Rt Hon Alistair Burt @AlistairBurtUK Twitter profile

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

Because they don’t live here?

Rt Hon Steve Baker MP FRSA 🗽

@SteveBakerFRSA

5 years

Why liberty-loving Americans back a no-deal Brexit

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@AlistairBurtUK

10 months

Staunch defence of dissenting views. Where was he when I, Nicholas Soames & Ken Clarke, with nearly 100 years of service were silenced as Conservatives by being expelled from the Parliamentary Party for saying things his boss did not like? Did I hear a word of protest?

Farrukh

@implausibleblog

10 months

Jacob Rees Mogg, "When we try and silence people because they say things we do not like. We risk, looking, ridiculous."

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@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

Please stop this stuff. We are better than this.

Conservatives

@Conservatives

5 years

Hey @KFC_UKI , we’ve found an even bigger chicken than you.

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@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

He’s all you say. But he’s not alone.

David Yelland

@davidyelland

5 years

David Gauke is that rare thing in UK politics right now: brave and alone, putting country before party and, critically, operating outside the support of the UK newspaper editors, many of whom will attack him. Kudos to David. Kudos to his supporters. The historians are watching.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

JRM asks MPs to support the Govt in its negotiations. I did. I voted for the conclusions of the negotiations brought to Parliament in the WA. JRM, his friends and current Cabinet members did not. Why am I, having loyally supported, now being threatened and not them?

MoS_Politics

@MoS_Politics

5 years

The Moggster declaims

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

2 years

Bollocks.

Bruges Group 🇬🇧

@BrugesGroup

2 years

Rejoiners want to thwart growth and try to pin structural global economic problems on Brexit to engineer a return to vassalage in the EU. They’re transparent, and they will fail.

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@AlistairBurtUK

2 months

If true, and it appears to be, it is open and shut for the Conservative Party. Return the donations, end the relationship and ask decent donors to make up the difference. With MPs under threat, and past murders, this is unacceptable. Many Conservative members will be watching.

Pippa Crerar

@PippaCrerar

2 months

EXCL: The Conservative party’s biggest donor said looking at Diane Abbott makes you “want to hate all black women” and the MP “should be shot” - by ⁦ @rowenamason ⁩ ⁦ @matthew_weaver ⁩ ⁦ @Direthoughts ⁩

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@AlistairBurtUK

11 months

Reading many of the stories today, I sometimes think I’m one of the luckiest men alive. I still have my Dad. 101, and loved as a family doctor in Bury as much as he is by his family. Perhaps, says the RAF, their oldest living medic. Happy Fathers Day, dad! God bless you. 💕

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

6 years

How dare you call my friends, who gave such service to the country, ‘despicable’.? What does such name calling do? Say you disagree, but this infantile ‘traitor’ or ‘despicable’ is what will divide this country, not argument on merit.

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@AlistairBurtUK

4 years

The nice thing about no longer being an MP or Minister is that I can say these people talk bollocks and they deserve all they get.

Sky News

@SkyNews

4 years

Dozens of people have defied social distancing advice to gather at a protest against the coronavirus lockdown in London's Hyde Park

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@AlistairBurtUK

11 months

On the Committee are four Conservative MPs and they have majority. I know three personally, and impugning their integrity is deeply ignorant and offensive. And, I’m afraid, rather sinister.

Conservative Post

@ConsPost

11 months

EDITOR’S NOTE: Are we living in an episode of Black Mirror? It appears the Labour led Privileges Committee are now going after Boris supporters. They are completely out of control.

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@AlistairBurtUK

2 years

This is a desperately serious error, which the FS should take back. The better answer would have been ‘of course he and France are friends and allies, both in NATO and the cause of freedom: it doesn’t mean we don’t have our differences and need to talk honestly, as I will’.

Ione Wells

@ionewells

2 years

Liz Truss, the current foreign secretary, when asked if President Macron is a 'friend or foe' says "the jury's out." Significant when France is one of the UK's closest allies.

