Best seat in the house, The Ship & Shovell. Strike

Worrying news for #NorthWarwickshire. Treasury decison to scrap A5 dualing upgrades is clearly behind this. Rachel Taylor MP is it not time for a u-turn to protect local jobs👇👇👇 thebusinessdesk.com/westmidlands/n…

The vote on the council leadership for Wiltshire Council is now taking place. Being done by a secret ballot which is a rarity in local government. The chairmanship vote was tied at 48-48.

Who’s going to pay for Nigel Farage’s plan to hand out more benefits? You are.

Meet Nick. He's 30 and does everything right: works hard, pays taxes, follows the rules. He’s also given up hope of ever building the life his parents had. Today's The Spectator tells his story. Our 2023 Justice for the Young report shows how Britain is failing his generation 🧵

The "working class" are the ones paying for all these free riders

NEW: Conservative peers have launched a last-ditch attempt to stop Sir Keir Starmer from giving the Chagos Islands to Mauritius Tories in the Lords have put forward a fatal motion to block the Chagos Islands treaty signed by Sir Keir last month telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

Gerry Adams. Shamima Begum. Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man. Lord Hermer has spent much of his life defending those who hate Britain. Why on earth did Starmer hand-pick him to be Attorney General?

Tom Harwood Daniel S. Looking for Growth It's the Jenrickisation of UK policy discourse: - rather than complain, just get out and do stuff - don't ask permission to do stuff because you'll be told you can't - show that life can be made better if people act for themselves

A very good pal of mine who is a serious player in the London property game. just told me he’s struggling to sell flats in Central and West London. We’re talking prime locations that used to fly off the market. Now? Nothing. He reckons the prices have collapsed and it’s only

Out supporting NGT member Liam Downer-Sanderson in the Fulham Town by-election☀️ We’re helping candidates doing Conservativism differently 🌳

Fantastic turnout this afternoon for Liam Downer-Sanderson in Fulham Town. Big thank you to Aled Richards-Jones 🇺🇦 and his Wandsworth Team for their support including the fantastic Cllr Lynsey Hedges & James Craig 🇺🇦.

Great to be re-elected to the ⁦LGA Conservatives⁩ Executive as the County Council Representative - honoured to able to serve and work hard for another year.

The Conservatives will deliver multi-year funding settlements and the party is ready to make the sensible, sustainable changes needed for the sector’s long-term health, says shadow #localgov secretary Kevin Hollinrake. themj.co.uk/ready-bold via The MJ #LGAConf25

A Morgan Plus 4, one of my favourites.

Great Amwell, Hertfordshire

Labour's English Devolution Bill as it stands would prevent Mayor's and Members of Parliament having both offices simultaneously 👀👀

One of the best council chambers I've come across during my time working in local govt, many thanks to Kevin Bentley for the tour of Essex County Council.

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Rachel Reeves is on course to deliver a Healey 1976-style crisis in late 2025 or 26. Like Healey, she has massively boosted public spending, borrowing and taxes - fuelling both demand-pull and cost-push inflation. Unless policies are reversed we are heading for an economic crash!