Julia Lopez

We want the government’s AI unit to work. Does Labour? In a desperate search for the growth they killed, Ministers are betting the house on AI to undo the damage of their own business-crippling po...

There’s nothing surprising about Open AI’s decision to stop its UK Stargate data centre investment. In September, as Labour crowed about their US-UK tech deal, I wrote how AI firms were telling me...

Labour's inability to make tough spending choices has left them scrabbling around for tax wherever they can find it. But sending out VAT bills for medicines given for FREE in clinical trials is on...

Very grateful to my DSIT team mate, @PeterTFortune for asking my questions on @lobularmoonshot when I was ill on Wednesday. The Lobular Moonshot Project is a plan to fund critical research into lo...

Parliament loves to display its fleeting moral outrage and heart-on-sleeve compassion. Every week MPs chest beat, emote, ostentatiously parade their concern. And then that same Parliament votes th...

The Chancellor talks like she has no control over her own terrible tax policy. There are quite a few successful, dynamic people ‘drifting abroad’ under this government. I’m not sure aligning the...

On tech, Labour is failing on the basics with sky-high energy costs, taxes and an anti-success narrative. So they’ve turned to Big Tech to give them good headlines - from the 'smoke and mirrors' U...

🛰️There’s a new space race on – and it’s vital to our national security that the UK is in it. That’s why this week @Conservatives Shadow Defence, Tech and Business teams were at #SpaceCommExpo me...

Defence and security is technology. We can see from events in Iran, the wider Middle East and, of course, Ukraine how fast things can change and how technological edge alters the dynamic of conflic...

On social media for children, the Process Prime Minister has subcontracted the uncomfortable business of leadership to consultation. It’s taken six weeks to launch the bloomin’ thing, and the fini...

Well done on all your work supporting Paula with this, Helen. I know so many people in my constituency and beyond will have been profoundly moved by Tony’s story. I hope you are successful.

New Labour and Labour Together - the spin factories created to convince voters that Labour in gov won't be as disastrous as everyone knows Labour always is in gov - both falling apart at the same t...

Today Conservatives launch a new plan for young people: 1. Cut the number of places on poor value uni courses. 2. Use the savings from this to free graduates from the interest rate treadmill & del...

Great to speak to @dp_williamson @Daily_Express for today’s Sunday Express, who asked me about: 🌿 Conservative renewal under Kemi 😒 My thoughts on Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan 🇪🇺 Starmer’s slitheri...

Good to be out with the @huccat team this morning, helping our brilliant Emerson Park campaigners, Bernice and Dominic, with their work on the Benets Rd development. Thanks to everyone who came to ...

Last year Conservative peer, Baroness Owen, put forward a plan to get non-consensual intimate images removed from the web in 48 hours. Labour rejected it. Today Starmer announces it as proof of h...

Surprise, surprise - Labour rebels don’t buy Starmer’s attempt to kick an under-16s social media ban into the long grass with a consultation. For a start - nearly a month on from the press releas...

Thank you @bbcquestiontime for having me on for the first time last week. Debate dominated, naturally, by PM’s future. But it’s all set in the context of so many other terrible decisions by Starme...

RT @omid9: One thing the situation in Iran has made crystal clear is that whichever country, regime, group or political ideology, no matter…

We held our latest Job Fair today at Harold Hill’s MyPlace. Queues out the door and a pleasure, as always, to work with the Jobcentre team and local employers on this. We want to do what we can t...