Harry Phibbs @harryph Twitter profile

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Harry Phibbs

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2 years

I would like to hear an announcement from @nadhimzahawi today that children don't have to wear masks in school tomorrow.

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In 2016 Christine Lagarde was convicted of fraud. Today the EU nominated her to be the head of the European Central Bank. Thank goodness we are leaving this squalid, corrupt outfit.

Christine Lagarde: IMF chief convicted over payout

A French court finds IMF chief Christine Lagarde guilty of negligence but does not penalise her.

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Joe Biden says cutting top income tax rate in the UK from 45% to 40% would have been wrong. The 40% rate here kicks in at £50,270. In the US the tax rate is 22% up to equivalent of £80,000. Then 24% on income up to £153,000. Top rate of 37% kicks in over £483,000.

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Perhaps the BBC might care to correct this?

Nigel Farage bank account shut for falling below wealth limit, source tells BBC

Nigel Farage's account with the bank Coutts is not being closed for political reasons, the BBC is told.

www.bbc.co.uk

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5 years

I actually think Rory Stewart would be a worse PM than Theresa May!

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When asked what actually differentiates him from the Labour Party, Rory Stewart didn't mention the size or scope of the state, no word on the position of the individual in society, not even a contrast on tax policy! To him the difference was his romantic love for the EU's CAP.

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Various reporters describing Sir John Major as a "Conservative". But Sir John urged people to vote against Conservative candidates at the last General Election.

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. @KemiBadenoch : "My Government will discard the priorities of Twitter and focus on the people's priorities. When we can't deliver passports and driving licences on time why are we spending millions on people whose jobs literally didn't exist a decade ago?"

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When @MPIainDS became Work and Pensions Secretary in May 2010 there were 2.51 million unemployed. Now down to 1.28 million. His welfare reforms have halved unemployment. A very well deserved knighthood!

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Would it not be a tad inconsistent to accuse Boris Johnson of being a "dictator" and then try to prevent him from calling a General Election?

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. @DanielJHannan : "Historians will look back in wonder at our recent resignations. A sitting prime minister was removed over uneaten cake on the advice of a civil servant who, it later emerged, was planning to work for the Leader of the Opposition."

Daniel Hannan: This frenzied effort to concoct a Braverman scandal makes this country look ridicu...

If you bluntly tell your officials to do their jobs, you are accused of bullying; if, like Braverman, you are by nature polite, you find yourself undermined in other ways.

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. @DanielJHannan : “Outside the EU, Britain could have become freer and more competitive. We had a Conservative Government with an 80-seat majority, for Heaven’s sake. We could have scrapped Brussels regulations, flattened and simplified taxes, embraced global markets...

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5 years

It is a shame. A magazine that used to be anti establishment now peddles corporatist group think.

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3 years

Erasmus scheme VERY bad value for money. We put in £250 million a year. In return around 15,000 British students each get around £3,500 a year towards studying abroad - so about £50 million back! Lots of its budget goes on non-educational stuff - eg EU propaganda.

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. @DanielJHannan : “Russia poured £60 million into Western anti-fracking campaigns, using gullible activists to spread scare stories about contamination and earthquakes. It worked, ensuring that Europe remained dependent on Russian energy exports.”

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In the Withdrawal Agreement, the EU pledged in "good faith" its “best endeavours to facilitate the trade between Northern Ireland and all other parts of the UK". It now threatens a food blockade. To say that shows a lack of "good faith" is something of an understatement!

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UK Government gives £364 million a year to UNICEF. Of course, UNICEF donating £25,000 to hungry children in the UK is a PR stunt. It should help in countries where children are starving. If UK children are the priority then let Govt cut £364m for UNICEF and give to foodbanks!

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Bad news for people smugglers! Second day running of no Channel crossings. Asylum seekers would evidently prefer to stay in France than go to Rwanda. The deterrence of the new policy already seems to be having an impact.

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Message from Culture Secretary @OliverDowden to museums and galleries on removing statues: "As publicly funded bodies, you should not be taking actions motivated by activism or politics." Could lose taxpayer subsidies if they do. #GoWokeGoBroke

Museums told to stop pulling down statues or risk funding cuts

Institutions displaying artefacts linked to Britain's past have faced pressure to remove them

www.telegraph.co.uk

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3 years

Good news from @CityWestminster : "Having recently fully reviewed our Stonewall membership we have recently withdrawn our membership with immediate effect on a value for money basis."

