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  1. Retweeted
    Sep 27

    Whenever we met Wolfgang Schauble (this is 2010-2015) he would always start by saying "so George, when are you going to join the euro?"...

    9 replies 77 retweets 144 likes
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    Sep 14

    I remember when we set an ambition for the UK to have highest employment rate in the G7 back in March 2014. People thought it was a gimmick

    The Times front page: "Britain races towards top after record job numbers revealed"
    5 replies 29 retweets 33 likes
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    Jul 19

    IFS shows positive impact our record employment has for poorest. Living Wage will boost further - but need to stop housing acting as a brake

    2 replies 18 retweets 11 likes
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    Jul 13

    Excellent exercise - reminder of why so naive to be complacent about deficit. UK medium term goal should be balanced budget to reduce debt

    OBR says 'stress test' scenario - same as BoE applies for UK banks - would push govt borrow to 8.1% of GDP by 2021, debt 114% of GDP
    5 replies 10 retweets 5 likes
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    Jul 5

    Remembering Chris Martin: my former Principal Private Secretary; my ‘Bernard’.

    Sarcoma Awareness Week: 10 people diagnosed every day in UK. Thank you for all that you do & thinking of you Chris Martin x
    57 replies 97 retweets 426 likes
  6. Retweeted
    Jun 13
    Replying to

    Might be fine for some time but the next time we hit a crisis we will discover we have repeated the mistakes of the past

    5 replies 5 retweets 8 likes
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    Jun 13
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    (a) is bread & butter of politics, (b) is trade off between present & future. If like the US we let deficit drift up we create vulnerability

    2 replies 4 retweets 6 likes
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    Jun 13
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    Now confronted by two different decisions that are often confused: a) level of tax and public spending, b) where now for the deficit (3/?)

    2 replies 5 retweets 5 likes
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    Jun 13
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    Austerity (reducing the deficit) was never an end in itself - was only way to deal with an existential threat to economic stability (2/?)

    18 replies 8 retweets 9 likes
  10. Retweeted
    Jun 13

    Only reason we can even have a debate about end of austerity is we took difficult decisions to get deficit from 10% to below 3% of GDP (1/?)

    25 replies 43 retweets 69 likes
  11. Retweeted
    Jun 13

    Our editorial : government's problems will get a whole lot worse if it ditches fiscal responsibility

    92 replies 66 retweets 85 likes
  12. Retweeted
    May 27

    Shocking to see idiots attacking British muslims. Skinheads doing it are doing *precisely* what the terrorists want. We must stand together.

    4 replies 4 retweets 6 likes
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    May 5

    Incredibly honoured to be selected to fight for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston. Delighted to be joining a wonderful team!

    15 replies 25 retweets 59 likes
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    May 5

    Remarkable - and when the new metro mayors were created we were told it was an own-goal as all the NorthernPowerhouse ones would be Labour

    Conservative Ben Houchen wins the Tees Valley mayoral election
    37 replies 153 retweets 264 likes
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    Apr 28

    George's team has changed over the years.

    46 replies 1,095 retweets 2,264 likes
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    Apr 6

    So it takes to re-establish the West's 100 yr old redline against the abhorrent use of chemical weapons ...

    96 replies 322 retweets 529 likes
  17. Retweeted
    Mar 22

    Next time you generalise about evil politicians etc; Consider people like Foreign Office Minister Tobias Elwood.

    8 replies 199 retweets 378 likes
  18. Retweeted
    Feb 9

    Congratulations to on becoming Shadow Chief Secretary. I think he is my eighth Labour Shadow since I became a Treasury Minister.

    11 replies 58 retweets 98 likes
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    4 Aug 2016
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    (2/2) some revolting sexism on display by those labelling her a stylist. She has the best political and comms judgement I have come across

    9 replies 19 retweets 40 likes
  20. Retweeted
    4 Aug 2016

    Congrats to Thea Rogers for her OBE. The driving force behind the national living wage & originator of the Northern Powerhouse concept (1/2)

    6 replies 29 retweets 41 likes

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