#  @DavidGHFrost David Frost David Frost posts on X about ireland, money, starmer, prime minister the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::967900364/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] -54% - [--] Month [---------] +710% - [--] Months [---------] +17% - [--] Year [----------] -47% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::967900364/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] -62% - [--] Month [--] +100% - [--] Months [---] +34% - [--] Year [---] -16% ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::967900364/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.03% - [--] Month [------] +0.47% - [--] Months [------] +3.40% - [--] Year [------] +6.10% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::967900364/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [countries](/list/countries) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [currencies](/list/currencies) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [us election](/list/us-election) [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) **Social topic influence** [ireland](/topic/ireland), [money](/topic/money), [starmer](/topic/starmer), [prime minister](/topic/prime-minister), [london](/topic/london), [has been](/topic/has-been), [countries](/topic/countries), [israel](/topic/israel), [keir](/topic/keir), [gdp](/topic/gdp) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Here are the Prime Minister's reflections on the final stages of our negotiations with the EU before Round [--] of talks beginning this week. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-words-on-eu-negotiations-7-september-2020 https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-words-on-eu-negotiations-7-september-2020" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1302944027235450882) 2020-09-07T12:17Z 90.9K followers, [----] engagements "6/7 The EU's position is that listing is needed for Great Britain only not Northern Ireland. So if GB were not listed it would be automatically illegal for NI to import food products from GB" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1305121863530577922) 2020-09-13T12:31Z 91.1K followers, [----] engagements "7/7 I hope the EU will yet think better of this. It obviously makes it no easier to negotiate a good free trade agreement and the solid future relationship which we all want" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1305121864679919617) 2020-09-13T12:31Z 91.1K followers, [----] engagements "3/4 But for a deal to be possible it must fully respect UK sovereignty. That is not just a word - it has practical consequences. That includes: controlling our borders; deciding ourselves on a robust and principled subsidy control system; and controlling our fishing waters" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1332291822442467329) 2020-11-27T11:54Z 94.6K followers, [----] engagements "The situation in our talks with the EU is very serious tonight. Progress seems blocked and time is running out. The Prime Minister @BorisJohnson set out his concerns about the state of play to Commission President @vonderleyen this evening. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-ministers-call-with-european-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen-17-december-2020 https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-ministers-call-with-european-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen-17-december-2020" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1339671987174686720) 2020-12-17T20:41Z 91.1K followers, [----] engagements "I'm very pleased and proud to have led a great UK team to secure today's excellent deal with the EU. Both sides worked tirelessly day after day in challenging conditions to get the biggest & broadest trade deal in the world in record time. Thank you all who made it happen" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1342128236847886336) 2020-12-24T15:21Z 94.3K followers, 27.3K engagements "1. @MarosSefcovic and I met by video today to wrap up this week's talks process about the Northern Ireland Protocol. We have made further limited progress on medicines but we have not reached agreement" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1469375700721356812) 2021-12-10T18:37Z 90.7K followers, [---] engagements "Have a look at my op-ed in @TheSun this morning about Brexit and the current political situation. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17465939/sue-gray-boris-pm-brexit-britain-lord-frost/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17465939/sue-gray-boris-pm-brexit-britain-lord-frost/" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1486964155693379589) 2022-01-28T07:27Z 90.6K followers, [----] engagements "I worked closely with Prime Minister @BorisJohnson over the last five years. Without his leadership in 2019-20 we would simply not have succeeded in getting out of the EU or getting a free trade agreement. I hugely admire his determination in those difficult days. (1)" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1533915165422387201) 2022-06-06T20:54Z 91.1K followers, [----] engagements "It was @Keir_Starmer & his friends who forced the Surrender Act on us in [----]. That destroyed our leverage & stopped us fixing the N Ireland issue properly then. The only purity cult was in these ideologues' efforts to sabotage the referendum. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/13/keir-starmer-labour-sunak-tory-brexit-purity-cult-northern-ireland-protocol https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/13/keir-starmer-labour-sunak-tory-brexit-purity-cult-northern-ireland-protocol" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1613973714483150879) 2023-01-13T18:58Z 91.1K followers, 3.5M engagements ""Remainers should be honest about the costs of Brexit" Excellent article from the distinguished historian Robert Tombs about the dodgy costings of Brexit constantly repeated by unthinking Remainers. via @spectator https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/be-honest-brexit-didnt-cost-us/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/be-honest-brexit-didnt-cost-us/" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1647558742123200512) 2023-04-16T11:13Z 91K followers, 553.7K engagements "In my @Telegraph column this week I enjoy the spectacle of the online Left in a gibbering frenzy over the National Conservatism conference this week; and make the case for the Tories to embrace that movement rather than keep it at arms' length" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1659290984578969634) 2023-05-18T20:12Z 85.9K followers, 78.1K engagements "My @Telegraph column tonight is on the economic fallacies used to justify Net Zero. /" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1661821540265082881) 2023-05-25T19:48Z 87.3K followers, [---] engagements "Tonight's column in @Telegraph. Why a Universal Basic Income would lead not to freedom but to repressive authoritarianism and why we should kill the idea while we still can" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1666901504861560835) 2023-06-08T20:14Z 85.9K followers, 35.4K engagements "It's very clear that whatever the leadership says in public @uklabour would push us back towards the EU if they ever got the chance./" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1673244187846754306) 2023-06-27T10:05Z 87.3K followers, 103K engagements "It is very hard to take seriously those who after 8+ years of debate about the EU still don't know the difference between access to & membership of the single market & think the Pan Euro Med Convention on rules of origin is a customs union" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1673244189637718017) 2023-06-28T07:23Z 87.3K followers, 11.4K engagements "Lady Thatcher was accused of trialling bad policies in Scotland first. Now @theSNP voluntarily impose bad policy on Scotland themselves. Still at least they provide a public service - of allowing the rest of us to see for ourselves the terrible results" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1674064885251022851) 2023-06-29T21:41Z 87.3K followers, 43.3K engagements "This is an absurd statement by Lord Garnier to @cathynewman. One might equally say we will be no different to the USA Canada Japan South Korea Australia New Zealand all of which get along very well without being in the ECHR" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1674490265170595840) 2023-06-29T20:46Z 87.3K followers, 267.5K engagements ""Dont fear a confrontation over illegal migration" My @Telegraph column tonight on next steps and the Rwanda policy" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1674491857156423681) 2023-06-29T22:26Z 87.3K followers, 11.3K engagements "Yes what our cash-strapped low-productivity country really needs is a lot of taxpayers' money spent on widening pavements. People really need to grasp that a stagnant economy will not support daft luxury projects like these. Can we please focus on getting growth back instead" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1675135179298332672) 2023-07-01T13:32Z 87.3K followers, 131.3K engagements "I'll vote tomorrow for @Councillorsuzie Susan Hall as Tory candidate for London Mayor. She can end Sadiq Khan's misrule make our streets safer & roll back the misguided ULEZ & LTNs. She also voted Brexit & I want Tory candidates who are advocates of our Govt's core policy" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1675948400645140499) 2023-07-03T19:23Z 88.1K followers, 235K engagements "At the [----] election the Conservative Party stood on a manifesto to finally get Brexit done & to leave the customs union & single market with no alignment. The voters gave us the biggest Tory majority for over [--] years. People did vote for THIS Brexit. /" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1676525169697865729) 2023-07-09T20:51Z 87.3K followers, 466.4K engagements "One of our 'friends' in the EU revelling in the prospect of the UK doing badly as an independent country. So many people seem to think this is normal between allies (as we now are - thanks to UK support for Finland joining NATO) but that's 'European values' nowadays I guess" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1676588561515134976) 2023-07-09T21:00Z [--] followers, 758.1K engagements ""The Single Market is in many ways a political illusion. It exists only nominally. Any company doing business in Europe faces significant barriers to cross-border exchanges within the EU." Useful reminder of the reality from @ECIPE" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1678689697009217537) 2023-07-11T09:05Z 87.3K followers, 246.5K engagements "I don't dispute them & never have. But there is also a (3): those outside can get if they choose to significant benefits that those inside do not. 1/2 @DavidGHFrost @ECIPE 1/ The single market is highly imperfect 2) Those in it - people + businesses - get significant benefits that those outside do not. These facts very clear. No-one sensible on pro-EU side or EU institutions themselves would dispute them. No credible eurosceptic should either. @DavidGHFrost @ECIPE 1/ The single market is highly imperfect 2) Those in it - people + businesses - get significant benefits that those outside do" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1678704653804945408) 2023-07-11T09:55Z 90.6K followers, 12.8K engagements "Moreover - the imperfections of the single market help explain what so many Europhiles can't which is why our growth & productivity performance was at its worst since the war during the period when we were most deeply integrated into that market ie since 2008" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1678704656359251970) 2023-07-11T10:43Z 85.9K followers, [----] engagements "I think it would be better if people like @RepBrendanBoyle concentrated on governing their own country properly rather than telling other people how they should govern theirs" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1678707249680711681) 2023-07-11T10:17Z 87.3K followers, 75.1K engagements "To all the people who have made a similar point - this is why 👇:" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1678721623619141632) 2023-07-11T11:15Z 86.8K followers, 23.5K engagements "This is absolutely right from @NJ_Timothy. Lots of replies deny that there has been any deterioration in behaviour over time but those of us who have lived in London for 20-30 years know that's simply not true" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1678800050002993152) 2023-07-11T17:22Z 87.3K followers, 24.7K engagements "It's also why @MayorofLondon's tweet yesterday is so revealing. Yes we want to tackle underlying causes. But that takes years. Meanwhile people want safe streets & that's why arresting potential criminals is so important. Sadiq Khan obviously just doesn't want to do that" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1678800055694774272) 2023-07-11T16:14Z 90.8K followers, 14.1K engagements "Well done to @SuellaBraverman for pursuing necessary public order legislation notably the June secondary legislation which many in the Lords tried to block. It is finally enabling @metpoliceuk to stop the disruption caused by the @JustStop_Oil fanatics" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1679043676423573506) 2023-07-17T15:53Z 87.3K followers, 31K engagements "I was delighted to be at @TheGrowthComm launch this morning. It will do important work in refocusing our politics on the importance of making our economy more productive. Its first report 👇 is well worth reading" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1679116807666376707) 2023-07-12T14:33Z 87.3K followers, 20.8K engagements "We are just finishing voting in the @UKHouseofLords on the Illegal Migration Bill. @UKLabour @LibDems & others have once again ignored MPs & made the Bill unworkable. The Commons will shortly put it back into good order. Then the Lords should give way to the elected House" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1679269905877614593) 2023-07-18T01:59Z 87.3K followers, 43.3K engagements "@SimonMagus And only if it can be done in a way which doesn't mean the government knows where all its citizens are all of the time. Given what we've seen in the last few years I would very much worry such information would in the end be misused" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1679489606335725571) 2023-07-13T16:34Z 87.3K followers, [----] engagements ""The BBC must be remade: smaller cheaper better" My @Telegraph column this week. The @BBC is important to Britain - but a different BBC one that projects the best that has been made written or thought. /" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1679568993139449857) 2023-07-14T17:00Z 87.3K followers, 181.5K engagements "I'm forced to pay for it. That's why" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1679885944516755457) 2023-07-14T16:09Z 87.3K followers, 363.9K engagements ""Truth is we need to raise more tax" says @JudithFreedman No it isn't. It is always possible to cut spending instead. The tax burden is the highest since the war. We need lower spending less tax & more growth. (Chart from @OBR_UK but even so it's still broadly correct.)" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1680970095739166720) 2023-07-17T23:12Z 86.9K followers, 64.5K engagements "Congratulations to @Councillorsuzie on her selection as @Conservatives candidate for London Mayor. Sadiq Khan may not realise it yet but he has a fight on his hands next year. NEW: Our Conservative candidate for Mayor of London is Susan Hall https://t.co/vXhRkWNyk4 NEW: Our Conservative candidate for Mayor of London is Susan Hall https://t.co/vXhRkWNyk4" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1681596514236243973) 2023-07-19T09:27Z 91.3K followers, 328.5K engagements "I have written on the @Nigel_Farage affair this evening in the @Telegraph. The only appropriate response to this business is cold fury mixed with deep deep apprehension. The Government needs to act so that this can never happen again. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/19/nigel-farage-is-the-latest-victim-of-a-chilling-ideology/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/19/nigel-farage-is-the-latest-victim-of-a-chilling-ideology/" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1681730282125180945) 2023-07-19T18:18Z 90.7K followers, 272.5K engagements "I have written on last night's by-elections in the @Telegraph. [-----] Tory voters went missing last night. We need to offer them something to vote *for*" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1682401863042252808) 2023-07-21T16:41Z 87.3K followers, 107.5K engagements ""Britain is now a poor nation. This is the number one issue we face yet our leaders ignore it." Powerful article by Dan Hannan in @telegraph today. Unless we can get back to growth we won't be able to solve any other problem either. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/22/britain-is-now-a-poor-nation-this-is-our-number-one-issue/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/22/britain-is-now-a-poor-nation-this-is-our-number-one-issue/" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1683055755082059777) 2023-07-23T10:05Z 94.3K followers, 1.3M engagements "Good article from @FraserNelson. Excellent if the PM is to start talking about the trade-offs of net zero. But if so he will have to take on people like @CSkidmoreUK who claim there aren't any trade-offs & delivering net zero will *boost* growth" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1685680507760074753) 2023-07-30T18:18Z 87.3K followers, 108.9K engagements "What we are seeing today from @UKLabour @Ed_Miliband @ChrisGPackham @GeorgeMonbiot & many more is the frustration of people who don't take their opponents' arguments seriously and thus aren't used to actually making a coherent case. 1/2" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1686107651325747201) 2023-07-31T20:12Z 87.3K followers, 172.6K engagements "We've seen that attitude before from others - all too many Remainers in the Brexit referendum & others again in the lockdowns. It never works well in the end. We are now going to have the first real discussion of the costs of net zero. They'll need to do better than this. 👇" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1686108791371128832) 2023-07-31T20:17Z 87.3K followers, 27.5K engagements "It's not a 'problem' it's a good thing. In poorer countries people depend on public transport & bikes. When they get richer they want cars because they bring freedom. Public transport will *never* be good enough for a free people to move around on. Rishi Sunak has identified a huge problem in the UK. As he says "Most people are dependent on their cars." The way to solve this dependency is to properly invest in public transport and active travel. Rishi Sunak has identified a huge problem in the UK. As he says "Most people are dependent on their cars." The way to solve this dependency is to" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1686302754312949760) 2023-08-01T09:08Z 90.8K followers, 3.7M engagements "I am getting a lot of replies to this tweet from people who seem to think pointing out public transport works well in inner cities (obviously true for certain purposes) means it works well everywhere (obviously not true). Possibly my correspondents never leave inner London" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1686334820438118400) 2023-08-01T19:33Z 87.3K followers, 138.7K engagements "How quickly they forget. The policy of @UKLabour was a second referendum before we'd implemented the first one. Obviously that was an attempt to stop it. If you count the Lib Dems as a major party then they promised to stop Brexit even without a vote" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1687408307194015744) 2023-08-04T10:21Z 87.3K followers, 251.7K engagements "And to all those replying to this 👆 to say a 2nd referendum was needed as Brexit was not what was promised: The @Conservatives won that [----] election on a clear manifesto promise to leave the customs union & the single market with no alignment. That's what we delivered" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1687556943450132480) 2023-08-04T20:11Z 87.3K followers, 69K engagements "Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon seems to think councils around London have piles of cash lying around to spend on making his crackpot ULEZ scheme slightly more palatable. But that's how @UKLabour think - don't worry about who pays just spend the money. