@RobertJenrick I thought you were the 3x below shadow chancellor! Are you the 3x below shadow foreign secretary too? Too many shadows in your closet in my opinion!
@Nigel_Farage Two EXPAT cryptocurrency billionaires donating to a political party! WHY? Cryptocurrency is inadequately regulated, used by terrorists & countries to buy arms to create wars and destabilise. Donations of this size in my mind equate to outside political interference!
@JohnnyZPepper@ArchRose90@danny__kruger Donations on steroids - what about the £3m from Harborne in March 26 & £4million from Delo in Q2 April-June 26? Total £79m in < 9 mths. £5m to Farage from Harborne previously that's £84m. Why dont I believe your comments? Crypto billionaires dictating policy!!
@LeaderofKCC Linden Kamkaren talks rubbish as do all of Reform or should I say Formers- former Tory, former Labour, former Brexit, former UKIP, former Anti-Federalist....ALL FAILED FORMERS!
'He's had more experience in the private sector than Andy Burnham's entire Cabinet put together.'
Former Conservative special adviser James Price reflects on Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffiths' performance in his first speech.
@SimonDanczuk You are only slating him because he is credible and a threat to other political parties. You dont become the youngest finance director ever of a FTSE100 company if you are not excellent at your job. Andrew Griffith will be an exceptional Chancellor of the Exchequer!
Macron and Tusk are speaking and acting with an urgency that makes the latest reports about Russia violating Lithuanian airspace even more concerning. It is not clear that the Government is taking the threat from Russia seriously enough. Its own intelligence assessment says an attack on NATO could come by 2030, while repeated smaller-scale incursions are already taking place. It comes only weeks after CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced visit to Moscow, reportedly to warn Russia against attacking a NATO member. Our European allies are responding with growing urgency, yet the Government still will not say what it intends to do on defence. The NATO Secretary General was in Britain only yesterday calling for that path to be set out, and I agree with him.
The Conservatives set out two weeks ago both our route to higher defence spending at 3% of GDP and how we would pay for it. The Government should now explain what it knows about the escalations in Eastern Europe, how it assesses the threat and what it plans to do. We will put national security first and work with the Government where necessary. But when our own PM talks of national security not coming at the expense of social security, Labour MPs should remember: this was heard not only in Westminster or Manchester; it was also heard in Moscow.