This Budget is, without doubt, an attack on workers. It is socialism arriving without disguise. The fight for fairness, personal choice, and aspiration begins. The battle with socialism is no longer theoretical – it is here.
London must be attractive to wealth creators, welcoming millionaires and billionaires who provide critical early-stage funding, create businesses and jobs, and often support philanthropic causes.
Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust operates duplicated services that require largely duplicate staffing – driving permanent staff costs significantly higher than many comparable London hospitals.
If the people who start businesses, innovate, and create jobs feel unwelcome, they won’t stick around. They’ll leave — taking their ambition and innovation with them.
People don’t want every high street turned into a row of soulless chains.
Ensuring principles around agility, stability, investment, trade, fairness and digitalisation are at the heart of Conservative business policy will provide the stability and confidence businesses need to grow.
I’ve imagined a ‘day in the life’ of tech-enabled police officers in London.
To truly support the UK’s entrepreneurs, we must return to a mindset that sees businesses as creations to be nurtured, not cash cows to be taxed. We must be the party that backs business.
By working together—citizens, entrepreneurs, and policymakers—we can create a London that thrives in the digital age, ensuring opportunities for all.
London’s potential lies in digitalisation, the driving force behind economic growth and efficiency across industries.
The Government’s Rent a Room Scheme enables households to earn up to £7,500 per year tax-free from letting out furnished accommodation in their homes. The threshold is too low for London.
Mobility is a key enabler of success and participation in sport. The best tournaments and training are frequently all over the country and require a car to reach them.
If it is to succeed, the union must show where the money will come from without overburdening taxpayers. It must combine principle with political judgement, build strategic alliances, and make its case through astute strategy rather than spectacle and disruption – being more Caesar than Spartacus in its approach.