John Deben

Climate Change champion. Former Minister Agriculture & Secretary of State for Environment. Chairman Climate Change Committee. British subject, European citizen.

[John Deben @lorddeben]

Absolutely right. US behaving unacceptably.

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

Well said @benjaminmarlow in Sunday Tel. What a scandal America’s pursuit of Mike Lynch is.

[Charles Tannock @CharlesTannock]

Utter madness. Don't remember this Brexiteer promise on the side of the bus!

[John Deben @lorddeben]

No Andrea you’re not doing your duty as an MP which is to use your judgement to do the best for your constituents. Destroying their future, reducing their influence, and removing their opportunities can’t be excused by citing a vote 3 years ago. You’re an MP not a cypher

[Dame Andrea Jenkyns DBE 🇬🇧 @andreajenkyns]

Well maybe you should stand up for the public who won the referendum and respect the result. I am standing up and ensuring they have a voice in Parliament. #YourConstituencyVotedToLeave!

[John Deben @lorddeben]

No. But he’s right as usual. Brexit is a damaging self-inflicted disaster and its supporters will not be forgiven as those least able to bear it discover what they have done were we to leave the EU

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

Putting. Full. Stops. Between. Words. Doesn’t. Make. Your. Argument. Stronger.

[Jon Snow @jonsnowC4]

Institute of Directors report One in Three firms plan to move abroad in survey of their 1,200 Members...amid fears of hard Brexit....

[John Deben @lorddeben]

It is a common thread with Brexiteers. They rely on prejudice, other people’s comments, gut instincts, popular misconceptions, the Sun - anything except proper research, reading documents, and listening to evidence

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

The worst thing about this is not even that Dominic Raab hasn't bothered to read the whole 35 page Good Friday Agreement he threatens to undermine, it's that he cannot see why this is a problem. Shameless chancers like him are dragging our great country backwards.

[Colin Tassell #PR #GTTO @ColinTassell]

Mark Francois, who tells Remainers to “suck it up” claimed £7.87 on ice cream, £4.36 on bags of sweets, £3.24 on Kit Kats, £2.68 on Mars bars, £1.28 on Snickers bars, and 96p on wine gums. On another visit, he spent £5.04 on Mars bars, £3.24 on Kit Kats and £2.42 on a Pot Noodle.

[Charles Tannock @CharlesTannock]

All Remainers in the nation are proud of the courage and dedication of Madeleina who speaks for UK's Remainer youth & for us oldies the indefatigable Stephen Bray outside Parliament. History will remember their true British internationalist spirit.

[John Deben @lorddeben]

Whatever your view of Scot Nats, it’s difficult to believe the UK Government is busy drumming up business and trade when they’re trying to ditch our membership of the world’s largest trading community and have produced no signs of replacement deals with anyone else

[John Deben @lorddeben]

It is difficult to take Nadine Dories seriously. She doesn’t appear to have any strong links with reality yet she suggests we should prefer her opinions over those of almost every major business leader, economist, and environmentalist. What’s got into her?

[Bakehouse Cottage aka Helen #FBPE @Bakehouse2016]

Does Nadine Dorries have any concept of the reality of the Rest of the World?
Has she ever engaged at street level with any the countries that constitute the majority of the world outside of the 1st World?
They're poor, Ms Dorries. Terribly poor. They can't afford stuff.
#peston

[Mike Gapes ⚒🇺🇦🇬🇧 @MikeGapes]

Pleased to see that I’ve annoyed the Trots Stalinists and Antisemites on this thread. Truth hurts doesn’t it ? And as regards the deselection threats bring it on !

[John Deben @lorddeben]

Mrs May really has to include Parliament into her plans. She has to accept there is no way ‘no deal’ will be supported so she needs to ask for time to work out what can be delivered. Otherwise the people’s vote is only option. Using ‘no deal’ as a threat won’t work.

[Michael Warhurst mwarhurst.bsky.social @mwarhurst]

“This new Malthouse doctrine is really the old hardline Brexit delusions in shinier shoes. It is the bluff that Britain holds all the cards, and that if we show enough contempt for treaties and economic logic, Brussels will be intimidated into granting favours…”

[John Deben @lorddeben]

They’ve already shown great flexibility. It’s we who’ve had the red lines: we who’ve asked for all the advantages of membership without reciprocity: we who’ve been rude and rigid: and we who’ve sought to blame the EU for our own stupidity and ignorance.

[Liz Truss @trussliz]

Great we have a way forward that commands the support of the Commons. Now EU need to show flexibility. #brexit #Deal

[John Deben @lorddeben]

Simply because we would have to renegotiate all our trade agreements. Our lorries would no longer have free access across EU borders. Our EU suppliers’ lorries would wait in queues to get here and our common agreements on medical standards wouldn’t operate. Just get real JH-B

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

@ataraxite @DrJMGF Why wouldn’t we be able to get drugs after we leave the EU?

[John Deben @lorddeben]

I fear that if Ms Mordaunt has said this she is wrong. Rich countries have a moral responsibility to help the poor from public funds and to ensure they are spent wisely. Sadly, if we follow Ms Mordaunt’s views on Brexit we’ll have less money and less influence to help

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

New from Cabinet:

Penny Mordaunt gave a presentation on foreign aid in which she said 0.7% in current form is 'unsustainable'.

She argued that Dfid needed to move from being a spending department to a fundraising one and be less reliant on public purse

[Robert Peston @Peston]

Ken Clarke savage on his own government: “if this shambles goes on much longer I hate to think where populism and extremism will take us next in this democracy”

[Simon Coveney @simoncoveney]

Backstop was agreed by UK/EU as the insurance policy to avoid a hard border in all scenarios. We hope it will never be used, or be replaced quickly by a future relationship agreement. But it is necessary and tonight’s developments at Westminster do nothing to change this. #Brexit

[Heidi Allen @heidiallen75]

My votes tonight will be in the best interests of my constituents and my country. I was elected to safeguard their security and economic wellbeing and nothing that falls short of that will do.

[John Deben @lorddeben]

Well he’s at odds with whole of food and drink industry. We’re clear that we can’t properly service retailers or leisure businesses. Within days of a no-deal of Brexit shops will be rationing products, deliveries will be interrupted, and fresh food will be in short supply.

[Brexitshambles @brexit_sham]

Here's Tim Martin dismissing all fears just now; there's going to be no delays at the ports, food prices in the shops will fall and he's going to buy his coffee from India....panic over, carry on Brexit!