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66415879 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66415879" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1687904970232786944) 2023-08-05T19:14Z 94K followers, 47.2K engagements "That's exactly why it troubles me. In the last couple of centuries clever people's designs for reinventing human civilization have tended to end pretty badly especially when they've been imposed from above" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1688305530874306560) 2023-08-06T21:46Z 87.3K followers, 62.4K engagements "An excellent article this morning from @CitySamuel on the irresponsibility of our plans to get to net zero. We need to pause before we do ourselves some real harm" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1689556459711840256) 2023-08-10T08:37Z 87.3K followers, [----] engagements "And another from @AllisterHeath in @telegraph. The monstrous unaccountable rule of the Climate Change Committee needs to be brought to an end" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1689556814528958464) 2023-08-10T08:38Z 87.3K followers, [----] engagements "Join the campaign to keep @nationaltrust focused on looking after our country's heritage history and culture. Sign up here: ➡" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1692832525402484933) 2023-08-19T09:35Z 86.9K followers, 62.5K engagements "I'm sorry to say it but this is offensive rubbish from @BenGoldsmith. Of course there are fringe figures but you won't find any of this on my timeline or those of the serious critics of the current rush to net zero that I know" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1692888179987091735) 2023-08-19T13:16Z 87.3K followers, 57.6K engagements "I'm back in the @Telegraph with a longer Saturday piece. I fear for the future of Britain. We're getting used to mediocrity. Britain can do better than that - but we need our leaders to lead" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1697701870033072144) 2023-09-01T20:04Z 87.3K followers, 358K engagements "Obviously the convention that ex civil servants don't reveal advice to ministers or internal govt discussions is dead. If Jonathan Slater believed his Dept was presiding over a system that was dangerous to children why did he not resign & go public then" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1698615425175576716) 2023-09-04T08:34Z 87.3K followers, 210.8K engagements "It's not a "post Brexit shift". We negotiated entry in [----]. It was the EU who then blocked us. I hope the Govt has indeed negotiated a better deal though we await actual detail. It needs to be better to make up for having been excluded for nearly [--] years" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1699748468376445292) 2023-09-07T11:36Z 87.3K followers, [----] engagements "My @Telegraph column this week on the politics surrounding the Proms and the Last Night" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1700039728861495782) 2023-09-08T06:53Z 87.3K followers, 22.4K engagements "Brilliant demolition by @cjsnowdon of our politicised public health establishment" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1700456391582912953) 2023-09-09T10:29Z 86.9K followers, [----] engagements "Interesting if not entirely surprising that the EU's court doesn't think that corruption in the public sector counts as serious crime & has just ruled that data collected for fighting the latter can't be used for the former. https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1_4114692/en/ #ECJ: Using #PersonalData collected for the purpose of combating serious crime for an administrative investigation into #corruption in the public sector is contrary to #EUlaw 👉 https://t.co/ATb3CgbPxg https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1_4114692/en/ #ECJ: Using #PersonalData collected for the purpose of combating serious" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1700464322210570519) 2023-09-09T11:01Z 90.6K followers, 19.6K engagements "I finally had the opportunity to set out my views on the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland in the @UKHouseofLords today" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1701298665862693172) 2023-09-11T18:16Z 87.3K followers, 1.4M engagements "Only @uklabour a party that clearly doesn't understand people's concern about illegal migration could come up with this risible idea - the EU to take back some illegal migrants coming here in return for us taking other illegal migrants who've arrived somewhere else" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1702081234992542134) 2023-09-13T22:06Z 87.3K followers, 124.3K engagements "A EU/UK returns agreement is not the same thing as taking part in the EU's quota arrangements for sharing out asylum seekers. Of course the latter may be the price for the former which is why this is a deal not worth having. A month ago today Downing Street said Rishi Sunak "remained open" to a new EU-UK returns deal: A spokesman said: We remain open to working with the EU to take forward negotiations on a UK-EU returns deal as part of our international efforts to tackle illegal migration." A month ago today Downing Street said Rishi Sunak "remained open" to a new EU-UK returns deal: A" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1702259674534306131) 2023-09-14T09:55Z 90.7K followers, 11.4K engagements "My @Telegraph column. Labour statism & Euro-obsession. Theresa May rehabilitating her awful Brexit deal. The establishment wants to get us back under the EU thumb & hopes Labour will do so. Stand up for the [----] free & democratic Brexit" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1702570230436741315) 2023-09-15T06:29Z 87.3K followers, [----] engagements "Very good news if so. Not only would too much of this Bill make the housing market worse it is fundamentally un-conservative in its approach. (I have no rental interests myself btw before all the usual Twitter /X Marxists pile in and suggest that's why I argue as I do.)" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1702580861344907761) 2023-09-15T07:11Z 87.3K followers, 12K engagements "Keir Starmer & @uklabour realising perhaps that their migration policy as trailed this week is unworkable. Now we are back to not knowing what Labour's policy is at all. Beg for an EU returns agreement sure but what are they prepared to give away to get it" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1703314807091347861) 2023-09-17T07:47Z 87.3K followers, 49.3K engagements "Wolfgang Munchau @EuroBriefing provides some much-needed truth on our [----] trade agreement with the EU 👇" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1703672696779792746) 2023-09-18T07:29Z 87.3K followers, 36.8K engagements "I have written in @Telegraph about the many difficulties with @UKLabour plans to renegotiate the [----] Brexit deal" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1703844419009466678) 2023-09-18T18:52Z 87.3K followers, 30.3K engagements "Head of @TheFCA says political debanking is illegal. Then asks banks (not customers) whether they have done it. Not surprisingly he gets the answer no - or at least it's not the "primary" reason. Is it surprising so many don't trust our institutions" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1704096046849163756) 2023-09-19T11:32Z 87.3K followers, 15K engagements "If tonight's reports 👇 are correct - & the PM's statement tonight suggests they may be - then this is good news. As I've been arguing we must back off unrealistic net zero targets which put unmanageable pressure on hard-pressed voters' finances" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1704239805763108918) 2023-09-19T21:03Z 87.3K followers, 21.2K engagements "He is also right that we have not properly & genuinely debated net zero. I hope today's announcement will be just the starting point and we will now begin a more honest discussion about the trade-offs and the very real costs" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1704531893696262522) 2023-09-20T16:24Z 86.9K followers, [----] engagements "Many missing the point of this. It's not about whether they're formal govt policy now. Plenty of people are certainly considering them. So it's a (very welcome) message to Whitehall: "don't bother thinking about such policies because we aren't going to do them". We will never impose unnecessary and heavy-handed measures on you the British people. We will still meet our international commitments and hit Net Zero by [----]. https://t.co/XjXQzGVaCN We will never impose unnecessary and heavy-handed measures on you the British people. We will still meet our international commitments and hit Net Zero" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1704543963644842351) 2023-09-20T17:12Z 90.8K followers, 122.9K engagements "The Pavlovian instinctive reactions of much of Westminster the media and big business over the last [--] hours of hysteria have shown once again how many of them are completely disconnected from actual public opinion in the country" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1704549848219881936) 2023-09-20T17:35Z 87.3K followers, [----] engagements ""We don't want to diverge" from the EU says @Keir_Starmer. No surprise - but good to have it said" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1704863710152433994) 2023-09-21T14:22Z 87.3K followers, 30.6K engagements "A good example of the near-complete disconnect between actual foreign policy practitioners & academics writing about it. (For one thing "Global Britain" As a concept was around well before the referendum. Nothing in a Theresa May speech was original after all.)" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1706339660861968459) 2023-09-25T16:07Z 87.3K followers, 10.8K engagements "The below-the-line comments on this @Telegraph interview with Lord Deben are well worth a read. They show what many Conservatives *really* think of net zero and its hectoring statist agenda" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1706563560699031917) 2023-09-26T06:57Z 87.3K followers, 14.3K engagements "I am in favour of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse for any reason whenever its possible. (Milton Friedman) My @Telegraph column tonight on the prospects for scrapping inheritance tax. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/28/inheritance-tax-cut-scrap-government/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/28/inheritance-tax-cut-scrap-government/" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1707462144730505437) 2023-09-28T18:27Z 90.5K followers, 10.8K engagements "Let's ensure 100% of our candidates are actually Conservatives. That would be a start. Then let's get the best people for the job men or women. @christopherhope" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1707797848031449265) 2023-09-29T16:41Z 87.3K followers, 105.2K engagements "Indeed you are wrong. For me conservatism is about as far as possible: Economic growth through markets not statism A smaller modernised govt doing its core tasks well Rebuilding our nation And freedom - to speak freely & run your own life without govt hectoring & control" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1708059105745629575) 2023-09-30T09:59Z 87.3K followers, 76.5K engagements "I don't often say this but well done Jeremy Hunt. We can already get from London to Manchester in [--] minutes even without HS2. A modern society needs more flights not fewer" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1708774126159114682) 2023-10-02T09:21Z 87.3K followers, 1.8M engagements "I don't have time to read all the replies to my tweet but thank you anyway everyone for magnifying my message that it is perfectly possible now & ought to be even easier in future to travel round this country by plane" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1708930971083399549) 2023-10-02T19:44Z 87K followers, 48.5K engagements "So much of the supposed case for net zero involves the random presentation of very large numbers with very feeble underpinnings no linkage to real-world economics and no attempt to compare costs and benefits" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1709194497538523423) 2023-10-03T13:11Z 87.3K followers, 69.7K engagements "Maybe the Taoiseach would like to reflect on how much the UK has provided to Ukraine or indeed how much his own neutral country depends on others including the UK to defend it before making points like these. We would all be better served if more Irish politicians concentrated on governing their own country instead of pontificating to others" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1709982558769775090) 2023-10-05T17:23Z 86.9K followers, 429.6K engagements "I've written in the @Telegraph tonight about the appalling terrorist attacks on Israel. Today's killings are a reminder of the threat that Israel must live with every day and why it cannot let its guard drop. /" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1710736361320223039) 2023-10-07T19:18Z 86K followers, 14.1K engagements "I have written in the @Telegraph about yesterday's horrific & evil attack on Israel. Perhaps our government could now show the same visible solidarity with Israel tonight that Germany and Italy (at least) have already done" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1710937524057595910) 2023-10-08T08:37Z 85.9K followers, 32.7K engagements "This very short extract from my discussion with Marc Glendening of @iealondon summarises the take on politics I've been advocating over the last two years: that the Conservative Party should aim to deliver a strong nation state governed effectively and run in as free-market a way as possible. Believing in a well-governed nation state in control of its borders and identity does not require you to be a protectionist or an economic statist. Being in favour of open and free markets does not require you to believe in subordinating our economic interests to international institutions to support" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1711652072402162091) 2023-10-10T07:57Z 87.3K followers, 28.2K engagements "Why our business representative organisations are failing and have been for some years in one short thread from @britishchambers. Our survey showed that three out of five (61%) SMEs are yet to take any action towards becoming Net Zero. Did you know On average businesses with [---] employees could save [--] tonnes of CO2 [------] on energy property and travel costs and. https://t.co/SExTfkyggr Our survey showed that three out of five (61%) SMEs are yet to take any action towards becoming Net Zero. Did you know On average businesses with [---] employees could save [--] tonnes of CO2 [------] on energy" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1711661395102580884) 2023-10-10T08:34Z 90.7K followers, [----] engagements "What concessions will @RachelReevesMP make to get these things Will you accept EU law and the ECJ to get a food standards deal There won't be one on any other terms. Every agreement with the EU is a set of trade-offs and concessions. It is a @uklabour fantasy to think the EU will sign a different deal just because they like them" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1711687407232307521) 2023-10-10T10:17Z 86.9K followers, 340.7K engagements "It's a silly argument. UK cities aren't separated by a wide river. They are already connected. A better analogy would be to imagine you have two cities *already* connected by a perfectly good bridge. Instead of improving that bridge you decide to build a new 'super bridge' alongside it at extraordinary and ever-growing cost. When you've built some of the foundations you realise it's all going to cost far too much wasn't the top priority and decide to cut your losses and build something else with a better rate of return instead" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1711707576369373359) 2023-10-10T11:37Z 87.3K followers, 560K engagements "My longer article in @Telegraph this morning about politics after the party conferences and what Conservatives should now be doing. (Comments are open again btw.)" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1713138194168848706) 2023-10-14T10:22Z 87.3K followers, [----] engagements "I know the Conservative Party is a very broad church nowadays but a Tory MP threatening to prosecute the PM and Foreign Secretary for war crimes surely crosses some sort of threshold doesn't it" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1713185993505853731) 2023-10-14T13:32Z 85.9K followers, 189.7K engagements "A very good statement from @RishiSunak this evening" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1713260492918026342) 2023-10-14T18:28Z 87.3K followers, 21.7K engagements "I can't see there is any particular value to the UK in having lots of HGVs with Irish goods transiting this country but not stopping here. A number of central European countries have over the years gone to some effort to discourage reroute modal shift or charge exactly such traffic" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1714177164172546252) 2023-10-17T07:10Z 87.3K followers, 110.2K engagements "The interview on @r4Today with @LTCPeterLerner of the IDF just after 8am is well worth a listen. It's hard to avoid the conclusion that @BBCNews - and some other outlets @SkyNews @GBNEWS - got their initial reporting of this wrong last night. The same was true of other mainstream media around the world. Their initial unreflective repetition of Hamas claims as fact 👇 gave the impression there was no doubt there had been an IDF airstrike. Those claims echoed around the world with significant and continuing real-world consequences. It would (at the very least) surely have been more correct to" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1714551012218847669) 2023-10-18T07:56Z 85.9K followers, 67.2K engagements "Matt Ridley @mattwridley tells it like it is on net zero in @MailOnline. The vast & ever-increasing sums we must pay to deliver a somewhat worse energy supply than we have now The tendency to regard costs as benefits The pointlessness of weakening our own economy while China and other major economies carry on as before. It really is time we had a proper review of the net zero programme" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1714923013492080909) 2023-10-19T08:34Z 85.8K followers, 45.9K engagements ""We should expect British citizens to be loyal to Britain" My @Telegraph piece today" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1715246712174891260) 2023-10-20T06:00Z 85.9K followers, 145.8K engagements "The Tamworth & Mid-Beds by-elections are extremely bad for my party @Conservatives and I don't think it helps to suggest otherwise as some party figures have done this morning. The current national polls are dreadful for us but these results are even *worse*. The very worst current polls show us holding 100-150 seats at an election. But Tamworth is our 55th safest seat. Yes things are different at by elections and there were probably special factors. But these results show that the national polls are broadly correct and that a strategy of denial is unlikely to work. If your voters don't want" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1715268032145060340) 2023-10-20T07:25Z 86.8K followers, 854.8K engagements "The "absent" British state that spends 47% of our GDP. The task is to get that number down reduce the scope of the state's tasks and reform it so it does its job better. It's fantasy to think the current wasteful ramshackle operation is ever going to become a successful "active state"" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1715274087243628584) 2023-10-20T07:49Z 85.8K followers, 53.6K engagements "The Tamworth & Mid-Beds by-elections are extremely bad for my party @Conservatives and I don't think it helps to suggest otherwise as some party figures have done this morning. The current national polls are dreadful for us but these results are even *worse*. The very worst current polls show us holding 100-150 seats at an election. But Tamworth is our 55th safest seat. Yes things are different at by elections and there were probably special factors. But these results show that the national polls are broadly correct and that a strategy of denial is unlikely to work. If your voters don't want" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1715300591277105314) 2023-10-20T09:35Z 85.9K followers, 71.8K engagements "I don't think @arisroussinos is right here in @unherd and I don't believe it could just as easily be the other way round (though I know many on the left who support Israel too). People on the Right have tended to support Israel because it is the visible embodiment of things we believe and of the enduring value of Western civilisation: that democracy strong national cohesion open markets family religion and a belief in scientific progress can and do produce a successful country - in contrast to so many of its neighbours. This has become all the more true over the last 20-30 years as Israel has" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1715696552432312398) 2023-10-21T11:48Z 85.7K followers, 47.6K engagements "The @metpoliceuk put out their guidance on this chant on Friday. I and many others drew attention to it. So why is the Govt only waking up to it two days later *after* the demonstration Yesterday's eccentric judgements & handling by the Met really need properly looking into - but the Govt needs to wake up too" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1716026026940121415) 2023-10-22T09:37Z 86K followers, 79.2K engagements "It's even more grimly funny that so many people can't see the difference between expressing views in a civilised fashion and intimidation and incitement to violence. This chant calls for the destruction of a friendly country and expulsion or murder of its inhabitants. I am not calling for this chant to be banned. I am saying the police should have stopped it being sung by a large aggressive mob in central London intimidating our Jewish fellow citizens and scaring anyone who is unlucky enough to be nearby" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1716059067976655079) 2023-10-22T11:48Z 85.9K followers, 19.1K engagements "I am honoured to be a signatory of the October Declaration. Congratulations to @AllisonPearson and all those who have put this initiative together. We have seen shocking acts of antisemitism on Britain's streets in recent days and the authorities have not always reacted robustly. So it's time for all of us to stand in solidarity with our Jewish fellow citizens against the climate of fear that risks being created. As Allison says go to It's live for signatures from midnight" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1716192250907033876) 2023-10-22T20:38Z 85.9K followers, 208.1K engagements "I have signed the @JakeBerry Tax Pledge - to oppose any further increases to the country's tax burden. Taxes are at their highest for [--] years. They should be going in one direction only - down. Via @ConHome. From @JakeBerry: We must learn from the by-elections. I ask would-be Conservative MPs to sign the Tax Pledge. https://t.co/PFrGMy1vWP From @JakeBerry: We must learn from the by-elections. I ask would-be Conservative MPs to sign the Tax Pledge. https://t.co/PFrGMy1vWP" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1716355770978050369) 2023-10-23T07:27Z 87.7K followers, 29K engagements "This is a very good article from. @KonstantinKisin via @thefp" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1716359322496598299) 2023-10-23T07:42Z 86K followers, 198.3K engagements "This really is quite remarkable in all respects" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1716420371107266774) 2023-10-23T11:44Z 85.9K followers, 19.2K engagements "Let's see if they really carry this through. But it seems that the French don't have the same caste of government lawyers that we do exercising their internal veto on even contemplating robust action on so many things. One has to point out that the French were leading actors in calling the Boris Johnson government 'populist' for readiness to defy an international treaty or court but then the EU and so many of its members are much readier to preach at others than to observe similar constraints themselves" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1716733113949175815) 2023-10-24T08:27Z 85.9K followers, 123.4K engagements "I am astonished that for the third weekend in a row normal activity in central London is to be disrupted by another so-called 'national March for Palestine' demonstration. 