James Cleverly

🚨 LABOUR GERRYMANDERING - LOCAL GOVERNMENT REORGANISATION 🚨 Today's announcement proves what I've been warning about all along. Labour councils redrawing the electoral map in their own favour. Wel...

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Labour think that 16 and 17 year olds are old enough to vote, but not old enough to look at TikTok after bedtime! https://t.co/mtsFa7Wfne

A Treasury minister saying she doesn’t know what a policy proposal is because it comes from a different bit of the Treasury is unacceptable. Ministers doing media can’t only talk about their own ...

MPs do not have to have their home addresses on the ballot paper or the Statement of Persons Nominated form. That has been the case since the Political Parties and Elections Act 2009

Labour have no mandate for the biggest reorganisation of local government in more than half a century. Labour councillors redrawing their own boundaries before any independent review. That is not...

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At the LGA Conference this week, making the case for fixing devolution, getting the incentives right and rewarding councils that deliver. Real devolution should give places the freedom to succeed...

Why are so many of the “be nice” brigade so breathtakingly horrible?

Clear breach of a court injunction at the unauthorised traveller site at Willows Green. @Conservatives will change the law to stop the “build first, apply later” abuse of the planning system. http...

@Jonathan_Hinder So your argument is: something must be done, a wealth tax is something, therefore let’s do a wealth tax! Lots of people like the sound of policies that will be counterproductive, ...

@Jonathan_Hinder Here is the moral argument: it won’t work. It will, therefore, not reduce inequality but the exodus of high tax payers will reduce government revenues and by extension hurt the po...

Will Andy Burnham keep hiding from scrutiny? He’s dodged the media for months and hidden from the House of Commons. There are no other challengers, so Labour should stop messing about, make Burnh...

Very sad to hear that Ann Widdecombe has died. Feisty and formidable, but also funny and approachable. I met her only a few times when I first got involved in politics and she was generous with...

Vibes < Economics Passion < Facts Wanting it harder < Plan that works A passion to alleviate poverty deserves and demands proper thinking. Gary Stevenson missed the target. https://t....

I demanded the Deputy Prime Minister to apologise to the victims of the rapists and paedophiles he is planning to release early. He refused.

The construction sector is collapsing. Labour committed to 1.5 million homes. 300,000 a year. London alone needs 88,000. Last figures showed London started just 4,500. Labour's jobs tax, red ...

At some point soon there will be an inflection point where senior Reform people (Yusuf, Tice, Jenrick et al) view Farage as more of a liability than an asset. At that point they turn on him. An...

The full @ukonward and @CPSThinkTank report on fixing London’s housing need (with a forward by me) is here: https://t.co/vac3wOiymX

This chart in the @ukonward / @CPSThinkTank report (launched today) should be a wake-up call. London’s house prices have completely outstripped incomes. https://t.co/aiE7EXVqVk