Martin Callanan @MartinCallanan

Conservative Peer. Ex-Minister for Energy Efficiency and Green Finance. Formerly in DexEU and DfT. Proud Geordie and Toon fan. Newcastle Upon Tyne, England Joined October 2011

Tweets

1K
Followers

3K
Following

702
Likes

43

Mark Wallace @wallaceme

3 weeks ago

Finally, a proportionate response to people playing music out loud on their phone.

London & UK Street News @CrimeLdn

3 weeks ago

Armed police at St. James Park tube station

553 1K 7K 1.7M 1K

67 395 6K 313K 158

View Details

Martin Callanan @MartinCallanan

2 months ago

Hilarious confected outrage from these PA protesters that they might be made to cough up for the damage they caused. I hope more companies will do the same.

James Heartfield @JamesHeartfield

2 months ago

Palestine Action activists sued: “I smashed up these guys’ business, and I can’t believe that they want me to pay for the damage!” theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/a…

461 678 4K 168K 161

0 0 1 188 0

View Details

Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford

3 months ago

Breaking: Donald Trump's latest broadside against Keir Starmer: 'It's not Winston Churchill we're dealing with' He says the UK's refusal to alllow the US to use Diego Garcia meant that US bombers had to 'fly many extra hours' 'I'm not happy with the UK either. That island that you write about, for whatever reason he made a lease of the island. Somebody came and took it away from him. It has taken 3-4 days to work out where we can land. 'It would have been much more convenient landing there as opposed to flying many extra hours. We are very surprised. This is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with'

27 58 247 44K 15

View Details

Times Radio @TimesRadio

3 months ago

“The stupidity of that decision allowing international lawyers of a dubious provenance to determine the national interest of the United Kingdom is a disaster for transatlantic relations.” The special relationship has reached a new low, says @afneil.

663 2K 8K 414K 331

View Details

@

57 years ago

0 0 0 0 0

View Details

Martin Callanan @MartinCallanan

3 months ago

Great to see Vlad’s concern for morality and international law….🙄

0 0 0 203 0

View Details

Martin Callanan @MartinCallanan

3 months ago

If this is true then it’s fatal for Starmer’s treaty. It contains a crazy clause saying that Mauritius must be informed ‘expeditiously’ if base is used for an attack.

Connor Stringer @connorstringer

3 months ago

🚨EXC: w/@Tony_Diver 🚨 Donald Trump is refusing to back Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos deal again unless the Prime Minister allows the US to use the islands to strike Iran. The US president is understood to have asked to use Diego Garcia as part of contingency planning for

1 1 3 1K 1

0 0 6 783 1

View Details

Martin Callanan @MartinCallanan

3 months ago

Great article by Dan Hannan on Starmer’s Chagos surrender. telegraph.co.uk/gift/2c9d09f9c…

2 0 0 542 0

View Details

Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan

4 months ago

CHAGOS: AN APPEAL TO LABOUR There is, as I keep pointing out, no enthusiasm for the Diego Garcia surrender on the Labour benches. Its only supporters are Keir Starmer, Richard Hermer, Philippe Sands, Peter Mandelson and Jonathan Powell. Even a month ago, Labour cannot have imagined quite how awful the politics would become. They are handing away a pristine marine conservation zone, betraying a dispossessed black population and paying billions of pounds more to Mauritius than it would cost to resettle the outer atolls with Chagossians. Now they are ordering the eviction of those Chagossians who have returned home to stake their claim. Think about that. We won’t stop small boats in the Channel, but we lose no time in ordering the removal of British subjects from British territory. We are slow and reluctant when it comes to deporting illegal immigrants, but we snap into action to evict British Overseas Citizens from a British Overseas Territory. Labour friends, this is not why you went into politics. You can see as clearly as the rest of us how shameful all this is. You know that, under any other Labour leader, the whole project would have been dropped long ago. Well, here is your last chance. Donald Trump has given you a final off-ramp. For the love of justice and decency, take it. If that means replacing Starmer with someone more sensible, so be it.

110 1K 4K 56K 71

View Details

Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan

4 months ago

We are ordering the removal of British subjects from British territory so that we can hand that territory to a state that has never owned it. Even if we set aside, for a moment, the ancestral claims of the Chagossians to their own archipelago, this is despicable behaviour.

