Simon Evans

Putin has weaponised global energy supplies, causing household bills to soar & slowing economic growth around the world. So I'm taking action to: ⚡️ Power Britain from Britain 🔋 Become more energy independent ⬇️ Drive down energy prices ⬆️ Grow our economy Here's my plan 👇🧵

It takes real guts to do something like this, surrounded by people screaming at you. The suffragettes were hated in their time too.

Right. A thread on another ordinary person who did extraordinary things. This is Robert Smallbones, career civil servant and diplomat, and his wife Inga. Between November 1938 and the outbreak of WW2, they helped OVER FORTY THOUSAND Jews escape the Nazis and get to Britain. /1

I wrote about the work we've been doing to cut down on the amount of unpaid labour in arts application processes. There's a little calculator and everything, so you can work out just how much of everyone's time you're taking up with preparing proposals.