Tim Focas

@TimFocas66

Head of Capital Markets @Aspectusgroup, political commentator for @CityAM

London

Joined December 2008

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Andrew Neil

@afneil

21 days ago

British politics will reach a new reductio ad absurdum in the Makerfield by election: Vote Labour to destroy the sitting Labour Prime Minister. Support Labour PM Starmer but NOT voting Labour. We are having a by-election not because there’s any demand or need in the national interest but entirely to suit the convenience of the byzantine politics of the ruling party and the political pygmies in whose interest it is run. We are no longer a serious nation. No wonder the bond markets are squiffy.

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Laura Trott MP

@LauraTrottMP

22 days ago

What has Labour really done to education? They have taken a wrecking ball to the cross party consensus that drove up school standards across this country. Labour looked at the evidence and chose ideology instead. They are following Wales down the same failed path. They promised that taxing education would create 6,500 new teachers. There are 400 fewer teachers. The Government claimed only 3,000 pupils would leave the private sector after their vindictive tax. The DfE’s own figures now show around 11,000 fewer pupils in private schools by mid 2025. And meanwhile schools are being pushed into the red by Rachel Reeves’ jobs tax & unfunded pay rises. Ministers talk about teacher satisfaction while the threat of strikes grow. Labour have failed to help students trapped on Plan 2 loans. They are doing nothing about dead end degrees that leave young people buried in debt with no serious job prospects. They have botched Ofsted reform and weakened accountability across the system. They have even made it illegal for people to donate school uniforms 🤯 They axed higher level apprenticeships and starts among U25 year olds fell in the last academic year. After dragging their feet for 18 months, they have watered down the guidance on gender questioning in schools. Children as young as 5 can according to their guidance “socially transition” at primary school. This is wrong. The £2 billion SEND blackhole remains & Labour will not tell parents whether the money will come from schools or SEND provision. Childcare costs have only been cut in half because Conservative reforms are working. Reforms Labour opposed every step of the way. Attendance has seen its best improvement in over a decade because they continued the changes that were already working. Behaviour remains a crisis in schools. Social media is fuelling violence and knife crime. Labour mocked our calls to ban phones in schools and introduce restrictions for under 16s. Thankfully this was one of their many u turns. Knives are still being brought into schools by children as young as six. Labour blocked out proposed tougher measures to crack down on knives in schools. Their curriculum review opens the door to more ideological teaching under the banner of “citizenship” for children as young as four, taking time away from the core knowledge and skills children need. Labour rejected our amendment to give parents the right to see what their children are being taught in school. Party politics over common sense. That is Labour’s record on education. They are trashing the progress we made and the country won’t forgive them for it.

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