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Conservative Peer. Editor, @ConHome 2013-24. MP for Wycombe 2001-2010.

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@PaulGoodmanCH
Paul Goodman
2 years
Number Ten Policy Unit member Elena Narozanski has quit.
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2 years
Understand that the background to the @SuellaBraverman resignation was the mother of all rows about migration. Told she was under pressure from Number Ten to announce liberalising migration plan which would make it easier for OBR to say Gvt would hit growth target.
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It’s now more likely than not that the mini-Budget will be withdrawn and that @KwasiKwarteng may have to go
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2 years
"Maybe the Conservative Party no longer cares.  Perhaps the sum of its ambition is to become the provisional wing of the right-wing entertainment industry, while @Keir_Starmer gets on with the tiresome business of actually running the country."
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2 years
Hard to overstate what a personal rebuff this is to @BorisJohnson . Mirza is one of his longest-standing, loyal and most senior aides, having first worked with him when he was Mayor of London.
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The Spectator
2 years
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Munira Mirza, the Downing Street head of policy, has resigned over Boris Johnson’s Jimmy Savile attack on Keir Starmer
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3 years
As the local MP (then), I met the Duke of Edinburgh in 2002: the Queen and he were visiting Marlow as part of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations. The Duke fixed me with a gimlet stare, and said: "So they've let you have a day off from the monkey house, then?"
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3 years
+ @BenHouchen smashes it. Re-elected Tees Valley mayor with 73% of the vote. Yes, you read that correctly. 73% of the vote.
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5 years
From @SteveBakerHW on @ConHome : What madness is this that a Conservative Prime Minister would rather negotiate with Corbyn than deliver on democracy?
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5 years
Told that the Devizes Association voted this evening by 116 - 19 to express no confidence in Theresa May.
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5 years
If May isn’t on her way out by the end of today, don’t back her in tomorrow’s European elections
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Paul Goodman
4 years
Sir Bob Kerslake: rebuked by a former Lords Speaker for breaching his crossbench status by acting as an adviser to the Labour Party.
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Lewis Goodall
4 years
Have just spoken to Sir Bob Kerslake, former Head of the Civil Service. He told me that if Cummings is a full member of SAGE: “it’s both surprising and concerning. The risk is the government is leading the science when it’s supposed to be the other way round.”
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5 years
What’s at stake tomorrow is even bigger than Brexit. It is trust in politics. Which is why the deal as it stands must not pass.
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5 years
+ @ConHome exclusive. CCHQ has been notified that the threshold for a voluntary party confidence vote in May’s leadership has been reached.
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5 years
"The Electoral Commission seems utterly consistent in only two things: an unwillingness to apologise for its errors, and an inability to learn from them." @wallaceme on the scandal of its treatment of @darrengrimes_ .
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5 years
+ @SamGyimah departs this contest with the best response to any question in @ConHome 's candidate survey. Asked about his biggest mistake in life, he replied "I’d candidly suggest that standing for the Tory leadership on a second referendum platform must rank quite high."
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Paul Goodman
2 years
A vote of no confidence in @BorisJohnson has suddenly become more likely than not
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Paul Goodman
4 years
New @BorisJohnson Brexit video aimed fairly and squarely at potential Brexit Party waverers worried about extended vassaldom. "We will not extend the transition period beyond the end of 2020."
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Paul Goodman
4 years
Welcome to our new @ConHome columnist - the heroic @darrengrimes_ . A Pride Day? There’s a good case for one, he writes. But a whole Pride Month? That’s just virtue signalling.
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2 years
Figures in the dark 1) My declared total for @BorisJohnson plus a few others is 139 as I write. But not all of them will stick.
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Paul Goodman
2 years
New @ConHome Tory leadership election survey of Party members coming in roughly an hour.
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Paul Goodman
9 months
+ @NJ_Timothy selected as Conservative Parliamentary candidate for West Suffolk.
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Paul Goodman
2 years
Raises serious questions for @BorisJohnson which have implications for his current plight. My godson @raffymarshall was the Foreign Office whistleblower.
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Tamara Cohen
2 years
In other news, emails just published by ⁦ @CommonsForeign ⁩ re the Afghan evacuation refer to the PM giving personal authorisation for the Nowzad animals to be evacuated. This was denied by No10 spokesman.
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Paul Goodman
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Many thanks to Lord Howard of Lympne & @Patrick4Dales for supporting me today on my introduction to @UKHouseofLords . Also to my family, friends, and to @CharlesHMoore , @montie and former colleagues.
