Army Veteran. Labour MP Dover & Deal. SERVICE 🇬🇧🇬🇧
United Kingdom
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Mike Tapp MP retweeted
The boss seeing off a pint of Chancellor's Choice after a long day at the office.
RT @_LFI: As Israelis head to the polls today amid reports of record-breaking turnout levels, LFI wishes the @DemocratsIL, Labour's sister…
Mike Tapp MP retweeted
Today, Andy Burnham is bringing together business, charities and local leaders to make sure we end rough sleeping in this country for good.
Mike Tapp MP retweeted
“It’s all lies.” “Nothing’s happening.” “Show us video!”
Well, here it is. 👇
Boats seized. Engines seized. Smuggling supply chains disrupted.
A glimpse of this Government’s work tackling the gangs. Watch it. Then tell me nothing’s happening.
Mike Tapp MP retweeted
Andy Burnham says "we can fix" rough sleeping during an address at a summit in Downing Street.
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‘Is calling Kemi Badenoch a “Nigerian scammer” racist, yes or no?’
‘…I’m not on your show to talk about what a journalist has tweeted.’
Reform's Robert Jenrick refuses to engage with @Lewis_Goodall's question about Raheem Kassam's comments on the Tory leader.
Mike Tapp MP retweeted
🚨 Thefts such as phone snatching and pick-pocketing have fallen by 20% in the last year alone.
With over 3,800 additional neighbourhood officers on our streets, we will continue to drive down crime and restore confidence in policing.
Mike Tapp MP retweeted
The argument that we can’t exempt overseas care workers from retrospective settlement extensions because they might leave the sector is not just wrong. It’s cruel.
We should not be keeping care workers in the sector by trapping them in it, at the mercy of sponsors who know they have nowhere else to go. That creates the conditions for exploitation and a race to the bottom.
If we want care workers to stay, the answer is simple: treat them with dignity, improve working conditions, allow them to progress in their careers, move between employers and integrate into our communities.
And honour the five-year route to settlement they came here under.
We have an opportunity to do the right thing.
Firm but fair. Let’s not forget the fair bit.
Mike Tapp MP retweeted
The government wants to double the time it takes for most migrants to qualify for permanent residence from five to 10 years.
It comes after Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the 'unprecedented' number of people arriving in the UK demanded an answer from the government.
But are some of the Labour ministers against the proposal?
Sky's @serenabarksing explores ⬇️
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Thank you @MikeTappTweets
All social care workers deserve fair treatment and dignity.
A sector-wide visa scheme would go a long way to ending the exploitation of migrant workers.
Mike Tapp MP retweeted
Labour MP and former migration minister @MikeTappTweets supports sending those coming to the UK illegally to a third country for processing.
“I’ve no doubt the Home Office are looking at it”
But if not Rwanda, where?
@maitlis | @jonsopel
Mike Tapp MP retweeted
“This would surely breach every human rights law we have.”
@BenKentish challenges former migration minister Mike Tapp over his proposal to ‘detain’ those arriving into the UK via small boats.
Mike Tapp MP retweeted
One of the problems Reform continue to face is those wishing to become its politicians are often reprobates and knuckle draggers. Not all of them, but a high proportion.
The public are starting to notice.
Mike Tapp MP retweeted
Just a police reminder that the 90-minute documentary, Undercover: A Year in Reform, will air on ITV this evening at 10:20pm.
Mike Tapp MP retweeted
A certain Rachel asked Nobel laureate Paul Krugman a question at Oxford last night, casually noting the IMF’s praise for UK deficit and debt reduction and the productivity puzzle being revised away. All during her time as Chancellor, as it happens. Laughter and applause.
Mike Tapp MP retweeted
Extremism is becoming more common on both the left and right of British politics.
Mike and I have written to the EHRC to call out both in recent weeks.
We must be clear-eyed about the threat extremism poses to our democracy and root it out wherever it appears.
NEW: former home office minister @MikeTappTweets has written to the EHRC alongside Labour MP @MarkJSewards raising concerns about Reform UK’s internal safeguards after ITV’s Exposure documentary filmed Reform councillors expressing racist, sexist and Islamophobic views.
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A Reform UK official has shared advice on how to pass party vetting by deleting social media posts supporting Tommy Robinson.
It's part of an undercover investigation inside Reform UK’s political operation that has found senior party officials saying they have to “defend the indefensible”, with Nigel Farage told he was “protecting” one Reform candidate from being sacked for allegedly racist views.
ITV Exposure gained unprecedented access to Reform’s Westminster headquarters, sending in an undercover reporter inside the party in January 2026, where she worked as a press officer. She secretly recorded conversations between Reform officials as they dealt with multiple accusations of racism by Reform councillors and candidates.
Reform UK told us: "Not all individuals covertly recorded by ITV are members of Reform UK. Where members, activists and councillors have clearly behaved inappropriately, investigations have commenced. In some cases, there have been suspensions and due process must be followed.
"Reform UK has improved and prioritised its vetting procedures, but from time to time, a handful of individuals who do not share our values will initially make it through vetting. This is the same for all organisations.
"There is no room for racism in Reform UK. We always respect due process of investigations and whilst these are ongoing it would not be appropriate to comment on individual cases."
Watch ‘Undercover: A Year in Reform’ on ITV1 & ITVX from 10:20pm on Sunday
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Warning: Offensive language
Reform UK MP for Runcorn and Helsby Sarah Pochin has said her party ‘excludes you if you’re a woman’ and that Reform has a ‘male issue’.
The comments were made as part of an undercover investigation inside Reform UK’s political operation that has found senior party officials saying they have to “defend the indefensible”, with Nigel Farage told he was “protecting” one Reform candidate from being sacked for allegedly racist views.
ITV Exposure gained unprecedented access to Reform’s Westminster headquarters, sending in an undercover reporter inside the party in January 2026, where she worked as a press officer. She secretly recorded conversations between Reform officials as they dealt with multiple accusations of racism by Reform councillors and candidates.
Sarah Pochin did not respond to our request for a comment.
Watch ‘Undercover: A Year in Reform’ on ITV1 & ITVX from 10:20pm on Sunday
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Warning: Distressing and graphic language
An undercover investigation inside Reform UK’s political operation has found senior party officials saying they have to “defend the indefensible” when dealing with accusations of racism against party figures, with Nigel Farage told he was “protecting” one Reform candidate from being sacked for allegedly racist views.
ITV Exposure gained unprecedented access to Reform’s Westminster headquarters, sending in an undercover reporter inside the party in January 2026, where she worked as a press officer. She secretly recorded conversations between Reform officials as they dealt with multiple accusations of racism by Reform councillors and candidates.
Reform UK told us: “Not all individuals covertly recorded by ITV are members of Reform UK. Where members, activists and councillors have clearly behaved inappropriately, investigations have commenced. In some cases, there have been suspensions and due process must be followed.
“Reform UK has improved and prioritised its vetting procedures, but from time to time, a handful of individuals who do not share our values will initially make it through vetting. This is the same for all organisations.
“There is no room for racism in Reform UK. We always respect due process of investigations and whilst these are ongoing it would not be appropriate to comment on individual cases.”
Watch ‘Undercover: A Year in Reform’ on ITV1 & ITVX from 10:20pm on Sunday
Mike Tapp MP retweeted
Reform officials admit they 'defend the indefensible' amid racism claims against party figures
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