It is frightening that Parliament and the public were deceived on such a massive betrayal and expenditure of an eye watering amount of taxpayers’money

Today marks the 80th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day). To commemorate all those who served, most especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice, I was pleased to take part in a two minute silence in Princes Risborough earlier. #VJ80

Meanwhile, the new flags in Princes Risborough High Street are looking splendid!

Tax revenue from North Sea oil & gas is 4 times lower than the OBR predicted. The OBR forecast the North Sea windfall tax would increase revenues from N. Sea oil & gas to £20.7bn in 2023-24. In fact it raised £5.4bn. Great analysis by Catherine McBride of a huge tax policy

Brilliant work again guys. This post is correct, you lead the country

Given how impressive Rachel Reeves’s CV is, it’s hard to believe the Chancellor would make such glaring errors.

Save the Green Belt in Buckinghamshire. I will do what I can as a member of the strategic sites committee. We have had a recent triumph in Beaconsfield.

Credit to all those fellow members who argued and voted against

Real leadership from Robert Jenrick

All the Conservative Party needs to do to win the next election is to be properly and authentically Conservative again, and look as if you mean it as Margaret Thatcher always did.

Not surprising given the calibre of Archbishops ever since Geoffrey Fisher all of whom have succumbed to the liberal secular zeitgeist

All this year the 30 year UK government borrowing cost has been above 5%, higher than at any time since the crash of 2008. When will the government reduce the extra inflation and overspending it has created?

Labour’s introduction of the only education tax in the world (without at least a corresponding subsidy) was always likely to lead to migration of children from the independent to the state sector - costing taxpayers £8,210 per pupil. The govt has underestimated this influx by a

Steve Reed (Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) suggests less inputs = greater yields for farmers. This is ignorant, patronising and clueless. How exactly does that work for farmers? Utter nonsense.

Ed Miliband: "The biggest threat to nature and food security is not solar panels or onshore wind. It is the climate crisis.” No Ed. The biggest threat to farmers right now is the Labour government.

Some members of parliament believe that the UK should introduce a wealth tax to ‘tax the rich’. But they are too late; we already tax the rich, and many of them are leaving the country as a consequence. So, taxes are rising for everyone else, even if it breaks up viable

Reeves’s inheritance tax raid to cost average homeowner £82,000 Labour Governments always run out of money and resort to increasingly vicious, but futile, tax rises in their death throes. Terrifyingly, this one has reached that point in just one year. telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/inhe…

Labour’s approach to economics: tax jobs and wonder why growth goes into reverse. My plan: cut government spending to control the deficit, back the makers and the wealth creators, and cut taxes for the people who keep Britain moving. Which makes more sense?