The UK has done more than any other major economy to cut emissions whilst growing the economy too.

But we are less than 1% of global emissions. By far, our bigger contribution to this global challenge will be our ability to innovate and export solutions around the world.

Starmer tells fibs and the media doesn't call him out on it.

Keir Starmer flounders on this question because the Labour Party is trying to hold a line it does not believe.

Denying objective reality does not provide dignity.

Single-sex spaces are sacrosanct. That is why we announced today we are enshrining them in the NHS constitution.

On Thursday Nottingham residents have a choice:

More of the same local Labour Party that has bankrupted the city, and is confirmed as the country's worst Council.

Or a change. A new start. A new culture and a chance to rebuild with new leadership.

Local people shouldn't have

Our 9 and 10-year-olds are now the 4th best readers in the world.

Yet every step of the way, Labour opposed the policies that delivered this, saying 👇

❌ Phonics wouldn't work
❌ Our literacy drive was 'dull'

Labour's ideology is the biggest danger to children's education.

Today I’m launching a new consultation to make our disability benefit system fit for the future.

I want to see how we can:

• Remove unnecessary benefit assessments wherever possible
• Provide extra support to those most in need
• Deliver better value for the taxpayer

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Pay day is coming.

Our second National Insurance cut hits payslips tomorrow.

It's worth £900 to someone earning the UK average salary.

Just a straightforward lie. The Conservatives have guaranteed the triple lock, and there is no £46 billion black hole. This is projection politics. And he's supposed to be one of the better ones. x.com/wesstreeting/s…

Britain should not accept ANY returned asylum seekers from the EU until the EU accepts the return of those who have travelled here from there. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

Glad to make clear to #bbclauraK this morning that my point to the gentleman on QT last week was obviously a rhetorical question, not a substantive one, as I think any fair minded person would agree

Protecting Rural and Isolated Areas: Essex Police Rural Engagement Team have made a big difference to rural crime since we introduced them. I intend to build on this and use community safety officers to make rural Essex even safer | Roger Hirst for Essex hirst4essex.uk/news/protectin…

♀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Gam zeh ya'avor ✡️ There's always been a huge overlap between hatred of Jews and hatred of women, and uncanny similarities in the way they're stigmatised: manipulative, privileged, weaponising trauma, always acting in bad faith, always asking for it, only getting what they deserve, etc.

‘I was born in the age of the horse… and I end in the age of the jet plane. Nothing like this has ever happened in the world before.’

- Harold Macmillan reflecting on the change he witnessed throughout his long life, with William F. Buckley Jnr.

How We Can Stop Vehicle Theft: Car theft and motorbike theft have been rising sharply in our county in recent months. It is happening across the country, and it is bad here in Essex. We must make dealing with this surge a priority. | Roger Hirst for Essex hirst4essex.uk/news/how-we-ca…

Very good progress on reducing crime here. Murder down 7% since 2010 too. More to do on knife crime in London (where Sadiq Khan is failing) and shop theft, but overall crime is down a lot

The National Grid drop-in events for 'Norwich to Tilbury' pylons have started. Appalling how often we are hearing people saying there's no point engaging because NG has ignored them for the past two consultations.
Thanks Alex Burghart for attending this one today.

Today Alex Burghart & Lord Markham signed a first of a kind Collaboration Charter between i.AI and NHSE, to support the use of AI in the NHS.