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@AlistairBurtUK

4 years

Does he have toilet rolls?

The Guardian

@guardian

4 years

I am single and in my 70s. Should I have an affair with a married man?

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

3 years

@AndrewRTDavies @CharlotteCGill This is an appalling and completely unworthy analogy with @Keir_Starmer Have you taken leave of your senses equating the two? If you are an office holder of any sort in the Conservative Party, resign now.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

Dramatic? About as dramatic as a wet Tuesday evening. Submitted a letter? Yawn. I think we’re all a bit tired of this. Out there are real jobs, real lives and real people who would be sabotaged by a No Deal favoured by Jacob. Enough.

Faisal Islam

@faisalislam

5 years

Jacob Rees Mogg in dramatic press conference at entrance to Parliament: “im not offering myself as leader” it’s about confidence in the current leader. It’s “now too late” came to final decision after PM’s statement.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

1 year

And it wasn’t Keir Starmer, it was me. And Hillary Benn, saying ‘don’t leave without a deal’. We were not wrong. The ‘surrender’ rhetoric was, and is, deep,y regrettable. Get over it.

David Frost

@DavidGHFrost

1 year

It was @Keir_Starmer & his friends who forced the Surrender Act on us in 2019. 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.

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@AlistairBurtUK

3 years

Just over 3 months ago I had a heart attack and triple bypass surgery. Today I went back to running for the first time on a Couch to 5K. Thanks to @bedfordhospital Cardiac Rehab unit for their encouragement and to @RoyalPapworth . There will be a marathon to say a big thank you.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

10 months

Now here IS an MP. How many others might be looking down at their feet after @Laura__Farris remarks? All credit to her.🙏

Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

@Haggis_UK

10 months

Well said Laura Farris(Tory MP) on Harriet Harman's motivations to chair the privileges committee.

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@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

What an extraordinary decision. A quality colleague, brave enough to challenge, but fundamentally a Conservative through and through. Where on earth are we heading with situations like this?

Gabriel Pogrund

@Gabriel_Pogrund

5 years

BREAKING: Dominic Grieve loses confidence vote at Beaconsfield Conservative Association by 182 to 131 votes; paves way for deselection

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@AlistairBurtUK

4 years

First day, last day... isn’t hair a mystery???

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@AlistairBurtUK

6 years

Fabulous collection of some of the best MPs in the country. How small the Telegraph appears in comparison.

HuffPost UK Politics

@HuffPostUKPol

6 years

Daily Telegraph's 'Brexit mutineers' front page slammed as 'bullying' by Tory MP.

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@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

We’ve always been independent Michael, and if you want to lead this nation you need to stop this.

Michael Gove

@michaelgove

5 years

It’s critical that people vote Conservative today in the European elections. I urge everyone in Surrey Heath to support our candidates in the South East - especially @DanielJHannan , who has done more than anyone else to ensure the UK becomes an independent nation again

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@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

Extraordinary how being in the EU hasn’t hampered this.

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

@FCDOGovUK

5 years

Trade between the UK and US is worth a huge $200bn each year, supporting millions of jobs both sides of the Atlantic 🇬🇧🇺🇸

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

No. We won’t. We are not leaving without a deal. If you want to leave, you’d better agree one. In the next fortnight would help.

David Davis

@DavidDavisMP

5 years

Today I asked my successor as Brexit Secretary @SteveBarclay to confirm that, if the EU are not willing to agree a deal by 29 March, we will be leaving without a deal. He confirmed this is the case.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

The decision to stand a Conservative candidate against Speaker Bercow is unwise, & I hope the party rethinks. Mr Speaker may at times have invited this, but it will look petty & vindictive to neutral observers. It will rip up precedent, and future Speakers will face the same.