👇 Are we to expect this every weekend for the foreseeable future with all the disruption and intimidation it entails Last weekend the authorities did not seem to be fully in control. I hope they are ready and able to do better this time round" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1716887021115908271) 2023-10-24T18:38Z 95.9K followers, 947.1K engagements "In Northern Ireland actually" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1716903290934526452) 2023-10-24T19:43Z 86K followers, 91.5K engagements "Today @AllisonPearson writes: "This week I have heard of two Jewish women who were advised separately by police or security officers in central London to remove a Star of David necklace and a Star of David brooch. Why are law-abiding citizens being told to adjust their dress and behaviour to avoid attacks when the people who pose a threat to them face no such strictures" Sign the October Declaration at" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1717077724559221041) 2023-10-25T07:16Z 86.1K followers, 272.1K engagements "In his next tweet Mr Winstanley who has a disturbingly wide audience it seems describes pictures of Israeli hostages as "hateful anti-Palestinian posters". I think we can tell from that how seriously we should take his opinions on this subject" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1717153034915008523) 2023-10-25T12:16Z 85.9K followers, [----] engagements "In his next tweet Mr Winstanley who has a disturbingly wide audience it seems describes pictures of Israeli hostages as "hateful anti-Palestinian posters". I think we can tell from that how seriously we should take his opinions on this subject" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1717153065130754105) 2023-10-25T12:16Z 85.9K followers, 10.3K engagements "The easiest way to avoid this problem @RachelReevesMP is to *write things yourself* - articles speeches and books. That way you can be sure where the text has come from. Give it to a researcher and you can never be sure. But now at least we know why Labour Party speeches sound like pre-assembled thoughts put together by others. As so often Orwell had it right" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1717596025467093285) 2023-10-26T17:36Z 86K followers, 107.8K engagements "Tonight's @Telegraph column - a look at the covid inquiry that has lost its way. It isn't going to answer the one question we want answered: were lockdowns the right call or not" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1717607009409745334) 2023-10-26T18:19Z 86K followers, 100.7K engagements ""Can Conservatism fix its pathway of decline" Enjoyed discussing this question on today's @spectator Coffee House Shots podcast together with @FraserNelson and Baroness Stroud looking forward to the @arc_forum conference this coming week" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1718194567730663566) 2023-10-28T09:14Z 86K followers, 20.7K engagements "This is 💯% correct from @johnredwood in @conhome. We need a supply-side budget one that aims at boosting the country's productive capacity building and growing businesses and getting people back to work" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1719650783904338208) 2023-11-01T09:41Z 86.1K followers, 16.2K engagements "Of course we did. We might not have had to if the previous government ministers *and* officials had not bungled the negotiation so badly so that the referendum result could not be delivered. We were in the biggest constitutional crisis for a hundred years. That obviously had to be the Government's overwhelming priority. "No deal" Brexit planning certainly revealed many of the systemic weaknesses that became even more obvious during the pandemic and even enabled us to build plans that turned out to be useful (eg on drugs supply) but it certainly did not cause them" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1719672177295872349) 2023-11-01T11:06Z 86.1K followers, 48.6K engagements "Of course we did. We might not have had to if the previous government ministers *and* officials had not bungled the negotiation so badly so that the referendum result could not be delivered. We were in the biggest constitutional crisis for a hundred years. That obviously had to be the Government's overwhelming priority. "No deal" Brexit planning certainly revealed many of the systemic weaknesses that became even more obvious during the pandemic and even enabled us to build plans that turned out to be useful (eg on drugs supply) but it certainly did not cause them" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1719672202532884982) 2023-11-01T11:06Z 86.5K followers, 451.8K engagements "I know I'm probably wasting my time with people like this 👇 but since many are making a similar point: The final withdrawal agreement was signed mid-October [----] & 'no deal' planning accordingly stood down; The election was held on [--] December. No one outside Wuhan had heard of covid until January [----]. It is therefore simply a chronological impossibility that Brexit work in [----] could have distracted from an unforeseeable crisis in [----]. As it turned out no deal planning in [----] actually *helped* us manage aspects of that crisis. Moreover even after we had formally left at the end of" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1719700562805973341) 2023-11-01T12:58Z 86.1K followers, 37.6K engagements "Back to the covid inquiry this week in the @Telegraph. We just aren't learning what we need to from it. And as Dominic Cummings' evidence shows we are still badly prepared for any future pandemic too" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1719811070007615706) 2023-11-01T20:18Z 86K followers, [----] engagements "Back to the covid inquiry this week in the @Telegraph. We just aren't learning what we need to from it. And as Dominic Cummings' evidence shows we are still badly prepared for any future pandemic too" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1719811093239828795) 2023-11-01T20:18Z 86.1K followers, 18K engagements "Sadly Helen Macnamara's evidence statement was only published after my piece tonight 👆 was finalised. I would certainly have commented on aspects of it notably her extraordinary para [---] which confirms points I have made repeatedly: "modern government is not really in charge of the country there is not a great machinery that No [--] sits atop of with large levers to pull.So even if there had been an appetite to actually run the country (and there was from some and at times) it was hard to see how that could be made to happen." And she correctly diagnoses the difficulty in recent Conservative" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1719820158984712517) 2023-11-01T20:54Z 86.1K followers, 11.8K engagements "It seems to me the M&S ad is an important moment in the way we think about Christmas. For the first time (I think) it marks a symbolic distancing not just from the original Christian meaning of Christmas - that went long ago - but *also* from its secularised successor: family children food games tree elves and so on. The ad now presents it as an entirely selfish event - about doing what *you* want with the holiday defining it yourself and not being made to do anything you don't wish to. In that sense it is entirely in line with trends in society more generally including a devaluing of" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1720059769564618812) 2023-11-02T12:46Z 86.1K followers, 85.9K engagements "It seems to me the M&S ad is an important moment in the way we think about Christmas. For the first time (I think) it marks a symbolic distancing not just from the original Christian meaning of Christmas - that unfortunately went long ago - but *also* from its secularised successor: family children food games tree elves and so on. The ad now presents it as an entirely selfish event - about doing what *you* want with the holiday defining it yourself and not being made to do anything you don't wish to. In that sense it is entirely in line with trends in society more generally including a" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1720070850983109052) 2023-11-02T13:30Z 86.7K followers, 672.8K engagements "As I keep saying. It would also be better for the country given how dangerous and damaging so many left-wing ideas are" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1720090581110780151) 2023-11-02T14:48Z 86.5K followers, 26K engagements "What a surprise that rent controls have not worked in Edinburgh. Rents are higher and there is even less housing than before. Let us hope @MayorofLondon is watching and learning" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1720108408278229264) 2023-11-02T15:59Z 86.5K followers, 16.5K engagements "It's very welcome to see this action from @Mark_J_Harper and HMG in implementation of the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act passed earlier this year. The public should not have to put up with repeated disruption to their daily business caused by politically motivated strikes led by dinosaur union leaders. We're delivering on our manifesto commitment to introduce minimum service levels during rail strikes. This will allow passengers to continue with their day-to-day lives and support businesses particularly in the hospitality sector. https://t.co/9tTIUadoAZ https://t.co/kSoo4eZi4a We're" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1721885028404347256) 2023-11-07T13:39Z 85.9K followers, 28.9K engagements "The ability of counsel in our circus @covidinquiryuk to focus on irrelevant detail is truly incredible. Whether Sadiq Khan should have been invited to Whitehall meetings a few days earlier than he actually was is a trivial point among the many questions we actually need answered but we've just spent the best part of half an hour hearing about it" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1721917612068638813) 2023-11-07T15:48Z 86.5K followers, 31.2K engagements "I saw some of this demonstration myself. The roads were blocked for a prolonged period. The @metpoliceuk have the powers in the new Public Order Act to keep the roads clear. It is a mystery why this disruption continues to happen. Just Stop Oil can perfectly well make their point while standing on the pavement" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1722205537272750244) 2023-11-08T10:52Z 86.7K followers, 88.6K engagements "I have read @SuellaBraverman's article in @thetimes with interest. She is right to say what she did. Many say they want authentic politicians who tell it like it is - and then complain when they do so. [--]. She is in my view correct to call out a lack of even-handedness in the way some demonstrations and indeed some opinions are policed. Saying anything else invites people to disbelieve their eyes. [--]. Any @metpoliceuk belief that there is low risk of serious disorder from the Palestine demonstrations can only be true if they intend to do what they did on previous weeks ie not enforce the law" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1722586604311634152) 2023-11-09T12:07Z 87K followers, 575.3K engagements "I was the most recent Cabinet Minister to be based in the @UKHouseofLords - though I was not running a whole Department too. I don't think it works well to have a lead Cabinet Minister answering questions and defending their Department solely in the Lords. The Lords is not a fully party political environment - nor should it be - and voters are owed proper political scrutiny. In our system that can only happen in the Commons. I said as much to the @instituteforgov last year: There have been past discussions about finding a way for Lords ministers to appear before the Commons but none have" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1724083322060484645) 2023-11-13T15:14Z 86.8K followers, 147.6K engagements "My take in tonight's @Telegraph on today's reshuffle and its discouraging implications" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1724154627782791185) 2023-11-13T19:57Z 86.8K followers, 91.5K engagements "I'm on @SkyNews with @SophyRidgeSky imminently to discuss today's political developments" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1724865624143216777) 2023-11-15T19:03Z 86.8K followers, 10.4K engagements "This is correct from @danny__kruger and @miriam_cates. As I said to @SophyRidgeSky tonight unless the proposed emergency legislation disapplies the HRA and gives effect to the policy *notwithstanding* the ECHR and Refugee Convention then it won't work and we will endlessly go round in circles trying to resolve the problem without using the tools necessary to do so. Statement from the New Conservatives co-Chairs @danny__kruger and @miriam_cates Glad PM is bringing forward emergency legislation. But it will need more than a declaration that Rwanda is safe. We cant wait for ECHR to intervene: we" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1724911323337683038) 2023-11-15T22:04Z 86.1K followers, 45.5K engagements "This is our lowest voting share on @YouGov since the end of the Liz Truss government. Indeed only one YouGov poll has shown a lower Conservative share since the [----] election. Westminster voting intention: LAB: 44% (-3) CON: 21% (-2) LDEM: 10% (-) REF: 10% (+2) GRN: 8% (+1) via @YouGov https://t.co/Hcc08uY2OH Westminster voting intention: LAB: 44% (-3) CON: 21% (-2) LDEM: 10% (-) REF: 10% (+2) GRN: 8% (+1) via @YouGov https://t.co/Hcc08uY2OH" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1725076693667164389) 2023-11-16T09:01Z 86.8K followers, 433.7K engagements "Remember this next time you are told that wind power is getting ever cheaper. Even these high prices exclude the costs of maintaining an alternative power network for when the wind doesn't blow and the higher costs which that intwrmittency imposes on that network. Time to end the renewables spell" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1725087903410168317) 2023-11-16T09:46Z 86.8K followers, 60.6K engagements ""Conservative supporters wont be fooled again" My @Telegraph piece on Rwanda and the autumn statement" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1725413190006161681) 2023-11-17T07:18Z 86.8K followers, 43.9K engagements ""The belief at the core of Conservatism is belief in the United Kingdom in its history and institutions its people and their future." "The basis of our democracy is that the King in Parliament is sovereign. An Act with royal assent is supreme over any older law or foreign treaty international law or judicial ruling or even hold tight the ruling of a judge in Strasbourg." This is a very important article from @danny__kruger. My impression is that the "tilt to the left and the past" as Danny puts it in this week's reshuffle has badly alienated much of the mainstream conservative Right in the" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1725869159731355977) 2023-11-18T13:30Z 86.9K followers, 70.5K engagements "This is what happens in a zero-growth economy. There isn't enough productive capacity to generate resources to build new things and what there is has to go on patching up existing things. Eventually of course there isn't enough money to do that either" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1725875375790592181) 2023-11-18T13:55Z 86.9K followers, 67.6K engagements "A striking point from the @Telegraph coverage this morning of Lord Harrington's report on attracting more investment to the UK: "The report points out that the UK is one of just a few countries where the amount of built-up land per capita has actually fallen since 2000."" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1727233091989541238) 2023-11-22T07:50Z 86.9K followers, 12.6K engagements "Going through the OBR autumn report it is hard not to be struck by the huge gap between GDP growth overall and GDP per capita. Overall growth in the current year [----] actually turns into a decline per capita. That's where those huge migration figures show up" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1727331699888140756) 2023-11-22T14:22Z 86.9K followers, 236.8K engagements ""The enemy is socialism the enemy is statism the enemy is collectivism. The words of Javier Milei president-elect of Argentina and they are spot on." My @Telegraph column tonight" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1727796553035722786) 2023-11-23T21:09Z 86.9K followers, 57K engagements "Another great piece from @K_Niemietz in @TheCriticMag on the NHS. The NHS is not underfunded - Britain is now in the top [--] health spenders globally as a share of the economy. But it delivers poor results - more avoidable deaths than European comparators. The truth is that it is a bad system that needs huge reform" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1727965838685135236) 2023-11-24T08:22Z 86.9K followers, 48.3K engagements "Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Schiller's Ode to Joy is one of the most sublime uplifting and profound works of the human spirit. It is a huge pity that the final movement's main theme has been appropriated by the bureaucratic monstrosity of the European Union. Of course one must suspect Starmer of making a pro-EU political point but I don't think the rest of us should be led to feel we can't appreciate the music for political reasons" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1728003979127169054) 2023-11-24T10:53Z 87.2K followers, 45.2K engagements "Like @LeeAndersonMP_ I am staggered that two such senior officials could show up at a committee hearing without any figures on an aspect of small boats they must have known would come up" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1729928094402683235) 2023-11-29T18:19Z 86.9K followers, 245.2K engagements "I spoke in the @UKHouseofLords debate today on the Autumn Statement (at 5.12pm in the link) 👇. "The truth is that we are trying to provide public services as if the economy were growing by 3% a year when the real figure is 1%. That just cannot be done and we are now feeling the pain." "I would like to see policymakers paying less attention to the many snake-oil proponents of the so-called active state and spend a bit more time reminding themselves of Hayeks essay 'The Use of Knowledge in Society'." "It does all too little to challenge let alone hold back the tide of statism miserabilism and" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1729962218920239413) 2023-11-29T20:35Z 86.9K followers, 28.7K engagements "Bravo to @niall_gooch for this outline of our country's civilisation and its achievements" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1730133352005386603) 2023-11-30T07:55Z 86.9K followers, 11.3K engagements "Do we need a bit more of Kissingers realism to get us out of the web of treaties and courts that stop us controlling our borders I think we might. I've written on that question tonight in @Telegraph" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1730308333649670427) 2023-11-30T19:30Z 86.9K followers, 19.8K engagements "Very good news if @grantshapps is having a rethink on this as I argued in Parliament on [--] November" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1730721285695504648) 2023-12-01T22:51Z 86.9K followers, 20.3K engagements "No surprise here sadly to anyone who spends any time talking to present or former Conservative voters or members" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1731616746090398000) 2023-12-04T10:09Z 87K followers, 61.1K engagements "Quite right from @BDSixsmith in @TheCriticMag" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1731696851919736913) 2023-12-04T15:27Z 86.9K followers, 13.6K engagements "No surprise this ugly monstrosity won RIBA's House of the Year. "Practical solutions to spatial issues (curtains act as dividers and screens and planting ensure levels of privacy and ventilation can be easily adjusted) make for a practical family space." Welcome to the future" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1731947686410997907) 2023-12-05T08:04Z 86.9K followers, 14.1K engagements "Remarkable and obviously quite incompatible with civil service roles" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1732051633595412670) 2023-12-05T14:57Z 87.1K followers, 85.6K engagements "I know from my own experience how wrenching it is to leave government over a point of principle (in my case the proposed fourth covid lockdown) however strongly one feels about it. But principles