David Spencer

CEO @TaiwanPolicyCen, Managing Director @BarnDoor_Strat - Views my own.

[Alex Deane @ajcdeane]

Up to Manchester to have the meeting they’d have had anyway; then back to London (and, in his case, thence on to Plymouth).

We used to laugh at the EU for the performative nonsense of Brussels to Strasbourg and back.

Now we’re imitating it.

[David Spencer @dspencer47]

In years ahead we will look back at this self-indulgent nonsense in much the same way we shake our head at mad COVID restrictions today. Just an absolute joke.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham outside the No 10 door at No 10 North

[David Spencer @dspencer47]

Perhaps if the @BBCNews and the rest of the media stopped talking hysterically about heatwaves and went back to talking about summer, this wouldn’t be a thing at all.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Heatwave anxiety can make you feel 'incredibly helpless' - here's how to manage it https://t.co/Joxnrf74ui

[David Spencer @dspencer47]

Anything at all from the @FCDOGovUK on the PRC unilaterally challenging the status quo in the #Taiwan Strait? @Ed_Miliband ? Anyone? Hello?

[Lyle Morris @LyleJMorris]

China begins two days of live-fire drills in Taiwan Strait

https://t.co/iAD0BizVVs

[David Spencer @dspencer47]

There is absolutely nothing stopping these morons donating money to the Treasury. It’s accepts donations very happily yet for some reason these virtue signalers never seem to do that. https://t.co/MTorD0o2I0

[David Spencer @dspencer47]

Engaged with any SMEs yet @KanishkaNarayan ? That’s where the growth and innovation in the UK lies - not with big tech, unions, and regulators.

[Kanishka Narayan MP @KanishkaNarayan]

48 hours since @10DowningStreet appointed me AI Minister, and feeling relentlessly focused on shaping AI with British leadership:

**We reindustrialise with AI manufacturing** 🏭
-- First call with @demishassabis on turning British advantage into British jobs
-- Spoke to @AlexGKendall about our shared interest in making Britain the home of physical AI jobs
-- Affirmed @Arm's role as UK AI champion directly with @renehaas237
-- Joined @JReynoldsMP in speaking to x-tech sector CEOs: we are doubling down on tech prosperity for every nation and region

**British security, British influence now rely on AI** 🇬🇧
-- Stocktake of Britain's leadership in AI cyber with @NCSC CEO
-- Plans to secure British AI with chiefs of UK intelligence communities
-- Ambition for @AISecurityInst remaining the world's AI security talent home, with AISI CEO
-- @UKSovereignAI Managing Partner and I talked through next stages of ambition

**AI that works for people** 🤝
-- Worker tacit knowledge is central to good AI adoption, an ambition reshared with @mikeclancy1 at @ProspectUnion
-- Thank you, @GMBGarySmith, for recognising AI as the major driver of risk and opportunity for British jobs
-- AI works only if it works across the country, led by our communities; some practical steps agreed with @KatieGallagher @UK_TCG

**Working with an exceptional team** ✨
-- First Cabinet, with the PM affirming how crucial AI is
-- Meeting brilliant ministerial and official teams at @cabinetofficeuk and @biztradegovuk, the two depts where I started my Civil Service career ~15 years ago
-- Ceremony highlight: first Privy Council meeting!

Just getting started!

[David Spencer @dspencer47]

The UK should not be deporting any democracy campaigners back to the Communist PRC or any territory they occupy, including Hong Kong.

https://t.co/iafqLW9V3x

[David Spencer @dspencer47]

Delusional. Sir Keir has driven up debt, undermined national security, damaged farming and education, decimated the hospitality sector, made life significantly harder for SMEs and massively increased taxes for no discernible benefit. The desperate legacy of a failed PM.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

The test of any Prime Minister is: do you leave your country in a better place than you found it?

I’m proud that the answer is yes.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Well, that’s one way to make sure nobody ever comes to our country again to make major investments and/or start businesses.
And to make sure those already here quickly scarper.
Good luck forcing them still to pay after they’ve left.
And all for a measly £10bn a year (of course it will be nowhere near that in reality) — 0.7% of actual annual government spending.
Much more, of course, will be lost in capital flight and foregone future investment.
Is the country going bonkers?

[David Spencer @dspencer47]

Disagree with this. Voters elect a party first. If MPs switch sides they should have to seek reelection. Or we do away with parties altogether and elect independents. Can’t have it both ways.

[LBC @LBC]

'It's a complete waste of money.'

@LeeAndersonMP_ tells @NickFerrariLBC that he doesn't see the point in holding a by-election for a seat that he would 'win again quite easily'.

[Ambassador Mike Huckabee @GovMikeHuckabee]

Would be easy to say NY Mayor is just an ignorant bigot, but he is not dumb. He's an evil anti-Semite who deliberately lies about serious things like "genocide" to stoke Jew hate. If anyone should be arrested, it's the Mayor of NY for incitement. NYC should be ashamed.

[David Spencer @dspencer47]

In some ways nice. But how on earth does a sitting Prime Minister have time to do this?

[Beth Rigby @BethRigby]

NEW: Am told Keir Starmer wrote handwritten notes for every single member of No 10 staff - in the hundreds - thanking them for their public service

[David Spencer @dspencer47]

Given there was video footage of this horrific attack, how on earth did @DC_Police issue statements saying no evidence of political motivation & even imply it wasn’t murder at all? Questions to answer! & there needs to be a serious debate in UK about violent hard-left ideology!

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: The CPS says Ann Widdecombe died after she was hit on the head with a hammer 21 times

[David Spencer @dspencer47]

@tomgwalker Surprised they haven’t barred him like most other pubs have.

[David Spencer @dspencer47]

The rehabilitation begins!

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer went straight to the pub after resigning as Prime Minister earlier

📸 The Sun

[David Spencer @dspencer47]

Guess energy bills aren’t coming down any time soon then!

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has appointed Miatta Fahnbulleh as Energy and Net Zero Secretary

[David Spencer @dspencer47]

You can only fear for our place on the global stage after his car crash time as Energy Secretary but, at least he isn’t Energy Secretary anymore - every cloud etc.

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

WATCH: Ed Miliband, who is now UK Foreign Secretary, accuses Donald Trump of "misogyny", "racism", and a "peculiar relationship" with Russia and "the truth".

[The Spectator @spectator]

We are cursed with senior public officials who are not up to the task

✍️ David Shipley
https://t.co/L1uSnLnTJO

[David Spencer @dspencer47]

This would be a huge mistake. So much potential for growth in the UK tech sector. #Burnham should be falling over himself to improve funding opportunities and slash bureaucracy to unleash this. Scrapping DSIT would not just send a bad signal, it would actively damage the sector.

[Kiran Stacey @kiranstacey]

🚨 Earlier today, the FT reported speculation about the future of the science and technology dept.

I’m told Burnham’s team has drawn up plans to scrap it altogether, with part going to DBT and part to DCMS.

Antonia Romeo wd oversee rolling out AI in the public service.

[David Spencer @dspencer47]

If true, he will be reminded of this every time he puts up our taxes.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

@Independent Burnham is planning a shakeup of the Foreign Office which is expected to include a roadmap from 0.2% to 0.7% of GDP spent on foreign aid

Story:
https://t.co/IGZpWrjsSk