Damian Green

Chair Social Care Foundation. Former MP for Ashford and First Secretary of State.

[Iain Dale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 ⚒️ @IainDale]

Made me laugh.

[Prosper UK @Prosper_UK_]

Kemi Badenoch is right to seek candidates with serious experience beyond Westminster.

But the Conservative Party must remain a broad church. Requiring agreement on every major issue risks shutting out talented people, narrowing the party’s appeal and making it harder to build the coalition needed to govern.

[The Social Care Foundation @SocialCareUK]

Damian Green, SCF chair, has welcomed plans for a National Conversation on Adult Social Care, adding that it "must be realistic and address the difficult issues of where the extra money needed is coming from.“

[Damian Green @DamianGreen]

Looking forward to it!

[Juniper TV @JuniperTV]

Catch this week’s BBC Politics South East show, where the guests will be discussing Andy Burnham, animal welfare, and air con.

@PollyBillington
@DamianGreen
@stuartjeffery

#politicssoutheast | @bbcsoutheast

10am, Sunday Morning, BBC One and iPlayer:
https://t.co/y5cnogjhxZ

[Andy Street @andy4wm]

.@Prosper_UK_’s first policy proposal:

The triple lock has served pensioners well, but it isn’t sustainable forever.

A smoothed earnings link would protect pensioners while putting the system on a fairer, more sustainable footing.

https://t.co/weHd6R0h3s

[Damian Green @DamianGreen]

So Reform will introduce the “Care Home Tax”. Has this been thought through?

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Reform UK will reverse Reeves’ disastrous rise in the rate of Employers’ National Insurance.

But we’ll do this for British workers only.

We’ll fund this by introducing the Employer Migrant Labour Levy.

Businesses will have to pay an annual fee for each migrant worker. It’ll hit unskilled migrant workers much, much harder than high skilled ones.

Along with our migration and welfare reforms, this will see millions of migrants we don’t need leave.

And get millions of Brits off welfare and into work.

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

Murder rates
Ohio: ~50 murders per million people
United States: ~59 murders per million
England & Wales: ~8.6 murders per million
Physician heal thyself.
Motes and planks.

[Damian Green @DamianGreen]

Alex Younger was absolutely the best of public servants. RIP

[Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinson]

In these globally turbulent times one man has regularly acted as a wise, thoughtful and witty guide for listeners of @BBCr4today. The former Head of MI6 Sir Alex Younger has analysed, explained and contextualised the actions of Trump, Putin, Xi and the Ayatollahs. After he first appeared in the programme I was lucky enough to get to know Alex and call him my friend. I’m desperately sad to hear the news I’ve long feared was coming. Alex has died after months trying to cheat the
prognosis he was given whe. They discovered the tumour he nicknamed “Putin”.
We’re always told not to speak of a fight with cancer because it risks implying that only those strong enough survive. I understand that. I really do but sod it. Alex fought so hard to find a treatment to give him a little longer to be with Sarah and their lovely children. And he used every last minute of the short time he did have to be with family and friends and to do what he spent a lifetime in the shadows doing - using his intelligence to understand the world, to explain it but, above all, to keep us all safe.

[Damian Green @DamianGreen]

Hey @tfl why are you saying there are minor delays on the Elizabeth Line when @HeathrowAirport say it’s shut entirely to and from the airport?

[Damian Green @DamianGreen]

Jackie is completely correct.

[Jackie Doyle-Price @JackieDP]

I have spent my entire life fighting Labour but nothing would ever entice me to vote reform to defeat them. When I cast my vote I do so positively for the Conservative Party. Reform are miles apart from my politics. These colleagues are very wrong

[Damian Green @DamianGreen]

#Eurovision26 Got to be Moldova

[Damian Green @DamianGreen]

I’m all in favour of post-grad schools of administration. But blaming PPE/Oxford Union/Balliol is an assertion with no evidence. Anyone with a PPE degree would know the difference between correlation and causation, which is what your argument lacks.

[Nick Bryant @NickBryantNY]

@DamianGreen I was being semi-frivolous, but it might help to have a new prime ministerial production line, no? Or a proper school of government rather than a mock Westminster playpen where aspiring politicians learn pantomime? (in that same vein, perhaps I have added Balliol to the list?)

[Damian Green @DamianGreen]

For decades we admired the French system for training future administrators. PPE is the nearest we come to this in the U.K.-this kind of petty nonsense is just a bit silly.

[Nick Bryant @NickBryantNY]

Britain would benefit from a law stating that no one who had ever served as the president of the Oxford or Cambridge Union should be allowed within a 100 meters radius of Downing Street and, ideally, the Houses of Parliament. A ban of PPE graduates would help too.

[Damian Green @DamianGreen]

An interesting and persuasive piece of detailed analysis. Being the only economically credible
party will be a key asset in the coming years.

[David Gauke @DavidGauke]

My @ConHome piece on the election results and why the Conservatives need to change strategy and appeal more to swing voters and anti-Reform tactical voters. https://t.co/5ARI1UTW5w via @conhome

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Keir Starmer’s speech was sad to watch. With so many resets, even his reset button needs a reset.

But I do not take pleasure in watching the Prime Minister flounder. The country needs leadership, not another speech from a man who clearly knows something has gone badly wrong, but still can't explain why.

This is Labour’s real problem. It is not just Starmer - all the pretenders jostling for his job do not have the answers either, because they all believe the same things: more welfare, more state control, more borrowing, more regulation. They are busy arguing over who should drive the car, but the truth is they are all heading in the wrong direction. They have no vision for the future.

What we need is to get Britain working again. That is why I have proposed an alternative King’s Speech with a a clear plan to reward effort, cut the cost of government, secure our borders, rebuild industry and back families who do the right thing.

If Labour are serious about fixing the country they could do all of this tomorrow. Whether they have the bravery or the common sense to do that is a different matter.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

"Why would the Tories get into bed with a party with which, immigration aside, they have about as much in common as with Labour?

It would not 'unite the right'. It would be an incoherent mess and disintegrate within about ten minutes."

Matthew Syed:-

https://t.co/S3CSIhbsHt

[Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson]

If anyone can rebuild the electoral coalition that won the Tories power in 2019, Kemi can

https://t.co/MibngdL92t

[Damian Green @DamianGreen]

This is completely correct.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

David Gauke held three Cabinet offices. In successive Treasury roles, he consolidated the disastrous financial situation left behind by Gordon Brown. He shifted people off benefits and into productive work. He was always a calm, measured, results-driven public servant.
God save us from the tribalism that defines political integrity as “agreeing with me”. Congratulations Sir @DavidGauke.

[Damian Green @DamianGreen]

This is right. The paper I wrote for the CPS back in 2019 recommended this approach but Whitehall has always shied away. I hope Louise Casey is suitably radical.

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

There are two things which essentially every review of care (inc ours) has recommended - separate elderly social care from council budgets and get people to contribute via insurance, salary contributions and/or slice of equity wealth. Tumbleweed in Whitehall.

[Theo Bertram @theobertram]

So many new councils are going to be elected on a mandate for Gaza/immigration/getting rid of Starmer/a 10:1 earnings ratio, and then actually be responsible for something completely different, for which they have no clear mandate, namely funding and managing social care.