Alan Bennett could not have written it better. Deep, deep England.
Matthew Holehouse
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Matthew Holehouse
@mattholehouse
Public policy editor at The Economist
London
Joined January 2009
- Resignation statements, abbreviated. Cameron: Oops. May: I'm sorry. Johnson: You bastards. Truss: I was right.
- Replying to @mattholehouseA portrait of the very human desire to leave your hard-earned wealth to your relatives, whom you think are idiots
- EU official on Juncker’s no extension remark: “Bullshit.”
- "We've got the Mother of Parliaments being shut down by the Father of Lies," Aidan O'Neill tells the Supreme Court
- Clear from PMQs that Boris Johnson is very much looking forward to fighting the 2024 election against Jeremy Corbyn on a ticket of delivering Brexit.
- The Economist endorses the Labour Party to form the next government. "It has the greatest chance of tackling the biggest problem that Britain faces: a chronic and debilitating lack of economic growth."
- A striking moment. Not merely that Cummings wore an Elon Musk T-shirt on his first day in office, but the idea that the disruption of Brexit is attractive and good for “disrupters” like Musk is the essence of the Johnson/Cummings project. TBC.Replying to @faisalislam“Brexit [uncertainty] made it too risky to put a Gigafactory in the UK,” perhaps worlds greatest entrepreneur Elon Musk told AutoExpress at launch of Berlin European electric car/battery plant - NB Telegraph report PMs GE speech at electric car plant... autoexpress.co.uk/tesla/108395/t…
- A factoid about a Keir Starmer govt. 13% of the shadow cabinet are privately-educated. If it enters govt, that would make it the most state-educated cabinet since at least 1945. More so than Blair's first (32%), Wilson's (35%) or Attlee's (25%).
- Huge: David Davis concedes UK government may have lost mandate to exit customs union and single market (Sky, 2.30am).
- Fair to say Labour sees national service as a gift to mobilise its younger voters, judging by its tiktok channel (and much punchier on the plan than broadcast/print)
- Indeed the gulf in reactions between free market think tanks and the actual market is genuinely fascinatingCan't remember the IEA ever welcoming a Budget before...
