May deny but Education spending doesnt lie. School rebuilding fell from 765m in [----] to 416m in [----]. Build rate should be 3/400. Actual rate: [--]. Truth will out. Rishi Sunak accused of cutting funds for rebuilding schools as chancellor via @FT" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1698649793491251322) 2023-09-04T10:50Z 85.5K followers, 26.5K engagements "Rejoining Horizon is excellent news. Of course its a tragedy that our leadership is over and the [--] year limbo was unnecessary but British and European science is the stronger. Thank God. UK to return to EUs flagship Horizon science research programme https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/06/uk-return-to-eu-horizon-scheme-expected-to-be-confirmed-within-daysCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/06/uk-return-to-eu-horizon-scheme-expected-to-be-confirmed-within-daysCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1699511337716535667) 2023-09-06T19:54Z 86.8K followers, 33.8K engagements "What is fascinating about this pro EU pro science decision to rejoin the EU Horizon programme is the universal welcome it has received. Doubtless some Brexiter will complain. But Brexit is disgraced as failure. There will be the same welcome when we rejoin the EU single market" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1699685460883144956) 2023-09-07T07:26Z 85.5K followers, 334.1K engagements "The triple lock is a disgrace. Schools crumble. Apprenticeships underfunded. Nurseries penally dear. But Tory voting pensioners to get [--] % this year after 10% last. Priorities UK Treasury braced for 8% rise in pensions because of triple lock via @FT https://on.ft.com/3Ewg71U https://on.ft.com/3Ewg71U" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1699847063414952321) 2023-09-07T18:08Z 81.2K followers, 356K engagements "In forcing a U-turn on Horizon scientists are showing that the flaws of Brexit can be overcome https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/10/forcing-uturn-on-horizon-scientists-showing-flaws-of-brexit-can-be-overcomeCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/10/forcing-uturn-on-horizon-scientists-showing-flaws-of-brexit-can-be-overcomeCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1700774911940174041) 2023-09-10T07:35Z 86.9K followers, 11.8K engagements "When SoftBank bought Arm in [----] it was welcomed by every Brexiter - notably Farage - as proof that Britain was open for business Remainers were wrong. We said it was naked tech stripping. Who was rightArm shares jump by 10% as trading begins via @FT https://on.ft.com/3rdlPCY https://on.ft.com/3rdlPCY" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1702368421751435587) 2023-09-14T17:07Z 86.8K followers, [----] engagements "How not to run a country. HS2 route north of Birmingham in doubt as Sunak and Hunt explore more cost-cuts via @FT" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1702368924250058762) 2023-09-14T17:09Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements "Lord David Frost negotiated the most asymmetric trade deal loaded against British interests in our history. He locked in systemic advantages to EU producers. Now he dares to suggest reforming it betrays Brexit. He lives in a world beyond reason" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1703895225633009974) 2023-09-18T22:14Z 85.5K followers, 138.9K engagements "The future of the car industry is electrical battery power - huge investment worldwide. We were behind but catching up. Sunaks delay sets us back again. Green = jobs. Live news: UK motor industry criticises potential delay to petrol car ban via @FT" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1704410352660648182) 2023-09-20T08:21Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements "The UK car industry must speak out as strongly as possible on Sunaks retreat from the future by stalling the move to EV car production. Britain was first into the railway age was just about OK in the car age and is now damned to be last in the EV age - buying Chinese" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1704448622329213165) 2023-09-20T10:53Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements "Rishi Sunak is a weak Prime Minister whose instinct is to duck and weave appeasing the over 65s who vote Tory at scale. But we are grandparents too. We want green industries a future economy and to hand on the planet in good order. An immoral retreat today - bad for us all " [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1704561728007061691) 2023-09-20T18:22Z 84.9K followers, 22.1K engagements "Intriguing dilemma for the Daily Mail - to back their newly signed star columnist Boris Johnson who has been trashed by Sunak and will want to return fire in kind. Or back the Prime Ministers latest U turn" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1704568865143808338) 2023-09-20T18:51Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements "Gosh. Allister Heath who swooned with pleasure at Liz Trusss budget - the best he had ever heard - and who is unfailingly wrong now swoons at Sunaks green climbdown today. We can be sure the policy will bomb" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1704591564402459085) 2023-09-20T20:21Z 84.8K followers, [----] engagements "What is so depressing about Sunaks green U turn is the abandonment of appealing to our better angels - masked by false appeals to pragmatism lies that it is not driven by politics and falsehoods about planned meat taxes etc. Politics as callow followship betraying our future" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1704773651638145506) 2023-09-21T08:24Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements "Sanity at the Bank at last. It was important both the US Fed and the ECB held off further rate rises. We have little autonomy. But good news. Bank of England keeps interest rates on hold at 5.25%" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1704815597131894798) 2023-09-21T11:11Z 84.9K followers, [----] engagements "Everywhere you look we need social science based evidence - on what to do about ailing productivity early years education housing levelling-up safer streets net zero and so much more. Do explore our Election [--] hub and sign up for events An exciting time" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1706319120906469572) 2023-09-25T14:45Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements "Of course the Mail and Telegraph should not be owned by the same individual. Strong piece by Conservative MP David Davis. The Mail and the Telegraph owned by the same man It would be a disaster for the UKs free press" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1707447752412557685) 2023-09-28T17:30Z 85.5K followers, 11.2K engagements "Multiculturalism is a phenomenal British success. Where else could a Hindu Prime Minister and his Buddhist Home Secretary debate the pros and cons On this like so much else Braverman is [---] per cent wrong unself knowing and playing to the GB News/Daily Mail gallery" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1707490536523776083) 2023-09-28T20:20Z 85.5K followers, 25K engagements "3 superb Newsnight reports from Mark Urban on Ukraines [--] th Brigade at the front. Revelatory and fearless truthful reporting. A world apart from GB News and its values.The gods help us if the Tories win in [----] emasculate the BBC and enthrone GB News. Enjoy it while it lasts" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1707514233867456926) 2023-09-28T21:54Z 85.5K followers, 16.5K engagements "It does take a kind of anti-genius to subvert your own party conference by ensuring it is dominated by the story you least want - HS2 cancellation. But the abiding impression is these 3rd rate politicians have outstayed their time. They should leave the national stage. Begone" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1708972675295539611) 2023-10-02T22:30Z 85.5K followers, 30.5K engagements "Liz Trusss growth group now has [--] Tory MPs all baying for tax cuts - the Great British Growth rally at which she spoke the buzziest in Manchester. Cutting corporation tax to 19% achieves nothing: the Tories already did it. Meanwhile gilt yields top 5%. Its just madness" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1709128655371149678) 2023-10-03T08:50Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements "And on cue whenever Liz Truss opens her mouth about unfunded tax cuts the pound falls to its lowest level for [--] 1/2 months. Part of the story is the dollars strength certainly- but be sure the idiocy about tax cuts as the surefire route to growth has not helped matters " [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1709147990357602420) 2023-10-03T10:06Z 84.9K followers, [----] engagements "Sunak summarily executed a policy included in [--] Tory manifestos passed by law by a Tory government and backed by Sunak himself in his leadership campaign . This is government by personal whim. Great piece. Rishi Sunak's pointless revolution - UnHerd" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1709925395389432188) 2023-10-05T13:35Z 85.5K followers, 25.5K engagements "Labours victory in Rutherglen and Hamilton West and all it portends for a general election is unambiguously good news. The country as a whole wants rid of a broken hateful Tory party its base instincts and incapacity to govern in all our interests. [----] promises to be a rout" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1710186524120076377) 2023-10-06T06:53Z 84.9K followers, 25.2K engagements "Agriculture food and drink manufacturing are together our biggest industry yet command too little attention. Food security nutritional standards food investment environmental protection are crucial issues At [----] I chair a major fringe at the Hilton . #BackBritishFarming" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1711308628739645511) 2023-10-09T09:12Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements "Robert Kennedy - narcissism spreading beyond Trump to pollute the whole of the US body politic" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1711524296504320075) 2023-10-09T23:29Z 85.5K followers, 15.8K engagements "Last reflection from Liverpool tonight. Britains core economic problem is low investment. The Reeves speech today addresses it head on - with workable solutions despite the UK with its back to the wall. If not this then what" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1711525840587034864) 2023-10-09T23:35Z 85.5K followers, 25.7K engagements "More unflinching tough reflective comment from within Israel - a tribute to it at such a moment. David Grossman: Israel is in a nightmare. Who will we be when we rise from the ashes via @FT" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1712739237638844577) 2023-10-13T07:57Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements "That Newsnight is as good as it is with a fraction of the budgets we had in the 1980s continues to amaze me. The governments vindictiveness towards the BBC hurts a precious national asset. Looming Newsnight cuts add to fears over future of BBC licence fee" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1713077999162065062) 2023-10-14T06:23Z 85.5K followers, 328.3K engagements "Peter Bone is the 60th Tory MP this parliament one way or another to be involved in reproachable practice - sexual bullying lying harassment etc. It is a record" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1714292852342292501) 2023-10-17T14:50Z 85.5K followers, 75.4K engagements "Thank you Poland for showing faith in EU values under threat from the authoritarian right" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1715998105760383186) 2023-10-22T07:46Z 84.9K followers, 39.5K engagements "Spare us devout MPs like Peter Bone. If we ever had faith in them it is long gone" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1716147844539732045) 2023-10-22T17:41Z 84.9K followers, 11.5K engagements "In defence of HS2. Sunak would have cancelled the motorway building programme of the 1960s and 70s for the same reasons. A decision that looks worse and worse taken for all the wrong reasons. Sunak an agent of change" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1717069116664602933) 2023-10-25T06:42Z 84.9K followers, 14.1K engagements "A Tory PM forced to resign in disgrace now paid extravagantly to present unvarnished views on a news channel We plumb deeper depths of decadence and degradation. Balance Honest GB News as Tory propaganda. Boris Johnson to join GB News as presenters" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1718046600692744630) 2023-10-27T23:26Z 84.8K followers, 90.6K engagements "This is the 61st Tory MP this parliament to fall foul of charges of harassmentsexual misconduct bullying or improper behaviour. In any other organisation this would be a crisis.Minister denies cultural issue among Tory MPs after Crispin Blunts arrests" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1718189307687501977) 2023-10-28T08:53Z 84.9K followers, 90.6K engagements "The EU wasnt prepared to roll over like Liz Truss - so no trade deal with Australia yet. Be sure when one is struck it will be incomparably better than our one sided deal. Trade talks collapse between EU and Australia" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1718749489475793014) 2023-10-29T21:59Z 84.8K followers, [----] engagements "The perfect recruit for GB News. Johnson the man who misgoverned Britain. But he is right-wing so thats OK. Our country is losing its bearings. Covid inquiry: Boris Johnson made it impossible for nation to tackle pandemic effectively as it happened" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1719113529926492218) 2023-10-30T22:06Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements "This story of our post Brexit tomato trade with Morocco - boastful unjustified bragging the non-existent ferry service whose debts were written off and ultimately bare supermarket shelves - is classic Johnsonian misgovernance. He and Brexit a national disgrace" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1719284644888101224) 2023-10-31T09:26Z 84.9K followers, 11.9K engagements "Now to be the star presenter of GB News along with his Daily Mail column. His shamelessness - and those who pay him so richly - defines the decadence of our right wing politics and its media. Perhaps readers and viewers will desert both" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1719342985878397026) 2023-10-31T13:18Z 84.9K followers, 17.8K engagements "Britain spends a quarter less in real terms on education than it did a generation ago - a disgrace. Every time Andrew Dilnot cycles to work past a local primary school he feels joy for the kids and anger how we