German diplomat Christoph Heusgen has served as chairman of the Munich Security Conference since 2022. He delivered his closing remarks yesterday…
After complaining about JD Vance and stressing the importance of gender balance on the MSC’s panels, Heugen broke down:
“After the speech of Vice President Vance on Friday we have to fear that our common value base is not that common anymore. I’m very grateful to all those European politicians that spoke out and reaffirmed the values and principles that they are defending, no one did this better than President Zelensky.”
And at the end: “Let me conclude and this becomes difficult…”
What did you expect…
UPDATE: Heugsen can be seen here laughing with the rest of the German UN delegation as Trump warns the country it will be dangerously dependent on Russian oil and gas unless it changes course. Not laughing now…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”