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’

Born February 1

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."
The government’s housing failures
From prospectmagazine.co.uk
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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
Wanted: a cabinet secretary - 🧵 from my @prospect column Like so much of the British constitution, the job of cabinet secretary isn’t defined in law & changes according to the holder. But to all intents and purposes it is vacant at the moment, & that is a first—and a problem.
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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
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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