are betraying them. A social scientist with passion. The We Society" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1720925311976558906) 2023-11-04T22:05Z 84.9K followers, 20.8K engagements "Andrew Rawnsley at his most devastating. He is writing about the Daily Mails star columnist and GB News star presenter- a barometer of how low our media has sunk" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1720954889847648286) 2023-11-05T00:03Z 84.9K followers, 48.8K engagements "Its easy to be dazzled by the super-rich but dont believe that theyll do the right thing" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1721095376952852538) 2023-11-05T09:21Z 84.9K followers, [----] engagements "The manic obsession with tax cuts independent of the condition of key public services - education health and criminal justice system- is destructive and self harming. They must come first. Hunt urged to cut taxes at autumn statement after 15bn windfall" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1721472446711181340) 2023-11-06T10:19Z 84.9K followers, [----] engagements "Increasingly it is Suella Braverman who should be cautioned by the Met as a promoter of hate and division - she is hardly calming matters down" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1722016726580175266) 2023-11-07T22:22Z 84.9K followers, 67.3K engagements "The Kings Speech is a new nadir. Retreat on climate transition on enforcement of vital accounting standards on levelling up. Nothing on the crisis in educationhealth and criminal justice system. Anything good watered down or abandoned despite an investment strike. Incredible" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1722045507441139868) 2023-11-08T00:16Z 84.9K followers, [----] engagements "If Suella Braverman had been smart she would not have made the story in the run up to Armistice day whether or not she is going to be sacked. But she just cant help herself. The Tory party will never win an election with her as leader" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1722892649605087296) 2023-11-10T08:23Z 84.9K followers, [----] engagements "So the government is going to pass a law insisting that Rwandan processes for assessing asylum seekers meet international protocols when everyone knows they dont. How about laws to turn scrap metal into gold and the moon into cheese" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1725285571625410937) 2023-11-16T22:51Z 84.9K followers, 10.2K engagements "The key question in the Autumn statement is how to raise economic growth. The answer is not tax cuts - but doubling chronically low public investment. The right is babbling about tax cuts while Britain burns. Pay no heed Jeremy Hunt" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1726174117433327690) 2023-11-19T09:42Z 84.9K followers, 74.6K engagements "An incredible record . needs repeating endlessly" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1726342848486732204) 2023-11-19T20:53Z 84.9K followers, 17.5K engagements "Britains over-riding priority is investment triggered by doubled public investment. To prefer tax cuts is precisely and totally wrong" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1726578130716914103) 2023-11-20T12:27Z 84.9K followers, [----] engagements "The Autumn Statement is a disgrace. The OBR confirms a savage squeeze in public services after the [----] general election to pay for a [--] bn National Insurance cut and [--] billion corporate tax giveaway before it but paltry impact on dismal growth. Scorched earth economics" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1727332349950722511) 2023-11-22T14:24Z 84.9K followers, 89.1K engagements "Britain faces a development as much as a productivity challenge - the single most important response is a step change in public and private investment strategically co-ordinated. What I will be saying at this mornings launch of this milestone report" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1729816086592307549) 2023-11-29T10:54Z 85K followers, 12.3K engagements "Newsnights fate is an act of vandalism but the principal villain is successive Conservative governments. A lot is at stake at the next election. The honour of presenting @BBCNewsnight falls to me tonight. I have worked on the programme for [--] years around the world risking my life many times for its journalism. You can well imagine my feelings at cuts to our staff and budget of more than 50% https://t.co/zyQTwFKIiI The honour of presenting @BBCNewsnight falls to me tonight. I have worked on the programme for [--] years around the world risking my life many times for its journalism. You can well" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1730006427039666280) 2023-11-29T23:30Z 85.5K followers, 82.3K engagements "Amid all the well-deserved tributes to Alistair Darling never forget that his balanced approach to deficit reduction after the financial crisis was spot on. If his policies had been continued Britain would not have suffered the depredations of Austerity- and thus Brexit" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1730264871218847917) 2023-11-30T16:37Z 81.2K followers, 257.3K engagements "Jeremy - again well said. But then dont write nonsense like you did in todays Times. You know damn well that your Autumn Statement tax cuts were paid for by impossible future cuts in departmental spending. Alistair did the right thing before a difficult election. Do the same" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1730364266736152839) 2023-11-30T23:12Z 85K followers, 11.3K engagements "The economic security and geopolitical logic is clear. Britain and the EU need each other - whatever the denial of an overmighty right wing ecosystem. No [--] darent admit it but Ursula von der Leyen is right: well be going back on Brexit" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1731233039408058764) 2023-12-03T08:44Z 85.1K followers, 53.3K engagements "Be clear. This statement by Rishi Sunak means he proposes unilaterally to set aside the division of powers separating executive legislature and judiciary that is the cornerstone of democratic government. The party with a majority in the Commons is above the law. Rank populism" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1733129277632139766) 2023-12-08T14:19Z 85.1K followers, 166.6K engagements "Dear England - the play that is a homage to England manager Gareth Southgate his values the team he built and an idea of England - brings the audience to its feet. Extraordinary. Joseph Fiennes is incredible as Southgate. A world apart from the world of the Tory right. See it" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1733250513737576733) 2023-12-08T22:21Z 85.1K followers, [----] engagements "Do the Tory right have any conception of how weary the country is of the compromised MP Mark Francois the obsessive Bill Cash and all the other cranks delivering their always poisonous verdicts on policy from whatever self appointed star chamber. Enough. Away with them" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1734340448867770765) 2023-12-11T22:32Z 85.1K followers, 80.7K engagements "This is extraordinary political territory. Measures that according to the Home Secretary are pushing at the edges of the envelope of respect for the law human rights and treaty obligations are somehow moderate Immigration must be managed: but does the UK need to ba a pariah" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1734620819853017226) 2023-12-12T17:06Z 85.1K followers, [----] engagements "It was [--] years ago to the minute that we learned that Britain had elected the most incompetent morally bankrupt and useless government in its history. Heigh Ho New depths have been plumbed. Within thirteen months they will be gone.The collective sigh of relief will be deafening" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1734696424183353720) 2023-12-12T22:07Z 85.1K followers, 126.4K engagements "Todays fall in inflation is very good news. it opens the way to the Bank of England following the US Federal Reserve and cutting interest rates sooner next year. UK inflation slows more than expected to 3.9% amid drop in petrol price business live" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1737375309912023250) 2023-12-20T07:32Z 85.1K followers, [----] engagements "The decline in our parliament and the mores of our MPs is properly beginning to attract attention.A deserted chamber A sixth of MPs upbraided for their conduct Britain is a country that looks to its parliament. And the truth is parliament is failing us https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/21/trust-in-mps-house-of-commons-peter-bone-rishi-sunakCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/21/trust-in-mps-house-of-commons-peter-bone-rishi-sunakCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1737783337706459611) 2023-12-21T10:33Z 81.2K followers, 45.9K engagements "Christmas Eve [----]. Lets try to make surer the malnutrition crisis blighting millions of childrens lives is less next year and less every year after that. We cant go on like this. Children have bowed legs: hunger worse than ever says Norwich school" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1739052974658187772) 2023-12-24T22:38Z [--] followers, 28.5K engagements "Brexit is now high farce. [----] % of respondents did NOT want to bring back Imperial measures - a Brexit liberty. So the government backtracks & just offers pints of wine as a freedom Pitiful. Pint of wine anyone UK looks to bring back silly measure" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1739977248243888361) 2023-12-27T11:51Z 85.5K followers, 83K engagements "The worst aspect of allowing Truss to dispense honours is that it sullies so many who truly deserved their honour. The only saving grace is that along with the Baroness Mone affair it makes House of Lords reform - or at the very least the appointments process - irresistible" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741010099102212404) 2023-12-30T08:15Z [--] followers, 54.8K engagements "Reality check for all Brexiters. The EU is launching a common charger for all digital devices - a brilliant cost saving initiative. Does Britain follow the dead hand of the EU Or create our own expensive system as a Brexit freedom The EU common charger" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1741087563631268021) 2023-12-30T13:23Z 85.5K followers, 119.4K engagements "These condemnations of Brexit on every metric are deadly - the reason why along with a record of epic misgovernance the country has made up its mind to ditch the Tories. Brexit has completely failed for UK say clear majority of Britons poll" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1741249147599020534) 2023-12-31T00:05Z 85.5K followers, 37.7K engagements "Tax cuts - the obsession of the Tory party- have little or no impact on growth. What will is reforming our woeful savings and investment system. Britain is stuck in a doom loop: the system is rigged against growth. That needs to change" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1741391910525190490) 2023-12-31T09:32Z 85.5K followers, 12.9K engagements "Never has the case for fixed term parliaments been clearer. Everyone knows the incumbent Sunak will choose the date for maximum party advantage - almost certainly the late Autumn - but the uncertainty damages the economy and good government. It is a democratic outrage" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1742470844272595157) 2024-01-03T08:59Z 85.5K followers, 41.3K engagements "On Budget day on March [--] the whole right wing ecosystem will delight in the tax cuts and small state. Pity the lengthening queue of [---] million households waiting for social homes. Spending on affordable housing in England to be slashed in [----] via @FT" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1743190908466549080) 2024-01-05T08:41Z 85.5K followers, 13.4K engagements "The climate is changing before our eyes - but the political right is in denial. Action might mean more state and higher taxes. Former energy minister Chris Skidmore is standing down on the issue as a Tory MP. A principled man in an unprincipled party" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743336461770858997) 2024-01-05T18:19Z [--] followers, 75.1K engagements "Great story on more Tory corruption - but Tory misuse of public funds for party interests is endemic. Think Jenrick and Berry and the Towns fund.There must be a police investigation. The Minister investigated for spending taxpayer cash on Tory campaigns" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1743754402471592081) 2024-01-06T22:00Z 85.5K followers, 15.6K engagements "The current wave of strikes are of course about money - but they also betray profound dissatisfaction with unhappy and badly managed workplaces. We need change - and unions are part of it. Management and unions cooperating That would make everyone happier" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1743931186194391396) 2024-01-07T09:42Z 84.8K followers, [----] engagements "The earliest known image of Keith Richard ( it amused me anyway )" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744120128684319151) 2024-01-07T22:13Z [--] followers, 19K engagements "And after cladding how about how the Towns fund money was spent ITV may have hit a golden seam. The Post Office scandal shows the power of television and television drama in particular to channel injustice. If there are any TV writers looking for a subject that could do with the same treatment the cladding/building safety scandal is just waiting for you The Post Office scandal shows the power of television and television drama in particular to channel injustice. If there are any TV writers looking for a subject that could do with the same treatment the cladding/building safety scandal is just" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744664373895790829) 2024-01-09T10:16Z [--] followers, 10.4K engagements "Another zinger from Rafael Behr - on the money as always. Keir Starmer dodging Tory traps is a sign of good judgment not timidity" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1745199100083978539) 2024-01-10T21:41Z 85.5K followers, 18.9K engagements "Britain has an investment crisis . Labours [--] billion for which it is under attack barely holds the line let alone changes the trajectory. Conservative plans for further falls in investment intensify the crisis . We live in La-La land. Watch this clear exposition There's been a lot of nonsense spouted about Labour's 28bn green investment plans. And doubtless there'll be lots more nonsense spouted in the coming months. With that in mind here's my primer on the plan - and its affordability. No nonsense. But maybe one or two charts. https://t.co/pIBWANfm6H There's been a