Ben Hopton

@lukerobertblack it reached 11% under the Conservatives

2.8% is lower than the 3%, but prices are still rising too fast - and our exposure to fluctuations in oil/gas prices perhaps seen most strongly in the increase in transport costs. More sense than ever to maximise our energy diversity - drill, nuclear, wind and gas!

@TomTugendhat @LordWalney and the idiots like you who did putins work with brexit

Anyone who still downplays Russia’s attacks is one of two things: wilfully ignorant or complicit. There is no third category. The Kremlin is not ambiguous about its intent. Nor should we be. Those who bend the knee to Moscow are traitors. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

The @BBCNews has now confirmed what some of us warned for years. A Russian diplomat ran a sabotage campaign on British soil: arson against the Prime Minister’s own home, and fake far-right and Islamist groups built to turn us against each other. This is not crime. It is how war is fought by powers who don’t want to expose their hand. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@MelJStride it reached over 11% under the Conservatives

Prices are still rising too fast - and Labour still don’t understand why. Thanks to Labour’s choices the UK went into the latest energy crisis with the highest inflation in the G7. Rachel Reeves has increased the deficit by 75% and those lining up to replace Keir Starmer want to borrow even more. Reform promise the same irresponsible approach, announcing tens of billions in unfunded promises in their desperation to win the Makerfield by election. Only the @Conservatives have a leader with the backbone and strong team needed to build a stronger economy and get Britain working again.

@LeeAndersonMP_ its 100 per day. in 2022 when you were in Government it was over 1000 per day

The invasion continues. But don't worry, they're coming to an HMO on your street.

@VinnieSull1van @JeremyClarkson @Britains___Pubs @PubHistoryTours yeah. fuck the nhs, schools, defence. we shouldn't pay for any of that.

Current pub topic: Clarkson 🚜 People say @JeremyClarkson bought a farm (on which he works hard) to avoid inheritance tax. But, so what if he did? What possible reason could anyone have to blame him for caring more about his family and legacy than the government? And, even if he did, he's raised more awareness for farming than the government or press ever would. So, unless you're in line with the many forms of governmental unfairness, what possible problem could you have with what he's done?

@ShakinthatChalk then they can watch under 16s you tube

Uncomfortable truths. Some kids use YouTube because it teaches them better than their teacher. Some kids use YouTube to enrich and explore curriculum outside the one decided for them by schools. Some kids use YouTube to support their school work.

@renewablesmiffy Ah yes. EU members and members of the European Energy Market

Easy follow what Spain, Portugal, Finland and Sweden have been doing!

@BenGrahamUK If. you know you've lost

Every single vote for Robert Kenyon and Reform in Makerfield is crucial. If Reform defeats Andy Burnham here, the message to Labour will be devastating: No seat. No politician. No Labour stronghold is safe.

@TheNorfolkLion the council isn't the government. moron

Another example of Keir Starmer’s Stasi Britain. This street flies England flags up and down every single World Cup. This year the council have told them they’re not allowed, in case “it makes other people who aren’t perhaps from England feel uncomfortable and not welcome.” If seeing an England flag makes you feel uncomfortable or unwelcome… then do one and go back home! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@PJTheEconomist covid

From under 2 million in 2019 to 4 million today.

@toryboypierce @AndyBurnhamGM how many over the week? 710. average 100 per day, compared to over 1000 in 2022. a massive reduction

710 migrants crossed channel Illegally yesterday the highest this year. Just in time to danage @AndyBurnhamGM & Labour in Makerfield by-election

@ChillaxBcn @SarahLudford @MayorofLondon @SadiqKhan why? he gets horrific racist abuse.

@SarahLudford @MayorofLondon @SadiqKhan Agreed

I think it’s disgraceful that that the supposedly democratic @MayorofLondon @SadiqKhan refuses to allow replies

@policylaila Laila doesn't care about children.

Wow. You obviously don’t understand the policy you pushed or you think we are stupid. Proving your age for alcohol is a shopkeeper glancing at a card. Proving it online means uploading your passport or your face to a tech platform that keeps it. Prove your age’ becomes ‘prove who you are.’ That IS the back door.

