David Frost: London is getting worse to live in...
London is getting worse to live in. Slowing immigration reveals just how many Londoners are voting with their feet. My @Telegraph column this morning.👇 https://telegraph.co.uk/gift/9cc36d177327cf2f
David Frost: Miliband cared nothing about our energy...
Miliband cared nothing about our energy security in his last job. Now he cares nothing about our national security. But this amateur diplomat has bitten off more than he can chew by taking on the Israelis. His immoral and shameful policy has turned a close ally, with a strong security and intelligence relationship, into an adversary (let us hope not for ever) for nakedly domestic electoral reasons. Today's announcement allows Labour to preen and posture, which is what they are best at, but will do nothing for peace in the Middle East, and damages our own national security into the bargain. Miliband is simply not up to the job.David Frost: The one specific commitment...
The one specific commitment in Chancellor Healey's vacuous speech today 👇 I'm really looking forward to hearing what areas he plans to liberalise and how he plans to persuade his Labour colleagues to reverse the legislation they have spent the last two years imposing.David Frost: Let's hope he means he'll drop...
Let's hope he means he'll drop the absurd Starmer agrifood deal making British farmers follow EU laws without our government having any say in them. However, I'm not holding my breath. When this govt says it wants a better deal it usually means acceding to more EU demands.David Frost: Andy Burnham and the Labour Party...
Andy Burnham and the Labour Party seem unable to grasp how a modern economy works. They like the big state and high spending. They don't get that an economy is about free people acting, not a government telling. Burnham's statement to parliament today set out only a different style of government activism, still financed by the same overburdened private sector, by “robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul”. Labour can't grasp the problems. So their solutions will inevitably be mistaken. And this is why the Burnham government will fail just as his predecessor's did. My Telegraph column tonight 👇 https://telegraph.co.uk/gift/84ea808d88e72f42David Frost: Good...
Good. It's a right-wing party. If you aren't right-wing then you shouldn't be in it. Without the wets, there is just a chance voters might think lessons have been learned and take another look. The task is to persuade voters that right-wing ideas are the correct ones. The party is hardly going to do that if its spokespeople don't seem to believe in them themselves.David Frost: Indeed. Thanks to Labour's reset...
Indeed. Thanks to Labour's reset we don't even have full control of fisheries *outside* the EU. Soon we won't have control over much of agriculture either. The idea that Iceland would be allowed to keep control of those things as an actual EU member is for the birds.David Frost: Very happy that Mark Carney...
Very happy that Mark Carney sees the benefits of an independent trade policy. Pity he couldn't be quite so clear while he was running the Bank of England and telling us Brexit was a terrible mistake.David Frost: The state started managing...
The state started managing the economy again, taxes went up, incentives collapsed, and net zero killed off industry. COVID debt, the Ukraine war, and then Rachel Reeves did the rest. Even if you think Brexit had an effect (I don't) it was trivial in the grand scheme of things.David Frost: If (like Burnham) your diagnosis...
If (like Burnham) your diagnosis is that it all went wrong under Thatcher, and your solution is to go back to the 1970s, then you will inevitably fail, because your whole analysis is based on a fallacy. The only question is how long it will take before it happens. EndsDavid Frost: There is no point in having "talented people"...
There is no point in having "talented people" if they don't want to implement the party's policy. That's how the Tory party got into a mess before and repeating it will not help in any way. Kemi is entitled to candidates who want to do what she wants to do.David Frost: Andy Burnham's email to Labour MPs...
Andy Burnham's email to Labour MPs reveals how naïve he is about the job of Prime Minister. Getting things done in government requires making clear choices and committing his own time and effort to making them happen. Yet he's just promised to do the opposite. My @Telegraph column this morning. 👇 https://telegraph.co.uk/gift/eb978068e2729d87David Frost: But this amounts to a national suicide pact...
But this amounts to a national suicide pact here in Britain alone. We must destroy our own economy for the sake of the global common good, while most of the rest of the world in fact does little or nothing.David Frost: Starmer offers EU students...
"Starmer offers EU students cut-price tuition fees in Brexit reset talks". Shameful and extremely expensive give-away from Starmer, in return for absolutely nothing. 👇David Frost: I think this puts the problems...
I think this puts the problems very succinctly. Until Labour understands economics we are doomed to irrelevant and dangerous attempts to solve our problems.David Frost: Under this policy regional mayors...
Under this policy regional mayors have incentives simply to moan endlessly at Whitehall for not giving them enough money (as Scotland and Wales do already). You have to make regional mayors raise the money as well as spend it. But obviously Labour don't want to do that.David Frost: Freedom, free speech, a free society...