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Despite having an important and demanding job @RobertJenrick made the time to drop round food and medicine to his parents. He should be commended for that decent behaviour - not vilified.

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Joe Biden has arrived in Rome with an 85-car motorcade for his meeting with the Pope to discuss climate change. The scale of the President's entourage shows just how seriously he takes the environment.

Biden uses massive 85-car motorcade to wind through streets of Rome

Joe and Jill Biden used a massive 85-car motorcade to wind through the streets of Rome on Friday for their meeting with Pope Francis. The notoriously late president was on time for sit down.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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7 years

From Private Eye...

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Why has @NicolaSturgeon not been subjected to greater scrutiny by the media?

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10 months

The Bank of England has become a national laughing stock.

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3 years

A bad poll for Labour. But the fieldwork dates will be mostly too early for them to benefit from the full Bercow bounce.

Savanta UK

@Savanta_UK

3 years

🚨NEW WESTMINSTER VOTING INTENTION🚨 🔵Con 44 (+3) 🔴Lab 30 (-4) 🟠LDM 10 (+2) 🟢GRN 5 (-1) 🟡SNP 4 (-1) ⚪️Other 6 (-1) 18-20 June (Changes from 11-13 June)

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2 years

Very impressive leadership pitch from @KemiBadenoch in @thetimes ...

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5 years

I wonder if Dominic Grieve popping up last week and declaring that he has “never been more ashamed to be a member of the Conservative Party" might have alienated him from some of the Conservative Party members in Beaconsfield he expects to work on his behalf?

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. @DanielJHannan ; “Sometimes, the ECHR rulings are so perverse as to be hilarious, as when a Libyan alcoholic with 78 convictions overturned his deportation order partly on grounds that it was very hard to buy alcohol in Libya.”

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. @DanielJHannan :"The Tories could hardly fight an election promising to leave the EU while several of their candidates refused to accept that policy. Though the pundits are fainting like affronted matrons, voters appreciate Boris’s strength of purpose."

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. @spectator : “The Government could make some amends by calling for an amnesty and a pardon for all those who were convicted of breaching lockdown restrictions in 2020 and last year. Fines should be cancelled, criminal records erased.”

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. @RossjournoClark : “As most people will work out for themselves when they receive their energy bills this spring, the biggest danger they face is not being fried or drowned in a slightly warmer world – it’s succumbing to hypothermia because they can’t afford to heat their homes.”

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Most important story today? It’s buried in the interview @trussliz gave the Sunday Telegraph. Raising the definition of a small business, in terms of regulation, from 250 to 500 employees.Means big cut in red tape for 40,000 firms. @AllisterHeath should’ve made more of his scoop!

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3 years

Whatever view is taken on climate change, the claim that Britain should apologise for the industrial revolution is absurd. It has been a tremendous benefit to the entire world.

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4 years

This front page "splash" from Saturday has proved to be false. It may well have incited some of the unpleasant incidents outside the Cummings home in Islington. Will The Guardian apologise?

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Apparently, this chap wants to be the Labour candidate in the Hartlepool byelection. So he is busy deleting his pro-EU tweets. Not quite quickly enough...

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A month ago Christian Wakeford was among the 99 Conservative MPs that voted against the Plan B restrictions. Good for him. But is it not a bit odd that he's now switched to Labour who complained the measures did not go far enough and imposed tighter restrictions in Wales?

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11 months

40 years ago today! Tony Blair first elected as an MP - pledging withdrawal from the EU…

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Conservative Manifesto: "We will champion freedom of expression and tolerance, both in the UK and overseas. To support free speech, we will repeal section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2014, which seeks to coerce the press."

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Guess what? The Spectator now sells more copies than The Guardian. @spectator up 16% to an all-time high of 106,900. Congratulations to @FraserNelson , @afneil , @JGForsyth , @IsabelHardman , @KateAndrs , @toadmeister , @questingvole , @JamesDelingpole and most of all Mary Killen!

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Leader in The @spectator : "Net zero can’t last. The UK needs a grown-up energy policy instead. The first step would be to dramatically increase production of our own oil and gas. Fields in the North Sea need to be brought back onstream."

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4 years

Hard to expect the police to uphold the law when they are undermined by the Mayor of London.

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“ @KemiBadenoch has electrified the leadership race. In less than seven days she has gone from a fringe candidate, dismissed by the big cabinet beasts, to a rival with a serious shot at the top job.”

