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[Chris Philp MP @CPhilpOfficial]

Apparently this video isn’t enough evidence to convict the guy in blue for assaulting all three police officers

Yet Lucy Connolly got two years in prison for an off colour tweet - prosecutions Keir Starmer encouraged

Labour’s two tier justice system has to end

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Incredibly, 90% of the new Labour MPs at the last election came from a trade union, charity or public-sector background. Barely 1/5th of the Cabinet has any private-sector experience. In the Shadow Cabinet, 3/4 of us do. That distinction matters.

The skills Labour MPs have acquired are in lobbying for more funding, campaigning for more benefits or more red tape. Britain needs a new generation of politician.

Only the Conservative Party can build a team for the economic war effort required after Burnham/Starmer have finished this catastrophic experiment. We will need to fix every aspect of our system at once. There will be no kicking decisions into the long grass, only rolling our sleeves up and getting to work.

If you've ever thought about a career in politics but decided it was too risky or you wouldn’t fit in, now is your time.…We are looking for people from every walk of life who know how to get stuff done.

In return, I will make politics work for you.

Britain does not lack talent. It lacks a system that draws that talent into public life. Join my team and help us get Britain working again.

My piece in the @Telegraph below👇

[Spelthorne Conservative Association 💙 @spelthorneca]

Wow - this can’t be the rivht way to go !

[Paige Zanco @PaigeZanco]

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In Peru, a growing trend is transforming traditional funerals into festive celebrations through "dancing undertakers" (los portadores bailarini), offering a cheerful alternative to solemn mourning.

[Matt Vickers MP @Matt_VickersMP]

🚨 Morrisons is closing 100 stores.

They've said it is because of “significant cost increases resulting from government policy choices”.

This will be deeply worrying for everyone who works at Morrisons.

Rachel Reeves has battered our economy. This is the reality of her chaos.

[Chris Philp MP @CPhilpOfficial]

700 illegal immigrants crossed the channel on Friday and Saturday, with more flooding in on Sunday.

Shabana Mahmood and Labour have no border control. They are more interested in their leadership squabbles than keeping out illegal immigrants. We face a tidal wave of illegal immigrants this summer as a result.

Labour has returned only 7% of small boat illegal immigrants because they refuse to leave the ECHR. With 93% allowed to stay, no wonder they keep coming.

We must ban asylum claims by illegal immigrants, leave the ECHR and stop the courts intervening to allow illegal immigrants to stay. This will enable small boat illegal immigrants to all be deported within a week of arrival - back to their country of origin if possible or a safe third country if not. Then the crossings will soon stop. But Labour is too weak to do this.

[Hazel Appleyard @HazelAppleyard]

Keir Starmer refuses to leave no 10 😂

[Mel Stride @MelJStride]

That is why the Conservatives have published an Alternative King’s Speech: a serious programme built around growth, security and responsibility. Sixteen bills focused on welfare, energy, immigration, deregulation, defence and law and order. A plan rooted in the hard realities Britain faces. And all underpinned by our Golden Economic Rule: that at least half of all the savings we identify from public spending will go towards reducing government borrowing. Unlike other parties, we recognise that fixing our public finances is the foundation of any plan for a stronger economy.

The country cannot afford years of endless chaos under Labour.

Britain needs stability. Britain needs confidence. Britain needs leadership.

And right now, Labour is offering none of them.

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[Mel Stride @MelJStride]

Today’s King’s Speech will not fix Britain’s economy.

It will not restore confidence. It will not tame inflation. It will not bring borrowing down. And it certainly will not convince markets that under Keir Starmer’s Labour, Britain has a government with a grip on reality.

Because behind the pomp and ceremony sits a government engulfed by chaos. The cost of that chaos is already landing on taxpayers.

This week Britain’s borrowing costs surged yet again. Our gilt yields have climbed faster than any of our competitors. Markets are not reacting to abstract global trends alone. They are responding to the growing belief that Keir Starmer is weak, isolated and losing control of his own party.

Political instability carries an economic price tag. Investors can see a Prime Minister lurching leftwards to placate restless backbenchers while ambitious rivals circle, demanding even more spending, borrowing and taxation. The result is uncertainty. And uncertainty is poison for growth.

Rachel Reeves wants to blame global instability for rising borrowing costs. But the numbers tell a different story. Britain is increasingly an outlier. Our borrowing costs were already among the highest in the G7 before the latest Labour infighting erupted. Now markets are demanding an even greater premium to lend to us because they no longer trust this Government to control spending, inflation - or even its own MPs.

And why would they?

Labour swept into office promising “growth, growth, growth”. Reeves declared she would run the most pro-business Treasury in British history. Instead, businesses have been hammered with tax rises, crushed by uncertainty and paralysed by constant speculation over what fresh raid may come next.

The result is visible across the economy. Confidence has fallen. Investment has stalled. Unemployment is climbing. Inflation remains stubbornly high. Britain is trapped in a vicious doom loop of Labour’s own making: more spending, more borrowing, more taxes, weaker growth - and then demands for yet more taxes to fill the hole. Round and round it goes.

