Cameron Smith

I am delighted that Michael Winstanley is standing for the Conservatives in Makerfield, he will make an excellent champion of the area having lived in, worked in and represented the local community for years. I know there have been calls from a minority of people for the Conservatives to stand aside in this fight. That will never happen. The people of Makerfield and Britain deserve the opportunity to vote for a party that is committed to reducing the welfare bill, that champions business and understands the perils of nationalisation, that is open and transparent about who it gets its donations from and doesn't try to hide millions in crypto funding. The only party on the ballot in Makerfield that offers that and a clear plan for our country is the Conservative Party, and anyone who supports those values shouldn't hesitate to vote for Michael Winstanley in Makerfield.

@SebastianEPayne @HRGalley Huge congrats!

Simply the happiest day ever @HRGalley

Side note. To the Labour MPs who shout “Liz Truss” whenever the economy is discussed, should note that the UK 10yr bond yield under Truss peaked at 4.7% This morning, because of Reeves’ and Starmer’s ineptitude the 10yr bond yield is 5.02% Labour crashed the economy.

@SebastianEPayne @ObscaTories Thank you!

@ObscaTories Congrats @CameronSmithUK, terrific news!

BEXLEY ELECTIONS: Congratulations to Kurtis Christoforides and Cameron Smith on their election as the Conservative councillors for St. Mary’s and St. James.

We won.

Welcome to Kemi & Co: the only team that will save you thousands on your next home 🏠 It’s time to Scrap Stamp Duty!

'No one writes thank you on their tax forms' - @PierrePoilievre on why the free market is the only system where everyone benefits ⬇️

Our ancient English liberty.

Outrageous.

Proud to be a part of this team, and really grateful for all the support we’re getting in the run up to May’s council elections 🙏🗳️🚀 If you want a councillor who will 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 put you and your community first at the Town Hall, vote Conservative #TeamGreenwich

Sensible suggestions to help fix the financially disastrous Plan 2 student loans that are trapping a generation of graduates in debt and high taxes. Something I hope the Conservatives adopt. thetimes.com/article/24766e…

Despite all the accusations of inefficiency and incompetence throw at us during last year's local election, ReformUK at @Kent_cc have now admitted that DOGE has found no mismanagement or excessive spending.

The Conservatives must obviously have divides with Reform, as with Labour & the Lib Dems. But the truth is half their 2024 lost voters went to Reform & 23% of their 2024 loyal base now says it will vote Reform. "Ignore Reform" is a suicide strategy.

Kemi is seriously impressive.

And no, there isn’t a huge, untapped resource of liberal voters for the Tories to win either

The statistics that mean - despite all the chatter about the centre - the Conservatives have no choice but to try and win back Reform voters From my @thecritic piece thecritic.co.uk/the-centre-can…

I understand better than most why Suella was so unhappy at the end of the last Government. I speak as someone who voted against the Rwanda plan because I did not believe it would work without tackling the ECHR in parallel. I warned publicly of the resulting electoral iceberg ahead for the Conservatives and walked a lonely path for doing so. It was a horrible time. In a way, I could understand if that had been Suella’s - or others’ - moment of breaking. But the Conservative Party *did* respond in the autumn of 2024. It elected Kemi as leader and our immigration policy has changed completely. The Party is now committed to ECHR withdrawal and it will be a condition of standing at the next election to support this. Parties have to learn from defeats if they want to earn the right to serve again, and the Conservatives under Kemi have learned. The Party’s programme is already so much more Conservative - from abolishing stamp duty to resetting energy policy to welfare reform. Almost everything has changed in the space of just over a year. Kemi is an authentic Conservative, and who can doubt her toughness or her willingness to face down those who stand in the way of changing the Party she leads? So to condemn the Conservatives so vitriocally now simply does not make sense. Being angry, frustrated and hurt about what went before certainly can be understood. But it’s my strong view that an atavistic desire to burn everything down *when the Opposition has shown itself humbly willing to change* cannot.

Why the maths just doesn’t work for a Tory move to the centre ⬇️ @evanhd @BBCRadio4