robert shrimsley

@robertshrimsley54k followers

Chief UK political commentator and executive editor, FT.

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1	Nov 13, '23	Time for a quick thread on David Cameron’s foreign policy achievements. 1/1	53.5×	1.4M	3.9k	662	144
2	Feb 28, '25	This may be the most awful moment so far. And Vance is like the classic bully sidekick acting tough in front of his boss	30.1×	766k	4.2k	389	91
3	Sep 18, '23	I would love to see a venn diagram of those who went after Huw Edwards and those demanding "due process" for Russell Brand	27.5×	699k	3.5k	338	28
4	Sep 3, '24	The Chief Rabbi (an absurd post in itself given the structure of UK synagogues) should ration his interventions in British politics. Fears of British jews at home are a reasonable	24.9×	633k	1.2k	172	58
5	Jun 7, '24	Hearing consistently now that the D-Day error has absolutely cut through to voters and is already being brought up frequently on doorsteps	20.2×	514k	1k	148	36
6	May 13, '20	Top PMQs tip for Boris: if Keir Starmer says government guidance said something, best to work on the assumption that it did	17.2×	0	16k	2k	29
7	Apr 19, '25	Classic Guardian correction	15×	382k	4.6k	379	267
8	Jul 13, '21	No punches pulled	13.7×	0	10k	2.5k	50
9	Dec 23, '19	When will people get this point. People like Hopkins want you to tweet your fury at her words. She functions in an outrage economy and your anger is her income. Ignore her and she	12.5×	0	9.9k	2k	23
10	Oct 22, '22	The one thing I'm struck by is how few Tory MPs mention what they think is best for the country. They talk almost entirely in terms of what is right for their party	11.8×	0	9.5k	1.8k	19
11	Dec 17, '23	V good idea from @DanNeidle Any “letter before action” threatening libel action could be required to be accompanied by a “statement of truth”. The claimant would have to say, under	11.4×	289k	1.9k	520	54
12	Oct 31, '24	"This was the worst Budget I have ever heard a British Chancellor deliver, by an enormous margin." - Allister Heath today. "This was the best Budget I have ever heard a British Cha	11.2×	284k	6.1k	743	105
13	May 11, '20	The British public has to stop it with the gotcha questions. It has behaved disgracefully at these press briefings. When this is over there will be a reckoning for the British publ	10.3×	0	8.4k	814	48
14	Feb 21, '24	So basically an SNP day designed to expose Labour divisions and undermine Starmer ended up with a Labour amendment securing the first Commons call for a ceasefire on Gaza. No wonde	10.1×	256k	1.6k	258	52
15	Dec 24, '23	The editor of the Jewish Chronicle, supposedly the voice of Anglo-Jewry, should be better than someone glorifying in death which he must know cannot only be Hamas fighters. This is	9.8×	249k	852	153	29
16	Jul 16, '24	In Clacton, the search for Nigel Farage continues	8.8×	225k	7.8k	974	38
17	Aug 30, '23	Wow. Wonder if Tories and their media supporters have thought through the consequences of encouraging law-breaking in protest against policies you dislike	8.2×	210k	1k	273	17
18	Nov 14, '24	You do not have to like Allison Pearson or even oppose the principle of hate crime laws (though I struggle with "non-crime hate incidents") to think that if police rock up at your	7.7×	196k	2.3k	243	23
19	Jun 7, '24	So you didn’t get Baillie Gifford to divest from its investments. You just got them to pull out of financially supporting writers and books. What a win.	7.4×	189k	897	100	17
20	Dec 14, '23	Interesting Regev cites that Rabin, was shot for his efforts to make peace with Palestinians, but seems to forget that he was shot by a right-wing Israeli and that one of those ext	6.7×	171k	982	380	63
21	Dec 13, '19	The greatest tragedy is that all those people who really needed a Labour government were abandoned and betrayed by cultists who cared much more about indulging their own ideologica	6.6×	0	5k	992	44
22	Aug 3, '24	Starmer can and should take the fight to Farage, Reform and others giving dog whistle succour to the rioting thugs. The ordinary Reform voter does not back rioting, looting and thu	6.0×	153k	841	162	19
23	Nov 3, '21	Chris Bryant speech being heard in dead silence. It is quietly brutal and exposes the shamelessness of what is going on. Many Tories who do as they are told today, will know this.	6.0×	0	4.9k	920	18