lot of nonsense spouted" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1746110348405416227) 2024-01-13T10:02Z 85.5K followers, 29.2K engagements "ITV drama - like BBC and C4 drama - is informed by an ethic of public service broadcasting that the Conservative right want to break. It can be critical of Tories unlike the Mail and GB News. ITV deserves all the accolades it is receiving:they are for public service broadcasting" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1746674416992297174) 2024-01-14T23:23Z [--] followers, 19.6K engagements "The heart of Britains problems is systemic lack of investment across the board. Redressing that crisis is the national priority- not tax cuts. Jeremy Hunt instead of blowing 10bn on tax cuts why not spend it on boosting growth" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1749008524787486791) 2024-01-21T09:58Z 85.5K followers, 53.2K engagements "I dont know how many will be able to read this important article behind the Sunday Times firewall - but its important and should be said. I fear Binyamin Netanyahu has walked into Hamass trap" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1749193383086621105) 2024-01-21T22:12Z [--] followers, 26.4K engagements "This mania for tax cuts is mad. Why not Hunt has room to help Ukraine boost the depleted armed services rescue bankrupt local government raise investment pay junior doctors etc etc Lower government borrowing gives Hunt room for tax cuts" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1749786140112982052) 2024-01-23T13:28Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements "The Republican Party is in thrall to a demon. Importantly independents came out massively for Haley in New Hampshire and note how big the anti Trump was in both Iowa and New Hampshire despite Trumps demonic grip. He may win the nomination but not the Presidency" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1750053550783148431) 2024-01-24T07:10Z [--] followers, 20.2K engagements "The Tories have seriously lost the plot. Cutting taxes given stricken public services and the need to increase defence spending is the wrong priority. They may even be unpopular. Sunak to cut taxes twice more before election says Tory chair" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1750903936502898850) 2024-01-26T15:30Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "Im an Arsenal supporter but Jurgen Klopps stepping down is not just a loss to Liverpool FC but English football and our national life. A genuinely great man. Hope he gets lots of applause. Jrgen Klopp to step down as Liverpool manager at end of season" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1750908580419518900) 2024-01-26T15:48Z 85.5K followers, 15.6K engagements "The British and American governments cannot indulge the Netanyahu response to the ICJ interim judgement as anti-semitic. We must join the EU and insist Israel heed its recommendations The international rule of law cannot be cherry-picked without dangerous global consequences" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1751150609116328027) 2024-01-27T07:50Z 85.5K followers, 11.3K engagements "Very good news from Germany. German rightwing populists defeated in regional election via @FT" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1751934233780593080) 2024-01-29T11:44Z 85.5K followers, 32K engagements "What is particularly good news is the turnout- nearly doubled - is in a very poor part of working class former East Germany who came out massively against what is now obviously a neo-nazi party. Very good news from Germany. German rightwing populists defeated in regional election via @FT https://t.co/2CBrpavOSr Very good news from Germany. German rightwing populists defeated in regional election via @FT https://t.co/2CBrpavOSr" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1751973607972958668) 2024-01-29T14:20Z 85.5K followers, 15.8K engagements "For wild hyperbole this Allister Heath column reaches new heights. A piece for the archives - a barometer of the madnesses now gripping the Tory ultra right " [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1752839774639956353) 2024-01-31T23:42Z 85.5K followers, 10.8K engagements "I hope the Times paywall relents to allow everyone to read this powerful column on freedom by Matthew Parris. Should be mandatory. Brilliant. The Tory right has never understood freedom" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1753924562641650085) 2024-02-03T23:32Z 85.5K followers, 44.3K engagements "Public libraries bin collection support for the local helpless and distressed - even the supply of public toilets are under pressure as never before. The Tories starved councils thinking no one cared. Now theyre bust and we care very muchh" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1754052764374634659) 2024-02-04T08:02Z 85.5K followers, 33.2K engagements "This gracious generous and honest letter of resignation by Oxford University Chancellor Chris Patten (because of age) is typical.He would prefer a farewell dinner rather than a memorial at which my part would be necessarily limited . A great man - last of the liberal Tories. Christopher Patten Lord Patten of Barnes: 'I think it is true to say that Oxford as a whole made me.' https://t.co/VD0x6pL487 Christopher Patten Lord Patten of Barnes: 'I think it is true to say that Oxford as a whole made me.' https://t.co/VD0x6pL487" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1754812465018192187) 2024-02-06T10:21Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements "When the PM and Piers Morgan strike a [----] TV bet about desperate human lives whom do you abhor the most" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1755013897839394973) 2024-02-06T23:41Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements "Brilliant analysis of how online platforms are degrading into naked exploitation or enshittification. We need a public internet and public social media platforms. Enshittification is coming for absolutely everything via @FT" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1755523243090362472) 2024-02-08T09:25Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott is exposed - courteously and forensically by Evan Davis - as completely ignorant about the trajectory of UK national debt. But babbles about tax cuts congruent with fiscal rules. Not fit to hold office. Evan Davis schools the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott on debt to GDP. ED: This is really basic. I'm amazed you don't know that debt is rising LT: I've got different figures #bbcpm https://t.co/ujVfOybVcv Evan Davis schools the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott on debt to GDP. ED: This is really basic. I'm amazed you don't" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1756065801222676774) 2024-02-09T21:21Z 85.6K followers, 44.6K engagements "Now this from my former colleague Larry Elliott ( with whose pro Brexit views I strongly disagree). But its hard to gainsay his argument. Is this where Labour wants to be By ditching its green plan Labour reveals its ideological vacuum" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1756755224671220010) 2024-02-11T19:00Z 85.6K followers, 13.1K engagements "The weakness of our armed services is a national embarrassment- underfunded under equipped undermanned. But failure to lift taxes mean lots of private underground cinemas in Notting Hill Further embarrassment for Royal Navy as carrier fails to set sail" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1756816594959847545) 2024-02-11T23:04Z 85.6K followers, [----] engagements "British GDP is [--] percent lower as a result of Brexit calculate Goldman Sachs stripping UK economy of any dynamism. It will get worse. It is now vital the damage is recognised - and remedied. As Brexit damage persistsa tale of two competing strategies https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dfccbfff-f3e2-478f-92cb-d5d956ddc2d8shareToken=4f84f4cfdf4d70e94eb3af5edde8ab40 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dfccbfff-f3e2-478f-92cb-d5d956ddc2d8shareToken=4f84f4cfdf4d70e94eb3af5edde8ab40" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1757685219136557197) 2024-02-14T08:36Z 81.2K followers, 155K engagements "Alexei Navalny was a great man. Unimaginable courage. A magnificent cause. Just adding this small tribute to the many millions of others. I hope enough Republicans in the US House of the Representatives have a trace of his courage and vote to support Ukraine" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1758631215282934081) 2024-02-16T23:15Z 85.6K followers, 12.2K engagements "Blair had education education education as his battle cry mantra. Starmer should adopt investment investment investment. Its the only way out of the economic morass. The first step to our economic liberation is to tear up these crippling fiscal rules" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1759136058451591360) 2024-02-18T08:41Z 85.6K followers, 30.6K engagements "On the question of overseas state media ownership of UK media assets Andrew Neil is correct. And Aaron Banks is revealed as an anti- democrat - hardly a surprise. Of course the same principle applies across the board. Neil would (I hope) defend the liberal press no less fiercely. So the Kremlin should be allowed to buy Sky News Beijing should be allowed to own The Times/Sunday Times All market economies even those with the least state intervention have rules governing such matters. Even a cursory examination of the economic literature quickly shows So the Kremlin should be allowed to buy Sky" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1759673737463337170) 2024-02-19T20:18Z 85.6K followers, 14.9K engagements "Im not sure Nigel Farages opinion- self proclaimed future leader of the Tory party Trump apologist and implicitly for the fighting- is worth a row of beans. I'm not sure that our future King should be doing this. He should stick to the BAFTAs. https://t.co/fLq4GFQ4Tg I'm not sure that our future King should be doing this. He should stick to the BAFTAs. https://t.co/fLq4GFQ4Tg" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1760014910057042169) 2024-02-20T18:53Z 85.6K followers, [----] engagements "In Liz Trusss world its the deep state that is opposed to her approach to tax cuts - not the overwhelming majority of the British public. Our new polling with @OpiniumResearch shows that only one in six Britons want tax cuts and oppose key tax reforms. Browse the report now at https://t.co/ekU9Rq2Ivc or read the 🧵 below for a summary https://t.co/hMrKrqqO9l Our new polling with @OpiniumResearch shows that only one in six Britons want tax cuts and oppose key tax reforms. Browse the report now at https://t.co/ekU9Rq2Ivc or read the 🧵 below for a summary https://t.co/hMrKrqqO9l" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1761012511929692594) 2024-02-23T12:57Z 85.6K followers, 10.7K engagements "All Curb Your Enthusiasm and Larry David fans - the greatest comedy series ever and greatest comedian - will be saddened by news of the death of his friend and co-star Richard Lewis. Commiserations and condolences from the UK. Thank you for so many many laughs" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1762954404561387974) 2024-02-28T21:34Z 85.6K followers, [----] engagements "This crazed focus on the annual budget as the route to growth is one of the reasons we have so little growth. A marginal shaving of tax will make no difference . What would is the crowding in of more business investment by sustained high public investment - of which no mention" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1764635316659401087) 2024-03-04T12:53Z 85.9K followers, 24K engagements "As the Tory media delight in the purposeless tax cuts tomorrow spare a thought for the prison governors head teachers hospital managers GPs local governments and courts managing impossible conditions. Mourn the [--] bn of lost tax due to Brexit. And resolve: never again" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1764978002742358107) 2024-03-05T11:35Z 85.7K followers, 62.4K engagements "Anybody who seriously thinks the fate of the UK economy hangs on [--] p off National Insurance or [--] p off the standard rate of income tax needs medical help. The whole debate is pathetic- a condemnation of how the Westminster and media village are in thrall to Treasury bookkeeping" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1765108755987857567) 2024-03-05T20:14Z 85.8K followers, 190.6K engagements "Get well soon John. We need you Personal News. I had a heart attack at the gym on Friday night. Been in hospital ever since. Not knowing what's wrong terrifying. Today had angiogram and dodgy artery now mended. Thank you so much to all the staff at St George's. You could not have cared more. Personal News. I had a heart attack at the gym on Friday night. Been in hospital ever since. Not knowing what's wrong terrifying. Today had angiogram and dodgy artery now mended. Thank you so much to all the staff at St George's. You could not have cared more" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1767523188005593194) 2024-03-12T12:09Z 81.2K followers, 34.7K engagements "One of the most distressing accounts of British life today Ive recently read. Desperate neglect: teachers washing clothes and finding beds as poverty grips Englands schools" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1769100867788001397) 2024-03-16T20:38Z 85.8K followers, 43.8K engagements "Ignore the rightwing moaners. We dont have 9m shirkers theyjust want better work" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1769292107137585219) 2024-03-17T09:18Z 85.8K followers, 10.8K engagements "I was there - much better than the pre-briefings. Pro-public investment changes to the fiscal rules distancing herself from Thatcher and Lawson powerful case for securonomics and clear commitment to growth social justice and the green agenda. Hard to dispute her analysis. A substantial and in some respects radical Mais Lecture from Rachel Reeves.a shame it was briefed in advance as channelling Margaret Thatcher when it was partly a repudiation of Thatcher/ Lawson.such shallow game playing wont fool Daily Telegraph readers while ensuring others A substantial and in some respects radical Mais" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1770235777638690917) 2024-03-19T23:47Z 85.8K followers, 32.5K engagements "For the birds Far from it. At last Rachel Reeves has given Britain a plan for economic liftoff" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1771826662503539066) 2024-03-24T09:09Z 85.8K followers, 45.2K engagements "The government is completely right to take a strong line on China. Of course it exposes the Brexit blather about a pivot to Asia as the