Rob Yeo

@TimDier @LukeJohnsonRCP @CapX @CPSThinkTank This is the way!

🇬🇧 It’s time to say adiós to inheritance tax - 🇪🇸 Madrid shows that cutting IHT can help wealth and talent grow - 🇸🇪 Sweden learnt the hard way that death taxes don't pay - IHT is unpopular, unfair and economically destructive Me for @CapX @CPSThinkTank capx.co/its-time-to-sa…

@KathrynPorter26 @RichardBurgon Pretty much every commodities trading desk in a financial services business will have done well. They pick on “big oil” because they don't understand reality.

@RichardBurgon Will you give them subsidies in years they make losses? Thought not You expect the private sector to provide the capital, swallow the losses and hand over any profits And you wonder why investors are saying Africa is a more stable place to invest

Some corporate giants will make a fortune from Trump’s war while ordinary people get hit again. They should not be allowed to make a single penny in super-profits from this crisis. Let's expand the Windfall Tax to any firm doing so - and use the money to cut household bills.

Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money: 1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality) 2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality) 3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost) 4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither) The last one is how government spending works.

@darrenpjones You are bankrupting the country.

We are investing in new rail, roads, and nuclear reactors.
 New scanners for our hospitals and free breakfast clubs for our children. We’re not going to let the Conservatives - or their friends in Reform - tear that down.

@LauraTrottMP The unintended consequences of this will be severe.

We did it. Just 18 months ago Labour said a social media ban was not something they were considering. They have now finally committed to social media restrictions for under 16s. This is a huge victory and a pivotal moment for children across our country after months of delay and empty promises. This is down to the courage of bereaved parents who fought not for their own children but for other peoples children. They are the reason I kept fighting and the reason I would not accept a timetable that allowed the Government to avoid action in this Parliament. We now have a more credible delivery timeline and that matters because every month of delay leaves more children exposed to harm. This victory also belongs to the hard work of Lord Nash, teachers, health professionals, parents and children who spoke out and refused to be ignored. Conservatives in opposition said we would fight to protect childhood and stand with parents and we have shown we will hold the Government to account and deliver change.

@DanCardenMP @RachelReevesMP Thomas Sowell, “When you want to help people, tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, tell them what they want to hear.”

I REALLY welcome @RachelReevesMP considering a temporary rent freeze in response to the ongoing hike in living costs. It can and should include piloting a more substantial LABOUR RENT CONTROL system that is long term, devolved and targeted through local government and local valuation offices. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

@BellaWallerstei Politics of envy in action. But I am curious how many of the private schools shutting their doors continued to pay 30% of teacher salaries to remain in the TPS right up until the end…

Another historic private school closing because of Labour’s spiteful school tax. These schools are never coming back. Class war in action - tearing down institutions instead of building opportunity! Awful

All we have to do to start winning is to stop doing dumb things. Getting the government out of the way of people and business is the start.

@Helen_Whately @MerrynSW @thetimes All MPs should move to DC pensions asap so they have skin in the game, and will gain a fuller appreciation of investing for one’s future.

I’ve yet to find anyone who thinks politicians should decide how pensions are invested. My article arguing against the Government’s pensions ‘mandation’ plans in @thetimes 👇

@ToryMemo82 @FUDdaily Luxury values

The sort of place where people can afford socialism.

Happy St George's Day!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌹

UK 10-year gilt yields today surged no less than 0.4 percentage points - or 40 basis points - due to fears that Britain is almost uniquely vulnerable among the world's big economies to spiralling fuel food and fuel prices. The UK is the most inflation-prone economy in the G7. That weakness hasn't been caused, but has been more starkly exposed, by this US/Iran conflict. So the huge global investors that lend governments money are charging Britain far more than any other G7 nations - more than Spain, Greece and Morocco (!) - to borrow, as compensation for higher expected UK inflation. A 40bps point move in a single day, on a large-nation sovereign bond market, is a huge and deeply alarming shift. The UK government's 10-year borrowing cost is now 5.15pc - its highest level since June 2008, just ahead of the global financial crisis. This is a situation that warrants immediate and determined attention and yet our entire political and media class remains fixated with the ultimate Westminster-centric story – a deeply indulgent row about who knew what, when with regards to the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US Ambassador. History will not be kind to us ... My latest @Telegraph "Economic Agenda" column 🧵1/6 telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

Well & truly nailed it!

On Saturday morning, a woman in her twenties was raped outside Epsom Methodist Church on Ashley Road. She had left a nightclub; she was followed by a group of men; the attack took place between two and four in the morning, in the heart of a market town in Surrey that most of the country thinks of, if it thinks of it at all, as somewhere you go to see the horses run. The residents of Epsom have asked Surrey Police reasonable questions. "Who are the suspects? What do they look like? Is there CCTV?" Surrey Police has declined to answer. They have said they do not have "sufficient information" to release descriptions. They have urged the public "not to speculate," because speculation "may lead to additional tensions within local communities." Translated from the institutional dialect, this means: we know what you are likely to conclude from the descriptions, and we would rather you didn't. On Tuesday evening, hundreds of residents gathered in the town centre to ask the question again. The police response was to deploy public order units, riot shields, and helmets against people standing on the pavement of their own high street demanding to know what the men who raped a woman six doors down from them actually look like. The local Lib Dem MP - who represents these people and the town - told the protesters to "take it elsewhere." "Take it elsewhere." This is the settled posture of the modern British state toward its own citizens. When a town asks for the most basic information about a violent sexual offence committed on its streets - information that, thirty years ago, would have been on the front of every regional paper within hours - it is met first with bureaucratic evasion, then with riot police, then with a sitting member of parliament telling them to do one. Epsom is not an unruly place. It is not a place with a history of disorder. It is a comfortable commuter town in Surrey whose residents have been told, in the space of seventy-two hours, that the police will not tell them who is hunting women on their streets, that asking about it constitutes a threat to community cohesion, and that if they persist in asking they will be treated as a public order problem. There is a specific and ugly contempt encoded in this response. It is the contempt of an administrative class that has decided the British public cannot be trusted with the truth about anything happening to it, and that the job of the state is no longer to solve the crime but to manage the reaction to it, forcibly. The people of Epsom have not misbehaved. They have done the thing that citizens of a serious country are supposed to do when something terrible happens where they live: they have turned up and asked questions. And the answer they have received, delivered in riot gear, is that their questions are the problem.

@PolitlcsUK @LoftusSteve What took him so long?

🚨 NEW: Speaker Lindsay Hoyle has now told No 10 that Keir Starmer needs to stay on topic and answer questions at PMQs Speaker's spokesperson: "Answers should be confined to the points contained in the question. The Speaker has made this point to officials at No 10"

As detailed in the press release below, the UK completed its largest-ever issuance of Gilts, which carried the highest issuance yield in almost twenty years. #economy #markets #uk #bonds

Lee Kuan Yew: "I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind. An inability to chart a course. Whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. You're not a leader."

Keir Starmer had nothing to do with the US-Iran ceasefire and didn’t anticipate it was happening. However, he has taken the opportunity to fly to the Middle East. He’s basically that student who rocks up after everyone else has completed the group project to take credit.

Not a single policy that a net taxpayer benefits from