Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧

MP for Boston & Skegness | Deputy Leader & Shadow Business, Trade & Energy @reformparty_uk 🇬🇧➡️

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Proud to represent all the constituents of Boston & Skegness as their MP

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

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[Reform UK @reformparty_uk]

🚨 STATEMENT ON TORIES' HALF-BAKED POLICING PLANS 🚨

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Britain is lawless. Britain needs Reform.

[Reform UK @reformparty_uk]

The Tories don't understand what makes policing work.

Watch Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner Colin Sutton challenge their latest policing announcements. 👇

[Reform UK @reformparty_uk]

While Labour and the Tories stuck their heads in the sand, AI use has exploded in Britain over the past 3 years.

Only Reform UK will ensure that our economy and skills are ready for this new industrial revolution.

https://t.co/CTb5HjYlpS

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

A reminder that only Reform will scrap Net Stupid Zero.

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Reform will stand up for those who serve our country. 🇬🇧

[Reform UK @reformparty_uk]

Reform UK is the only party standing up for our armed forces. 🇬🇧

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

In recent days, the carnage spread to Italy and other parts of Europe.

Decades of endemic failure have reduced Europe to a tinderbox.

We need law, order, hope and borders.

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Reform will keep your bills down.

[Reform UK @reformparty_uk]

Labour's inflation has sent fuel prices rocketing.

Reform UK will control inflation and scrap Labour's fuel duty increase, keeping your bills down.

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

NESO's whistleblowing report dodges the key question and ignores witnesses who raised concerns!

This isn't an investigation. It's a whitewash.

I've written to the Minister. NESO management must face the Energy Committee.

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Britain wants Reform! 🩵🇬🇧

[Reform UK @reformparty_uk]

Hundreds of Reformers turned out for Lee Anderson’s Chairman Tour in Stockton last week.

The People's Army marches on. 💪

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

How can the Tories possibly expect to be trusted again?

Never forgive, never forget what they did to this great country.

Their betrayal on our borders was unforgivable.

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

TORY MASS IMMIGRATION LIES:

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

ITV may regret breaking the law and interfering with elections

Being a journalist does not put you above the law

We will pursue you relentlessly as we protect our staff, members and volunteers

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

STATEMENT:

Reform UK has reported ITV, its board, and its undercover reporters to the police.

Some of the crimes carry up to 10 years in prison.

They forged a passport.

They directly interfered in elections and almost certainly altered the results. Being paid to “canvass” for Reform in crucial wards we lost by a few dozen votes.

They lied to a veteran about their service and left him “violated”.

This is unprecedented.

The police are now involved.

Scrutiny of political parties is one thing.

But anyone breaking the law to try and ruin the lives of Reform’s staff, members or volunteers will be reported to the police and pursued relentlessly in the courts.

Here’s what happened 👇

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Never forgive, never forget.

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

Kemi Badenoch is arguing for more North Sea oil and gas.

Has she forgotten that the Tories taxed the industry to destruction?

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

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[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Reform UK has reported ITV and its reporters to the police after going undercover in the party for a year

"They forged a passport. They directly interfered in elections and almost certainly results. They lied to a veteran"

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

We cannot carry on like this. 🤯

Britain needs Reform.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

BREAKING: Net Debt over £3 TRILLION

Today, net debt ticked over £3 trillion for the first time. Meanwhile, the tax burden is at post-war highs. We simply cannot carry on like this.

Reform has laid out a plan to save more than £80 billion a year. We’d use that to cut the debt and cut your taxes.

We can achieve both by making the hard choices: take control of the welfare bill, end Net Zero vanity projects, and scrap foreign aid to rich countries.

Will Healey take those choices? Or will he bury his head in the sand?

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

🚨Inflation and government borrowing are both rising by more than expected.

Labour’s economic mismanagement is hitting Britain hard…

Britain needs Reform. 🇬🇧

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Inflation & Government Borrowing Rise by More Than Expected https://t.co/wySVMdm3UO

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Open Borders Burnham is betraying the British people.

Reform will end the invasion.

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

Yesterday various reports into grid security and NESO governance around 23 June were published

@neso_energy and @mgshanks immediately seized on the statement by Eversheds that its "investigation has not substantiated any of the allegations”. Shanks said there was "no evidence" to support the allegations which is plainly not what Eversheds said nor what the report contains

At every turn, Eversheds took the most generous interpretation possible to NESO's benefit. Areas of concern were repeatedly identified and not followed up with rigour. A lack of evidence was taken as evidence to the contrary despite obvious limitations to the investigation process in terms of independence (Eversheds was appointed by NESO) and anonymity (some witnesses eg the Power System Manager would be easily identifiable to NESO staff and senior execs, potentially limiting what they would be willing to say)

Eversheds identified that important logs were not kept in the week of 22 June, despite engineers having identified ahead of time that risks would be elevated. Yet they did not explore why, or check that the reports had not been either deleted or simply withheld from them

They identified the possibility of mobile phones being used to pass on undue influence from the Corporate Affairs team but only checked the phone records of the PSM, not their line manager or other more senior people - yet elsewhere it mentions a manager coming to the control room when a demand control warning was being considered and when they left it was no longer being considered - a senior manager could speak by phone or in person to Corporate Affairs and pass on the concerns in person to the PSM - there is no evidence Eversheds considered this despite identifying the pieces of the puzzle

Eversheds identified significant weaknesses in record-keeping, a culture of reputational sensitivity, concerns that staff were not listened to by senior management, and uncertainty about whether the correct operational escalation procedures had been followed on 23 June

It also recorded that five network constraints had been breached with no available pre- or post-action mitigation options, with confusion about whether the largest loss was covered, and even what the impact of a single fault would have been

NESO admitted in its interim report to Ofgem that 5 grid constraints were breached despite having strongly suggested to the press that they had not

It also said that on 23 June it had taken “all available and commercially accessible” balancing actions while frequency remained significantly below its normal operating range despite automatic frequency response services responding to prevent further falls

So what reserve was left, and why was it not deployed? If reserves were not available or commercially accessible then they would be useless – did NESO retain enough usable reserve to cover the largest loss or not?

Anyone that thinks these reports exonerate NESO and that concerns over grid security can be dismissed is dreaming. The reports show there is no room for complacency. In my blog I list about 20 risks to grid security which ought to give readers an idea of the range of threats it faces

The question is whether anything will be done about it. @ofgem still expects NESO to mark its own homework, something other regulators of safety critical systems do not do

If the conclusion when the final reports come in is that the grid wasn't secure then there will be serious questions for both Ofgem and NESO to answer about the self-reporting process because the only reason the issues surrounding 23 June have been investigated at all was because @ClaireCoutinho stood up in Parliament TWICE and sounded the alarm (with due credit to the whistleblower who approached her in the first place)

#EnergySecurity

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[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

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[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

As @Nigel_Farage has announced in Plymouth, under a Reform government those in our Armed Forces Reserves will pay no tax whatsoever on their service to our country 🇬🇧