“DV vetting is comprehensive."
Mandelson failed it.
He got the job anyway.
Draw your own conclusions…
@FCDOGovUK knowingly lied to parliament in a written parliamentary question.
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Sir Gavin Williamson CBE MP
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Sir Gavin Williamson CBE MP
@GavinWilliamson
Conservative Member of Parliament for Stone, Great Wyrley, and Penkridge
Staffordshire เข้าร่วม Eylül 2011
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John Swinney’s price cap on food staples attacked as ‘potty gimmick’
Didn’t Stalin try this. Not sure if the USSR was known for its choice, range and quality of food.
Next he will want a Zil lane in Edinburgh!!
thetimes.com/article/9f53f2…
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Britain’s security shouldn't be a partisan issue. Starmer must accept cross-party cooperation, publish the Defence Investment Plan, and commit the funding our Armed Forces need—now. Our safety depends on it (5/5)
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On Monday, Kemi Badenoch made clear the Conservative Party’s willingness to work with the government on the tough decisions urgently needed to keep Britain safe. Keir Starmer rejected the offer outright. (4/5)
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When Labour's own defence architect warns the government is putting Britain "in peril," the path forward is clear: national unity over party loyalty. But will Starmer take it? (1/5)
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They want them to “display these cards at your school or send them to your local refugee organisation to share with people seeking sanctuary."
The Charity Commission are not doing their job and they need to look at it again.
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According to the Charity Commission, Schools of Sanctuary are not encouraging asylum seekers to send Valentine's Cards to children.
However, the Schools of Sanctuary's own list of suggested activities encourages children to: "send messages of love to people seeking sanctuary"
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Sir Gavin Williamson CBE MP รีทวีตแล้ว
Why are Labour still putting biological males into women’s prisons?
And why did ministers remove an independent monitor from her position after she raised the alarm?
My letter to David Lammy:
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This is spot on. Big problem in Staffordshire where the system can often favour of the lawbreakers not the law abiding residents.
Kemi Badenoch@KemiBadenoch
Too many towns and villages have had to accept criminality in their communities because each attempt to deal with illegal traveller sites has fallen foul of the ECHR. The @Conservatives will take back our streets and green spaces, leave the ECHR, and get Britain working again.
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Sir Gavin Williamson CBE MP รีทวีตแล้ว
Labour have finally noticed the Plan 2 student loan problem (after we pushed it).
But their cap isn’t enough. Graduates are still paying interest way above inflation. That’s the real problem.
We’d scrap interest above RPI entirely. Fair and simple.
Only @Conservatives have a New Deal For Young people and a plan to Get Britain Working Again💪
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
Plan 2 student loan interest rates capped at 6% in England bbc.in/4c95y5v
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If we want to have any credible manufacturing base in this country, we need low cost price in industrial energy.
The consensus that’s prevailed for too long needs to change and we’ve got to look at how we move away from penalising manufacturers to promoting them.
Claire Coutinho@ClaireCoutinho
Last year Britain lost a THIRD of its refineries. Why? A Carbon Tax on industry that Ed Miliband doubled. We won’t need any less petrol, diesel, jet fuel, ceramics or chemicals - we'll just rely more on foreign imports. We must axe the Carbon Tax and save British industry.
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Sir Gavin Williamson CBE MP รีทวีตแล้ว
Labour did everything to avoid a rape gangs inquiry.
Now vital evidence has probably been lost because of needless delays.
Why did the Home Office wait SEVEN months before telling authorities to protect records?
Find out more from Robbie: x.com/_RobbieMoore/s…
Robbie Moore MP@_RobbieMoore
Over the past 9 months, I have been investigating how the Home Office has been preparing for the national grooming gangs inquiry - and crucially, whether vital evidence has been properly protected. What I’ve found is extremely concerning... In June last year, Baroness Louise Casey recommended a full national inquiry. Her Audit was clear that in the meantime, police forces, councils and authorities across the country should be required not to destroy any records that could be used as evidence. But we now know that didn’t happen. Freedom of Information requests now appear to show the Home Office waited a staggering 212 days - nearly seven months - before formally contacting police forces and other key agencies. Today, the Home Affairs select Committee has written directly to the Home Secretary warning that this 212 failure means that some records critical to the inquiry “might have been destroyed”. That is a staggering failure at the heart of government. I first raised the alarm on this in December, after uncovering that authorities in Bradford had not received any instruction at all from government. Just two days later, newly appointed Chair of the National Inquiry, Baroness Anne Longfield, wrote to the Government reinforcing exactly the same point. Yet even after that warning, it still took another 36 days for the Home Office to act and pass the Chair's message on to authorities. Freedom of information requests show that then-Permanent Secretary Antonio Romeo finally wrote to Home Office-funded Arm’s Length Bodies and Chief Constables across the country on 14 January 2026 - 7 months after the Casey Audit. The government now has serious and unavoidable questions it must answer. - Why was there such a delay? - What kind of records may have been lost? - What are the legal consequences if records have been lost, but the Home Office failed to act? Even now, it remains unclear whether local councils across the country were ever formally contacted at all about the protection of records. Unless the government can provide clear answers to these questions, they risk not only undermining confidence in this process, but failing victims who have already been let down for far too long. Read the Home Affairs Select Committee letter here: committees.parliament.uk/publications/5…
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Staffordshire Constabulary protects our most vulnerable children. Labour wants to scrap it.
I challenged the Home Office on what this reorganisation means for the partnerships that keep communities safe.
The Minister gave assurances. I will make sure they keep them.
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Is this real that @RachelReevesMP has come to the house to ask for a report?
People expected action or an announcement but this is just pathetic.
This is a joke and a total waste of time.
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This is utter madness. We need to extract the oil and gas that we have in the North Sea.
Next we are going to see energy rationed while at the same time sat on enormous reserves of our own.
I can’t really imagine @Ed_Miliband being a beer drink more of a wine man!!
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So @RachelReevesMP makes a speech about boosting the economy with closer ties to the EU.
This just is not going to work because the price the EU will demand will always be too high.
So her one idea is going to fail. Is this really the growth strategy that she promised us in 24?
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