Today we removed 40 more people with no right to be in the UK, on one of our regular returns flights.

This included foreign criminals with combined prison sentences of more than 50 years.

Start the flights.
Stop the boats.

That's what this bill delivers.

Countries around the world have been celebrating Earth Day 🌍🌳🍄🐸🐦‍⬛🐢🐞. Here in the UK, all public authorities in England are obliged to consider nature and biodiversity in everything they do. Ask your council what they are doing about nature. gov.uk/guidance/compl…

Conservatives back British farmers 🇬🇧🚜

🥀Labour would ruin all the progress we have made on farming since leaving the EU 🇪🇺

Read my article in today’s Daily Express 👇🏻

express.co.uk/comment/expres…

Study shows a substantial fall in serious violence. This is very good news and shows our plan on crime is working

'England and Wales are safer now than they were a year ago, and much safer than two decades ago,' said lead author Prof Jonathan Shepherd. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-688509…

Great to support Anna Firth MP and her Private Members' Bill on Pet Abduction in Westminster today. The Commons has now sent the legislation to the House of Lords for scrutiny.

We believe in the value of work.

Watch the Prime Minister's full speech on welfare reforms 🔽

The reforms announced today will build on that, modernising the system so it’s fit for the future

Find out more: gov.uk/government/spe…

Our £2.5bn Back to Work Plan will help 1 million people including those with long-term health conditions, disabilities, or who are long-term unemployed break down barriers to work

Our new plan to put work at the heart of welfare will:

1. Review the fit note system
2. Provide a new WorkWell service
3. Roll out additional personalised help from Universal Support

These changes will support more people to start, stay and succeed in work

In this job I only care about delivering for the WM - building the homes, the transport links, and the careers people need to thrive 🗣️

Our progress in just 7 years has been incredible 💪🏻

But with much more to be done, Baroness Karren Brady CBE found out why I’m determined to carry on 🎥

I believe our welfare system is about far more than benefit payments; it is about changing lives for the better.
 
Today’s speech from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak set out our plan for a new welfare settlement in Britain.

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🚨 Government Response 🚨

In February, we published a report on Quantitative Tightening (QT). We have now received a response from HM Treasury, Bank of England and the Debt Management Office.

🔎 Learn more and read the full report here 👇
committees.parliament.uk/committee/158/…

If this is true, this is shabby behaviour from the very top of Woodbridge Town Council who turfed out the Art Club just a few weeks ago with the pledge for the Art Club to be able to return.

Inflation has fallen - again.

It’s now at 3.2%, the lowest it has been in over two and a half years.

✍️ Former Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey writes for the The Telegraph supporting our campaign.

She notes we must ban peat to:

🌳 Defend our countryside
🛒 Protect unsuspecting consumers
🌍 Help us decarbonise

Read her article below: 👇telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…

🚨 Tory MPs back CEN's peat campaign 🚨

Today, CEN MP Theresa Villiers is introducing a bill to 'ban the sale of peat for the amateur gardening sector.'

🤝 MPs are calling for the ban in The The Telegraph, The Daily Express, ConservativeHome, and POLITICOEurope.

Read in 🧵 below:

The Cass Review should concern us all.

This report strikes hard and strikes sure in an area of public policy where fashionable cultural values have overtaken evidence, safety and biological reality.

This must now stop.