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Paul Goodman
7 years
Newsflash. It's coming thick and fast. Fiona Hill has also resigned.
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Paul Goodman
2 years
+ @BorisJohnson may well have reached 100 signatures - but this @chhcalling msg doesn't actually say so.
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Alex Wickham
2 years
Here’s Johnson MP Chris Heaton Harris in their campaign WhatsApp group claiming they’ve now verified 100 MP nominations and completed paperwork to get on the ballot… we’ll find out tomorrow
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Paul Goodman
4 years
China isn’t only an oppresssor in Hong Kong. It’s a threat to all of us. Here’s how to respond. By @lukedepulford on @ConHome .
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Paul Goodman
5 years
CCHQ: "Campaigning for or endorsement of any other political party is incompatible with membership of the party. The board will not hesitate to enforce these rules.” So it's ready to expel 60% of activists & 40% of councillors.
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4 years
If it's a "permament reminder", why is it being temporarily covered - rather than safeguarded?
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Boris Johnson
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The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square is a permanent reminder of his achievement in saving this country – and the whole of Europe – from a fascist and racist tyranny. 1/8
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- @RuthDavidsonMSP is the ultimate demonstration of traditional values in a modern setting. She is handling her departure plan immaculately - and will, I’m sure be back.
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Paul Goodman
5 years
Robbins must go – the EU negotiations need a fresh face, writes @ticerichard on @ConHome
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4 years
From @darrengrimes_ on @ConHome : Since we must use coal, why import it all – when we could instead create jobs by mining it in the North-East?
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Paul Goodman
4 years
On @ConHome , @SteveBakerHW argues that Ministers should reject a second lockdown and prepare for Plan B
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Paul Goodman
4 years
Unfit for office. But worse even than @jeremycorbyn are Labour’s moderates – who are willing to put his anti-Jewish racism into power.
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4 years
It’s time for @DominicRaab to bring Magnitsky sanctions to bear on those oppressing Hong Kong, writes @benedictrogers on @ConHome
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Paul Goodman
5 years
A shot across @BorisJohnson 's bows from @OwenPaterson on @ConHome . He says that dual-tariff systems for NI would be unacceptable, and that the PM himself has said that the Withdrawal Agreement is dead. Brexit must happen by 31/10 - "deal or no deal"
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5 years
"Within Whitehall, fears that the EU would behave irresponsibly if there is No Deal receded. The body language from the EU has been signalling a willingness to have an informal understanding over a nine month transition period." George Eustice on @ConHome
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Paul Goodman
5 years
Told Cummings has summoned all SpAds to No 10 for 7.55 tomorrow: something’s up...
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Paul Goodman
2 years
A lot of Tory MPs will be horrified by that blue-on-blue version of Hunger Games - and ask themselves why the candidates agreed to participate. I wonder if @PennyMordaunt will gain from her attempt to distance herself from the carnage. #itvdebate
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Paul Goodman
4 years
+ @SteveBakerHW is 100% correct.
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Rt Hon Steve Baker MP FRSA 🗽
4 years
If we fail to understand the magnitude of the corruption of even a single vote, we are a politically bankrupt nation. Read the full speech here:
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Paul Goodman
8 years
You may not like the cut of Gove's jib. But as an exercise in holding an audience, he is completely in control. Masterclass. #inorout
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Paul Goodman
2 years
Good news for free speech. Surrey Police Commissioner and @ConHome columnist @_Lisa_Townsend is cleared of “misconduct” for expressing her views on transgenderism. But, as @harryph points out, the investigation should never have happened
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Paul Goodman
3 years
+ @trussliz writes on @ConHome that the naysayers doubted the speed of the UK’s deal with Japan. But it’s here – and takes us closer to more.
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Paul Goodman
4 years
Cummings made a reasonable case today, and his critics should accept it – and move on
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Paul Goodman
6 years
"Ask one question," writes @DanielJHannan on @ConHome . "In what conflict has @jeremycorbyn ever been on Britain’s side? He has shown himself willing to back any cause, however vile, provided it is sufficiently Anglophobic."
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Paul Goodman
5 years
Peter Bone's verdict: “You are not delivering the Brexit people voted for. You will lose the support of many Conservative MPs and millions” of voters.
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Paul Goodman
2 years
Watch for the number of nominations for election that the '22 Executive require. 😐
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Paul Goodman
4 years
In honour of the memory of Roger Scruton, @ConHome wil be clear of everything today bar Scruton videos. There's a mass of good stuff around.
