Let’s stop pretending that paying for sex is anything but abuse thetimes.co.uk/article/stop-p…

Why aren't all these people being arrested? Metropolitan Police

Exactly this. 'Evidence-based' too often becomes 'the status quo or my own preferred position, unless you can provide an unreasonable level of data to prove we should do the opposite, with what constitutes evidence defined purely in my terms'.

Great to be out in Brandon, West Suffolk with Conservatives candidate Nick Timothy, Poppy Coburn, Maurice Cousins & the local team! 💙✔️

If there is a worse managed, more utterly useless and wrong-headed institution in British public life, I have no idea what it is

This is absolutely pathetic from Metropolitan Police. A Jewish man was told he couldn't cross the road because of pro-Palestinian protestors.

Also the language of equivalence - Hamas is a proscribed terrorist group.

I hope James Cleverly🇬🇧 intervenes.

This is London 2024, where the Met tell Jews they can't cross the road. Watch this video and be horrified. If I were James Cleverly🇬🇧 I'd be hauling in Sir Mark Rowley on Monday morning for an interview without coffee. This cannot be allowed to continue. Jews deserve to feel safe.

Unless we boost workforce participation, productivity AND birth rates we will need unprecedented levels of migration to fill the gaps in the labour market.

BUT only a minority of the mass migration we HAVE had since 2021 has been for work (rather than study, asylum & family).

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EXL GB News: There has been an 11x rise in investigations in the care sector by the labour abuse watchdog.

The surge comes as the government reacts to 'industrial-scale abuse' of the health & care visa, with 350,000 arriving on the route last year.

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..because women don't / can't think about policy problems...?

Bad miss by The Labour Party digital. Pretty embarrassing.

Thames Water looks completely on top of this situation.

You can compare UC buckets with the legacies they replaced.

If you look at DWP Universal Credit data, which is admin not survey, you will see a huge increase in those claiming out-of-work benefits who have No Work Requirements.

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I'm glad I saw Johannesburg but probably won't go back

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Spot on from Michael Gove.

As I wrote for CapX in March, 'ensuring the continued vitality of markets is an active endeavour, and one which sometimes requires governments to remove or reduce distortive blockers like leasehold.'

Read the piece here 👇

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