Dr Nigel Fletcher @nigelfletcher Twitter profile

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

3 years

Your regular reminder that you don’t need to take sides on every issue, it’s OK to feel conflicted or ambivalent in your reaction, and most issues are much too complicated to be reduced to angry shouting points on here. #TeamComplexityAndNuance

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

4 years

This is, I’m afraid, wrong. A Ministerial Broadcast is customarily followed by a response from the Leader of the Opposition. It has been the case for decades.

Dehenna Davison MP

@DehennaDavison

4 years

I see absolutely no reason for this to be broadcast at the expense of the taxpayer. This isn’t party political. Boris Johnson didn’t make a statement as Leader of the Conservative Party. He addressed the nation as our Prime Minister. BBC have big questions to answer on this.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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11 years

I was emailed today to ask if I would like to advertise my business with the Daily Mail. This was my reply: http://t.co/P83KYnIHRl

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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6 months

Pub Quiz fact: Tony Blair is now the only postwar Prime Minister to have never served in another Cabinet post other than Prime Minister.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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4 years

The Italy video is how #Eurovision should have gone ahead- each act performing live in an iconic empty venue in their home country. It would have been so powerful. #Eurovision #ShineALight

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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2 years

This is indeed an insane picture, showing as it does Guy Fawkes trying to blow up Lambeth Palace on the south bank some time after 1860.

insane moments in british politics

@PoliticsMoments

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Guy Fawkes is caught trying to blow up parliament after placing 36 barrels of gunpowder underneath the House of Lords (1605)

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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4 years

OK, enough of silence. Others have been braver and more honest. I’ve held off my direct criticism of Cummings for years, as I haven’t wanted to revisit the personal anguish he caused me when I was a Tory adviser. And, frankly, because I feared the consequences of speaking up.

Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

4 years

Someone once said my silence on Twitter was how they knew I was absolutely furious about something indefensible. I’m off to read a book.

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4 years

I woke up expecting Cummings to have gone overnight. As the examples of heartbreaking sacrifices made by families during lockdown mount, every minister sent out to defend him is further tarnished, as is the government. This isn’t an SW1 scandal- it’s a personal insult to us all.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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2 years

And here’s Larry! @Number10cat

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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4 years

Tribalism in politics makes people do strange things, but loyalty to your party shouldn’t override personal integrity. We all know MPs and ministers who have been aghast at Cummings for years. The PM is being poorly served by someone who should never have been appointed.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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3 years

Just checking in on what news I’ve missed today. Must confess “Hitler bombs Exeter” wasn’t quite what I expected. #exeterbomb

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

1 year

Bought myself a present… Have acquired my first actual government dispatch box- a vintage George V one. Somewhat battered, but a total beauty. Who needs box files? 🤓💼

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

4 years

Anyone with any experience of political comms can see what a disaster this is, how toxic is the charge of “one rule for us...”. It required a swift, fulsome apology and, probably, a resignation. Anyone with the best interests of the government at heart would have gone.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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1 year

I’ve bought myself a vintage government-issue document case to cart my laptop around in (as you do). Heading home on the train tonight I feel like a 1950s Civil Servant - and it’s rather poignant that Elizabeth II’s royal cypher has now passed into history. 😟

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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2 years

Today, the Gun Carriage will be drawn by 142 Naval ratings, as has been the case in sovereign’s funerals since 1901. The origin, famously, was a near disaster at Queen Victoria’s funeral in Windsor. Here is the account of the incident, courtesy of Tony Rennell’s book:

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

4 years

I think that should probably be my last word on the matter for a while. I’ll go back to tweeting about Doctor Who and making pedantic constitutional points about arcane historical events.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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5 years

Every UK Prime Minister of the last 29 years at the cenotaph today. Rather a poignant image amid the election divisiveness. All of them united by the awesome burden of power- the letters to the nuclear submarines, the deployment of our armed forces, the life and death choices.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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4 years

I think @theresa_may is becoming a rare example of a former PM who, having reached the top, is content to continue being active in domestic politics for the issues she cares about. That’s unparalleled in recent times.

