Gavin Barwell
@GavinBarwell
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Former No 10 Chief of Staff, Housing Minister & Croydon MP. Now running NorthStar, which advises on UK and geo-politics #LFC fan, Tolkien nerd & Nandos addict
Croydon
Joined January 2011
Never change Britain.
27% of Britons reckon that they could qualify for a sport at the 2028 Olympics, if they started training today. % saying they would definitely/probably qualify for. 10m Air Rifle: 15%.Archery: 13%.Badminton: 10%.Table tennis: 9%.Rowing: 7%.100m sprint: 6%.Road race: 6%.100m
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RT @GavinBarwell: "I’m not even sure Labour will get to the next election". What do you think they're going to do Matt? Give up and disband….
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"I’m not even sure Labour will get to the next election". What do you think they're going to do Matt? Give up and disband themselves? Spontaneously combust?.
Whoa. The UK paid £16.4 BILLION in interest on its debt last month. Things are totally out of control. As I say, I’m not even sure Labour will get to the next election. A major fiscal crisis may be en route ….
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RT @ChiefMI6: 85 years ago today, SOE was founded to “set Europe ablaze”, to kindle the spirit of resistance in Occupied Europe. Today, as….
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RT @Tony1Mont: @GavinBarwell @RupertLowe10 So a Reform government might deport a Russian national to his homeland if say he’d been convicte….
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Actually - and unsurprisingly - it is a bit more complicated than populists like @RupertLowe10 make out e.g.
This should not be a remotely controversial statement.
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RT @adamvaughan_uk: .@SteveReedMP has been out today trumpeting a goal to cut sewage spills 50% by 2030 against 2024 levels. But Ofwat said….
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Strong contender for best transfer window ever.
🚨💣 BREAKING: Hugo Ekitike to Liverpool, here we go!. Deal in place for fee over €90m for the French striker to join from Eintracht Frankfurt, potentially reaching €95m. Six year deal for Ekitike, valid until June 2031; he only wanted Liverpool move. New striker for Slot 🇫🇷
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Whatever your view on the principle (I am mildly opposed), if you were making a list of stuff that needs sorting in this country that Parliament should be focusing on this wouldn't be anywhere near the top of the list. How about sorting social care?.
bbc.co.uk
Lowering the voting age across the UK means around 1.5 million 16 and 17-year-olds will be able to vote at the next general election.
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The headline is overstating it a lot, but while the headline polls don't show it the party is in a slightly better position than it was a couple of months ago (primarily because Farage's shift left on welfare has opened up some political space).
Tories end their term on a high. ✍️ James Heale.
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Reality check:. There is strong public support for net zero. A Reform Government will have to honour contracts signed by its predecessors unless it legislates to negate them, which would do grave damage to the UK's reputation for the rule of law. Tice and co are not conservatives.
RENEWABLE NOTICE. I have written today to bosses of:.Octopus.Centrica.RWE.SSE Renewable.Orsted.Scottish Power.Equinor .Vattenfall. Notifying them of the political risks of any bids for this years AR7 . Net Stupid Zero is ruining our countryside & economy. Reform intend to stop it
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He's learning.
“president biden was not able to end this war. i am confident that president trump can do it.”. -president zelenskyy on newsmax (working much harder to stay on this admin’s good side).
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I have left Reform effective immediately.
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Agree with @PennyMordaunt & @LordJohnMann re growing problem of people holding British Jews responsible for actions of Israeli Government. The inverse - those who criticise that Government being accused of anti-semitism - also wrong. Stop equating the two
telegraph.co.uk
Government-backed report says Jewish people suffering increased prejudice across society
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RT @ST0NEHENGE: The 2025 July full Buck Moon setting at Stonehenge this morning as the sun was rising. Photo credit Nick Bull 🙏.#buckmoon #….
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Dan must think his followers are idiots. The chart he helpfully posted alongside his nonsense explains why debt increased under the Cameron Government - because it inherited a situation where it was rising very rapidly. Only huge cuts or huge tax rises could have prevented it.
No other word for it: disaster. What the Conservatives did to the UK national debt - even before the pandemic - should never be forgotten. It's why politics in the 2020s isn't anything like politics in the 2000s. Low growth + high debt + higher interest rates after the
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It is not a hammer blow. The last two weeks have demonstrated the need for a fiscally conservative party. Defections like this make it easier for the Conservative Party to occupy that space, and simultaneously confirm that there is nothing "new" about Reform.
💥 SUN EXCLUSIVE: . Former Conservative Party chairman Sir Jake Berry has defected to Reform warning they “our last chance to pull Britain back from terminal decline”. Hammer blow to Badenoch as former CCHQ says party doomed .
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Normandy wasn't France. Bayeux wasn't a French city.
Made in England by Anglo-Saxons, celebrating the violence of Norman conquerors, taken by those conquerors to France, renamed for a French city, and kept in France for 900 years. Surely it’s time to ‘decolonise’ the Kent Tapestry, and give it back to us permanently? #KentTapestry.
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Impossible to prove or disprove this with polling, but I think voters would reward honesty. But it would have to be all the time. You'd have to take a vow of complete candour. How would you respond to a politician who always gave direct, honest answers to questions?.
Earlier today, Richard Hughes, chair of the OBR, got to the heart of a significant problem with British politics, which is that politicians don’t feel able to be honest about what is achievable. “The UK public finances are in an unsustainable position in the long run. The UK.
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Labour learnt in 1992 that whole people *say* they'd pay higher taxes for better services they don't vote for it. Next they tried funding higher spending through borrowing. That's no longer an option so we're left with "Rich people will pay" but a) small base and b) highly mobile.
I worry that the Left has stopped making the argument for a more expansive state funded by most people paying more tax. Instead we're left with the false claim that Other People will always pay.
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