Chris Jennings

@Conservatives Didn't you axe 20,000 police during your last stint in power?

10,000 more police. 20% off your electricity bill. Abolishing business rates. Axing the Fuel Tax. Stopping the Family Farms Tax. Only the Conservatives have a plan to Get Britain Working Again 🇬🇧

In 2023, @KemiBadenoch hosted an Iftar at Lancaster House. I was there. Here’s what happened: • Call to prayer ✔️ • Men and women prayed separately ✔️ • She stayed, participated, ate food, and raised no issue ✔️ Fast forward to now and she claims Ramadan events with gender-separated prayer are “wrong” and should never have happened. So what changed? Not the practice. Not the format. Just the politics and her principles. If it was acceptable when she was in government hosting diplomats and business leaders, why is it suddenly “wrong” when it involves ordinary British Muslims? You can’t have it both way

@MelJStride The one that you did nowt about in 14 years in government? Yeah, that one 🤥

In Britain today there is a tax that punishes ambition, traps families in the wrong homes, and quietly freezes our housing market in place. You all know the one I mean. Stamp Duty. It is a punitive tax on moving house. And that means it is a tax on living your life. It punishes the young couple trying to buy their first home. It punishes the growing family who need another bedroom for a new baby. It punishes the worker who wants to move across the country for a better job. And it punishes pensioners who would happily downsize - freeing up larger homes for younger families - but simply cannot afford the tax bill. The result is predictable. Fewer people move. Fewer homes come onto the market. And the ladder of home ownership becomes harder and harder to climb. A healthy housing market should allow people to move to the right home, in the right place, at the right stage of life. Stamp Duty does the opposite. It locks people in place. Abolishing it would unlock Britain. Young people would find it easier to buy their first property. Couples could upsize to start a family. Older homeowners could downsize without being punished by the taxman. And when people move, the whole economy moves with them. More people moving means more work for builders, painters and renovators. More customers for local DIY shops. More business for furniture shops and tradespeople. A single house move sets off a chain reaction of economic activity in communities right across the country. Estate agents @WinkworthUK, who I have been out with this week, see buyers and sellers every day who have to face hugely punitive stamp duty bills. And the evidence shows just how damaging stamp duty is. According to the @OBR_UK, a one percentage point increase in stamp duty can reduce property transactions by between five and seven per cent. Yet on this Government’s watch the stamp duty due on a £300,000 home will have doubled during their time in office. But beyond the economics lies something deeper. We @Conservatives believe that owning your own home gives you a real stake in society. It gives people roots in their community and pride in their neighbourhood. So a future Conservative Government will abolish Stamp Duty on primary residences altogether. Finished. Gone. And we’ll pay for it by getting a grip on government spending - including £23 billion in welfare reform because responsible tax cuts must be funded and must support economic growth. If Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are serious about growth - about unlocking opportunity and fixing Britain’s broken housing market - they should do the same. Because a country where people cannot afford to move is a country where social mobility stalls. But a country where families can settle where they choose, not where they’re stuck? That is a freer, fairer, more dynamic Britain. And it starts by scrapping Stamp Duty.

Reform leaders @benhabib6 and @RupertLowe10 were regulars on GB News. When they left Reform they say they were never asked back. Probably a total coincidence app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72784/co…

@Magpie24_7 @nufctrust @NUSCuk If I can’t make a game I would only ever ask for my ticket price.

🏟️🎟️ Genuinely, if your selling your ticket at this price to profit from fellow fans like this your a disgrace 😳🤬 I hope @nufctrust and @NUSCuk raise this with the club! #NUFC #NUFCFans #Newcastle

@C6_Steve @SkySportsNews Never off. Usually battling Reform 🐂 💩

@cianpr @SkySportsNews I see you’re back on here! 😂

''The fans will be up for it coming of a loss like that'' ''The pressure is off now, they can express themselves'' Kevin Nolan and Gus Poyet argue why the Tyne-Wear derby is the perfect timing for both Newcastle and Sunderland 👀

The Reform model: 👍 expressly promise to cut council tax if elected 👍 expressly promise to create a “DOGE” to find waste and cut spending 👍 Get elected 👍 Find no waste whatsoever, “DOGE” disbanded weeks after it starts 👍 Raise council taxes 👍 Give yourself a pay rise

I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.

Ahead of derby day, we thought we'd pay tribute to both clubs' most recent trophy wins at Wembley. So as well as our NUFC 2025 Carabao Cup Winners window display, it's only fair we also salute the Mackems' epic 2021 Papa John Pizza Box win (aka the 3rd & 4th Division Cup)🏆🍕

Reform UK are resorting to data-farming 'prize draws' now. Very classy.

@reformparty_uk Blatant data harvesting. Don't fall for it...

Labour and the Tories have made energy bills too expensive. There is still time to enter our draw for the chance to have yours paid for a whole year. 👉 NigelCutMyBills.com

Reform UK's James Orr says the NHS will be free at the point of use What he doesn't tell you is that Nigel Farage has advocated for an insurance based NHS That means, as the UK taxpayer will pay more for the same services, even if the NHS is 'free at the point of use' When Fiona Bruce asks him to explain this, he waffles Exposed and humiliated on #BBCQT

@diabeto81 @CrossCountryUK It was a 5.30am train for three hours. No shops were open. Had I known there was no food or refreshments facility I would have brought something cold. Hindsight is a “weird” and wonderful thing.

@cianpr @CrossCountryUK Are incapable of going to a shop before you travel? Like the night before if it’s an early start - why pay on board prices when you can get cheaper at a local store?? Seems weird this, it’s not XC job to feed you

Dear @CrossCountryUK do you think it is good service to have no food or refreshments available for a three hour trip from Durham to Birmingham leaving at 5.30am? Not the ideal start to a working day...

@LNBCFC2 @CrossCountryUK No but I thought there would be a food and refreshments facility for all passengers

@cianpr @CrossCountryUK Are you travelling first class ?

@graceelizh @KemiBadenoch @Young_Tories @Conservatives Dear young people, may be worth looking at what the Tories did in government for you during their 14 years... Won't take you too long.

Dear Fellow Young People of Britain… @KemiBadenoch is the only party leader that has a viable and realistic plan for us 🇬🇧💙

@SlyForTheRight First it's a lie - it is one household not a street - and more importantly it's blatant data harvesting and must be stopped. They think they are above the law.

🚨 NEW LOW FROM REFORM 🚨 Reform UK just keep sinking lower in their desperate scramble for votes. First it was Nigel Farage selling discounted petrol… now it’s a postcode lottery where he promises to pay the bills of everyone in your street. What is this — serious politics or a game show? 🎰 This is a new low. What’s next?

@AudenShirley 🤣

Kemi Badenoch will be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

@Firephilo I'm the latter. Maybe linked to 40 years of support...

On twitter I see 3 types of fans. Fans blaming officials, fans blaming Howe and then proper fans who understand we just don’t have the players to compete.

@RicHolden @UKLabour @reformparty_uk Maybe because they knew the whole debate was based on a deliberately misleading impression that a 5p increase to fuel duty was imminent and not being staggered from September and under review anyway due to the situation in the Middle East. 🤥

🥀⛽️ Astonishingly, not ONE Labour backbench MP made a speech in defence of @UKLabour’s fuel duty rise but at least they did vote to defend their policy Unlike @reformparty_uk ❌ Not one Reform MP spoke to attack Labour’s fuel duty rise ❌ Not one Reform MPs voted on it 😞 Reform just don’t care