Stewart Logan

[Stewart Logan @StewartLog1967]

@ShippersUnbound Too little too late - easy to say this when resigning but where was he on the Commons Legacy Bill
Vote last month.

Conveniently away on 'business'

[Stewart Logan @StewartLog1967]

About time Carns stood up for his former colleagues...

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

Highly significant that Carns is not just angry about defence spending but makes clear he cannot defend the bill which puts veterans in the dock for their actions in Northern Ireland. The fundamental contract between those in uniform and the govt is broken

[Stewart Logan @StewartLog1967]

After seeing this:
'Late on Thursday Dan Jarvis, a former paratrooper and security minister, was appointed as Healey’s replacement'

Gutless - someone who doesn't give a toss about those he served with!

[Stewart Logan @StewartLog1967]

@SVPhillimore How is a KC when he's unable to see the word 'some' in the tweet he refers to - that fact is 100% indisputable!

[Kallum Pickering @KallumPickering]

Net zero killed British industry, not Thatcherism

'If Burnham wants to reindustrialise Britain, he needs to reverse net zero, not Thatcherism. Abundant, stable, and competitively priced energy is vital for a healthy industry.'

Link below to my latest in the @TeleBusiness
#burnham #netzero #ukeconomy #ukmacro #labour @John_Stepek @MerrynSW

https://t.co/9HZaeyVCJy

[Maurice Cousins @MDC12345678]

Yesterday, while political attention focused on the shocking Nowak case, Ed Miliband confirmed to Parliament what had long been expected. He said the Government intends to legislate for the Seventh Carbon Budget (CB7), committing Britain to cut emissions by 87% below 1990 levels by around 2040.

Under the Climate Change Act, ministers must legislate for the budget by 30 June 2026. Miliband has said the delivery plan will be published "as soon as reasonably practical".

Why does CB7 matter?

Politicians often sell Net Zero as simple substitution and "transition". Petrol cars become electric cars. Gas boilers become heat pumps. Aviation fuel becomes sustainable aviation fuel. Life then continues much as before but cleaner.

But the CCC’s own pathway shows something much broader and intrusive. It requires not only new technology and electrification, but managed changes in demand, diet, aviation, land use, industry and much more.

Aviation exposes the problem. Ministers can use the oldest rhetorical tricks in the book and claim that holidays are not banned, but the real question is whether flying becomes more expensive and restricted. With little evidence that SAF, electric flight or other innovations can decarbonise aviation at scale, demand growth will have to be limited using a mix of indirect and direct measures. As the CCC said in February, "Aviation demand can only grow if aviation sector technology roll-out progresses."

Diet follows a similar logic. Policymakers rarely dwell on meat and dairy, but the CCC pathway assumes lower meat consumption, fewer domestic livestock and land released from farming. Ministers haven't really started and yet we are already seeing the consequences. Milk, butter and beef are among the fastest-rising food categories, in part because UK policy has helped shrink domestic herds. Cow numbers have been falling by roughly 3% a year for the last decade.

This is why language matters. Sanitised terms such as "demand management", "low-carbon choices" and "land-use change" sound administrative. In practice, they mean state direction of ordinary life and a managed retreat from the freedoms of modern consumer capitalism.

Ed Miliband has been very explicit about this. In Go Big, his post-pandemic manifesto, he writes that the purpose of his climate mission is "to abandon this 300-year model of economic growth."

This is why the argument now comes down to trust.

For two decades, politicians like Miliband have told the public that the green transition would make energy cheaper and more secure. That promise has not survived contact with reality. In 2026, Britain has some of the highest power prices in the developed world. With so little spare capacity, we have also left ourselves more exposed to energy shocks, from the war in Ukraine to instability in the Middle East.

The next phase of Net Zero now reaches into family holidays, diet, farming and everyday freedom of movement.

Can we really trust the same political class that got energy costs so badly wrong to impose the next round of legally binding emissions cuts? They have failed to protect the public during the cost of living crisis. Why should anyone trust them to protect us from higher costs and taxes over the remaining 24 years of the "transition"?

