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My piece in @ftweekend on how the Tories need to modernise - again
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Lord Ed Vaizey
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Lord Ed Vaizey
@edvaizey
Member @UKHouseofLords & Business Adviser. MP for Wantage & Didcot (2005-19) Tech & Culture Minister (2010-16) | Trustee @Tate | @timesradio Friday mornings
London, England Katılım Aralık 2008
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Unfortunately, I agree. I'm in politics because I care about the mundane stuff - the schools people go to, the jobs they get, whether they know that the streets will be clean and crime will be punished. On domestic policy, the last decade has been largely miserable.
Tom McTague@TomMcTague
Lots of ways to think about today. The culmination of Starmer’s individual failures, sure. But it is now clearly more than that. Much more. 2020-2026 — Post pandemic crisis 2016-2026 — Post Brexit chaos 2007-2026 — Post GFC decline 2000-2026 — 21st century collapse We have had a disastrous 21st century.
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Until someone bites the bullet, slashes spending, and does the difficult pro-growth reforms this country desperately needs, we will continue to have a ridiculous carousel of Prime Minsters.
The truth is the Prime Minister could have survived the Mandelson scandal if people felt better off in their pockets.
While there’s no growth, there’s no longevity of political tenure.
Blair survived plenty of scandal, and plenty of Mandelson, ultimately because everything in life’s wider context didn’t feel so desperately shit.
Until we have a political class brave enough to end the overspending, liberalise the labour market, and *actually* overhaul the planning system - we’re going to be stuck in this same psychodrama of doom.
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👇Ed Vaizey playing an absolute blinder on @SkyNews by saying absolutely nothing while a Labour Minister and MP have a huge ding dong over electoral disaster and @KeirStarmer @UkLabour leadership
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David Gauke held three Cabinet offices. In successive Treasury roles, he consolidated the disastrous financial situation left behind by Gordon Brown. He shifted people off benefits and into productive work. He was always a calm, measured, results-driven public servant.
God save us from the tribalism that defines political integrity as “agreeing with me”. Congratulations Sir @DavidGauke.
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I find this stuff pretty silly. The spending isn’t “the state”. It’s us.
It’s the demographics of an aging population and the impact of that on the triple lock, social care and the NHS.
We reform these or we pay more tax. Those are the choices. Everything else is denial.
Tony Ward@TonyWard867811
The OBR drew this chart. Yellow line is what the state takes. Green line is what the state spends. The gap will be filled by stealing from you, your children and their children. By 2074, UK debt hits 270% of GDP. The state's own watchdog admits it in writing. Yesterday the bond market read the chart. UK 30 year gilt: 5.76%. Highest since 1998. UK 10 year: 5.08%. The market knows what comes next. When yields rise too far, the Bank of England will step in. They will print. They will buy. They will debase. They will steal from your children's future and their children. Just like 2022. Just like covid. Just like 2008. Savers smoked. Pensioners smoked. Gilt holders smoked. The pound will lose another generation of purchasing power in months, not years. You have been betrayed. And this is only the beginning.
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Significant.
There will be lots of “Stop Reform” tactical votes at the next election. The Tories won’t be getting them if they are open the idea of being Farage’s junior partner in power.
Josh Glancy@joshglancy
NEW I interviewed Kemi Badenoch ahead of the locals: - She rules out a shadow cabinet reshuffle - Leaves the door ajar to coalition with Reform: “too soon to be talking about that” - Says of £5m donation: “it sounds like someone has bought” Farage thetimes.com/article/1cb4b8…
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Hinkley Point C is already the most expensive nuclear power station ever built. It also has more fish protection measures than any reactor built anywhere in the world. Around £700m has been spent on saving a few hundred legally-protected fish. This is already extremely disproportionate.
For Natural England to now demand even more mitigation - regardless of the wider impact on the project and for minimal added benefit to nature - shows just how out of touch with reality they really are. We can protect nature, and build the infrastructure we need, but Natural England is putting process over outcomes. As Sam says, this out of control quango has become a direct threat to Britain’s energy security.
The King’s Speech gives the government the opportunity to finally reform the system by fully implementing the Fingleton Review; they should legislate as quickly as possible so that something like this can never happen again.
Sam Dumitriu@Sam_Dumitriu
Natural England have decided that £700m spent protecting fish isn’t enough. They want EDF to do even more before they’ll let them switch the plant on. This will cause a big delay. Put simply, Natural England is a threat to our energy security. telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…
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Proud Conservative @alysdenby has proclaimed she’s voting Labour and calls for other London Tories to do the same.
