Andrew Adonis (@Andrew

Andrew Adonis

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Andrew Adonis

@Andrew_Adonis

My Prospect newsletter prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/sign-…. Latest 📖 ‘Ernest Bevin: Labour’s Churchill’

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Joined November 2011

Andrew Adonis
@Andrew_Adonis
Apr 25, 2024
Labour’s plan for Great British Railways is spot on. The track had to be nationalised by the Blair govt after the private company collapsed. The same now happening to train operators whose costs/profits are excessive with plummeting service standards. Time to put passengers first
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Prospect
@prospect_uk
Mar 27, 2024
The government has failed renters—and homeowners, writes @Andrew_Adonis "The UK has nearly 10m fewer homes than France, for a population not much smaller, and we are building new homes at only about half the rate of the French."
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The government’s housing failures
How the government failed renters—and homeowners
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Prospect
@prospect_uk
Nov 29, 2023
There’s nothing illegal or surreptitious about the immigration surge since Brexit, writes @Andrew_Adonis—“it is the result of open, deliberate decisions by prime ministers since Theresa May”.
The truth about post-Brexit immigration
From prospectmagazine.co.uk
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Prospect
@prospect_uk
Nov 8, 2023
Allowing Putin to dismember Ukraine would create a new Berlin Wall dividing Europe—and threaten UK security and democracy, writes @AndrewAdonis.
Don’t forget about Ukraine
From prospectmagazine.co.uk
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Andrew Adonis
@Andrew_Adonis
Nov 8, 2023
Huge
Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський
@ZelenskyyUa
Nov 8, 2023
I welcome today’s recommendation by the European Commission to open EU accession negotiations with Ukraine. This is a strong and historic step that paves the way to a stronger EU with Ukraine as its member. I thank the EU and personally @vonderleyen for supporting Ukraine on
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Andrew Adonis
@Andrew_Adonis
Nov 8, 2023
Sunak hasn’t visited Kyiv this year. Let’s hope that absence makes the heart grow fonder, since the going in Ukraine is set only to get tougher if victory against Putin is to be secured. My Prospect column
Don’t forget about Ukraine
From prospectmagazine.co.uk
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Andrew Adonis
@Andrew_Adonis
Oct 24, 2023
My full response to Sunak & critics of HS2 who trashed Britain’s future 🧵 You would think, from Sunak & the media, that HS2 was dead & deserved its fate. But as HS2’s main architect back in 2009/10 I only wish Labour had stayed stayed in office long enough to see it through 1/
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Andrew Adonis
@Andrew_Adonis
Nov 2, 2023
Replying to @Andrew_Adonis
both a new government—& a new cabinet secretary. As in 1916, the new leaders of the state—both the prime minister and the cabinet secretary—have a massive task to rebuild a crippled machine, and it can’t start a moment too soon.
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Andrew Adonis
@Andrew_Adonis
Nov 2, 2023
Replying to @Andrew_Adonis
of civil service drive and morale. Case’s failure to stand up for Tom Scholar, the Treasury permanent secretary fired by Liz Truss on her third day in office, was in retrospect an especial low point, signalling the storm to come.   So in 2024 there will in all likelihood be
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Andrew Adonis
@Andrew_Adonis
Nov 2, 2023
Replying to @Andrew_Adonis
by May/Heywood. Beyond that, Johnson constituted an assault on civil service values and propriety, while Cummings took against many of its top leaders, including Case’s predecessor Mark Sedwill, who left hurriedly in 2020. But not much has improved since Johnson/Cummings in terms
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Andrew Adonis
@Andrew_Adonis
Nov 2, 2023
Replying to @Andrew_Adonis
the machine and its most able people, however reluctantly, to deliver a just-about-workable Brexit under Theresa May.   For a time, the civil service leadership void was partially filled by Johnson and Cummings. Together, they completed Brexit—in a far worse way than envisaged
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Andrew Adonis
@Andrew_Adonis
Nov 2, 2023
Replying to @Andrew_Adonis
Edward Bridges under Churchill and Robert Armstrong under Thatcher are key examples, driving forward the machine under strong PMs while maintaining its integrity.    Here again, Heywood was the last substantive leader of the civil service. And his last great act was to cajole
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Andrew Adonis
@Andrew_Adonis
Nov 2, 2023
Replying to @Andrew_Adonis
the machine running. But where there has been strong central leadership of the civil service—both in delivering for strong prime ministers and in shaping and defending its own structures, ethics and independence under PMs strong and weak—cabinet secretaries have been to the fore.
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