The stakes at the next election could scarcely be higher.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

The case for a tougher sentence for the killer of Henry Nowak.

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

Very depressing seeing where we've got to as a country in terms of our conversation on race. And to see the murder of Henry Nowak get politicised by Farage & Tommy Robinson in this way. But progressives like Starmer have got something to answer for in paving the way for this.

[jake @jakelchambers]

I’ve been a fan of @KemiBadenoch for years, and in recent weeks it’s become increasingly clear.

She’s the strongest Conservative leader since Margaret Thatcher.

Conviction, clarity, and fighting spirit.

We’d all be better off with her at the helm.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

It doesn’t matter who replaces the Prime Minister.

Labour MPs will keep asking for more tax to pay for more benefits.

[Ruth Davidson @RuthDavidsonPC]

Last time Labour was in power it was the "I am afraid there is no money" note.

Today's Mandelson release contains Pat McFadden stating:

'Every meeting I have is "who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others?"'

It should serve as this Labour government's epitaph.

[Patrick Maguire @patrickkmaguire]

This decade's Liam Byrne note

[SK Tedeschi @skedeschi]

I'm a middle eastern historian. My own family were made refugees. And this is my honest view of the Nakba (“catastrophe”) - the displacement of around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs during the 1947–49 war surrounding the creation of Israel.

A thread. 🧵

[Stewart Logan @StewartLog1967]

@BristOliver Written by a Lib Dem?

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Starmer and Hermer chose to tear up the protections, that Conservatives put in place, to stop our brave veterans being dragged through the courts in their old age. They claim the courts had left them no choice.

Well guess what?

My Shadow Attorney General stepped in, acted pro bono for veterans and won: the UKSC have reinstated immunities and confirmed that the vast majority of our Act is lawful.

When a lower court said the Legacy Act breached the ECHR and the Windsor Framework, Labour did not appeal. It suited them to hide behind international law rather than stand up for those who served our country.

There was no legal duty to betray our veterans. Starmer and Hermer chose to do that. Conservatives chose to fight for them.

I'm proud of @DXW_KC, @AWNDinsmore and my Shadow Northern Ireland & Defence Teams for keeping up this fight.

We are the ONLY party actually holding Labour to account. Farage did not bother to turn up last Monday and vote against Labour’s terrible anti-veterans bill.

Another reason to VOTE CONSERVATIVE today.

[Stewart Logan @StewartLog1967]

@LoftusSteve Simple manifesto commitment that would get huge support - who will do it though?

[Gully Foyle #UKTrade @TerraOrBust]

Very important intervention here from the Polish foreign minister.

The UK would have to accept all the rules of the EU if it wanted to rejoin, and the British people clearly do not want that.

[Jo - Time for Tea @joslyoung]

Kemi Badenoch is the first politician in a long time that I like, respect & agree with on the fundamentals that matter to me. She has the courage to say what she thinks rather than the cautious, meaningless blather & outright lies of the rest. And a Tory! There's a turn up.

[Jonathan Sacerdoti @jonsac]

This was certainly a weird one.

I was asked to discuss @Policy_Exchange’s polling which claimed that “among the British Muslims living in the polled areas, there are worrying levels of anti-Semitic conspiratorial beliefs and support for the criminalisation of blasphemy. The findings show that the UK is far from being a stable multi-faith democracy.”

But the other chap kept going on about “far right grooming gangs”. After his initial answer, which sounded a bit Chat GPT, he seemed to lose the ability to form full sentences. When I asked about the gangs, he said he didn’t mean what he’d said.

@PatrickChristys didn't seem to get it either.

🤷🏻

[Stewart Logan @StewartLog1967]

Read the quote in the screen capture and compare with Miliband's delusional spin.

'Vital to Norway...'

If it's vital for them, it the same for us.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Norway just announced 70 new blocks of oil and gas exploration, including in the North Sea.

Meanwhile, just over the border on the British side of the North Sea, Ed Miliband tells us we’ve got nothing left so he HAS to ban new licences.

Same basin. Same geology.

Madness.