Cherilyn Mackrory

You can’t actually take the credit. Most of the fall in legal immigration is due to a cut in visas introduced by Rishi Sunak. Even @BBCNews says so.

"100% grass-fed" is mostly a US marketing term. In Britain, cattle eat grass by default. The animal is a grazer. The hill it stands on is grass. The climate grows grass with no encouragement at all, for most of the year, in vast quantities, often into the lap of any farmer trying to grow something else. Most British beef is finished on grass. A portion of conventionally raised cattle receive some grain or silage supplementation through winter, when the pasture goes dormant. The default model on these islands is overwhelmingly pastoral. Then the American marketing department arrived. Now the British consumer is anxiously paying a premium for British beef labelled "100% grass-fed" as if this were a hard-won ethical achievement, when it is broadly what nearly every upland farm in the country has been doing since the Romans landed. The farmer is not the villain. The consumer is offering to pay more, and the farmer is, understandably, accepting. The American marketing department, however, has successfully convinced an entire population that the default is the upgrade. The cow is in the field. The field is in Yorkshire. The grass has been there since the last ice age. You do not need a certification scheme for grass.

A leaked paper seen by @IrishTimes has details of a plan by Europe’s largest economies to centralise oversight of financial markets at EU rather than national level, a proposed shift that would cause serious concern to Ireland and Luxembourg irishtimes.com/business/econo…

@Alex_Stafford @TfL Alex, I’m so sorry to hear this. Hoping you are ok.

Just been assaulted at the train station. Punched in the head and the face to the ground. @TfL staff did literally nothing, even when the assailant had left. Thank you to the fellow passengers who came to my aid. Sadiq Khan has lost control of the city. This is lawless London.

@TimesRadio @StigAbell @KateEMcCann What other ‘way’ is there? You’re funding a regime killing our allies. You’re shutting down our oil and gas refineries as well as our oil and gas fields: your policies are a disaster. They may as well be written by Putin himself

@griffitha @KieranMullanUK Funny 🤣

I was joined by Steve Bray this morning and heard how the UK unemployment crisis is affecting him.

The Kremlin will I am afraid be laughing today at the incompetence and stupidity of the Starmer government. This is a betrayal of Ukraine - and will do nothing to help British consumers telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

@MrLeeCain @ConHome @Conservatives @KemiBadenoch Good grief. You couldn’t be more wrong!

Most people in the @Conservatives are not yet willing to admit this publicly but it is time to face reality - @KemiBadenoch is failing as leader. The party is in a worse position than when she took over and there are no signs of recovery. My piece for @ConHome on why it is time the Tories followed Labour and confronted its own failing leadership. 🔗 conservativehome.com/2026/05/18/lee…

@PensionsMonkey If nobody can command the confidence of the House of Commons then yes.

If Burnham stands in the by-election and then loses, will it leave the Labour government so riven and weakened that in the end the only way out from there will be a General Election?

This bizarre Leftist tendency to anthropomorphise the markets, to treat them as if they had preferences and prejudices. The bond markets don’t care whether you are Left or Right. They don’t even care whether your spending is high or low. All they care about is whether it is in balance. If you want to borrow money, creditors will assess whether they will get it back, and will ask a premium to lend to risky prospects. That premium means that Britain is now spending £110 billion a year on servicing past debt – more than on education, and twice as much as on defence.

They think they can do what they like without a mandate. The problem isn't Starmer. It's Labour.

British politics will reach a new reductio ad absurdum in the Makerfield by election: Vote Labour to destroy the sitting Labour Prime Minister. Support Labour PM Starmer but NOT voting Labour. We are having a by-election not because there’s any demand or need in the national interest but entirely to suit the convenience of the byzantine politics of the ruling party and the political pygmies in whose interest it is run. We are no longer a serious nation. No wonder the bond markets are squiffy.

Tory austerity is a myth. All Osborne did was cut annual borrowing (deficit) from £150bn in 2010 to £90bn by 2015. We still spent £90bn more than we taxed. And this happened across Europe. It wasn't unique to the Tories and UK.

Some corrections: You inherited 2% inflation. It doubled in 12 months after you became Chancellor. It is still 50% above the rate you inherited and 50% above target. It should fall to target 2% this summer. So two years to get back to where you started! What’s to boast about that? Interest rates have been falling everywhere. UK cuts, which you don’t control, have been fewer and smaller because of your inflation record. We still have highest interest rate in G7. The Bank has made some cuts for the simple reason the economy is flat on its back. Well done. Borrowing is slowly falling from a very high base. Almost six years after the pandemic-induced recession, we’re still borrowing around 4% GDP. And borrowing costs are the highest in the G7. Retail sales are up in recent months. We’ll see how long that’s sustained. But the hospitality and construction industries are in crisis. Plus our massive services sector is stagnant. UK fastest G7 economy? That’s simply a bare-faced lie. We grew by 0.1% in Q3 2025; and another 0.1% in Q4. End of.

It doesn't matter what fancy words they use to describe it, this is just another TAX. ...a tax on tourism and in fact all types of overnight stays, whether leisure, business or visiting friends & relatives. Only Labour can believe the way to 'help' a sector is to tax it more!

Fairs fair this is Paul using his considerable expertise to land a very important message to people who should know better. 👇🏻

Anyone who knows Alex Davies-Jones knows she a decent person and will not have made her decision lightly. At this stage the Prime Minister is damaging his MPs, his party and the country by refusing to accept that it's over.

LABOUR CHAOS IS COSTING US BILLIONS Britain’s cost of borrowing is surging yet again thanks to Labour. Markets can see Starmer is weak, lurching left to placate his backbenchers, and could soon be replaced by rivals who want to borrow, tax and spend even more. (1/8)🧵

I’ve walked into a Downing Street in this much trouble - I’ll be honest - it’s awful. The door closes and the poker face goes and you know you have to tell people some hard truths. You can feel the “look guys it’s over” in the entire building as it creeps closer to one person

@afneil @PHeatonJones Most people knew, that’s one of the reasons turnout was so low in GE24.

British Government in a shambles tonight. Nobody quite clear who’s in charge. Who would have thought Labour would be been even more useless than the Tories? Starmer living on borrowed time. Support ebbing away. But to what? Nobody knows. The world has rarely been more dangerous in modern times and we barely have a government.