What an incredible 2024! Thank you so much to everyone. These first six months have been an honour to be your Member of Parliament. I’ve loved every minute of it and I look forward to making sure that next year is even better. Happy New Year and here’s to a brilliant 2025.

This week in Parliament I was able to highlight the amazing work of Freda and John Grace, whose Christmas lights display at their house in Sawtry is an incredible effort! It was great to see their efforts congratulated by the Rt Hon Lucy Powell, Leader of the House of Commons.

Shocking to see Labour inviting and hosting an individual in Parliament who has now been charged as a member of a proscribed terrorist organisation. Such a laissez-faire approach to security by Labour should be a concern to everyone on the parliamentary estate.

On ITV Anglia this evening covering the forthcoming announcement from the Government regarding the police core grant allocation of funding in Cambridgeshire and ensuring that the county receives our fair share.

“A survey released by the Bank of England suggested that over half of firms were planning to cut staff as a result of the national insurance hike. Analysis by Deutsche Bank suggests that as many as 100,000 jobs could be lost.” And yet Labour MPs champion this budget as “taking difficult decisions”.

How is there no space on the SPOTY list for Mark Cavendish in a year when he becomes the all-time greatest stage winner of the Tour de France against the odds; the icing on what was already an incredible sporting comeback?

Great to see that despite users insisting that Bluesky is friendlier than X, there are still sneering left-wing accounts who think that your Ghanaian surname is a source of ridicule.

The behaviour of people on Bluesky really isn’t any different to X. Whilst many here might find it inconvenient, it’s interesting that none will challenge posts like that below because it supports their narrative.

I’m really not convinced that the behaviour on Bluesky is any different to that on X.

Only last week Luke Pollard was busy telling everybody that once they “see the detail” of the Chagos Islands deal they would support it. Now it’s a “Day One” issue for the incoming Trump administration and potentially fundamentally changes US nuclear strategy across the region. Well done Labour.

Absolutely excoriating stuff in today’s Bloomberg piece on how Starmer and Reeves incompetent first five months is hammering Labour morale. It explains an awful lot about why you see such poor attendance from Labour MPs unwilling to defend Labour’s terrible policy offering.

On @skynewsrss.bsky.social this lunchtime for the post-PMQs panel. Asked why the leaders’ interactions are now so brief it’s important to highlight how evasive Keir Starmer is when the answer hasn’t been pre-approved by the Labour whips for a verbatim response read out from his folder.

Worrying that despite months of rhetoric pledging support for Ukraine, it is surely no coincidence that in the week of his big reset, Keir Starmer begins talk of “negotiations”.

A quick recap of my activity for last week.

“This year is on course to be a new record for small boat crossings. That has to change. So, when I say we must smash the gangs, I mean it.” Keir Starmer - 17 July 2024

If Louise Haigh’s fraud conviction was for a pre-planned attempt to mislead police, as opposed to the mistake she claimed in her resignation letter, then she is still lying. If Keir Starmer was aware and this had been fully disclosed, both he and Haigh have questions to answer.

My statement following the vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading.

The echo-chamber reaction on Bluesky to Louise Haigh’s resignation illustrates why this platform cannot be taken seriously as a place for political discourse.

Keir Starmer has known about Louise Haigh’s conviction for nearly five years. The question should be why he appointed her and why it took press exposure for her to resign. The arrogance of choosing to conceal this illustrates his utter hypocrisy on standards. What other scandals is Starmer hiding?

Louise Haigh hid her conviction, was sacked by Aviva for it whilst a Labour candidate and then disclosed it when appointed to the Shadow Cabinet in 2020. Keir Starmer has known about this lack of integrity for nearly five years and said nothing. What other secrets is he hiding?

Labour’s net zero zealotry places the onus of changing behaviour entirely upon the motor industry with no plan of how the Government plays its role. Where is the plan to create national EV infrastructure to facilitate their plans? There is currently little incentive to switch to an impractical EV.

1 in 8 men in the UK will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. That figure doubles to 1 in 4 if you’re black. If you have a family history of prostate cancer you’re twice as likely to be diagnosed with it. Great to talk to @prostatecanceruk.bsky.social today

As Rachel Reeves prepares to defend her budget (again), this week to the CBI, the ever-growing list of businesses, organisations and groups impacted by it illustrates just how poor it is. Labour have eschewed growth in favour of a sugar rush tax grab that is clearly backfiring.