The World at One

@BBCWorldatOne

4 years

"If you're a victim of domestic abuse, work is your safe place and being at home is not" Former Prime Minister @theresa_may tells #bbcwato and says "employers need to think about that" | @Sarah_Montague

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

2 years

A week after The Late Queen approved the appointment of Her new Cabinet, The King last night held a Privy Council to formally swear them into their new offices and give them the Seals of Office. A constitutional first: appointed by one Sovereign, sworn in by the next.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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1 year

My latest pre- #Coronation checks have been undertaken, and I can report that work is proceeding at the Abbey. It closes to visitors next week. @wabbey

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

4 years

For example, the Chancellor’s Budget Broadcast is followed by one by the Shadow Chancellor.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

6 months

Congratulations to @AlexChalkChelt - the first Lord Chancellor in many a year to attempt the tricky manoeuvre of reversing down the steps of the throne whilst bewigged and robed, without falling over. It’s a core ceremonial skill. #StateOpening

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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1 year

Delighted to have made my debut in this month’s excellent pre- #Coronation collector’s edition of @MajestyMagazine . In the feature, I look at The King’s eventful start to his constitutional duties. As a long-term reader, a real thrill to see it on the newsstands. On sale now!

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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4 years

They have risen! #Easter #Baking

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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3 years

Her Majesty The Queen attacking a cake with a sword, whilst throwing shade. Yasss, Queen.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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2 years

Apparently the Lord President is presiding at the Privy Council, where the new Cabinet is being sworn in by the King. That seems a reasonable excuse, to be fair, given it is her job.

PARLY

@PARLYapp

2 years

The House is suspended because the leader of the House is “unable to be present” until noon

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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5 years

Hang on a second- could this clip just shown on @BBCParliament from 2015 be Chris “Stop the clapping” Bryant? #SpeakerElection @RhonddaBryant

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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5 years

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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2 years

Sunset on the second Elizabethan age. Stunning sky over Piccadilly tonight.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

4 years

Your regular reminder that literally everyone on here already knows when the polls are open and how important it is to vote. Save your tweets for important things like pets at polling stations, groundless speculation about turnout, and mocking pencil conspiracists. #GE2109

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

1 year

“I apologise that due to an unfortunate administrative error, the version sent to be published in a national newspaper contained what I actually thought, instead of just what I thought I could get away with.”

Tom Hamilton

@thhamilton

1 year

We’ve written a letter to The Observer by mistake!

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

4 years

I mean, just Yaaaaaaas! @michellevisage #TeamVisagio

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

4 years

With the greatest of respect to George, let’s not make this same complacent mistake again. Corbyn came dangerously close to forming a Marxist government in 2017. None of us should want continuity Corbyn as HM Opposition.

George Osborne

@George_Osborne

4 years

One thing that every Conservative I know wants for 2020 is for Rebecca Long Bailey to become leader of the Labour Party

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

10 months

When I was Tory education adviser pre-2010, the populist cry of “abolish these Mickey Mouse degrees!” came up periodically. Whether from a tabloid newspaper, a bright spark in the policy unit, the leader’s office, or a frontbench spokesperson, this old chestnut would arise. BUT…

Financial Times

@FT

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Sunak to crack down on ‘poor quality’ university courses

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

2 years

Important notes for today: There are no “keys to Number 10”. The Prime Minister has no seals of office. They don’t literally kiss hands. Those speeches and that lectern are not “on the steps of Number 10”, they’re in the street.

Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

2 years

Also, to pre-empt another pet peeve, speeches are not delivered “on the steps of Number 10”. They are delivered in the middle of the street. Which is actually rather odd, when you think about it.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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4 years

Again, this is a misapprehension by @lewis_goodall . There have been many such equivalent moments. The BBC has often granted such requests, under the terms of this, its editorial guidance. So not exactly a coup.

Lewis Goodall

@lewis_goodall

4 years

Can’t think of an equivalent moment for a Leader of the Opposition getting to formally respond in a broadcast like this. Quite the coup for team Starmer to secure.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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4 years

And as for controversy- Gaitskell used the broadcast to call on the Prime Minister to resign...

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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1 year

Theresa May remains a superb argument for having former PMs in the Commons.

Politics.co.uk

@Politics_co_uk

1 year

"That's one of the best interventions I've ever received" @SKinnock 'stands corrected' as @theresa_may insists that he adjust his timescale for how long the Conservative Party has been 'destroying' relationship with France 🇫🇷 For more Commons clips: ✅

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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11 months

Gandalf in the House! Sir Ian McKellen on the backbenches of the Commons for the Privileges Committee debate. (OK, he's actually in the "Under-Gallery", a special bench for invited visitors)

Kate McCann

@KateEMcCann

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Curveball. Sir Ian McKellen is sat in the Commons chamber watching proceedings with a small pair of binoculars…

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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10 months

When the latest iteration of this “why-oh-why” policy was handed to me from on high to do the boring work of, y’know, checking the facts, there was always a problem: Most of the daft “Mickey mouse degrees” it named turned out to have the best retention and employability rates.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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2 years

I do wish people wouldn't write "historic first" like that - it means some of us have to spend the day researching whether a PM has actually ever been appointed at Balmoral before...

