Simon Walsh

@DPJHodges And the anvil on a rope attached to his leg will follow 🔨🤕

In politics there’s a Wiley Cayote moment where it becomes clear - even to a PM’s allies - that the established facts make their position untenable. But there’s still a brief lag between them realising, and going. Starmer ran off the cliff today. Soon he will have to look down.

Olly Robbins: "Throughout January.. my office.. was under constant pressure.. constant chasing.. has this been delivered yet.." Robbins is asked who was the source of the pressure. Robbins refuses to name names. Pressed, he says the pressure came from no.10's private office

The Matthew Doyle revelation is incredible. Olly Robbins reveals that No 10 (aka the PM) pushed for not one but two friends of convicted paedophiles to be given ambassador roles - without telling the then Foreign Secretary

When you’ve just ended Keir Starmer’s career.

@Lord_Sugar My first guitar

boiled egg slicer

@RealDonKeith He really is a "big prick" misread that one 😂

🚨Wow! Even President Trump is criticizing Starmer over Mandelson now! Trump blasted: “I agree, he was a really bad pick.” Starmer ignored security warnings and rammed through his mate anyway.

@darrengrimes Shove it in a compost bag 🍅

What would you do if you opened your front door to this?

@EricLDaugh Recover on a skull jockey's couch. Olly Robbins just jumped on the bus Starmer threw him under them reversed it over the PM. Starmer resignation imminent.

🚨 PRESIDENT TRUMP ON KEIR STARMER: “Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom acknowledged that he “exercised wrong judgement” when he chose his Ambassador to Washington. I agree, he was a really bad pick. Plenty of time to recover, however! President DJT”

Sir OIly Robbins sounds a little emotional as he winds up: "I don’t fully understand the reasons that I’m in the position I am in. But that is for the separate process for me to try to get to the bottom of. ... I loved that job, I loved that institution, I was proud to serve this Government and any government that might follow it. "I hope I was doing it to the best of my ability, I was certainly doing it as hard as I possibly could. I had wonderful colleagues who I miss deeply."

I have listened to Sir Olly Robbins evidence for last hour and forty minutes and am seeing the very best of the civil service. I am left incredulous that the decision was made to fire him. Has there been a more egregious and shameful decision by a political master desperate to save his own skin?

@DPJHodges Watch his head droop, averting eye contact with each reply. Trouble at mill.

There appears to be something going on this morning. Labour MPs are starting the process of uncircling the wagons.

@RidgeandFrost @SophyRidgeSky Eye contact???????

🗣️ Ed Miliband: "I steered well clear of Mandelson when I became Labour leader in 2010." He tells @SophyRidgeSky both he and David Lammy were "worried" about Peter Mandelson's appointment to be UK ambassador to the U.S.

@sentdefender It'll be in service until 2050 airframes allowed. HMS Victory of the skies.

According to U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Troy E. Meink, following a consultation with U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, the decision has been made to extend the service life of the A-10 Warthog until 2030. The platform has been used to great effect in both defensive and offensive operations against Iran since the conflict in the Middle East began.

@BethRigby @Iromg Starmer droned like a depressed cow in a winter shippon. He spewed meaningless words for an hour. Hopeless whining in his charmless tenure. Pathetic

Some reaction from Lab MPs over PM's statement. One says "vibe in tea room is resignation. It's not mutinous, but it's a bit like having a slow chronic disease". Another says mood "miserable". A 3rd notes it was "very very quiet" on benches with even uber loyalists silent

@NaomiSeibt @DuxFlare French women are extremely sexy. Well dressed and very distrustful of Englishmen. Is there a challenge to rival. Methinks not ♥️

@DuxFlare Why France ew

@FarmingUK I buy milk from @BoothsCountry or @waitrose if they stuck another 50p on a 4 pinter going to the farmer I'd happily pay 👍

Yes! 🥛 🇬🇧

@JacobCollierMP Grovelling twit. Your boss is toast. May 7th looms and Starmer goes before or shortly after. Who will you suck up to next?

Two MPs kicked out of the Chamber for unparliamentary behaviour, purely so they can put a clip on social media for their supporters. Appalling conduct.

@BumbleCricket Northerners do not flannel. Two of the best. Straight talkers. Not bad for a fat lad. And I'd ave played that with a stick o rubarb.

What a super dipper pic … don’t forget to hand the homework in … or it’s detention! 😂👏❤️ … luv it ! 2 great men ❤️❤️

@Peston You don't have conditions post failure of DV in order to 'get away with it' If you fail DV you fail. There are no reasons given for 'why" it's not granted. It just isn't granted. That's need to know within 5/6 Don't assume it was company shares.

Here is an interesting question about Peter Mandelson, which presumably Olly Robbins can answer tomorrow. If - as has been reported - UK Security Vetting’s red light on appointing Mandelson as US ambassador was because he was thought to be too close to a Chinese pharma research firm Wuxi, through Global Counsel, the advisory firm Mandelson founded, why on earth didn’t Robbins force Mandelson to sell his shares in Global Counsel as a condition of becoming ambo? Mandelson kept his stake of just under 20% all through his time as ambassador. He only sold them in Feb this year. Yet another weirdness in this extraordinary story

@danwootton He's hinting at abusive Restore/TR supporters

This has got to be the moment when anyone sane realises Nigel Farage has changed and is now the containment candidate. To suggest X is “dangerous” because free speech is allowed is fucking nuts. What’s dangerous is censorship of social media.