We are the ones doing the hard yards in Parliament, holding this dreadful Labour government to account and forcing concessions – Reform MPs are not the ones making the running. A parliamentary party the same size as the number of digits on one hand does not make you the real opposition.
When Sir Keir Starmer’s new sticking plaster becomes a permanent sore, we will once again be the only party that can rip off the band aid.
Labour seek to upend decades of settled employment law that could see Britain remade as one of the worst places to employ people.
I don’t believe that any politician wakes up in the morning deliberately trying to do harm. But the law which looms largest over Whitehall is that of unintended consequences. Add to this the lack of understanding this government has of business and the stage is set for yet another failed ‘relaunch’.
The problem is that there is too much to scrutinise in too little time. Unless Governments pare back their legislative programme – and there is no real desire to do this – Parliament simply sits for an insufficient amount of time to properly discharge its functions.
I have been immensely frustrated that past leaders have talked about cutting red tape when running for office only to preside over governments that added to regulatory burdens: ‘talking right but governing left’ as Kemi put it so well.
Rachel Reeves is breaking promises like a runaway horse charging through the jumps in the Grand National.
Can we be confident that Mauritius, which lies over 1,000 miles away, has no functioning navy, and is cosying up to China, will protect this oasis of nature?
In a crowded marketplace, simplicity and consistency of message are vital. Yet the manifesto commitment to a smoking ban denied us one of the last distinguishable arguments we could have used to turn out our core vote.
This Labour government has now made three wrong moves on technology in as many weeks.
For the country, this is the moment of maximum danger. Our constitutional safeguards are at their lowest, Parliament is at its least experienced and its most distracted.
Having entered Parliament from business, I know first-hand that prosperity is not created by government.
Whilst other parties compete about how to expand the state even more, we will create a country where through lower taxes and fewer regulations, we can re-ignite the spark of everyone’s ambition.