Lovely to be out spending a sunny Saturday afternoon in Sidcup campaigning with Oscar Harrison and the Old Bexley & Sidcup Conservatives. An encouraging response on the doorstep!

Great to see this sustainable gateway office development going up from HUB and Smedvig Ventures in #Maidenhead. An impressive head office location. Fantastic car (M4) - Train (Elizabeth Line) - Plane (Heathrow) connectivity. #BuildBabyBuild 🧢

Amen brother 🧢 👇

My interview with PoliticsHome on why I've joined the Conservatives. We talk about representative planning, the woeful housing minister and the mighty @ConsYIMBY 👇 politicshome.com/news/article/f…

Great piece in PoliticsHome this morning with Chris Worrall on what we need to do to win back voters in 2029. Housing. Is. Key. Conservative YIMBY 🧢 get that. politicshome.com/news/article/f…

My friend Chris Worrall on why he has joined the Conservatives and how a Tory pro-growth agenda could create an "activist machine" to get the party back on track politicshome.com/news/article/f…

Economic decline in coastal towns like Bournemouth has meant they’ve their lost identity. A lack of investment means tourism and and high streets struggle, jobs are scarce and housing costs push young people away SGTs are what’s needed to put our seaside towns back on the map!

Most new towns fail because they’re in the middle of nowhere with no jobs and no reason for people to move there. Strategic Growth Towns fix that - jobs, homes, and infrastructure all built together around an economic anchor. That’s how you deliver a town that actually works.

In my first piece for The Critic, I dive into how bleak the grad job market is - and how it is radicalising young people. 1 in 9 universal credit claimants now have a degree - and average starter salaries are only 30% higher than the minimum wage. It was 115% higher in 1999...

This is well worth a read from Onward's newest recruit, the razor sharp Nicholas Stephenson - give him a follow. 👇

A great article in The Critic today from our latest very talented researcher Onward, Nicholas Stephenson: thecritic.co.uk/the-grads-aren…