are the most important thing in politics. That's why @RobertJenrick has done the right thing in setting out his view that the new immigration Bill as he says "does not go far enough" and in acknowledging that he can't as a consequence continue in his ministerial position. It is with great sadness that I have written to the Prime Minister to tender my resignation as Minister for Immigration. I cannot" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1732490389406245102) 2023-12-06T20:01Z 87.2K followers, 245.2K engagements ""No wonder our high streets are dying with councils like this in charge" (Labour obviously)" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1732522541854408811) 2023-12-06T22:08Z 87.1K followers, 11.7K engagements ""I dont want to lose I dont believe we have to lose and I am not prepared to give up without a fight.If there is anything to be done to get us on a better path and increase our chances of winning then I believe it must be done." My @Telegraph column tonight about my party's seeming resignation to the coming electoral car crash" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1732840483951407503) 2023-12-07T19:12Z 87.1K followers, 401.3K engagements "There's a lot of denial about this in today's Conservative Party. The polls say what they say however uncomfortable that is to contemplate. Which is why I wrote what I did in today's @Telegraph:" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1733123577472299161) 2023-12-08T13:57Z 87.1K followers, 83.5K engagements "Excellent from @KemiBadenoch in @TheSun tonight. Good that at least one minister is reminding everyone that restoring Britain's freedoms through Brexit is a good idea and is actually going rather well" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1733258523629211921) 2023-12-08T22:53Z 87.2K followers, 90.2K engagements "We've seen some remarkable things in the last few years but I must admit I didn't foresee several KCs describing parliamentary sovereignty the most fundamental doctrine of our constitution as just an "assumption" and suggesting the courts could take it upon themselves to overturn it" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1733989825022226579) 2023-12-10T23:19Z 87K followers, 754.1K engagements "Shows how important it is for 'conservative' parties to *roll back* damaging innovations in governance not just acquiesce in them. Not everyone wanted to repeal the FTPA even in 2021-2 but it was in the manifesto so it got done. As this week's debate about the sovereignty of Parliament shows there is a big conservative constitutional agenda for a Conservative Party that one day has an appetite for it" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1734901667680723082) 2023-12-13T11:42Z 87.1K followers, 15.5K engagements "Exactly correct from @spikedonline. If you want to see what a Labour government would be like look at what Mark Drakeford has done to Wales. I stayed near the Welsh border in summer [----]. It was obvious when you had crossed it - more shops permanently shut more masks more covid theatre. All unnecessary. Add to that his dreadful record on health and education. The decision to build no more new roads. The 20mph speed limit. I wish him well for a long and happy retirement. But I also wish we could look forward to different policies. Unfortunately there are many like him in Welsh Labour &" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1734929669676253462) 2023-12-13T13:34Z 87.2K followers, 198.6K engagements "The Windsor Framework makes the Union weaker not stronger. Hard to argue that the Union isnt stronger now than it was a year ago. Two key FMs gone GRR Bill and court case rejected SNP in retreat Tata Steel remaining in Wales Windsor Framework. Hard to argue that the Union isnt stronger now than it was a year ago. Two key FMs gone GRR Bill and court case rejected SNP in retreat Tata Steel remaining in Wales Windsor Framework" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1734931568580268169) 2023-12-13T13:41Z 87.3K followers, 47.8K engagements "Exactly correct from @spikedonline. If you want to see what a Labour government would be like look at what Mark Drakeford has done to Wales. I stayed near the Welsh border in summer [----]. It was obvious when you had crossed it - more shops permanently shut more masks more covid theatre. All unnecessary. Add to that his dreadful record on health and education. The decision to build no more new roads. The 20mph speed limit. I wish him well for a long and happy retirement. But I also wish we could look forward to different policies. Unfortunately there are many like him in Welsh Labour &" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1734945874264904105) 2023-12-13T14:38Z 87.1K followers, 57.6K engagements "Exactly right @miriam_cates and well said" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1734953569604739177) 2023-12-13T15:08Z 87.2K followers, 38.7K engagements "It always was a poor idea to give the Scottish 'Government' the power to vary income tax. It was only ever going to go one way - up. Expect even more better paid workers to decamp to England" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1735064685991407958) 2023-12-13T22:30Z 87.2K followers, 36K engagements ""White male recruits must get final sign off from me says Aviva boss" It is a sign of how out of touch such people are that Amanda Blanc can say this openly to a parliamentary committee seemingly in the belief that it is something to be proud of. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/12/13/white-male-recruits-final-sign-off-aviva-boss-amanda-blanc/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/12/13/white-male-recruits-final-sign-off-aviva-boss-amanda-blanc/" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1735262316717822075) 2023-12-14T11:35Z 91.3K followers, 283.8K engagements "It's no good pretending that calling for unity and not confronting political reality is a viable strategy. Those who want really conservative policies - including on the Rwanda Bill - need to keep pressing the case. My @Telegraph column tonight" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1735377577563373696) 2023-12-14T19:13Z 87.2K followers, 11.8K engagements "👇 from @ClaireCoutinho. Reliably continuously whenever we want it. Not only when the sun is shining or when the wind is blowing (but not blowing too much). Nuclear is the long-term solution not flaky renewables" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1735662962486993036) 2023-12-15T14:07Z 87.2K followers, 39.5K engagements ""Chief OBR economist backed Corbyns 250bn debt plans" More evidence the OBR needs serious reform" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1736155480337047685) 2023-12-16T22:44Z 87.2K followers, 22.1K engagements "Delighted to sign this letter from @UsforThemUK setting out a way in which our covid inquiry can get back on track before it's too late" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1737425843700355402) 2023-12-20T10:52Z 87.2K followers, 27.3K engagements "The anger and frustration in this statement by @chhcalling is entirely understandable. The UK government has made a series of concessions to the Irish Govt's world view in recent months notably in the Windsor Framework. The UK might have expected more understanding and dialogue but has instead been rewarded with a kick in the teeth through this highly unusual and certainly damaging ECHR case. It's good to see that the UK will defend this robustly but it is essential that a more robust approach is taken in future to standing up for UK interests in the UK-Ireland relationship" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1737551391382454635) 2023-12-20T19:11Z 87.2K followers, 109.6K engagements "Politics is over for the year so something more seasonal in this week's @Telegraph column ending with GK Chesterton: "For men are homesick in their homes And strangers under the sun And they lay on their heads in a foreign land Whenever the day is done. (.) But our homes are under miraculous skies Where the yule tale was begun." Happy Christmas" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1737919507778228459) 2023-12-21T19:34Z 87.3K followers, 66.7K engagements "@MRJKilcoyne People called Liz Truss a libertarian when she wasn't and now there is an actual libertarian they call him a populist" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1741066196999459231) 2023-12-30T11:58Z 87.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Not many things are certain about [----] but one thing is: we will be living beyond our means as a country." My @Telegraph piece tonight" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1742634472682430745) 2024-01-03T19:50Z 87.3K followers, 39.3K engagements "Delighted to talk to Brendan O'Neill of @spikedonline about Conservative politics what a Labour govt might be like net zero free speech Europe and more.👇 🎧 THE BRENDAN ONEILL SHOW 🎧 Are the Tories beyond saving David Frost and Brendan ONeill discuss discuss the betrayal of the Red Wall and why Rishi Sunak cannot afford to ignore the culture war Listen to the episode here 👇 https://t.co/8lZtcdnA3n 🎧 THE BRENDAN ONEILL SHOW 🎧 Are the Tories beyond saving David Frost and Brendan ONeill discuss discuss the betrayal of the Red Wall and why Rishi Sunak cannot afford to ignore the culture war" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1742887108769952024) 2024-01-04T12:34Z 85.9K followers, 20.9K engagements "Voters have switched off from the Westminster game. But that doesn't represent apathy - rather it shows a total loss of confidence in the system. People are angry and are looking for a completely different approach to politics. My @Telegraph piece this evening" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1745529678117450210) 2024-01-11T19:34Z 87.3K followers, 40K engagements "I've written in the @Telegraph this evening on the latest dreadful polling for my party and what we need to do to head off the looming disaster. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/01/14/david-frost-election-poll-tories-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/01/14/david-frost-election-poll-tories-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer/" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1746654954222174534) 2024-01-14T22:06Z 89.2K followers, 738.1K engagements "It takes some nerve for a Minister in this government to accuse others of not having a strategy. Best if they stop rubbishing MPs who are trying to deliver a bill that actually does the job and as @SimonClarkeMP @danny__kruger and others have said start talking about the amendments while there is time. But one minister (on the Tory right) is scathing: They are just not strategically very bright. They have told the country that our policy is shit but when it comes to the third reading vote they will abstain and look stupid. But one minister (on the Tory right) is scathing: They are just not" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1747356543840813444) 2024-01-16T20:33Z 87.3K followers, 201.2K engagements "Not at all. Heavily subsidised offshore wind is itself anti-growth. It pushes up electricity costs overall despite the heavy taxpayer funding makes the grid less stable and helps drive productive industry out of the country. It's right to resist further wasteful spending on this dead-end technology. It is of course important in turn to support the rapid construction of new gas-fired and nuclear power stations which can deliver us useful power at useful scale. That's the real test of whether someone is anti-growth - and I agree not everyone passes it. Very disappointing anti-growth coalition" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1747600600575955327) 2024-01-17T12:43Z 87.3K followers, 77.9K engagements "The envy of the world our compassionate NHS working as we've all come to expect. 🧵👇 A few days ago I found out my 86yr old mum with dementia had had a fall & been admitted to hospital I didnt know which hospital so had to cold call the ones in the area No luck I thought this cant be so called them all again Fortunately I got a different receptionist at one. A few days ago I found out my 86yr old mum with dementia had had a fall & been admitted to hospital I didnt know which hospital so had to cold call the ones in the area No luck I thought this cant be so called them all again Fortunately" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1748042649259405801) 2024-01-18T18:00Z [--] followers, 108.6K engagements ""Put a stop to mass migration while we still can. Immigration is not a viable way to fix our demographic problems. We need a near halt for a decade or so." My @Telegraph column tonight. 1/2" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1748093041934537091) 2024-01-18T21:20Z 87.3K followers, 95.8K engagements "This is an important piece from @SAshworthHayes in @Telegraph today. All too often people say that the UK simply cannot manage economically without mass immigration. This is nothing more Project Fear Mark [--] as the article makes clear" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1749041275410465146) 2024-01-21T12:08Z 87.3K followers, 143.3K engagements "Well worth a read of this piece by @rcolvile and his thread below. All sorts of things have gone badly wrong in our procurement over the years. As @rcolvile says some though far from all is due to the EU's procurement regime. One of the little commented-upon aspects of the [----] TCA negotiations was procurement. We knew we wanted out of the EU's absurdly restrictive and complex rules. The EU did not want to let us go for all the usual reasons. This was quite a battle and we eventually agreed some articles in the TCA that were entirely optical allowing us to proceed at a national level. That is" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1749045185567223932) 2024-01-21T12:24Z 86K followers, 43.7K engagements "And also a reminder why industrial strategies where governments take a leading role in deciding which businesses and which sectors prosper are invariably a bad idea Great column and thread - ICL is a fascinating parable for everything that the British state and industry gets wrong Great column and thread - ICL is a fascinating parable for everything that the British state and industry gets wrong" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1749115275176206841) 2024-01-21T17:02Z 87.3K followers, 13.6K engagements "All the polls this last week are painting the same picture - a consistent & prolonged decline in the Tory vote to historically low levels. It's risky to stick to the plan if it is just taking us further downhill. Labour leads by 23%. Lowest Conservative % since Rishi Sunak became PM. Westminster Voting Intention (21 Jan): Labour 45% (+1) Conservative 22% (-3) Reform UK 12% (+1) Liberal Democrat 11% (+1) Green 6% (+1) SNP 2% (-1) Other 2% () Changes +/- [--] Jan https://t.co/5pnbdejZRs https://t.co/GxwHV2Jc8D Labour leads by 23%. Lowest Conservative % since Rishi Sunak became PM. Westminster" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1749512024088871004) 2024-01-22T19:19Z 91.1K followers, 88.9K engagements ""Trump has captured the new conservative zeitgeist" My @Telegraph column tonight about lessons from US politics: "Have you ever had the feeling that it doesnt matter who you vote for because nothing ever changes That certain policies get implemented even when they are unpopular That they the establishment the elite know how things should be done" You're right. Find out why" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1750605289299095940) 2024-01-25T19:43Z 87.3K followers, 188K engagements "I spoke this evening in the @UKHouseofLords in the Second Reading debate of the 'Safety of Rwanda Bill'. 👇" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1752067200696119453) 2024-01-29T20:32Z 87.3K followers, 22.1K engagements "This is obviously correct from @BorisJohnson. The whole of Europe not just this country needs huge amounts of deregulation and market-focused reform if it is to start growing again. Brexit has given us the opportunity to get ahead of that process and however falteringly it has in fact already begun. It should not be slowed further. We wait to see whether the latest changes to the Windsor Framework when they are published later today justify further concerns in this regard. Four years on from Brexit we celebrate the restoration of this countrys democratic power to make its own laws and rules." [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1752663435966283836) 2024-01-31T12:01Z 87.3K followers, 144.8K engagements "Well done to @KemiBadenoch for taking the trouble on behalf of the government to knock down some of the many myths about Brexit on Brexit day" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1752813741995938292) 2024-01-31T21:58Z 87.3K followers, 28.6K engagements "Four years ago tonight I was at No10 with @BorisJohnson getting Brexit finally done. Britain has been re-established as a true national democracy in which national elections really matter. Despite the harping criticisms of many then and now the predictions of doom have never materialised and the British economy is doing at least as well as its European competitors. We should of course be doing even better. The task now is to intensify reforms to control our borders and deliver on the opportunities now that we are out of the dead hand of EU regulation. That obviously won't happen if we are so" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1752821273468485632) 2024-01-31T22:28Z 87.3K followers, 618.5K engagements "The great and the good would prefer it if you let them get on with running a permanent government with only occasional connection with the voters. My @Telegraph column tonight" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1753187764189716498) 2024-02-01T22:45Z 87.3K followers, 164.6K engagements "Also: four years on can the government and the Conservative Party please stand up for Brexit" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1753187771181617162) 2024-02-01T22:45Z 87.3K followers, 68.8K engagements "This is correct from @afneil. I'm confident anti-devolution opinion will get stronger as the failings of the settlement become ever more obvious. I wrote on this a year ago to much criticism in public and much support in private from the Conservative establishment.👇 New poll finds a quarter of Scots believe that devolution has been bad for Scotland. Given its delivered next to nothing to equip Scotland for the challenges of the 21st century but largely just feathered the nests of the political nomenclatura whove buried their beaks deep in New poll finds a quarter of Scots believe that" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1754417511498498209) 2024-02-05T08:11Z 87.4K followers, 54.7K engagements "I referred to the excellent @spectator @JournoStephen article on Israel in my brief speech today in the @UKHouseofLords on Gaza 👇:" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1755609905304854994) 2024-02-08T15:09Z 87.3K followers, 23.2K engagements ""The EU isnt about to collapse. Its worse than that." My reflections on the economic and political disarray we see across the EU in the @Telegraph tonight" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1755688168727122400) 2024-02-08T20:20Z 87.3K followers, 115.6K engagements "I spoke this afternoon in the @UKHouseofLords about Baroness Burt's proposed Bill banning conversion therapy. There are many reasons to oppose it but I focused on the risks it presents to free speech and its likely effect in reinforcing the development of an aggressively secular state-supported ideology. My full text is below 👇" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1755971134313349211) 2024-02-09T15:05Z 87.3K followers, [----] engagements "It is genuinely remarkable if not entirely surprising that @UKLabour have not cut adrift Azhar Ali. The only possible explanation is that they fear doing so will have worse consequences within their party than doing nothing and hoping it all goes away. Which tells you all you need to know about today's Labour Party. Could still be some late statement I suppose. But the Azhar Ali story has now been running for [--] hours. And Labours response has literally been no response. Hes still the candidate. Hes still getting full party support. He will still retain the whip if elected. Incredible. Could" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1756785261243945439) 2024-02-11T21:00Z 87.5K followers, 124.4K engagements "The problem is the 20mph limit as well as the way it's policed. It's fine on narrow residential streets or around schools but not on A or B roads where it simply reflects the wrong balance between safety and mobility. Of course this can't be seen in isolation: the obsession with LTNs with bus and cycle lanes and with putting in traffic lights every couple of hundred yards is also a major part of the problem. Incidentally one little-commented-upon side effect of such measures is that they make cities *less* friendly to pedestrians as we must navigate bafflingly complex junctions dodge bikes or" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1757327267955450142) 2024-02-13T08:54Z 87.5K followers, 85.3K engagements "The London tradition is that public transport lines are given a name either with a royal connection or one related to the line's geography. Giving them political names is whether one agrees with the politics or not a break with that tradition. It's part of the general forced politicisation of so many aspects of our daily life nowadays. Of course one would expect nothing better from @SadiqKhan and his appallingly poor management of TfL and of London. NEW: For the first time ever our six London Overground lines are each getting a new name and colour. Read more about the inspiration and meaning" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1758132678459863488) 2024-02-15T14:14Z 94.5K followers, 1.6M engagements "I will have more to say in @Telegraph later but in brief these by-elections show the same story as previous ones: former Conservative voters are simply not coming out and voting Conservative. The Labour vote isn't going up but ours is collapsing. To get voters back we need a shift to more conservative policy on tax and spend immigration net zero public sector reform and more. It's late but not - yet - too late" [X Link](https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1758450023824601584) 2024-02-16T11:15Z 90.9K followers, 417.1K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Here are the Prime Minister's reflections on the final stages of our negotiations with the EU before Round [--] of talks beginning this week. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-words-on-eu-negotiations-7-september-2020 https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-words-on-eu-negotiations-7-september-2020"
X Link 2020-09-07T12:17Z 90.9K followers, [----] engagements
