James Mortimer

🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer gifts Rachel Reeves pancakes for Shrove Tuesday

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Why aren't there enough houses?

Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales welcome President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump to Windsor Castle–the oldest and largest occupied castle in the world. #StateVisit

Today I argued for raising inheritance tax, a tax on a hand out, unearned wealth, in exchange for cuts in income tax-a tax on work. This has riled up lots of people on here. But I think it’s essential to make capitalism function. Watch my argument in full. youtu.be/YSruUZBxlrE?si…

GIVEAWAY TIME: Sunday night I will pick one random winner and send them a free copy of THE STAND slipcased gift edition. Fully illustrated. All you have to do to be eligible is Follow and Retweet. Good luck!

We're facing a housing crisis — it's ridiculous to let land we could build on sit empty and disused. I said I would get Britain building. I am. We're unlocking brownfield railway sites across Britain to build 40,000 new homes. Giving more families the security they deserve.

The UK-US trade deal negotiated by PM @Keir_Starmer and @POTUS Trump is delivering - starting with these incredible @astonmartin cars. 🏗️ Every day, 1.5 million Brits go to work at American firms 🏢1.2 million Americans go to work for British businesses The trade deal is supporting businesses and jobs on both sides of the Atlantic 🇬🇧🇺🇸

Amazing!!! Thank you!!

GIVEAWAY TIME: Next Friday night I’ll pick one random winner and send them a free copy of THE STAND gift edition. Slipcased and lavishly bound and illustrated. All you have to do to be eligible is Follow and Retweet. Good luck!

And we're only just getting started...

Now we have some awards to give out, huge congratulations to Nina Allen and @williamj_tw for winning the 2021 and 2023 poster prizes!

This interview with @TomBaldwin66 draws out the private Starmer that those of us who follow him about and see when the camera isn’t rolling & he’s not in public view. He is, of all the PMs I have covered the most ‘ordinary’ and down-to-earth & yet the public perception of him is often that he’s posh, lofty, out of touch. I think one of the most revealing segments about Starmer is that he delayed his family holiday - his first in a year after that mad election period & early days of govt - to go to to Leeds clean out his brother Nick’s home after he died from cancer, throwing away the rotting food from the fridge, picking up dirty clothes and cleaning out the bath & loo. Why didn’t he get a cleaner in? “I didn’t want anyone else there. He was my brother – I didn’t want to let him down.” t.co/V2L744CaWy

'The Prime Minister has done a great job, I want to tell that to the people of the United Kingdom' President Trump adds: 'He [Sir Keir Starmer] has done what other people haven't been able to do' Watch in full: trib.al/VYv6voL 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602

Welcome to ‘Boomerville'. @Lewis_Goodall criticises the idea that ‘pensioners are a special group’ as the government U-turns on winter fuel payments.

Today Ömer Taşpınar joins us to share his work from the @ClaydenGroup on asymmetric intramolecular arylation reactions in a virtual research poster!! Check out the full paper, published under a month ago in @angew_chem here: lnkd.in/d8WmRGzr

NEW: For the first time, housebuilders will have to commit to delivery timeframes before they get planning permission. Getting the homes we need built faster. Our Plan for Change will make the dream of homeownership a reality for families across Britain.

@ClaydenGroup @Katie_Chemist Wooooo well done Katie!!!

Congratulations to @Katie_Chemist for passing her PhD viva today! Great work, and all the best for your next steps! Thank you to Simon Webb and Craig Butts for assessing!🧬↔📷

Congratulations, Jonathan, on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. This prestigious award reflects the high-quality research you have dedicated your career to. royalsociety.org/news/2025/05/n…