💰The Cost of Renewables 2025 Megathread💰 The Government is pushing the narrative that renewables are cheap and gas is the problem. It's been 18 months since my last thread showed this to be a lie. Have things changed? Or is Ed Miliband driving us towards ruin? 🧵

Liberal Democrat membership has halved in 5 years, figures show

** My analysis on the Conservative party conference ** Finally after a year of waiting, Kemi Badenoch has given her party a slate of policies to make the case for the Conservatives. It was the best speech by a Tory leader I have heard for years. Nigel Farage and Reform UK were

Oh dear. What a shock. If you’re relying on LCOE you have no idea what energy actually costs…. The strike price is what consumers actually pay. Maybe stick to knowing nothing about the law.

If the Tory Party "are done" and "dead" as Reform would have you believe, why am I seeing so many of them so obviously rattled by a strong slate of policy announcements?

Tories are on 16%. No other party in that position anywhere in the world could even produce a conference (it was lighter on numbers) or a properly costed headline policy (stamp duty, do inheritance tax next). That's the thing about the Tory DNA that Labour and Reform don't get

At some point Reform and Labour are going to have to come up with more than "14 years". It might work now, it won't work in 2-3 years. You have to win on what you are, what you're not is why we ended up with Labour.

Interesting from Ed on the politics of a stamp duty cut as well as some initial feedback from focus groups where the announcement had already started to cut through. If getting back into the conversation was the goal the policy may have done that, but real trust issues to address

Kemi Badenoch reemphasises a key moment in her speech to party supporters in a new email. The argument that her front bench team have worked to deliver a comprehensive economic plan. Implicit jibe at the Reform Party here.

Incredibly punchy new ad from the Tories https://t.co/K9bLIQAGp5

This is now growing legs... it would also explain the Chagos scandal.

CPS Says Number 10 to Blame for Collapse of China Spy Trial https://t.co/sjqHCiZL6E

🚨🎥 WATCH: Kemi Badenoch announces Motability cars will be for those with serious disabilities only "Those cars are not for people with ADHD"

Blimey, I didn’t see that coming, but it’s brilliant & bold and if ⁦@RachelReevesMP⁩ wants to boost the economy she should copy this straightaway. Conservatives would scrap stamp duty, Kemi Badenoch says - follow live - BBC News

Good. The tree sucks. The torch was better, and it draws a line between the old Tory party and the new.

Good. Stamp Duty on property and listed shares is a £18bn/ year headwind to the UK economy. Abolish it and it is the closest thing you get (apart from scrapping the Energy Profits Levy) to a fiscal free lunch.

This feels like a real reset moment for the Tory party. Let’s see in the coming days if the country is listening.

Abolishing stamp duty is the single best reform any government could make to Britain's tax system. As things stand, this outdated and uneconomic levy is wreaking havoc on our already troubled housing market – by deterring sales and depressing house-building...

This is a bruising quote from the former director of public prosecutions Ken McDonald on Number 10’s ‘nothing to see here’ position on the Chinese spy case. McDonald: "Everybody's saying, you know, ‘I knew nothing about this. The decision was made by somebody else. No one

This is my Conservatism.

Kemi announces: British benefits for British citizens only. Benefits to be restricted to most severe conditions only. Motability vehicles to be restricted to people with serious disabilities only.