Lord Moylan

@danielmgmoylan

Conservative peer. Opposition Transport spokesman in @ukhouseoflords Views my own. Retweets not endorsements.

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Architect of Labour’s Brexit Red Lines Says They Were Only an Election Ploy order-order.com/2026/11/09/arc… via @guidofawkes

order-order.com Architect of Labour's Brexit Red Lines Says They Were Only an Election Ploy Chris Ward, who advised Starmer on the EU red lines and then served as a Cabinet Office minister in that ministry, has written in the Guardian that the

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www.telegraph.co.uk Trans bill violates rule of law, says former chief prosecutor Lord Macdonald warns that parents will fear they risk prison for honest conversations with children

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BA parent says onerous green charges will ‘kill’ Europe’s aviation industry ft.com/content/4330a1… via @ft

www.ft.com BA parent says onerous green charges will ‘kill’ Europe’s aviation industry Luis Gallego says planned environmental charges that are more onerous for UK carriers will lead to higher fares and damage the industry

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This is not new. It’s obvious. They hate us anyway.

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Britain would not get its £5bn annual rebate again if it rejoined the EU, the former Irish leader who helped strike the last Brexit deal has predicted

Leo Varadkar says in an interview with The Sunday Times that the famous 1984 discount which Margaret Thatcher secured would not be repeated.

It means that Andy Burnham faces having to sell EU membership terms worse than were rejected in the 2016 referendum if he really goes for rejoin.

(Varadker also said the EU would want Britain back, would wave demands to adopt the Euro / enter Schengen, and there'd be a chance of getting an emergency break on free movement - so positives there.)

Varadker's key quote: “The rebate was at a particular point in time. Back in the 1980s, it was Thatcher who negotiated that. The formula for how you contribute to the European budget is straightforward. It’s a mathematical formula. It’s based on your GDP and then there are some direct elements as well. I think it would be very difficult to make the case for that."

(It was Varadker who struck the terms-of-Brexit deal with Boris Johnson in 2019 that finally broke through the impasse, so he knows EU thinking here well.)

Interestingly, Michel Barnier, the former EU Brexit negotiator, has said the same to @bbclaurak this weekend - another rebate would be "off the table".

House of Commons briefing on the last year Britain fully paid into the EU budget (2020) spells out what that means. The rebate was £5.2bn.

Not having the rebate back then would have meant the UK paying £17.8bn more than it got out in 2020.

All a reminder of the big battle not yet up and running in this open Brexit "conversation" Burnham has triggered: The cost of re-entry.

(Remember, what was painted on the side of the big red Brexit bus in 2016? Not a message on open borders or bendy bananas but one big scary number.)

Full story: thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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If this were true (that problems on the railways were due to failure to fund maintenance by the @Conservatives) then you’d think that the @UKLabour Rail Minister would say so eagerly.

But he doesn’t. It’s an eccentric view.

Gareth Dennis @GarethDennis 2d

These takes are some of the most deliberately stupid imaginable. The current collapse is the direct result of the defunding of @NetworkRail from 2015 onwards, with decay accelerating in CP7. A situation that wouldn't have changed with or without GBR.
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