"6/7 The EU's position is that listing is needed for Great Britain only not Northern Ireland. So if GB were not listed it would be automatically illegal for NI to import food products from GB"
X Link 2020-09-13T12:31Z 91.1K followers, [----] engagements
"7/7 I hope the EU will yet think better of this. It obviously makes it no easier to negotiate a good free trade agreement and the solid future relationship which we all want"
X Link 2020-09-13T12:31Z 91.1K followers, [----] engagements
"3/4 But for a deal to be possible it must fully respect UK sovereignty. That is not just a word - it has practical consequences. That includes: controlling our borders; deciding ourselves on a robust and principled subsidy control system; and controlling our fishing waters"
X Link 2020-11-27T11:54Z 94.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The situation in our talks with the EU is very serious tonight. Progress seems blocked and time is running out. The Prime Minister @BorisJohnson set out his concerns about the state of play to Commission President @vonderleyen this evening. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-ministers-call-with-european-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen-17-december-2020 https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-ministers-call-with-european-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen-17-december-2020"
X Link 2020-12-17T20:41Z 91.1K followers, [----] engagements
"I'm very pleased and proud to have led a great UK team to secure today's excellent deal with the EU. Both sides worked tirelessly day after day in challenging conditions to get the biggest & broadest trade deal in the world in record time. Thank you all who made it happen"
X Link 2020-12-24T15:21Z 94.3K followers, 27.3K engagements
"1. @MarosSefcovic and I met by video today to wrap up this week's talks process about the Northern Ireland Protocol. We have made further limited progress on medicines but we have not reached agreement"
X Link 2021-12-10T18:37Z 90.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Have a look at my op-ed in @TheSun this morning about Brexit and the current political situation. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17465939/sue-gray-boris-pm-brexit-britain-lord-frost/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17465939/sue-gray-boris-pm-brexit-britain-lord-frost/"
X Link 2022-01-28T07:27Z 90.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I worked closely with Prime Minister @BorisJohnson over the last five years. Without his leadership in 2019-20 we would simply not have succeeded in getting out of the EU or getting a free trade agreement. I hugely admire his determination in those difficult days. (1)"
X Link 2022-06-06T20:54Z 91.1K followers, [----] engagements
"It was @Keir_Starmer & his friends who forced the Surrender Act on us in [----]. That destroyed our leverage & stopped us fixing the N Ireland issue properly then. The only purity cult was in these ideologues' efforts to sabotage the referendum. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/13/keir-starmer-labour-sunak-tory-brexit-purity-cult-northern-ireland-protocol https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/13/keir-starmer-labour-sunak-tory-brexit-purity-cult-northern-ireland-protocol"
X Link 2023-01-13T18:58Z 91.1K followers, 3.5M engagements
""Remainers should be honest about the costs of Brexit" Excellent article from the distinguished historian Robert Tombs about the dodgy costings of Brexit constantly repeated by unthinking Remainers. via @spectator https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/be-honest-brexit-didnt-cost-us/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/be-honest-brexit-didnt-cost-us/"
X Link 2023-04-16T11:13Z 91K followers, 553.7K engagements
"In my @Telegraph column this week I enjoy the spectacle of the online Left in a gibbering frenzy over the National Conservatism conference this week; and make the case for the Tories to embrace that movement rather than keep it at arms' length"
X Link 2023-05-18T20:12Z 85.9K followers, 78.1K engagements
"My @Telegraph column tonight is on the economic fallacies used to justify Net Zero. /"
X Link 2023-05-25T19:48Z 87.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Tonight's column in @Telegraph. Why a Universal Basic Income would lead not to freedom but to repressive authoritarianism and why we should kill the idea while we still can"
X Link 2023-06-08T20:14Z 85.9K followers, 35.4K engagements
"It's very clear that whatever the leadership says in public @uklabour would push us back towards the EU if they ever got the chance./"
X Link 2023-06-27T10:05Z 87.3K followers, 103K engagements
"It is very hard to take seriously those who after 8+ years of debate about the EU still don't know the difference between access to & membership of the single market & think the Pan Euro Med Convention on rules of origin is a customs union"
X Link 2023-06-28T07:23Z 87.3K followers, 11.4K engagements
"Lady Thatcher was accused of trialling bad policies in Scotland first. Now @theSNP voluntarily impose bad policy on Scotland themselves. Still at least they provide a public service - of allowing the rest of us to see for ourselves the terrible results"
X Link 2023-06-29T21:41Z 87.3K followers, 43.3K engagements
"This is an absurd statement by Lord Garnier to @cathynewman. One might equally say we will be no different to the USA Canada Japan South Korea Australia New Zealand all of which get along very well without being in the ECHR"
X Link 2023-06-29T20:46Z 87.3K followers, 267.5K engagements
""Dont fear a confrontation over illegal migration" My @Telegraph column tonight on next steps and the Rwanda policy"
X Link 2023-06-29T22:26Z 87.3K followers, 11.3K engagements
"Yes what our cash-strapped low-productivity country really needs is a lot of taxpayers' money spent on widening pavements. People really need to grasp that a stagnant economy will not support daft luxury projects like these. Can we please focus on getting growth back instead"
X Link 2023-07-01T13:32Z 87.3K followers, 131.3K engagements
"I'll vote tomorrow for @Councillorsuzie Susan Hall as Tory candidate for London Mayor. She can end Sadiq Khan's misrule make our streets safer & roll back the misguided ULEZ & LTNs. She also voted Brexit & I want Tory candidates who are advocates of our Govt's core policy"
X Link 2023-07-03T19:23Z 88.1K followers, 235K engagements
"At the [----] election the Conservative Party stood on a manifesto to finally get Brexit done & to leave the customs union & single market with no alignment. The voters gave us the biggest Tory majority for over [--] years. People did vote for THIS Brexit. /"
X Link 2023-07-09T20:51Z 87.3K followers, 466.4K engagements
"One of our 'friends' in the EU revelling in the prospect of the UK doing badly as an independent country. So many people seem to think this is normal between allies (as we now are - thanks to UK support for Finland joining NATO) but that's 'European values' nowadays I guess"
X Link 2023-07-09T21:00Z [--] followers, 758.1K engagements
""The Single Market is in many ways a political illusion. It exists only nominally. Any company doing business in Europe faces significant barriers to cross-border exchanges within the EU." Useful reminder of the reality from @ECIPE"
X Link 2023-07-11T09:05Z 87.3K followers, 246.5K engagements
"I don't dispute them & never have. But there is also a (3): those outside can get if they choose to significant benefits that those inside do not. 1/2 @DavidGHFrost @ECIPE 1/ The single market is highly imperfect 2) Those in it - people + businesses - get significant benefits that those outside do not. These facts very clear. No-one sensible on pro-EU side or EU institutions themselves would dispute them. No credible eurosceptic should either. @DavidGHFrost @ECIPE 1/ The single market is highly imperfect 2) Those in it - people + businesses - get significant benefits that those outside do"
X Link 2023-07-11T09:55Z 90.6K followers, 12.8K engagements
"Moreover - the imperfections of the single market help explain what so many Europhiles can't which is why our growth & productivity performance was at its worst since the war during the period when we were most deeply integrated into that market ie since 2008"
X Link 2023-07-11T10:43Z 85.9K followers, [----] engagements
"I think it would be better if people like @RepBrendanBoyle concentrated on governing their own country properly rather than telling other people how they should govern theirs"
X Link 2023-07-11T10:17Z 87.3K followers, 75.1K engagements
"To all the people who have made a similar point - this is why 👇:"
X Link 2023-07-11T11:15Z 86.8K followers, 23.5K engagements
"This is absolutely right from @NJ_Timothy. Lots of replies deny that there has been any deterioration in behaviour over time but those of us who have lived in London for 20-30 years know that's simply not true"
X Link 2023-07-11T17:22Z 87.3K followers, 24.7K engagements
"It's also why @MayorofLondon's tweet yesterday is so revealing. Yes we want to tackle underlying causes. But that takes years. Meanwhile people want safe streets & that's why arresting potential criminals is so important. Sadiq Khan obviously just doesn't want to do that"
X Link 2023-07-11T16:14Z 90.8K followers, 14.1K engagements
"Well done to @SuellaBraverman for pursuing necessary public order legislation notably the June secondary legislation which many in the Lords tried to block. It is finally enabling @metpoliceuk to stop the disruption caused by the @JustStop_Oil fanatics"
X Link 2023-07-17T15:53Z 87.3K followers, 31K engagements
"I was delighted to be at @TheGrowthComm launch this morning. It will do important work in refocusing our politics on the importance of making our economy more productive. Its first report 👇 is well worth reading"
X Link 2023-07-12T14:33Z 87.3K followers, 20.8K engagements
"We are just finishing voting in the @UKHouseofLords on the Illegal Migration Bill. @UKLabour @LibDems & others have once again ignored MPs & made the Bill unworkable. The Commons will shortly put it back into good order. Then the Lords should give way to the elected House"
X Link 2023-07-18T01:59Z 87.3K followers, 43.3K engagements
"@SimonMagus And only if it can be done in a way which doesn't mean the government knows where all its citizens are all of the time. Given what we've seen in the last few years I would very much worry such information would in the end be misused"
X Link 2023-07-13T16:34Z 87.3K followers, [----] engagements
""The BBC must be remade: smaller cheaper better" My @Telegraph column this week. The @BBC is important to Britain - but a different BBC one that projects the best that has been made written or thought. /"
X Link 2023-07-14T17:00Z 87.3K followers, 181.5K engagements
"I'm forced to pay for it. That's why"
X Link 2023-07-14T16:09Z 87.3K followers, 363.9K engagements
""Truth is we need to raise more tax" says @JudithFreedman No it isn't. It is always possible to cut spending instead. The tax burden is the highest since the war. We need lower spending less tax & more growth. (Chart from @OBR_UK but even so it's still broadly correct.)"
X Link 2023-07-17T23:12Z 86.9K followers, 64.5K engagements
"Congratulations to @Councillorsuzie on her selection as @Conservatives candidate for London Mayor. Sadiq Khan may not realise it yet but he has a fight on his hands next year. NEW: Our Conservative candidate for Mayor of London is Susan Hall https://t.co/vXhRkWNyk4 NEW: Our Conservative candidate for Mayor of London is Susan Hall https://t.co/vXhRkWNyk4"
X Link 2023-07-19T09:27Z 91.3K followers, 328.5K engagements
"I have written on the @Nigel_Farage affair this evening in the @Telegraph. The only appropriate response to this business is cold fury mixed with deep deep apprehension. The Government needs to act so that this can never happen again. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/19/nigel-farage-is-the-latest-victim-of-a-chilling-ideology/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/19/nigel-farage-is-the-latest-victim-of-a-chilling-ideology/"
X Link 2023-07-19T18:18Z 90.7K followers, 272.5K engagements
"I have written on last night's by-elections in the @Telegraph. [-----] Tory voters went missing last night. We need to offer them something to vote for"
X Link 2023-07-21T16:41Z 87.3K followers, 107.5K engagements
""Britain is now a poor nation. This is the number one issue we face yet our leaders ignore it." Powerful article by Dan Hannan in @telegraph today. Unless we can get back to growth we won't be able to solve any other problem either. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/22/britain-is-now-a-poor-nation-this-is-our-number-one-issue/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/22/britain-is-now-a-poor-nation-this-is-our-number-one-issue/"
X Link 2023-07-23T10:05Z 94.3K followers, 1.3M engagements
"Good article from @FraserNelson. Excellent if the PM is to start talking about the trade-offs of net zero. But if so he will have to take on people like @CSkidmoreUK who claim there aren't any trade-offs & delivering net zero will boost growth"
X Link 2023-07-30T18:18Z 87.3K followers, 108.9K engagements
"What we are seeing today from @UKLabour @Ed_Miliband @ChrisGPackham @GeorgeMonbiot & many more is the frustration of people who don't take their opponents' arguments seriously and thus aren't used to actually making a coherent case. 1/2"
X Link 2023-07-31T20:12Z 87.3K followers, 172.6K engagements
"We've seen that attitude before from others - all too many Remainers in the Brexit referendum & others again in the lockdowns. It never works well in the end. We are now going to have the first real discussion of the costs of net zero. They'll need to do better than this. 👇"
X Link 2023-07-31T20:17Z 87.3K followers, 27.5K engagements
"It's not a 'problem' it's a good thing. In poorer countries people depend on public transport & bikes. When they get richer they want cars because they bring freedom. Public transport will never be good enough for a free people to move around on. Rishi Sunak has identified a huge problem in the UK. As he says "Most people are dependent on their cars." The way to solve this dependency is to properly invest in public transport and active travel. Rishi Sunak has identified a huge problem in the UK. As he says "Most people are dependent on their cars." The way to solve this dependency is to"
X Link 2023-08-01T09:08Z 90.8K followers, 3.7M engagements
"I am getting a lot of replies to this tweet from people who seem to think pointing out public transport works well in inner cities (obviously true for certain purposes) means it works well everywhere (obviously not true). Possibly my correspondents never leave inner London"
X Link 2023-08-01T19:33Z 87.3K followers, 138.7K engagements
"How quickly they forget. The policy of @UKLabour was a second referendum before we'd implemented the first one. Obviously that was an attempt to stop it. If you count the Lib Dems as a major party then they promised to stop Brexit even without a vote"
X Link 2023-08-04T10:21Z 87.3K followers, 251.7K engagements
"And to all those replying to this 👆 to say a 2nd referendum was needed as Brexit was not what was promised: The @Conservatives won that [----] election on a clear manifesto promise to leave the customs union & the single market with no alignment. That's what we delivered"
X Link 2023-08-04T20:11Z 87.3K followers, 69K engagements
"Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon seems to think councils around London have piles of cash lying around to spend on making his crackpot ULEZ scheme slightly more palatable. But that's how @UKLabour think - don't worry about who pays just spend the money. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66415879 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66415879"
X Link 2023-08-05T19:14Z 94K followers, 47.2K engagements
"That's exactly why it troubles me. In the last couple of centuries clever people's designs for reinventing human civilization have tended to end pretty badly especially when they've been imposed from above"
X Link 2023-08-06T21:46Z 87.3K followers, 62.4K engagements
"An excellent article this morning from @CitySamuel on the irresponsibility of our plans to get to net zero. We need to pause before we do ourselves some real harm"
X Link 2023-08-10T08:37Z 87.3K followers, [----] engagements
"And another from @AllisterHeath in @telegraph. The monstrous unaccountable rule of the Climate Change Committee needs to be brought to an end"
X Link 2023-08-10T08:38Z 87.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Join the campaign to keep @nationaltrust focused on looking after our country's heritage history and culture. Sign up here: ➡"
X Link 2023-08-19T09:35Z 86.9K followers, 62.5K engagements
"I'm sorry to say it but this is offensive rubbish from @BenGoldsmith. Of course there are fringe figures but you won't find any of this on my timeline or those of the serious critics of the current rush to net zero that I know"
X Link 2023-08-19T13:16Z 87.3K followers, 57.6K engagements
"I'm back in the @Telegraph with a longer Saturday piece. I fear for the future of Britain. We're getting used to mediocrity. Britain can do better than that - but we need our leaders to lead"
X Link 2023-09-01T20:04Z 87.3K followers, 358K engagements
"Obviously the convention that ex civil servants don't reveal advice to ministers or internal govt discussions is dead. If Jonathan Slater believed his Dept was presiding over a system that was dangerous to children why did he not resign & go public then"
X Link 2023-09-04T08:34Z 87.3K followers, 210.8K engagements
"It's not a "post Brexit shift". We negotiated entry in [----]. It was the EU who then blocked us. I hope the Govt has indeed negotiated a better deal though we await actual detail. It needs to be better to make up for having been excluded for nearly [--] years"
X Link 2023-09-07T11:36Z 87.3K followers, [----] engagements
"My @Telegraph column this week on the politics surrounding the Proms and the Last Night"
X Link 2023-09-08T06:53Z 87.3K followers, 22.4K engagements
"Brilliant demolition by @cjsnowdon of our politicised public health establishment"
X Link 2023-09-09T10:29Z 86.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Interesting if not entirely surprising that the EU's court doesn't think that corruption in the public sector counts as serious crime & has just ruled that data collected for fighting the latter can't be used for the former. https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1_4114692/en/ #ECJ: Using #PersonalData collected for the purpose of combating serious crime for an administrative investigation into #corruption in the public sector is contrary to #EUlaw 👉 https://t.co/ATb3CgbPxg https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1_4114692/en/ #ECJ: Using #PersonalData collected for the purpose of combating serious"
X Link 2023-09-09T11:01Z 90.6K followers, 19.6K engagements
"I finally had the opportunity to set out my views on the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland in the @UKHouseofLords today"
X Link 2023-09-11T18:16Z 87.3K followers, 1.4M engagements
"Only @uklabour a party that clearly doesn't understand people's concern about illegal migration could come up with this risible idea - the EU to take back some illegal migrants coming here in return for us taking other illegal migrants who've arrived somewhere else"
X Link 2023-09-13T22:06Z 87.3K followers, 124.3K engagements
"A EU/UK returns agreement is not the same thing as taking part in the EU's quota arrangements for sharing out asylum seekers. Of course the latter may be the price for the former which is why this is a deal not worth having. A month ago today Downing Street said Rishi Sunak "remained open" to a new EU-UK returns deal: A spokesman said: We remain open to working with the EU to take forward negotiations on a UK-EU returns deal as part of our international efforts to tackle illegal migration." A month ago today Downing Street said Rishi Sunak "remained open" to a new EU-UK returns deal: A"
X Link 2023-09-14T09:55Z 90.7K followers, 11.4K engagements
"My @Telegraph column. Labour statism & Euro-obsession. Theresa May rehabilitating her awful Brexit deal. The establishment wants to get us back under the EU thumb & hopes Labour will do so. Stand up for the [----] free & democratic Brexit"
X Link 2023-09-15T06:29Z 87.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Very good news if so. Not only would too much of this Bill make the housing market worse it is fundamentally un-conservative in its approach. (I have no rental interests myself btw before all the usual Twitter /X Marxists pile in and suggest that's why I argue as I do.)"
