“Goods exports to the EU in 2024 were 18% below 2019 levels and food exports were down 30%”. It is clear that we must rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union if we want to prevent any more damage to the economy.

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

Farage: epic grifter

I have not heard anything at all from government ministers nor the opposition nor many media outlets about the dangers of this epidemic of sweeping casual racism. It is sometimes seen as comical - as with Rupert Lowe and the rowers - but it is dangerous and dehumanising

It's Daniel Hannan Day.

Rejoice, Rejoice. Or something....

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Listening to Brexiters is to see a group of people who haven't changed as the world/country around them has.That's Starmer's gamble. Then as now, they continue not to reckon with a simple truth: we still need the EU more than they need us.

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There's no placating the Brexiters, no reasoning with them, no basic comprehension or adulthood. You can't debate papers behaving like the Sun or the Mail this morning. There's nothing to debate with. They view all trading relations with Europe as humiliation.

Debate on fishing needs to start from some facts. What has done huge damage to the UK fishing industry? The Tories’ Brexit deal - which risked knocking a staggering 30% off fishing output by creating huge barriers for a sector dependent on exporting to the EU

There's also going to be a lot of cognitive dissonance for some folks in British politics when they discover that France is the UK's closest ally now.

So good to see the UK and France working so closely together again

As it should be

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Zelenskyy yet again proving he's the greatest man of the 21st century. And we're only quarter of the way through.

Trump and Vance can go fuck themselves.

If you think that Europe is doomed, you’re not paying attention.

Wrote a recap of the latest developments and call me a hopeless Europtimist but I think Europe+ (including Canada) isn’t doing too bad in terms of offering Ukraine an actual perspective for the future. With or without the US.

Tomorrow marks the 3rd anniversary of Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

His forces bombed cities like Mariupol into rubble.

Raped, tortured & murdered civilians.

Targeted maternity & children's hospitals.

I took this photo of one the mass graves - it contained 445 bodies in Izium (1/2)

A busy and possibly momentous day for Emmanuel Macron. He is flying to Warsaw to discuss aid for Ukraine post-Trump and – maybe - a European peace-keeping force to guarantee any ceasefire with Moscow. He is due back in Paris by late afternoon to name a new French Prime Minister. 1/

The Tories are lost because every part of their ideology has failed.

Commentary on the leadership race has focused on the candidates, but their fundamental problem is that their entire worldview has collapsed.

By me, for Bloomberg - £ but screengrabs: 🧵

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This from earl of Spencer seems v true