Jerome Mayhew

MP for Broadland and Fakenham. Shadow Transport Minister.

[Jerome Mayhew @JeromeMayhew]

“Back to the 1970s” is now the policy of the Labour Government

[Jerome Mayhew @JeromeMayhew]

The new PM was meant to be the great communicator.

Has anyone listened to his statement today?

Even Labour benches were mainly silent

[Mel Stride MP @MelJStride]

BREAKING: Labour promised to cut your energy bills by £300, but instead bills are set to go up again in the Autumn.

Their sticking plaster policies haven't worked and their Net-Zero obsession is driving bills up.

The Conservatives' Cheap Power Plan will cut your bills by £200.

[Jerome Mayhew @JeromeMayhew]

If Tax Freedom Day was a Bank Holiday then governments would not be able to hide the true cost of their spending.

[Mel Stride MP @MelJStride]

Tax Freedom Day was 6th June this year. That's the date you stopped working for the taxman and started earning for yourself.

It’s the latest it’s ever been and under Labour it’ll become later still.

Let’s cut welfare spend and get taxes DOWN.

[ConservativeHome @ConHome]

From @RicHolden : All aboard Labour's failing railways https://t.co/w4WiozQIVv

[Richard Holden MP @RicHolden]

🚨 @UKLabour nationalised South Western Railway. Now nearly half of trains are running late.

Cancellations are up too, with 1,000 more services cancelled than before Labour’s takeover.

Labour promised state control would transform our railways. Instead, they’ve hard-wired failure into the network. 🚆

Via @David_Churchill @DailyMail @DailyMailUK

https://t.co/Osqt040ii9

[Mel Stride MP @MelJStride]

Don't let them pull the wool over your eyes.

This is just more borrowing, which means more debt, and more interest payments.

Labour can't be trusted with the economy or the public finances, because they don't understand either.

[Richard Holden MP @RicHolden]

🚊 Open Access Passenger Operators:
@Hull_Trains @LumoTravel @GC_Rail have opened up the rail network across 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 - bringing direct intercity access to cities & towns like Sunderland & Selby

Lumo’s new Stirling-London service via #Preston & #Crewe is already proving popular!

[Richard Holden MP @RicHolden]

The only people who’ve been saying that are @UKLabour MPs

£2 bus fare was introduced by @Conservatives & was in our last manifesto

The £2 scheme in Manchester was funded by over £1.1 billion from the last Conservative Government

It’s on @andyburnham’s old website >> https://t.co/Pl3o4lVzOZ

[Jerome Mayhew @JeromeMayhew]

What does this say about talent in the Labour Party?

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Louise Haigh has been stripped of her responsibility to tackle public sector fraud as Cabinet Office Minister

She was convicted of fraud in 2013 over falsely reporting her work phone missing when working at Aviva

[Jerome Mayhew @JeromeMayhew]

The Lib Dems propped up the Government to avoid scrutiny.

Inexplicable.

What are the Lib Dems for?

[Conservative Peers @HLConservatives]

Today, Conservative peers voted for Lord True's business of the House motion which would have enabled a debate on the new Prime Minister's policies and plan for government.

Having changed the programme in the House of Commons to avoid the Prime Minister facing scrutiny this week, Labour and the Liberal Democrats joined forces to block Parliamentary scrutiny in the House of Lords, helping Andy Burnham shirk accountability.

The Conservatives will always stand up for Parliament’s right to hold the Government to account.

[Jerome Mayhew @JeromeMayhew]

How can they have messed this up already?

The very first announcement of the new government and it’s not funded.

[Darren Jones MP @darrenpjones]

Good news that VAT will be cut on electricity bills. It’s a simple way for families to save a few quid, and to mechanically help to keep inflation that little bit lower.

But the DigitalID program was unfunded.

The government will have to set out how it will pay for its new policies at the budget.

[Jerome Mayhew @JeromeMayhew]

This is interesting. Labour has waited until the House of Commons has stopped for the summer before changing the PM, meaning no scrutiny for 55 days. But the House of Lords is still sitting…

[Conservative Peers @HLConservatives]

Tonight the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords, Lord True, tabled a business of the House motion to enable ministers to come to the House of Lords and answer questions on the Prime Minister’s policies. If passed, this motion would ensure the Prime Minister’s announcements are subject to proper Parliamentary scrutiny before the summer recess.

