It is important to understand what is happening in DC in the background to Keir Starmer's Chagos surrender deal. President Trump has emphatically declared his opposition to the Chagos deal, which he rightly sees as an act of "great stupidity." The Labour Govt has launched a

Can you please provide details of the billions in export and investment deals you claim to have done with China. Other than China cutting the tariff on whisky — worth a mere £250m spread over 5 years to an industry which exports over £5bn every year — I can’t find any. Where are

I am in the US, having encouraging conversations about the Chagos Islands. The mood here has palpably hardened over the past week. Both @NRO and @dcexaminer (which you find in every Congressional office) carry powerful editorials against the handover. Americans, like Brits, have

It really doesn’t. It was not in the Labour Party manifesto, so the government has no mandate. Kim Leadbeater didn’t speak about, or campaign on assisted dying before the election, so she has no mandate.

Two main takeaways this week. First, isn’t defection a tawdry business? Second, Kemi’s speech on Wednesday really mattered. The 2010s aren’t (thankfully) coming back. The economy is pivotal - but Conservatives need to be equally resolute on crime, immigration and human rights.

Before the last election I refused to sign pledges to give money to WASPI campaigners. Many told me they would vote for the Labour candidate who promised she would. I refused to lie. They must be feeling sick today to have been taken for mugs.

The Supreme Court provided clarity a year ago: sex means biological sex. Men do not belong in female-only facilities. To give organisations certainty, the Government must publish the EHRC guidance. Until they do, the privacy, dignity and safety of women will remain at risk.

A hugely important story by @MaxKendix. No welfare reform closes down the only realistic route to increase defence funding as war gets ever closer. Military and intelligence chiefs are now screaming for it. It’s this failure that history will judge Keir Starmer for the harshest

This is a spectacularly misleading edit job. The sort of thing that had another party done to Labour, their MPs would be clucking about the standards commissioner and writing letters to the internet police.

This incompetent Labour government summed up in a policy: the 'one-in-one' out deal with France results in 69 MORE illegal immigrants coming to the UK (on top of the 51,000 who crossed last year). The solution: Vote Conservative. Leave the ECHR. Deport all illegals on arrival.

The big reason why so many people were so frustrated with the last Government - myself included - was because ultimately it wouldn’t do whatever it took to stop the small boats. But Kemi has made ECHR withdrawal party policy, and accepting that will be a condition of anyone

Every former minister I have spoken to blames the Chagos fiasco on Vijay Rangarajan, the relevant FCDO official. But, in Britain, civil servants are never blamed for anything and, indeed, he is now running the Electoral Commission, which makes MPs reluctant to criticise him.

NEW: President Trump responds to British troops uproar: “A bond too strong to ever be broken”

Some basics about Chagos for BBC reporters, Sky anchors and others coming new to the debate. 1. The Chagos Islands lie half-way between Africa and Indonesia, and host a key Anglo-American military base on the main island, Diego Garcia 2. France ceded the archipelago to Britain

Yesterday, the Conservative team in Parliament delivered a masterclass in how experience and teamwork can defeat bad policy. Thanks to the combined efforts of Priti Patel, Lords True, Callanan, Keen, and Wolfson, along with our defence, legal and foreign policy teams in the

Look at the first thing Rebecca Harries writes: "This is actual feedback". She is relaying things that have been told to her as a whip to show Jenrick the strength of feeling against his behaviour. He wants people to infer that she's ranting at him. (1/4)

So he’s going to agree the conditions of rejoining immediately so they can be debated during the referendum? Bonkers. Or we’ll just vote to join regardless of conditions. Bonkers. The EU has no ability to project military power but rejoining will impress Putin/Trump. Bonkers.

Was this tweeted after too many Jägermeisters in Davos? I'm all for supporting start ups and scale ups. And the public sector needs a less paralysing aversion to risk. But someone who backed Owen Smith for Labour leader might want to reflect on 'picking winners' before betting

Kemi is out there dealing with the serious national issues facing Britain, and you’re here posting context-free DMs like a jilted z-list celeb hoping their agent will call them back. Embarrassing, frankly.

NATO’s Article 5 has only been triggered once. The UK and NATO allies answered the US call. And more than 450 British personnel lost their lives in Afghanistan. Those British troops should be remembered for who they were: heroes who gave their lives in service of our nation.