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[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

Conventional wisdom says that leaving the European Union has harmed the British economy.

Listen to almost any Brexit debate – over the airwaves or on the professional conference circuit – and it’s invariably taken for granted being outside the EU has done serious economic damage.

Now we're in June, and as the 23rd approaches – the ten-year anniversary of that hotly-contested, era-defining referendum – this message will be rammed home again and again.

But it simply isn’t true.

My latest "Economic Agenda" column in @Telegraph

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https://t.co/3x1C903R8n

[Matt Casey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 @MattCas04807118]

So apart from trying to give away the Chagos islands.
Recognising Palestine.
13 ministerial resignations.
Showing full confidence in Morgan McSweeney, Peter Mandelson, Sue Gray and Lord Ali.
Blaming the far right for an island of strangers.
16 Policy U turns and rising.
Having no operable warships.
Not smashing the gangs.
Approving a huge Chinese embassy in London.
Spending 23 seconds laying a wreath in Southport only to rush back to a drinks party.
Appointing an anti Muslim hostility tsar.
Raising income tax.
Raising inheritance tax.
Raising national insurance.
Raising capital gains tax, Raising council tax.
Raising value added tax.
Raising mansion tax.
Increasing welfare spending and the minimum wage whilst freezing tax allowances.
Scrapping jury trials.
The only boat he has stopped is HMS dragon from crossing the channel.

What has Starmer really achieved apart from breakfast clubs and the decay of our country?

[Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com]

If you want to understand why Keir Starmer is so determined to crack down on 𝕏, look no further than the community notes…

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

For too long, the debate about how to provide the energy that UK firms, households and people need to even survive – let alone prosper and thrive – has been ridiculously one-sided.

It's been driven by emotions, cowardly political posturing and groupthink, rather than hard facts.

So chapeau to @ColinBrazierTV @alexmaccaroon @OutpostStudios this well-produced and thoughtful 10-minute film.

Well worth watching

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[Crewkerne Gazette @CrewkerneGaz]

Once his mentor and ally, Peter Mandelson now finds himself at odds with Keir Starmer, but as Mandelson’s Jeffrey Epstein scandal rages on, what does it mean for Keir and the government…

or are they all now Islands in the Epstein?

{satire}

[philip a webb @QuitekeyWebb]

@hippyygoat @GretaThunberg Pathetic

[Based Jessica @RealJessica]

A coal-fired power plant in China's Sichuan province.

China now emits more CO2 than the USA, Europe, Canada, Japan and South Korea combined.

Meanwhile, Europe is regulating their manufacturing out of business to "save the planet". It is all ridiculous. They close their factories in Europe, move to China, then pay for the ocean shipping to transport the finished products to Europe ... that is their solution? How does that make any sense?

All they are doing is transferring their wealth to China and making everyone in Europe and the USA poor. Bring back manufacturing to Europe and the USA. Stop this insanity.

[philip a webb @QuitekeyWebb]

@UKStopTrump @ZoeJardiniere Pathetic

[philip a webb @QuitekeyWebb]

@jdpoc Very similar to labour then .

[philip a webb @QuitekeyWebb]

@Lee230781 @terrychristian The economy was in such a good shape after the thatcher & major government’s ,
Investment into the country was poring in.
Even you could have been chancellor after that with your minuscule brain. Do you know?

[philip a webb @QuitekeyWebb]

@brizy83 @terrychristian I wonder what happened in 2008?
And didn’t that cause the world recession after that

[philip a webb @QuitekeyWebb]

@petersowhite @reformedgammon @terrychristian They were able to do that because they inherited an economy lean fit & booming from the Tory’s.

[philip a webb @QuitekeyWebb]

@reformedgammon @terrychristian You forget what the state of the country was in when thatcher took office, 3 day week , bailed out by the IMF.
Probably we will be going to the IMF again soon with the clowns who’s running the country now.

[philip a webb @QuitekeyWebb]

@DaleVince I’m thinking of moving bank, HSBC it is then , thanks

[philip a webb @QuitekeyWebb]

@jdpoc Very similar to you then

[philip a webb @QuitekeyWebb]

@BLAIMGame Revolutionary champagne socialists elite party

[philip a webb @QuitekeyWebb]

@McdowallRose @StonelawLtd @DamianLow3 Not true, look at the the economy in 97