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. @DanielJHannan : "A 100 years ago, on 21 January 1924, Vladimir Lenin died at his dacha in Gorki. It was already clear by then that socialism required secret police, labour camps, and firing squads since people had to be forced to behave in unnatural ways"

Smug world elites have been exposed by a chainsaw-wielding libertarian

It’s about time that corporate schmooze-meisters heard the full cost of their failed policies dragging Europe to the brink

www.telegraph.co.uk

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BBC says 45,000 dairy cows in Northern Ireland will die due to Brexit. But the Government isn't going to kill them. Nor will the farmers. Will the cows spontaneously combust? Newsnight's "scoop" turns out to be mad rubbish. Remainers are getting unhinged!

No-deal Brexit cattle cull 'scare tactics' - Ulster Farmers' Union

The Ulster Farmers' Union says it does not anticipate that 45,000 dairy cows will be culled in NI.

www.bbc.co.uk

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One for the Fourth Plinth...

Emma Webb

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This would make for an appropriately majestic statue…

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. @DanielJHannan : "Why do Brussels negotiators talk of “granting” tariff-free access as if trade were an act of kindness? The EU thinks of itself as a modern empire and its attitude to Britain is that of a metropolitan power toward a renegade province."

Daniel Hannan: How the EU must wish it had accepted May's Chequers offer | Conservative Home

The truth is that Eurocrats see Britain as a rule-taking dependent, like Macedonia or Ukraine, rather than as a wholly independent nation.

conservativehome.com

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Putin's great hope is that the West will lose interest in Ukraine. Boris Johnson's visit to Kyiv today gave out a strong message that we will not. A powerful signal of solidarity which is a critical international priority. All those who believe in freedom should welcome it.

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Oh. Some neighbours became “concerned” about Boris having a row with his girlfriend. So they taped it and played the tape to The Guardian. How caring.

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4 years

Another press conference with @BorisJohnson at 5pm. Yesterday's one had lobby correspondents trying to score silly points about Stanley saying he might still go to a pub. Would it be better to have science/medical correspondents sent along to ask serious questions?

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Brexit polling from @OpiniumResearch - if EU won’t offer an acceptable deal by Oct 31st. Leave with “no deal” 45%, delay Brexit 14%, cancel Brexit 28%, don’t know 14%.

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I suppose the alternative scoop would have been: “Cummings skipped science advisory group meetings.”

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A reminder that Lambeth Council managed to obstruct @Miss_Snuffy from opening her free school near the Oval. This proved to be good news for children in Wembley!

A free school army will end the Left’s stranglehold on education

The Tories must take up the fight for reform again to protect one of their most successful innovations

www.telegraph.co.uk

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4 years

The BBC has presented BLM as a moderate, mainstream movement favouring harmony, justice and equality. The problem with that presentation is that it is entirely false.

#BlackLivesMatterUK

@ukblm

4 years

As Israel moves forward with the annexation of the West Bank, and mainstream British politics is gagged of the right to critique Zionism, and Israel’s settler colonial pursuits, we loudly and clearly stand beside our Palestinian comrades. FREE PALESTINE.

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Am I alone in thinking that Tony Blair and John Major joining forces to attack the Government will do the Government no harm at all?

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So having started as the Independent Group (opposing independence for the UK) then becoming Change UK (opposing change in our membership of the EU) this outfit is now called the Remain Alliance (refusing to enter into alliance with other Remainers.) #KeepUp

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The Cabinet is completely committed to Government policy. This is regarded as rather shocking.

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So not all the money we give to the Pakistan Government is handed on the Taliban. Some is being used to help keep the Russian war machine going. Here's an idea. Why don't we scrap our annual £302 million aid to Pakistan and use the funds to help Ukraine instead?

Jamie Jenkins

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🚨🚨 Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan announced Monday that his country will import about 2 million tons of wheat from Russia and buy natural gas. ➡️ Pakistan is the top recipient country of UK foreign aid estimated at around £302 million in 2019/20.

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Shocking that this political discrimination has been allowed. What has @TheFCA been doing about it. Another Quango not fit for purpose.

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Guess what? Poland has found a brilliant way to boost growth and productivity. Low taxes.

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. @DanielJHannan : "To watch Labour frontbenchers now scrambling to argue that, no, an investigation is only an investigation is a piece of irony so funny – so beautiful, indeed – that it could be mounted on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth."

