Graham Stuart MP

Joining the Customs Union without being a full member of the EU makes no sense at all. Perhaps the Lib Dems do know this. Cunning.

Does anyone else think it’s weird our Education Secretary is all for reducing VAT on rollercoasters and chicken nuggets but well up for adding the full 20% to SEND children’s education?

@DanNeidle I've always told my constituents that I don't support payments to WASPI women and that the claim is without merit. Some have promised not to vote for me as a result. So, no, your golden rule is cynical and rubbish.

My golden rule is that every politician in every party makes vague promises to the WASPI campaign before taking office, and then does a reverse ferret within moments of realising the cost.

@Conservatives voted to stop Labour’s ban on new licences, end the EPL and permit Rosebank and Jackdaw. 👉Labour voted against 👉SNP didn’t vote 👉Only 1 Reform MP turned up The Aberdeen South by-election is a referendum on oil & gas. It’s clear which party is fighting for it.

Hi Emily, it’s the Equality Act that says single sex services can’t admit people of the opposite sex. The Code of Practice simply explains it to service providers. If you want services organised on the basis of gender identity not sex you need to advocate for a change in the law. There’d be a lot of opposition to that (including from me) because of the impact on women, including domestic abuse survivors. Happy to put you in touch with a specialist lawyer if you want to know more about the relationship between the law and guidance.

She's right.

Kirkham (Fylde) Council By-Election Result: 🌳 CON: 60.6% (+33.9) ➡️ RFM: 27.3% (New) 🌹 LAB: 6.6% (-13.8) 🔶 LDM: 5.5% (New) No Ind (-52.9) as previous. Conservative GAIN from Independent. Changes w/ 2023.

Growing up in South East London, the Heygate Estate was a byword for urban failure. Ugly. Crumbling. Crime-ridden. Look at it now. Torn down, rebuilt, and transformed into somewhere people genuinely want to live. But it is far too expensive and far too slow to do this in urban areas. Planning costs, land accumulation, remediation, sometimes hundreds of millions before a spade goes in the ground. That is why development keeps getting pushed onto the green belt. We need to fix that, we need to make it quicker, easier and cheaper to regenerate our towns and cities, and build on brownfield land, so that tired, neglected parts of Britain can become great places to live again.

I have been sickened all day by the news of three boys who lured two schoolgirls, raped them, and filmed it on their phones while they laughed and egged each other on. When they finally stood before a judge this week, they were handed “rehabilitation orders” and walked out without serving a single day behind bars. Not in prison, not in custody or a young offender institution. The judge said, “None of you need to go to prison”. What message does that send to rapists? The crime could hardly be graver, yet the punishment was no punishment at all. It’s the collapse of consequences and the rot runs right through the justice system. And this is only going to get worse because Labour are choosing to go soft on criminals: ❌ They have abolished short prison sentences. ❌ They have let tens of thousands of criminals out early. ❌ And now they want to raise the age of criminal responsibility, so that even MORE young offenders escape any consequence at all. My position is common sense👇 PRISON WORKS. ✅It punishes those who do wrong, it keeps dangerous people off our streets and away from our children. ✅It tells every victim that the law is on their side. A country that forgets this is a country where schoolgirls are raped and filmed for sport, and the boys who did it get to go home. Conservatives stand against it and our policies on sentencing and prison are the ones that will deliver a stronger country.

Have you worked in fast food? Chelsea and Dan helped me make my own burger at McDonald’s in Beverley. Safe to say they were better at it than I was. Behind the fun, there’s a serious point: businesses like this give many young people their first job and help them learn confidence, teamwork and responsibility.

Three teenagers escaped prison after gang-raping two schoolgirls. The country is shocked and disgusted. But it is explicit government policy to send fewer criminals under eighteen to prison. I’ve written to David Lammy demanding he changes course.

On the day government debt interest payments hit a record high, Burnham is casually dropping a £10 billion new spending commitment before lunch. Our economy is gonna be toast.

