David Frost
@DavidGHFrost
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Lord Frost of Allenton. Conservative, House of Lords. You don't get something for nothing, you can't have freedom for free.
London
Joined November 2012
For anyone who doesn't want to watch the video, the text of my short speech on the assisted suicide Bill is here: 👇
I argued in the Lords today that the assisted suicide Bill sends us down a dangerous road. We can't pick and choose which ethical principles we observe without depriving us of the most basic moral protections in future. "I urge us all to ask ourselves - are we really
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Lord @DavidGHFrost ist zu Gast im «Brüssel einfach». Der ehemalige Chefunterhändler des Brexit spricht mit @Sommmarkus und Historiker @zimmertwist über die Entwicklung Englands nach dem Austritt aus der Europäischen Union. Das ganze Gespräch jetzt auf https://t.co/j9HsfFl6RE
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Couldn't have put it better myself. This is the economic agenda.
When we actually did have deregulation and resource extraction standards of living were steadily rising. We also have the counterfactual in America which didn’t as heavily regulate their economy and are doing better. Every aspect of the British economy has been regulated to the
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What is "cultural coherence"? (as @Katie_Lam_MP put it this week). It's surely more than vague 'British values'. It's knowledge of this country's history and achievements. We need to define this, and then teach it. My @Telegraph column this week. 👇 https://t.co/h1J0UC1F12
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This is a truly remarkable, and chilling, statement from Lord Falconer. 👇 Once you start down the road of allowing the state to kill people, this is where you inevitably get to. And there is further to go along this road yet.
Lord Falconer says people with “learning difficulties or autism” could, with “proper assistance”, access assisted suicide. That should alarm every Peer in the Lords. Vulnerable people don’t need help to die. They need support to live.
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Oh wow. We were hoping that at least one of them wouldn't like it. But both is quite a coup! This is the book that the left would like to ban....
Torsten Bell and Chris Giles don't like the message of this book. What better endorsement is there to read it?
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Personally, I’d rather not live in a country where people with learning difficulties or autism are told that they can just kill themselves.
Lord Falconer says people with “learning difficulties or autism” could, with “proper assistance”, access assisted suicide. That should alarm every Peer in the Lords. Vulnerable people don’t need help to die. They need support to live.
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The @InstituteGC has dealt a body blow to Ed Miliband’s Clean Power 2030 myth. This is welcome news. But its solution is wrong. You can’t build a high-energy economy on low-density and unreliable inputs. Read our full statement ↓ https://t.co/HS0ZIQyU96
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Net Zero Watch welcomes the Tony Blair Institute’s recognition that Britain’s electricity system is failing to deliver affordability, reliability or competitiveness. Their new report is a serious...
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The last King known to have met the Pope and presumably pray with him was Aethelwulf who took the four year old Alfred, subsequently the Great, to Rome in AD 855 to meet Leo IV. In comparison the Reformation is modern history.
‘This is a wonderful symbolic gesture of Christian unity.’ Jacob Rees-Mogg reacts to the King and Queen visiting Pope Leo XIV in Rome, and that the 'union' of two heads of churches ‘coming together’ may help inspire an understanding of the 'fundamentals of faith’.
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This is a truly remarkable, and chilling, statement from Lord Falconer. 👇 Once you start down the road of allowing the state to kill people, this is where you inevitably get to. And there is further to go along this road yet.
Lord Falconer says people with “learning difficulties or autism” could, with “proper assistance”, access assisted suicide. That should alarm every Peer in the Lords. Vulnerable people don’t need help to die. They need support to live.
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This was 💯 inevitable. It’s not a matter of political will. It was always impossible and it is a sign of how deluded the political class is that they thought it could be done.
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Exclusive: Promise to remove almost all fossil fuels from UK’s electricity supply by 2030 may be quietly abandoned over cost
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This sounds a truly terrible idea. Has the @CER_EU finally been captured by the industry lobby @CER_Grant ? PS I assume UK manufacturers need not apply. https://t.co/MAkqfze5te
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"I am a classical liberal. Students have a right to express their opinions even if personally, I find those views abhorrent. That even includes [...] inflammatory pamphlets about me. However, they do not have a right to [...] physically intimidate" https://t.co/oKo1oAqDSF
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Michael Ben-Gad, an economics lecturer at City University in London , has been branded a 'terrorist' and has faced calls to be sacked because he served in the Israel Defence Forces from 1982 to 1985.
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Imagine if you got all your news from CarbonBrief and then saw this story. You’d be completely dumbfounded, like a devoted Pravda reader turning the TV on for the first time in November 1989.
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The Speech I would Have Made In The House of Lords Opposing A New Law Which Would Permit Abortion Up To And Even During Birth. Whether you are pro choice or pro life this is a profound change which all should agree warranted more than 46 minutes of backbench debate in House of
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The Speech I would Have Made In The House of Lords Opposing A New Law Which Would Permit Abortion Up To And Even During Birth Whether you are pro choice or pro life this is a profound change which...
🎙️EXCLUSIVE: The Speech Peers Never Heard! Lord @DavidAltonHL was unable to speak on the abortion up to birth proposal in the House of Lords last week. He recorded his own speech instead. WATCH IN FULL his impassioned plea for peers to reject this “grotesque” measure!
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There's only a few days left. If you are a National Trust member and care about our heritage and history, vote for the @RestoreTrustNT candidates 👇. And *don't* use the quick vote'!
"The National Trust must present heritage in a way that unites rather than divides us." - Alka Sehgal Cuthbert These are the candidates who can save our heritage from groupthink. Stand up for heritage at the NT AGM and support our resolution to insure historic buildings fully.
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Is Keir Starmer finally waking up? Ed’s renewables auction will lock every family in this country into sky-high energy bills for twenty years. Keir must call time on this botched auction before it’s too late.
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It looks like the Government is being forced into action because of the potential failure of AR7. The next few weeks are going to be critical for energy policy in the UK.
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You hardly need a "secret report" to tell us that the Home Office is "dysfunctional" and "detached from reality". It's been like that for decades. 👇
EXCLUSIVE from @GeorgeGreenwood Shabana Mahmood has admitted the Home Office is 'not yet fit for purpose' after a secret report found it was dysfunctional, detached from reality and beset by a 'culture of defeatism' on immigration The home secretary said the department had
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Good luck @DanJTPitt. That is the right prospectus! I lived as a child just round the corner from where you stand in that photo. 👇
There is a by-election in Long Eaton where I live and have previously represented. I have been asked to stand and I am now the @Conservatives candidate. My principles of sound economics, cultural revival and flourishing local communities will be at the heart of my campaign.
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Keir Starmer's day from hell: 1) Number of small boat arrivals in 2025 passes the total for the whole of 2024 2) Asylum seeker deported to France comes back to UK on small boat 3) Last remaining candidate to chair grooming gangs inquiry withdraws It's only 3.17pm
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