@roberthenryjohn they should have private pensions and savings

#StatePension All state pensioners pensions, need to be updated to current level, taking into account inflation each year. . . . How are older pensioners expected to live on their outdated disgustingly low pensions. . .?

@Edwina_Currie That just means she was clever.

Well, Zarah, you didn’t go to a local comprehensive. You went to a highly selective grammar school for girls. And we all paid for that, too.

The deal includes major investments from French and Indian firms into Britain’s clean energy infrastructure and AI sector — backing high-skilled jobs in cities including Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham while helping deliver more stable and affordable energy. No. 10 say at a time of rising global instability, including conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East, the Prime Minister is using the summit to work with partners to reduce pressures on household bills, strengthen supply chains and unlock new opportunities for British workers.

Big Downing St announcement tonight. Keir Starmer secures major jobs and energy investment at G7 to deliver growth and security at home ·         £1.3 billion in new investment secured from leading companies in France and India to back clean energy and AI projects in the UK ·         More than 1,400 new jobs to be created in Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham ·         Major new battery storage and clean power projects to boost energy security and help bring down bills for working people

@LuxMeaMundiAM and her £16,500 in MP child allowance she receives each year

Genuinely wondering if we can collectively sue Helen Whately for deliberate misinformation at this point. We are paying her £100k salary, her £39k a year rent and all her expenses for you to lie about disabled people daily. Enough. She needs ousting from office asap

Why has your Rape Gang Inquiry covered up the mass rape of Muslim girls by ethnically white grooming gangs Rupert? We all matter! My name is Femi Mohammed and I am speaking up in response to the Rape Gang Inquiry Report as the only Pakistani Muslim Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) and grooming gang survivor currently in the public domain, and to explain how as a participant, I have been manipulated and silenced by MP Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry. In August 2025, I was selected to take part in @RupertLowe10’s Rape Gang Inquiry by Sammy Woodhouse. She advised me not to disclose my CSE at the age of 17, during which I was trafficked for 18 years by an ethnically white grooming gang because she claimed it did not meet the required threshold. She and the Rape Gang Inquiry were interested in my recent cases, in which as a vulnerable adult, I was sexually assaulted and threats were made against my life by a Pakistani Conservative public figure. I shared details of my experiences and submitted my official evidence to the Rape Gang Inquiry over a six-month period, after which I was invited to attend the Inquiry hearings in February 2026, and my travel arrangements were made. However, shortly before the hearings, I was removed without explanation or justification. I believe the decision to exclude me came from the highest level of the Inquiry. In May 2026, I was informed that not only was I a child at the time of my trafficking and grooming, but that my case should also have been included in the Rape Gang Inquiry. Its exclusion was not a simple oversight; in my view, it concealed the reality that a Muslim child had been groomed and trafficked by white perpetrators. What is concerning is why the Rape Gang Inquiry covered up my child grooming and trafficking by white gangs and then suppressed my participation involving a member of the Conservative Party. While Rupert Lowe publicly claimed the inquiry would name and shame the authorities who failed victims, my cases gave him the perfect opportunity to do exactly that, yet my experience was sidelined to protect the very institutions they claimed they wanted to expose. Therefore, any narrative conveyed by the Rape Gang Inquiry that Muslim children have not been abused or that Muslim survivors have been included is misleading. As a Muslim victim, it is my experience that I was not only lied to, in order to cover up my Child Sexual Exploitation and cases against a Conservative Party member, but I believe I was then deplatformed to protect the very authorities they claim to want to expose. I am speaking up in the public interest because remaining silent risks leaving countless other Muslim victims and survivors trapped in a devastating cycle of abuse and danger. We cannot afford the cost of silence. The public, who financially contributed to this Inquiry, have an absolute right to know the truth of what I have been subjected to. I have documented my experience in MP Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry, included supporting evidence of my participation, published my story and my full statement is provided in the links below. x.com/femi_mohammed1… x.com/femi_mohammed1… x.com/femi_mohammed1…

I have written to the Thai authorities about Christopher Harborne and @Nigel_Farage . Specifically re the application of the Thai Anti Corruption Act (2018) enforced by a department of the Royal Thai Police -the National Corruption Commission. Cc @thaiemblondon @FCDOGovUK