Mark Fox 🇬🇧

[Mark Fox 🇬🇧 @MarkFoxNews]

Am pleased to have contributed the chapter on the first Duke of Marlborough to @iaindale ‘s brilliant new book The Generals. The Duke is without doubt Britain’s greatest general.

[Mark Fox 🇬🇧 @MarkFoxNews]

As an Honoray officer in the RNR I am proud to be associated with and support those who serve in the front line. #ArmedForcesWeek

[Iain Dale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 ⚒️ @IainDale]

Contrary to what you are led to believe, this country is not ungovernable. Six times in our political history there have been 6 or more prime ministers within 10 years.

1754-64 - 6
1801-11 - 6
1827-37 - 8
1858-68 - 6
1885-95 - 7
1922-32 - 6

But none since then.

[Mark Fox 🇬🇧 @MarkFoxNews]

William Hague was warned this was a bad idea at the time - I know because I was the one who warned him.

‘Many of us who introduced a vote for party members in leadership elections, as I did in the Conservative Party, have since regretted it…. .’

https://t.co/D7xhLNmPE0

[Mark Fox 🇬🇧 @MarkFoxNews]

Brexit imbued voters with the fantasy that they can escape hard choices. It increasingly looks like they will need a Thatcher-style shaking to awaken them.
https://t.co/J6oh96DksX

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

That this despicable individual was knighted shames our country.

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Today is the Feast of St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More, England's most glorious Martyrs.
Orate pro nobis

[Navy Lookout @NavyLookout]

.@HMS_Str_Castle inbound to Balaena Birkenhead on the Mersey today for maintenance.

Via: DCFH Aviation

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham beats Nigel Farage on every characteristic of a leader except personality according to a new poll

[Katya Adler @BBCkatyaadler]

It’s 10 years since the UK’s Brexit vote and the EU will loom large in the in-tray of the UK’s next PM👇https://t.co/tWv2S565S8

[Adam Boulton @adamboultonTABB]

Burnham was an MP for 15 years and held 3 Cabinet posts in government as well as 3 terms as Greater Manchester’s Mayor. A rather more extensive political apprenticeship than Sir Keir.

[Mark Fox 🇬🇧 @MarkFoxNews]

@DLidington not if it was in a General Election manifesto - which is where these things should be. We need to put Parliament’s sovereignty back at the heart of our politics. Mrs Thatcher and Clement Attlee were both right about the perniciousness of referendums.

[David Lidington @DLidington]

@AndrewDuffEU I think it would be politically impossible for even the most ardent pro-EU PM to take us back into the EU without a referendum.

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

The Tories have crowned Rishi Sunak without him saying a word about what he would do as PM. He has no mandate, no answers and no ideas. Nobody voted for this.

The public deserve their say on Britain’s future through a General Election. It’s time for a fresh start with Labour.

[Mark Fox 🇬🇧 @MarkFoxNews]

One good thing @AndyBurnhamGM could do from the start of his Premiereship is to drastically cut the number of SPADs in No 10 & across Whitehall. An expensive and unaccountable group who provide a wedge not a bridge between Ministers & civil servants. It’s time to ditch the lot.

[Mark Fox 🇬🇧 @MarkFoxNews]

No we don’t and no it’s not.

British politics should be reduced to West Wingery.

We have a different process, different history, different politics.

Andy Burnham has had plenty of time to prepare. Now he needs to get on with it.

[Jimmy McLoughlin 🐑 @jimmym]

American Presidents get 72 days to prepare for a transition period.

We give our PMs 72 hours, it’s frankly bonkers.

Too many key, big decisions are made by PMe who have just come off the campaign trail

We should instigate a proper transitional period.

[Arminka Helic @arminkahelic]

Whatever our politics, the Prime Minister has conducted himself with decency to the very end. Whoever succeeds him would do well to remember that character matters and that decency is the foundation of public service. @10DowningStreet

[Royal Navy @RoyalNavy]

#ArmedForcesWeek is here!

Throughout the country, communities will be coming together this week to say thank you to our Armed Forces.

As the world is becoming more unpredictable, we are thankful for their continuous support and relentless work to keep us safe every day.

[The Spectator @spectator]

It's possible, though not popular, to feel a bat-squeak of sympathy for Sir Keir Starmer on a human level these days. It can't be much fun being him.

It's also possible, though not popular, to hold in your head at the same time the ideas that a) he's been a pretty useless Prime Minister and b) he isn't an actual monster. He has, where he has made any decisions, made terrible decisions.

He has led from the back, thrown his colleagues merrily under a whole succession of Number 37s when things have gone wrong, switched tack at the first whiff of cordite, been serially economical with the truth and stubborn in his refusal to recognise reality. None of this redounds to his credit.

But he isn't just disliked or disapproved of. He is actively, fiercely, loathed.

✍️ Sam Leith

Article | https://t.co/riys9CdkQ5 | @questingvole

[Mark Fox 🇬🇧 @MarkFoxNews]

Am pleased to have contributed the chapter on the first Duke of Marlborough to @iaindale ‘s brilliant new book The Generals. The Duke is without doubt Britain’s greatest general.

[Mark Fox 🇬🇧 @MarkFoxNews]

A really silly idea. We all remember the scale of the last taxpayer funded bank bailout. Never again.

Tory plan to scrap bank ring-fencing rules 'puts economy at risk'.
https://t.co/uN1qsrBzw1

[John Slinger MP @JohnSlinger]

There is a human being at the heart of this story, and that matters more than the story. Keir Starmer put the country first at the G7 last week, then went straight back to the day job. He walks towards the problems, not away. We owe him the decency of remembering that.