Andrew Griffith MP
@griffitha
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Devoting myself to reforming SW1’s culture of failure after a 25 year career in business. Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade.
West Sussex, United Kingdom
Joined April 2010
Socialists don’t understand ambition or success. Not one Cabinet Minister has ever run a business. That’s why Labour are set on blowing out Britain’s entrepreneurial spark.
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Labour: “to stop illegal working, every innocent citizen must carry a mandatory digital ID, costing billions” Normal people: “Just get the Home Office to do their job and arrest the illegal workers now” Guess who turned out to be right?
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Labour's U-turn on Day One Rights is just one of the 330 page, trade union authored plan to destroy jobs. The (Un)Employment Bill will cost British businesses billions. Hiring will freeze. People will leave. Industry: uncompetitive. They must take a chainsaw to the whole bill.
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Dan Pollard, a partner in the employment team of international law firm Charles Russell Speechlys, said: “This development is frankly bonkers. The change would undoubtedly make the UK a significantly less attractive place to base staff within Europe.” He is correct!
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‼️Latest bad idea in Labour’s (Un)employment Bill: 🥀 Scrapping any limits on tribunal awards - something which will incentivise more cases, load higher costs on employers and reward older, higher paid workers at the expense of the young.
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The Government's decision to delay May's election is totally undemocratic. I am outraged. I spoke to BBC Sussex this morning about the Labour unacceptable hold-up.
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Whatever your politics, West Sussex deserves better than this partisan and reckless mess of a government! @BBCSussex @Sussex_World
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@BBCPolitics Conservatives would do things very differently. We will abolish business rates entirely for 250,000 pubs, shops, and restaurants. That’s because we know that high streets matter, pubs matter, and jobs matter. Labour just see them as a cash cow.
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Hospitality is being hammered by this Government. Last year they bore the brunt of the Jobs Tax, now the Government is raising business rates by thousands of pounds. An average 70% rise for pubs. As I told @BBCPolitics Live earlier, this needs to stop.
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An important article on a topic which I’m surprised has not already been more widely picked up. There really is zero ‘headroom’ in the Chancellors/OBR forecasts once you take account of her implausible public spending cut assumptions and the risks which are already starting to
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The Chancellor says she’s doubled her breathing space to balance the books. But the devil is in the detail
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Award-winning Yorkshire firm - Yorkshire Handmade Brick - files intention to appoint administrator.🧱😱 Their letter on why Labour 🥀is to blame👇
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If you were a CEO and you lied like Rachel Reeves did, you’d be sacked on the spot. But she’s very happy for you to lose your job in order to save hers. If you want growth, you back the businesses that create it. @Conservatives are the only party that back business.
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British businesses create jobs. They keep our country moving. They need our support. But they're at threat - facing a shower of destructive headwinds and instability. Today @KemiBadenoch and I visited @ctshirts to discuss our plans for a stronger economy with their team.
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Why is Rachel Reeves still in 11 Downing Street?
Yes: the OBR downgraded the fiscal numbers by £16bn (actually £15.6bn) due to weaker productivity (red bar below). But it also simultaneously UPGRADED them by a whopping £32bn (blue bars). This chart from @TheIFS shows it pretty clearly👇
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London is one of the world’s best capital cities…or could be if we didn’t have a socialist Mayor of London who is determined to do it down…
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“We need as much help as possible here.” - Keir Starmer, 2025
WATCH: Starmer Becomes First PM in History Not to Turn on No10 Christmas Tree Lights https://t.co/Pr61ei3KGT
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Rachel Reeves’ budget turns out to be even worse than a global pandemic when it comes to business confidence. Founders and business leaders have a natural optimism but can’t outrun the negative incentives against hiring, investing or growing under this socialist government.
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This must read article brings to mind the phrase ‘garbage in, garbage out’. Clear it is not just Reeves who must go.
Inside the budget: from sweary rants to swervy U-turns, my piece for @ObserverUK on how a defining moment became a battle for political survival
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Hospitality is now facing a business rates crisis. Reeves claimed their taxes would go down. That’s just not true. We need the Treasury to change course right now. I wrote about this problem yesterday, read my thread below.
Bombshell: Reeves claims she’s lowered business rates. I call BS. Many pubs, restaurants, and shops have realised their bills are actually going up, by a lot. Why? Because while multipliers seem lower, an important relief was scrapped. Here's the truth… 🧵
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Now it's clear that Rachel has been lying about the black hole in the public finances that necessitated her huge tax hikes. By October 31 the OBR reported not a deficit but net positive of £4.2bn againt her fiscal rules & that forecast did not change subsequently. Rachel & the
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