Mark Storer

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[Alex Burghart @alexburghart]

PR would be an unmitigated disaster …

…. as Tony Benn once so eloquently explained

[Oscar 🌐 @Tweets_of_Oscar]

Jesus Christ what a diagnosis

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

Imagine my shock

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

I was already pessimistic about a Burnham premiership. Then I read his AMA answers. Ye gods.

[Mark Storer @Mark_Storer86]

Hopeless! 🤦🏻

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Seeing as though Andy Burnham prefers answering softball questions on Reddit instead of facing real scrutiny from the Press, I’m asking a question of my own on his AMA.

It’s time get serious @andyburnham. Hold a proper press conference, and answer some real questions.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

I’m starting to worry he doesn’t really know what he’s talking about. And has no time to learn. The price of water and electricity is already controlled by the state.

[alexmassie @alexmassie]

Time to reduce your already low expectations.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Andy Burnham should have a one-hour Ask Me Anything: with Andrew Neil.

A Times Radio interview with him would be a pretty robust test for a would-be PM.

[Franklin @FranklinVH2]

We spent nearly 20 years and OVER TEN BILLION POUNDS failing to deliver what Palantir has done in 2 years on ~£100mn so far.

The British State: where you fail upwards and succeed downwards

[Shashank Joshi @shashj]

What a bright blazing red flag.

Mr Burnham is reviewing the Government’s overall artificial intelligence strategy, and an aide said he believed “unfettered tech boosterism” was turning off voters. https://t.co/tIpobR90V3

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

This is absurd. Palantir tech saves lives.

If the NHS can’t interpret its own data well it will continue to deliver substandard care.

In Florida, Palantir software has more than halved sepsis deaths. Down 68%. It spots trends early that humans can’t. Abandoning that for ideological reasons is *insane*.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Rare copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives https://t.co/n11ikiNKI8

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

NEW: The Times has established that Nigel Farage and his partner own at least five homes spanning Surrey, Essex and Kent.

All but one were bought with cash since 2000. Farage described himself as "skint" in 2017.

https://t.co/dwVOv9TQvs

[alexmassie @alexmassie]

Really difficult to think of a greater recent example than this of the government shirking its responsibilities.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Well who wudda thunk it?! The Starmer-Reeves defence spending plan assumes £10 billion in defence ‘efficiencies’/savings — and leaves Andy Burnham to find a further £5 billion for defence in the next Budget for the figures to add up. Starmer-Reeves — shysters til the very end.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

This is brilliant from Andrew Neil tearing through the BS on Burnham’s ridiculous “No 10 in the North”:

“He’s gone to Manchester to deliver this speech, to show that London doesn’t dominate everything and that he’s going to spread power around the country. But he’s not going to take questions because he’s got to get back to London, which is the capital and where the power is. It’s all performative nonsense.”

Says it all. Can’t face questions up North because he’s desperate to bolt back down South. The hypocrisy is unreal.

Neil slammed it as purely symbolic, admitted everything will still run through London, and finished by saying Burnham needs to “grow up” because jumping from Manchester mayor to PM is a totally different job.

Burnham ducks questions at every turn. He’s hiding from scrutiny for a reason. I’d love to see him sit down with @afneil, but we all know that will never happen. His premiership would be finished before it even started!

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

Andrew Neil warns Andy Burnham: shifting power northwards is an expensive way to create government jobs without any real growth.

"It just means more government."

@afneil

[alexmassie @alexmassie]

This is tremendous. Harsh but terrific. 🫡👏

[Aaron Rankin @Aaron_R_Rankin]

So Labour are going to defeat the point of ISA’s because Torsten Bell considers saving your own money is theft

We have a very good retail savings & investment environment in the UK, it wouldn’t take much to undo that & utterly collapse the industry in the process