vapid bullshit it always was. Britain in geopolitical defence security and trade policy must stand with the EU. Brexit is national betrayal" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1772577528034505052) 2024-03-26T10:53Z 85.9K followers, 22.3K engagements "Three cheers for Gordon Brown - a really imaginative and ingenious set of proposals to address the scandal of child poverty costing taxpayers virtually nothing. Britain seems stuck in a doom loop of poverty. I have a plan to raise billions to address that https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/27/britain-seems-stuck-in-a-doom-loop-of-poverty-i-have-a-plan-to-raise-billions-to-address-thatCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/27/britain-seems-stuck-in-a-doom-loop-of-poverty-i-have-a-plan-to-raise-billions-to-address-thatCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1773291242798874677) 2024-03-28T10:09Z 85.9K followers, 77.2K engagements "Two grandchildren now live in Italy. Same story whenever I send presents. Yes yay for Brexit Just had to pay [--] in customs charges to get three Easter eggs sent by grandparents in Ireland released from the Post Office. Yay for Brexit Just had to pay [--] in customs charges to get three Easter eggs sent by grandparents in Ireland released from the Post Office. Yay for Brexit" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1773506183552233741) 2024-03-29T00:23Z 85.9K followers, 25.4K engagements "This Time No Mistakes: How To Remake Britain - my new book - is published on April 11th. Here is a preview - and Happy Easter The UK is trapped in a cycle of political social and financial turmoil. But there is a way out https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/31/will-hutton-this-time-no-mistakes-extractCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/31/will-hutton-this-time-no-mistakes-extractCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1774355472453189662) 2024-03-31T08:38Z 85.9K followers, 32K engagements "Nigel Farage said no church for him this Easter to hear some Marxist vicar. So I thought I would. Im not sure about resurrection but I am sure about the core message of fellowship redemption and love the vicar delivered. Its the best of England. Peace be with you Nigel" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1774396813056876777) 2024-03-31T11:22Z 85.9K followers, 19.9K engagements "Its not just Thatcherism and its imitators that has laid Britain low its Tory deification of past glories to inform tomorrow - an extract from This Time No Mistakes. Conservativism biggest failure is the despair it has created about Britains future https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/conservatism-failure-britain-future-ukCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/conservatism-failure-britain-future-ukCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1774733518507004351) 2024-04-01T09:40Z 85.9K followers, 22.6K engagements "Ditching European trade for China and India was ever a poor bet. Now its a farce https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/07/ditching-european-trade-for-china-and-india-poor-bet-now-farce-will-huttonCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/07/ditching-european-trade-for-china-and-india-poor-bet-now-farce-will-huttonCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" [X Link](https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/1776889078769692908) 2024-04-07T08:25Z 86.1K followers, 13.4K engagements Limited data mode. 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"Airbus prepares to leave. Pfizer warns UK life science dominance under threat. Our two last great industries - pharma and aerospace - quiver before Brexit. Thank you Nigel Farrage Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg - enemies of manufacturing"
X Link 2018-06-22T11:38Z 86.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Incredible [--] (thread). Most UK papers think a drunken snog at Strictly is the most important story today. More important than a terrifying new #IPCC report saying we have [--] years to stave off the catastrophic effects of global warming. https://t.co/NuO8OKkrEB [--] (thread). Most UK papers think a drunken snog at Strictly is the most important story today. More important than a terrifying new #IPCC report saying we have [--] years to stave off the catastrophic effects of global warming. https://t.co/NuO8OKkrEB"
X Link 2018-10-09T09:21Z 81.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Every member of the Labour party should be shamed that the most cogent argument v. Mrs Mays deal is from Jo Johnson. Keir Starmer would make it if he could. But his leaders lack of leadership and europhobe instincts block him. A tragic disgrace that he leads this great party"
X Link 2018-11-14T00:39Z 86.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Extraordinary Britain in effect has cut Gibraltar loose. Brexit will mean co-sharing its sovereignty with Spain. Poor poor Britain. Our economic and political standing is set to plummet as the Brexit vandals vie for Tory leadership"
X Link 2018-11-24T21:18Z 82.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Investment in the UK car industry is now down [--] % in [--] years. Increasing paralysis defines the London housing market spreading to rest of the UK. Inward investment has collapsed. This was called Project Fear by Leavers. History will damn their arrogant insouciance"
X Link 2019-01-31T07:14Z 86.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The EU free trade agreement with Japan launched today now makes the EU [--] and its free trade agreements with [--] countries by far the largest trade-promoting global free trade network. Only purblind ex public school Brexit boys and right wing demagogues cant see it"
X Link 2019-02-01T10:38Z 82.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Its worth repeating. Today we learn Japanese trade negotiators are stalling over talks to extract every advantage possible. An independent trade policy is a myth: it is a synonym for being savaged. The Brexit shock will cost UK as much cumulatively as the financial crisis"
X Link 2019-02-09T10:39Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements
"So it comes to this. [--] DUP MPs not even representing majority opinion in Northern Ireland and an ERG star chamber of Brexiter lawyers determine the fate of the UK. The Labour party may need a makeover; but the Tory party is now broken a menace to country and economy"
X Link 2019-03-12T08:56Z 86.1K followers, [----] engagements
"A must watch. You can be sure the same dark forces will be at work in the European Parliament elections - exploiting the tragic inability of the Remain parties to make common cause. This is @carolecadwalla being brave and brilliant. Its well worth a watch and a retweet x https://t.co/MGswXfDU9K This is @carolecadwalla being brave and brilliant. Its well worth a watch and a retweet x https://t.co/MGswXfDU9K"
X Link 2019-04-18T08:17Z 81.2K followers, [---] engagements
"The economy declines in the 2nd quarter. Will be flat in the 3rd and then decline again. Sterling lower than Project Fear projected. Recession in [----]. Housing market frozen. Its a gathering economic calamity. But what Brexiter gives a shit for the blighted lives of millions"
X Link 2019-08-09T21:02Z 86.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The intellectual tide is turning. The US business roundtable declared [--] weeks ago business had obligations to all its stakeholders - not just shareholders. Now this from EY today. Steward companies - dont sweat them. https://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/Turning-the-tide-to-greater-corporate-accountability/$FILE/ey-turning-the-tide-to-greater-corporate-accountability.pdf https://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/Turning-the-tide-to-greater-corporate-accountability/$FILE/ey-turning-the-tide-to-greater-corporate-accountability.pdf"
X Link 2019-09-10T08:59Z 81.2K followers, [--] engagements
"What Johnson wants asap is a people v parliament election. The Opposition must not give it him: the more he waits the more he is exposed. An interim government must extend article [--] hold a referendum and then a general election. Corbyn would be smart to keep his hands clean"
X Link 2019-09-28T10:23Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements
"There are occasions when it is fundamental to listen to a parliamentarian in full forensic flow. Hear Keir Starmer out. It is devastating. Johnsons deal is a mendacious self damaging cul-de-sac. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=4K2d8Y5L3Mc https://www.youtube.com/watchv=4K2d8Y5L3Mc"
X Link 2019-10-19T22:16Z 86.8K followers, [----] engagements
"To Labour voters living in RichmondEsher and Wokingham dont waste your vote. Vote LibDem. To LibDem voters in Chingford Wycombe and Shipley vote Labour. We can be rid of Goldsmith Raab Redwood IDS Baker and Phillip Davies if you vote tactically. #TacticalVote alert #TacticalVote alert"
X Link 2019-11-24T19:25Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements
"This needs to be said over over and over. Corbyn and his coterie aided and abetted by Momentum have betrayed class party country and Europe. Political ineptitude on a grand scale Yes the heavens wept today. One day it can and must be different. But without them "
X Link 2019-12-12T22:22Z 81.2K followers, 13.8K engagements
"An honourable director of strategy and communications after Labours electoral disaster would have resigned. Instead Seumas Milne has manoeuvred a full time staff contract. A shameless malign cancer at the heart of Labour now working for Rebecca Long-Baileys leadership bid"
X Link 2019-12-20T19:50Z 86.9K followers, [----] engagements
"As the gang round Johnson run amok hyper-centralising power and set to shred the economy on the altar of an ultra hard Brexit CorbynMcCluskey Murphy Lavery and the whole Corbynite crew have some urgent heart-searching to do. They gifted this. They need to be held to account"
X Link 2020-02-13T20:40Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements
"We must keep saying this and repeating this. The attempt by the British government in the middle of this pandemic to discredit ostracise and delegitimise C4NewsNewsnight and Good Morning Britain by refusing interviews is a democratic and civic outrage. We are all reduced. No one from the government has appeared on @Channel4News for three weeks and for the entire week we have not been given the opportunity to ask a question at the press conference. Extraordinary lack of engagement during a global crisis. #coronavirus No one from the government has appeared on @Channel4News for three weeks and"
X Link 2020-06-05T21:23Z 82.6K followers, 22.2K engagements
"Both Andrew Rawnsley in the Observer and Tim Shipman in the Sunday Times reliably report the growing Tory concern that the party will be politically damned for delivering the highest death rate and deepest recession in the west. Correct. The Brexit right has met its Waterloo"
X Link 2020-06-14T12:24Z 81.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Britain is run as an extended Brexit campaign - on false belief in British exceptionalism on slogans and overclaiming. Ministers are incompetent: a hollowed-out public administration is ineffective: the economy is fragile. The deaths and unemployment will sweep Johnson away"
X Link 2020-06-19T20:21Z 81.2K followers, 10.9K engagements
"Universities should have agreed only to bring all their students back when there was an effective national test and trace system + a vaccine in prospect. i saw up close the trials of university life in a pandemic. We should have done better. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/04/i-saw-up-close-the-trials-of-university-life-in-a-pandemic-we-should-have-done-betterCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/04/i-saw-up-close-the-trials-of-university-life-in-a-pandemic-we-should-have-done-betterCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"
X Link 2020-10-04T08:37Z 81.2K followers, [---] engagements
"This is Orwellian - an ad in todays Sunday papers. It will take at least five years for additional sales of food and drink to Japan to compensate for food and drink sales lost to the EU in January alone. Taxpayers should not be paying for such rank disinformation. Its propaganda"
X Link 2021-03-14T20:24Z 81.2K followers, 11.7K engagements
"The recall of Parliament this Wednesday days after the establishment of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is symbolic of the futility of the UKs position and the poverty of our political leadership. Humiliation at home and abroad"
X Link 2021-08-15T22:44Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements
"If Johnson survives partygate he will move his valued member of the cabinet Rishi Sunak to the Home Office demote Patel and give the Treasury to Gove. He (and the UK) needs a Chancellor who embraces 21st century economics not a 19th century Thatcherite book-keeper"
X Link 2022-03-28T07:23Z 81.2K followers, [---] engagements
"ITV now brave enough to report the deep economic costs of Brexit. The clouds are darkening as the many chickens come to roost. Brexit cost the UK billions in lost trade and tax revenues research finds ITV News https://www.itv.com/news/2022-06-09/brexit-cost-the-uk-billions-in-lost-trade-and-tax-revenues-research-finds https://www.itv.com/news/2022-06-09/brexit-cost-the-uk-billions-in-lost-trade-and-tax-revenues-research-finds"
X Link 2022-06-09T21:20Z 82.5K followers, [----] engagements
"What a day. We live in a country whose leader once again breaks the law - and who mandates asylum seekers being sent to Rwanda with no appeal. We are shamed and diminished that such a man with such values in such a broken political party is our Prime Minister. Not in our names"
X Link 2022-06-13T21:49Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements
"At last Labour makes a tremulous baby step on Brexit. At least no crap about Brexit opportunities or crazed drivel about de-aligning from EU rules. A dose of reality but still a long way to go. Labour unveils plans to seek limited changes to Brexit deal https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/23/labour-unveil-plans-to-seek-limited-changes-to-brexit-dealCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/23/labour-unveil-plans-to-seek-limited-changes-to-brexit-dealCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"
X Link 2022-06-23T20:28Z 80.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Our current political discourse is surreal. BBC Today plays [----] Remainer Truss warning that Brexit will cause falling investment and living standards. All her predictions were right. Except she now says she was wrong and instead Brexit is full of opportunity. Except its not"
