David Gauke

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RT @BBCWorldatOne: "If we can ensure that young people have an opportunity over the next few months...that support is important" Former Ch… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SkyNews: Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to unveil a £2bn work placements scheme in his #coronavirus recovery package. #KayBurley will b… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CBItweets: On tomorrow's Coronavirus Webinar we will be joined by, @DavidGauke, Head of Public Policy, @MacfarlanesLLP, for a discussio… — PolitiTweet.org

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And good luck to the liberal, centrist Conservatives like @DLidington who are seeking to influence the direction of the Conservative Party. I hope they surprise me and prevail. /END — PolitiTweet.org

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I could be wrong. Maybe they won't make a choice at all & try to have their cake & eat it (which is not the Cummings approach to campaigning). Maybe they'll make a different choice but that'll make it very difficult for lots of new Conservative MPs. /7 — PolitiTweet.org

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For as long as possible, the Government will want to appeal to a broad range of voters. But in the end, I think they'll need to make a choice. And my guess is that they'll go for the economically left, socially right wing Red Wall voters rather than younger social liberals. /6 — PolitiTweet.org

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But, my suspicion is that the Government will see its priority being to hold what it has and keeping the support of the voters that decided the result of the last election. 'Beginning to deliver results for their families and neighbourhoods' won't be enough. /5 — PolitiTweet.org

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Third, I very much agree with David's case that the Conservative Party needs to expand its support, win the votes of younger and more socially liberal people. My original piece (see below) touched on the risks of not doing so. /4 https://t.co/M9ycXl1oaX — PolitiTweet.org

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Second, I agree that a 'tilt towards the economic & industrial policies of Macmillan, Heath & Heseltine should be seen as a pragmatic response to the times... not some heretical departure from the one true faith'. Agreed, but there are some risks. /3 https://t.co/Luy83532LJ — PolitiTweet.org

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First, he is right to say that the Government's ambition to "level up" opportunities available to people living in parts of the country that feel left behind is to be supported. It is in the best traditions of One Nation Conservatism. /2 — PolitiTweet.org

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A well-argued response to my recent pessimistic piece about the future direction of the Conservative Party. @DLidington is usually right, so a few thoughts on his article. /1 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BethRigby: ANALYSIS: Sunak job on Weds is to kickstart recovery. The even harder task come later when he has to square off FDR economic… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jillongovt @DanNeidle @hselftax Yes. It was a resolution under the PCTA (not an SI as I mentioned on my Twitter thread) passed the day after the Autumn Statement. The subsequent Bill went through quickly and easily. — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm sure there won't any such delay. Either we will nothing about SDLT on Wednesday or there will be an immediate cut. The proposal briefed to the papers today of an announcement that takes effect in November makes no sense. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jillongovt @hselftax @CIOTNews Good question. In 2014 we couldn't use a Finance Bill. But if the FB has passed its Report Stage, probably still easier to use an SI than reopen the FB. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the problem with briefing about changes to SDLT. It is possible that the Chancellor could announce an immediate cut on Wednesday. Even 2 days of speculation is unhelpful but 4 months between announcement & implementation would be hugely counter-productive. — PolitiTweet.org

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So if the Chancellor is going to announce an immediate cut in SDLT on Wednesday, there should be a Treasury minister going to see @LindayHoyle_MP shortly to say "we're going to announce on Wednesday an SI for Thursday, I can't say more than that but it's all above board". — PolitiTweet.org

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The Speaker said it was 'highly irregular' but was very gracious when I assured him that it was all for good market reasons and there was nothing underhand about it (e.g. we weren't rushing through something unpopular with no notice on a quiet Thursday). — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

It was my job to go and see Speaker Bercow in advance of the Autumn Statement to say that we needed Parliamentary time on Thursday to pass an SI on a subject matter that I couldn't tell him about and that we couldn't tell anyone that we were even doing an SI until Wednesday. — PolitiTweet.org

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This created a bit of a Parliamentary problem because we needed to pass an SI on the day after the Autumn Statement but we couldn't announce that there'd be an SI on the floor of the House until after the Autumn Statement (announcing the SDLT reforms) had been delivered. — PolitiTweet.org

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When there was a big reform of SDLT in December 2014, the measures took effect at midnight on the day of announcement because we were worried about the consequences of any delay on the market. — PolitiTweet.org

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And the Blair/Brown Govt increased the size of the state but in its opposition to use of state aid & belief in free trade, seemed more committed to the free market than the current Government. So worth differentiating 'free marketeers' from backers of 'small state', too./END — PolitiTweet.org

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I also wrote about 'small state free marketeers'. Paul says 'those who support free markets will also believe in a small state' & that's often true. But thinking further, the Scandinavians tend to favour big Government but favour open markets & are not big users of state aid. /6 — PolitiTweet.org

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So, even if there are socially liberal policies pursued, the pitch at the next election will not be a socially liberal one (and will be uncomfortable for social liberals or even those who are temperamentally inclined to heal - rather than stoke - cultural divisions). /5 — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

The electoral logic is that the Conservative Party will need to appeal to these voters on issues like crime, immigration, defending Britain's history (statues etc) and our relationship with international organisations &, if possible, make these dividing lines with Labour. /4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Paul also makes the case that the Government is pursuing some socially liberal policies, like divorce reform (for which they deserve much credit IMHO). But my point remains that at the next GE the swing voters in the swing seats poll as being 'socially authoritarian'. /3 — PolitiTweet.org

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And @DamianGreen is right to say that the Govt's levelling up agenda is consistent with the One Nation agenda. /2 https://t.co/8IXK7MwcI9 — PolitiTweet.org

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Interesting & thoughtful piece by @PaulGoodmanCH picking up on my use of the phrase 'One Nation social liberals' in my article on Saturday. He is quite right to say that backing for 'One Nation' and for 'social liberalism' is not automatically aligned./1 https://t.co/KMgEsbGFVo — PolitiTweet.org

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@PickardJE Yes, they will have done. When we announced reforms to SDLT on 3 December 2014, the changes came into effect from midnight that day for that very reason. — PolitiTweet.org