Now is the time for the PM to govern like a Conservative – for Britain’s sake as well as his own

The only way for a government to be re-elected at a time like this is to be visibly pulling every lever to stimulate growth

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Winston Churchill: “I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”

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3 years

Credit to @spectator for making this key point in its leader this week. So much of the media has managed to miss it.

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Professor Neil Ferguson is completely discredited. His predictions proved wildly wrong over and over again. Yet not only do broadcasters still let him take to the airwaves - they fail to challenge him over his record.

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We need to stop blaming May. It's a given that she will cling on as long as she can, regardless of how much harm it causes. We need to start blaming the 1922 Committee, the Cabinet and Conservative MPs as a whole for allowing her to continue.

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Getting ready for Emily Thornberry coming over for supper.

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. @DanielJHannan : "There is something facile and narcissistic about parading your moral superiority over someone who died more than a century ago simply because he upheld the values of his own age."

Removing the statue of Cecil Rhodes would be cowardly and anti-intellectual

There is no point parading your moral superiority over Rhodes simply because he upheld the values of his age

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IR35 has punished the self employed with higher tax and less flexibility. Thousands of lorry drivers quit as a result - with consequences that are now all too apparent. @IainDale in the @Telegraph is right. IR35 must go!

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Oh look. A Conservative Government has been re-elected after cutting tax. I wonder if there could be some sort of message for us here?

Europe Elects

@EuropeElects

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Greece, national parliament election today: 91% counted ND-EPP: 40.5% (-0.3) SYRIZA-LEFT: 17.8% (-2.3) PASOK KINAL-S&D: 12.0% (+0.5) KKE-NI: 7.6% (+0.4) Spartiates-*: 4.7% (new) EL-ECR: 4.5% ... +/-vs. May 2023 election ➤ #ekloges #Ekloges2023

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I hope those bishops who made false claims about Cummings, contributing to a climate of hate, will have the grace to apologise. "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers."

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Margaret Thatcher declared her determination for Britain to be a country where the state “is the servant not the master.” This Mail on Sunday endorsement of @trussliz spots that is her vision too.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Truss is a breath of fresh air

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: This is why Truss's single-minded campaign for the Tory leadership is so significant. She seized from the start on the issue of reducing taxes.

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Very encouraging message from @sajidjavid . Not since Nigel Lawson have we had a Chancellor with such a clear mission to cut tax and thus boost free enterprise and individual freedom. It’s our money!

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Why do the pundits never describe tax increases as a "gamble"?

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Lord Sumption gives the game away, doesn’t he? The referendum was just “a snapshot of opinion”, “the 52 per cent can not expect to carry off all the spoils”. The decision by the Supreme Court was politically driven.

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The implication from this Labour MP is that only newspapers she agrees with should be allowed to continue.

Zarah Sultana MP

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A tiny number of billionaires own vast swathes of our press. Their papers relentlessly campaign for right-wing politics, promoting the interests of the ruling class and scapegoating minorities. A free press is vital to democracy, but too much of our press isn't free at all.

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. @DanielJHannan :”There is no way to interpret the EU threat of a vaccine export ban other than as a hostile act aimed at Britain. It exempted every neighbouring state except one. It would not apply to Iceland or Morocco or Turkey or Belarus – only the UK.”

If the EU continues to act like a hostile state, the UK should treat it as one

The EU cannot hurt Britain without hurting itself; yet it feels compelled to pick fights anyway

www.telegraph.co.uk

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"Like Staff Wellbeing Officers in the public sector. What about the wellbeing of the actual public who can't go holiday because we process a piece of paper on time?"

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4 years

Disingenuous for the BBC to claim refusal sing Rule, Britannia! and Land Of Hope And Glory is for practical rather than political reasons. If their choir can sing Jerusalem then they can sing Rule, Britannia! and Land Of Hope And Glory.

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Disappointing that the Daily Telegraph should characterise as "moderate" those MPs who refuse to accept the referendum result!

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NEW Two more senior Tory MPs facing deselection votes at their annual meetings as 'purple momentum' purge gathers pace via @Telegraph

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Vote for @Councillorsuzie !

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The Benn Bill requires the UK agreeing to an extension of EU membership on ANY terms the EU dictates. How can that honestly be described as anything other than a Surrender Bill?

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. @DanielJHannan : "How bizarre that, in a world where slavery was near-universal, we should train our ire almost exclusively on the country that distinguished itself by its abolitionism."