Matt Wilkinson

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2 years

Exclusive in @TheSun The Secret plans for Queen to appoint new Prime Minister at Balmoral in historic first rather than travel south due to ongoing mobility issues. Full story:

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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5 months

@aliceolilly @RhonddaBryant @ConUnit_UCL The Parliament Act (as amended by the Parliament Act). 😆

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

2 years

Larry the Cat emerging from Number 10 precisely as Boris Johnson left Downing Street was quite the moment. @Number10cat @nickeardleybbc

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

4 years

This isn’t to say it isn’t sometimes controversial to grant one- and sometimes the Opposition doesn’t request one. But Hugh Gaitskell’s response to the Suez broadcast was an example of such a broadcast.

First Television Ministerial broadcast - Prime Minister Anthony Eden

27 April 1956

www.bbc.com

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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4 years

Some news: As I come to terms with my first full day in my 40s, delighted to say I have signed a contract with @routledgebooks to adapt my Thesis on the history of the Official Opposition in the UK, and it should be published next year.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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1 year

"In Britain The King is an air force pilot. And in Ukraine today, every air force pilot is a king." - President Zelensky. Wow. That's a brilliant line. Having invoked Churchill earlier, that line was certainly Churchillian.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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6 months

In fact it’s a more substantial claim - every PM since the 19th Century at least has also served in another Cabinet role. Who was the last not to have done? Is there one?

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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9 months

So here it is: I'm delighted to be able to share the cover of my new book, being published next month and available to order now! Thank you so much to the team at @BitebackPub for their superb work on it - and to @ayeshahazarika and @Dannythefink for their lovely endorsements.

Biteback Publishing

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COVER ANNOUNCEMENT📢 The Not Quite Prime Ministers: Leaders of the Opposition 1783–2020 by @nigelfletcher “I loved this book. It’s full of things I didn’t know and needed to know” @Dannythefink “Never dull for a single second” @ayeshahazarika Out soon:

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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4 years

@chrisshipitv A look that says “don’t be impertinent”, more than anything else.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

2 years

As @MichaelLCrick points out, David Butler not only invented the swingometer; he developed the very *concept* of electoral swing. AND first used the term “psephology* in print, as he recalls in this archive clip shown by @newsnight . He then correctly calls the 2017 election.

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While still an undergraduate at New College in 1945, Butler started studying election results in terms of percentages, the first step in developing election science. He also developed the concept of “swing” as a way to measure British election results.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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@Baddiel Portsmouth AFC goalie Arthur Conan Doyle had something of a cultural impact beyond the game.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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2 months

This. Is. Not. How. Tory. Leadership. Elections. Work. Any. More. Honestly, it’s been 25 years since the rules changed, and yet this nonsensical trope surfaces every single time. 🙄

The Telegraph

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🔵 Right-wing Tory MPs are using Penny Mordaunt as a “stalking horse” to oust Rishi Sunak, allies of the Prime Minister have claimed. Read this front page story here 👇

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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1 year

Ah, Murder at the Gallop just finished on Channel 5. Featuring my dancing inspiration- Margaret Rutherford doing the twist. Iconic.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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3 years

@MattChorley 🎥 The War Room (1993) 🎥 Thatcher: The Downing Street Years (1993) 🎥 Yesterday’s Men (1971) 🎥 Labour:The Wilderness Years (1995) 🎥 Out of the Shadows/ We are the Treasury (1997) 🎥 Inside the Commons (and everything else by Michael Cockerell in the last 50 years)

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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4 years

@IainDale No debate.

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2 years

“I don’t suppose you fancy buying some racehorses?”

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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10 months

To his great credit, David Willetts always challenged populist, snobby attacks on courses like media studies and "Golf course management", pointing out they actually had good outcomes. I think he actually made a speech on this point in government, as @nickhillman may remember.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

1 month

Happy Anniversary of the commencement of the Local Government Act 1972, everyone! Many local Councils (and LG statutory provisions) are officially 50 years old today. How are you celebrating? Street party? Baking a two-tier cake? A fun game of “Guess the administrative county”?

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50 years ago today a major reorganisation of local government in England and Wales came into effect, reducing the number of councils in England from 1,245 to 412, and in Wales to 45:

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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11 months

There is a claim in @oliver_wright ’s story today that (prepare yourself for a shock…) Boris Johnson might have: Made a promise he couldn’t keep; misled a close friend; continued insisting it would all be OK; then let someone else break the news that he couldn’t deliver.

