Steve Barclay

MP for NE Cambridgeshire Promoted by Steve Barclay of MJS House, Wisbech Road, PE15 0BA

[CapX @CapX]

The Treasury isn't blocking defence funding. Starmer is

✍️@SteveBarclay

https://t.co/zZjy5J6vYi

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

Good piece from @SteveBarclay for @CapX on how to fund defence https://t.co/qohCK7BOJm

[Steve Barclay @SteveBarclay]

As we approach two years of this Labour government.

The first in my series on the promises they made which have since been broken. 👇

[Steve Barclay @SteveBarclay]

Labour promised 6,500 extra teachers. The reality is almost 2,000 fewer🥀👇

[Steve Barclay @SteveBarclay]

Within 24 hours the King’s Speech had unravelled.

Even Labour voices say “where we need vision, we have a vacuum”.

No welfare plan, no defence plan, no energy realism.

But Labour already had a bill for you - meaning day to day costs have been rising.

[Steve Barclay @SteveBarclay]

🥀Set alongside record long waits in A&E, growing waiting lists for community services, and rising waiting times for vital scans, Labour ministers are showing an increasing gap between the big promises they made and their performance in office 👇

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🔴 NHS England has advertised more than 1,200 jobs since Sir Keir Starmer said it would be abolished

Find out how the wage bill for bureaucrats rises despite promise to move spending to the front line 🔗
https://t.co/BmM8DZZeTE

[Steve Barclay @SteveBarclay]

There is a huge gap between what Labour say on defence and what they do.

I found that Labour will take 13 years to meet its own modest pledge on boosting the reserves 👇

https://t.co/pil1aAJqHM

[Ben Obese-Jecty MP @BenObeseJecty]

“When was Jonathan Powell appointed as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the British Indian Ocean Territory, and what security clearance did he have upon that appointment?”

An answer came there none from the Prime Minister at #PMQs.

Keir Starmer has been playing fast and loose with his ministerial appointments since the very start of his premiership.

Serious questions need to be asked about the access Jonathan Powell had to classified information before he was in role.

[Steve Barclay @SteveBarclay]

The PMs statement today to Parliament, I asked him whether either the Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee or the National Security Advisor were aware that the person he appointed as our most senior diplomat was a security risk.👇
https://t.co/GbDx3ruPTe

[Steve Barclay @SteveBarclay]

⚠️ I’ve previously warned about the significant rise in community waiting lists under Labour.

These latest figures show there are around 80,000 more people - around half of which are children - waiting for these vital services.

https://t.co/irWbhztmrr

[Alex Burghart @alexburghart]

The Government has not released the *actual* box returns on Mandelson

Why?

I’ve worked in No10 - Spads and Private Secretary provide comments AND we’d expect the PM to write in his view

All that has been left out - why?

[Steve Barclay @SteveBarclay]

🖊️ I recently wrote for @UKDefJournal on why the upcoming Defence Investment Plan needs to include a major boost to Britain's reserve forces.

Read the full piece here 👇

https://t.co/lwE8rQRlj8

[Steve Barclay @SteveBarclay]

🗣️ Today the Chancellor delivered the Spring Forecast, and sadly it revealed that Labour’s anti-business tax and spend policies are continuing to damage our economy.

Read about three key things we’ve learnt from what was said 👇

https://t.co/MDTUfF8fnh

[Steve Barclay @SteveBarclay]

Today, I wrote for the @Daily_Express on how the Government is missing one of the best value defence options despite the rising threat.

Britain should commit to double our Active Reserve this parliament.

Read more 👇

https://t.co/mNXbDTMty1

[Steve Barclay @SteveBarclay]

In response to my recent question the MoD admitted it does not manage or track total spending on reserve forces.

Given the Public Accounts Committee recently said they have no plan to deliver reserves commitments, this is concerning.

In @UKDefJournal 👇

https://t.co/sQCgwif7Wf

[Steve Barclay @SteveBarclay]

Labour Health Minister admits hospice beds are falling, yet refuses to do any assessment of how this will affect patients 👇

https://t.co/xDQwJYTu5V

[Oliver Cooper @OliverCooper]

How did the UK economy do in 2025 compared to the OBR's pre-election March 2024 forecasts?

Growth
🔵 Forecast 1.9%
🔴 Now 1.4% 👎

Inflation
🔵 Forecast 1.5%
🔴 Now 3.4% 👎

Unemployment
🔵 Forecast 4.4%
🔴 Now 5.1% 👎

Deficit (2025-26)
🔵 Forecast £78bn
🔴 Already £140bn 👎

[Steve Barclay @SteveBarclay]

A simple question deserves a simple answer.

But today the security minister refused to say whether he thinks Labour’s decision to approve the Chinese mega embassy makes the British people safer.

[Steve Hawkes @steve_hawkes]

Youth unemployment up to 561,000 - compared with 431,000 just two years ago. Almost 30% of the total unemployment number. Private sector pay rising at 4.2%, public sector 7.4% - ONS today

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

“There is something rotten here that I think has to be called out.”

The Times’s @SebastianEPayne criticises the cancellation of Damien Egan MP’s school visit after a pro-Palestine campaign.

#TimesRadio