mark harris 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇿

@JustLEAVEeu @TeagueRoger Well let’s wait for the final details but given his negotiation track record it will probably be far worse

An ‘ambitious’ Brexit reset is being explored by the PM, aiming for a new EU trade deal. 🚨Treasury estimates suggest about £3bn a year in contributions to ease border frictions and join schemes. Critics say this quietly binds 🇬🇧closer to Brussels.

@StuartofLeeds @johnredwood At least the remainers have moved on from project fear to slow puncture - what next, slight inconvenience?

Here’s the straight, evidence‑based answer. No, the claim is not supported by the best available economic evidence. Multiple independent analyses (CEPR, ECB, OBR) show clear, measurable Brexit‑related losses to UK GDP, trade, investment, and productivity. The UK has not outperformed comparable economies once you adjust for counterfactuals — i.e., where GDP would have been without Brexit. Over the last decade, global shocks have hurt all advanced economies, but Brexit has imposed an additional, persistent drag on the UK. Best estimates suggest Brexit has left UK GDP several percentage points lower than it would otherwise have been, accounting for a substantial share but not all of the UK’s stagnation relative to comparable countries. cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… obr.uk/forecasts-in-d…

Why do people put out lies about loss of GDP and trade from Brexit based on out of date wrong forecasts? The official numbers for trade and GDP over the last ten years show no Brexit losses, with the UK outperforming Germany for GDP.

@JMPSimor Always telling when peolple don’t engage in the argument but attack the person on X….

A relentlessly rude, foolish and sexist individual - the fact that he ever had a tv show says a lot about tv…

@archer_rs His last prediction that remain would win with a large margin was equally prophetic bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Lord Stuart Rose chairman of Asda tells me on TimesRadio says it’s “when not if” the UK rejoins the EU and the public knows it.

@CarolineLucas How does it do huge damage to climate credentials when we are importing gas from Qatar etc? Anyone?

A terrible decision, and one which will do huge damage to the Government's climate credentials. As Ed knows, this drilling won't lower bills, but instead it sends a clear message that Britain won't be a world leader on ending oil and gas exploitation

@AEHALL1983 @GavinBarwell Subsidising farmers?

The EU is fundamentally rubbish at: ❌️ Signing free trade deals ❌️ Regulating anything ❌️ Growing the economies of member states ❌️ Foreign affairs ❌️ Controlling immigration ❌️ Dealing with a pandemic In fact can you name ANYTHING it does well @GavinBarwell?

@Eddystone506 That is not to say it is economically beneficial to rejoin, especially on terms the EU will propose….

Name a highly respected economist - anywhere in the world - who thinks Brexit has been economically positive for the UK so far? And quantified it in £. I'll wait 😃

@TheNewWorldmag Remainers are seemingly using the common EU tactic that every crisis = more EU needed. Will there be a future crisis where the answer is not to rejoin?

Under Trump’s volatile presidency, EU leaders are keen to strengthen ties with the UK. The problem is they have heard Starmer talk a big game on closer cooperation before ✏️ James Ball thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-thi…

@JohnOBrennan2 C’mon John you just make yourself silly by parroting that 8% nonsense which doesn’t pass the smell test

The Brexit nuts continue to chirp like maniacs about impending (renewed) betrayal. Oblivious to the catastrophic economic damage they brought on their own country - the loss of up to 8% of GDP year after year.

@POLITICOEurope He has been dealt a poor hand, at least he is trying to change things. In the UK the government seems happy to continue dealing out poor hands

The popularity of Friedrich Merz’s government has plunged to a record low, with just 15 percent of voters satisfied with its performance, according to results published by the ARD DeutschlandTrend survey today. politico.eu/article/friedr…

@JamesMelville How on earth can he know before exploration starts? Has he consulted mystic meg or something?

'Those people who say new exploration licenses will somehow create huge amounts of energy for us... I mean, they're just wrong' Ed Miliband - stuck in a doom loop of net zero insanity. Because of him, the UK is the largest economy to ban new licenses for North Sea exploration.

@TerraOrBust @gawanorniron @CitySamuel After how the EU treated the UK in the exit negotiations how can anyone with a bit of self respect want to thank them and rejoin?

Have to say I am absolutely loving the I am Spartacus moment that @CitySamuel has triggered with her article on converting from remain to leave. I have seen so many people today come out on X as having voted remain but now believing it was the right choice to leave.

@gideonrachman They did get them in Europe, around 6-8 weeks later when I compared myself to my schoolmates back in the UK.

Extremely feeble “argument” - ignoring the massive economic and diplomatic damage Brexit has done to Britain. Covid vaccines are your clincher? Because of course they never got those in Europe. They’re all dead now. Such a tragedy.

@CeeMacBee 👏👏👏

Here is my new paper for the Great British Business Council on the importance of oil, gas and coal to the UK economy. The UK’s industrial decline is not inevitable, but the result of decades of deliberate policy choices that have undermined domestic energy production and driven manufacturing offshore. Lowering UK employment and tax revenues, while increasing the UK trade deficit. The paper also includes a plan to reverse this. gbbc.uk/uk-deindustria…

@ITVNewsPolitics Amazing that his blind faith trumps the oil and gas exploration companies who are willing to invest serious capital to find new oil and gas.

'Those people who say new exploration licenses will somehow create huge amounts of energy for us... I mean, they're just wrong' Ed Miliband told ITV News that drilling for oil in the North Sea wouldn't bring down Britain's energy bills

Brexit has shone a light on the performance of the UK’s politicians and civil service. The glare has been so bad that they are running back to Brussels to shield themselves again.

@KathrynPorter26 Just one person in the whole country needed now to change his opinion..

John Swinney reverses the SNP position on North Sea drilling. This is a good move. I respect politicians who are willing to change their position when circumstances change and not stubbornly cling to ideology He said... “We need oil and gas for the foreseeable future. The two risks about imported oil and gas is that you could be importing more climate damaging oil and gas, and you might not be able to import it because of disruption and interruption to supply, because of what’s going on in the Middle East right now. So I think that context changes the balance of the arguments.” Now we just need @Ed_Miliband to do the same thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

@mhewson_MCH Amazing that he knows there is no more oil and gas out there before the oil companies have started…exploring.

Delusional ideological tw*t

@LondonEconomic Literally the worst option for a services based economy like the UK. Time for you to grow up and leave student politics behind

"The government must formally scrap its arbitrary 'red lines' on our relationship with the EU and have the courage to negotiate a Customs Union."

Not only have Labour failed to fix the roof when the sun was shining, they have currently dismantled the roof to fit solar panels just as it has started raining hard…