If the initial motion is passed on Tuesday, peers will debate the below “take note” motion on Wednesday, allowing peers to ask questions of ministers and scrutinise the Government’s announcements:

Lord True to move that this House takes note of the Prime Minister’s statements regarding the policies of His Majesty’s Government.

Read Lord True’s letter to all peers here👇

[Mel Stride MP @MelJStride]

It’s falling apart already.

Labour say they will fund a VAT cut to energy bills by scrapping their proposed Digital ID cards.

But the cuts to the Digital ID card budget are not real because the money was never provided for in the first place. As the OBR stated in November last year the annual £600 million cost was unfunded as the government was relying on absorbing the provisional spend across departments without specifying where the savings would be made. 

We are only one day in and already Labour are playing fast and loose with the public finances.

Labour should be doing what the Conservatives called for months ago – taking VAT off energy bills in a fully funded way by scrapping net zero subsidies.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Andy Burnham has just made a convicted fraudster his Deputy Prime Minister.

[Jerome Mayhew @JeromeMayhew]

Clear blue water

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Andy Burnham believes that prosperity can be achieved by re-organising local government, and then taking money from “the rich”. This is the politics of zero sum; it has a long history, all of it disastrous. He has the wrong diagnosis, the wrong priorities and the wrong solutions. My job now is to expose and challenge this at every turn.

Mrs Thatcher’s genius was that she understood that national prosperity was in the hands of the people, not the State. She had a vision for the country that went beyond tax and spend; she rebuilt Britain’s self-confidence and oversaw the fastest rise in working people’s income by unlocking enterprise, ownership and personal responsibility, using less regulation and lower taxes.

The choice is now clear. Andy Burnham's Labour Party offering state control and redistribution or my new Conservative Party offering enterprise, responsibility and growth just like Thatcher did.   Our offer is a vision in which prosperity comes from the people, not the State and where everyone, whether rich or poor has a brighter future.

[Mel Stride MP @MelJStride]

Andy Burnham must urgently control spending especially welfare and rule out further damaging tax hikes. We cannot afford more of the same from Labour.

My words in today’s @Daily_Express 👇🏻

[electionmapsuk @electionmapsuk]

Dereham Toftwood (Breckland) Council By-Election Result:

🌳 CON: 45.8% (-1.7)
➡️ RFM: 36.9% (New)
🌹 LAB: 17.2% (-35.3)

Conservative GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.

[Adam Smith Institute @ASI]

Since you mentioned the 1980s, @andyburnham, here’s a reminder of what was achieved:

• Top rate of income tax: 83% → 40%
• Savings income taxed at up to 98% in 1979 — surcharge abolished
• Basic rate: 33% → 25%
• Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986)
• Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990)
• Real take-home pay for the average earner: up by a third

• Right to Buy: over a million council tenants became homeowners
• Home ownership: 55% → 67%
• Individual shareholders: 3 million → 11 million — one in four adults

• Foreign holidays: roughly doubled
• Homes with a telephone: two-thirds → nearly nine in ten
• Pensioners’ average incomes: up around 30% in real terms
• Infant mortality: down almost 40%

• Real GDP: up by almost a third
• GDP per head outgrew France, Germany and Italy in the 1980s
• Manufacturing productivity: slowest growth in the G7 in the 1970s → fastest in the 1980s
• Self-employed: 1.9 million → 3.5 million
• Nissan to Sunderland, Toyota to Derby, Honda to Swindon
• Britain became a net oil exporter
• London restored as the world’s financial capital in 1986

• Budget surpluses three years running — Britain repaid debt, 1987–90
• National debt: 47% of GDP → 28%
• State spending: ~45% of GDP → ~39%
• The civil service: 732,000 → 565,000

• Corporation tax: 52% → 35%; the small firms’ rate: 42% → 25%
• Personal tax allowances: up more than 25% in real terms
• Higher rates of income tax: nine → one
• Death duties: fourteen rates → one
• Exchange controls scrapped after 40 years

• 40+ nationalised businesses privatised — 600,000 employees moved to the private sector
• The 33 big state industries: took ~£500m from taxpayers in 1980 → paid £8.4bn to the Exchequer by 1987
• British Steel: world-record loss-maker (1980/81) → £733m profit (1989/90)
• BT, 1984: the largest share offer the world had ever seen
• “Tell Sid” broke the record again in 1986
• British Airways: nationalised loss-maker → profitable, private, “the world’s favourite airline”
• The Channel Tunnel launched and entirely privately financed

Over to you.

[Jerome Mayhew @JeromeMayhew]

True to form