It’s official: No Defence Investment Plan. So here’s the sequel nobody wanted - Flat Out 2🍿

It’s almost beyond belief, but yes, Labour’s energy policy is to shut down our own domestic oil and gas industry whilst directly funding Putin’s war machine instead. On Tuesday, while Labour MPs were voting to ban new British oil and gas licences, behind the scenes the Government quietly announced that it was easing sanctions on Russian oil. Why? Because by shutting down British production, Miliband and Starmer are making us more reliant on foreign imports. As Kemi Badenoch rightly said at Prime Minister’s Questions, Labour think oil from Russia is acceptable, but oil from Aberdeen is not. We are in the extraordinary position of Ukraine’s sanctions chief criticising our country, whilst UK officials brief out that the fault lies with Starmer and Miliband for being asleep at the wheel as UK energy supplies have been put increasingly under strain. Here’s the problem. Production is not the same as consumption. If you shut down our means of making fuel, it doesn’t mean we need any less. All it does is make us more reliant on foreign regimes for that very same fuel. What’s worse is that this fuel will almost certainly have lower environmental standards and produce more emissions as it is shipped across the world to get here. We lost a third of our oil refineries last year. We have just four left. By the end of the Parliament we could have zero as they are being forced out of existence thanks to an onerous Carbon Tax and high energy costs. Some of our refineries are spending more on the Government’s Carbon Tax – which doubled last year under Ed Miliband – than on their entire wage bill. Guess who doesn’t face this crushing tax? The Indian refineries which are at the centre of the current storm. That’s what lifting the sanctions is allowing in: jet fuel and diesel from these refineries which, unlike our own, use Putin’s oil and have twice the emissions because, unlike our own, they are powered by coal. What kind of climate leadership is this? Where is it leading to? Bankruptcy? We have to face up to reality. The world is getting more dangerous and other countries like the US, the Middle East and Asia have not put punishing carbon taxes on their own industry. They are not shutting down their oil and gas industries – in fact, they are doing everything they can to maximise their own energy supplies. However, this is the logical conclusion of Ed Miliband’s plans. If you place higher burdens on our industry than other countries, then British production will decline. That does not mean we will need any less oil, gas, jet fuel, chemicals or plastics, we will just become more reliant on foreign regimes over whom we have no control. There is an alternative. But it requires a government prepared to abandon Ed Miliband’s zealotry and back our own domestic production instead. We need to repeal the Climate Change Act, axe the Carbon Tax, Get Britain Drilling, double down on nuclear and make electricity cheap. That’s the plan that the Conservatives put forward on Tuesday - but the one that Labour MPs rejected.

What a result…That makes a hat-trick of #ConGain by-elections on @fyldecouncil since GE24 💪🏻 Con 1,185 60% (+33%) Ref 534 27% (+27%) Lab 129 7% (-13%) Lib 107 5% (+5%) Conservative GAIN from Independent No IND this time (Previously 53%) A huge congratulations to Adam not only on a stunning victory, but a superb, hard-fought and inspiring campaign. A true champion of Kirkham.

"4000 new teachers" he chirps, as the DFE's own website says there are 400 *fewer*. Tired government bleeding out in a pool of lies.

1,000 jobs are lost in our North Sea oil and gas sector every month, as a direct result of Labour's ban on new drilling licences. It's an act of national self-harm that will harm Aberdeen’s and Britain's economic future. @RussellFindlay1 and I agree - this cannot go on.

Labour will try and take credit for this reduction in net migration. But it is mainly due to the visa changes that I introduced as Home Secretary in Dec 2023 and which Labour opposed at the time.

So the Labour leadership contest is moving into an arms race to tax the country’s entrepreneurs, risk takers and job creators ever higher. Just what low growth Britain needs right now.

Residents told me Lloyds is letting them down. Banking hubs in Hornsea, Withernsea and Hedon are fantastic. Cash Access UK, the Post Office and hub staff are doing their job.   But Lloyds is the only major bank that will not let customers deposit cheques at Post Offices, cash hubs and banking hubs. That hits older residents, disabled people, small businesses, charities and community groups hardest. After residents raised this with me, I took it to Parliament. Now I am coordinating a letter to Lloyds’ Chief Executive and asking MPs across the country to sign it. Please sign the petition and share it with friends and family so they can ask their own MP to back the campaign too.