MoS_Politics

@MoS_Politics

5 years

Downing Street declare war on Bercow

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@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

We are busy turning some of our best friends into adversaries with every careless anti-European comment. Neglectful of the painful past that finally drew us together in peace, and heedless of a future in which we will continue to be neighbours.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

Actually this isn’t just a shocker, it’s worse. If Conservatives are unconcerned about U.K. breakup, the destruction of its agricultural and manufacturing economy, provided they get Brexit, what exactly is left for a Corbyn Govt to destroy? This is nonsense.

YouGov

@YouGov

5 years

So committed to Brexit are members of the Conservative and Unionist Party that they would be willing to see Scotland (63%) and Northern Ireland (59%) leave the UK in order to secure it.

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@AlistairBurtUK

2 months

“they’ve got control of Khan”. Did a senior Conservative really say this, in the febrile atmosphere of early 2024? What action is the party going to take?

Peter Walker

@peterwalker99

2 months

Tory MP Lee Anderson discussing Sadiq Khan on GB News: “He’s given our capital city away to his mates”: “I don’t actually believe that the Islamists have got control of our country, but what I do believe is they’ve got control of Khan, and they’ve got control of London."

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@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

They never, ever stop. Votes against them, letters going in late- nothing matters to ERG. After the apocalypse, all that will be left will be ants and Tory MPs complaining about Europe and their leader.

BBC Newsnight

@BBCNewsnight

5 years

“This is a very bad result for the prime minister, 117 votes against her… much worse than she thought” says Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, who insists the result is worse that it looks as an ”overwhelming majority of backbenchers have voted against her” #newsnight | @Jacob_Rees_Mogg

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

2 months

This is nonsense, and should have no place in the Conservative Party. Careless language does damage, on all sides. Supposedly senior or former senior members would once have known better.

Adam Bienkov

@AdamBienkov

2 months

Conservative MP Lee Anderson tells GB News that he thinks Sadiq Khan has "given our capital city away" to Islamists, who are "his mates". "Islamists have got control of Khan and they’ve got control of London," he says.

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@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

I just wonder how many Conservative voters, of reasonable views, who may have voted each way in the Referendum, might read this piece, and the obvious endorsement of it by a senior MP, and be quietly packing themselves and their votes away, before being ‘purged’.

Owen Paterson

@OwenPaterson

5 years

"The Tories will leave the EU...win a general election...destroy Corbyn...facilitate Farage’s retirement...purge the Tory party of its hardcore Remainers and embark on a radical remodelling of Britain’s economy...the alternative is socialist calamity."

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

A vain and bitter article focused on your Prime Minister, with your opinions expressed in words such as mendacity, surrender, betrayal, appeasement, bended knee, as well as the lines below. Does it ever cross your mind what you’re contributing to?

Bill Cash

@BillCashMP

5 years

Theresa May is making us crawl on our hands and knees, not only to the EU, but to Germany and France

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5 years

The Conservative Party, my party, should read this with both shame and foreboding. To lose this sort of talent is not smart. Sam is not alone in that 40-50 yr old group of Ministerial quality wondering to stay or go. I want them to stay. Does the Conservative Party?

The Observer

@ObserverUK

5 years

Sam Gyimah: ‘I am an outcast in the Tory party’

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

Thank you for your interest in our great country. I’m sure many here would be grateful for some information about fights in Mississippi we can support. Haven’t you got some rules as Governor about interference outside your country?

Phil Bryant

@PhilBryantMS

5 years

Proud to have joined my friends @Nigel_Farage and @peggy_grande in NYC at an event to support the fight for Brexit.

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@AlistairBurtUK

1 year

This is wrong. A doctor, who we have asked to come to work in our NHS, with a valid visa for entry, should not be turned away in a life or death evacuation. Plenty of discretion to allow them to return. Whoever in Govt is resisting this needs to change their mind. Now.

The Independent

@Independent

1 year

NHS doctors denied seats on British evacuation planes left stranded in Sudan

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

4 years

My wife has just suggested that if we are quarantined for 14days we will be able to do the painting that needs done. Can anyone please confirm QUICKLY that panic buying has sadly cleaned out paint supplies in the UK? 😱

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

4 years

The way in which Ireland, our best friends in the EU, so affected by a decision it hasn’t taken, has respected & worked with us, after all our history, has been barely comprehended here. The odd former colleague might reflect with some humility tonight, before we all move on.

