Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧

@HasAhmed_ You were a Tory until recently too. Both of us are defectors and I believe sincere ones. I think you're being unfair my friend x

@realPhilTaylor @TimesRadio @LiddleRod He's SDP!

@montie @TimesRadio Only to annoy him, but surely @LiddleRod is a Reformer?!

I love the @TimesRadio claim that they are a place of "diverse opinion". My rough totting up of over forty regular voices finds eight committed Labour voices, seven committed Tories, zero Reform. It's a very good channel but the idea it represents all diversity of opinion fairly is complete nonsense. It's the radio station of the uniparty.

Lots of weird takes on the Hungarian election result from both left and right here. Peter Magyar is a socially conservative immigration restrictionist who wants to cut taxes and double the defence budget. He criticized Orban for admitting too many guest workers, and wants to increase Hungary's already generous pro-natal incentives. On virtually every issue, his platform is well to the right of centre, by European standards. His foreign policy is to end Orban's alliance with Putin, remove the Hungarian veto on EU loans to Ukraine, normalize relations with the European Union while opposing more Euro integration, and strengthen relations with Eastern Europe's anti-Russian governments, e.g. Poland. His election was not a sudden shift to the left, but a rejection of Orban's corruption, the failure of his interventionist / statist economic policies, and the humiliation of his relationship with Putin.

@SirSimonClarke Fancy a bet on the outcome of the locals?

@montie Fact Tim. Reform want to make it look like they have endless momentum and all other parties are doomed. That’s absolutely reasonable politics, but it’s also the case that a swing of a couple of percent would transform the situation.

Denial

This you ⁦@EdwardJDavey⁩ ? People were imprisoned & died after your failings Morally completely indefensible

New polling in @TheTimes this weekend. Vote Reform. Get Starmer Out.

Any Conservative who can't say this isn't a conservative

We’re entering a postliterate age. That’s why image-rich Catholicism is trending and text-based Protestantism isn’t. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

So proud of my friend @iainmartin1 and what he's building ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I did double take this!! ** Good luck Karolina #notangelarayner

Nineteen!

Sarah is a superb local MP. Tireless.

Reform setting the agenda this election. Again.

No. Trump didn't lose. The West lost. In the last few weeks we've proven comprehensively that we are decadent. We are unwilling (not unable) to bear the cost of tackling an existential threat. We'll reap what our civilisational weakness has shown.

@FraserNelson The best title too!

As an avid consumer of political biographies I have to say Michael Crick’s Farage is one of the best I’ve read. Fair minded, revelatory offering insight into the making of a serial political entrepreneur.