Julia Lopez

Nobody knows for sure what AI means for jobs - the predictions range from apocalyptic to the tech not living up to the productivity hype. With that level of uncertainty, the government should foc...

At midnight, Labour's can-kicking consultation on social media closes. Ministers have made an art form of dressing up indecision as decisive action when it comes to getting children off harmful so...

It was a pleasure to speak yesterday at the @UKPrivateCap conference. In the UK we have some of the standout institutions in the world academically, we have got innovation to die for, and we've g...

Too many MPs still harbour the view that Brexit was an exercise in nostalgia, pushed on everyone by uninformed thickos. The truth is that it has delivered a major strategic advantage in the industr...

Labour - talks big, acts nuts. Whether it's Andy Burnham's promise to reindustrialise or Liz Kendall's pledge to get ahead on AI, Ed Miliband's crazy energy policy scuppers it all. I've just ha...

The Labour Party is about to have a popularity contest over who can spend more of your money, badly. It’s terrifying.

The Tech Department cannot even measure progress on a brand new AI programme it launched a few months ago. This should be as simple as a quick check of a real-time data platform. Heaven help the...

Labour don’t get that their policies are driving the very things they say they want to fix. They then try to fix that by spending everyone’s tax on stuff that doesn’t work. Take this. Liz Kenda...

On Friday @MartinDaubney @GBNews asked whether we’re now at the ‘Comical Ali’ stage of Keir Starmer’s premiership. With the return of Brown and Harman, and briefings that Starmer wants another ten...

It was a tough Thursday and Friday in Havering for us as a Conservative family, despite great progress in other parts of London. While we did not have councillors to lose in Hornchurch & Upminster,...

This week, I brought @Conservatives Chairman and former Business Minister, @kevinhollinrake to Harold Hill to meet local traders on Farnham Road. Brilliant businesses facing rising taxes, rates &...

Keir Starmer doing a lovely turn in dressing failure up as success today at PMQs. “AstraZeneca will announce today it is investing £300m in the UK”. Hurray! Since he took office, they canned a £4...

Another day, another Labour strategy launch. The problem isn’t what Liz Kendall said today on tech sovereignty. It’s the fact that nearly everything this government does runs counter to its delive...

Labour Ministers admit privately what they won't say publicly - our Brexit freedoms have delivered us a major advantage in tech that Starmer’s EU reset is putting at risk. Last week I met the EU’s...

The Tech Secretary never tires of telling us that patience is NOT her greatest virtue. So why does Labour now want three years to get kids off harmful social media and not one like Conservatives a...

Stopping Labour do stupid things latest: Fingers crossed, we’ve managed to secure a u-turn when it comes to HMRC charging VAT on drugs given for FREE to patients in clinical trials. It’s been da...

- The Chancellor doesn’t use AI. - The Tech Secretary doesn’t use AI at work. - Nor did the former AI Minister. - The gov’s public sector AI efficiency drive = 8000 more civil servants since they t...

Today, Lords have the chance to call the Prime Minister’s bluff in getting kids off harmful social media. Last week Starmer said, ‘Things can’t go on like this. They must change’. Yet on every ste...

Out campaigning with our lovely Emerson Park candidate, Bernice, who is standing because she loves getting things done! Every X on the map is a pot hole she and fellow resident and candidate, Domin...

The Prime Minister made a political choice to appoint the Ambassador candidate he wanted, knowing that that candidate came with oodles of publicly-known political baggage. Then the state worked ...