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[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

📢Only one in 10 voters think Labour can be trusted to oversee Britain's economy following last week's Budget chaos, a new YouGov poll has shown

😱Lower than when Jeremy Corbyn was Labour leader
😑Lower than the Tories after Truss's 'mini-Budget'

[Independent Business Network @IndBusNet]

🚨Small businesses could lose control of who enters their workplace.

The Government is consulting on new union access rights — your silence will be taken as consent.

Consultation closes 18th December.

Have your say in under a minute using our easy tool (link in the thread).

[Independent Business Network @IndBusNet]

🗓️December is key month for Britain’s SMEs. It's not just Christmas. 18th December is the last chance to respond to Government’s consultation on unions’ new right to roam.

Use our easy tool - in the thread - to respond to the consultation and defend local small businesses.

[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

Source: https://t.co/Au6doKpukF

[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

🚨 Reports that Russian workers with Putin's military training are being used at Woodsmith Mine — a stone’s throw from GCHQ Scarborough — are a serious security red flag.

Ministers need to get answers fast. National security comes first.

[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

Source: https://t.co/JbeW01wjkr

[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

📢Only one in 10 voters think Labour can be trusted to oversee Britain's economy following last week's Budget chaos, a new YouGov poll has shown

😱Lower than when Jeremy Corbyn was Labour leader
😑Lower than the Tories after Truss's 'mini-Budget'

[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

Source: https://t.co/DCUv8jk1Ib

[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

⚠️According to new polling from Ipsos, 51% of Britons now say they feel worse off since the Labour Party entered government — up from 41% in March.

Meanwhile, two-thirds (66%) of people are not confident Labour will strike the right balance between tax, borrowing and spending.

[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

Source: https://t.co/drbDWYZpVL

[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

"If a politician can’t even be honest about a process that is published in black and white for all to see, then how can anyone believe what they say when it comes to policy?" @Adamtih

[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

Source: https://t.co/78A6CkwsV2

[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

🚨The economy has stalled ahead of the November Budget.

The Chancellor must stop the tax burden rising and instead back job creation and private investment.

Voters deserve a plan for growth, not more spending.

[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

Source: https://t.co/UTWCrIxZgW

[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

⚠️UK unemployment has risen to 5% — the highest since the pandemic.

In Red Wall regions, struggling high streets and local employers will feel this first.

Labour promised growth. Instead, they’ve delivered rising joblessness and falling confidence.

[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

🚨 Reeves has told the OBR she’s planning a 2p rise in income tax alongside a 2p cut in employee National Insurance.

The move would:

⚠️Break Labour’s manifesto pledge not to raise taxes on “working people”

👵Penalise pensioners and the self-employed
https://t.co/chiTrOqS2Q

[Julian Jessop @julianHjessop]

"Rachel Reeves plans to raise income tax..."

No longer a surprise, but this proposal (2p on all income tax rates, partially offset by 2p off employee NI for lower earners) blows a lot of political capital for not a lot of revenue gain (just £6bn?) (1/2)

https://t.co/Ye16gRHofs

[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

"I want the UK economy to be as strong as possible... Having a growing economy is essential to that - and the electricity costs make it very difficult," @USAmbUK said, adding that Britain should carry out "more drilling and production" in the North Sea.
https://t.co/9tc8SHWrGQ

[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

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[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

⚠️The pound has taken a plunge after Rachel Reeves spooked the markets with a speech laying the groundwork for big tax hikes in her Autumn Budget.

Working people are facing sky-high bills. Investors are fleeing.

Labour's promised money tree is a fantasy.

[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

Source: https://t.co/apoT1NbiZL

[Free Market Conservatives @FMConservatives]

🚩Labour’s welfare spending plans may play well amongst their activists, but they come as hospitality, retail and local services — the backbone of regional economies — are being pushed to the brink.

Growth was the promise. This isn’t it.