Local Conservatives

[Alicia Kearns MP @aliciakearns]

This is a bona-fide backdoor into the UK for Iranian agents.

For years I’ve worked to get the “Islamic Centre of England” an indoctrination hub, shut down.

The head of the centre is Iran’s Supreme Leader.

How has the Govt given it visa granting rights?! Preposterous.

As I said in the Telegraph yesterday, the Charity Commission should be given urgent powers to shut it down.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

"I grew up on a council estate" is not an excuse for failure. You are sacrificing the future of generations of kids on the altar of your class envy -reversing even Labour's academy reforms.

0% of teachers think you're doing a great job. I'm not here to give you a pat on the back.
I speak for those people whose lives you're destroying and I'll NEVER stop speaking up for them.

[PolliticsUK @PolliticsUK]

🚨 Westminster Voting Intention: [With Andy Burnham as Labour Leader]

🌹 LAB: 27% (-3)
➡️ REF: 26% (-1)
🌳 CON: 23% (+3)
🔶️ LDEM: 10% (-1)
🟢 GRN: 8% (+1)

From @Moreincommon_
From June 2026
Changes with 19th May

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

Note that they can only complain about hurty words, and not what was said re: falling teacher numbers, the Government quietly rewriting its education pledge and widespread dissatisfaction with Phillipson in the sector? Easier to tone-police than admit you've failed as a minister

[Robbie Moore MP @_RobbieMoore]

Today, I can announce we have secured a full independent grooming gangs inquiry across Keighley and the wider Bradford district.

This is a watershed moment and marks a significant turning point in the pursuit of justice, truth and accountability for victims and survivors right across our area. It comes almost two decades after Anne Cryer first had the courage to raise this issue in Parliament.

The inquiry will be fully independent of Bradford Council.

It will focus on examining failures in local and national safeguarding systems, evidence handling, institutional accountability, and investigate the role of ethnicity, race and culture, and allegations of systematic abuse covered up by authorities.

It will have statutory powers to compel witnesses and evidence.

And where there is evidence of wrongdoing or cover-ups, it will be able to refer matters to the police.

No one will be able to hide.

When I first got elected, six and a half years ago, some of the first meetings I had were with local survivors like Fiona Goddard.

Listening to their accounts of this crime, I was confronted with horrors that I will never forget.

I made a promise to them then that I would do everything in my power to ensure their voices were heard and the truth would come out.

Since then, I have consistently campaigned for this inquiry.

I want to pay tribute to Fiona Goddard and the many others from across Keighley whom I have met - without them, none of this would be possible.

Fiona is one of the bravest individuals I have ever met. Her extraordinary courage in speaking out and becoming a leading voice for survivors nationally should be an inspiration to us all - both locally in Keighley and across the UK.

Now, after tireless campaigning and lobbying, their voices are finally being heard.

I also want to recognise the work of leading child abuse lawyer David Greenwood, who has helped bring vital cases and evidence forward. He has been crucial to this campaign. Working with him, it has been clear for all to see that the scale of this issue across the Bradford District will dwarf that of the likes of Rotherham, Rochdale and Telford.

At times, our calls for a full inquiry were dismissed, or rejected altogether. Yet despite this we refused to give up.

For many years, political leaders from across our region, including the previous Bradford Council Leader Susan Hinchcliffe, the Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin and Deputy Mayor for Policing, Alison Lowe repeatedly rejected our calls for an inquiry.

It was my firm view that these refusals mirrored the same patterns of denial seen in towns like Rotherham and Telford. There, decades of abuse were hidden in plain sight until independent inquires finally forced the truth into the open.

It was deeply frustrating, but nevertheless welcome that it was only once a national inquiry was recommended by Baroness Casey in June 2025, supported by the Home Secretary, that these same local leaders changed their position, and supported our calls.

Whilst no inquiry can undo the pain and suffering they have endured, it can help ensure the truth is uncovered and that those who were failed finally receive the answers they have spent years fighting for.

And finally.

One of the most difficult lessons of this entire process is that survivors have had to become campaigners themselves just to be heard.