24	Apr 14, '22	Three points on Rwanda policy. 1) Last year Australia spent £461m to process 239 asylum seekers offshore 2) The UK is spending £120m 3) 600 people crossed the Channel on Wednesday	5.8×	0	3.6k	1.2k	61
25	Sep 7, '20	Every time I hear someone in Government saying, we need the freedom from state aid rules so ministers handing out subsidies can decide which start-ups might become world-beating te	5.8×	0	4.7k	933	23
26	Jan 21, '22	Just wish @RoryStewartUK would@get off the fence on this	5.7×	0	4.8k	781	61
27	Jun 2, '24	Sorry boss, but who could have seen this coming?	5.3×	136k	778	88	28
28	Mar 27, '19	The Prime Minister has announced her planned resignation. She has not spoken to the country; she has not told parliament; she has told a closed meeting of Tory MPs and released a t	5.3×	0	3.6k	1.1k	7
29	Aug 4, '23	It seems a measure of how much trouble America is in that people who think Trump is guilty argue it is too risky to prosecute him. How far gone are you when sane people argue it is	5.2×	134k	736	189	6
30	Jun 11, '20	Wonder what LBC discovered about Nigel Farage that it didn't know before.	5.2×	0	5.1k	385	4
31	Jul 2, '24	I don't believe the attack on Starmer and Friday nights is motivated by antisemitism (just desperation) but I doubt it would be happening if he said I keep Sunday mornings free to	5.2×	132k	1.3k	153	22
32	Dec 1, '23	"I've got a new Foreign Secretary, but if you'd like the Home Office . . ."	5.1×	130k	1.1k	119	25
33	Oct 21, '18	Tory MP on May in SunTimes: "The moment is coming when the knife gets heated, stuck in her front and twisted. She'll be dead soon". What kind of person talks like this?	4.9×	0	2.6k	822	7
34	Jul 4, '19	Seems like the Brexit party's whole strategy now is just to seek controversy so they stay in the news. they are the piers morgan of politics and they want you to react	4.7×	0	3.7k	650	7
35	Jun 7, '20	A city should not be celebrating slavery. Whatever the mores of Colston's time, this should be obvious now. Bristol should have removed it years ago. Wish this had been a legal civ	4.5×	0	4k	529	7
36	May 26, '20	Johnson now in the worst possible place. Burned up good will and political capital to save Cummings. Govt seriously damaged by this. But he'll be humiliated if he lets him go now a	4.4×	0	2.8k	574	12
37	Feb 6, '19	This special place in hell - is it inside or outside the customs union?	4.2×	0	3.5k	592	2
38	Mar 19, '20	The Gordon Brown interview not only highlights his qualities but also the loss of all the experienced Tories pushed out of the party who might have been useful. This really is an i	4.2×	0	3.5k	563	13
39	Nov 9, '21	Every Tory MP reading about their second job in todays press knows they have Boris Johnson's Paterson plan, to thank for the renewed scrutiny.	4.2×	0	3.6k	545	13
40	Aug 25, '22	This is what happens when you spend a month forgetting there is any world beyond conservative party members.	4.1×	0	3.8k	388	28
41	Nov 30, '23	Just thinking that the sad focus on Alistair Darling today - his intelligence, integrity and decency - will remind people how far British politics has fallen in the last decade	4.1×	104k	1.4k	224	9
42	Dec 21, '20	Before you opt for conspiracy, it's always best to eliminate incompetence	3.9×	0	3.5k	410	18
43	Aug 17, '20	Govt attitute to exam results v similar to the way it saw the virus coming but did not move quickly. In March it watched Italy and did not react. This time it saw Scotland's exam e	3.9×	0	3k	621	13
44	Oct 1, '19	Priti Patel joins the cabinet ministers singling out north london liberals for attack. But what about the poor old south London liberals, what have they done to deserve the cold sh	3.6×	0	3k	361	3
45	Jul 3, '24	TL:DR We agree with the Tories on pretty much everything and Reform on everything else, but Labour is going to win and we don’t like backing losers.	3.6×	91k	1.1k	125	23
46	Nov 13, '19	This is pretty dishonest. The court actually said goods from West Bank Israeli settlements should indicate this rather than simply say Made in Israel. Your misuse of antisemitism a	3.0×	0	2.2k	592	18
47	Mar 24, '16	This is literally the best story ever: Microsoft's AI twitter bot turned racist after 15 hours on twitter	2.9×	0	923	1.2k	0
48	Jul 7, '22	Small note to all those expecting wild change in policy. The next leader of the conservative party is going to be a conservative.	2.9×	0	2.5k	394	6
49	Oct 8, '24	Some may find it hard to believe that Theresa May went for the "crack den" look	2.9×	73k	825	102	9