X Link 2022-07-21T10:58Z 81.2K followers, 12.8K engagements
"What has happened to the Tory party A Dutch auction over how repressive we can be on immigrationmad obsession with tax cuts over public health and education and baring fangs at European neighbours used to be the preserve of the right wing fringe. Now its the Tory mainstream"
X Link 2022-07-24T18:55Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Boris Johnson lies has no ethics and respects no rules. But his talent was to mix very right wing policies with levelling up and net zero - all in primary colours. Truss has no such qualities: she is just very right-wing Miscue will follow miscue. She will be derided: then hated"
X Link 2022-08-08T08:54Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Ardently hoping and praying that Salman Rushdie pulls through. Unbelievable mediaeval hatred to have triggered such a stabbing - from someone only [--] years old. Who is happier or better as a result And how is such hatred nurtured and sustained So important Rushdie survives"
X Link 2022-08-12T21:18Z 81.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Kwarteng is putting immense pressure on the Bank of England not to have an emergency interest rate rise. It would be a Black Wednesday moment kill his agenda his Chancellorship and the government. So sterling is in vulnerable no-mans land.The worst Chancellor for [--] years"
X Link 2022-09-26T22:29Z 82.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Unrepentant Truss learned nothing in Washington peddling her nonsense and being feted. The Tory party is an ungovernable rabble https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/01/30/liz-truss-republican-party-00080280 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/01/30/liz-truss-republican-party-00080280"
X Link 2023-01-31T11:04Z 86.9K followers, 38.8K engagements
"Fox acknowledges some claims about Dominion false pay an incredible $787.5mn to avoid cross-examination but crucially make no apology. Murdoch will see that as a win. Rupert Murdochs Fox agrees $787.5mn settlement in Dominion defamation case via @FT https://on.ft.com/3mIr6A3 https://on.ft.com/3mIr6A3"
X Link 2023-04-18T22:29Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Once a country makes a mistake of the scale of Brexit which the perpetrators refuse to acknowledge the cascade of consequences is profound. Everything is polluted. Britain in Crisis: The UK Faces a Steep Climb Out of a Deep Hole - DER SPIEGEL https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/britain-in-crisis-the-uk-faces-a-steep-climb-out-of-a-deep-hole-a-6b61dc6f-e33f-46f3-bd27-743364dd675c https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/britain-in-crisis-the-uk-faces-a-steep-climb-out-of-a-deep-hole-a-6b61dc6f-e33f-46f3-bd27-743364dd675c"
X Link 2023-04-23T20:56Z 87K followers, 553.7K engagements
"The Brexit fantasy has no limits. Here is Jacob Rees-Mogg claiming that Brexit stopped Russia from succeeding in Ukraine because it allowed UK freedom to lead. US leadership money and arms NATO Would EU prevent UK action He lives on planet Bonkers. https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-stopped-ukraine-invasion-from-succeeding-jacob-rees-mogg-says-12880590 https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-stopped-ukraine-invasion-from-succeeding-jacob-rees-mogg-says-12880590"
X Link 2023-05-14T10:52Z 82.4K followers, 176K engagements
"This deranged individual has a weekly column in the Telegraph and allegedly edits the Sunday Telegraph. This piece goes into paranoid la-la-land: but an insight into the recesses of the ideological right. DeSantis to the rescue What can he be smoking"
X Link 2023-06-29T21:17Z 84.9K followers, 36.4K engagements
"A propos the mortgage rate - a [--] year fixed rate mortgage in France is [---] per cent. An advantage of euro membership is cheap long term fixed rate mortgages. Will be a good argument to make if and when the next EU referendum comes around"
X Link 2023-06-18T17:04Z 81.2K followers, 508.9K engagements
"The interest rate rise to [--] per cent after yesterdays inflation numbers was inevitable. So now is a recession. The root of our dismal inflation performance is stagnant productivity caused by stagnant investment - the collapse of confidence in post -Brexit UK with no strategy"
X Link 2023-06-22T11:28Z 86.9K followers, 63.7K engagements
"Thames Water built up [--] bn of debts eleven years ago to pay dividends to a consortia of private owners in tax haven Luxembourg. Its downfall was obvious then. Thames Water a private equity plaything that takes us for fools Will Hutton The Guardian"
X Link 2023-06-29T05:47Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements
"What an anti British tribe the Tories have become. An ex PM expelled from the House of Commons as a liar. A current PM and Home Secretary determined to breach the rule of law at home and abroad over Rwanda. They are a national and international embarrassment"
X Link 2023-06-29T12:52Z 84.9K followers, 104.5K engagements
"When Suella Braverman talks of the Rwanda policy expressing the will of the British policy (challenged by British courts) what she means is the will of the Tory right and the Daily Mail. It is existential for them. To leave the European Court of Human Rights plumbs new depths"
X Link 2023-06-29T22:13Z 85.5K followers, [---] engagements
"People have argued for a reset of capitalism for years to show how it can work for all - investing innovating acting socially responsibly. Have we arrived at the moment Now water bosses you must show how capitalism can work for the common good"
X Link 2023-07-12T22:40Z 84.9K followers, 415.6K engagements
"UK car industry RIP - killed by Johnsons absurd hard Brexit. Production has halved since 2016: it will half again by [----] and be dead by [----] as EV becomes the norm. Brussels to stick with plan for post-Brexit tariffs on UK EV imports from [----] via @FT"
X Link 2023-07-09T09:16Z 85.5K followers, 763.2K engagements
"The Sun achieved its aim. It set out to wound the BBC whatever the collateral damage and however contestable its journalism. The result is one more step to a world the right cherishes - where there is no trusted source of news. And the BBCs own OTT coverage made it worse"
X Link 2023-07-13T00:40Z 85.5K followers, 312.2K engagements
"It becomes ever harder to understand the British American and European right wing on the impending global super heating. Would they literally prefer to fry rather than act"
X Link 2023-07-17T21:14Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Amazing that fellow GB News presenter - Lee Andersen Deputy Chair of the Tory party - hasnt already declared GB news a safe haven for sex pests.He did the BBC on similar allegations. Sun and Mail publishers examine claims against journalist Dan Wootton"
X Link 2023-07-18T20:48Z 85.5K followers, 25.2K engagements
"Its obvious the Tory leadership keen to appease Farage is going to lean on NatWest to sack Alison Rose over the Coutts affair. She has done a great job and is a superb CEO. Besides her decency and integrity Farage is a pygmy. A bad day for UK business if the mob gets her"
X Link 2023-07-25T21:30Z 88.2K followers, 580.9K engagements
"NatWest is woke capitalism says Farage. Under Rose it was transitioning to a bank Britain needs: engaged with Small and Medium sized companies improving financial literacy ready to support net zero - and profitable . Woke Only Farage Sunak and Tory right can think that"
X Link 2023-07-26T20:37Z 82.3K followers, 80K engagements
"The Brexit mob have got NatWest in its crosshairs. Now the CEO of Coutts goes (if anyone is at fault its him) Farage backed by Sunak is after the chair next. This is wild disproportionate carnage. A good bank laid low by one mans cupidity. But he is a Brexiter so thats OK"
X Link 2023-07-27T15:42Z 83.1K followers, 172.1K engagements
"This mornings Express. Right-wing press now going after inheritance tax. We live with breathtaking wealth inequality very lightly taxed. Every civilisation has taxed bequests because every civilisation recognises we are all part of society. Except the Tory press and its allies"
X Link 2023-07-27T17:16Z 85.5K followers, 27.2K engagements
"Now. Will those fighters for the democratic right of every citizen to have a bank account (Farage was offered an account at NatWest) etc rally to Gina Millers side I doubt it. Gina Miller voices fear for democracy over closure of her partys bank account https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/28/gina-miller-true-and-fair-party-monzo-bank-accountCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/28/gina-miller-true-and-fair-party-monzo-bank-accountCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"
X Link 2023-07-28T12:23Z 87.3K followers, 131.2K engagements
"A chorus of right wing commentators and politicians decry woke NatWest and side with Farage - and not only them. It is a purpose driven bank producing startling profits and performance as todays results proved. Its the future. Faragist antediluvian capitalism the past"
X Link 2023-07-29T05:51Z 85.5K followers, 13.9K engagements
"You made a wrong call Matthew. Rishi Sunak is a very right wing politician with very limited views. His decency is surface only. Youll see in the months ahead as our politics hits new lows. Our decent PM isnt one of natures shin-kickers"
X Link 2023-07-30T18:32Z 85.5K followers, 121.3K engagements
"Telegraph joining the Express about cruel inheritance tax dragging another [-----] families into paying. The right is good at provocative words. Here are others. [--] million go hungry daily. We have among the shortest [--] year olds in Europe. Any comment"
X Link 2023-07-31T08:34Z 85.5K followers, 12.2K engagements
"When Joe Biden hears the word climate he says he hears the word jobs - and the US economy is responding amazingly to his Inflation Reduction Act. When Sunak hears climate he hears the rabid Tory right the Telegraph and Mail and a wedge issue against Labour. He is wrong "
X Link 2023-07-31T19:11Z 87.2K followers, 60.7K engagements
"This is a phenomenal U turn. Britain drops the ludicrously expensive proposal to create a UK safety kitemark and continue with the EU system - less red tape says minister. Brexit is a debacle. UK government climbs down on post-Brexit product mark via @FT"
X Link 2023-08-01T18:39Z 85.5K followers, 275.3K engagements
"Good commentary on the governments correct decision to abandon UK only safety and standards regulation and maintain the cheaper and effective EU system. UK as rule-taker. The Brexit red tape illusion has been exposed by the Tories CE mark climbdown"
X Link 2023-08-02T07:43Z 85.5K followers, 13K engagements
"More magical Brexit thinking bites the dust. What a debacle.The EU can export freely to us with no checksWe cant export freely to the EU.Masterly negotiating by Frost and Johnson. Post-Brexit UK border food checks delayed again on inflation fears via @FT"
X Link 2023-08-02T23:11Z 85.5K followers, 146K engagements
"Todays expected interest rate rise of [----] per cent is overshoot. The housing market is in deep trouble: inflation unwinding rapidly: manufacturing confidence fading: investment flatlining. I hope the Bank now pauses. A rise would be over compensating for past mistakes"
X Link 2023-08-03T08:10Z 85K followers, [----] engagements
"Todays interest rate increase is an increase too far driven by machismo not economics. The Bank is at sea. Squeezing the economy this way is now wrong. It risks freezing the property market and provoking an investment strike.Curtail demand if we must by tax increases on top 10%"
X Link 2023-08-03T11:27Z 85.5K followers, 23.9K engagements
"Brexiter Douglas Carswell was praised by Brexiter Lord Hannan - his great friend - for his illuminating insights into why Mississippi was doing well proof of why economically Brexit was right. Turns out the numbers were completely false. Like the case for Brexit. Surprise"
X Link 2023-08-06T23:34Z 85.1K followers, 229K engagements
"So if Asylum seekers dont like the barge they can fuck off back to France says Lee Andersen deputy chair of the Tory party - speaking for the government No [--] says. But they dont speak for me - or the majority of British. This is a right wing silo talking to a right wing silo"
X Link 2023-08-08T23:17Z 85.5K followers, 115.5K engagements
"Britain has been astonishingly badly run. [--] years of lost growth by [----] reports one of our top economic forecasters today - with the bottom [--] per cent hardest hit. Risk of UK recession at next general election is 60% says thinktank"
X Link 2023-08-09T08:57Z 85.5K followers, 33K engagements
"US Republicans have been weaponising culture wars for twenty years. These attacks on lawyers and the rule of law come from the same playbook. All of us who believe in the idea of the rule of law and those who operationalise it must unite. Never vote for: never support a Tory"
X Link 2023-08-09T21:45Z 85.5K followers, 16.7K engagements
"This is mad. Education spending in real terms down on [----] shortchanging the young defence inadequate and the police under siege.But the Tories electoral pensioner base flourishes. State pensions to cost more than education policing and defence combined"
X Link 2023-08-10T07:35Z 85.5K followers, 13.9K engagements
"Downing Street close to signing off Britain rejoining the EU Horizon science collaboration programme. Sources tell the Times Sunak does not want to hand Labour a good election issue. Interesting bell-weather of changing times. It pays electorally to be pro European"
X Link 2023-08-10T08:02Z 85.5K followers, 152K engagements
"Without London Britain would be one of the poorest countries in the west. Our assets squandered and our economy chronically mismanaged - thank you the British right. Is Britain really as poor as Mississippi via @FT"
X Link 2023-08-11T08:35Z 85.5K followers, 293.6K engagements
"My father always used to say the first Tory instinct in the face of any protest was not to understand engage and come up with an answer - but to repress. I can only imagine what he would have made of Suella Braverman"
X Link 2023-08-11T08:54Z 85.5K followers, 32.7K engagements
"Of course Braverman and Jenrick should both go after the barge fiasco. Ideology over-rode good sense and the state that the right hollowed out cant deliver. But be sure both will stay"
X Link 2023-08-12T08:23Z 85.5K followers, 23.5K engagements
"Janan Ganesh is right. The military coup in Niger with the threat of wider war in West Africa is a huge story. The loss of life destabilisation and migrant exodus will affect us all. Yet silence reigns. Why isnt everyone talking about Niger via @FT"
X Link 2023-08-12T20:28Z 85.5K followers, 21.7K engagements
"Lets stop kidding ourselves were a rich nation and get real the UKs gone bust"
