Rachel Reeves chose higher business rates over backing our high streets. A last-minute u-turn on Labour’s Pubs Tax isn’t enough. Shops, cafes and hotels need clarity - and permanent cuts to business rates, not temporary fixes. Andrew Griffith MP, James Cleverly🇬🇧 and I have written to

🚨 BREAKING: The Government will announce plans for a new rail link between Birmingham and Manchester tomorrow after the cancellation of the HS2 route [BBC News (UK)]

Britain’s next Prime Minister! 🇬🇧

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Good news: NHS waiting lists are down by more than 86,000 this month, the largest fall in a month for over 2 years. For too long, patients were promised change in the NHS but saw little of it. My government is turning promises into change people can actually feel.

🚨 BREAKING: The Tories have just published part of Robert Jenrick's alleged resignation letter: "The Tories and Labour have forfeited the right to govern the United Kingdom. And the mantle now passes to Reform. Nigel has stood for the real change we need for over a decade.

THIS is what leadership looks like. Kemi Badenoch is showing strength, clarity, and courage, exactly what the country needs. Proud to support our next Prime Minister. 🇬🇧

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🚨 BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇪🇺 Europe will break all economic ties with the US if it tries to seize Greenland - FT.

How crazy is this 👇

Vince Langman Not as crazy as this 👇

🚨 NEW: A judge has ruled that Reform UK can challenge the Government’s attempt to cancel local elections

Could the deputy PM explain why "unemployment has gone up almost every month they've been in office?" Andrew Griffith asks "He should check his facts, 500,000 people in work more than a year ago under us," David Lammy tells MPs #PMQs bbc.in/4k103Jo

🚨NEW: The United States is expected to block the Chagos Islands agreement in the coming days

🚨 BREAKING: Kemi Badenoch set to become Britain’s next Prime Minister!

.Kemi Badenoch will always put Britain’s national security first. That’s why we will prioritise defence over welfare, and use savings from bringing back the two child cap to boost our armed forces with 20,000 new troops.

🚨David Lammy being terminally thick on TV again this morning "We're sending forces to support Cyprus because Cyprus is a NATO country" One problem with that Cyprus is NOT a NATO country

If fuel companies try to rip off customers, my government will step in. Rachel Reeves and Ed Miliband are bringing the bosses of the fuel companies in today, to make sure that customers aren’t losing out because of the conflict in the Middle East.