Labour inherited a crisis: 2,000 being written off as long-term sick every working day. It's now 5,000 a day. My thoughts on the new data and its implications:- comment.press/sick23

Exclusive: Tories will today pledge to scrap business rates for 250,000 pubs, restaurants and other small firms to help boost the high street Hospitality, retail or leisure firms that pay £110k a year or less in biz rates will get 100% relief. Costs £4bn telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

Huge news at the Conservatives conference Claire Coutinho announces she will scrap the Renewables Obligation in addition to the previously announced commitment to scrap the Climate Change Act She will also scrap carbon taxes on electricity generation Together these can cut

One of Kemi Badenoch’s central points: “if we want to end our over-reliance on immigration… “Then we must make sure that every British citizen who can work, does work. Right now, there are six and a half million working age adults claiming benefits instead of working. “That is

An absolute must watch. Energy bosses have just told Parliament that EVEN IF gas prices halved by 2030, the soaring policy costs of renewables would mean bills go UP. Ed Miliband’s plan means more grid, more expensive renewable subsidies, more paying wind farms to turn off.

‘Settling-up charge’ = Labourese for exit tax. Exit taxes *always* create the exodus they’re aimed to prevent. 16.5k millionaires are leaving in 2025, the largest exodus ever recorded. An exit tax would be competitive suicide in a war for global talent we’re already losing.

Reeves, October 2024: "It's worse than we thought, going to have to raise taxes." Reeves, November 2025: "It's worse than we thought, going to have to raise taxes."

When your income taxes go up, that will be because Rachel Reeves chose to raise public spending by £70bn last year. Not because of austerity, Truss, Brexit, the Pandemic or anything else. It's because Labour chose to raise spending so much. Choices have consequences. For you.

Great set of reforms that would give a real economic boost to Britain without hiking the deficit. If any Govt did just half of this it would make a significant difference.

Yet another example of gaslighting from Rachel Reeves... 🙄 Taxes are going up because she has failed to control *day-to-day* spending, such as public sector pay and welfare benefits. The fiscal rules treat *capital* spending very differently.

More than 4million Universal Credit claimants now have no requirement to work - that's predominantly people who are sick along with students and those with caring responsibilities The rise is extraordinary - it's gone up from from 2.896million in October 2024 to 4.027million in

The rise in unemployment to 5% is bad, but that excludes sickness benefit. The fuller figure - all out-of-work benefits - is now closer to 15%. frasernelson.com/data/economics/

Just stop, Ed. We all know by now that this is nonsense. Gas has returned to normal levels for some time. The price keeps increasing because of the cost of renewables.

Latest figures out today show borrowing so far this year is £9.9bn more than forecast. That's this year alone! Reeves' 2024 fiscal plans have been eviscerated.

Billionaire Lakshmi Mittal quits Britain. How many others will follow? thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

The point of the "Triple Lock" was that it was supposed to facilitate a period of catch-up in the state pension. When did it switch from that concept - a temporary catch-up phase - to becoming some kind of sacred commitment for all eternity?

BREAKING The OBR says it informed Rachel Reeves as far back as ***September 17*** that the downgrade in productivity forecasts was offset by 'increases in real wages and inflation'. The deficit was in fact just £2.5billion By October 31 that deficit had turned into net positive

Net Zero is economic suicide. It must go.

The latest new tax: a shipping tax that will put up Northern Ireland Ferry prices by 6%. Stena Line, which operates multiple ferry routes to Belfast, says that the tax will increase its costs by £9m annually, £15 for each vehicle carried. Unlike other ferry routes Northern

When will Labour cut the welfare bill? It increases from £314bn last year to £406bn in 2030/31. This is page 70 in the OBR report just published. More analysis now on ⁦GB News⁩