Tom Keers

History Graduate 👨‍🎓

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

I’m in Edinburgh and being asked a lot of questions about ITV’s Reform expose.

The reported comments show yet again why we’re not doing deals with Reform. We want Reform voters back, not Reform politicians.

Reform voters are being let down by the people who claim to represent them. Many of these people were the ones who let them down in the Conservative Party. We are now under new management.

These people caused a lot of problems and is why I say Nigel Farage has been doing my spring cleaning.

These problems will keep coming for Reform. Just as Farage is being investigated, so is Robert Jenrick, and so is Richard Tice. These problems will never end because of the kind of people they are - they don’t care about high standards of conduct.

That is why I am showing those voters who want to defeat Labour but left the Conservative Party that it’s time to come home. We are under new management, and you deserve better than this.

[Ben Obese-Jecty MP @BenObeseJecty]

“I don’t want to explain to my son, when we’re watching our brilliant England team play football, that some people don’t think our black players are English”

This was a powerful rejection from Kemi of the identity politics and racial division Reform are trying to whip up.

Their brand of grievance politics is not what Britain needs.

[Crewkerne Man @CrewkerneMan]

Kevin Hollinrake pulls out a pint then introduces his “fantasy far-right black Labrador”, in absolutely brilliant scenes from Conservative Conference.

Legendary stuff. 🤣🍺🐕

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

The greatest political bait and switch of the last decade was the ability of the left to describe policy aimed at approaching a balanced budget as ‘austerity’.

So much so that Theresa May announced the ‘end of austerity’ in 2017 to appease Jeremy Corbyn. Buying in to Labour’s rhetoric hook line and sinker.

Consequently, Britain abandoned fiscal discipline, first slowly and then very quickly. Now we’ve seen the consequences of that in terms of interest rates, gilt yields, inflation, and the value of the currency.

[Tim Stanley @timothy_stanley]

Ok I had to actually hear it to believe it: to this poor woman, Crufts must look like the Nuremberg rally.

I’d be fascinated to learn what else Britain never really had that I can see out my window. Castles? Post boxes? … Sheep?!

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Nigel Farage's dream of becoming Prime Minister is dead. He can still win an election, but only for Andy Burnham. If the Right wants to stop Labour securing 5 more years in power its only chance is to unite behind Kemi Badenoch > Daily Mail > https://t.co/3kV5rHpYFS

[Queer Lips of Truth II 🇸🇱🇬🇧 @QLoTII]

Let me tell you what happened in Leicester Square tonight, because it was better than the film.

The Princess of Wales has not walked a red carpet since May 2022. In between came the year the family does not discuss: the surgery, the diagnosis, the video from the garden bench, the chemotherapy, the months when the country quietly counted the days. Tonight she walked one again.

She wore purple. Deep plum, Jenny Packham, cut lower than she has ever dared, the colour of queens. Her hair was half up, so that you could see the earrings, and the earrings were Diana's pearls. At her throat, on a rope of pearls to the waist, hung an amethyst heart the size of a walnut. Queen Alexandra gave it to the Queen Mother in 1923, the year she married into the family. It has been worn through a war, an abdication and a century of clever men underestimating the women who wore it.

This morning a book went on sale calling that Queen petty and the King a lottery winner on the morning Diana died. The family's reply to a week of it has been one sentence. Tonight the future Queen answered without one: she wore the Queen Mother's heart and Diana's pearls at the same time, and let the flashbulbs do the talking.

And William. Black tie, half a step behind her on the carpet, in her light rather than his own, with the look of a man who walked behind a coffin at fifteen and has spent every year since making sure she would never be alone on a carpet, or in a hospital, or anywhere.

She looked magnificent. Not because of the dress, though it was perfect, and not because of the necklace, though it was a hundred years of the family on a single strand. She looked magnificent because she looked well, and happy, and unafraid.

The book will be in the bargain bins by Christmas. The amethyst goes back to the vault, until another woman wears it on another night for reasons nobody will need to explain. That is the difference between a family and a grievance. One of them lasts.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Yusuf's performative outrage is fooling no one. Nigel Farage himself called these protesters ‘disgusting’. The truth is he’s arguing with his own leader, using me as cover as he tries to outflank Farage. This is a Reform power struggle, not a serious argument about Britain’s borders.

While Reform are mired in scandal and turning on each other, the Conservatives are putting Andy Burnham under pressure over what he's doing on the economy, the cost of living, welfare and national security. We’re also setting out how we will fund defence properly, cut taxes, take back our streets, stop the boats and restore control.

Reform can spend its time fighting over who gets to lead Reform. I’m only interested in Getting Britain Working again.

[Ed McGuinness @EJ_McGuinness]

When @danny__kruger joined @reformparty_uk he was hailed for his moral & intellectual heft.

Wonder how he feels about all the grubbiness, unprofessionalism and potential criminality infecting his Party.

All because @KemiBadenoch wouldn’t promote him.🤷‍♂️

https://t.co/vTm6comWtD

[liv 🔶🇬🇧🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎄🤶☃️ @liveraldemocrat]

Sky News was like a drug to me during this period... Beth Rigby began to haunt my dreams...

[Camilla Tominey @CamillaTominey]

An Aussie mate writes…

[Sun Politics @SunPolitics]

New farming minister faints 'at sight of meat' while touring cold storage unit https://t.co/sWsgNHId6b

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Labour's new Education Secretary is off to a flying start.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

While Andy Burnham’s cabinet are joking about letting criminals out of prison early, Conservatives are listening to victims and will continue to fight this disgusting policy.

[Politics For You @PoliticoForYou]

🚨 Aw fuck sake man.

Minister for woodland folk hopefully.

[soph 🧩 @sooflayed]

🚨 NEW: Nicola Murray is set to become Andy Burnham’s Social Affairs and Citizenship Secretary

[@Telegraph]

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Everyone starts somewhere.

Summer jobs give young people skills, confidence and a first step into work. That’s why we’re campaigning to protect them.

We asked the Conservative Shadow Cabinet what their first summer jobs were.

Their answers might surprise you 👇

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Imagine your biggest political opponent being a man with a bin on his head 🤦‍♂️