🧵 @CarolineLucas is right. Nigel Farage spent decades pushing Brexit. He promised the sunlit uplands. Ten years later we have lower growth, higher costs, border chaos, and farming on its knees. Brexit isn’t working and we must face it.

🚩🚩🚩Starmer’s EU reset is running out of time and momentum, it is more of a tactical survival than genuine strategic pivot. Despite Starmer’s stronger language the reset remains very limited by his unworkable red lines. The July summit package (SPS/food checks, carbon pricing link, possible youth mobility) is expected to deliver only 0.3% GDP boost over 15 years; a tiny fraction of the 4–8% Brexit hit estimated by economists. EU officials are sceptical and frustrated: they see it as “old wine in new bottles” - Britain still wants cherry-picking without paying (budget contributions) or conceding on movement. Industry welcomes small steps but warns it’s nowhere near enough. The reset is hampered by slow negotiations, bureaucratic resistance and competing UK priorities ESPECIALLY the US 🇺🇸 deals. Internal Labour pressure is growing for a bolder approach (including from figures like David Lammy), but Starmer is constrained by politics. Polling shows shifting public opinion, majority want closer ties or even rejoining, but Starmer’s caution risks pleasing no one. ⚠️ 🚩 Analysts @anandMenon1, Sir Ivan Rogers, @CER_Grant warn the status quo is unsustainable and time is running out for any meaningful pivot. 🔗 archive.ph/2026.04.21-045756…

And the public mood is shifting fast. Live poll today: Should Britain rejoin the EU? ✅ 81% Yes ❎ 19% No (1042 votes so far) Public opinion has moved. Government policy hasn’t.

ANALYSIS: So many questions PM near apoplectic on Friday as he insisted he was not told Peter Mandelson's security vetting had failed.  He insisted, repeatedly, that neither he nor other ministers had been informed about the vetting process and said he would present the full facts to parliament on Monday amid mounting calls for him to resign.  Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the opposition, has accused the PM of lying to save his job.  The stage is then set for an almighty clash - when the prime minister comes to parliament to persuade doubting MPs that he really was kept in the dark and he did not mislead parliament - as his opponents look to finish him off. Key to Starmer's defence on Monday will behe wasn't made aware of the details of Mandelson's vetting.  The central claim from No 10, repeated by the PM's chief secretary Darren Jones this morning, is that Starmer was only made aware on Tuesday night that Lord Mandelson had been granted security clearance against the recommendation of UK security vetting.  Foreign Office has Olly Robbins has been sacked over, as No 10 lays blame at that department's door. I was told the PM had been asking Whitehall questions about vetting for months, given he was being asked to give statements to parliament and this information was not shared. What this suggests is the Foreign Office withheld this information from the PM, which I find simply astonishing and shocking.  Overnight, I've spoken to a couple of former senior civil servants who have told me they find it impossible to believe Robbins would not have flagged this information to the PM and taken the decision to override vetting without consulting or informing any minister.  One former senior mandarin, casting around for a possible explanation, told me "failing" security vetting comes in different grades: "If it's complicated vetting, and the subject lives overseas, it might be that security services can't give a bright green light, but they can come and do the job but can't see top level papers, so the system can bend a bit." But this figure was equally clear that if Lord Mandelson failed vetting, then the explanation from government - that neither the PM nor his advisers, or it emerges the foreign secretary, were told - "makes no sense".  “The very first thing a permanent secretary would do is share that with their political masters," said a former civil servant.  Another told me last night as Robbins was sacked that it was "awful treatment of a very good public servant".  We are yet to hear from Robbins. Chair of the foreign affairs select committee, Emily Thornberry, has asked for the former permanent secretary of the Foreign Office to appear before her committee on Tuesday. The key question for Starmer now is if he misled the House of Commons and is in contempt of parliament… full piece below 👇 news.sky.com/story/politics-…

The Telegraph still thinks EU membership meant “no control”. In reality, Britain had: 🇪🇺 A veto in key treaty areas 🇪🇺 A Commissioner 🇪🇺 Judges on the ECJ 🇪🇺 MEPs shaping legislation 🇪🇺 A vote in the Council 🔥 That’s influence. Post-Brexit, we align without a seat at the table - we lost power. That’s the Brexit irony. archive.ph/2026.02.27-155013…

Mandy: " The biggest scandal since Profumo," except it's not! Yes, he was a known associate of Epstein, but who wasn't? Yes, this is serious inexcusable. But NOTHING compares to Johnson's lazy narcissistic incompetence TWENTY THREE THOUSAND AVOIDABLE DEATHS not a word!

TRUMP's Chagos Distraction 👉He agreed the deal - going halves (UK pay the lease - US pay the base upkeep. ~£100m a yr each. 👉Int'l court decisions against UK were non-binding (so ignore them?) A binding decision would only follow. 👉 The history? We got the islands by accident - after ceasing all Napoleon's overseas assets (including Mauritius) after defeating him. 👉Only in the 60's (when Mauritius sort independence) did we peal Diego off and develop it with the US as a base. 👉Rightly or wrongly - this is why int'l courts have sided with Mauritius over sovereignty. 👉Trump's team were involved in the new deal. He called it a 'good deal.' 👉He raises this now as a pushback from efforts to annex Greenland. 👉Let's not be distracted.

Examples?

July 2024, the then Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, said that ID cards were not in the party's election manifesto and added: "That’s not our approach." Labour lied and they have no mandate for this state overreach.

Message to all farmers .... the overwhelming majority of people in our country wants NHS waiting lists to come down so do the right thing and pay your fair share of taxes like everyone else.