Former Leader of Staffordshire County Council from May 2009 until July 2020. Arable farmer who used to have some Shropshire sheep!

Joined October 2011
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LIVE: I set out the Conservatives’ plan to get Britain war ready ⬇️ x.com/i/broadcasts/1MJgNNZwB…
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Rachel Reeves's deputy admits it - Labour are funding more benefits on the backs of students. The interest rate on student loans is a scam. But Labour would rather rip off hardworking graduates to pay for more welfare than fix it. That tells you everything about their priorities. Conservatives have clear plan: stop the student loan scam by cutting real interest rates on Plan 2 loans, saving graduates thousands. Find out more ⬇️ stopthestudentloanscam.com
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Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.
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These thugs fractured the spine of Sgt Kate Evans, who spoke in court of the medical and emotional trauma she still lives with. Prison is where they belong. Unlike Zack Polanski, I want serious consequences for anyone who attacks police officers risking their lives to protect us.
Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel. Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it. A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.
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Two years ago I said: Either we continue to let Net Zero dictate products and prices or we embrace choice. Now Ed Miliband is putting costs up on: Underfloor heating Boilers Electricity Cars Food Tumble Dryers Fertilizer Towel Rails Shipping The consumer is being shafted.
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The resignations of the Defence Secretary and Armed Forces Minister confirm what I've being saying since last year, including at the London Defence Conference in April. We need to get serious. We need to rearm. The @Conservatives will cut welfare spending to fund our military.
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BREAKING: Today’s GDP figures show that the economy shrank in April. This is what happens when you don’t have a plan for growth.
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Labour's own people are telling you everything you need to know. Wes Streeting: Reeves has no plan for growth. Pat McFadden: all Labour want to do is tax more to pay more benefits. John Healey: Starmer won't fund our armed forces. Jess Phillips: PM only acted to protect women and girls when it needed to save his own skin over Mandelson. A government turning in on itself.
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John Healey, the former Defence Secretary, has acted honourably by resigning. Keir Starmer is too weak to cut welfare and fund defence - as I told him yesterday at PMQs. Only the Conservatives have a plan to put our national security first.
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My letter to the Prime Minister
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So while farmers get punished over cow burp emissions, the greenhouse gas emissions of AI data centres have not been included in the Scottish Government’s analysis of the impact of data centres on Scotland’s climate targets, according to analysis by environmental charity APRS.
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A fairer way of putting it is that ‘Labour’s the problem’. Chef Tom explains all the issues which Labour has caused to hospitality with tax rises, NI hikes, business rate increases, above inflation wage hikes, new packaging taxes and much more. #shortmemories #celebendorsement
Chef Tom Kerridge is the face of a new nationwide campaign - 'VAT's the problem' - which is calling on the government to cut hospitality VAT from 20% to 10%
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North Yorkshire Police made a grovelling public apology to "our LGBTQ communities" – but has refused to apologise to a Christian officer it wrongly sacked for asking a question about Islam at a training day. dailysceptic.org/2026/06/07/…
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Calocane was not detained under the Mental Health Act because authorities think too many black men are sectioned. He was treated more leniently because he was black He then killed 3 innocents This (racist) “anti racist” ideology is killing people
'Every single agency failed - without exception': Families of Nottingham attack victims say 'fear of stigma and bias' left Valdo Calocane free before killings as inquiry finishes hearing evidence trib.al/kkuDdJR
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We need to kick identity politics out of public life. Racism has been weaponised across our public services and institutions. In the cases of the Nottingham and Southport killers, the Manchester Arena bomb attack, and the murder of Sara Sharif, the people who were meant to protect us from harm failed because they were too scared of being accused of being racist. This has not happened by accident. In the years since the Black Lives Matter protests, race-grifting activists who argue we should defund the police, decolonise the curriculum and pay reparations have been given far too much access to our public sector. Their advice has been as clear as it is wrong: that we should treat people differently based on the colour of their skin to make up for some fictional collective colonial guilt. One of the root causes is a law called the Public Sector Equality Duty. It requires every public body to obsess about equality and diversity in everything they do, with the constant threat of being sued if they fail. It is the doorway through which marched Stonewall fanatics who said biological men should be in women’s prisons and the defund the police brigade who told the police you should treat people differently based on the colour of their skin. It gave those who said talking about the grooming gangs was an example of ‘anti-Muslim racism’ the power to write up an Islamophobia definition that gives special protections to just one religion. One politician above all others has had the courage and determination to reject this madness. When Black Lives Matter was preaching about white privilege, Kemi Badenoch was the only voice ripping apart their arguments and exposing why this ideology is so dangerous. We have to rid ourselves of this dangerous thinking which will only breed more division and resentment. That’s why I backed Kemi to lead my party, and why the Conservatives would scrap the Public Sector Equality Duty and bring back common sense to our public services. That’s the only way to restore trust in policing and the wider state: by upholding the age-old principle that we are all equal under the law.
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Today @KemiBadenoch will set out another step in our plan to root out identity politics from our public services. Live on X from 10:30am. Don’t miss it!
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South Wales Police are clamping down on more than “legitimate” discussion of Islam. This is a blasphemy law. No other religion gets this treatment. Will the Home Secretary condemn this? #UKPolitics #Justice #EqualityBeforeTheLaw #LawAndOrder #FreedomOfSpeech
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I have formally referred South Wales Police to the equalities watchdog. Their guidance amounts to a blasphemy law against Islam and has no basis in law. We cannot put one religion on a pedestal above others. We should all be equal before the law.
South Wales Police has instructed officers to log comments they feel are beyond "legitimate" criticism of Islam. This is, exactly as I warned, a blasphemy law through the back door. Nobody voted for this. My letter to the Chief Constable👇🏾
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This is what I explained in my OpEd yesterday. I repeatedly warned the police not to bring in race action plans that treat groups differently. Senior police chiefs ignored my advice preferring to get it from activists who I warned them wanted to DEFUND the police, telling me they were operationally independent. I’ll be speaking tomorrow about how we sweep away this rubbish and bring back common sense.
Abimbola Johnson, of the Independent Scrutiny and Oversight Board, that monitors police anti-racism plans, does not dispute claim by Kemi Badenoch that she supports defunding the police, saying it’s right to examine whether they are given ‘too much’ money
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I’m sick and tired of Keir Starmer’s gimmicks and half measures. The Government should bring in a ban on social media for under-16s. Only the Conservatives have a plan to help parents protect their children.
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