Jamie Parker

[Jamie Parker @jp649]

https://t.co/QStXHa9miY My new book on the realignment in British politics is now available to order online...Huge thanks to @GavinBarwell @toryboypierce @ASextonPR @EnyaHolland

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

"Nobody told me".
The question is, why didn't the prime minister ask?

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

🆕 Our latest MRP for the Sunday Times estimates Reform UK would be just a seat shy of a majority and far above any other party but for the first time down on a previous MRP estimate. The Greens achieve their highest score we’ve recorded on 22 seats

[Helen Thompson POLIS @HelenHet20]

Ed Miliband to the House of Commons on the importance for the UK of a gas strategy centred on the North Sea, speaking 13 January 2010 fourteen months after the Climate Change Act passed.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Starmer said of Mandelson "He had portrayed Epstein as someone he barely knew. And when that became clear and it was not true, I sacked him" (Feb6)

Today's documents show what Starmer was told about Mandelson by HMG officials before the appointment...

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

Britain now has the political sectarianism of Lebanon, but with the twee aesthetic veneer of Legoland https://t.co/UcKjn72bWb

[Jamie Parker @jp649]

@RachelReevesMP @LukePollard No one, but no one, believes that is why interest rates were cut today

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

"While the passive protest about what cannot be done, we need a different maxim: that whatever is in the national interest must be done."

The time for luxury policies - whose costs were cloaked by the late model of globalisation - is over.

My column: https://t.co/0O5hwWJmv4

[Sarah Champion @SarahChampionMP]

Why are we the only G7 country not putting tariffs on Chinese electric cars? (Aside from Japan who don’t buy them). Branded as British brand ‘MG’ - they’re killing our car production & known to have capability for spyware. The same happened in Australia, destroying their industry

[Jamie Parker @jp649]

Fantastic thread

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

🇨🇳I was rather hoping to be writing this from China, where the Chancellor has just landed for the most significant economic mission in ages - restarting Britain's formal economic relationship with China.
Alas I'm still in London.
But make no mistake; this visit is a BIG deal.
🧵

[Jamie Parker @jp649]

@KevinASchofield Worth pointing out the role confidence plays in the economy - something the Chancellor and many journalists @KevinASchofield don’t seem to have grasped

[Jamie Parker @jp649]

@CSG1973 @JohnRentoul Which can be seen in the graduate labour market & low skilled end of labour market, which will be hit hardest by NICs rise

[Jamie Parker @jp649]

@JohnRentoul There has to be a point in which we say a welfare bill approaching £100bn is unsustainable. & cf Fraser Nelson’s excellent documentary of Britain’s broken welfare system

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

"It’s not about me. It’s about all those people out there, like the farmers, who need someone to speak up for them. I don’t know who [Sir Keir] is speaking up for. It’s basically bureaucrats and unions. Those are his people." The excellent @KemiBadenoch: https://t.co/Te0NNyCE1g

[Jamie Parker @jp649]

@RishiSunak stewarded our economy through two seismic macroeconomic shocks and restored dignity to the office of Prime Minister. The election result in July was a verdict on his party, not him.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

As the Covid Chancellor Rishi had to make decisions that no normal politician has to face.

I saw the extent of his political courage when he fought an entire system against an unnecessary third lockdown that would have caused huge damage to people. He warned against the threat of inflation and Labour’s tax rises. He never made a big deal about being the first British Asian PM.

A man of great decency, intelligence and dedication who steered us through some of our most difficult times.

[George Osborne @George_Osborne]

This is a very good piece - I agree with @theresa_may

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

"He's a wonderful dad, he gives quietely to charities, he runs for his local hospice"

Leader of the Commons of Penny Mordaunt gives a staunch defence of PM Rishi Sunak, adding he "represents the best of Great Britain"

https://t.co/1ufDxVBDrw

[Gavin Barwell @GavinBarwell]

The unvarnished truth is that Simon Clarke is increasing the chances of him and his colleagues losing their seats. The Chief Whip should remove the whip and send a clear message to other Conservative MPs: unite behind the PM or go find some other party to stand for

[Jamie Parker @jp649]

@TorstenBell Yes - but your y-axes don't match!