Amy Gray

Biographer of the Duchess of Atholl between day job in public affairs & child wrangling. Spend a lot more time on IG now at @amygraywrites.

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

Time for some personal news: delighted that @TheHistoryPress will bring Duchess Kitty’s story to a wider audience. Elected Scotland’s first woman MP 100 yrs ago next month, she became perhaps the most surprising backbench rebel of all. Read it in 2025!

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

@Blonde_M @RosamundUrwin Cambridge’s museums are also great and a much more manageable size than London’s

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

The Standard used to be a great campaigning local paper - I remember its knife crime & literacy campaigns. Who will now scrutinise City Hall and London’s 32 councils? There’s now no proper paper for London, which is terrible

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

I feel Paris took the wrong template from London’s 2012 summer by deciding to copy the Jubilee pageant

[Caitlin Moran @caitlinmoran]

Don't want to be too boastful, but by this point in 2012, we'd had a funky Industrial Revolution, chucked the Queen out of a helicopter, rained down a thousand Mary Poppins and soundtracked it all with Fuck Buttons and The Beatles #olympics

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

But it isn’t August yet!

[Jack Surfleet @jacksurfleet]

Thursday's DAILY STAR: Jaws swims up the Thames
#TomorrowsPapersToday

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

My son is 5.5 and on his 5th PM. I was 26.

[Philip Hensher @PhilipHensher]

I was 25 years old before I saw my fifth prime minister. Someone in the same position today would be 4.

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

@ArtBarrow @Conservatives Exactly, we should this as a conference to genuinely try out new ideas and debate the future, given that no one else will pay much attention to it.

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

I think that, rather than aim to announce a new leader at Conference, @Conservatives should use it as the platform to hear from the leadership contenders, and have some actual open debates.

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

@SusannaRustin @soniasodha That’s the story I’m telling - it’s so fascinating. Due out from @TheHistoryPress next autumn

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

Siobhan Baillie, Anthony Browne, Alex Chalk, Robin Walker, Penny Mordaunt, Virginia Crosbie, Anna Firth - all of them a loss to their constituencies and to Parliament, but I hope not to @conservatives.

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

I haven't been on Twitter very much recently what with *all that*, but it is still the place to be on election night. There aren't enough of us on BlueSky yet to compete.

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

Sad to see Thangam Debbonaire go. Was always impressed by her.

[Beth Rigby @BethRigby]

BRISTOL CENTRAL: GREEN GAIN FROM LABOUR. Thangham Debbonaire loses

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

Very glad to see @kirstyjmcneill in Parliament and defeating the SNP

[mandy rhodes @holyroodmandy]

Midlothian gain for Labour @kirstyjmcneill [former advisor to Gordon Brown] from SNP’s @OwenThompson #Election2024

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

@eleanor_ayres Love it when you see the High Sherriffs in full regalia (my dad was a HS but missed out on an election year)

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

@PaulGoodmanCH Is there not also the issue of Claudia Webbe being a terrible MP?

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

@CapelLofft Look up Claudia Webbe....

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

Another loss to Parliament. It is hard to see so many people I know to be dedicated MPs losing.

[David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦 @DJSkelton]

Very sad to see @GuyOpperman losing his seat. He’s been a superb MP for Hexham and a brilliant Minister. Have no doubt he’ll be back in Commons soon.

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

@tomhfh The previous Labour MP was Claudia Webbe....

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

Rupert would have been an excellent MP. Sorry to see this.

[Beth Rigby @BethRigby]

Libl Dem defeat George Osborne’s former adviser Rupert Harrison in Bicester & Woodstock, a new seat.

The birthplace of Winston Churchill & home of Blenheim Palace. LD source: "Really illustrates the scale of the Liberal Democrat triumph here and across Oxfordshire"

[Amy Gray @amygraywrites]

We will need thinkers of @NJ_Timothy's calibre

[Darren McCaffrey @darrenmccaffrey]

🗳️✖️ SUFFOLK WEST CON HOLD

Nick Timothy wins Matt Hancocks old seat