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5 years
Brace.
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5 years
+ @NickyMorgan01 worked heroically to make Conservatives with different views on Europe come together in search of solutions. She was also a pleasure to work with as a @ConHome columnist - never losing her sense of proportion & humour. I will miss her.
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5 years
Two @ConHome pieces on May's Brexit deal today. You will find no more eloquent attack on it anywhere than @DanielJHannan 's...
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Paul Goodman
5 years
So: apparently, Ministers who defy the whip by abstaining will not be fired.
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Paul Goodman
8 years
Classy from @BorisJohnson . Keeps his cool, gains counter-applause #ITVEURef
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Paul Goodman
1 year
A Sudan thread. 1) My godson @raffymarshall resigned from the Foreign Office over its handling of the Afghan withdrawal in the summer of 2021.
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Paul Goodman
8 years
Just when I thought politics was left behind: Seen on bench while climbing path to viewpoint Aksla, Alesund, Norway.
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8 years
Gove now getting applause (some) for almost every answer. Don't remember that for Cameron from yesterday evening #InorOut
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Paul Goodman
5 years
Watching this with a non-political friend. "Why are they all talking over each other?" #BBCOurNextPM
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5 years
From @patel4witham on @ConHome : If the left think I’m hardline on law and order, they should try meeting the British public
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5 years
Watching this with a non-political friend. "This is a disaster." #BBCOurNextPM
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Paul Goodman
3 years
Why the Left keeps losing.
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Sophia Collins
3 years
I don’t actually need my fridge to be a UKIP advert, thanks, Morrison’s
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Paul Goodman
6 years
Brexit. It’s time for an end to illusions. May must choose between the backstop and her country.
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5 years
From @DanielJHannan on @ConHome : We are shuffling towards a deal that is worse either than remaining or leaving
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4 years
Brexit – and why the transition period must not be extended beyond December this year. By From @ShankerASingham on @ConHome
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5 years
The most emphatic endorsement of a Conservative leader ever made by our panel. The Party has spoken.
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Mark Wallace
5 years
This is basically as close to unanimous as the @ConHome survey of Tory members gets: 90% want MPs to vote for @BorisJohnson 's new #BrexitDeal
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Paul Goodman
2 years
+ @ConHome survey on how MPs should vote today will be posted by 15.30.
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+ @BorisJohnson 's enemies will never forgive him for Brexit. They must not be allowed to oust him, writes @Mike_Fabricant on @ConHome
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2 years
Why I will vote for @RishiSunak
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Paul Goodman
6 years
classy.
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Torbjörn Sohlström
6 years
Congratulations England. You had the stronger team today, and a great goalkeeper. When I have digested the result, I will support Three Lions.
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Paul Goodman
5 years
The end of the Conservative Party as we have known it
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4 years
No 10 wants new CCHQ in the Midlands/North - “somewhere...close to a university with good maths/physics departments, good train links, well placed in political terms”. Says all ideas welcome. Try some below @ConHome article here. "We will be watching"
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Paul Goodman
2 years
The @George_Osborne / @edballs double act is the best thing on political TV at the moment. They offer the plus of first class analysis without the minus of now having to defend a party line.
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Channel 4
2 years
On a special edition of tonight’s #AndrewNeilShow : Can Liz Truss survive? Former Conservative Chancellor @George_Osborne thinks ‘probably not’ and tells @afneil he believes she will ‘fall before Christmas’ Channel 4, 6.15pm
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Paul Goodman
4 years
Excellent short @ConHome piece by @LiamFox on why those international Coronavirus League Tables are flawed. A must read on why so many of the statistical analyses more broadly are off beam.
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2 years
Conservative MPs mull a new means of ousting @trussliz and cutting Party members out of a leadership election
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"Not asking British public to trust me. Asking the public to trust themselves." Gove counter-punches #InorOut
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2 years
"I will never return to being the person I was prior to Operation Midland. It has scarred me for life and will live with me until the day I die." On @ConHome , @KHarveyProctor makes "the powerful case" against @Keir_Starmer 's term as DPP.
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2 years
Next Tory steps 5) Reasonable to believe that by this time tomorrow @RishiSunak will be Conservative leader and Prime Minister.
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On @ConHome , @SamGyimah revives his radical tax-cutting plan. His challenge to @BorisJohnson and @Jeremy_Hunt is: it’s time to commit to scrapping Britain’s five worst taxes.
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Paul Goodman
4 years
These devalued degrees are infantalising a generation of young people, writes @darrengrimes_ on @ConHome
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