The Guardian

@guardian

4 years

The special bond between Ireland and the UK will not be undermined by Brexit | Simon Coveney

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

6 years

I’m stunned at the nature of this attack. There is no justification for such an outrageous, inappropriate and hurtful analogy. If we don’t stop this extraordinary use of language over Brexit, our country might never heal. Again, I say, enough.

Helena Wilkinson

@BBCHelena

6 years

The Mail on Sunday: Boris’s suicide vest jibe at May #tomorrowspaperstoday

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@AlistairBurtUK

2 years

He speaks for so many, some who gave the best part of their professional lives to support the Conservative Party as we believed it was in the national interest, and are tonight bewildered and rather ashamed.

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@maitlis

2 years

Charles Walker looks and sounds like he’s just been run over. This is new level pain.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

So what? Who voted to Leave tonight, Jacob? Me. Who voted not to? You.

BrexitCentral

@BrexitCentral

5 years

. @Jacob_Rees_Mogg : "52% of voters voted to leave, but probably 500 out of 650 MPs voted to remain"

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@AlistairBurtUK

10 months

Bollocks.

Roland Smith

@rolandmcs

10 months

Morning.

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@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

Statement on my resignation from Government last night:

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@AlistairBurtUK

6 years

Very saddened by report of Palestinian mother’s death by stone throwing in the West Bank yesterday. Another family left to grieve in this useless cycle of violence.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

6 years

At the end of a difficult week in the Middle East and the world, with more to come, can I thank my civil servants @foreignoffice @DFID_UK for their industry and independent advice, the backbone of our democracy and undermined at our peril.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

2 months

This is bizarre, fantasy stuff devoid of any connection with the issues affecting the UK. An association with Bannon, and all he stands for, should not even cross the mind of anyone with the interests of the country or Party at heart. CPAC does not speak for me.

James O'Brien

@mrjamesob

2 months

Liz Truss to Steve Bannon: “Would you work with Nigel Farage to restructure the Tory party?" She is, I believe, still a beneficiary of the Tory whip. In a normal party, with a half-decent leader she wouldn’t be for much longer.

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@AlistairBurtUK

6 years

As Minister for the Middle East, proud of our relationships with the Islamic world and those within it, the White House tweets are both alarming and despairing tonight. This is so not where the world needs to go.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

As a former Minister fully aware of the worldwide risks to health security from Wakefield’s anti-vax consequences, I am distressed such a comparison could come from a Government Minister in the U.K. The Brexit obsession is giving rise to sheer irrationality.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

So proud of your comment @simoncoveney It was a pleasure to work with you from time time @foreignoffice I am aware of all you have done with us over the years in the EU, and the importance of that relationship for the future. History informs, not impedes.

Simon Coveney

@simoncoveney

5 years

Thank u @AlistairBurtUK for your comments - I can assure u #Ireland will work with UK and EU to find a deal that works for everyone; but it must be on basis of recognizing and solving the complex and very real problems that #Brexit causes for Island of Ireland, as the WA does.

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@AlistairBurtUK

2 years

The sad thing is where do those who believed in the UKs freedom to remain in the EU fit into such a narrative? Were we deniers of freedom, to be likened to exactly who at present? I thought we were moving on, recognising a real fight for freedom in which the U.K. is united?

Iain Martin

@iainmartin1

2 years

Genuinely don't understand the Prime Minister comparing Ukrainian battle for national survival to Brexit. This is an extraordinary moment of national unity in support of Ukraine. Why needlessly reintroduce division?