50	Aug 21, '24	Even by Matt's high standards - this one was a gem	2.9×	73k	1k	178	42
51	Nov 10, '25	The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true	2.9×	73k	1.1k	271	34
52	Jan 27, '21	Thinking of the 100k. Reminded of lines I love from Terry Pratchett. So much wisdom inside the whimsy.	2.8×	0	2.3k	376	66
53	Jun 9, '20	Those demanding the tearing down of Gladstone, Peel & Churchill are shooting their own campaign in the foot & rallying even sympathisers to the other side. It will build a	2.8×	0	2.2k	363	31
54	Mar 8, '19	Genius line about May and Corbyn from @jessphillips in Times interview	2.7×	0	1.7k	609	11
55	Jan 25, '22	I get why people are saying the UK looks ridiculous obsessing over parties in the middle of issues like Ukraine. BUT actually I like the look of a country whose leaders get into tr	2.7×	0	2.6k	211	17
56	Sep 28, '22	This is the logical end point of the fantasy economics of the Brexit ideology. Brexit is the comorbidity in the UK economy.	2.7×	0	1.5k	600	87
57	Dec 23, '20	Breaking - Nigel Farage says Boris has betrayed Brexit. (not really but I like to be ahead of the curve)	2.6×	0	2.6k	185	5
58	Sep 17, '22	Change to the ER post boxes may not be as rapid as imagined. Spotted this one round the corner from my house	2.4×	0	2.1k	98	30
59	May 23, '20	This seems symptomatic of what is wrong with our politics. We all know he doesn't believe this and that privately he's probably spitting tacks , but hey the game is the game	2.3×	0	2k	300	7
60	Oct 8, '21	Panic among Tories as ministries report supplies of excuses running low:	2.3×	0	1.5k	497	26
61	May 23, '20	Just to remind people, the Attorney General is the government's lawyer. She doesn't defend the law; she defends the government.	2.3×	0	1.8k	386	5
62	Nov 14, '22	What is depressing about this is that an agriculture secretary thought a trade deal sold out UK farmers but preferred to stay in his job and defend it anyway	2.2×	0	1.6k	447	15
63	Jul 6, '24	I hate the notion that Saka "redeemed" himself. He's done that repeatedly for years, had already scored the goal that kept England in the game, and in any case he didn't need to re	2.2×	57k	811	65	3
64	Nov 3, '21	This is a genuinely shocking moment. Tories could have opted to cut Paterson's penalty, which would have been bad enough. Instead they have concluded that an independent system whi	2.1×	0	1.5k	413	11
65	Jun 13, '20	10 years is more than many first offenders will get for rape.	2.1×	0	1.3k	440	9
66	Nov 3, '21	The opposition parties need to refuse to participate in the new committee - to let it be seen as a committee of Tory MPs sitting in judgement on themselves	2.1×	0	1.7k	296	5
67	May 9, '20	He's right. The media was far too slow to lock down the country. They left NHS staff without protective equipment and badly let down care home residents.	2.1×	0	1.8k	253	8
68	Mar 4, '20	this is so great - is there anything not to like about this man?	2.0×	0	1.7k	268	20
69	Mar 10, '22	No question that the Home Office is institutionally flawed but the Conservatives have been in power for 12 years, this leader for nearly three. The last Perm Sec at Home Office was	1.9×	0	1.4k	318	6
70	Jun 26, '20	This from @stephenkb - is the key point on this week's antisemitism row. It's not that either RLB or Maxine Peake are antisemites; it is that they don't understand this issue and d	1.8×	0	1.2k	304	48
71	Feb 19, '19	Still the best speech I’ve seen in my time watching British politics	1.8×	0	1.1k	317	58
72	Jul 13, '18	We are all viewing Trump trade statement as a Brexit intervention. But the bigger picture here is Trump's desire to weaken the EU as a trading block. That's why he told Macron to l	1.8×	0	833	529	0
73	Oct 18, '19	Just been reminded of Edward Carson's 1921 line: "What a fool I was! I was only a puppet, and so was Ulster, and so was Ireland, in the political game that was to get the Conservat	1.8×	0	1.1k	452	20
74	Jun 13, '20	Pictures can be deceptive but there do appear to be a fair few Nazi salutes from those assembling to defend Churchill. Somehow don't think its down to the famous English sense of i	1.8×	0	1.2k	340	14
75	Feb 28, '22	Neil Oliver: I don't know what's happening in Ukraine. I don't understand it either. But here are my opinions anyway.	1.7×	0	1.7k	116	7
76	Mar 19, '21	The astonishing thing about the Tories/BBC/flags row is the extent to which those mocking don't understand just how totally they are losing this argument.	1.6×	0	1.3k	112	11
