Leicestershire County Council Group Conservatives

The Chx’s budget is unravelling. The OBR have identified a hidden £6bn black hole in DfE’s budget. Bridget Phillipson needs to be honest about whether these cuts are coming from school budgets or special educational needs provision. Parents & teachers deserve the truth.

Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all. Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.

Is the Leader going to take any action? I telephoned him when these emails appeared online to ask if he was withdrawing the Whip from Mr Whitford. Not had a response yet. Does Mr Harrison still support Mr Whitford as a member of his Cabinet and group? @LeicsCountyHall

‘The House of Commons is being despoiled by these sectarian MPs.’ Robert Jenrick says Labour are feeding into the ‘chronic failures of integration’ in Britain, following Birmingham Councillors starting petitions to stop fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv coming to Birmingham.

Great article by @KemiBadenoch

Leaked video of the in fighting at Kent County Council. We happen to know for a fact that the Reform group in Leicestershire are just as volatile Vote Nigel, get incompetent councillors theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Totally unacceptable

Last week I was attacked for pointing out that parts of Birmingham were a failure of integration. But now Israeli football fans are banned from watching their team play at Villa Park as the police can’t guarantee their safety. Maybe I wasn’t wrong after all.

I had the privilege of serving as the County Councillor for Markfield, Desford & Thornton from 2017-2024; before standing down in May following my election as the MP for Mid Leicestershire 🦊 It genuinely saddens me to see the Divison receive such poor representation from the new councillor there 🙁 The lesson, I suppose, is be careful what or rather who you vote for 👇🏽 leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-new…

Here's 35 Reasons to rejoin the Conservative Party 👇 (conservatives.com/join) 🌟 Our Golden Rule: for every £1 of savings we make, at least half will go to cutting the deficit. 🏠The next Conservative government would abolish Stamp Duty on family homes. 💼 We will introduce a First Job Bonus - first £5k in National Insurance towards savings. 🛍️ We’d abolish business rates for retail, hospitality & leisure businesses. ⚡ Our Cheap Power Plan will cut electricity bills by £165 by axing the Carbon Tax and old renewable subsidies. 🔧 The Conservatives would double apprenticeships funding. 🎓 We will end the university debt trap by cutting wasteful taxpayer spending on low-value degrees. 🚀 We’d expand business coaching in schools. ⚡️The Conservatives would repeal and replace the Climate Change Act to bring energy prices down. 🌾 We will declare a Food & Farming Emergency. 🐄 We’d review DEFRA quangos like Natural England that hold back rural growth. 🧮 We will save £23bn from welfare - restricting eligibility to British citizens and reforming low-level mental health payments. 🏢 The Conservatives would cut the Civil Service back to 2016 levels, saving £8bn. 🌍 We’d cut Overseas Aid by £7bn. 🏨 The next Conservative government would end asylum hotels, saving £3.5bn. 🏘 We will save £4bn by ensuring social housing goes to British citizens. 💸 The next Conservative government would save £1.6bn by cutting Net Zero schemes. 🏦 The Conservatives will make it easier for businesses to open bank accounts. 🧾 We’d introduce a rating system for small business engagement with HMRC. 🔍 We will reform IR35 to cut red tape. 🏙 The Conservatives would rewrite the London Plan to build more homes. 🚨 Our Crime Plan will hire 10,000 more police officers. 🔍 We'd triple Stop and Search. 📍 The next Conservative government would introduce Hot Spot Policing in problem areas. 🗣 We will end policing of free speech. ⚖ The Conservatives will abolish the Sentencing Council and put and end to judicial activism. 🪖 We'd protect our veterans from vexatious litigation. 🏫 The next Conservative government will have zero tolerance on bad behaviour in schools. 🚫 We will ban asylum claims for illegal entrants. 🇬🇧 We'd leave the ECHR, ECAT & HRA. ✈️ The next Conservative government will establish a Removals Force to deport 150,000 a year. ⏱ Our BORDERS plan will deport all new illegal arrivals within a week - and all foreign criminals. ❌ We will end the Immigration Tribunal, Judicial Review & legal aid for immigration cases. 🤝 We'd sign returns agreements backed by visa sanctions. 🌐 The Conservatives will support our allies abroad to prevent illegal entry to Europe. The Conservatives have changed. We are a team with a plan to get Britain back on track. Join us, and let’s do it together. 👉 conservatives.com/join

🚨Our new report analyses the impact of reorganisation on care services, concluding that forthcoming decisions about council size will have ‘profound impacts on the most vulnerable'. @HicksCllr and @1adass raise concerns about care services being split⤵️ countycouncilsnetwork.org.uk/make-or-break-…

From Craig Smith @NWLeicsBlue After that Conference it's now time for Conservatives to start acting like Conservatives conservativehome.com/2025/10/10/cra…

The @ukonward snap judgement on *that* speech: Outstanding - especially for younger people. Our 3 programmes are 🔵 Rebuilding our Economy. 🔵 Renewing our Social Contract. 🔵 Reshaping the State Kemi and the Conservatives have just ticked ALL of those boxes.

Following the conference I’ve just been told by the Party Chairman that there has been a surge in new members joining the Conservatives Link here to do so: membership.conservatives.com/membership/Lev…

Reform's fantasy economics has been written on the back of a fag packet...

@KemiBadenoch’s speech at #cpc2025 has really reset the @Conservatives as the party of government Of course she’s had cross party support for a few years now

Tough choices. A serious plan for a stronger economy. The Conservative Party has changed.

Today I am introducing a new Golden Economic Rule - it is non-negotiable. Under my leadership, the @Conservatives will always have a plan and the backbone to make tough decisions, so we can get Britain living within its means again.