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@AlistairBurtUK

3 years

@NHSMillion At @bedfordhospital after an annoyingly unexpected heart attack, I was told I was to be blue lighted that afternoon to @RoyalPapworth for surgery. It was Covid time, & no family around. I was frightened & needed @NHSuk - and they were there. #thankyouNHS 🌈

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

6 years

😳Enough. Just tired of this endless threat and counter threat. Why don’t we want the best for the U.K. than for our own ideological cliques? And there are others in this negotiation as far as I’m aware?

Steven Swinford

@Steven_Swinford

6 years

EXCLUSIVE Jacob Rees-Mogg warns Theresa May she will face open rebellion from Tory MPs that risks collapse of her Government unless she delivers the Brexit she has promised

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

2 years

If this is how it is always to be seen, not a PM bringing in all sides of the Conservative spectrum to form a Govt, but a never ending battle between moderates, Remainers and hard liners, then the country is better off without us until it’s sorted for good.

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@AlistairBurtUK

3 years

So- progress. Six months after heart attack and bypass surgery, that’s ⁦ @couch_5k ⁩ done. Thanks Michael Johnson!Next it’s ⁦ @parkrunUK ⁩ . Good luck and keep going all survivors and recoverers. Huge thanks ⁦ @bedfordhospital ⁩ ⁦ @RoyalPapworth ⁩ ⁦ @NHSuk ⁩

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@AlistairBurtUK

4 years

I hope not @BethRigby . First rate political commentator, well respected by all at Westminster: just the sort of experienced journalist we are all going to need as we navigate the next few years.

Adam Boulton

@adamboultonTABB

4 years

Beth Rigby: 'I’m going to have to get off telly soon, because I’ll be too old'

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@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

Jacob Rees-Mogg continues to peddle the line @BBCr4today that all MPs worried by NoDeal only want to remain in EU. It’s untrue,he knows it. I’ve voted to leave consistently since accepting Referendum result. He has not. That’s why we’re where we are. Pandora’s Box now open wide.

Paul Waugh

@paulwaugh

5 years

Rees-Mogg attacks those who are ‘banging on about no-deal’, says 'the candy-floss of outrage' is ‘confected’. On @BBCr4today

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

1 year

Bearing in mind your judgement on the last mini-budget in September was “this is the best budget I have ever heard a Chancellor deliver by a massive margin” I think people will question what is the point of the Telegraph?

Allister Heath

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

Be very clear. If an agreed deal on leaving between the Govt and the EU is voted down by purist Brexiteers, do not be surprised if consensus on accepting the result of the Referendum by Remain voting MPs breaks down. Parliament will not support no deal.

Rt Hon Steve Baker MP FRSA 🗽

@SteveBakerFRSA

5 years

Superb article from @Michael4MDNP : “what do my instincts tell me about the PM’s deal? They tell me to stop. To read. To look at the detail. I am, after all, a lawyer by training. But when I look at it, my worst fears are confirmed.”

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@AlistairBurtUK

10 months

😱 shameful response. A mistaken decision which would be better corrected with a swift restitution of a simple friendly mural for children who have committed no crime whatsoever. What are we thinking of??

Every Child Protected Against Trafficking 🧡

@ECPATUK

10 months

Asked by @AlfDubs about disgraceful actions of @ukhomeoffice to remove cartoons from Kent reception as they are 'too welcoming for children', Minister says: 'It is the correct decision these facilities have the requisite decoration befitting their purpose' 📢Shameful cruelty

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@AlistairBurtUK

4 years

@LPerrins The replies to you indicate you have this badly wrong. This is a time for science and common sense, not some moral outrage born of the good fortune that you do not, I presume and hope, have this awful virus. The Govt is doing its best at a hard time. Cut it some slack.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

6 years

Today I announced an additional £7 million of #UKaid for @UNRWA . This helps ensure Palestinians can continue to access vital healthcare and education. The international community must follow our lead and step up support to ensure vital services aren’t interrupted.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

4 years

One of the worlds most moving pictures. Centuries of enmity and loss forgiven. I make reference to it often, imploring the resolution of today’s conflicts. A reminder of what can be achieved, and what people expect of their leaders.

