🚨 The latest public sector finance stats for June just dropped from Office for National Statistics (ONS) and they're a fiscal horror show. Borrowing up, debt interest up, deficit up, spending up and taxes up. Here's what you need to know about how the government's finances are spiralling🧵

Strategising the #buildbabybuild revolution this morning with Kemi Badenoch Enjoy the Conservative YIMBY 🧢 🧢

Conservatives will build the homes families need, but we won’t concrete over every green field to do it.

🔵 Kemi Badenoch described Argentina’s president Javier Milei as “the template” as she attempted to sharpen the Conservative’s economic message. Read more here ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/2…

Owning a good home shouldn’t feel out of reach. But for too many young people - it does. Conservatives will build more, build better, and protect the green spaces families love. I’m glad to have James Cleverly🇬🇧 as my Shadow Housing Secretary to help get Britain building again.

Most migrants can get Indefinite Leave to Remain after 5 years. It means they can stay here forever. And claim welfare, social housing and free healthcare. Millions of recent migrants didn’t come to work. Giving them ILR will cost us hundreds of billions. We mustn’t do it.

Saving for your future? Investing in your business? Hoping to leave something behind for your children? Labour sees that and thinks: revenue. Today Mel Stride and Andrew Griffith MP sounded the alarm on a triple tax raid being considered by Rachel Reeves. Scrapping the £500 dividend

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 30% (-1) CON: 22% (+4) LAB: 22% (=) LDM: 13% (-1) GRN: 6% (-1) SNP: 2% (-1) Via More in Common, 8-11 Aug. Changes w/ 1-3 Aug.

I’m old enough to remember when Rishi was saying that The Labour Party would increase your taxes by £2000. Fact checkers said he was wrong… turns out he was… it’ll be more than £2000. 🤷‍♂️

As I’ve said all along. When Ed Miliband promised to cut bills by £300, it was nothing but a huge lie. We need to put cheap energy first.

Labour is claiming that the number of migrant hotels has "halved" on their watch. In fact it halved under the previous Tory government, from a high in summer 2023 by the 2024 election. Under Labour, the number of hotels closed is? 3. fullfact.org/immigration/as…

I'm trying to catalogue all of the Labour scandals since Starmer became PM. I've got to 36 so far. What am I missing? 1. Chagos Islands deal 2. Two-child benefit cap rebellion 3. Lord Alli donations and freebies scandal 4. Broken manifesto promise on taxes 5. Summer riots and

Angela Rayner’s legacy as Housing Secretary: Monumentally failed to hit her own housebuilding targets. Reduced housing targets in major cities. Vote Labour, get decline.

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That reshuffle so far - Housing Secretary who doesn’t believe in planning reform - Home Secretary who campaigns against deporting foreign criminals - Moving the Foreign Secretary whose 5 year job you guaranteed 10 months ago - And keeping Rachel Reeves as Chancellor 🫠

AHEAD OF THE CURVE Just finished a meeting with Arthur B. Laffer in Nashville - the man behind the Laffer Curve and a key adviser to President Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. We discussed the simple truth his curve illustrates: there comes a point where higher taxes raise less, not

As young people are locked out of housing, this is manifestly unfair. The system has to change.

With more tax rises looming in the autumn, Rachel Reeves risks forgetting the vital lessons of the Laffer curve. You cannot tax your way to growth. My words for today's The Telegraph, following my visit to Arthur B. Laffer, at his home in Nashville, last Sunday 👇🏻

In two weeks Keir Starmer's: *Deputy Prime Minister has quit in disgrace *UK Ambassador to the US was fired on the eve of a Presidential state visit *Director of Strategy has resigned The Starmer government is in complete turmoil Full coverage: order-order.com/2025/09/15/top…

Reminder that Boris Johnson and the City Hall Conservatives kept the City Hall precept low, didn’t have as many Deputy Mayors as Khan and wasn’t paid £170,000 a year. London was safer, more affordable and in better shape. There is another way, and it’s voting Conservatives ⬇️