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David Frost

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David Frost

@DavidGHFrost

Lord Frost of Allenton. Non-affiliated peer in Lords. Senior Fellow @iealondon. Director @NetZeroWatch.

London

Joined November 2012

David Frost reposted
Matthew Lesh
@matthewlesh
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How’s the “entrepreneurial state” actually panning out for Britain? How much failure of this state-led model of growth will it take for Mazzucato and her acolytes to admit failure? She’s had a role advising government since the 2010s, starting with Business Secretary Vince
The New Statesman
@NewStatesman
6h
MARIANA MAZZUCATO, ROCKSTAR ECONOMIST by @OliDugmore Mariana Mazzucato's ideas now influence how millions of people are governed. She was directly consulted in the formulation of Joe Biden’s CHIPS Act, a stimulus package worth $280bn. The World Bank’s mission to connect 250
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David Frost
@DavidGHFrost
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I remember this exercise from when I was in government in 2020. Dom @Dominic2306 is right on all this - the unreal numbers, the crazy procurement processes, but also the fact that every dept has reasonable criticisms of every other. That is just the way British government works
Dominic Cummings
@Dominic2306
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My pinned tweet explains the background to Healey resignation. We got real numbers in 2020 for first time in ~20 years. Since then everything reverted to fake. Thanks to Trolley & Wally, they let HMT and MoD shovel cash into things they KNEW were broken, like AJAX, and scuppered
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Tim Shipman
@ShippersUnbound
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Proof of three things: 1) John Healey is not the shrinking violet some in the military feared 2) The government is in no way taking the current threats to the defence of the realm seriously 3) Starmer government is a sinking ship which can't get out of the docks on key issues
John Healey
@JohnHealey_MP
2h
My letter to the Prime Minister
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David Frost
@DavidGHFrost
2h
Sorry, it is (at least part of) the problem. Read me in the @Telegraph tonight to find out why.
John Rentoul
@JohnRentoul
4h
Shock breaking news. Common sense from Kemi Badenoch: "The Common Travel Area is not the problem" (on @LBC)
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David Frost
@DavidGHFrost
2h
To judge from its contents, this podcast is certainly right to put "Intelligence" in inverted commas. They can't even quote Starmer's 'Island of Strangers' phrase correctly, and don't note that he subsequently disavowed it either.
The Economist
@TheEconomist
Jun 10
“What they hate is disorder at the border.” Britain has crushed immigration, and harmed itself. Why has no one noticed, asks @JoelBudd1 on “The Intelligence”? economist.com/podcasts/2026/…
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Scott Goetz
@ScottGoetz_
5h
You would think that student loans exist to fund the continuation of the higher education system but no they are just rip off taxation to fund welfare.
Family Education Trust
@FamEdTrust
18h
Chief Treasury Secretary Lucy Rigby has defended the Government’s decision to not reduce interest rates on student loans, saying the money is being used to fund benefit schemes including ‘free breakfast clubs’ and lifting the two child benefit cap. Trapping graduates in a
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David Frost
@DavidGHFrost
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"Mariana Mazzucato's ideas now influence how millions of people are governed." I'm afraid so. That's partly why we're in the miserable state we're in.
The New Statesman
@NewStatesman
6h
MARIANA MAZZUCATO, ROCKSTAR ECONOMIST by @OliDugmore Mariana Mazzucato's ideas now influence how millions of people are governed. She was directly consulted in the formulation of Joe Biden’s CHIPS Act, a stimulus package worth $280bn. The World Bank’s mission to connect 250
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David Frost reposted
nigel biggar
@NigelBiggar
16h
Excellent essay by Sumantra Maitra on Lutyens and the convergence of Indian postcolonialism and Western populism:
theamericanconservative.com
Lamenting Lutyens
Indian postcolonialism and Western populism sometimes converge.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
19h
Surely this can’t be true.
Andrew Griffith MP
@griffitha
21h
BREAKING: We have a youth unemployment crisis and Labour's new anti-jobs quango is on a jolly to Uzbekistan! They’re focused on more rights for migrants and “promoting migration” while 1 in 6 young people here can’t find a job. They’re letting Britain down.👇
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Silkie Carlo
@silkiecarlo
21h
... We would be very concerned about the creation of a fast lane for censorship that can be activated at times that are politically convenient for the government. It's right that illegal content is taken offline but that responsibility has to be paired with strong protections /1
Liz Kendall
@leicesterliz
23h
Those who use social media to incite violence and disorder are breaking the law. Next week we will lay in Parliament an update to the Online Safety Act requiring services to take quicker action to remove illegal content circulating during times of crisis.
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Douglas McWilliams
@DMcWilliams_UK
19h
Replying to @julianHjessop
My understanding is that Bloomberg explicitly said that whatever the assessed cost, it did NOT mean that rolling back Brexit would have the opposite effect. Most analysis I've seen suggests that rolling back Brexit would make the costs bigger.
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Kathryn Porter
@KathrynPorter26
21h
Replying to @Tony_Diver and @TiceRichard
If @CommonsSpeaker worries Parliament is being sidelined by the government he needs to do something about it Start by making ministers and the PM actually answer the questions they are asked in the House Otherwise the Commons becomes irrelevant and announcing important plans
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Kate Hoey
@CatharineHoey
Jun 10
Heat pump tumble dryers being made mandatory as U.K. adopts EU rules. I push a vote to protest the way these statutory instrument regulations are slipped through
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