77	Dec 23, '20	BREAKING - Brexit deal is done. Or not. But nearly. Press conference tonight. Or tomorrow. Really early. Or later. Sources say it is totally in the bag, but sources caution it coul	1.5×	0	1.3k	171	8
78	May 15, '20	Boris Johnson’s newfound policy concern about obesity is a mark of his solipsism. It’s only a problem if it’s a problem for him	1.5×	0	1.2k	189	7
79	May 25, '20	In order to move the story on I am now setting out some new easing of lockdown. This is based entirely on the science of spin	1.5×	0	1.2k	235	0
80	May 11, '20	Stay alert: for any sudden change in the guidelines.	1.5×	0	1.3k	185	3
81	Oct 24, '22	I do think Boris hasn't got enough credit for flying back from the Caribbean holiday he was taking while parliament was sitting to come and save the conservative party. And he flew	1.4×	0	1.4k	116	11
82	Nov 9, '18	My hunch now is that if Corbyn committed Labour to a second ref as its primary position, that the peoples vote would quite quickly command a majority in the Commons.	1.4×	0	889	258	3
83	Jul 3, '20	You have to ask. Is Darren Grimes a double agent for the liberal metropolitan elite?	1.4×	0	1.3k	143	7
84	May 19, '20	Today I am being lambasted by Boris Johnson's defenders for being too mean to him, and his opponents for being too kind. This must be what it is like working for the BBC.	1.4×	0	1.1k	172	23
85	Mar 2, '22	The UK is going to need to rethink some of its post Brexit myths and visions. Global Britain has got more local again. Ukraine marks an end to Brexit illusions	1.4×	0	841	293	38
86	Aug 23, '18	They have 'no sense of English irony despite having lived here all their lives' - the words of a man who has apparently fought racism his whole life.	1.4×	0	977	263	6
87	Nov 20, '20	There was no way PM was going to let this force him to sack Patel, but by making a mockery of the entire process, he's made it a bigger story than it would have been had he accepte	1.4×	0	1.2k	116	4
88	May 29, '20	You don't have to support Dominic Cummings to know the scenes outside his house are unnecessary and intolerable - with or without social distancing	1.3×	0	1.1k	155	1
89	Jul 6, '22	People need to keep cool. This is not a Trump moment. Johnson is breaking no rules by trying to tough it out (and can argue he recently survived a confidence vote). He is daring hi	1.3×	0	896	191	17
90	Jun 9, '17	It's almost as if Theresa May looked at Hillary's campaign and said: "Let's do that"	1.3×	0	758	312	0
91	Mar 9, '20	I understand why it is happening but I hate the way everyone keeps stressing the underlying conditions in coronavirus deaths as if somehow that means they don’t mater	1.3×	0	1.1k	150	1
92	Sep 8, '20	I can't help thinking that admitting you are breaking the law "in a specific and limited way" might not help your case under legal challenge	1.3×	0	1.1k	134	1
93	May 25, '20	There are three camps on this: those who already hate Cummings and will never accept any defence; those who love him and will defend regardless; and the third group which will deci	1.2×	0	876	140	7
94	Feb 5, '21	Just one observation on Jackie Weaver. If more journalists had ever spent any time covering parish councils (them were the days) they would be a lot less surprised at the simmering	1.2×	0	1k	77	5
95	Jun 24, '20	Question for the day: If you believe that the BBC - or say the judiciary - can suffer from systemic and structural liberal bias, why is it so hard to believe that other institution	1.1×	0	912	171	13
96	Oct 18, '19	If I were an Irish nationalist, I would pray every night for the continued health of the DUP. Since 2016 They've played a blinder for reunification	1.1×	0	1k	124	1
97	Dec 23, '20	Our grocery delivery has substituted our christmas pudding for jam tarts (jam tarts!) and now i really do feel like christmas has been cancelled	1.0×	0	966	37	5
98	Jan 17, '21	Can’t begin to comprehend the courage needed to do this	1.0×	0	987	97	3
99	May 29, '19	John Cleese has basically become the exact person he used to laugh at - I wonder if that fate awaits us all	1.0×	0	781	130	4
100	Nov 4, '20	Genuinely terrifying to see the total equanimity with which Trump’s henchmen are happy to spray out they know are false and inflammatory claims to try to cling onto power. Even if	0.9×	0	806	77	0

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