Cllr Shepzy

@tshep42

4 years

#veday unity is strength 🙏🏻🇬🇧

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@AlistairBurtUK

7 years

Gina Miller clearly the grown up amongst the politicians @Channel4News at moment. Brave & principled - done the country a service.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

2 years

Great, honest interview. An example of what integrity and leadership looks like and sounds like. And what Conservatives can be.

Channel 4 News

@Channel4News

2 years

"I'm upset." Former Scottish Conservative Party leader Ruth Davidson is in tears as she explains how she feels let down by Boris Johnson's leadership.

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@AlistairBurtUK

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As far as I am aware, and despite it being raised at the highest level, @FCDOGovUK has not had a response detailing the ‘full and transparent’ investigation by Israel of its bombing of a de-conflicted @MedicalAidPal facility in Gaza on the 18th January. What hope for this?

David Cameron

@David_Cameron

1 month

We have called on Israel to immediately investigate and provide a full, transparent explanation of what happened.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

2 years

I hope that the attitude @EFL has changed since they let @buryfcofficial slip out of their league after 135 years. With luck it has, so all best to Derby County. No more fans should pay the price for the sins of club bosses.

Henry Winter

@henrywinter

2 years

Derby County deserve punishment for the excesses of the Mel Morris era. But they don’t deserve to die - which could happen. That’s why fans like ⁦ @jimmym ⁩ calling on all #dcfcfans to write to their MP urging intervention. All clubs are worth fighting for. #SaveDerby #dcfc

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

4 years

32 years. Thank you the people of Bury, Tottington and Ramsbottom, and North East Bedfordshire for the opportunity to serve in Parliament, and in HMG. A privilege every day-only the tip of the iceberg of thanks can be expressed here.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

3 years

@MarcusRashford @spectator If it’s a toss up between you @MarcusRashford and @spectator I wouldn’t lose any sleep over the outcome. I think it probably has no understanding of virtually anything you do, or stand for.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

3 years

I think what the UK is expecting tonight from the representative of its strongest democratic ally is a denunciation of the scenes in Washington, a rejection of the outgoing President’s speech this afternoon & a clear expression of support for your duly elected new President Biden

Ambassador Jane Hartley

@USAmbUK

3 years

America has returned to #LeadingFromTheFront under President Trump - 🇺🇸 & 🇬🇧 are taking on the world’s most challenging issues and winning!

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

So- a One Nation Conservative who supported the deal which would have had us out of the EU on March 29, which others did not, is deselected by Brexiteers. The purge goes on. #standingwithsandbach #goodnightandgoodluck

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

And @EFL , we are coming for you. You bet we are.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

Can I come back? 😂👍

Jeremy Hunt

@Jeremy_Hunt

5 years

Ever thought of representing the UK in 🇬🇮, 🇰🇼, 🇰🇷 or 🇱🇺? @foreignoffice is opening up applications from beyond the civil service for the first time, and the skills & talent that leaders outside the civil service can offer will make our diplomatic network even stronger. 1/2

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

11 months

This post, and accompanying article, is complete and utter nonsense. If Conservatives want to support Parliamentary democracy and its institutions, they would support the work of the Committee. It’s time to stop being taken in by the loudest noises.

Conservative Post

@ConsPost

11 months

PROTECT DEMOCRACY - Ask your MP to vote AGAINST the Privileges Report on Monday. Use our form to easily find and email your MP 🔽

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

2 years

⁦ @lisaocarroll ⁩ Ireland was already our best friend in Europe. How much damage has been done, which now needs repair.

