Keir Starmer on BBC Look East now after his virtual meeting in Ipswich. Talking racism, apology for anti semitism etc. Talk about message discipline for a four year campaign.

Rather agreed with this Peter Golds

He had expressed himself maybe unfortunately, but as a liberal Liberal Democrats I’m not keen on too much pressure for loyalty tests. Free speech!

Turning off Twitter until tmrw. Very rare I’m ashamed of the Conservative Party but I am tonight. The PM fiddling with his phone on the frontbench, ignoring parliamentary scrutiny. And Tory MPs queuing up to endorse a Bill they know breaks international law. What next Dom?

How delightful to see Peter Symonds, stalwart of South Hampstead CRASH residents assn, playing a cameo of Hardy Amies in episode 8, season 4 of The Crown m.imdb.com/name/nm0843366…

London Tory mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey seems keen to talk about many global issues, which is fine, but curiously reticent to talk about #Brexit

longterm damage more important, but shortterm disruption will lead to fringe group demos outside EU offices in UK, tabloid calls to boycott EU goods etc. It will get bad. Public opinion will divide sharply, with some blaming EU intransigence even as support for Brexit falls

If Mr Johnson fails to reach an acceptable trade agreement with the EU the Prime Minister will also have failed the people of the United Kingdom. As a lifelong member of the Conservative Party, I believe that Mr Johnson's position as Prime Minister would be untenable. 1/2

.CDU Deutschlands first leadership debate tonight. Three serious, able candidates - all with experience and judgement that would leave most of the current UK cabinet in the shade

Nice to see a fleeting shot of a young John Mills, the former Camden Labour 🌹 councillor, in the second episode of Marr’s New Elizabethans on BBC. Those 1975 sideburns!

Four and a half years to plan and it’s a shambles. The Johnson govt, the Conservatives and Brexiteers generally are to blame for this.

Well said Stephen. We should always describe it as the hard Brexit deal. Am worried that some see more of a compromise here than is the case.

A particularly bonkers @SteveBakerHW tweet. A State Dept investigation found that Ambassador Johnson had made inappropriate or insensitive comments to embassy staff.

What nonsense. Serious historians can’t judge what attitude Thatcher would have taken to Brexit, as her sympathetic biographer Charles Moore agrees. We do know she backed a meaningful increase in QMV in the EU to make the Single Market a reality.

Johnson had better come up with some better lines on Scotland than he managed on #Marr today

Well the Financial Times better increase its coverage of private credit << Nest plans bold expansion into private markets via Financial Times on.ft.com/2LCpBkc

Very sad to hear. May he rest in peace. One regular image in my mind is Eric standing, hovering at the back of the council chamber, trying to spot what was really going on.

Appalling news. A Camden anecdote: David Amess twice unexpectedly beat longstanding Camden cllr Julian Fulbrook in Basildon. Julian told me once that after the 83 declaration Amess more or less apologised to him for having beaten him, the highly fancied London lawyer

Many congratulations Flick!