My Prospect newsletter prospectmagazine.co.uk/polit…. Latest 📖 ‘Ernest Bevin: Labour’s Churchill’
Joined November 2011
- Tweets 23,195
- Following 729
- Followers 147,588
- Likes 5,048
2,908 Photos and videos
25 Apr 2024
Labour’s plan for Great British Railways is spot on. The track had to be nationalised by the Blair govt after the private company collapsed. The same now happening to train operators whose costs/profits are excessive with plummeting service standards. Time to put passengers first
39
137
648
50,546
Andrew Adonis retweeted
27 Mar 2024
The government has failed renters—and homeowners, writes @Andrew_Adonis
"The UK has nearly 10m fewer homes than France, for a population not much smaller, and we are building new homes at only about half the rate of the French."
prospectmagazine.co.uk/polit…
6
8
18
12,739
Andrew Adonis retweeted
29 Nov 2023
There’s nothing illegal or surreptitious about the immigration surge since Brexit, writes @Andrew_Adonis—“it is the result of open, deliberate decisions by prime ministers since Theresa May”.
prospectmagazine.co.uk/polit…
6
15
29
12,670
Andrew Adonis retweeted
8 Nov 2023
Allowing Putin to dismember Ukraine would create a new Berlin Wall dividing Europe—and threaten UK security and democracy, writes @AndrewAdonis.
prospectmagazine.co.uk/world…
1
9
15
9,173
8 Nov 2023
Huge
I welcome today’s recommendation by the European Commission to open EU accession negotiations with Ukraine.
This is a strong and historic step that paves the way to a stronger EU with Ukraine as its member.
I thank the EU and personally @vonderleyen for supporting Ukraine on our road to the EU.
Ukraine continues on its reform path and looks forward to European Council’s decision in December.
5
60
267
22,589
8 Nov 2023
Sunak hasn’t visited Kyiv this year. Let’s hope that absence makes the heart grow fonder, since the going in Ukraine is set only to get tougher if victory against Putin is to be secured. My Prospect column
prospectmagazine.co.uk/world…
2
14
47
7,445
Andrew Adonis retweeted
24 Oct 2023
My full response to Sunak & critics of HS2 who trashed Britain’s future 🧵
You would think, from Sunak & the media, that HS2 was dead & deserved its fate. But as HS2’s main architect back in 2009/10 I only wish Labour had stayed stayed in office long enough to see it through 1/
128
674
3,101
979,761
2 Nov 2023
Wanted: a cabinet secretary - 🧵 from my @prospect column
Like so much of the British constitution, the job of cabinet secretary isn’t defined in law & changes according to the holder. But to all intents and purposes it is vacant at the moment, & that is a first—and a problem.
1
25
79
17,678
2 Nov 2023
of civil service drive and morale. Case’s failure to stand up for Tom Scholar, the Treasury permanent secretary fired by Liz Truss on her third day in office, was in retrospect an especial low point, signalling the storm to come.
So in 2024 there will in all likelihood be
1
3
14
5,810
2 Nov 2023
both a new government—& a new cabinet secretary. As in 1916, the new leaders of the state—both the prime minister and the cabinet secretary—have a massive task to rebuild a crippled machine, and it can’t start a moment too soon.
1
4
21
5,705