TheJournal.ie

@thejournal_ie

5 years

Ireland has been treated by some MPs as "some sort of irrelevance", MP Alistair Burt has told the House of Commons debate

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@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

I despair at the thinking behind this. UK will only be in an extension because we have not concluded the process we started- in which Jacob has played a part. So, if we are in for a while, work constructively, judge stuff on its merits, then leave well.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

6 years

The Iran deal was the product of 13 years of painstaking diplomacy. We regret the US decision today, but we’ll continue to work to try and maintain the deal which is in the interest of global security

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

3 years

I’m far from being the only one, but from the bottom of my heart, and especially the newly repaired and added bits, the biggest thank you this Christmas Day to @RoyalPapworth @bedfordhospital @NHSuk for all who you have saved this incredible year. 🙏💕

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

Important and first rate interview by @simoncoveney on @BBCr4today explaining why the Backstop is truly fundamental to Ireland & N Ireland and why only a real assured equivalent will move us and the EU forward. Required listening.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

4 years

I can barely recall any similar statement from any Ambassador in such circumstances. Perhaps the dreadful background of tragedy opens up new opportunities for truth and transparency.

Hamid Baeidinejad

@baeidinejad

4 years

In my statement yesterday to the UK media, I conveyed the official findings of responsible authorities in my country that missile could not be fired and hit the Ukrainian plane at that period of time. I appologise and regret for conveying such wrong findings.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

2 years

Unbelievable. Do watch the clip to the end to get the full flavour of how a mother’s six year separation from her two year old can be a bit of a laugh for those remote from the facts but with empty space to fill.

GB News

@GBNEWS

2 years

'Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is Iranian for ungrateful.' The Headliners panel react to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe condemning the Government over her delayed release from Iran. 🖥 Subscribe to GB News on YouTube

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

2 years

Just a quick thank you to A&E, and the Cardiac Unit at @bedfordhospital who on this date last year diagnosed my heart attack, stabilised me and sent me to @RoyalPapworth the next day. Appreciated, not forgotten, nor taken for granted. 🙏 @NHSuk

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

6 years

Humbling to meet members of the brave #WhiteHelmets today to thank them for their relentless courage, risking their own lives to save thousands of others. The UK can be proud to support @SyriaCivilDef .

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

The language has been deteriorating for some time; ‘surrender’, ‘traitor’, ‘saboteur’, from politicians and media. Now we have ‘purge’ ( @OwenPaterson ) and colluding. @NSoames made a plea for restored civility. May I echo, otherwise its “Goodnight, and Good Luck” for the Tories.

Rory Stewart

@RoryStewartUK

5 years

Really? We’re doing this now? The language of the ERG right is beginning to take on a hypnotic paranoid intensity - unconsciously echoing dead regimes... I voted to stop a disastrous no-deal - in this country’s interests - and to push for compromise against this kind of language

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

6 years

I condemn the rocket fire from #Gaza into Israel today. Indiscriminate attacks against civilians, especially those that risk killing or injuring children, are completely unacceptable under any circumstances.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

6 years

Extremely saddened by loss of life in Gaza today. Concerned peaceful protests are being exploited by extremist elements. Urge restraint in use of live fire. Violence is destructive to peace efforts. UK remains committed to a two-state solution with Jerusalem as a shared capital.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

Europe set an extraordinary example of reconciliation, tolerance, mutuality and forgiveness following WW2, underpinned with shrewd structural changes to make war unlikely- a generation of leaders with a worldwide, timeless message.

David Lidington

@DLidington

5 years

A symbolic moment of reconciliation. President #Steinmeier of Germany lays a wreath at the Cenotaph at this morning's Remembrance ceremony in London

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

UK condemns Hizballah tunnels into northern Israel. This is a blatant disregard of UN resolutions, threatening Israel and Lebanon’s stability. UNSCR 1701 must be implemented. UK supports Israel’s right to defend itself.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

I wonder why so many who experienced the reality and grief of war in Europe became so passionate about the efforts to draw Europe together? Giants like Peter Carrington, Willie Whitelaw, Denis Healey amongst many others.

Ed Llewellyn

@EdLlewellynFCDO

5 years

Last week was the 75th anniversary of the #LiberationofParis . It also marked the anniversary of the unofficial liberation of the British Embassy by Lord Carrington, then a young @GrenadierGds officer and two of his brother officers - as he recounted here in his memoirs...

