Emily Harris

Researcher & Speechwriter 🤓 Obsessed with pretty buildings 🏡 All views my own, obvs

[Emily Harris @EmilyV_Harris]

A good piece from @boys_nicholas on what Victorian Britain got right on building at scale, with ambition and beauty. @BuildForBritain

https://t.co/vnP8wvEyuD

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Lib Dems are proposing giving every household a discount on a basic amount of energy use

They claim it will cost £3 billion

[Lord Hanson of Flint Labour Peer & Minister @RTHondavehanson]

In a corner of parliament at the far end of the Royal gallery a box lies permantly open containing sand from all five Normandy beaches -a reminder to both houses of the sacrifice & the cause of freedom fought for by brave service people on DDay June 6 th 1944. #DDay

[Royal Marines @RoyalMarines]

1/2 Our thoughts are with the families, friends, and comrades of Lt Cdr Chris Gayson, Lt Lily-Mae Fisher and PO Owen Green, who died when their helicopter crashed in Devon.

Cherished members of the Commando Helicopter Force, all three will never be forgotten.

[Alex Burghart @alexburghart]

@JAHeale How come they are firing cannon? It’s meant to be 1206

[Emily Harris @EmilyV_Harris]

“Birthing people” 🫪

You mean WOMEN. Why is basic biology difficult to understand.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

I have written to the Health Secretary to call for a change in miscarriage care.

Families shouldn't have to endure repeated loss before accessing care, tests and treatments that could prevent another miscarriage.

It’s time we consider a more compassionate approach - Tommy’s Graded Model offers a hopeful way forward.

@tommys

[LGA Conservatives @LGACons]

🗣️Many thanks to Sir James Cleverly MP @JamesCleverly, Shadow Secretary of State for Local Government, for being in the LGA today to speak to Councillors about the Conservative vision for local government👇👇👇

[Deborah Haynes @haynesdeborah]

I heard a lovely anecdote today about Sir Alex Younger, the former head of MI6, who has died at the age of 62.
Around the time the James Bond film “Spectre” was coming out, there was a private viewing at MI6’s HQ in Vauxhall with some of the production team and actors, including Ralph Fiennes.
Alex Younger compared the event, which included an opportunity for members of the audience (who were largely real life spies) to quiz the actors and producers.
One person asked Ralph Fiennes: Who was your favourite Bond?
He gave an answer about how they were all good, but his favourite was Daniel Craig. The rest of the team said similar.
Then Alex threw the question back to the person in the audience who had posed it, asking them who their favourite Bond was.
But before this person had time to give an answer, someone else in the audience shouted out: “You, sir!”

The individual (a former diplomat) who shared this story with me said it was one of so many examples of how admired, liked and respected Alex was by his colleagues.

“He was one of the best chiefs”.

[Rachel Maclean @redditchrache]

This is the man who called me transphobic for pointing out that he was a bloke in a wig. He wasted police time reporting me for a non crime hate incident. The local Labour Party held a protest in town about me.

Absolutely ridiculous.

He is a bloke in a wig.

[Emily Harris @EmilyV_Harris]

The country owes a huge debt of gratitude to Sir Alex Younger. A titan in his field, whose foreign policy insights I always found fascinating. A life of extraordinary service.

https://t.co/nqfJaaQhVb

[Emily Harris @EmilyV_Harris]

Such fun watching Starmer read all of his pre-written answers to MPs each Wednesday. #PMQs

[Peter Stone @LondonStone]

This building in Artillery Lane at Spitalfields dates from the 1720s. The shopfront was added in about 1756, making it one of the oldest in London.

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

The police response to the murder of Henry Nowak is the latest example of public servants failing to do the right thing out of fear of doing the wrong thing.

https://t.co/X51jkweDEy

[Emily Harris @EmilyV_Harris]

The catastrophic failure by Khan on housebuilding continues. Londoners constantly sat without hope. @BuildForBritain

https://t.co/WpyRlvOOpv

[Dr Greg Roberts @D_Profundis]

The grand staircase at the Foreign Office in Whitehall is a thing of beauty to behold

[Emily Harris @EmilyV_Harris]

Surrounded by Victorian and Edwardian architecture, someone looked at this part of the city and thought: “Yes, let’s build a giant beige tiled bunker.”

We need to be bolder about replacing failed urban environments. @createstreets @BuildForBritain

[Carl 📷 @carl_thompson70]

Manchester Arndale.
To the best of my knowledge, none of the planners were prosecuted.

[Emily Harris @EmilyV_Harris]

Footage of Harry Nowak is harrowing beyond belief. I don’t think I’ve ever seen something so distressing.

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

"I've been stabbed"
"I don't think you have, mate"

Words that should live in infamy

[Emily Harris @EmilyV_Harris]

@JulieTa05742189 Wonderful news. Congratulations! X

[Emily Harris @EmilyV_Harris]

Starmer's most senior legal adviser is **still** in post. A man who spearheaded a "witch hunt" against our heroic troops.

@NJ_Timothy rightly referred him to the Bar Standards Board.

Where does this madness end?

[Brian Wood MC @BrianWoodMC]

Only a few understand what it takes to fight your way out of an ambush and finish the job in the trenches. That reality isn’t theoretical—it’s lived. Which is why watching the narrative get twisted from a distance feels not just wrong, but absurd.

[Emily Harris @EmilyV_Harris]

Hermer spearheaded a "witch hunt" against our heroic troops. The evidence is there.

My father has served. He had friends that never came back, friends traumatised and friends that sadly took their own life. Military life is tough beyond belief.

Why is this man still in post?

[Emily Harris @EmilyV_Harris]

So kids can’t have a chat with strangers on games but they can on social media. Make that make sense?

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Government is considering a ban on children having conversations with strangers on gaming platforms like Roblox, Fortnite, Discord and Minecraft