Christopher Howarth

Out 18th September.... amazon.co.uk/Durian-Pact-Wh…

@MichaelLCrick Peel was born in Bury, but I see it's Lloyd George!

So who was the last prime minister actually born In Manchester?

Convicted Fraudster Gets Control of Propriety & Ethics in the British Government order-order.com/2026/07/20/con…

Madness is trying the same thing again and again and expecting a different result. x.com/Telegraph/stat…

Sad, for many years he was the only footballer I could name, so he must have been great. x.com/LFC/status/207…

Saying no to her extradition to Bangladesh. Top Kier Justice. x.com/TulipSiddiq/st…

@DuxVul2 openletter.earth/sign-the-open-…

The fact no one can find an online presence for him means the government spent a week scrubbing it before releasing his name

@estwebber @CharlieCooper8 Nobody has done more harm than Ed to our energy supply and prices, off to ruin what's left of the FCO?

👀 The expectation of Ed Miliband as foreign secretary is rising after he bids farewell to his department by @CharlieCooper8

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It is entirely probable Pochin has just committed a serious breach of Standards and may also have made the situation worse for Farage - see second tweet

Good to see the King properly dressed in a suit and tie. x.com/GuidoFawkes/st…

I think the guards outside Buckingham palace are playing a medley of doctor who? Just played the Dalek’s theme tune, which is appropriate given the lack of emotion Starmer mustered during his departing speech

The old Kingdom... x.com/duncanrobinson…

@Adrian_Hilton Kemi's "former Equality and Human Rights Commissioner" is unlikely to repeal the HRA.

As good as this is (and it is), I'm afraid it ignores the political reality of the current House of Lords following the Blair reforms. Every incoming PM now has to appoint many dozens of new peers if they are to enact their programme of government. As presently constituted, the House would never vote to abrogate the ECHR and so leave the Council of Europe (including many Tory peers, who would be happier losing the whip). There's the Parliament Act, of course, but for such a constitutionally significant shift, that would be unsatisfactory. So Kemi Badenoch would need to appoint around 300 new peers. Nigel Farage would need to appoint even more. And so it ends up being a club if not quite for benefits, certainly for an oligarchical class. It is now an ever-expanding legislature, and I now believe the Conservative thing to do would be to abolish and re-establish it along the lines of what is described below.

@KemiBadenoch "a former Equality and Human Rights Commissioner" who backs the Human Rights Act.

If Farage had no security and a known address wouldn't he have gone there instead?

British Citizens are now treated as '3rd country' in Gibraltar thanks to Picado and Starmer. x.com/danbarker/stat…

Still wearing a life jacket? x.com/TheMercianNews…

@danbarker @GibraltarGov @FabianPicardo Doesn't even say 'visa free' presumably Schengen reserves the right to visa British citizens going into Gibraltar?

@GibraltarGov @FabianPicardo So in summary: British Citizens are in the 'third country nationals' line, whereas EU citizens go the same route as Gibraltar Residents.

The Chief Minister @FabianPicardo explains the new procedures at Joshua Hassan Gibraltar International Airport as treaty implementation takes effect.

@AintMeHonest @cazjwheeler The original lenders can lose their money, but they have a claim on the assets. The shareholders lose first, then the lenders. The administrator sells any assets to pay the lenders as much as they can recover. Infrastructure for growing populations is expensive.

@CJCHowarth @cazjwheeler The debt goes bump, that’s the risk of investing. Then you build a forecast based on current revenue of cost + % of upgrades, build in additional home building plans to spread the investment costs over say 50 years. As no profits to be extracted. Have a long term payback plan.

Exclusive:: Andy Burnham is considering a radical overhaul of England’s water industry that would transfer ownership from shareholders to customers as he prepares for an early showdown over the future of Thames Water. The incoming PM is understood to have expressed interest in a policy drawn up by the @GoodGrowthFdn alongside Labour and Co-operative MP @helenadollimore which recommends mutualisation as a way to bring the water industry under greater public control without the potentially high taxpayer cost of full nationalisation. If the proposal was applied to Thames Water, it could provide a blueprint for the wider sector, with other companies able to voluntarily transition to customer-owned co-operatives through a share exchange model. @BloombergUK reported last week that Burnham is likely to place Thames Water into a Special Administration Regime (SAR) - a process that would allow Britain’s largest water company to continue operating under government supervision while its long-term future is decided. Under the GGF proposals, the threshold for triggering SAR would be lowered, making it easier for ministers and regulators to intervene in failing companies. A new “bail-in” mechanism, modelled on powers used in the banking sector after the 2008 financial crisis, would require shareholders and creditors to absorb losses before taxpayers are asked to contribute public money. Companies emerging from a reformed SAR process would be required to become not-for-profit, customer-owned cooperatives rather than returning to shareholder ownership. The GGF also proposes tougher rules for the rest of the sector. Water companies would face closer monitoring, limits on executive pay and a ban on dividends unless they meet strict financial, environmental and customer service targets. The proposal would extend dividend restrictions already recommended for companies in financial difficulty across the entire industry. Companies could choose to mutualise voluntarily, selling at a fair price and transferring ownership to customers through a share exchange scheme, with support from the National Wealth Fund available to help the transition. Those that fail to meet the new standards would face a lower threshold for being placed into SAR. The think-tank proposes that the changes would be delivered through primary legislation. The proposals are backed by Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire, Oliver Coppard, Mayor of South Yorkshire, and Joe Fortune, General Secretary of the Co-operative Party, of which Burnham is also a member. Read more in @theipaper 👇 liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/46558…

@GibraltarGov @FabianPicardo So you have a British passport check and a Spanish check, but British citizens are 3rd country nationals and are now effectively entering a foreign territory?

@StevenEdginton He is just lying. There was no agreement to reduce it. The opposite, the HO attempts to reduce it were blocked by Cabinet with no help from the PM.

"If I had a complaint it was that after I left office [migration reduction] wasn't done fast enough." His avoidance of responsibility for letting in millions of third world migrants does dishonour to the people who voted for him to reduce migration. He has demographically transformed Britain in an act that would horrify his great hero Winston Churchill.