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

My piece today that manipulation of language and legitimate difference into bitter division needs challenge.

No 10 should not seek to divide ‘the people’ and their politicians

Manipulative and divisive language may succeed in the short term but poses a threat to democracy

www.theguardian.com

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

I condemn the rocket attack from Gaza, which destroyed a family home in Mishmeret with innocent civilians inside. Shocked to hear that dual British-Israeli citizens are among those injured. Such acts are unacceptable and part of a hopeless cycle of violence and suffering.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

6 years

Honoured to meet the Head of the White Helmets @RaedAlSaleh3 and hear first hand about their heroic work in Syria which has saved thousands of civilian lives, often running toward danger that others are desperate to flee. This is what courage looks like.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

1 year

Nobody is going to ‘go to war’ on the word ‘national’. Why do they feel they have to manufacture provocations?

National Conservatism

@NatConTalk

1 year

"If we are going to go to war on anything which does put the word 'national' in its name, we're also going to have to crackdown fast on the National Trust, the NSPCC and the NHS." - @timothy_stanley introducing his talk on "What is British Conservatism Anyway" at #NatConUK

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

7 years

They never, ever stop. Not even after they have won a referendum. Until they have driven this country into the ground. Shame on your source.

Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧

@montie

7 years

True. One Brexiteering minister told me that our biggest opponent is a lot smaller tonight

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

4 years

This ought to be a watershed - another needless death of a young man with no possible reason for alleged connection with terror. All the footage of what happened needs to be released. It is time for these incidents to stop, and what has led to them to be over.

Noura Erakat

@4noura

4 years

Ahmed Erekat, 27, beautiful young man. A son. A brother. Fiancée. My baby cousin. Israeli cowards shot him multiple times, left him to bleed for 1.5 hours and blamed him for his death. Tonight was his sister’s wedding, his was next month. We failed to protect him. I am so sorry.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

4 months

Good news. But we should never have been out. 👍

Michelle Donelan MP

@michelledonelan

4 months

Fantastic opportunities as the UK officially joins Horizon from today 🌍 Alongside the EU and global partners, 🇬🇧 UK scientists, researchers and businesses can lead the way in scientific innovation, creating new jobs and boosting the economy🚀🔬 Apply 👇

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

Following my decision last night, I wrote to the Prime Minister this morning confirming my resignation.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

2 years

@BowenBBC You and your colleagues in the media there, whatever their roles, deserve all the plaudits you are getting. Authoritative, accurate and brave under pressure- thank you for being our window on this outrage.

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

5 years

Life may be difficult enough in the immediate run up to October 31st without having to explain to the public why we are not in Parliament. This amendment is aimed to ensure that we should be there to take whatever decisions we need for our constituents.

Ian Birrell

@ianbirrell

5 years

Encouraging to see these Tories backing the amendment: @AlistairBurtUK , @edvaizey , @JustineGreening , Dominic Grieve, @SamGyimah , @DrPhillipLeeMP , @oletwinofficial , @GutoAberconwy . There are still 8 Tory MPs who care about their country and party

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

6 months

Today is appropriate to remember the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Gaza, where our fallen have been immaculately tended for decades by the same Palestinian family. I trust it and they are safe. @CWGC @UKinJerusalem 🙏

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

2 years

Perhaps Lord Frost would now like to resign his peerage and seek election to the Commons, then his views on subjects not currently part of his portfolio might have some relevance?

Baroness Foster DBE #FreeTheHostages🇮🇱❤️

@jfoster2019

2 years

Lord Frost: my Britain is a country with no vaccine passports | The Spectator

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

3 years

This is not just a quote for the United States, but for all of us in democracies- none of us are immune from what the President is warning us against. The world should wish you well. We are glad your country is back.

CBS News

@CBSNews

3 years

President Biden: "Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war. And we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated, and even manufactured."

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