Former Parliamentary staffer and lobbyist. Passionate about Affordable & Social Housing and Social Mobility. Democrat. Views are my own.
London, England
Joined July 2010
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So proud that after two and half years working on this with incredible housing associations and MPs like @peter_aldous and @heidiallen75 the Government has seen sense and dropped their plans! We did it!!
BREAKING NEWS: Housing benefit will be kept in place for “all those living in supported housing” @MHCLG and @DWP announce - dropping plans to fund short-term accommodation through ring-fenced grants to councils #ukhousing #ukhousing
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Nigel Farage's dream of becoming Prime Minister is dead. He can still win an election, but only for Andy Burnham. If the Right wants to stop Labour securing 5 more years in power its only chance is to unite behind Kemi Badenoch > Daily Mail > dailymail.com/debate/article…
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Bye bye Suella 👋
PROJECTION: FAREHAM AND WATERLOOVILLE
CON GAIN FROM REFORM @suellabraverman
MAJ: 5.98%
pollingreport.uk/seats/E1400…
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Best to vote Conservative.
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Being appointed Reform Leader in Wales currently provides the same career prospects as being appointed Supreme Leader of Iran…
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Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline has been damaged by drone attacks. The strait of Hormuz is restricted, Houthi bandits threaten shipping routes into the Red Sea. Another oil shock is coming.
Yet our Prime Minister and his Cabinet are behaving like a flock of ostriches, heads buried so deep in the sand they could strike oil themselves.
The answer is simple: DRILL OUR OWN OIL AND GAS IN THE NORTH SEA.
Here’s our defence spending…
I expect @KemiBadenoch will have a field day with this
🚨 NEW: The OBR has estimated the PIP benefits bill is set to nearly double from £26bn a year in 2024 to £45bn in 2030
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Zia’s fallen out with Honest Bob and Who’ella Braverman then.
>be a deadbeat tory minister
>promise to cut immigration
>throw open Britain's borders and import 11 million migrants
>leave the country with *fewer* hospital beds and almost no new prison places
>leave our borders open to invaders who predate on British woment and girls
>smuggle thousands of Afghans into Britain and keep it secret
>get booted out of office for sickening betrayal.
>write articles constantly pleading for a 'pact' with Reform so you can try and suffocate us from within.
OVER MY DEAD BODY!
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This is a London tax. It will force many who cannot afford an extra £2,500 p/a into selling their biggest or only asset, to satisfy Labour’s inability to stop spending. Labour are addicted to tax & spend politics, and will bankrupt the country.
🚨 NEW: John Healey is considering extending the "mansion tax" to nearly 300,000 homes which are worth more than £1.5m
The levy is currently set to only apply to homes worth more than £2m
[@thetimes]
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Money cannot buy character, standards or competence. Problem after problem after problem. This is what Reform is.
Earlier this year I said Nigel Farage was doing my spring cleaning. He took a large number of very problematic people from the Conservatives. Reform is where they belong.
People are innocent until proven guilty. But just look at the pattern. Reform’s former Welsh leader is in prison for taking Russian bribes. His successor has now resigned after being arrested. Robert Jenrick is under investigation over allegedly impermissible donations. Richard Tice’s company is linked to donations being investigated by police. Reform itself faces a criminal investigation after the Channel 4 expose where we watched them openly brag about dodging the rules. It goes on and on and it will never stop.
The difference between Conservatives and Reform is not just policy. It is character, conduct and standards. We care about these things and they don’t.
Reform UK’s leader in Wales Dan Thomas stands down after he says he was reported to the police bbc.in/4j56HQv
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Inflation has jumped to 3.1%.
Taxes up. Inflation up. Every family is paying the price for Labour’s choices.
Inflation rising again. Spending and taxes are too high.
There just isn’t enough money to pay for Burnham’s plan. It’s now inevitable that taxes will go up in the Budget.
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Our economy is built on means of checking wealth inequality.
Extraordinary welfare provision (equivalent of nearly £50k take home pay), the abandonment of the price mechanism and massive wage compression.
The result: stagnation and collapsing public services.
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One other thing about Andy Burnham's social security line at PMQs. It's not just the political impact. The markets are watching. And UK Gilts are edging towards crisis territory.
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She’s not wrong…
Yusuf's performative outrage is fooling no one. Nigel Farage himself called these protesters ‘disgusting’. The truth is he’s arguing with his own leader, using me as cover as he tries to outflank Farage. This is a Reform power struggle, not a serious argument about Britain’s borders.
While Reform are mired in scandal and turning on each other, the Conservatives are putting Andy Burnham under pressure over what he's doing on the economy, the cost of living, welfare and national security. We’re also setting out how we will fund defence properly, cut taxes, take back our streets, stop the boats and restore control.
Reform can spend its time fighting over who gets to lead Reform. I’m only interested in Getting Britain Working again.
This is his “locker room talk” - don’t be fooled.
When people show you who they are, believe them.
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How revealing.
The left don’t think a pregnant woman can be promoted on merit, only as a symbol of ‘progressiveness.’
I may be growing some feet and eyeballs, but my brain is just fine.
Glad to be a Conservative because we don’t define women by their maternity status.
'It's a very progressive thing to do'
Kemi Badenoch thinks of herself as 'anti-woke', but @HarrietHarman thinks the Tory reshuffle suggests otherwise.
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Just remembering all the times that Starmer mocked Sunak for moving to California before, er, staying on as MP for Richmond