Freedom, free speech, a free society. Say no to the Platonic guardians. Trust the people." I spoke in the Lords today to criticise the current moral panic in our political class over "misinformation. 👇David Frost: Theresa May's abject "negotiation" with...
Theresa May's abject "negotiation" with Barnier nearly brought down the British constitution, almost destroyed the Conservative Party, and certainly wrecked her own premiership. But now it's just "friendship" and "respect". It's all just a game and we can all move on. When you're asked why people don't trust the British governing class - well, here's an example of why.David Frost: Island of strangers For disavowing the...
Island of strangers For disavowing the one memorable and accurate thing he said as PM, because he read out the speech his advisers gave him rather than looking at it himself.David Frost: Merz won with that strategy...
Merz won with that strategy, but then had nowhere to go other than working with the left, so couldn't do anything his supporters actually wanted. I don't think it's a good strategy to follow.David Frost: 100% right from @julianHjessop...
"100% right from @julianHjessop . The Lib Dem policy would be a disaster for Britain. It only makes sense as a prelude to arguing that ""we're already in so much with no say, wouldn't it be better to rejoin?"" We know they want that. I wish they would just be honest about it."David Frost: I appreciate I'm not the most...
"I appreciate I'm not the most likely Parliamentarian to persuade a Labour MP of anything, but: - the Bill can hardly be described as the ""safest in the world"" when even its Lords sponsor thought it needed 70-odd amendments last time round; - no Royal Medical College or indeed any professional body will say the Bill is safe. It is to be hoped that the Labour leadership will think again before giving further parliamentary time to a Bill which has proved so divisive in both the Commons and the Lords. It's clear that the country is simply not ready for this assisted suicide Bill."David Frost: The government has not got a single thing…
The government has not got a single thing worth having out of the EU in this "reset" negotiation. It's one concession after another. It's an absolute shocker. The reason is, of course, they aren't trying. They just want to tie us to the EU & they don't care what it costs.David Frost: I thought Conservative policy…
I thought Conservative policy was now to oppose Net Zero. Does Theresa May understand this? As long as senior Tories post such support for Labour policy, it will continue to make observers wonder how firm the Tory commitment to scrap green energy madness really is.David Frost: Treasury Minister Lord Livermore…
Treasury Minister Lord Livermore told us today (replying to @cmackinlay ) that he thought it an "inevitability" that Britain would rejoin the EU. In other words, Labour won't stop now. Everything they do is based on the assumption of rejoining. One thing will lead to another. You can't believe their manifesto and you can't trust Labour on the EU.David Frost: Labour are trying to reconstruct…
Labour are trying to reconstruct the ghastly Theresa May / Olly Robbins deal which they themselves voted against in 2019 and which their own manifesto precludes. They've reached the stage of making one terrible offer after another to the EU because they are desperate for any deal, whatever is in it.David Frost: Well done to @GregHands…
Well done to @GregHands for his consistent campaigning on eGates. No one else seems interested, least of all the British Government and the responsible minister Nick Thomas-Symonds, despite the fact Keir Starmer announced it a year ago this week.👇David Frost: Rachel Reeves’s economic farce…
"Rachel Reeves’s economic farce is about to become a tragedy" There is a Ruritanian feel to British economic policy just now, a kind of comic-opera statism. But the convictions beneath it are far from amusing. My @Telegraph 👇 http://telegraph.co.uk/gift/a837e5ca5…David Frost: As usual the public has a good sense…
As usual the public has a good sense for the truth on Brexit. They can see most of the political class didn't want to leave the EU, tried to stop it, successfully prevented us leaving fully (Northern Ireland), and then abandoned efforts to finish the job.David Frost: Labour is about to descend into a civil war…
Labour is about to descend into a civil war over nothing much. The leadership candidates are all offering warmed-up statism & government knows best. Britain needs a political regime change if we're to solve our problems. My @Telegraph column today. 👇 https://telegraph.co.uk/gift/479cdfac36109bf3David Frost: Labour also said the numbers…
Labour also said the numbers would be capped. The EU has consistently resisted. Expect Starmer's call for more "ambition" to mean capitulation on that too.David Frost: Forget it, Rejoiners. The EU will...
""Forget it, Rejoiners. The EU will never offer terms that Britain can accept."" While we are waiting for the local election results, here are my thoughts on the Polish Foreign Minister's latest messaging on Brexit. My @Telegraph column tonight. 👇David Frost: The problem is, Starmer's reset…
The problem is, Starmer's reset isn't about this country and the EU "working together". It's about subordinating this country to one EU law after another with no say in them., and paying for the privilege.David Frost: Jewish people in Britain are...
Jewish people in Britain are facing intimidation and systematic incitement to violence. We need to stop the handwringing and get serious. Shame on this country if we choose, once again, to pass by on the other side. My @Telegraph column tonight. 👇Read more