Perhaps the grimmest part of John Healey’s brutal resignation letter is that defence spending, projected to be 2.6% GDP by 2027, will only reach 2.68% in 2030. A pathetic 0.08% increase over three years after all that Starmer rhetoric about the dangerous times we live in and how UK would lead the way stepping up to the crease. A real leader would have told Reeves to cough up the dosh and ordered Miliband to hand over a big chunk of his net zero budget. But he’s probably too weak to do either.
@BBCPolitics Labour MP Lola McEvoy seems unaware that the parents of private school kids are in fact subsidising state school. They pay for state school places, through taxes, but then place zero demand on those resources. This whole saga is malicious envy by the Labour Party.
David Lammy’s proposals to restrict the right to jury trial have been examined by the Justice Committee of the House of Commons.
And. Well. Um.
It’s *quite* the report.
I think it’s actually worse than politely scathing.
It’s embarrassing 👇🏼🪡🧵
.@Ed_Miliband is no longer just an energy problem. He is a national security problem.
Starmer needs to sack him. Net Zero is now overriding the core duties of government. Defence, energy security and food security all come second to decarbonisation.
Just one week left until the Aberdeen South by-election and I’m working hard to beat the SNP.
But I need your help.
Vote Scottish Conservative to beat the nationalists and send Labour a clear message.
To grow the economy, invest in public services and defence, getting a grip on welfare needs to be top priority.
It was a mistake by Labour to scrap the two-child benefit cap. That will cost £3 billion a year, with no benefits.
Kemi Badenoch has a plan👇🏼
Then, cut taxes.
These are the two most senior people leading this country. No wonder the country is a mess. Depressing.
The streets are out of control, the borders are weak, the economy is in tatters, unemployment is spiralling and taxes are at an all time high. Labour are incompetent.
Labour maxed out on spending in their first two budgets.
They promised to limit spending increases to £9.5 billion a year.
But they increased it by £146 billion instead.
That’s why they’re dithering on the Defence Investment Plan.
The CBI has said that unemployment is set to rise to 2 MILLION.
Devastating.
But sadly, no surprise.
The Jobs Tax.
The (Un)Employment Rights Bill.
Surging business rates.
Sky-high energy bills.
It's all piling on pressure - and costing people their jobs and livelihoods.
This is a blatant lie.
It exposes how little Labour understand or care about this issue.
The Equality Duty on public services is not the part of the Equality Act which protects pregnant women from being sacked.
Protection against discrimination - whether you are pregnant, or disabled, or a black woman, or a white man - is totally separate. Those protections would remain.
What the Equality Duty does is force our public services to obsess over diversity and prioritise that over their core purpose.
It is the reason our prisons have been stopped from isolating Islamic terrorists.
It is the reason our police services have mandated dangerous unconscious bias training and are being told to treat ethnic minorities differently.
It is causing the public real harm.
It has to go.
Liz Kendall should apologise for spouting such sloppy lies.
As the summer gets going let's not have a repeat of last year’s devastating wildfire on the North York Moors. Please don’t light BBQs. Take your litter home - especially glass bottles, and discard cigarette butts properly
Don’t Spark Disaster this summer
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