Guy Opperman

Optimist. Father.
Ex jockey, lawyer, Hexham MP & Minister.
Brain tumour survivor and campaigner.
Now consulting, chairing and charity work.

[Guy Opperman @GuyOpperman]

Mega change in 1 year
2025 v How it’s going ⬇️
❤️😍 Marina x

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

The strongest section of Kemi Badenoch's speech so far:

"To those who say “unite the right”... we are not uniting with THAT. I don’t want to live in a country run by people who threaten journalists, call veterans traitors and debate whether my mixed-race children are English.

"I don’t want to explain to my son, when we’re watching our brilliant England team play football, that some people don’t think our black players are English.

"I remember back in the day when Ian Wright and John Barnes were playing - nobody was questioning whether they were English. We certainly didn’t have sitting MPs questioning whether they were English.

"We must not let these people take us backwards. That is not the country we are. I don’t know whether you’ve noticed, but I am black. I am British. I’m proud of my country, I’m proud of our history."

[Guy Opperman @GuyOpperman]

This is very impressive ⬇️🙏

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

https://t.co/hNqfdFCQUH

[Guy Opperman @GuyOpperman]

I confess to liking (and supporting/ drinking in) warm ale 🍺, pubs, cricket 🏏& all labradors 🐕.

[Guy Opperman @GuyOpperman]

Probably good news my dog is a fox red Labrador …

[Calgie @christiancalgie]

🚨 EXCL: Labour minister claims that visions of Britain based on warm ale, pubs, and black labradors are a 'far-Right' fantasy that 'never really existed’

https://t.co/4IRiCv0TZo

[Guy Opperman @GuyOpperman]

#Northumberland dawn - great way to start the day 🏇

[Guy Opperman @GuyOpperman]

Visit #Northumberland ⬇️

[N'land National Park @NlandNP]

🌄 Take in this view

Taken by one of our rangers while carrying out repairs on the Pennine Way path.
Photo taken from Hazely Law near Alwinton.

[Guy Opperman @GuyOpperman]

👀👀

[LBC @LBC]

‘A tax and spend government with better TikTok’

Andy Haldane was chief economist at the Bank of England and has been advising Andy Burnham. He says the Prime Minister's financial credibility is at risk.

[Guy Opperman @GuyOpperman]

Listen and enjoy ⬇️
One of the great @HouseofCommons speeches and v v funny

[Liberite 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @brownliberite]

My favourite Parliamentarian question - The "President of Europe" Speech (sometime during the Brown years)

[James Price @jamespriceglos]

The Tory Shadow Chancellor, @griffitha, has more private sector experience than the entire Labour Cabinet….combined.

Wild.

[Guy Opperman @GuyOpperman]

This is a great campaign⬇️

Very clear that summer and Saturday jobs are increasingly hard to get

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

My Shadow Cabinet had more business experience before they turned 18 than Andy Burnham’s front bench does today.

Why won’t Labour lift burdensome restrictions that are killing summer jobs?

Conservatives have a plan to save the summer job… then every young person can be more qualified than the Burnham Cabinet.

[Guy Opperman @GuyOpperman]

@RobertNForsythe Oh no … so sorry for your loss Fiona, and all the family

[Guy Opperman @GuyOpperman]

6 years since we lost the twins.
Went to see them with Zola, and Marina, who is now 2.

We never forget the past …but onwards and upwards 🙏

[Guy Opperman @GuyOpperman]

@PrudhoeNland I think you will pass! 😂
Say hi to the leadership team

[Guy Opperman @GuyOpperman]

It is fair to say ministers talk about problems all the time with officials, colleagues, think tanks, voters etc
The test of government is can you fix these problems both in theory and then in practice.

A successful example is @michaelgove reform of education 2010-2014. 2/

[Guy Opperman @GuyOpperman]

Genuinely surprised at this⬇️
12 years experience of being in government teaches you that
1. Government knows that each separate department has literally 10s of problems
2. Ministers / PMs job ultimately is to find solutions & then sell them to Parliament & the wider country 1/

[John Rentoul @JohnRentoul]

Yvette Cooper being quite rude about Keir Starmer's governing style in interview with George Osborne, on his podcast

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

Archie Goodburn has made an emotional plea to the prime minister.

The Scottish 50m breaststroke record holder was diagnosed with brain cancer two years ago.

[Henry Tapper @henryhtapper]

From today a CDC master trust can pay a wage in retirement. https://t.co/Rq6wI9dUU8 A decade in the making CDC workplace pensions are here. They should provide a retirement wage for millions

[Guy Opperman @GuyOpperman]

“This life is not a rehearsal.” ⬇️🙏
@mattforde optimism is infectious ✅
If you have not seen his show live do so!

[Matt Forde @mattforde]

Being alive is great isn’t it

[Ben Houchen @BenHouchen]

So devolution means getting people's taxes to spend but not being allowed to give it back to them 🤷‍♂️

Last time I spoke to the PM, devolution was about whitehall not dictating what areas can or can’t do.

Doesn’t sound much like devolution to me? Just an excuse for a tax grab