X Link 2023-08-13T06:59Z 85.5K followers, 187.2K engagements
"This is the unspoken truth about the small boats crisis. Outside the EU Dublin Refugee Convention it is harder to control the cross channel migrant flow. Re-association with the EU crucial not only for our trade but to control our borders and our security"
X Link 2023-08-13T07:47Z 85.5K followers, 244.2K engagements
"The trouble is less inside /outside SW1. Its how to break free from the right wing ecosystem of which Matt Goodwin is part that has pursued policies - Austerity Brexit anti-investment anti R and D anti social obligation and more - that has brought the UK to its current pass"
X Link 2023-08-18T08:34Z 85.5K followers, 17.5K engagements
"The gap between the Tory party and the vast majority of us who arent in the shrinking echo chamber grows by the week. The Conservatives risk driving a wedge between themselves and the electorate via @FT"
X Link 2023-08-18T22:55Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Yes Matt. Most Brits think the young should flee the world your allies have built. Triple lock for pensioners protecting the Tory base while sky high rents for 20-somethings. Of course the young and enterprising want to emigrate. Brexit was the last straw. Little for them here. How depressing. More Brits now think young people would do better in life by moving abroad than staying in the UK. 18-24 yr olds break [--] vs [--] in thinking they'd do better abroad . YouGov https://t.co/AEfb2cqyy7 How depressing. More Brits now think young people would do better in life by moving abroad than staying in"
X Link 2023-08-19T19:32Z 86.9K followers, 58.9K engagements
"You have to marvel at the sheer mutton headedness of the Brexit right. We set all these great brands backwards on a fateful June day in [----]. And its been downhill ever since The UK is home to a number of iconic fashion brands yet we are losing out on their economic advantage. We should aim to be attracting more tourists than places like Paris reap the economic rewards and render London more attractive. https://t.co/1AA8d9sjZX The UK is home to a number of iconic fashion brands yet we are losing out on their economic advantage. We should aim to be attracting more tourists than places like"
X Link 2023-08-19T19:46Z 86.4K followers, 36.6K engagements
"All this ambition enterprise and hard work from young entrepreneurs sacrificed on the altar of Brexit lies. The EU market has just gone. I find it heartbreaking. It all disappeared with Brexit: Craft beer boom ends as more than [---] UK firms go bust"
X Link 2023-08-20T18:13Z 85.5K followers, 54.6K engagements
"The bankruptcy of modern Toryism is its belief that tax cuts are the answer to everything. On spending to boost R and D or relieve child poverty there is not a murmur. Jeremy Hunt urged to cut UK taxes after better than expected borrowing data via @FT"
X Link 2023-08-22T18:51Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Such a condemnation at every level of Brexit - the non-existent overarching case the poverty of forward planning and zero capacity to implement. A first order debacle. UK government announces fifth delay to post-Brexit border controls for food via @FT"
X Link 2023-08-30T05:25Z 85.5K followers, 55.4K engagements
"The solution to todays ills Invest in ourselves. Its not so hard. Chaos in our skies crumbling concrete in our schools: grim symptoms of a British disease https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/03/chaos-in-skies-crumbling-concrete-in-schools-grim-symptoms-british-diseaseCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/03/chaos-in-skies-crumbling-concrete-in-schools-grim-symptoms-british-diseaseCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"
X Link 2023-09-03T08:18Z 86.9K followers, 15.6K engagements
"Sunak May deny but Education spending doesnt lie. School rebuilding fell from 765m in [----] to 416m in [----]. Build rate should be 3/400. Actual rate: [--]. Truth will out. Rishi Sunak accused of cutting funds for rebuilding schools as chancellor via @FT"
X Link 2023-09-04T10:50Z 85.5K followers, 26.5K engagements
"Rejoining Horizon is excellent news. Of course its a tragedy that our leadership is over and the [--] year limbo was unnecessary but British and European science is the stronger. Thank God. UK to return to EUs flagship Horizon science research programme https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/06/uk-return-to-eu-horizon-scheme-expected-to-be-confirmed-within-daysCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/06/uk-return-to-eu-horizon-scheme-expected-to-be-confirmed-within-daysCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"
X Link 2023-09-06T19:54Z 86.8K followers, 33.8K engagements
"What is fascinating about this pro EU pro science decision to rejoin the EU Horizon programme is the universal welcome it has received. Doubtless some Brexiter will complain. But Brexit is disgraced as failure. There will be the same welcome when we rejoin the EU single market"
X Link 2023-09-07T07:26Z 85.5K followers, 334.1K engagements
"The triple lock is a disgrace. Schools crumble. Apprenticeships underfunded. Nurseries penally dear. But Tory voting pensioners to get [--] % this year after 10% last. Priorities UK Treasury braced for 8% rise in pensions because of triple lock via @FT https://on.ft.com/3Ewg71U https://on.ft.com/3Ewg71U"
X Link 2023-09-07T18:08Z 81.2K followers, 356K engagements
"In forcing a U-turn on Horizon scientists are showing that the flaws of Brexit can be overcome https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/10/forcing-uturn-on-horizon-scientists-showing-flaws-of-brexit-can-be-overcomeCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/10/forcing-uturn-on-horizon-scientists-showing-flaws-of-brexit-can-be-overcomeCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"
X Link 2023-09-10T07:35Z 86.9K followers, 11.8K engagements
"When SoftBank bought Arm in [----] it was welcomed by every Brexiter - notably Farage - as proof that Britain was open for business Remainers were wrong. We said it was naked tech stripping. Who was rightArm shares jump by 10% as trading begins via @FT https://on.ft.com/3rdlPCY https://on.ft.com/3rdlPCY"
X Link 2023-09-14T17:07Z 86.8K followers, [----] engagements
"How not to run a country. HS2 route north of Birmingham in doubt as Sunak and Hunt explore more cost-cuts via @FT"
X Link 2023-09-14T17:09Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Lord David Frost negotiated the most asymmetric trade deal loaded against British interests in our history. He locked in systemic advantages to EU producers. Now he dares to suggest reforming it betrays Brexit. He lives in a world beyond reason"
X Link 2023-09-18T22:14Z 85.5K followers, 138.9K engagements
"The future of the car industry is electrical battery power - huge investment worldwide. We were behind but catching up. Sunaks delay sets us back again. Green = jobs. Live news: UK motor industry criticises potential delay to petrol car ban via @FT"
X Link 2023-09-20T08:21Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The UK car industry must speak out as strongly as possible on Sunaks retreat from the future by stalling the move to EV car production. Britain was first into the railway age was just about OK in the car age and is now damned to be last in the EV age - buying Chinese"
X Link 2023-09-20T10:53Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Rishi Sunak is a weak Prime Minister whose instinct is to duck and weave appeasing the over 65s who vote Tory at scale. But we are grandparents too. We want green industries a future economy and to hand on the planet in good order. An immoral retreat today - bad for us all "
X Link 2023-09-20T18:22Z 84.9K followers, 22.1K engagements
"Intriguing dilemma for the Daily Mail - to back their newly signed star columnist Boris Johnson who has been trashed by Sunak and will want to return fire in kind. Or back the Prime Ministers latest U turn"
X Link 2023-09-20T18:51Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Gosh. Allister Heath who swooned with pleasure at Liz Trusss budget - the best he had ever heard - and who is unfailingly wrong now swoons at Sunaks green climbdown today. We can be sure the policy will bomb"
X Link 2023-09-20T20:21Z 84.8K followers, [----] engagements
"What is so depressing about Sunaks green U turn is the abandonment of appealing to our better angels - masked by false appeals to pragmatism lies that it is not driven by politics and falsehoods about planned meat taxes etc. Politics as callow followship betraying our future"
X Link 2023-09-21T08:24Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Sanity at the Bank at last. It was important both the US Fed and the ECB held off further rate rises. We have little autonomy. But good news. Bank of England keeps interest rates on hold at 5.25%"
X Link 2023-09-21T11:11Z 84.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Everywhere you look we need social science based evidence - on what to do about ailing productivity early years education housing levelling-up safer streets net zero and so much more. Do explore our Election [--] hub and sign up for events An exciting time"
X Link 2023-09-25T14:45Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Of course the Mail and Telegraph should not be owned by the same individual. Strong piece by Conservative MP David Davis. The Mail and the Telegraph owned by the same man It would be a disaster for the UKs free press"
X Link 2023-09-28T17:30Z 85.5K followers, 11.2K engagements
"Multiculturalism is a phenomenal British success. Where else could a Hindu Prime Minister and his Buddhist Home Secretary debate the pros and cons On this like so much else Braverman is [---] per cent wrong unself knowing and playing to the GB News/Daily Mail gallery"
X Link 2023-09-28T20:20Z 85.5K followers, 25K engagements
"3 superb Newsnight reports from Mark Urban on Ukraines [--] th Brigade at the front. Revelatory and fearless truthful reporting. A world apart from GB News and its values.The gods help us if the Tories win in [----] emasculate the BBC and enthrone GB News. Enjoy it while it lasts"
X Link 2023-09-28T21:54Z 85.5K followers, 16.5K engagements
"It does take a kind of anti-genius to subvert your own party conference by ensuring it is dominated by the story you least want - HS2 cancellation. But the abiding impression is these 3rd rate politicians have outstayed their time. They should leave the national stage. Begone"
X Link 2023-10-02T22:30Z 85.5K followers, 30.5K engagements
"Liz Trusss growth group now has [--] Tory MPs all baying for tax cuts - the Great British Growth rally at which she spoke the buzziest in Manchester. Cutting corporation tax to 19% achieves nothing: the Tories already did it. Meanwhile gilt yields top 5%. Its just madness"
X Link 2023-10-03T08:50Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements
"And on cue whenever Liz Truss opens her mouth about unfunded tax cuts the pound falls to its lowest level for [--] 1/2 months. Part of the story is the dollars strength certainly- but be sure the idiocy about tax cuts as the surefire route to growth has not helped matters "
X Link 2023-10-03T10:06Z 84.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Sunak summarily executed a policy included in [--] Tory manifestos passed by law by a Tory government and backed by Sunak himself in his leadership campaign . This is government by personal whim. Great piece. Rishi Sunak's pointless revolution - UnHerd"
X Link 2023-10-05T13:35Z 85.5K followers, 25.5K engagements
"Labours victory in Rutherglen and Hamilton West and all it portends for a general election is unambiguously good news. The country as a whole wants rid of a broken hateful Tory party its base instincts and incapacity to govern in all our interests. [----] promises to be a rout"
X Link 2023-10-06T06:53Z 84.9K followers, 25.2K engagements
"Agriculture food and drink manufacturing are together our biggest industry yet command too little attention. Food security nutritional standards food investment environmental protection are crucial issues At [----] I chair a major fringe at the Hilton . #BackBritishFarming"
X Link 2023-10-09T09:12Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Robert Kennedy - narcissism spreading beyond Trump to pollute the whole of the US body politic"
X Link 2023-10-09T23:29Z 85.5K followers, 15.8K engagements
"Last reflection from Liverpool tonight. Britains core economic problem is low investment. The Reeves speech today addresses it head on - with workable solutions despite the UK with its back to the wall. If not this then what"
X Link 2023-10-09T23:35Z 85.5K followers, 25.7K engagements
"More unflinching tough reflective comment from within Israel - a tribute to it at such a moment. David Grossman: Israel is in a nightmare. Who will we be when we rise from the ashes via @FT"
X Link 2023-10-13T07:57Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements
"That Newsnight is as good as it is with a fraction of the budgets we had in the 1980s continues to amaze me. The governments vindictiveness towards the BBC hurts a precious national asset. Looming Newsnight cuts add to fears over future of BBC licence fee"
X Link 2023-10-14T06:23Z 85.5K followers, 328.3K engagements
"Peter Bone is the 60th Tory MP this parliament one way or another to be involved in reproachable practice - sexual bullying lying harassment etc. It is a record"
X Link 2023-10-17T14:50Z 85.5K followers, 75.4K engagements
"Thank you Poland for showing faith in EU values under threat from the authoritarian right"
X Link 2023-10-22T07:46Z 84.9K followers, 39.5K engagements
"Spare us devout MPs like Peter Bone. If we ever had faith in them it is long gone"
X Link 2023-10-22T17:41Z 84.9K followers, 11.5K engagements
"In defence of HS2. Sunak would have cancelled the motorway building programme of the 1960s and 70s for the same reasons. A decision that looks worse and worse taken for all the wrong reasons. Sunak an agent of change"
X Link 2023-10-25T06:42Z 84.9K followers, 14.1K engagements
"A Tory PM forced to resign in disgrace now paid extravagantly to present unvarnished views on a news channel We plumb deeper depths of decadence and degradation. Balance Honest GB News as Tory propaganda. Boris Johnson to join GB News as presenters"
X Link 2023-10-27T23:26Z 84.8K followers, 90.6K engagements
"This is the 61st Tory MP this parliament to fall foul of charges of harassmentsexual misconduct bullying or improper behaviour. In any other organisation this would be a crisis.Minister denies cultural issue among Tory MPs after Crispin Blunts arrests"
X Link 2023-10-28T08:53Z 84.9K followers, 90.6K engagements
