Lord Ed Vaizey

My piece in @ftweekend on how the Tories need to modernise - again on.ft.com/3yWZrOT

I know it's lame to complain about this kind of stuff, but,,,,,,,,,, This post is a disgrace

After Trump disses Starmer, Irish leader Micheál Martin jumps in to defend Starmer and encourages Trump to get along with him. Martin then pivots to defending Ukraine -- a country Trump also dissed earlier in the event.

I've written an article for City A.M. Britain needs to be attractive for investment and entrepreneurs. So when an oven-ready scheme arrives courtesy of @UKPrivateCap , the Govt has no excuse to not jump on it!.. cityam.com/it-is-the-tax-…

More on this in my column today. Please give it a read, because I don't know how much longer I can keep shouting THIS REALLY MATTERS into the void thetimes.com/comment/column…

@IainDale @Hyperic55949796 @LiddleRod @hugorifkind @GeoffNorcott @ayeshahazarika @adamboultonTABB I don’t

@Hyperic55949796 @edvaizey @LiddleRod @hugorifkind @GeoffNorcott @ayeshahazarika @adamboultonTABB I like that order :)

Total favourite politics radio shows in no particular order; @IainDale @edvaizey @LiddleRod @hugorifkind @GeoffNorcott @ayeshahazarika And begrudgingly @adamboultonTABB

I am loving seeing this meme take off. However much there is to fix, we must never lose our optimism about the best of country.

@afneil This is correct. We are too small to sustain three separate services.

The US Marine Corps operates formidably on land, sea and air. It is roughly the same size as our combined armed forces, if not a bit bigger. So it’s a pretty good equivalent. Canada is always brought up by the vested interests of the established separate services. It is a good case study in how not to create a combined force. Israel is a case study in how to do it.

Completely agree

Milton Friedman: “I am not a conservative. I’ve never been a conservative. Hayek was not a conservative.” “We are liberals in the true meaning of that term: concerned with freedom. We are not liberals in the current distorted sense—those liberal with other people’s money.”

Such a pleasure to have Guto Harri instead of that halfwit “Lord” Ed Vaizey! @TimesRadio

“The catastrophe is coming” Amid dire warnings of flood, fire and falling gargoyles, are MPs any closer to restoring Parliament? My new pod with @mariecgoldman @EdwardLeighGB @edvaizey @A_Meakin and tips from Canada from @politicoottawa’s @TaylorVaisey open.spotify.com/episode/4OenvD…

In 2024 the Conservatives lost votes to parties on both their left and their right. And now millions of centre and centre-right voters say no party represents them. That tells you something important: there is real demand for sensible, pro-growth politics.

Everything in British politics is subordinate to this. We can’t afford it and it’s closing off all our other choices.

Absolutely here for the Chief Minister of Gibraltar taking on those who claim to know more about his territory than he does, not least given 10 years of this sort of nonsense.

@JohnCleese @Kasparov63 I don’t think this is true

And maybe another minute for the 32,000 demonstrators Khamenei had killed

Nearly 2/3 of companies say they don’t know where all their data lives while simultaneously giving AI broad access to it. I see this tension constantly and it’s clear the issue is a sovereignty problem rather than an AI problem. Shared drives, data rooms, internal messages, research archives and machine speed wired into the organization before leadership even fully understands what’s inside. This scenario invites risk to compound which, for institutions, shows up later in audits, litigation, and regulatory reviews. If a conclusion can’t be traced, defended, and repeated across teams under the same conditions pulling from the same source material, that becomes improvisation rather than infrastructure. Sovereignty keeps control intact and repeatability makes decisions durable. The winners in this phase of enterprise AI will understand their data well enough to let intelligence run and structured well enough to reproduce every outcome when challenged. Otherwise you’re just accelerating uncertainty. fortune.com/2026/02/25/tha…

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been killed in Saturday airstrikes, Iran International can confirm. iranintl.com/en/202602280738

Very difficult to dust

Hi @SuellaBraverman. You have it wrong, starting with the title of my office... 🤦‍♂️. Please read all the text and the supporting documents and stop playing politics with the People of Gibraltar whose future YOU and your ilk put in great jeopardy with #Brexit. Stop misleading with your selective quotation of a complex document largely negotiated by YOUR Conservative government when it was in office and YOU were Home Secretary.

In British politics the warning signs are usually there if you care to look Labour’s landslide masked cracks. Bristol Central flipping to the Greens. Losing Leicester South to an independent over Gaza This is not a bolt from the blue. Harder question how to stick back together?