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1 year

Hi-res video:

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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2 years

The Accession Council might also have to be swiftly followed by the first Privy Council of the new Reign, in which the new Cabinet ministers appointed this week take their oaths before The King.

Harry Cole

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2 years

Government unable to say who Lord President currently is. Penny M not yet declared privy council president - so technically still Mark Spencer. Plot twist; President presides over the accession council

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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5 years

Some opponents of Brexit need to realise that this is not just “Boris Johnson’s deal”- this is also the EU’s deal, and they are now understandably fed up with those supposed pro-EU MPs who are refusing to back it.

Darren McCaffrey

@darrenmccaffrey

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NEW: @EmmanuelMacron on EXTENSION: Called #Brexit agreement a "good deal that respects EU guidelines" urges British and European Parliaments to approve it. 🇫🇷“I don’t think a new extension should be granted”

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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2 years

Some rather horrible news, which I’ve dreaded posting. Our beautiful cat Setsu was hit and killed by a car last week. He was only 2 years old. I’m heartbroken - in a grim world, he brought us such joy and love. I miss him terribly.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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Bought myself a set of 1929 cigarette cards of “Notable MPs”, featuring some superb caricatures. The Commons of the 20s looks to have been a riot of iconic parliamentary personalities: Baldwin, Chamberlain(x2), Churchill, Astor, Lloyd George, Ramsay Mac, even a Wedgwood Benn.

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2 years

As concern for The Queen grows, it would seem likely now that a Council of State may need to be formed to hold a Privy Council: new Cabinet ministers have yet to be sworn in, which is a legal requirement. Terms of the Regency Act allow for such duties to be delegated:

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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2 years

It is certainly not unprecedented for a PM to be appointed outside of London, outside England, or indeed, outside the UK. Asquith had to travel to the south of France in 1908: King Edward VII was on holiday, and appointed his new Prime Minister at the Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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8 months

@ayeshahazarika Genuinely shocking. We might expect it of Fox, but how can a producer sit in the gallery and allow that to go out without fading him out and yelling at the presenter to stop laughing and give an on-air apology? I fear we know why. This is the content they want.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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2 years

Glad to see so many of you appreciating this brand of pedantic historical snarkiness. Just as some of us are getting jittery about the future of this place, you are a reminder of what makes it so great. 🙏

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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4 years

Just caught up on #Strictly . Not a finalist, but (to paraphrase another of this week’s losers) in the encore @michellevisage clearly won the argument. #Glamazon #TeamVisagio

BBC Strictly ✨

@bbcstrictly

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The #Strictly class of 2019 are back in the Ballroom and better than ever! #StrictlyFinal

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I got my A Level results 25 years ago (😱), so anything I have to say on the subject is now pretty irrelevant. But I unexpectedly got three As (then the top mark) which I’m still proud of, so I’m going to hijack today to brag about it, because we didn’t have social media then.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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It’s been a busy old day for former Tory Prime Ministers: Major at the Garter Service; Cameron at the COViD Inquiry; May in the Commons; Truss at a media conference. Anyone know what the other one is up to?

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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Of course, there is nothing wrong with wanting to demand high standards in HE and challenge courses with poor outcomes, as the government has said it wants to do. But it’s often not the obvious tabloid targets that turn out to be the problem.

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@DAaronovitch @whyoutloud @thetimes I also live in hope that @patrick_kidd will one day be returned to his rightful place on the sketch.

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4 years

Someone once said my silence on Twitter was how they knew I was absolutely furious about something indefensible. I’m off to read a book.

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Seeing a lot of joy and excitement on here about the apparent turmoil in Russia. Personally my enjoyment of Putin’s discomfort is tempered by a degree of alarm at the prospect of the world’s largest nuclear arsenal being up for grabs in a civil war between ultra-nationalists.

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OK, you can stand down everyone. I think @hugovickers has won the battle of the #Barbie social media posts. Behold: Sir Ken, KG. #BarbieMovie #Ken

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2 years

Exquisite timing for the reception tonight marking the centenary of the Carlton Club meeting, which collapsed the government and removed a Tory leader.

James Heale

@JAHeale

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🍽 100 years after the Carlton Club revolt, with the Tory party once again in sulphurous mood, MPs on the 1922 exec are meeting at the same location tonight to celebrate and plot once more

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As the PM and new Cabinet settle into their new offices, I’m doing the same! After five years teaching part-time at @KingsCollegeLon , I’ve gone full-time for the new academic year, and been given a desk in a new building. Speech outside on arrival yesterday, and now to work…

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In what might be a career highlight, I shall be giving a talk to the Greenwich Industrial History Society next week about #DoctorWho - specifically, the location filming in Greenwich of the 1988 story “Silver Nemesis”. You can register to watch online at:

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Middle age is waking up to rain and genuinely saying “well, the garden needs it.”

