🎙️ NEW ep 🎙️ When is a lie really a lie? Inside Westminster’s obsession with half-truths (a la Budget pitch rolling) & how it leaves voters feeling no one tells the truth @bbcnickrobinson @LukeJSullivan @Mark_J_Harper @CraigOliver100 & more

Podcast ‼️🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇸 The UK faces unparalleled threats from Russia and global threats: so why is a promised defence rise lagging? My dive into tensions between armed forces, MOD and Treasury with @estwebber for @POLITICOEurope is up today. And here’s the podcast on what happens next

Government officials strongly reject this. They say ministers are "getting on top of a defence program that the last government left underfunded, overcommitted and unsuited to the threats we face." Story w/@annemcelvoy

@RNLI saves about 700 lives a year. Thank you @DockyardDogs for all you enable and the toe-tappers tonight. ⚓️

The latest round of peace talks in Moscow between the Americans and the Russians has ended without agreement. This week on Westminster Insider, we discuss whether the UK has the capability — and the will — to help protect Ukraine in all scenarios. 🎧:

🎙️Very happy to be on @annemcelvoy's podcast this week. Essential listening on Ukraine and defence latest. with @John_ForemanCBE @jcartlidgemp @CalvinBailey https://t.co/ippt80PNSg

🎙️NEW🎙️How to raise taxes — and get away with it w/ @Jeremy_Hunt @theobertram @Joe_Mayes @NationJames @HelenMiller_IFS

Glad to see my former colleague @MaxieAllen_prod setting the record straight after what he’s been through.

This is an excellent edition of Westminster Insider from @patrickxrbaker with choice nuggets from @danbloom1. Listen here 👇

There are so many funny details in this piece by @danbloom1 and @patrickxrbaker But it's also a deadly serious look at whether the tired, dysfunctional building the state is governed from is part of the reason the state itself so often seems ... tired and dysfunctional?

Inside No. 10 Downing Street, the creaky old house that runs Britain. https://t.co/0SFOfYYj6o

🎙️NEW ep 🎙️ who cares about the farmers? From post-Brexit trade deals to inheritance tax, how SW1 ignored farmers W/ @michaelgove @HenryDimbleby @CllrTerryJermy @ProagriLtd Emma Pryor

Does anyone care about British farmers? Those ploughing the fields and harvesting crops certainly don’t feel Westminster pays attention to them. This week on Westminster Insider, @saschaosullivan unpacks the relationship between politics and farming:

🏔️❄️ Defence ministers and military planners went to the Arctic this week to war game what would happen if Russia seeds disorder on their doorstep. “Russia is living in the Arctic. We need to step up on the European side to learn to live in the ice-covered polar sea.”

This is well worth a read for anyone interested in an extraordinary relationship. There are few who can match @DanJColl for his depth of knowledge on Anglo-American relations and expertise on Margaret Thatcher and her long relationship with the United States.

My piece on how the extraordinary Thatcher/Reagan relationship looks today https://t.co/Z5PUe6a7KJ

Love this article on the differences between the surprising @Keir_Starmer -@realDonaldTrump relationship and the deep Thatcher-Reagan partnership. https://t.co/v5kMPEg88N @DanJColl is unquestionably one of the most perceptive analysts of US-U.K. relations around.

The UK's former Conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss thinks the Green Party might end up becoming the official opposition after the next election. https://t.co/2CHfMbTUTY

Former Tory leader @trussliz tells me that the Greens under @ZackPolanski could be the official Opposition at the next election. Story here https://t.co/LO5QpXbUEc. ➡️ Truss says people have enough of the adding that people are sick of the “technocratic managerial crap” in

What went wrong in Keir Starmer’s handling of China? ➡️On one of our Westminster Insider interviews specials this week, discussed whether Britain’s own “deep state” messed up - and what it might mean for our delicate relationship with Beijing. @EmilyThornberry joined me along