Rt Hon Nigel Evans

@Martina I was honoured to row amongst them yesterday evening …Amazing team and fans…. Great country too who have given London a Christmas tree since 1947…. Such warmth!

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@HackBlackburn Superb

Looking forward to us beating France in the final and Charles being crowned at Reims

@nff_landslag Glorious - I was thrilled to be a part of the welcome to a great team and incredible fans….btw I loved doing the row and roar!

Wow! Tusen takk, Norge ❤️

If they don’t believe in the core Kemi Conservative message Ed will be a welcoming woke refuge ….. mind you he wasn’t that for postmasters and mistresses during their darkest hour ……

@MarioNawfal Proud to have rowed along- great team and fans- you together did your country proud and won the hearts of millions!

🇳🇴 One last Row. Crown Prince HAAKON himself beat the drum while the Norwegian team and thousands of fans rowed together in unison. Norway left as legends. See you in 2030.

I simply adore this!

@Reuters I adored taking part in the rowing and roaring- a huge heart on display by a lovely people! Well done! You won the admiration of millions around the world.

Norway World Cup team takes part in 'Viking row' outside Royal Palace x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@Average_Jonas I loved every second of it. I was honoured to do the rowing and roaring! Great team, fans and nation! Btw thank you for the annual gift of a Christmas tree for Trafalgar Square every year!

This is what Oslo looked like when we welcomed our boys home ❤️🇳🇴

@Nordic_News I think there were way more- I loved doing the rowing- they are such a great people !

Ro! Ro! – Norway's World Cup team "rows" with 90,000 people outside Royal Palace in Oslo tv.vg.no/video/383250/f…

@Rod__Mason @norwegianesc @Edwina_Currie No wonder everyone I’ve seen in Oslo since I’ve been here seem incredibly happy and friendly.

@nigelmp @norwegianesc @Edwina_Currie Norwegians also have only six million residents, but a national financial surplus measured in trillions! 🇳🇴

I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. I honestly can’t remember a time when Norwegians have been this united. The World Cup brought us all together. Cities, small towns, pubs, living rooms - everywhere people gathered to support our team. Tonight, our national heroes were honoured for what they achieved, and for giving us a summer of 2026 we’ll never forget. To those who think celebrating our team is “too much”: We don’t care! Not one bit! We’ll keep singing, keep celebrating, and keep dreaming. Bring on Euro 2028. Bring on World Cup 2030! 🇳🇴

@JohnSimpsonNews Don’t be daft John. The war and tragic loss of 907 lives, and successfully reclaiming The Falklands put a lid on it- not the outcome of a football match.

Argentina v England is important way beyond football. If Argentina wins tomorrow night, it’ll put real fire behind the demand for the Falklands. If England wins, that should put the lid on it — for now.

And this is why everyone fell in love with Norway…. You did your country proud….. Team and fans together !

@BradleyThomasUK Best line of the day Bradley……

Coronation chicken.

@steverichards14 @adamboultonTABB Oh dear…. Steve Richards critical… and reposted by Adam Boulton. Kemi you appear to be going in the right direction!!!!!

This will end badly… for Kemi Badenoch. Taking on parts of their own party makes a leader look ‘strong’ for around ten seconds…then the trouble begins…especially when a leader disciplines the sensible wing of her party.

@KarlTurnerMP @AngelaRayner @LucyMPowell @bphillipsonMP Ha ha ha saw what you did there Karl!!!!!

Keep Emily Thornberry away from Downing Street at all costs please- she would have multiple fits seeing all those England flags ….

The cathedral in Oslo….. bliss.

Towards the dying days of the last Conservative Government, with Rishi’s inability to take the right decisions to keep faith with the country on immigration, net zero insanity and eye wateringly high taxation levels , the public had had enough. At the last election the voters decided to put the Conservative Party into special measures and 251 Tory MPs, me included,were fired. Many who returned were elected with wafer thin majorities. Part of the problem was that the Party spoke from the right but governed from the left with the ratchet relentlessly pulling the country further leftwards closer to the miserable abyss we now find ourselves looking into. As Andy Burnham, the easy rider of politics, takes to the helm, his honeymoon could dissipate whilst walking down the aisle if he appoints former convicted fraudsters and tax avoiders to his cabinet and rewards net zero obsessives with plum jobs in order that they can turn their zealotry towards hammering entrepreneurs and those with a bit of money. Kemi is taking the right and difficult decisions to reshaping her Party in her fashion. The Conservative Party will always be a broad church but it should never tolerate those whose ambition is to hold the Party hostage to the ideology of another faith. Some seem to prefer to see the temple doomed to irrevocable collapse. The Party only exists by permission of those who have elected their candidates over centuries but it has no God given right to exist. Winning the trust of old and new voters will be essential and way more difficult in a fractionalised multi party system. Kemi is way more popular than the Party she leads and those who sit around her should take ownership of that. Carping from the sidelines or open rebellion from the hallowed privileged positions of a place on the red benches should not provide immunity from collective responsibility. You have to be full playing members of the team or get off the pitch! Some have forgotten this or have become sneeringly arrogant in their defiance of recognising that if they are not part of the solution then they are most likely part of the problem. The existential threat has been stayed thanks to firm management from the top. Blood, sweat and more than a few tears will be necessary to ensure the Conservative Party has the chance of replacing this shambolic Labour Government whenever Burnham decides to cut and run. The abyss is deep and unforgiving - but there is a route away from it. I ,for one, know which road my Party must take.

@spikedonline A wonderful tribute Claire- and I can hear Ann’s distinct voice in calling you comrade- comrade!

As a fellow Brexit Party MEP, Ann Widdecombe made a huge impression on me. She was unbiddable, unbuyable and uncompromising in speaking truth to power. I feel lucky to have known her, writes Claire Fox buff.ly/Eyngb1k