From COVID to austerity, the media has shown that it’s too reliant on political reporters with little specialist knowledge - allowing half-truths to spread way too easily

Big 2022 Tory energy in Dominic Raab being appointed as deputy PM despite the fact he’s almost certainly going to lose his seat at the next election

Rishi Sunak is acting like he’s being held hostage in Downing Street - a man worn down by the job even before he’s started it

🔴 The Tufton Street Mindset Will Endure Under Rishi Sunak

Sam Bright warns that, despite crashing the economy, dark money libertarian groups will retain influence on the new Prime Minister

bylinetimes.com/2022/10/25/liz…

Labour says it will review the lobbying rules to ensure transparency on who funds Tufton Street ‘think tanks’.

Needs to be in the first 100 days in office.

Spotted in NYC

With Tory members set to pick another PM, it’s worth remembering that the party’s membership rules are wide open to foreign interference bylinetimes.com/2022/07/22/con…

It’s obvious, but also needs to be said - Boris Johnson is not returning because he wants to fix the economy or improve our lives. He’s returning because he wants to heal his massive, bruised ego

In New York, went out for breakfast earlier and locals on the adjacent table were gasping about the political chaos in the UK.

The rest of the world is watching, and the Conservatives are making a mockery of us.

Tufton Street took 12 years to create Prime Minister Truss and 45 days to destroy her government

Liz Truss just got demolished so brutally by Keir Starmer that you could practically see Tory MPs throwing paper airplanes in the Commons to Graham Brady

Please forward to the Chancellor..

Tufton Street's clutch of delusional “think tanks” echo the US model, where—as described by Jane Mayer in Dark Money—libertarian billionaires fund an assembly line of anti-tax, anti-regulation politicians and “think tanks”. via Sam Bright nytimes.com/2022/10/06/opi…

7% is, I think, the lowest level of government approval *ever* recorded. twitter.com/YouGov/status/…