John O'Connell

Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance (@the_tpa)

[David Shipley @ShipleyWrites]

The evidence is literally the police’s own policy documents which explicitly mandate two-tier policing.

[Eoin O'Malley @AnMailleach]

This is worse than his breast enlargement hypnosis. It shows he actually knows the economics he’s backing is BS, but he’s going along with it because it’s popular.

[Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien]

"Best and brightest?!
"Bringing incredible skills"

-A quick visual tour of firms allowed to sponsor "skilled worker" visas shows the reality:

1/10 Sai's Bargains Ltd

[Anne Strickland @strickia]

Prevent was set up with a clear purpose: to stop terrorism before it happens.

Our latest @the_tpa report finds it is drifting further from that mission every year. All while taxpayers foot a £36 million annual bill.

[William Yarwood @yarwoodwilliam]

Britain has built a sprawling net-zero quango state, with the growth of energy quangos exploding over the last ten years in terms of staffing, income and expenditure

The latest @the_tpa briefing note reveals exactly how four of the top energy quangos have ballooned in size 🧵

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

'If I cut tax on visting Alton Towers, more people will go. If I increase the tax on employing people...no, hold on...'

[The Rest Is Tw*tter @rorymeakin]

Capital gains are already post-tax in most circumstances, because they’re diminished by the capitalising the present cost of expected future tax liabilities on returns.
One of the few good things Brown did was scrapping fiddly inflation indexing in favour of a lower rate

[Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien]

While the use of hotels is down, the Home Office are just moving people into dispersal accommodation in normal suburban streets, and the numbers on the Afghan resettlement scheme continues to grow.

[William Yarwood @yarwoodwilliam]

The ONS has admitted that they have been underestimating how many Brits are leaving the country.

The real story is that it confirms something we've known all along: more and more younger, productive Brits appear to be quietly giving up on the country altogether

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[David Frost @DavidGHFrost]

Does he really have such little regard for the voters of Makerfield that he thinks they will believe this?

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

HS2 was a white elephant from day one. A colossal waste of taxpayers’ money.

I said from the start the costs were absurd.

Back in 2019, I launched a report from the @the_tpa proposing much better ways to spend the money.

Instead, we've got spiralling budgets, gold‑plated design, slack oversight, and no accountability.

Billions sunk for a line that keeps shrinking.

The very definition of inefficient, ineffective, and unaccountable infrastructure spending.

This new review does not surprise me.

It simply confirms what we already knew – HS2 was a disaster baked in from the start.

https://t.co/Xq9FmGDmsv

[Andrew Griffith MP @griffitha]

British business is being hammered at every turn.

Energy bills are higher than our competitors, employment costs are skyrocketing, and taxes keep rising.

Business isn't a magic money tree - and if Labour keep squeezing them, they will disappear.

[William Yarwood @yarwoodwilliam]

With Keir Starmer seemingly on the ropes, it’s worth remembering what his government actually delivered: a tax rise every 10 days since July 2024.

Labour introduced 52 new taxes or tax rises in just 509 days (July 2024 - November 2025), costing taxpayers an extra £60.3 billion by the end of the decade.

The biggest hits included:

- £25.7bn from employer NIC hikes
- £8bn from frozen income tax thresholds
- £4.85bn from NICs on salary sacrifice pensions
- £2.5bn from capital gains tax hikes

Starmer may be on his way out, but the crushing tax burden he helped create is here to stay.

[Benjamin Elks @Elksy91]

All eyes might be on Westminster but local government deserves no less scrutiny.

Delighted to make my @ConHome debut writing about @the_tpa ‘s latest Town Hall Rich List

[John O'Connell @jjpoconnell]

And everyone @the_tpa is very proud of Cllr Keck, too. Congratulations 👏

[Cllr Elliot Keck @ElliotKeck]

Hugely proud to be elected as the one of two Conservative councillors for Hyde Park ward in @CityWestminster

Years of hard work have paid off, and it will be a privilege to serve the residents of the greatest part of London, the area that I call home, over the next 4 years

[Andrew Griffith MP @griffitha]

🚨‼️Just in: The headline S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index – was 39.7 in April, down from 45.6 in March and indicative of a sharp fall in overall business activity.

Negative territory for almost whole tenure of this anti-growth government. Unsurprising.

[Julian Jessop @julianHjessop]

This is excellent on why Europe is failing (and why the UK should not allow the EU to drag us down with it)...

[Merryn Somerset Webb @MerrynSW]

Tax for growth, drink for sobriety, eat cake for weight loss etc.

[William Yarwood @yarwoodwilliam]

NEW STATS 🚨

Public sector sickness absence remains persistently higher than in the private sector, and the gap shows little sign of closing.

Here's what this morning's ONS Sickness absence in the UK labour market data showed 🧵

[Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien]

As usual, the Greens' sympathies are with the terrorist rather than the brave police officers stopping him.