
richard hunt
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richard hunt
@fleetwhite
Leeds United fan York city season ticket holder for 12 years and emerging Harrogate Town supporter businessman living in Hampshire. Opinions all my own...


‘I have zero trust in the Conservative Party to get a grip on immigration.’ Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick slams the Tory party over their record on immigration.







This is exactly what we need and I will happily give evidence. When I arrived at the Home Office in September 2022, the number of work and study visas issued the previous year had already exceeded 1,000,000. The Boriswave was flooding the country. This was a catastrophe. I went into government with a clear plan to cut net migration. If we moved quickly, we could bring the numbers down before a General Election, I hoped. Yet I was blocked repeatedly by Conservative Prime Ministers and Conservative Cabinet Members. No Minister can act unilaterally- you need Cabinet approval and the Tory Wets kept resisting. I kept working to persuade, to push, to lobby, to get changes. I managed to secure the first set of changes (on student dependents) in May 2023. These were the first ever changes to begin the reversal of the Boriswave. Not nearly enough, but a start. I did not give up. I continued to lobby for the fuller set of changes (salary threshold increase, lower caps etc) but was constantly blocked by the Chancellor, Health, Education, Business and Agriculture departments, and the PM. It became one of my big disputes with the PM, and one reason he dismissed me. The PM eventually introduced some of my proposed changes after I left office. But it was all too little, too late. I will stand by my record any day.


Reform UK pledges to hold national inquiry into 'Boriswave' migration surge gbnews.com/politics/migra…








🚨 Kemi Badenoch is set to lose her seat. The huge MRP poll published in the Times today shows almost the WHOLE TORY SHADOW CABINET is set to lose their seat, including Kemi Badenoch herself. So much for the Kemi bounce! Tory Shadow Cabinet set to lose their seats if an election were held tomorrow according to More In Common MRP: *Kemi Badenoch* - Leader of the Opposition *Mel Stride* - Shadow Chancellor *James Cleverly*- Shadow Secretary of State for Housing and Local Government *Claire Coutinho* - Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero *Priti Patel* - Shadow Foreign Secretary *Nick Timothy* - Shadow Secretary of State for Justice *Julia Lopez*- Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology *Richard Holden* - Shadow Secretary of State for Transport *Kevin Hollinrake* - Shadow Secretary of State for Transport *James Cartlidge* - Shadow Defence Secretary *Helen Whately** - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions *Jesse Norman*- Shadow Leader of the House of Commons *Alex Burghart* - Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland *Victoria Atkins* - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs *Rebecca Harris* - Opposition Chief Whip







🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage visits the winner of Reform UK's free energy bills prize draw

Kemi Badenoch: Britain is not broken — stop the negativity #Echobox=1775334114" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…