That should never have been necessary.

It speaks to a deep and painful failure in Britain right now, and of the institutions at every level of the British state.

Now we owe it to survivors, and to thousands across our area who suffered in silence, to see this through together.

This inquiry must seek the truth - however horrific it may be. And bring about justice to those who have been failed for far too long.

I will not stop until we achieve this.

Robbie

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

This is a disgrace.

Labour’s lame duck Attorney General, Lord Hermer, is once again trying to force through his vindictive pet project: the Chagos Island surrender.

Hermer is the only person who wants this deal. Conservatives rejected it. The Americans have serious concerns about it. And the British people do not want it.

Conservative would use the money Labour put aside for the Chagos surrender to fund our defence.

You do not make Britain safer by giving away strategic assets and paying for the privilege.

Conservatives have stopped this deal before. We will stop it again.

We will not let Labour weaken Britain.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Complicit.

[Kevin Hollinrake MP @kevinhollinrake]

Read the accounts, Chris

Reform say they’re paying off Leicestershire’s debt. Their own Capital Strategy shows £84m of new borrowing planned and total debt rising to £266m by 2029.

https://t.co/xZEN9YMxkn

[Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke]

Suella and her colleagues have refused to hold by-elections after leaving the Party which gave them their platform in public life.

They don’t get to run this argument.

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

A Prime Minister with no mandate, squatting in Number 10, running from the voters. He can run, but he can’t hide.

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

In two to three years time, when Starmer and his government are no doubt deeply unpopular, I hope we in the media will ask ourselves: "Why were we so supine during the long 2024 election; why didn't we hold Labour properly to account while we could, and ask more probing questions, and explore their records, rather than give them such an easy ride?".

[Kevin Hollinrake MP @kevinhollinrake]

Actually, @Nigel_Farage

You came 3rd in Arbroath, the @Conservatives came 2nd.

And pockets of support? We won last night in Essex, Hillingdon (London), Scotland and Wales (Mumbles, Swansea). Reform lost 3 seats to us and you won 0.

And contrary to your propaganda about the North, we also gained 4 seats in Bradford and kept our 14 seats in Leeds at the locals in May.

The reality is that you also keep saying you’re going to win parliamentary by elections but keep losing them. 🤔

[electionmapsuk @electionmapsuk]

🚨 | Aberdeen South Parliamentary By-Election Result:

🌳 CON: 49.5% (+25.1)
🎗️ SNP: 28.6% (-4.2)
➡️ RFM: 8.6% (+1.7)
🌹 LAB: 5.4% (-19.4)
🔶 LDM: 4.4% (-1.9)
🌍 GRN: 3.4% (-0.1)
✊ ADF: 0.2% (New)

Conservative GAIN from SNP.
Changes w/ GE2024.

[Patrick English @PME_Politics]

Reform lose (badly) a council seat they won handsomely just 6 weeks ago.

[Harry Cole @MrHarryCole]

Tories smash the Aberdeen election.

6000 odd majority

Huge moment for @KemiBadenoch

And a huge moment for drilling common sense

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

Really significant result in Aberdeen South, not just that the Conservatives took the seat from the SNP, but that it wasn’t even close - majority was over 6000 and the Tories taking 50% of the vote even while Reform took 9%.

[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

Very sorry to hear this.

Wishing @JeremyClarkson a full and speedy recovery. Prostate cancer affects far too many men and early diagnosis can make all the difference.

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

@bphillipsonMP It’s cute that you expect sympathy over some hurty words when your actions have disrupted numerous children’s educations, made thousands of teachers and staff redundant and caused longstanding institutions to close - while achieving none of your stated aims for state schools

[Kevin Hollinrake MP @kevinhollinrake]

Former Reform councillor, Robbie Lammas:

“they're good at spin, but struggle with good governance”.

"Lots of others from Reform have told me they too feel it was a mistake to defect but they're not in a position to publicly admit it”.

Respect his honesty.

[Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com]

So the Green Party’s official position is that fracturing a police officer’s spine with a sledgehammer ought not to be criminal?

Good to know.