"The EU wasnt prepared to roll over like Liz Truss - so no trade deal with Australia yet. Be sure when one is struck it will be incomparably better than our one sided deal. Trade talks collapse between EU and Australia"
X Link 2023-10-29T21:59Z 84.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The perfect recruit for GB News. Johnson the man who misgoverned Britain. But he is right-wing so thats OK. Our country is losing its bearings. Covid inquiry: Boris Johnson made it impossible for nation to tackle pandemic effectively as it happened"
X Link 2023-10-30T22:06Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements
"This story of our post Brexit tomato trade with Morocco - boastful unjustified bragging the non-existent ferry service whose debts were written off and ultimately bare supermarket shelves - is classic Johnsonian misgovernance. He and Brexit a national disgrace"
X Link 2023-10-31T09:26Z 84.9K followers, 11.9K engagements
"Now to be the star presenter of GB News along with his Daily Mail column. His shamelessness - and those who pay him so richly - defines the decadence of our right wing politics and its media. Perhaps readers and viewers will desert both"
X Link 2023-10-31T13:18Z 84.9K followers, 17.8K engagements
"Britain spends a quarter less in real terms on education than it did a generation ago - a disgrace. Every time Andrew Dilnot cycles to work past a local primary school he feels joy for the kids and anger how we are betraying them. A social scientist with passion. The We Society"
X Link 2023-11-04T22:05Z 84.9K followers, 20.8K engagements
"Andrew Rawnsley at his most devastating. He is writing about the Daily Mails star columnist and GB News star presenter- a barometer of how low our media has sunk"
X Link 2023-11-05T00:03Z 84.9K followers, 48.8K engagements
"Its easy to be dazzled by the super-rich but dont believe that theyll do the right thing"
X Link 2023-11-05T09:21Z 84.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The manic obsession with tax cuts independent of the condition of key public services - education health and criminal justice system- is destructive and self harming. They must come first. Hunt urged to cut taxes at autumn statement after 15bn windfall"
X Link 2023-11-06T10:19Z 84.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Increasingly it is Suella Braverman who should be cautioned by the Met as a promoter of hate and division - she is hardly calming matters down"
X Link 2023-11-07T22:22Z 84.9K followers, 67.3K engagements
"The Kings Speech is a new nadir. Retreat on climate transition on enforcement of vital accounting standards on levelling up. Nothing on the crisis in educationhealth and criminal justice system. Anything good watered down or abandoned despite an investment strike. Incredible"
X Link 2023-11-08T00:16Z 84.9K followers, [----] engagements
"If Suella Braverman had been smart she would not have made the story in the run up to Armistice day whether or not she is going to be sacked. But she just cant help herself. The Tory party will never win an election with her as leader"
X Link 2023-11-10T08:23Z 84.9K followers, [----] engagements
"So the government is going to pass a law insisting that Rwandan processes for assessing asylum seekers meet international protocols when everyone knows they dont. How about laws to turn scrap metal into gold and the moon into cheese"
X Link 2023-11-16T22:51Z 84.9K followers, 10.2K engagements
"The key question in the Autumn statement is how to raise economic growth. The answer is not tax cuts - but doubling chronically low public investment. The right is babbling about tax cuts while Britain burns. Pay no heed Jeremy Hunt"
X Link 2023-11-19T09:42Z 84.9K followers, 74.6K engagements
"An incredible record . needs repeating endlessly"
X Link 2023-11-19T20:53Z 84.9K followers, 17.5K engagements
"Britains over-riding priority is investment triggered by doubled public investment. To prefer tax cuts is precisely and totally wrong"
X Link 2023-11-20T12:27Z 84.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The Autumn Statement is a disgrace. The OBR confirms a savage squeeze in public services after the [----] general election to pay for a [--] bn National Insurance cut and [--] billion corporate tax giveaway before it but paltry impact on dismal growth. Scorched earth economics"
X Link 2023-11-22T14:24Z 84.9K followers, 89.1K engagements
"Britain faces a development as much as a productivity challenge - the single most important response is a step change in public and private investment strategically co-ordinated. What I will be saying at this mornings launch of this milestone report"
X Link 2023-11-29T10:54Z 85K followers, 12.3K engagements
"Newsnights fate is an act of vandalism but the principal villain is successive Conservative governments. A lot is at stake at the next election. The honour of presenting @BBCNewsnight falls to me tonight. I have worked on the programme for [--] years around the world risking my life many times for its journalism. You can well imagine my feelings at cuts to our staff and budget of more than 50% https://t.co/zyQTwFKIiI The honour of presenting @BBCNewsnight falls to me tonight. I have worked on the programme for [--] years around the world risking my life many times for its journalism. You can well"
X Link 2023-11-29T23:30Z 85.5K followers, 82.3K engagements
"Amid all the well-deserved tributes to Alistair Darling never forget that his balanced approach to deficit reduction after the financial crisis was spot on. If his policies had been continued Britain would not have suffered the depredations of Austerity- and thus Brexit"
X Link 2023-11-30T16:37Z 81.2K followers, 257.3K engagements
"Jeremy - again well said. But then dont write nonsense like you did in todays Times. You know damn well that your Autumn Statement tax cuts were paid for by impossible future cuts in departmental spending. Alistair did the right thing before a difficult election. Do the same"
X Link 2023-11-30T23:12Z 85K followers, 11.3K engagements
"The economic security and geopolitical logic is clear. Britain and the EU need each other - whatever the denial of an overmighty right wing ecosystem. No [--] darent admit it but Ursula von der Leyen is right: well be going back on Brexit"
X Link 2023-12-03T08:44Z 85.1K followers, 53.3K engagements
"Be clear. This statement by Rishi Sunak means he proposes unilaterally to set aside the division of powers separating executive legislature and judiciary that is the cornerstone of democratic government. The party with a majority in the Commons is above the law. Rank populism"
X Link 2023-12-08T14:19Z 85.1K followers, 166.6K engagements
"Dear England - the play that is a homage to England manager Gareth Southgate his values the team he built and an idea of England - brings the audience to its feet. Extraordinary. Joseph Fiennes is incredible as Southgate. A world apart from the world of the Tory right. See it"
X Link 2023-12-08T22:21Z 85.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Do the Tory right have any conception of how weary the country is of the compromised MP Mark Francois the obsessive Bill Cash and all the other cranks delivering their always poisonous verdicts on policy from whatever self appointed star chamber. Enough. Away with them"
X Link 2023-12-11T22:32Z 85.1K followers, 80.7K engagements
"This is extraordinary political territory. Measures that according to the Home Secretary are pushing at the edges of the envelope of respect for the law human rights and treaty obligations are somehow moderate Immigration must be managed: but does the UK need to ba a pariah"
X Link 2023-12-12T17:06Z 85.1K followers, [----] engagements
"It was [--] years ago to the minute that we learned that Britain had elected the most incompetent morally bankrupt and useless government in its history. Heigh Ho New depths have been plumbed. Within thirteen months they will be gone.The collective sigh of relief will be deafening"
X Link 2023-12-12T22:07Z 85.1K followers, 126.4K engagements
"Todays fall in inflation is very good news. it opens the way to the Bank of England following the US Federal Reserve and cutting interest rates sooner next year. UK inflation slows more than expected to 3.9% amid drop in petrol price business live"
X Link 2023-12-20T07:32Z 85.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The decline in our parliament and the mores of our MPs is properly beginning to attract attention.A deserted chamber A sixth of MPs upbraided for their conduct Britain is a country that looks to its parliament. And the truth is parliament is failing us https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/21/trust-in-mps-house-of-commons-peter-bone-rishi-sunakCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/21/trust-in-mps-house-of-commons-peter-bone-rishi-sunakCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"
X Link 2023-12-21T10:33Z 81.2K followers, 45.9K engagements
"Christmas Eve [----]. Lets try to make surer the malnutrition crisis blighting millions of childrens lives is less next year and less every year after that. We cant go on like this. Children have bowed legs: hunger worse than ever says Norwich school"
X Link 2023-12-24T22:38Z [--] followers, 28.5K engagements
"Brexit is now high farce. [----] % of respondents did NOT want to bring back Imperial measures - a Brexit liberty. So the government backtracks & just offers pints of wine as a freedom Pitiful. Pint of wine anyone UK looks to bring back silly measure"
X Link 2023-12-27T11:51Z 85.5K followers, 83K engagements
"The worst aspect of allowing Truss to dispense honours is that it sullies so many who truly deserved their honour. The only saving grace is that along with the Baroness Mone affair it makes House of Lords reform - or at the very least the appointments process - irresistible"
X Link 2023-12-30T08:15Z [--] followers, 54.8K engagements
"Reality check for all Brexiters. The EU is launching a common charger for all digital devices - a brilliant cost saving initiative. Does Britain follow the dead hand of the EU Or create our own expensive system as a Brexit freedom The EU common charger"
X Link 2023-12-30T13:23Z 85.5K followers, 119.4K engagements
"These condemnations of Brexit on every metric are deadly - the reason why along with a record of epic misgovernance the country has made up its mind to ditch the Tories. Brexit has completely failed for UK say clear majority of Britons poll"
X Link 2023-12-31T00:05Z 85.5K followers, 37.7K engagements
"Tax cuts - the obsession of the Tory party- have little or no impact on growth. What will is reforming our woeful savings and investment system. Britain is stuck in a doom loop: the system is rigged against growth. That needs to change"
X Link 2023-12-31T09:32Z 85.5K followers, 12.9K engagements
"Never has the case for fixed term parliaments been clearer. Everyone knows the incumbent Sunak will choose the date for maximum party advantage - almost certainly the late Autumn - but the uncertainty damages the economy and good government. It is a democratic outrage"
X Link 2024-01-03T08:59Z 85.5K followers, 41.3K engagements
"On Budget day on March [--] the whole right wing ecosystem will delight in the tax cuts and small state. Pity the lengthening queue of [---] million households waiting for social homes. Spending on affordable housing in England to be slashed in [----] via @FT"
X Link 2024-01-05T08:41Z 85.5K followers, 13.4K engagements
"The climate is changing before our eyes - but the political right is in denial. Action might mean more state and higher taxes. Former energy minister Chris Skidmore is standing down on the issue as a Tory MP. A principled man in an unprincipled party"
X Link 2024-01-05T18:19Z [--] followers, 75.1K engagements
"Great story on more Tory corruption - but Tory misuse of public funds for party interests is endemic. Think Jenrick and Berry and the Towns fund.There must be a police investigation. The Minister investigated for spending taxpayer cash on Tory campaigns"
X Link 2024-01-06T22:00Z 85.5K followers, 15.6K engagements
"The current wave of strikes are of course about money - but they also betray profound dissatisfaction with unhappy and badly managed workplaces. We need change - and unions are part of it. Management and unions cooperating That would make everyone happier"
X Link 2024-01-07T09:42Z 84.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The earliest known image of Keith Richard ( it amused me anyway )"
X Link 2024-01-07T22:13Z [--] followers, 19K engagements
"And after cladding how about how the Towns fund money was spent ITV may have hit a golden seam. The Post Office scandal shows the power of television and television drama in particular to channel injustice. If there are any TV writers looking for a subject that could do with the same treatment the cladding/building safety scandal is just waiting for you The Post Office scandal shows the power of television and television drama in particular to channel injustice. If there are any TV writers looking for a subject that could do with the same treatment the cladding/building safety scandal is just"
X Link 2024-01-09T10:16Z [--] followers, 10.4K engagements
"Another zinger from Rafael Behr - on the money as always. Keir Starmer dodging Tory traps is a sign of good judgment not timidity"
X Link 2024-01-10T21:41Z 85.5K followers, 18.9K engagements
"Britain has an investment crisis . Labours [--] billion for which it is under attack barely holds the line let alone changes the trajectory. Conservative plans for further falls in investment intensify the crisis . We live in La-La land. Watch this clear exposition There's been a lot of nonsense spouted about Labour's 28bn green investment plans. And doubtless there'll be lots more nonsense spouted in the coming months. With that in mind here's my primer on the plan - and its affordability. No nonsense. But maybe one or two charts. https://t.co/pIBWANfm6H There's been a lot of nonsense spouted"
X Link 2024-01-13T10:02Z 85.5K followers, 29.2K engagements
"ITV drama - like BBC and C4 drama - is informed by an ethic of public service broadcasting that the Conservative right want to break. It can be critical of Tories unlike the Mail and GB News. ITV deserves all the accolades it is receiving:they are for public service broadcasting"
X Link 2024-01-14T23:23Z [--] followers, 19.6K engagements
"The heart of Britains problems is systemic lack of investment across the board. Redressing that crisis is the national priority- not tax cuts. Jeremy Hunt instead of blowing 10bn on tax cuts why not spend it on boosting growth"
X Link 2024-01-21T09:58Z 85.5K followers, 53.2K engagements
"I dont know how many will be able to read this important article behind the Sunday Times firewall - but its important and should be said. I fear Binyamin Netanyahu has walked into Hamass trap"
X Link 2024-01-21T22:12Z [--] followers, 26.4K engagements