But rather than change course, Labour look set to double down on their mistakes in a desperate attempt to shore up left-wing support. Their plans for new laws announced today include nationalising steel and banning new oil and gas extraction.

None of this will instil any confidence in the government’s ability to turn our economy around. And confidence matters because markets lend cheaply to countries they trust and punish countries they fear are drifting.

Under Labour, Britain looks like a bad bet.

Starmer’s authority is shot, the party is split and it’s only a matter of time until we have a new Prime Minister. The leadership hopefuls are already queuing up to talk about their plans to defy the bond market and tax, borrow and spend even more than Starmer and Reeves have already managed.

That instability feeds directly into higher borrowing costs. Every rise in gilt yields means billions more spent servicing debt instead of funding public services, strengthening defence or cutting taxes for working people.

That is the true cost of political weakness.

The tragedy is that none of this was inevitable. Britain is not condemned to stagnation. We are being dragged there by political choices - bad choices - made by a Government addicted to state expansion, terrified of difficult decisions and paralysed by internal division.

And the King’s Speech offered no solutions. No credible plan for productivity. No meaningful strategy for investment. No recognition that growth comes from backing enterprise, rewarding work and creating stability - not from endlessly expanding the state.

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[Mel Stride @MelJStride]

Labour’s Holiday Tax is a brazen rip-off that will hit hard-working Brits in the pocket.

Picture it: mum, dad, two kids, heading off for a simple seaside break. Under Rachel Reeves’ plan, that trip gets hit with a new tax. If she replicates what Labour have already done in other parts of the country, that could be as much as £2 per person, per night.

A tax on holidaying in your own country.

Hotels, B&Bs, campsites, holiday parks - nothing escapes Reeves. The Holiday Tax, already seen in Wales and Liverpool, will make it more expensive to holiday in Britain.

£2 a night may sound small - until you add it up. A family of four staying for a week? That’s an extra £56.

Money that could’ve gone on meals out. On ice creams by the sea. On making memories together.

The result? People start looking elsewhere. Spain. Greece. Anywhere but Britain.

Fewer visitors. Less spending money. A direct hit to local businesses that rely on tourism.

This tax doesn’t just affect families - it squeezes seaside towns, threatens jobs, and piles pressure on an industry already under strain.

At a time when every penny matters, my message to Rachel Reeves is clear: Hands off our holidays.

[Mel Stride @MelJStride]

RACHEL REEVES IS COMING FOR YOUR PENSION

This afternoon in Parliament Labour pushed through a change in the law to allow the government to mandate how pension schemes invest your savings.

Here's why Labour's pension grab is so dangerous👇(1/7)🧵

[Mel Stride @MelJStride]

BREAKING

IMF handing the UK the biggest downgrade in the G7 is a clear verdict on Rachel Reeves’ choices - and she’s got no one to blame but herself.

The Chancellor is a cautionary tale of what happens when a politician simply doesn’t understand the economy or business.

[Spelthorne Conservative Association 💙 @spelthorneca]

Too right - not a penny
@MelJStride @pritipatel @LincolnJopp

[Priti Patel MP @pritipatel]

Mauritius has budgeted to receive payment for Labour’s Chagos surrender.

Not a single penny of British taxpayers’ money should be going to Mauritius for Labour’s failings.

[Spelthorne Conservative Association 💙 @spelthorneca]

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[Spelthorne Conservative Association 💙 @spelthorneca]

Recent campaign posts and leaflets by the Lib Dems make several claims about Surrey budget that are frankly wrong and misleading. They have been told the correct information by the legal officer in charge of budgets at SCC. https://t.co/HpwMxJ5xtt?

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

How many times do people have to watch illegal traveller camps take over their green spaces before something is done?

The last government took action, but the ECHR blocked it.

The next Conservative government will leave the ECHR, and clamp down on these sites. Here’s how 👇

[Spelthorne Conservative Association 💙 @spelthorneca]

So very true….. @SineadCMooney @YeovilTories @cllrconnorpayne @surreytorycllrs @HelynClack

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

We’re the only Party with the backbone to clamp down on illegal traveller sites.

[Lincoln Jopp MC MP @LincolnJopp]

Today the Prime Minister wasn’t clear with the House over Iran. So I tried to pin him down.

We’ve been attacked by a foreign state. Our leaders need backbone.

[Mel Stride @MelJStride]

“Borrowing down”?

When Reeves took over, the Treasury was expecting to borrow £77bn this year.

So far she’s borrowed £112bn - and that’s expected to reach £138bn by the end of the financial year.

Labour have nearly doubled the deficit - to pay for their irresponsible spending.

The Truth👇🏻

⬆️ Inflation UP since Labour came in
⬆️ Borrowing UP
⬆️ Taxes UP
⬆️ Welfare UP
⬆️ Unemployment UP
⬇️ GDP per person DOWN (we're getting POORER)

[Spelthorne Conservative Association 💙 @spelthorneca]

https://t.co/6hYT6mQUtv And the Team are also out in Stanwell-great across the board campaigning by Team Spelthorne 🖖 ⁦@LincolnJopp⁩ ⁦@KemiBadenoch⁩