Jack Davies

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

Newcastle United statement: Alexander Isak

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

WE'RE GOING TO WEMBLEYYYYY! 🤩🤩

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

364 MPs voted against holding another 10 year inquiry, into something that already had an inquiry into it, which released its results 4 years ago and was completely ignored, by the people who are currently calling for another inquiry.

[Robert Peston @Peston]

There seems to be significant faux outrage from Tory leadership candidates Cleverly and Tugendhat about the Starmer government’s transfer of the Chagos islands to Mauritius.

Official sources tell me the transfer would have happened in materially the same
way at roughly the same time if Sunak had somehow won the election.

The point is that the transfer was being negotiated on the recent Tory government’s watch - including by Cleverly as foreign secretary and then by Cameron - and the deadline was in effect set by Washington.

I am told that President Biden wanted the deal done before the 5 November presidential election. Biden wanted certainty about the future of the US military base on the Chagossian island of Diego Garcia, just in case Donald Trump were to win the election.

For confirmation that the deal was clinched on a timetable and in a style to suit the US administration, see Biden’s statement that “it is a clear demonstration that through diplomacy and partnership, countries can overcome longstanding historical challenges to reach peaceful and mutually beneficial outcomes”.

Biden pointed out that the agreement between the UK and Mauritius meant the US had secured “the effective operation of the joint [military] facility on Diego Garcia into the next century.”

It is therefore curious Tugendhat should describe the transfer as “leaving our allies” exposed when the UK’s most important ally, America, has welcomed it.

And Cleverly’s denigration of Starmer as “weak, weak, weak” for formalising it seems eccentric when the negotiations with Mauritius were in full swing when he was in the cabinet.

As for Liz Truss’s assertion that Boris Johnson is to blame, I am told that Johnson was the last PM to wholly oppose giving up sovereignty over Chagos, and that the talks did not start properly till she was PM.

If anyone in the Tory party wants to know the nitty gritty of all this, possibly they could ask for an introduction from the former minister Lord Frost - because his spouse Harriet Matthews has been the lead official negotiator for the foreign office on the Chagos treaty with Mauritius.

[Jack Davies @jackk8080]

Unsure

[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

You will always be better at spending your own money than the government is.

[Jack Davies @jackk8080]

Grim

[LBC @LBC]

Dozens killed in Gaza aid queue after Israel opens fire on civilians, as IDF says most victims run over by trucks https://t.co/FJwUKMr1BB

[Jack Davies @jackk8080]

This video makes me nauseous

[Jack Davies @jackk8080]

@jpendles them jeans are 🔥🔥🔥

[Jack Davies @jackk8080]

@C_CRRLL @JeansAndSheux

[Jack Davies @jackk8080]

Voice notes are a game changer, I now refuse to type a message longer than about 3 words

[Jack Davies @jackk8080]

Linked in gives me me more joy/humour than any other app

[Jack Davies @jackk8080]

Google Maps reminding me where all my money went in December

[Jack Davies @jackk8080]

£2 a game is a crime

[Jack Davies @jackk8080]

@__JackL Hi mate, going to unlike this

[Jack Davies @jackk8080]

weird weird guy

[LBC @LBC]

Jeremy Clarkson has been criticised for a column in which he said he "dreams of the day" that Meghan Markle must "parade naked through the streets" as people hurl excrement at her. https://t.co/rBm6x3djE3

[England Cricket @englandcricket]

ON TOP OF THE WORLD 🦁

[Jack Davies @jackk8080]

@JP_Grenier_ Wor Miggy

[Jack Davies @jackk8080]

Biggest gamble?? The most deliberate attempt to distribute more wealth to the highest earners, what a joke

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

I’m not an economist but it strikes me that the very last thing we should be doing right now is slashing taxes. Liz Truss is taking one of the biggest gambles in modern political history to get us out of this crisis. I hope it works but fear it could fail disastrously.