Keith Simpson

Retired Conservative MP for Broadland, military historian and book reviewer (Normal for Norfolk)

[FT UK Politics @ftukpolitics]

Ministers explore High Court shake-up in efficiency drive https://t.co/tm5Ab2XgxL

[Chris Ship @chrisshipitv]

Who is the ‘A’ in the email to Ghislaine Maxwell asking for ‘inappropriate friends’?
The latest Epstein releases include email from 2002 which says has been written from Balmoral…
https://t.co/fJizQdiLzG

[Keith Simpson @KeithSimpsonNFN]

@IainDale My hand has looked like that here in the N and N for a month!

[Keith Simpson @KeithSimpsonNFN]

@Mofoman360 NO

[Keith Simpson @KeithSimpsonNFN]

So Bojó has lost the confidence of forty per cent of his MPs - he has survived but is in the politically terminal ward - this drama is yet to conclude#GameofThrones

[Keith Simpson @KeithSimpsonNFN]

So Boris says it will take a panzer division to get him out of No 10 - actually it will be a majority of Tory MPs with a vote of no confidence.#DownfallRevisited

[Keith Simpson @KeithSimpsonNFN]

@KevanJonesMP Kevan, Lovely view - Mrs S and I are on a luxury cruise and will see in the New Year with amazing fireworks at Funchal - sorry to see that Boris is in trouble ho,ho,ho! Happy New Year to you and your family. Keith

[Keith Simpson @KeithSimpsonNFN]

So the Trussett is to be the lead negotiator with the EU - quite something for a remainer but then she has moved cat like from being left wing Liberal to an ardent Thatcherite.#Talleyrand

[Keith Simpson @KeithSimpsonNFN]

The Trussett believes that being Foreign Secretary is all about photo opportunities - she was just the same when a new MP. A long way from the time she was an ardent Liberal ho,ho,ho!!#duckingandweaving

[Keith Simpson @KeithSimpsonNFN]

Oh dear - the Conservative away day in the New Year brings back awful memories of those I attended - many colleagues will be absent on second jobs or skiing#loveisland

[Keith Simpson @KeithSimpsonNFN]

I’m afraid recent events have proved my mantra that “Boris will always let you down.” #eatingcakes

[Keith Simpson @KeithSimpsonNFN]

Very pleased that my old friend Richard Benyon has been recalled to the colours as a Defra minister in the Lords - he provides bottom to the Bojo regime.#CokeofHolkham

[Keith Simpson @KeithSimpsonNFN]

“Send a gunboat!” Bojo now sees himself as a second Palmerston in more ways than one - good job it isn’t an election ploy!#BarnardCastleRevisited

[Keith Simpson @KeithSimpsonNFN]

Whose bright idea was it to send out the Trussette to defend Bono’s spending on the No10 flat? Admits he only paid up after a donor had been involved.#Whatacockup

[Keith Simpson @KeithSimpsonNFN]

To misquote Oscar Wilde commenting on the death of Little Nell “One must have a heart of stone to learn of the departure of Cummings from No10 without laughing.”#CharlesDickens

[Keith Simpson @KeithSimpsonNFN]

So Chris Grayling has resigned from the Intelligence and Security Cmttee having failed to be elected as Chairman. Now Boris will have to find a substitute - this time go for someone who has the experience and wants to do it.#CaptainReynaud

[Keith Simpson @KeithSimpsonNFN]

Order, counter-order, disorder - knickers on, knickers off - the Boris government are a complete shower!#Uturnsthenewpolicy

[Keith Simpson @KeithSimpsonNFN]

Every few weeks some overpaid teenager in No10 comes up with a different slogan in HMGs fight against the Coronavirus - suspect the next one will be “hands, knees and boomps-a-daisy.”#MinistryofInformation

[Keith Simpson @KeithSimpsonNFN]

I assume that it is a latrine rumour circulating around the Whitehall bazaars that Nigel Farage will be appointed as the new government spokesman? Should make press briefings lively and put the fear of the Almighty up Cabinet ministers.#Chaostheory

[Keith Simpson @KeithSimpsonNFN]

Pleased to support the launch of the One Nation group within the Conservative Party who appear to have a lot of support from new intake of MPs. Hard struggle to influence Boris/Cummings regime - need for them to develop good policies and be ruthless.#OldSweat