Greg Smith MP

We stand with our Jewish community, now and always.

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At PMQs I challenged the Prime Minister on the practical realities of his policies towards business, which are causing job losses, opportunities trashed and in cases like Kado in Princes Risborough, closure. Businesses are being hammered by Labour - and that costs us all.

The Countryside Alliance has launched a new interactive rural crime map way to highlight the reality of crime in the countryside. If you have experienced rural crime, please share your story here. countryside-alliance.org/report-rural-c…

We were pleased to host @DanielaGrudsky in Parliament today. The Chargé d'affaires at the Israeli Embassy to the UK briefed Conservative MPs and Peers on the latest developments in Israel and the Middle East, in a discussion chaired by CFI Chair (Commons) @gregsmith_uk 🇬🇧🇮🇱

Jewish constituents are telling me they feel unsafe and the recent attack on ambulances in Golders Green makes clear why. I challenged the Minister today: incremental change is not enough. Protecting the Jewish community requires a sea change. We need bold action, now.

A pleasure to visit 3 fantastic local businesses located at Kites Park in Princes Risborough this morning, principally to talk about the lack of a broadband connectivity affecting businesses located in the park. I will be taking the issue up with Openreach and other providers.

I fell in love with motorsport watching Ayrton Senna win as a McLaren driver. Taken too soon, always missed.

Today @Conservatives called for Labour to u-turn on their fuel duty rises that will hammer everyone in the UK, but they marched their backbenchers up the hill to vote FOR the fuel duty rises. LibDems and Reform missing in action when the vote came.

At Prime Ministers Questions I quoted a litany of chaos HS2 continues to cause us here in Bucks, asking him, as part of the HS2 Reset, to finally act to treat all of us living with this hell on earth we never asked for to be treated fairly and with respect.

'Like the surface of the moon!' Britain's pothole plight blasted as cost of repairs reach £18.6BILLION gbnews.com/politics/brita…

Delighted to welcome Councillor Dean Field to the @Conservatives - who leaves the Liberal Democrats behind. Our shared priority is protecting the Bucks countryside from Labour’s unreasonably high 95,000 housing demand - which the Liberal Democrats want to be even higher.

A superb event - an honour to be a judge - and wonderful to see young farmers from from Princes Risborough Young Farmers Club and Edgcott and Winslow Young Farmers Club taking part. Well done to all!

In #TreasuryQuestions APPG Co-Chair @gregsmith_uk raises the fact that the #Treasury has failed to reply to THREE APPG letters about the secret #HMRC sweetheart 10-15% deal with big banks in 2005. Treasury Ministers look uncomfortable & @Dan4Barnet promises a reply. ⏰

With many households in Mid Bucks off the gas grid and fuelled by heating oil (to declare an interest my own home is too) I am working with colleagues for better consumer protections.

RT @ClaireCoutinho: Heating oil customers are being ripped off and Ed Miliband has taken no action since I first raised this with him last…

⚡️🚙 Demand for electric cars is chronically below @UKLabour’s targets 💷 So after trying to bribe people to buy them with taxpayer funded grants failed 💷💷 They’re now wasting £4.5m of public money advertising them to the public Instead of forcing drivers down one path, we should take the @Conservatives plan & back a drivetrain-neutral approach, cut taxpayer funded subsidies & advertising and let consumers decide what works for them dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Heating oil suppliers are using the war in Iran to rip off families in rural communities. Ed Miliband needs to get a grip on price gouging by suppliers who are taking advantage of vulnerable families. My letter to Ed Miliband👇🏾

As the conflict in Iran and Qatar shows, our energy resilience is our national resilience. Labour’s plans to shut down the North Sea have left us more reliant on Qatari LNG. We need to get real. That means maximising the North Sea, adopting the Fingleton Review to make nuclear cheaper to build, and axing the Carbon Tax to protect British industry. Our letter to Rachel Reeves👇🏾

We knew on Saturday that our allies in Canada and Australia had backed the action taken by the United States and Israel. Yet Keir Starmer still couldn’t tell the British people where our country stood or whether the UK would allow the use of our own airbases. It took Iranian missiles hitting allies in the Middle East and a UK base in Cyprus before Starmer finally approved the use of our bases, and this morning the Foreign Secretary still can’t say if the Labour government supports the action against Iran. Iran’s regime has funded international terrorism, attacked British nationals, brutally repressed its own citizens calling for freedom, and continues to try and develop a nuclear weapon. It should not be beyond our government to say they welcome the US-Israel taking action. But, particularly in the wake of the by-election last week, the Labour government are too scared to say what is obvious to the rest of us. In towns and cities across Britain there are large blocs of voters – that Labour see as their voters – whose political loyalties are swayed by conflicts in the Middle East, not the British national interest. So we watch our Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers squirm and obfuscate in interviews, because they cannot say what needs to be said because too many of their voters do not want to hear it. It isn’t ‘international law’ or principle. It’s pure, partisan, political calculations from a party that has surrendered its right to govern our country. I will always act in our national interest.