Rajiv Shah
@RajivShah90
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Former special adviser in MOJ, AGO, and No 10. https://t.co/Pindr4ZbSM
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Joined September 2022
Kim: “I’m going to get a High Court judge as a safeguard, it will be the best safeguard in the world” . Judges: “We can’t do that” . Kim: “Fine, I will drop that and change it to psychiatrists and claim that it's Judge Plus" . Psychiatrists: “We can’t do that” . What's next?.
@RCPsych cannot support the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill for England and Wales in its current form and is once again urging MPs to look at our concerns ahead of the pivotal Commons Report stage debate and Third Reading. More here:
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RT @simongerman600: Now that European summer is heating up, let me quickly remind you just how important street trees are! .
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RT @CoKeynesian: Morgan McSweeney (Starmer's Irish political advisor/svengali), Jacinda Ardern (a New Zealander who worked for New Labour),….
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RT @kesleeman: Aaaaand… “palliative care” is mentioned once. Once. In 168 pages. Our 10 year plan for dying people is:. - Neighbourhood te….
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RT @Mark_J_Harper: But…. 👉 with only 1 reference to palliative care.👉 only 3 mentions of hospices and.👉 no commitment to universal access….
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Slightly tongue in cheek, but @paulpowlesland now you know how those of us on the right feel when people invoke human rights law for everything and anything!. But on a serious note, something has seriously gone wrong with human rights discourse in this country for that to be said.
I recently got stopped & ticketed by the City of London Police for, & I kid you not, “cycling no handed”. Even though it’s clearly not an offence, the officer said they were ticketing me under the Human Rights Act as I was infringing other people’s Article 2 ‘Right to Life’, in
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RT @kmtran95: Not-so-fun fact: One of the monasteries that Henry seized and dissolved had developed a prototype blast furnace. Had the Engl….
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@Birdyword Generally I think market participants seem poor at distinguishing which pieces of political 'news' they should or shouldn't take seriously. (obviously you are right about WM not understand markets though).
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Have been disturbed about this all day . Market reaction is a significant constraint on HMG's ability to act (that's not me complaining; it's a fact of life) . But what if far from being efficient they just work on vibes (and, worse they pick out SW1 noise as vibes).
Extraordinary how the markets react much more sharply to the chancellor's distress and speculation over her position than they did over the actual £5bn u-turn.
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RT @EliotWilson2: The PM can sack Rachel Reeves, though ditching a chancellor doesn’t always end well, and there might be a dead-cat bounce….
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RT @fleurmeston: When parliament voted for assisted suicide, many called it “choice at the end of life”. What choice will remain when the s….
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RT @HugoGye: @Birdyword Well in this case they're reacting hard to an entirely groundless rumour! Having not reacted at all last night to a….
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Dream SW1 job (for some): get paid to watch Parliament TV, hang out in SW1 pubs, read Twitter and occasionally respond to the texts of a finance bro.
Long thought there's a lot of money to be made in telling traders what's actually happening in politics.
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RT @HugoGye: Long thought there's a lot of money to be made in telling traders what's actually happening in politics.
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The power of the institutional Treasury to take politicians, convince them HMT is right, and use them as shields for the unpopularity of HMT's policies is truly magnificent to see. Poor Rachel Reeves (and I genuinely feel bad for her) is just cannon fodder for HMT.
A tear just rolled down the Chancellor’s cheek at #PMQs as the PM refuses to answer whether or not she’ll stay in her job. Hayfever, or something else?
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RT @treesey: Ellie voted for the Assisted Dying Bill, despite the desperate pleas of all disability rights groups. Sometimes she listens, a….
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RT @LukeTryl: We say the UK is divided but in 24 hours this trailer has managed to unite.- People who hate Americans take on British twee….
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RT @RuthFox01: MPs could of course vote against the Programme motion that will follow the outcome of this 2nd reading vote and force the Go….
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