"This mania for tax cuts is mad. Why not Hunt has room to help Ukraine boost the depleted armed services rescue bankrupt local government raise investment pay junior doctors etc etc Lower government borrowing gives Hunt room for tax cuts"
X Link 2024-01-23T13:28Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The Republican Party is in thrall to a demon. Importantly independents came out massively for Haley in New Hampshire and note how big the anti Trump was in both Iowa and New Hampshire despite Trumps demonic grip. He may win the nomination but not the Presidency"
X Link 2024-01-24T07:10Z [--] followers, 20.2K engagements
"The Tories have seriously lost the plot. Cutting taxes given stricken public services and the need to increase defence spending is the wrong priority. They may even be unpopular. Sunak to cut taxes twice more before election says Tory chair"
X Link 2024-01-26T15:30Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"Im an Arsenal supporter but Jurgen Klopps stepping down is not just a loss to Liverpool FC but English football and our national life. A genuinely great man. Hope he gets lots of applause. Jrgen Klopp to step down as Liverpool manager at end of season"
X Link 2024-01-26T15:48Z 85.5K followers, 15.6K engagements
"The British and American governments cannot indulge the Netanyahu response to the ICJ interim judgement as anti-semitic. We must join the EU and insist Israel heed its recommendations The international rule of law cannot be cherry-picked without dangerous global consequences"
X Link 2024-01-27T07:50Z 85.5K followers, 11.3K engagements
"Very good news from Germany. German rightwing populists defeated in regional election via @FT"
X Link 2024-01-29T11:44Z 85.5K followers, 32K engagements
"What is particularly good news is the turnout- nearly doubled - is in a very poor part of working class former East Germany who came out massively against what is now obviously a neo-nazi party. Very good news from Germany. German rightwing populists defeated in regional election via @FT https://t.co/2CBrpavOSr Very good news from Germany. German rightwing populists defeated in regional election via @FT https://t.co/2CBrpavOSr"
X Link 2024-01-29T14:20Z 85.5K followers, 15.8K engagements
"For wild hyperbole this Allister Heath column reaches new heights. A piece for the archives - a barometer of the madnesses now gripping the Tory ultra right "
X Link 2024-01-31T23:42Z 85.5K followers, 10.8K engagements
"I hope the Times paywall relents to allow everyone to read this powerful column on freedom by Matthew Parris. Should be mandatory. Brilliant. The Tory right has never understood freedom"
X Link 2024-02-03T23:32Z 85.5K followers, 44.3K engagements
"Public libraries bin collection support for the local helpless and distressed - even the supply of public toilets are under pressure as never before. The Tories starved councils thinking no one cared. Now theyre bust and we care very muchh"
X Link 2024-02-04T08:02Z 85.5K followers, 33.2K engagements
"This gracious generous and honest letter of resignation by Oxford University Chancellor Chris Patten (because of age) is typical.He would prefer a farewell dinner rather than a memorial at which my part would be necessarily limited . A great man - last of the liberal Tories. Christopher Patten Lord Patten of Barnes: 'I think it is true to say that Oxford as a whole made me.' https://t.co/VD0x6pL487 Christopher Patten Lord Patten of Barnes: 'I think it is true to say that Oxford as a whole made me.' https://t.co/VD0x6pL487"
X Link 2024-02-06T10:21Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements
"When the PM and Piers Morgan strike a [----] TV bet about desperate human lives whom do you abhor the most"
X Link 2024-02-06T23:41Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Brilliant analysis of how online platforms are degrading into naked exploitation or enshittification. We need a public internet and public social media platforms. Enshittification is coming for absolutely everything via @FT"
X Link 2024-02-08T09:25Z 85.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott is exposed - courteously and forensically by Evan Davis - as completely ignorant about the trajectory of UK national debt. But babbles about tax cuts congruent with fiscal rules. Not fit to hold office. Evan Davis schools the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott on debt to GDP. ED: This is really basic. I'm amazed you don't know that debt is rising LT: I've got different figures #bbcpm https://t.co/ujVfOybVcv Evan Davis schools the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott on debt to GDP. ED: This is really basic. I'm amazed you don't"
X Link 2024-02-09T21:21Z 85.6K followers, 44.6K engagements
"Now this from my former colleague Larry Elliott ( with whose pro Brexit views I strongly disagree). But its hard to gainsay his argument. Is this where Labour wants to be By ditching its green plan Labour reveals its ideological vacuum"
X Link 2024-02-11T19:00Z 85.6K followers, 13.1K engagements
"The weakness of our armed services is a national embarrassment- underfunded under equipped undermanned. But failure to lift taxes mean lots of private underground cinemas in Notting Hill Further embarrassment for Royal Navy as carrier fails to set sail"
X Link 2024-02-11T23:04Z 85.6K followers, [----] engagements
"British GDP is [--] percent lower as a result of Brexit calculate Goldman Sachs stripping UK economy of any dynamism. It will get worse. It is now vital the damage is recognised - and remedied. As Brexit damage persistsa tale of two competing strategies https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dfccbfff-f3e2-478f-92cb-d5d956ddc2d8shareToken=4f84f4cfdf4d70e94eb3af5edde8ab40 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dfccbfff-f3e2-478f-92cb-d5d956ddc2d8shareToken=4f84f4cfdf4d70e94eb3af5edde8ab40"
X Link 2024-02-14T08:36Z 81.2K followers, 155K engagements
"Alexei Navalny was a great man. Unimaginable courage. A magnificent cause. Just adding this small tribute to the many millions of others. I hope enough Republicans in the US House of the Representatives have a trace of his courage and vote to support Ukraine"
X Link 2024-02-16T23:15Z 85.6K followers, 12.2K engagements
"Blair had education education education as his battle cry mantra. Starmer should adopt investment investment investment. Its the only way out of the economic morass. The first step to our economic liberation is to tear up these crippling fiscal rules"
X Link 2024-02-18T08:41Z 85.6K followers, 30.6K engagements
"On the question of overseas state media ownership of UK media assets Andrew Neil is correct. And Aaron Banks is revealed as an anti- democrat - hardly a surprise. Of course the same principle applies across the board. Neil would (I hope) defend the liberal press no less fiercely. So the Kremlin should be allowed to buy Sky News Beijing should be allowed to own The Times/Sunday Times All market economies even those with the least state intervention have rules governing such matters. Even a cursory examination of the economic literature quickly shows So the Kremlin should be allowed to buy Sky"
X Link 2024-02-19T20:18Z 85.6K followers, 14.9K engagements
"Im not sure Nigel Farages opinion- self proclaimed future leader of the Tory party Trump apologist and implicitly for the fighting- is worth a row of beans. I'm not sure that our future King should be doing this. He should stick to the BAFTAs. https://t.co/fLq4GFQ4Tg I'm not sure that our future King should be doing this. He should stick to the BAFTAs. https://t.co/fLq4GFQ4Tg"
X Link 2024-02-20T18:53Z 85.6K followers, [----] engagements
"In Liz Trusss world its the deep state that is opposed to her approach to tax cuts - not the overwhelming majority of the British public. Our new polling with @OpiniumResearch shows that only one in six Britons want tax cuts and oppose key tax reforms. Browse the report now at https://t.co/ekU9Rq2Ivc or read the 🧵 below for a summary https://t.co/hMrKrqqO9l Our new polling with @OpiniumResearch shows that only one in six Britons want tax cuts and oppose key tax reforms. Browse the report now at https://t.co/ekU9Rq2Ivc or read the 🧵 below for a summary https://t.co/hMrKrqqO9l"
X Link 2024-02-23T12:57Z 85.6K followers, 10.7K engagements
"All Curb Your Enthusiasm and Larry David fans - the greatest comedy series ever and greatest comedian - will be saddened by news of the death of his friend and co-star Richard Lewis. Commiserations and condolences from the UK. Thank you for so many many laughs"
X Link 2024-02-28T21:34Z 85.6K followers, [----] engagements
"This crazed focus on the annual budget as the route to growth is one of the reasons we have so little growth. A marginal shaving of tax will make no difference . What would is the crowding in of more business investment by sustained high public investment - of which no mention"
X Link 2024-03-04T12:53Z 85.9K followers, 24K engagements
"As the Tory media delight in the purposeless tax cuts tomorrow spare a thought for the prison governors head teachers hospital managers GPs local governments and courts managing impossible conditions. Mourn the [--] bn of lost tax due to Brexit. And resolve: never again"
X Link 2024-03-05T11:35Z 85.7K followers, 62.4K engagements
"Anybody who seriously thinks the fate of the UK economy hangs on [--] p off National Insurance or [--] p off the standard rate of income tax needs medical help. The whole debate is pathetic- a condemnation of how the Westminster and media village are in thrall to Treasury bookkeeping"
X Link 2024-03-05T20:14Z 85.8K followers, 190.6K engagements
"Get well soon John. We need you Personal News. I had a heart attack at the gym on Friday night. Been in hospital ever since. Not knowing what's wrong terrifying. Today had angiogram and dodgy artery now mended. Thank you so much to all the staff at St George's. You could not have cared more. Personal News. I had a heart attack at the gym on Friday night. Been in hospital ever since. Not knowing what's wrong terrifying. Today had angiogram and dodgy artery now mended. Thank you so much to all the staff at St George's. You could not have cared more"
X Link 2024-03-12T12:09Z 81.2K followers, 34.7K engagements
"One of the most distressing accounts of British life today Ive recently read. Desperate neglect: teachers washing clothes and finding beds as poverty grips Englands schools"
X Link 2024-03-16T20:38Z 85.8K followers, 43.8K engagements
"Ignore the rightwing moaners. We dont have 9m shirkers theyjust want better work"
X Link 2024-03-17T09:18Z 85.8K followers, 10.8K engagements
"I was there - much better than the pre-briefings. Pro-public investment changes to the fiscal rules distancing herself from Thatcher and Lawson powerful case for securonomics and clear commitment to growth social justice and the green agenda. Hard to dispute her analysis. A substantial and in some respects radical Mais Lecture from Rachel Reeves.a shame it was briefed in advance as channelling Margaret Thatcher when it was partly a repudiation of Thatcher/ Lawson.such shallow game playing wont fool Daily Telegraph readers while ensuring others A substantial and in some respects radical Mais"
X Link 2024-03-19T23:47Z 85.8K followers, 32.5K engagements
"For the birds Far from it. At last Rachel Reeves has given Britain a plan for economic liftoff"
X Link 2024-03-24T09:09Z 85.8K followers, 45.2K engagements
"The government is completely right to take a strong line on China. Of course it exposes the Brexit blather about a pivot to Asia as the vapid bullshit it always was. Britain in geopolitical defence security and trade policy must stand with the EU. Brexit is national betrayal"
X Link 2024-03-26T10:53Z 85.9K followers, 22.3K engagements
"Three cheers for Gordon Brown - a really imaginative and ingenious set of proposals to address the scandal of child poverty costing taxpayers virtually nothing. Britain seems stuck in a doom loop of poverty. I have a plan to raise billions to address that https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/27/britain-seems-stuck-in-a-doom-loop-of-poverty-i-have-a-plan-to-raise-billions-to-address-thatCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/27/britain-seems-stuck-in-a-doom-loop-of-poverty-i-have-a-plan-to-raise-billions-to-address-thatCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"
X Link 2024-03-28T10:09Z 85.9K followers, 77.2K engagements
"Two grandchildren now live in Italy. Same story whenever I send presents. Yes yay for Brexit Just had to pay [--] in customs charges to get three Easter eggs sent by grandparents in Ireland released from the Post Office. Yay for Brexit Just had to pay [--] in customs charges to get three Easter eggs sent by grandparents in Ireland released from the Post Office. Yay for Brexit"
X Link 2024-03-29T00:23Z 85.9K followers, 25.4K engagements
"This Time No Mistakes: How To Remake Britain - my new book - is published on April 11th. Here is a preview - and Happy Easter The UK is trapped in a cycle of political social and financial turmoil. But there is a way out https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/31/will-hutton-this-time-no-mistakes-extractCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/31/will-hutton-this-time-no-mistakes-extractCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"
X Link 2024-03-31T08:38Z 85.9K followers, 32K engagements
"Nigel Farage said no church for him this Easter to hear some Marxist vicar. So I thought I would. Im not sure about resurrection but I am sure about the core message of fellowship redemption and love the vicar delivered. Its the best of England. Peace be with you Nigel"
X Link 2024-03-31T11:22Z 85.9K followers, 19.9K engagements
"Its not just Thatcherism and its imitators that has laid Britain low its Tory deification of past glories to inform tomorrow - an extract from This Time No Mistakes. Conservativism biggest failure is the despair it has created about Britains future https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/conservatism-failure-britain-future-ukCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/conservatism-failure-britain-future-ukCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"
X Link 2024-04-01T09:40Z 85.9K followers, 22.6K engagements
"Ditching European trade for China and India was ever a poor bet. Now its a farce https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/07/ditching-european-trade-for-china-and-india-poor-bet-now-farce-will-huttonCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/07/ditching-european-trade-for-china-and-india-poor-bet-now-farce-will-huttonCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"
X Link 2024-04-07T08:25Z 86.1K followers, 13.4K engagements
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