She believes Labour are the “lesser of two evils” when it comes to the Greens.
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Glad this is being discussed.
We have lost so much
Cairo Smith@cairoasmith
There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.
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The best wealth tax is a massive increase in housebuilding.
-> Property is largest source of UK wealth
-> Most actually doable wealth taxes boil down to taxing property anyway
-> More supply = lower house prices = more people on ladder, lower cost of living, wealth democratised
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The work of @mragilligan in exposing the antisemitism of The Green Party has been exemplary public service journalism - proud to have him in @spectator
Andrew Gilligan@mragilligan
Saiqa Ali and Sabine Mairey, two of the Green candidates I exposed for sharing hateful views, have been arrested, the Telegraph reports. Happy to share any evidence with the police. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/3…
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Jesus Henry Christ. Do these people not realise what they’re doing to the housing market?
Joe Hill@jo3hill
Not satisfied with the damage to the housing market from the Building Safety Regulator and Second Staircase rule, MGCLG are consulting on a requirement for evacuation lifts for buildings above six stories. This will all but kill construction in London. gov.uk/government/con…
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👀 increasingly clear that the sacking of Robbins had nothing to do with “process” and everything to do with “survival” of prime minister. So deputy heads must roll in misguided bid to reassert authority rather than owning the original decision to appoint Mandelson
helen macnamara@helen_macnamara
The purpose of all this is now lost on me - Peter Mandleson was sacked lat Sept - Olly Robbins did his job & told truth about vetting conversations and was sacked for it - the evidence from the FCDO Director of Security validates Olly. [sidebar shocked that the armchair DV experts weren’t entirely right] - everyone now furiously agrees the process was followed - the committee chair has already told us her view in anticipation of the evidence. - Morgan McSweeney had already resigned because he gave the PM the wrong advice about the appointment. He at least stands out as the honourable resignation/sacked himself. What exactly is at play now? Is there a defcon for levels of pointlessness? Don’t want to alarm anyone but think we may be at 4.
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Out of all the decisions this government has made, this is one of the very worst (and it’s a long list) - simply because it was made without proper due diligence and driven by the politics of envy, chasing a cheap headline.
It is a bitter, spiteful policy that shows no regard for the children immediately affected - not to mention the local economies that rely on these schools: teachers, caterers, sports clubs, cleaners, maintenance - the list goes on.
As predicted, schools are closing, and more pupils are being pushed into the state sector, adding pressure and cost where the system is already stretched.
Private education is one of Britain’s success stories. Countries around the world try to emulate these schools or send their children to them. So of course it makes sense that this government - which seems to resent British success - would want to undermine them with the stroke of a pen.
Not only that - it has made private schooling MORE elitist. Eton, Harrow, the very top end - were always going to be fine, as were the families who can afford those fees.
It is the mid-tier schools - and the aspirational families who stretch to afford them - who are taking the hit. The local tradesman, the local GP - the families for whom this was a genuine choice for their children.
For them, that choice is now gone. Children have been pulled out of their schools. People have lost their jobs - all for nothing.
This is a government that seems to hate Britain, its culture and traditions - and is determined to crush hope and aspiration within it.
Jordan Walker@JayW132
VAT on private school fees was pitched as a way to raise money for public services. New report: it's projected to cost the public £181m by 2038.
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@edvaizey clearly Lord Vaizey purposely makes Brexiteers switch off @TimesRadio
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@TimesRadio @edvaizey @hugorifkind @FraserNelson But Vaizey is not upto any sort of commentary. Ask Andrew Neil.
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Olly Robbins acted with the calm integrity and intelligence that have defined his public service. His job was to judge whether #Mandelson’s risks could be mitigated, not tell the PM what he already knew. Starmer should retract his accusations and reinstate him.
The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes
Olly Robbins stays civil as he laments how his service got him sacked #Echobox=1776786149" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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The judgment questions overhanging Keir Starmer this afternoon aren't just about his original decision to appoint Mandelson before he'd completed vetting. They are now also: why he sacked Olly Robbins and what that says about him.
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If nothing else, the decision to sack Robbins, when he didn't need to, must rank as one of the most absurd acts of political self-harm any prime minister has yet committed. All of this eminently foreseeable.
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