X Link 2023-09-15T07:11Z 87.3K followers, 12K engagements
"Keir Starmer & @uklabour realising perhaps that their migration policy as trailed this week is unworkable. Now we are back to not knowing what Labour's policy is at all. Beg for an EU returns agreement sure but what are they prepared to give away to get it"
X Link 2023-09-17T07:47Z 87.3K followers, 49.3K engagements
"Wolfgang Munchau @EuroBriefing provides some much-needed truth on our [----] trade agreement with the EU 👇"
X Link 2023-09-18T07:29Z 87.3K followers, 36.8K engagements
"I have written in @Telegraph about the many difficulties with @UKLabour plans to renegotiate the [----] Brexit deal"
X Link 2023-09-18T18:52Z 87.3K followers, 30.3K engagements
"Head of @TheFCA says political debanking is illegal. Then asks banks (not customers) whether they have done it. Not surprisingly he gets the answer no - or at least it's not the "primary" reason. Is it surprising so many don't trust our institutions"
X Link 2023-09-19T11:32Z 87.3K followers, 15K engagements
"If tonight's reports 👇 are correct - & the PM's statement tonight suggests they may be - then this is good news. As I've been arguing we must back off unrealistic net zero targets which put unmanageable pressure on hard-pressed voters' finances"
X Link 2023-09-19T21:03Z 87.3K followers, 21.2K engagements
"He is also right that we have not properly & genuinely debated net zero. I hope today's announcement will be just the starting point and we will now begin a more honest discussion about the trade-offs and the very real costs"
X Link 2023-09-20T16:24Z 86.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Many missing the point of this. It's not about whether they're formal govt policy now. Plenty of people are certainly considering them. So it's a (very welcome) message to Whitehall: "don't bother thinking about such policies because we aren't going to do them". We will never impose unnecessary and heavy-handed measures on you the British people. We will still meet our international commitments and hit Net Zero by [----]. https://t.co/XjXQzGVaCN We will never impose unnecessary and heavy-handed measures on you the British people. We will still meet our international commitments and hit Net Zero"
X Link 2023-09-20T17:12Z 90.8K followers, 122.9K engagements
"The Pavlovian instinctive reactions of much of Westminster the media and big business over the last [--] hours of hysteria have shown once again how many of them are completely disconnected from actual public opinion in the country"
X Link 2023-09-20T17:35Z 87.3K followers, [----] engagements
""We don't want to diverge" from the EU says @Keir_Starmer. No surprise - but good to have it said"
X Link 2023-09-21T14:22Z 87.3K followers, 30.6K engagements
"A good example of the near-complete disconnect between actual foreign policy practitioners & academics writing about it. (For one thing "Global Britain" As a concept was around well before the referendum. Nothing in a Theresa May speech was original after all.)"
X Link 2023-09-25T16:07Z 87.3K followers, 10.8K engagements
"The below-the-line comments on this @Telegraph interview with Lord Deben are well worth a read. They show what many Conservatives really think of net zero and its hectoring statist agenda"
X Link 2023-09-26T06:57Z 87.3K followers, 14.3K engagements
"I am in favour of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse for any reason whenever its possible. (Milton Friedman) My @Telegraph column tonight on the prospects for scrapping inheritance tax. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/28/inheritance-tax-cut-scrap-government/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/28/inheritance-tax-cut-scrap-government/"
X Link 2023-09-28T18:27Z 90.5K followers, 10.8K engagements
"Let's ensure 100% of our candidates are actually Conservatives. That would be a start. Then let's get the best people for the job men or women. @christopherhope"
X Link 2023-09-29T16:41Z 87.3K followers, 105.2K engagements
"Indeed you are wrong. For me conservatism is about as far as possible: Economic growth through markets not statism A smaller modernised govt doing its core tasks well Rebuilding our nation And freedom - to speak freely & run your own life without govt hectoring & control"
X Link 2023-09-30T09:59Z 87.3K followers, 76.5K engagements
"I don't often say this but well done Jeremy Hunt. We can already get from London to Manchester in [--] minutes even without HS2. A modern society needs more flights not fewer"
X Link 2023-10-02T09:21Z 87.3K followers, 1.8M engagements
"I don't have time to read all the replies to my tweet but thank you anyway everyone for magnifying my message that it is perfectly possible now & ought to be even easier in future to travel round this country by plane"
X Link 2023-10-02T19:44Z 87K followers, 48.5K engagements
"So much of the supposed case for net zero involves the random presentation of very large numbers with very feeble underpinnings no linkage to real-world economics and no attempt to compare costs and benefits"
X Link 2023-10-03T13:11Z 87.3K followers, 69.7K engagements
"Maybe the Taoiseach would like to reflect on how much the UK has provided to Ukraine or indeed how much his own neutral country depends on others including the UK to defend it before making points like these. We would all be better served if more Irish politicians concentrated on governing their own country instead of pontificating to others"
X Link 2023-10-05T17:23Z 86.9K followers, 429.6K engagements
"I've written in the @Telegraph tonight about the appalling terrorist attacks on Israel. Today's killings are a reminder of the threat that Israel must live with every day and why it cannot let its guard drop. /"
X Link 2023-10-07T19:18Z 86K followers, 14.1K engagements
"I have written in the @Telegraph about yesterday's horrific & evil attack on Israel. Perhaps our government could now show the same visible solidarity with Israel tonight that Germany and Italy (at least) have already done"
X Link 2023-10-08T08:37Z 85.9K followers, 32.7K engagements
"This very short extract from my discussion with Marc Glendening of @iealondon summarises the take on politics I've been advocating over the last two years: that the Conservative Party should aim to deliver a strong nation state governed effectively and run in as free-market a way as possible. Believing in a well-governed nation state in control of its borders and identity does not require you to be a protectionist or an economic statist. Being in favour of open and free markets does not require you to believe in subordinating our economic interests to international institutions to support"
X Link 2023-10-10T07:57Z 87.3K followers, 28.2K engagements
"Why our business representative organisations are failing and have been for some years in one short thread from @britishchambers. Our survey showed that three out of five (61%) SMEs are yet to take any action towards becoming Net Zero. Did you know On average businesses with [---] employees could save [--] tonnes of CO2 [------] on energy property and travel costs and. https://t.co/SExTfkyggr Our survey showed that three out of five (61%) SMEs are yet to take any action towards becoming Net Zero. Did you know On average businesses with [---] employees could save [--] tonnes of CO2 [------] on energy"
X Link 2023-10-10T08:34Z 90.7K followers, [----] engagements
"What concessions will @RachelReevesMP make to get these things Will you accept EU law and the ECJ to get a food standards deal There won't be one on any other terms. Every agreement with the EU is a set of trade-offs and concessions. It is a @uklabour fantasy to think the EU will sign a different deal just because they like them"
X Link 2023-10-10T10:17Z 86.9K followers, 340.7K engagements
"It's a silly argument. UK cities aren't separated by a wide river. They are already connected. A better analogy would be to imagine you have two cities already connected by a perfectly good bridge. Instead of improving that bridge you decide to build a new 'super bridge' alongside it at extraordinary and ever-growing cost. When you've built some of the foundations you realise it's all going to cost far too much wasn't the top priority and decide to cut your losses and build something else with a better rate of return instead"
X Link 2023-10-10T11:37Z 87.3K followers, 560K engagements
"My longer article in @Telegraph this morning about politics after the party conferences and what Conservatives should now be doing. (Comments are open again btw.)"
X Link 2023-10-14T10:22Z 87.3K followers, [----] engagements
"I know the Conservative Party is a very broad church nowadays but a Tory MP threatening to prosecute the PM and Foreign Secretary for war crimes surely crosses some sort of threshold doesn't it"
X Link 2023-10-14T13:32Z 85.9K followers, 189.7K engagements
"A very good statement from @RishiSunak this evening"
X Link 2023-10-14T18:28Z 87.3K followers, 21.7K engagements
"I can't see there is any particular value to the UK in having lots of HGVs with Irish goods transiting this country but not stopping here. A number of central European countries have over the years gone to some effort to discourage reroute modal shift or charge exactly such traffic"
X Link 2023-10-17T07:10Z 87.3K followers, 110.2K engagements
"The interview on @r4Today with @LTCPeterLerner of the IDF just after 8am is well worth a listen. It's hard to avoid the conclusion that @BBCNews - and some other outlets @SkyNews @GBNEWS - got their initial reporting of this wrong last night. The same was true of other mainstream media around the world. Their initial unreflective repetition of Hamas claims as fact 👇 gave the impression there was no doubt there had been an IDF airstrike. Those claims echoed around the world with significant and continuing real-world consequences. It would (at the very least) surely have been more correct to"
X Link 2023-10-18T07:56Z 85.9K followers, 67.2K engagements
"Matt Ridley @mattwridley tells it like it is on net zero in @MailOnline. The vast & ever-increasing sums we must pay to deliver a somewhat worse energy supply than we have now The tendency to regard costs as benefits The pointlessness of weakening our own economy while China and other major economies carry on as before. It really is time we had a proper review of the net zero programme"
X Link 2023-10-19T08:34Z 85.8K followers, 45.9K engagements
""We should expect British citizens to be loyal to Britain" My @Telegraph piece today"
X Link 2023-10-20T06:00Z 85.9K followers, 145.8K engagements
"The Tamworth & Mid-Beds by-elections are extremely bad for my party @Conservatives and I don't think it helps to suggest otherwise as some party figures have done this morning. The current national polls are dreadful for us but these results are even worse. The very worst current polls show us holding 100-150 seats at an election. But Tamworth is our 55th safest seat. Yes things are different at by elections and there were probably special factors. But these results show that the national polls are broadly correct and that a strategy of denial is unlikely to work. If your voters don't want"
X Link 2023-10-20T07:25Z 86.8K followers, 854.8K engagements
"The "absent" British state that spends 47% of our GDP. The task is to get that number down reduce the scope of the state's tasks and reform it so it does its job better. It's fantasy to think the current wasteful ramshackle operation is ever going to become a successful "active state""
X Link 2023-10-20T07:49Z 85.8K followers, 53.6K engagements
"The Tamworth & Mid-Beds by-elections are extremely bad for my party @Conservatives and I don't think it helps to suggest otherwise as some party figures have done this morning. The current national polls are dreadful for us but these results are even worse. The very worst current polls show us holding 100-150 seats at an election. But Tamworth is our 55th safest seat. Yes things are different at by elections and there were probably special factors. But these results show that the national polls are broadly correct and that a strategy of denial is unlikely to work. If your voters don't want"
X Link 2023-10-20T09:35Z 85.9K followers, 71.8K engagements
"I don't think @arisroussinos is right here in @unherd and I don't believe it could just as easily be the other way round (though I know many on the left who support Israel too). People on the Right have tended to support Israel because it is the visible embodiment of things we believe and of the enduring value of Western civilisation: that democracy strong national cohesion open markets family religion and a belief in scientific progress can and do produce a successful country - in contrast to so many of its neighbours. This has become all the more true over the last 20-30 years as Israel has"
X Link 2023-10-21T11:48Z 85.7K followers, 47.6K engagements
"The @metpoliceuk put out their guidance on this chant on Friday. I and many others drew attention to it. So why is the Govt only waking up to it two days later after the demonstration Yesterday's eccentric judgements & handling by the Met really need properly looking into - but the Govt needs to wake up too"
X Link 2023-10-22T09:37Z 86K followers, 79.2K engagements
"It's even more grimly funny that so many people can't see the difference between expressing views in a civilised fashion and intimidation and incitement to violence. This chant calls for the destruction of a friendly country and expulsion or murder of its inhabitants. I am not calling for this chant to be banned. I am saying the police should have stopped it being sung by a large aggressive mob in central London intimidating our Jewish fellow citizens and scaring anyone who is unlucky enough to be nearby"
X Link 2023-10-22T11:48Z 85.9K followers, 19.1K engagements
"I am honoured to be a signatory of the October Declaration. Congratulations to @AllisonPearson and all those who have put this initiative together. We have seen shocking acts of antisemitism on Britain's streets in recent days and the authorities have not always reacted robustly. So it's time for all of us to stand in solidarity with our Jewish fellow citizens against the climate of fear that risks being created. As Allison says go to It's live for signatures from midnight"
X Link 2023-10-22T20:38Z 85.9K followers, 208.1K engagements
"I have signed the @JakeBerry Tax Pledge - to oppose any further increases to the country's tax burden. Taxes are at their highest for [--] years. They should be going in one direction only - down. Via @ConHome. From @JakeBerry: We must learn from the by-elections. I ask would-be Conservative MPs to sign the Tax Pledge. https://t.co/PFrGMy1vWP From @JakeBerry: We must learn from the by-elections. I ask would-be Conservative MPs to sign the Tax Pledge. https://t.co/PFrGMy1vWP"