Capitalism not slavery made Britain rich. It’s time we stopped apologising for our past

The UK did play its part in the Atlantic slave trade, but so did many other kingdoms. Where we are unique is in our role towards ending it

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“The masks-in-schools mandate, which so clearly impedes learning, has almost no evidential support. It is time for all these orders to be rescinded.”

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. @DanielJHannan : “This isn’t about lives versus money; it’s about lives versus lives.A total shutdown is literally lethal. Loosening restrictions as soon as possible isn’t just a question of freedom or of economic growth; it’s a question of basic welfare.”

This unprecedented curtailment of our freedom must end as soon as possible

A decade of painstaking fiscal repair-work was undone within the first few hours;

www.telegraph.co.uk

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"If Sunak does go down to defeat at the next election it will not be because he's been too Tory. It will be because he has not been Tory enough — or even Tory at all."

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. @DanielJHannan : “Last week, data published by The Economist showed that Sweden’s overall excess mortality in 2021 was the lowest in Europe.”

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. @DanielJHannan : “Public opinion has finally begun to turn. For 18 months, YouGov polls have shown unwavering support for every kind of prohibition: closed shops, closed schools, closed pubs, closed borders...

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Have we "had enough of experts"? On the contrary, we do not hear from enough experts - especially from those that dissent from the consensus. A wide array of discordant voices is the way for truth to emerge. But we have had enough of groupthink.

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. @afneil : "With the new top rate of tax at an internationally competitive 40 per cent, every £1 million banker's bonus is £400,000 more for schools and hospitals."

Truss taking a gamble but sticking with policies would be a bigger one

ANDREW NEIL: Truss and Kwarteng don't care if abolishing the 45 per cent top rate of income tax means big earners pay less tax.

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Since we KNOW this is nonsense - such an event would not even be legal - the rest of the claims should be treated with a certain scepticism...

The New York Times

@nytimes

3 years

Meghan Markle revealed that before their official wedding, she and Prince Harry got married in a secret backyard ceremony with the Archbishop of Canterbury. “Just the three of us,” Harry later said.

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. @johnredwood : “The ERM was a case study in Treasury groupthink. It recommended joining the ERM strongly to successive chancellors. John Major finally drove the policy through against a prime minister who knew it was wrong.”

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5 years

In 1994 eight Tory MPs had the whip withdrawn after refusing to vote for an increase in UK payments to the EU. John Major had made it into an issue of confidence. William Hague was a cabinet minister at the time. He made no objection to Major's decision.

PM takes revenge on Tory renegades

Major wins crucial vote on contributions to Europe but now leads 'minor ity' government as eight rebels lose Conservative whip

www.independent.co.uk

William Hague

@WilliamJHague

5 years

‘Terrible precedents are being set by picking a fight to the death with MPs. A crisis like this can only be solved by electing a new Parliament.’ Read my latest @Telegraph article

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Harry Phibbs

@harryph

3 years

What a disgraceful comment. Pure racism. Miranda Wayland should be sacked as the BBC's "Head of Creative Diversity". Or better still the post should be abolished.

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Harry Phibbs

@harryph

5 years

Essential reading from @DanielJHannan : "At least EU membership, unlike the backstop, comes with an exit mechanism. We are thus being asked to replace a temporary arrangement with a permanent one. That alone is reason enough to refuse."

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Harry Phibbs

@harryph

5 years

None of the MPs who voted for this have given a convincing answer as to what the delay would be for. If they were honest they would admit they really want to cancel Brexit.

Andrew Hawkins

@PigsAndPolling

5 years

"Brexit shd be delayed to 31 Jan 2020" agree 29% disagree 49% DK 23% @ComRes for @Telegraph

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Harry Phibbs

@harryph

2 years

"We are now taxing and spending more on Government than we have ever done and yet people's satisfaction with the quality of their day to day services is falling. This is not sustainable."

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Harry Phibbs

@harryph

7 months

@Channel4News @krishgm Did he ask her for selfie?

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Harry Phibbs

@harryph

5 years

I'm all for loads of Tory leadership hustings - region after region, night after night. Put them all up on YouTube. But absurd that any Tory MP should ever agree to be on @Channel4News - blatantly dishonest, anti Conservative outfit. Ratings plunging. Why give them credibility?

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Harry Phibbs

@harryph

5 years

. @DanielJHannan : "When MPs voted to make No Deal impossible, they were in fact making a deal impossible, because they were taking away from the EU any incentive to agree terms."

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Harry Phibbs

@harryph

2 years

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Congratulations! Let’s get fracking!

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