David Cameron is right - Labour’s education reforms are putting our children’s futures in peril. Keir Starmer and Bridget Phillipson’s attempts to appease their trade union paymasters will lower standards and will leave Britain trailing the rest of he world 🥀 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02...

This week’s Knowledge is Power is now out! An update on Starmer’s trip to China, Chagos, government’s new policing are and the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools bill 👇 open.substack.com/pub/saqibbha...

An eloquent analysis of how the schools bill will harm opportunities and chances for our children and hurt the teaching profession at the same time. Labour’s approach embodies the soft bigotry of low expectations - our children deserve better! www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Bad law is still bad law, no matter the objective. Trying to force it through, to avoid scrutiny, is just proof that its proponents know how flawed it is. Ultimately it is the British public who are at risk if this goes through without the proper scrutiny.

Our young people deserve better than this Labour government. 700,000 graduates are out of work and claiming one or more benefits because Reeves broke the Jobs Market. The Conservatives will end 'debt trap’ degrees, double apprenticeship funding and Get Britain Working Again.

On Holocaust Memorial Day,we remember the six million Jewish men, women and children murdered by the Nazis,and all those persecuted through hatred and intolerance. I was humbled to sign the Book of Condolence in memory of the victims and ensure that we stand against antisemitism.

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Week 3 of Knowledge is Power is live. From National Insurance to online safety, Chagos, protecting our churches, and Donald Trump’s comments on our Armed Forces, 2026 is anything but quiet. Politics is about choices. I set out the consequences. 🔗 tinyurl.com/KnowledgeisP...

CONFIRMED: Keir Starmer is running scared of Andy Burnham #labour

Labour all over the place on Chagos and have pulled the Chagos Surrender Bill from the Lords. Giving away sovereign British territory and paying for the privilege - it’s clearly not in Britain’s interest to do so. Keir Starmer is wrong. The Conservatives will always put British interests first 🇬🇧

We fought. We won. Our churches matter. After the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme was cut, I challenged the PM directly at PMQs. Thanks to pressure from activists, campaigners & Conservatives, the Govt has now u-turned and announced a £92m Places of Worship Renewal Fund ⛪️

I asked the Secretary of State how the Govt plans to address the £6bn SEND funding gap identified by the OBR based on govt’s own figures. Which departments are going to get cuts? Truth is - they don’t know. Parents, carers & teachers deserve honesty. Watch 👇

Last week the Business Sec said there was no way the government could have known about the impact of its business rates policy on pubs and hospitality - except the valuation office said they gave all the info to Ministers BEFORE the budget. The Minister refused to answer me👇

This man speaks a lot of sense 👇👇👇

If you support Greenlanders' right to self-determination but not Chagossians' right to self-determination your moral compass may just be a tad broken.

Weak. Dangerous. What you get from a Labour government.

A u-turn on Chagos needs to happen. Hard to see how this is unavoidable- Starmer has an off ramp where he can legitimately say the change in US position left him with no choice but to…. If he is smart enough to take the opportunity

Simply extraordinary The Conservatives have always said Keir Starmer was wrong to give away the Chagos Islands and pay for the privilege 🤯 Time to stop this folly and put Britain’s national security first 👇

Keir Starmer’s 13th U-turn. Mandatory digital IDs quietly dropped. Pubs crushed by business rates. Sackings, Retirements and Defections My latest Substack 👇 tinyurl.com/ToIDorNotToID

Simon Foster, West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner proving what we have all suspected all along - when it comes to making tough decisions and holding the police accountable, he simply doesn’t have what it takes. The people of the West Midlands deserve better.

Kemi showed true leadership today with decisive action and has been proven right. Correct decision.

I refer to my earlier post… The sentiment still stands 👇👇 🤯🤯 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Just last month, in the Commons, I pressed the Foreign Sec,Yvette Cooper to tell Keir Starmer she couldn’t support the super embassy. She wouldn’t even go there. Now we discover it is precariously close to sensitive cables. If it goes ahead it would be the height of stupidity.

One pound in every seven donated to charity ‘will go to taxman’ - this is a £2 billion hit which most charities will have to fundraise for or cut back services and staff. Labour’s great achievement in government has been to tax charities more. 🥀🥀🥀 www.thetimes.com/article/4426...

Agreeing to anything that would tie the hands of any future government, regardless of who is in charge, speaks volumes about the lack of respect that the EU and Starmer have for our parliamentary democracy. Reeks of arrogance and desperation. #brexit

Bridget Phillipson’s ideological assault continues, destroying 850 years of educational heritage and culture. I feel for the whole community including the staff, parents and of course the children. The politics of envy playing out in front of our eyes. www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/ne...

Knowledge is Power — my new weekly Substack rounding up Parliament highlights! Week 1 covers Venezuela, the axis of autocrats, PMQs, jury trials, rural Britain, defence, and Labour’s growing weakness at home and abroad. 👉 tinyurl.com/KnowledgeisPow… If you like, give me a follow

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Serious questions about Starmer’s judgement for appointing her even though he knew she had a criminal conviction.

🤯 astonishing - surely her position is untenable now

Labour party manifesto said it would overhaul business rates system “so we can raise *the same revenue* but in a fairer way” instead the government is removing £2.7bn of annual business rates relief but because this is part of a wider shake-up (larger premises paying more) it’s easy to obfuscate

British companies face a stealth tax rise of £900mn next year and up to £2.7bn in 2026 through higher business rates, despite Labour’s manifesto promise not to increase the amount of cash raised by the levy www.ft.com/content/39f4...

For all those parroting the Labour Party line. The farmers are clear. The experts have backed them. Defra’s own figures contradict the treasury. Labour have got this wrong and it will do immeasurable harm to our farming industry and it will weaken our food security.

- 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...

Second on PMQ list today… what would you ask? #PMQs

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.

My piece on how some in No10 are hoping the assisted dying legislation itself dies a death news.sky.com/story/miscal...

Labour finally confirm that 100,000 pensioners will be sent into poverty as a result of their winter fuel allowance cut. They made a political choice to punish pensioners. Labour should be ashamed.

Out on College Green this morning to stand with farmers who have been betrayed by Labour’s Family Farm Tax. This policy threatens our family farms and weakens our food security. The only winners are Putin and Xi Jin Ping who will relish us relying on food imports more.

Important day today as our farmers stand up against the damaging family farm tax by Labour. I’ll be standing with them. Sign up to the petition here www.stopthefarmtax.com

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.

Shadow culture minister @saqibbhattimp.bsky.social is now on Bluesky (and is definitely real) Only the second Tory MP I’m aware of, along with @benobesejecty.bsky.social

Looks like Starmer is going to break another election promise and undermine the democratic Brexit vote of 2016. To justify this huge Brexit betrayal he will let his backbenches and Peers agitate so it looks like he had no choice when it was his plan all along.

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