X Link 2023-10-23T07:27Z 87.7K followers, 29K engagements
"This is a very good article from. @KonstantinKisin via @thefp"
X Link 2023-10-23T07:42Z 86K followers, 198.3K engagements
"This really is quite remarkable in all respects"
X Link 2023-10-23T11:44Z 85.9K followers, 19.2K engagements
"Let's see if they really carry this through. But it seems that the French don't have the same caste of government lawyers that we do exercising their internal veto on even contemplating robust action on so many things. One has to point out that the French were leading actors in calling the Boris Johnson government 'populist' for readiness to defy an international treaty or court but then the EU and so many of its members are much readier to preach at others than to observe similar constraints themselves"
X Link 2023-10-24T08:27Z 85.9K followers, 123.4K engagements
"I am astonished that for the third weekend in a row normal activity in central London is to be disrupted by another so-called 'national March for Palestine' demonstration. 👇 Are we to expect this every weekend for the foreseeable future with all the disruption and intimidation it entails Last weekend the authorities did not seem to be fully in control. I hope they are ready and able to do better this time round"
X Link 2023-10-24T18:38Z 95.9K followers, 947.1K engagements
"In Northern Ireland actually"
X Link 2023-10-24T19:43Z 86K followers, 91.5K engagements
"Today @AllisonPearson writes: "This week I have heard of two Jewish women who were advised separately by police or security officers in central London to remove a Star of David necklace and a Star of David brooch. Why are law-abiding citizens being told to adjust their dress and behaviour to avoid attacks when the people who pose a threat to them face no such strictures" Sign the October Declaration at"
X Link 2023-10-25T07:16Z 86.1K followers, 272.1K engagements
"In his next tweet Mr Winstanley who has a disturbingly wide audience it seems describes pictures of Israeli hostages as "hateful anti-Palestinian posters". I think we can tell from that how seriously we should take his opinions on this subject"
X Link 2023-10-25T12:16Z 85.9K followers, [----] engagements
"In his next tweet Mr Winstanley who has a disturbingly wide audience it seems describes pictures of Israeli hostages as "hateful anti-Palestinian posters". I think we can tell from that how seriously we should take his opinions on this subject"
X Link 2023-10-25T12:16Z 85.9K followers, 10.3K engagements
"The easiest way to avoid this problem @RachelReevesMP is to write things yourself - articles speeches and books. That way you can be sure where the text has come from. Give it to a researcher and you can never be sure. But now at least we know why Labour Party speeches sound like pre-assembled thoughts put together by others. As so often Orwell had it right"
X Link 2023-10-26T17:36Z 86K followers, 107.8K engagements
"Tonight's @Telegraph column - a look at the covid inquiry that has lost its way. It isn't going to answer the one question we want answered: were lockdowns the right call or not"
X Link 2023-10-26T18:19Z 86K followers, 100.7K engagements
""Can Conservatism fix its pathway of decline" Enjoyed discussing this question on today's @spectator Coffee House Shots podcast together with @FraserNelson and Baroness Stroud looking forward to the @arc_forum conference this coming week"
X Link 2023-10-28T09:14Z 86K followers, 20.7K engagements
"This is 💯% correct from @johnredwood in @conhome. We need a supply-side budget one that aims at boosting the country's productive capacity building and growing businesses and getting people back to work"
X Link 2023-11-01T09:41Z 86.1K followers, 16.2K engagements
"Of course we did. We might not have had to if the previous government ministers and officials had not bungled the negotiation so badly so that the referendum result could not be delivered. We were in the biggest constitutional crisis for a hundred years. That obviously had to be the Government's overwhelming priority. "No deal" Brexit planning certainly revealed many of the systemic weaknesses that became even more obvious during the pandemic and even enabled us to build plans that turned out to be useful (eg on drugs supply) but it certainly did not cause them"
X Link 2023-11-01T11:06Z 86.1K followers, 48.6K engagements
"Of course we did. We might not have had to if the previous government ministers and officials had not bungled the negotiation so badly so that the referendum result could not be delivered. We were in the biggest constitutional crisis for a hundred years. That obviously had to be the Government's overwhelming priority. "No deal" Brexit planning certainly revealed many of the systemic weaknesses that became even more obvious during the pandemic and even enabled us to build plans that turned out to be useful (eg on drugs supply) but it certainly did not cause them"
X Link 2023-11-01T11:06Z 86.5K followers, 451.8K engagements
"I know I'm probably wasting my time with people like this 👇 but since many are making a similar point: The final withdrawal agreement was signed mid-October [----] & 'no deal' planning accordingly stood down; The election was held on [--] December. No one outside Wuhan had heard of covid until January [----]. It is therefore simply a chronological impossibility that Brexit work in [----] could have distracted from an unforeseeable crisis in [----]. As it turned out no deal planning in [----] actually helped us manage aspects of that crisis. Moreover even after we had formally left at the end of"
X Link 2023-11-01T12:58Z 86.1K followers, 37.6K engagements
"Back to the covid inquiry this week in the @Telegraph. We just aren't learning what we need to from it. And as Dominic Cummings' evidence shows we are still badly prepared for any future pandemic too"
X Link 2023-11-01T20:18Z 86K followers, [----] engagements
"Back to the covid inquiry this week in the @Telegraph. We just aren't learning what we need to from it. And as Dominic Cummings' evidence shows we are still badly prepared for any future pandemic too"
X Link 2023-11-01T20:18Z 86.1K followers, 18K engagements
"Sadly Helen Macnamara's evidence statement was only published after my piece tonight 👆 was finalised. I would certainly have commented on aspects of it notably her extraordinary para [---] which confirms points I have made repeatedly: "modern government is not really in charge of the country there is not a great machinery that No [--] sits atop of with large levers to pull.So even if there had been an appetite to actually run the country (and there was from some and at times) it was hard to see how that could be made to happen." And she correctly diagnoses the difficulty in recent Conservative"
X Link 2023-11-01T20:54Z 86.1K followers, 11.8K engagements
"It seems to me the M&S ad is an important moment in the way we think about Christmas. For the first time (I think) it marks a symbolic distancing not just from the original Christian meaning of Christmas - that went long ago - but also from its secularised successor: family children food games tree elves and so on. The ad now presents it as an entirely selfish event - about doing what you want with the holiday defining it yourself and not being made to do anything you don't wish to. In that sense it is entirely in line with trends in society more generally including a devaluing of"
X Link 2023-11-02T12:46Z 86.1K followers, 85.9K engagements
"It seems to me the M&S ad is an important moment in the way we think about Christmas. For the first time (I think) it marks a symbolic distancing not just from the original Christian meaning of Christmas - that unfortunately went long ago - but also from its secularised successor: family children food games tree elves and so on. The ad now presents it as an entirely selfish event - about doing what you want with the holiday defining it yourself and not being made to do anything you don't wish to. In that sense it is entirely in line with trends in society more generally including a"
X Link 2023-11-02T13:30Z 86.7K followers, 672.8K engagements
"As I keep saying. It would also be better for the country given how dangerous and damaging so many left-wing ideas are"
X Link 2023-11-02T14:48Z 86.5K followers, 26K engagements
"What a surprise that rent controls have not worked in Edinburgh. Rents are higher and there is even less housing than before. Let us hope @MayorofLondon is watching and learning"
X Link 2023-11-02T15:59Z 86.5K followers, 16.5K engagements
"It's very welcome to see this action from @Mark_J_Harper and HMG in implementation of the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act passed earlier this year. The public should not have to put up with repeated disruption to their daily business caused by politically motivated strikes led by dinosaur union leaders. We're delivering on our manifesto commitment to introduce minimum service levels during rail strikes. This will allow passengers to continue with their day-to-day lives and support businesses particularly in the hospitality sector. https://t.co/9tTIUadoAZ https://t.co/kSoo4eZi4a We're"
X Link 2023-11-07T13:39Z 85.9K followers, 28.9K engagements
"The ability of counsel in our circus @covidinquiryuk to focus on irrelevant detail is truly incredible. Whether Sadiq Khan should have been invited to Whitehall meetings a few days earlier than he actually was is a trivial point among the many questions we actually need answered but we've just spent the best part of half an hour hearing about it"
X Link 2023-11-07T15:48Z 86.5K followers, 31.2K engagements
"I saw some of this demonstration myself. The roads were blocked for a prolonged period. The @metpoliceuk have the powers in the new Public Order Act to keep the roads clear. It is a mystery why this disruption continues to happen. Just Stop Oil can perfectly well make their point while standing on the pavement"
X Link 2023-11-08T10:52Z 86.7K followers, 88.6K engagements
"I have read @SuellaBraverman's article in @thetimes with interest. She is right to say what she did. Many say they want authentic politicians who tell it like it is - and then complain when they do so. [--]. She is in my view correct to call out a lack of even-handedness in the way some demonstrations and indeed some opinions are policed. Saying anything else invites people to disbelieve their eyes. [--]. Any @metpoliceuk belief that there is low risk of serious disorder from the Palestine demonstrations can only be true if they intend to do what they did on previous weeks ie not enforce the law"
X Link 2023-11-09T12:07Z 87K followers, 575.3K engagements
"I was the most recent Cabinet Minister to be based in the @UKHouseofLords - though I was not running a whole Department too. I don't think it works well to have a lead Cabinet Minister answering questions and defending their Department solely in the Lords. The Lords is not a fully party political environment - nor should it be - and voters are owed proper political scrutiny. In our system that can only happen in the Commons. I said as much to the @instituteforgov last year: There have been past discussions about finding a way for Lords ministers to appear before the Commons but none have"
X Link 2023-11-13T15:14Z 86.8K followers, 147.6K engagements
"My take in tonight's @Telegraph on today's reshuffle and its discouraging implications"
X Link 2023-11-13T19:57Z 86.8K followers, 91.5K engagements
"I'm on @SkyNews with @SophyRidgeSky imminently to discuss today's political developments"
X Link 2023-11-15T19:03Z 86.8K followers, 10.4K engagements
"This is correct from @danny__kruger and @miriam_cates. As I said to @SophyRidgeSky tonight unless the proposed emergency legislation disapplies the HRA and gives effect to the policy notwithstanding the ECHR and Refugee Convention then it won't work and we will endlessly go round in circles trying to resolve the problem without using the tools necessary to do so. Statement from the New Conservatives co-Chairs @danny__kruger and @miriam_cates Glad PM is bringing forward emergency legislation. But it will need more than a declaration that Rwanda is safe. We cant wait for ECHR to intervene: we"
X Link 2023-11-15T22:04Z 86.1K followers, 45.5K engagements
"This is our lowest voting share on @YouGov since the end of the Liz Truss government. Indeed only one YouGov poll has shown a lower Conservative share since the [----] election. Westminster voting intention: LAB: 44% (-3) CON: 21% (-2) LDEM: 10% (-) REF: 10% (+2) GRN: 8% (+1) via @YouGov https://t.co/Hcc08uY2OH Westminster voting intention: LAB: 44% (-3) CON: 21% (-2) LDEM: 10% (-) REF: 10% (+2) GRN: 8% (+1) via @YouGov https://t.co/Hcc08uY2OH"
X Link 2023-11-16T09:01Z 86.8K followers, 433.7K engagements
"Remember this next time you are told that wind power is getting ever cheaper. Even these high prices exclude the costs of maintaining an alternative power network for when the wind doesn't blow and the higher costs which that intwrmittency imposes on that network. Time to end the renewables spell"
X Link 2023-11-16T09:46Z 86.8K followers, 60.6K engagements
""Conservative supporters wont be fooled again" My @Telegraph piece on Rwanda and the autumn statement"
X Link 2023-11-17T07:18Z 86.8K followers, 43.9K engagements
""The belief at the core of Conservatism is belief in the United Kingdom in its history and institutions its people and their future." "The basis of our democracy is that the King in Parliament is sovereign. An Act with royal assent is supreme over any older law or foreign treaty international law or judicial ruling or even hold tight the ruling of a judge in Strasbourg." This is a very important article from @danny__kruger. My impression is that the "tilt to the left and the past" as Danny puts it in this week's reshuffle has badly alienated much of the mainstream conservative Right in the"
X Link 2023-11-18T13:30Z 86.9K followers, 70.5K engagements
"This is what happens in a zero-growth economy. There isn't enough productive capacity to generate resources to build new things and what there is has to go on patching up existing things. Eventually of course there isn't enough money to do that either"
X Link 2023-11-18T13:55Z 86.9K followers, 67.6K engagements
"A striking point from the @Telegraph coverage this morning of Lord Harrington's report on attracting more investment to the UK: "The report points out that the UK is one of just a few countries where the amount of built-up land per capita has actually fallen since 2000.""
