Tom Parkhill

To those saying it will take years to get new oil & gas out the North Sea… It won’t. 👉 Jackdaw - can be producing gas in 3 months. 👉 Rosebank - can be producing oil in the autumn. Miliband just needs to approve them. Everyday he waits, the further away this supply gets.

Powerful, furious, deeply moving post from @NeilDotObrien. Please read neilobrien.co.uk/p/killing-babi…

This should be compulsory viewing for Labour MPs. Their plans will leave us more reliant on dirtier imports of gas. Less tax, fewer jobs, higher emissions. All because of Ed Miliband’s nutty ideology.

New polling of 1,500 UK adults in @thesun Preference for Winston Churchill or an owl on the £5 note: All: Churchill (+12) 18-24: Churchill (+16) 24-34: Churchill (+9) 35-44: Churchill (+1) 45-54: Churchill (+12) 55-64: Churchill (+3) 65-74: Churchill (+34) 75+: Churchill (+14) White: Churchill (+10) Non-white: Churchill (+19) Conservative: Churchill (+32) Labour: Churchill (+1) Lib Dem: Churchill (+13) Reform: Churchill (+31) Green: An owl (+34)

This is a sorry inditement of the housing market. Average age of first time buyer climbs to 34 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Politics isn’t working. Governments aren’t able to fix things. Published tomorrow, Conservative Revival sets out why. 7 deadly political sins, and what must change. I. Political Courage - Downplaying hard truths to win elections leaves governments without the mandate to deliver real change. II. Short-termism - Treating symptoms instead of causes creates temporary relief but entrenches long-term decline. III. Institutional Sclerosis - Bureaucratic inertia prevents ministers from implementing reform. IV. Stakeholderism - Policy driven by pressure groups weakens focus on the national interest. V. Hyperlocalism - MPs acting as local campaigners over legislators undermines national delivery. VI. Demographic Targeting - Excessively segmenting policy for electoral blocs erodes good government. VII. Polling over Policy - Polling should inform policy and vision, but not be the basis of it.

"This is not sabotage, this is scrutiny." Telegraph columnist Tim Stanley responds to Esther Rantzen's criticism that the House of Lords is blocking the assisted dying bill. #Newsnight

Ed Davey is an embarrassment. The Liberal Democrats are not a serious party.

It remains one of my strongest views that 72 very middle class constituencies effectively opting out of the serious choices facing our country by electing Liberal Democrats is the worst form of non-seriousness.

It's a good rule of thumb that anyone suggesting a "citizen's assembly" or "people's assembly" to decide anything "deliberatively" wants it to be controlled by and/or composed of themselves and people who agree with them, in order to produce a conclusion that they already want.

I call this the Paradox of Plenty: those who have never known a day without electricity are often the loudest champions of energy scarcity: powered up, but preaching poverty.

This is somewhat crude, but it does bring home the massive extent to which Labour’s decision to abandon welfare reform is wrecking the public finances. But there is a challenge here for all parties too. Without reform of pensions, the triple lock is also fuelling the crisis.

Imagine two families, each with three children. One set of parents work. The others don’t. If Labour lifts the two child benefit cap, the working parents will need to earn £71,000 to match the family on benefits. We shouldn't tax the hardworking to pay for the non-working.

Feels like the Conservatives are trying to win voters in their 20s, 30s and 40s again. Hugely positive direction.

The Labour line defending student loans is going down so incredibly badly. Ministers are effectively saying 'sacrifice saving for a house so we can keep the triple lock'. Worst deal ever. The position isn't sustainable and the backlash from millions of grads is growing

No Mr Farage you cant just turn up at sensitive military bases either in the UK or abroad. No MP can - no matter what Party you represent. We don’t do open days around the trident warhead or open house for the SAS either. @bbc @thetimes @Telegraph

The @Conservatives are becoming the party of the young. Whilst the rest tax young people, ban WFH and blame young people - @KemiBadenoch is going after Nick 30 ans. Love this ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Student loan repayments have become a scam. You work hard but you get "rewarded" with high interest rates. How is that fair? @Conservatives will reduce interest rates for hundreds of thousands of graduates. That's just Step 1 in our New Deal for Young people.

The Conservatives now have *by far* the best offer for young people 🧑‍🎓 radical action to reform student loans 🏡 abolish SDLT to make buying a home more affordable 📈 reversing Labour’s anti-jobs tax hikes