77 834 3K 84K 34

View Details

Iain Dale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 ⚒️ @IainDale

4 months ago

It is clear from this that the Government has midled Parliament on the Chagos Islands. Surely they must now withdraw the Bill that is in its final parliamentary stages, no matter how embarrassing that would be.

Robert Midgley @RobertMidgley07

4 months ago

🚨 Huge news: The FCDO admits a crucial detail that destroys the government’s basis of their Chagos Islands deal

388 3K 7K 865K 989

88 622 2K 74K 69

View Details

David Paton @cricketwyvern

4 months ago

UK trade data for 2025 published yesterday. We now have 10 years of data since the EU ref & 5 since we left the customs union. Remember the OBR forecast Brexit would reduce UK trade by 15% (hence their forecast of a 4% hit to productivity). Let’s see how that is working out …

93 563 2K 344K 925

View Details

Martin Callanan @MartinCallanan

4 months ago

An excellent initiative. Can Tory Peers sign? 😉 order-order.com/2026/02/06/web…

0 0 0 121 0

View Details

Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo

4 months ago

It's good to hear that the US and UK will protect the US-UK military base in the Chagos Islands. But that hardly detracts from the utter strategic foolishness of the UK's decision to transfer sovereignty of the islands to a Chinese ally.

249 609 3K 107K 61

View Details

Conservative Peers @HLConservatives

4 months ago

You can now read the Leader of the Opposition, Lord True's, article on the important role of the House of Lords in holding the Government to account online. politicshome.com/opinion/articl…

3 20 34 10K 2

View Details

Ross Kempsell @RossKempsell

4 months ago

Dear Chagos campaigners! Be on ALERT that Downing Street (currently on fire) will say ANYTHING about President Trump’s position on Chagos as a distraction and obfuscation right now. ***This is called spin - and be prepared to hear much more of it in the coming days.*** Whatever Starmer / No10 says about the US position is IRRELEVANT. It only matters what President Trump says and what then actually occurs. There are many ways the US could ‘approve’ of a new position from Starmer / changes by UK govt. He could seek to acquire Chagos for the US. Starmer could have dropped elements of the ‘deal’. There are many outcomes in play. And notwithstanding that, the deal may never be implemented for a variety of reasons. The only thing that matters is you don’t give up. Now is the time to DOUBLE DOWN on the campaign to save Chagos! Based on what my friends in DC continue to tell me, I have every confidence that all will be well. We were here before, only a matter of weeks ago! IN TUTELA NOSTRA LIMURIA 🇮🇴🇮🇴🇮🇴

45 462 2K 62K 46

View Details

Conservative Peers @HLConservatives

4 months ago

@HLConservatives have won their vote to ban the use or possession of smartphones in schools. The evidence is clear: the Government's guidance has not worked. This Conservative amendment is now crucial for the wellbeing, behaviour and attainment of children at school. Despite the policy having the support of parents, teachers and health experts, Labour voted against the amendment.

10 28 104 14K 2

View Details

Conservative Peers @HLConservatives

4 months ago

Tonight, @HLConservatives won their vote on @dianabarran's amendment to prevent the Government from introducing a cap on the intake of high quality schools, ensuring more children have access to the best education. Labour voted against the Conservative amendment.

1 26 93 7K 1

View Details

Martin Callanan @MartinCallanan

4 months ago

Still no reply to my letter ?@JennyChapman

Conservative Peers @HLConservatives

4 months ago

NEW: Shadow Foreign Office Spokesman, Lord Callanan has written to the Foreign Office Minister, Baroness Chapman of Darlington, to confirm that ministers will seek to amend the 1966 Treaty with the USA before proceeding with the Chagos Bill.

38 119 354 54K 45

0 0 5 310 0

View Details

Conservative Peers @HLConservatives

4 months ago

NEW: Shadow Defence Spokesman, Baroness Goldie, has written to the Foreign Office Minister, Baroness Chapman of Darlington, to confirm that the Pelindaba (Nuclear Weapon-free Zone) Treaty will apply to the Diego Garcia Base when the 2025 UK-Mauritius Treaty comes into effect.