Last week people were frantically throwing Dan Neidle’s posts at me showing how the Family Farms Tax was entirely justified. Now even he has changed his mind.

COYS!!! Official Manchester City Bogeyteam™

Nigel Farage has questions to answer about what he knew about James McMurdock’s conviction prior to him being elected; why was this acceptable to him? Irrespective of the conviction being spent, how is a man guilty of this crime permitted to be a Reform UK Member of Parliament?

On ITV Anglia Late Edition last night talking about the impact Labour’s budget is having on working people. From Chris’s interruption to land his pre-rehearsed Labour soundbites, it’s clear that’s all the Government has to offer in response to widespread criticism of their budget choices.

I’ll be on ITV Anglia Late Edition tonight discussing Labour’s Family Farm Tax, Assisted Dying and life as a new MP. www.itv.com/news/anglia/...

- Angela Rayner expresses outrage at PMQs that the Tories could possibly suggest that Labour broke promises on taxation - here’s an FT reminder of the multiple ways in which Labour misled people over taxes www.ft.com/content/07fe...

I asked the Policing Minister if she would review the Police Allocation Formula so that Cambridgeshire would receive its fair share of funding and additional officers next year. As with nearly every question I’ve asked a Labour Minister she fudged the answer because she doesn’t have one.

For weeks we challenged the Government to publish their impact assessment for the removal of the Winter Fuel Payment. Now we see the full cost laid bare. Labour MPs supported it and sneered at the suggestion this would create pensioner poverty, now we see how crass and damaging their arrogance is.

With 10,000 farmers in Westminster today, the NFU protest has let the Government know the strength of feeling across our farming community. I’m supporting our farmers against this unfair tax and the Government’s decision to tax Family Farms out of existence, none of which was in their manifesto.

“You are nothing more than an Uncle Tom. How do you sleep at nights!” First piece of written hate mail this morning. The fact that these racial slurs are becoming normalised is a sad indictment of political discourse on the left. What does the colour of my skin have to do with my politics?

Another day, another group slams Rachel Reeves’s budget. With margins at 2-4% absorbing the costs of the Budget will hit business investment, prices, current and future jobs. When Labour pledged to transform the high street I’m not sure this is what retailers were expecting.

Absolutely tone-deaf from City Steve ahead of the mass NFU-led farming protest in Westminster tomorrow. As he insults our farmers suggesting that they don’t understand Labour’s Family Farms Tax, Labour MPs across rural constituencies are refusing to meet their farmers tomorrow.

For the past four years I have campaigned to see our non-UK veterans and their dependants have their visa fees waived. Both Labour and the Conservatives pledged to waive visa fees in their manifestos. I was able to ask the Government what their timetable now was for delivering that pledge.

The questions around Rachel Reeves CV aren’t going away. It should surely be a simple task to refute these allegations if they aren’t true, so why won’t she? www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

“What’s it like on Bluesky as a Conservative?”

“…he will have been out of the country for 26 days – five working weeks in just under five months in office” Keir Starmer is so happy to play the international statesman role because he’s struggling to make progress domestically and it’s easier to avoid scrutiny. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The irony is that without a simplified verification process, the easiest way to prove you are who you say you are is to announce your Bluesky account on X.

“…the decision to house asylum seekers in local hotels is not a sustainable or acceptable solution for our communities.” Not my words, but the words of my neighbouring Labour MPs in Peterborough. Without any deterrent or any gangs smashed Labour are now resorting to increasing hotel use.

It was an honour to visit the Commonwealth War Graves Commission plot at the Houghton and Wyton Burial Ground. The work of the CWGC is so important to ensuring the memory of our fallen is kept alive. My thanks to Mac, Rich and Stuart for their hard work in keeping the plot immaculate.

“Each return flight pumps out at least 0.7 tons of CO2 per passenger, making the [British] delegation's flights' total carbon footprint at least 338 tons of CO2.” There is no real justification for us sending 470 delegates to COP29, more than any other country. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

“Starmer ‘fled like a rat’” is quite the headline. For a Prime Minister who constantly claims he makes the difficult decisions, this was very much the cowardly option. If the policy is so good, why can’t he explain it to farmers in person? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I was on BBC #PoliticsLive talking about Labour’s railroading through of large-scale Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects at the expense of local concerns, and in this case, on hundreds of acres of Grade 2 and 3a ‘best and most versatile’ farmland. There has to be a better alternative.

So it turns out I’m the first Conservative MP to join Bluesky…