X Link 2023-11-22T07:50Z 86.9K followers, 12.6K engagements
"Going through the OBR autumn report it is hard not to be struck by the huge gap between GDP growth overall and GDP per capita. Overall growth in the current year [----] actually turns into a decline per capita. That's where those huge migration figures show up"
X Link 2023-11-22T14:22Z 86.9K followers, 236.8K engagements
""The enemy is socialism the enemy is statism the enemy is collectivism. The words of Javier Milei president-elect of Argentina and they are spot on." My @Telegraph column tonight"
X Link 2023-11-23T21:09Z 86.9K followers, 57K engagements
"Another great piece from @K_Niemietz in @TheCriticMag on the NHS. The NHS is not underfunded - Britain is now in the top [--] health spenders globally as a share of the economy. But it delivers poor results - more avoidable deaths than European comparators. The truth is that it is a bad system that needs huge reform"
X Link 2023-11-24T08:22Z 86.9K followers, 48.3K engagements
"Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Schiller's Ode to Joy is one of the most sublime uplifting and profound works of the human spirit. It is a huge pity that the final movement's main theme has been appropriated by the bureaucratic monstrosity of the European Union. Of course one must suspect Starmer of making a pro-EU political point but I don't think the rest of us should be led to feel we can't appreciate the music for political reasons"
X Link 2023-11-24T10:53Z 87.2K followers, 45.2K engagements
"Like @LeeAndersonMP_ I am staggered that two such senior officials could show up at a committee hearing without any figures on an aspect of small boats they must have known would come up"
X Link 2023-11-29T18:19Z 86.9K followers, 245.2K engagements
"I spoke in the @UKHouseofLords debate today on the Autumn Statement (at 5.12pm in the link) 👇. "The truth is that we are trying to provide public services as if the economy were growing by 3% a year when the real figure is 1%. That just cannot be done and we are now feeling the pain." "I would like to see policymakers paying less attention to the many snake-oil proponents of the so-called active state and spend a bit more time reminding themselves of Hayeks essay 'The Use of Knowledge in Society'." "It does all too little to challenge let alone hold back the tide of statism miserabilism and"
X Link 2023-11-29T20:35Z 86.9K followers, 28.7K engagements
"Bravo to @niall_gooch for this outline of our country's civilisation and its achievements"
X Link 2023-11-30T07:55Z 86.9K followers, 11.3K engagements
"Do we need a bit more of Kissingers realism to get us out of the web of treaties and courts that stop us controlling our borders I think we might. I've written on that question tonight in @Telegraph"
X Link 2023-11-30T19:30Z 86.9K followers, 19.8K engagements
"Very good news if @grantshapps is having a rethink on this as I argued in Parliament on [--] November"
X Link 2023-12-01T22:51Z 86.9K followers, 20.3K engagements
"No surprise here sadly to anyone who spends any time talking to present or former Conservative voters or members"
X Link 2023-12-04T10:09Z 87K followers, 61.1K engagements
"Quite right from @BDSixsmith in @TheCriticMag"
X Link 2023-12-04T15:27Z 86.9K followers, 13.6K engagements
"No surprise this ugly monstrosity won RIBA's House of the Year. "Practical solutions to spatial issues (curtains act as dividers and screens and planting ensure levels of privacy and ventilation can be easily adjusted) make for a practical family space." Welcome to the future"
X Link 2023-12-05T08:04Z 86.9K followers, 14.1K engagements
"Remarkable and obviously quite incompatible with civil service roles"
X Link 2023-12-05T14:57Z 87.1K followers, 85.6K engagements
"I know from my own experience how wrenching it is to leave government over a point of principle (in my case the proposed fourth covid lockdown) however strongly one feels about it. But principles are the most important thing in politics. That's why @RobertJenrick has done the right thing in setting out his view that the new immigration Bill as he says "does not go far enough" and in acknowledging that he can't as a consequence continue in his ministerial position. It is with great sadness that I have written to the Prime Minister to tender my resignation as Minister for Immigration. I cannot"
X Link 2023-12-06T20:01Z 87.2K followers, 245.2K engagements
""No wonder our high streets are dying with councils like this in charge" (Labour obviously)"
X Link 2023-12-06T22:08Z 87.1K followers, 11.7K engagements
""I dont want to lose I dont believe we have to lose and I am not prepared to give up without a fight.If there is anything to be done to get us on a better path and increase our chances of winning then I believe it must be done." My @Telegraph column tonight about my party's seeming resignation to the coming electoral car crash"
X Link 2023-12-07T19:12Z 87.1K followers, 401.3K engagements
"There's a lot of denial about this in today's Conservative Party. The polls say what they say however uncomfortable that is to contemplate. Which is why I wrote what I did in today's @Telegraph:"
X Link 2023-12-08T13:57Z 87.1K followers, 83.5K engagements
"Excellent from @KemiBadenoch in @TheSun tonight. Good that at least one minister is reminding everyone that restoring Britain's freedoms through Brexit is a good idea and is actually going rather well"
X Link 2023-12-08T22:53Z 87.2K followers, 90.2K engagements
"We've seen some remarkable things in the last few years but I must admit I didn't foresee several KCs describing parliamentary sovereignty the most fundamental doctrine of our constitution as just an "assumption" and suggesting the courts could take it upon themselves to overturn it"
X Link 2023-12-10T23:19Z 87K followers, 754.1K engagements
"Shows how important it is for 'conservative' parties to roll back damaging innovations in governance not just acquiesce in them. Not everyone wanted to repeal the FTPA even in 2021-2 but it was in the manifesto so it got done. As this week's debate about the sovereignty of Parliament shows there is a big conservative constitutional agenda for a Conservative Party that one day has an appetite for it"
X Link 2023-12-13T11:42Z 87.1K followers, 15.5K engagements
"Exactly correct from @spikedonline. If you want to see what a Labour government would be like look at what Mark Drakeford has done to Wales. I stayed near the Welsh border in summer [----]. It was obvious when you had crossed it - more shops permanently shut more masks more covid theatre. All unnecessary. Add to that his dreadful record on health and education. The decision to build no more new roads. The 20mph speed limit. I wish him well for a long and happy retirement. But I also wish we could look forward to different policies. Unfortunately there are many like him in Welsh Labour &"
X Link 2023-12-13T13:34Z 87.2K followers, 198.6K engagements
"The Windsor Framework makes the Union weaker not stronger. Hard to argue that the Union isnt stronger now than it was a year ago. Two key FMs gone GRR Bill and court case rejected SNP in retreat Tata Steel remaining in Wales Windsor Framework. Hard to argue that the Union isnt stronger now than it was a year ago. Two key FMs gone GRR Bill and court case rejected SNP in retreat Tata Steel remaining in Wales Windsor Framework"
X Link 2023-12-13T13:41Z 87.3K followers, 47.8K engagements
"Exactly correct from @spikedonline. If you want to see what a Labour government would be like look at what Mark Drakeford has done to Wales. I stayed near the Welsh border in summer [----]. It was obvious when you had crossed it - more shops permanently shut more masks more covid theatre. All unnecessary. Add to that his dreadful record on health and education. The decision to build no more new roads. The 20mph speed limit. I wish him well for a long and happy retirement. But I also wish we could look forward to different policies. Unfortunately there are many like him in Welsh Labour &"
X Link 2023-12-13T14:38Z 87.1K followers, 57.6K engagements
"Exactly right @miriam_cates and well said"
X Link 2023-12-13T15:08Z 87.2K followers, 38.7K engagements
"It always was a poor idea to give the Scottish 'Government' the power to vary income tax. It was only ever going to go one way - up. Expect even more better paid workers to decamp to England"
X Link 2023-12-13T22:30Z 87.2K followers, 36K engagements
""White male recruits must get final sign off from me says Aviva boss" It is a sign of how out of touch such people are that Amanda Blanc can say this openly to a parliamentary committee seemingly in the belief that it is something to be proud of. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/12/13/white-male-recruits-final-sign-off-aviva-boss-amanda-blanc/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/12/13/white-male-recruits-final-sign-off-aviva-boss-amanda-blanc/"
X Link 2023-12-14T11:35Z 91.3K followers, 283.8K engagements
"It's no good pretending that calling for unity and not confronting political reality is a viable strategy. Those who want really conservative policies - including on the Rwanda Bill - need to keep pressing the case. My @Telegraph column tonight"
X Link 2023-12-14T19:13Z 87.2K followers, 11.8K engagements
"👇 from @ClaireCoutinho. Reliably continuously whenever we want it. Not only when the sun is shining or when the wind is blowing (but not blowing too much). Nuclear is the long-term solution not flaky renewables"
X Link 2023-12-15T14:07Z 87.2K followers, 39.5K engagements
""Chief OBR economist backed Corbyns 250bn debt plans" More evidence the OBR needs serious reform"
X Link 2023-12-16T22:44Z 87.2K followers, 22.1K engagements
"Delighted to sign this letter from @UsforThemUK setting out a way in which our covid inquiry can get back on track before it's too late"
X Link 2023-12-20T10:52Z 87.2K followers, 27.3K engagements
"The anger and frustration in this statement by @chhcalling is entirely understandable. The UK government has made a series of concessions to the Irish Govt's world view in recent months notably in the Windsor Framework. The UK might have expected more understanding and dialogue but has instead been rewarded with a kick in the teeth through this highly unusual and certainly damaging ECHR case. It's good to see that the UK will defend this robustly but it is essential that a more robust approach is taken in future to standing up for UK interests in the UK-Ireland relationship"
X Link 2023-12-20T19:11Z 87.2K followers, 109.6K engagements
"Politics is over for the year so something more seasonal in this week's @Telegraph column ending with GK Chesterton: "For men are homesick in their homes And strangers under the sun And they lay on their heads in a foreign land Whenever the day is done. (.) But our homes are under miraculous skies Where the yule tale was begun." Happy Christmas"
X Link 2023-12-21T19:34Z 87.3K followers, 66.7K engagements
"@MRJKilcoyne People called Liz Truss a libertarian when she wasn't and now there is an actual libertarian they call him a populist"
X Link 2023-12-30T11:58Z 87.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Not many things are certain about [----] but one thing is: we will be living beyond our means as a country." My @Telegraph piece tonight"
X Link 2024-01-03T19:50Z 87.3K followers, 39.3K engagements
"Delighted to talk to Brendan O'Neill of @spikedonline about Conservative politics what a Labour govt might be like net zero free speech Europe and more.👇 🎧 THE BRENDAN ONEILL SHOW 🎧 Are the Tories beyond saving David Frost and Brendan ONeill discuss discuss the betrayal of the Red Wall and why Rishi Sunak cannot afford to ignore the culture war Listen to the episode here 👇 https://t.co/8lZtcdnA3n 🎧 THE BRENDAN ONEILL SHOW 🎧 Are the Tories beyond saving David Frost and Brendan ONeill discuss discuss the betrayal of the Red Wall and why Rishi Sunak cannot afford to ignore the culture war"
X Link 2024-01-04T12:34Z 85.9K followers, 20.9K engagements
"Voters have switched off from the Westminster game. But that doesn't represent apathy - rather it shows a total loss of confidence in the system. People are angry and are looking for a completely different approach to politics. My @Telegraph piece this evening"
X Link 2024-01-11T19:34Z 87.3K followers, 40K engagements
"I've written in the @Telegraph this evening on the latest dreadful polling for my party and what we need to do to head off the looming disaster. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/01/14/david-frost-election-poll-tories-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/01/14/david-frost-election-poll-tories-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer/"
X Link 2024-01-14T22:06Z 89.2K followers, 738.1K engagements
"It takes some nerve for a Minister in this government to accuse others of not having a strategy. Best if they stop rubbishing MPs who are trying to deliver a bill that actually does the job and as @SimonClarkeMP @danny__kruger and others have said start talking about the amendments while there is time. But one minister (on the Tory right) is scathing: They are just not strategically very bright. They have told the country that our policy is shit but when it comes to the third reading vote they will abstain and look stupid. But one minister (on the Tory right) is scathing: They are just not"
X Link 2024-01-16T20:33Z 87.3K followers, 201.2K engagements
"Not at all. Heavily subsidised offshore wind is itself anti-growth. It pushes up electricity costs overall despite the heavy taxpayer funding makes the grid less stable and helps drive productive industry out of the country. It's right to resist further wasteful spending on this dead-end technology. It is of course important in turn to support the rapid construction of new gas-fired and nuclear power stations which can deliver us useful power at useful scale. That's the real test of whether someone is anti-growth - and I agree not everyone passes it. Very disappointing anti-growth coalition"
X Link 2024-01-17T12:43Z 87.3K followers, 77.9K engagements
"The envy of the world our compassionate NHS working as we've all come to expect. 🧵👇 A few days ago I found out my 86yr old mum with dementia had had a fall & been admitted to hospital I didnt know which hospital so had to cold call the ones in the area No luck I thought this cant be so called them all again Fortunately I got a different receptionist at one. A few days ago I found out my 86yr old mum with dementia had had a fall & been admitted to hospital I didnt know which hospital so had to cold call the ones in the area No luck I thought this cant be so called them all again Fortunately"
X Link 2024-01-18T18:00Z [--] followers, 108.6K engagements
""Put a stop to mass migration while we still can. Immigration is not a viable way to fix our demographic problems. We need a near halt for a decade or so." My @Telegraph column tonight. 1/2"
X Link 2024-01-18T21:20Z 87.3K followers, 95.8K engagements
"This is an important piece from @SAshworthHayes in @Telegraph today. All too often people say that the UK simply cannot manage economically without mass immigration. This is nothing more Project Fear Mark [--] as the article makes clear"
X Link 2024-01-21T12:08Z 87.3K followers, 143.3K engagements
"Well worth a read of this piece by @rcolvile and his thread below. All sorts of things have gone badly wrong in our procurement over the years. As @rcolvile says some though far from all is due to the EU's procurement regime. One of the little commented-upon aspects of the [----] TCA negotiations was procurement. We knew we wanted out of the EU's absurdly restrictive and complex rules. The EU did not want to let us go for all the usual reasons. This was quite a battle and we eventually agreed some articles in the TCA that were entirely optical allowing us to proceed at a national level. That is"
X Link 2024-01-21T12:24Z 86K followers, 43.7K engagements
"And also a reminder why industrial strategies where governments take a leading role in deciding which businesses and which sectors prosper are invariably a bad idea Great column and thread - ICL is a fascinating parable for everything that the British state and industry gets wrong Great column and thread - ICL is a fascinating parable for everything that the British state and industry gets wrong"
X Link 2024-01-21T17:02Z 87.3K followers, 13.6K engagements
"All the polls this last week are painting the same picture - a consistent & prolonged decline in the Tory vote to historically low levels. It's risky to stick to the plan if it is just taking us further downhill. Labour leads by 23%. Lowest Conservative % since Rishi Sunak became PM. Westminster Voting Intention (21 Jan): Labour 45% (+1) Conservative 22% (-3) Reform UK 12% (+1) Liberal Democrat 11% (+1) Green 6% (+1) SNP 2% (-1) Other 2% () Changes +/- [--] Jan https://t.co/5pnbdejZRs https://t.co/GxwHV2Jc8D Labour leads by 23%. Lowest Conservative % since Rishi Sunak became PM. Westminster"
X Link 2024-01-22T19:19Z 91.1K followers, 88.9K engagements
""Trump has captured the new conservative zeitgeist" My @Telegraph column tonight about lessons from US politics: "Have you ever had the feeling that it doesnt matter who you vote for because nothing ever changes That certain policies get implemented even when they are unpopular That they the establishment the elite know how things should be done" You're right. Find out why"
X Link 2024-01-25T19:43Z 87.3K followers, 188K engagements
"I spoke this evening in the @UKHouseofLords in the Second Reading debate of the 'Safety of Rwanda Bill'. 👇"
X Link 2024-01-29T20:32Z 87.3K followers, 22.1K engagements
"This is obviously correct from @BorisJohnson. The whole of Europe not just this country needs huge amounts of deregulation and market-focused reform if it is to start growing again. Brexit has given us the opportunity to get ahead of that process and however falteringly it has in fact already begun. It should not be slowed further. We wait to see whether the latest changes to the Windsor Framework when they are published later today justify further concerns in this regard. Four years on from Brexit we celebrate the restoration of this countrys democratic power to make its own laws and rules."
X Link 2024-01-31T12:01Z 87.3K followers, 144.8K engagements
"Well done to @KemiBadenoch for taking the trouble on behalf of the government to knock down some of the many myths about Brexit on Brexit day"
X Link 2024-01-31T21:58Z 87.3K followers, 28.6K engagements
"Four years ago tonight I was at No10 with @BorisJohnson getting Brexit finally done. Britain has been re-established as a true national democracy in which national elections really matter. Despite the harping criticisms of many then and now the predictions of doom have never materialised and the British economy is doing at least as well as its European competitors. We should of course be doing even better. The task now is to intensify reforms to control our borders and deliver on the opportunities now that we are out of the dead hand of EU regulation. That obviously won't happen if we are so"
X Link 2024-01-31T22:28Z 87.3K followers, 618.5K engagements
"The great and the good would prefer it if you let them get on with running a permanent government with only occasional connection with the voters. My @Telegraph column tonight"
X Link 2024-02-01T22:45Z 87.3K followers, 164.6K engagements
"Also: four years on can the government and the Conservative Party please stand up for Brexit"
X Link 2024-02-01T22:45Z 87.3K followers, 68.8K engagements
"This is correct from @afneil. I'm confident anti-devolution opinion will get stronger as the failings of the settlement become ever more obvious. I wrote on this a year ago to much criticism in public and much support in private from the Conservative establishment.👇 New poll finds a quarter of Scots believe that devolution has been bad for Scotland. Given its delivered next to nothing to equip Scotland for the challenges of the 21st century but largely just feathered the nests of the political nomenclatura whove buried their beaks deep in New poll finds a quarter of Scots believe that"
X Link 2024-02-05T08:11Z 87.4K followers, 54.7K engagements
"I referred to the excellent @spectator @JournoStephen article on Israel in my brief speech today in the @UKHouseofLords on Gaza 👇:"
X Link 2024-02-08T15:09Z 87.3K followers, 23.2K engagements
""The EU isnt about to collapse. Its worse than that." My reflections on the economic and political disarray we see across the EU in the @Telegraph tonight"
X Link 2024-02-08T20:20Z 87.3K followers, 115.6K engagements
"I spoke this afternoon in the @UKHouseofLords about Baroness Burt's proposed Bill banning conversion therapy. There are many reasons to oppose it but I focused on the risks it presents to free speech and its likely effect in reinforcing the development of an aggressively secular state-supported ideology. My full text is below 👇"
X Link 2024-02-09T15:05Z 87.3K followers, [----] engagements
"It is genuinely remarkable if not entirely surprising that @UKLabour have not cut adrift Azhar Ali. The only possible explanation is that they fear doing so will have worse consequences within their party than doing nothing and hoping it all goes away. Which tells you all you need to know about today's Labour Party. Could still be some late statement I suppose. But the Azhar Ali story has now been running for [--] hours. And Labours response has literally been no response. Hes still the candidate. Hes still getting full party support. He will still retain the whip if elected. Incredible. Could"
X Link 2024-02-11T21:00Z 87.5K followers, 124.4K engagements
"The problem is the 20mph limit as well as the way it's policed. It's fine on narrow residential streets or around schools but not on A or B roads where it simply reflects the wrong balance between safety and mobility. Of course this can't be seen in isolation: the obsession with LTNs with bus and cycle lanes and with putting in traffic lights every couple of hundred yards is also a major part of the problem. Incidentally one little-commented-upon side effect of such measures is that they make cities less friendly to pedestrians as we must navigate bafflingly complex junctions dodge bikes or"
X Link 2024-02-13T08:54Z 87.5K followers, 85.3K engagements
"The London tradition is that public transport lines are given a name either with a royal connection or one related to the line's geography. Giving them political names is whether one agrees with the politics or not a break with that tradition. It's part of the general forced politicisation of so many aspects of our daily life nowadays. Of course one would expect nothing better from @SadiqKhan and his appallingly poor management of TfL and of London. NEW: For the first time ever our six London Overground lines are each getting a new name and colour. Read more about the inspiration and meaning"
X Link 2024-02-15T14:14Z 94.5K followers, 1.6M engagements
"I will have more to say in @Telegraph later but in brief these by-elections show the same story as previous ones: former Conservative voters are simply not coming out and voting Conservative. The Labour vote isn't going up but ours is collapsing. To get voters back we need a shift to more conservative policy on tax and spend immigration net zero public sector reform and more. It's late but not - yet - too late"
X Link 2024-02-16T11:15Z 90.9K followers, 417.1K engagements
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