Moderately annoying to see people alluding to some idea Sunak meeting with Tusk will be tense because of Brexit 2017-2019. 1) Sunak was not frontline during that period 2) Tusk was Council President, his job was to make life hard for UK 3) This is a defence/security meeting.

Luke is on the 'good list' when it comes to understanding UK-US trade - not least as he also points out the drug price problem... twitter.com/lukemcgee/stat…

Ahead of the Rwanda votes tonight that could go on until 1AM - Tory chief whip Simon Hart will host drinks for MPs in Rishi Sunak's parly office

Unfortunately, Truss's interventions serve not to enliven debate on how to enhance growth, but only to highlight what a mess the Tory Party is in. The divisions are so great it's scarcely a party at all any longer. My column telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

Obviously I am having a go at Truss here not Noah Keate

It is absolutely staggering that certain politicians are able to get away with this flagrant dreck

2) trade deals don’t automatically boost trade with the US enough to make the concessions we’d have to sign away worth it. We already trade a lot with US despite barriers and it’s not a certainty there is that much room for expansion

Excuse me…

Arrrrrrrrgggghhhh

1) trade deal with US not on cards without a provision on pharma procurement similar to that with South Korea under Trump - no PM, even Truss would agree to that as it would drive up drug prices in UK. This is all on record from US.

Channel crossings were up 56% for 1st quarter of this year. European border officials attribute this *directly to Rwanda close to passing*

Logic is looming tighter controls drove up crossings. Next 10-12 weeks could see more unintended consequences…

cnn.com/2024/04/20/uk/…

Channel crossings were up 56% for 1st quarter of this year. European border officials attribute this *directly to Rwanda close to passing*

Logic is looming tighter controls drove up crossings. Next 10-12 weeks could see more unintended consequences…

cnn.com/2024/04/20/uk/…

Trump have a completely normal one on Truth social today

The PM implied that 1.35 million were off work because of depression or anxiety. That’s not true.

Fact-checking Rishi Sunak because someone has to, in The New European - Think Without Borders

This story is absolutely mad

euractiv.com/section/politi…

Incredible

'What's that big spike in our audience traffic at 2 in the morn.... ah'

I don't really understand what the point of this column is? telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/2…