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2 years

A rather alarming construction of a scaffold at Somerset House today. I’m assuming it’s a film set, unless there’s been a dramatic public policy shift in the field of criminal justice that I’ve missed.

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1 year

The Coronation Chair and the Cosmati pavement on which it will be placed for the #Coronation at @wabbey

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1 year

Given the Twitter outage, I’m concerned we might have missed some important jokes about a major disclosure of private messages happening on St David’s Day. Time for a Leek Inquiry.

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This is rather shocking. The footage in the hall showed Boff, a long-standing elected Conservative and current Chair of the London Assembly, quietly voicing his disagreement. He wasn't violent or disruptive. Yet is physically marched out by heavy-handed security and police.

Josh Gafson

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BREAKING: the person ejected from the Home Sec’s speech was London Assembly member @AndrewBoff . Here’s what he had to say 👇

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Just remembered the #Coronation / #Eurovision crossover from Tuesday, and it’s the GIF we all need in our lives. @RoyalFamily meets @Subwoolferband

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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5 years

Eyes to the right, Mr Deputy Speaker...

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@LindsayHoyle_MP

5 years

Come on England

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@adamboultonTABB Remembering Srebrenica

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@DPJHodges You’re crediting her with powers of self-reflection which have not been notably in evidence thus far.

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2 years

Spending a lovely day (in between rain showers) at Windsor on a tour of Frogmore House and gardens in aid of @guidedogs . And especially delighted to bump into the fabulous Ingrid Seward- @RoyalBiographer - and the @MajestyMagazine team!

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Been to have a look at the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree- and to be fair, it’s not as bad as some of the pictures earlier made it seem.

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

2 years

It is rather amusing to see the many different ways people are getting their 1922 facts wrong. No, it isn’t the centenary of the 1922 Committee. No, the 1922 committee wasn’t named after this meeting. The committee was formed in 1923, by Tory MPs elected at the 1922 election.

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@nigelfletcher

2 years

If, as @IainDale speculates here, Penny ends up as PM, worth remembering that she promised, at the recent @forthemanypod live event, to make an ennobled Lord Dale her Secretary of State for Transport. Highways Agency beware…

Iain Dale ⚒️🇺🇦.🇮🇱.🇬🇬

@IainDale

2 years

I remember in 1975 the Heath government tried to throw Margaret Thatcher under a bus and put her up against Denis Healey in a Finance Bill debate. She wiped the floor with him, and a few days later Tory MPs voted for her to be their next leader,

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As we wait to see the cortège reach St George’s Chapel, here is Queen Victoria’s coffin being carried up the steps in 1901.

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@nigelfletcher

2 years

I am truly honoured to be appointed to the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives, the statutory body which advises the Government on public record releases and national archives. As an historian & keen user of @UkNatArchives I’m very excited!

Dr Nigel Fletcher, Sir David Natzler and Jonathan Scherbel-Ball have been appointed as Members of...

The Secretary of State has appointed Dr Nigel Fletcher, Sir David Natzler and Jonathan Scherbel-Ball as Members of the Advisory Council for National Records and Archives for four year terms, from 17...

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

4 years

For those who heard my question to @IainDale and @Jacqui_Smith1 on the @forthemanypod , this is the dilemma I’m talking about... #catsonkeyboards

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@nigelfletcher

1 year

This new protocol of Mr Speaker and the Lord Speaker greeting honoured guests on the steps of Speaker's House for a photocall is rather a nice ceremonial touch. #Zelensky

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@nigelfletcher

2 years

He wanted no fuss- the producers had other ideas… Happy birthday @IainDale !

Good Morning Britain

@GMB

2 years

Happy 60th birthday @IainDale ! 🥳 What better way to celebrate, then on Good Morning Britain! 😁

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

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4 years

It is, I note, the time of year when the state of provincial transport mysteriously rockets up the media agenda...

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Dr Nigel Fletcher

@nigelfletcher

4 years

Hello to all the new followers I seem to have acquired since my tweet correcting a Tory MP on a point of historical precedent. For balance, could some Labour, SNP and Lib Dem MPs please make some similar errors on arcane points of political and constitutional practice? Thanks.

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In the spirit of promoting openness about #mentalhealth : I’ve suffered a bit of a setback recently with the return of rather nasty anxiety, after a number of years of being much better. It’s deeply frustrating. Positive vibes appreciated. 😕

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