Steve Barclay
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MP for NE Cambridgeshire Promoted by Steve Barclay of MJS House, Wisbech Road, PE15 0BA
North East Cambridgeshire
Joined March 2011
Youth unemployment up to 561,000 - compared with 431,000 just two years ago. Almost 30% of the total unemployment number. Private sector pay rising at 4.2%, public sector 7.4% - ONS today
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“There is something rotten here that I think has to be called out.” The Times’s @SebastianEPayne criticises the cancellation of Damien Egan MP’s school visit after a pro-Palestine campaign. #TimesRadio
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The PM just months ago: ‘Digital ID is the future, it’ll curb illegal working, cut costs … opponents are scaremongering’ - ministers sent out to defend a policy Keir Starmer has now scrapped. His 13th major u-turn and there will be more to come. Why advocate for something you
EXC: Sir Keir Starmer has abandoned plans for mandatory digital ID for workers amid concerns it will undermine public trust in the scheme. Workers to be given the choice of whether to use other documents to verify their identity digitally instead.
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Congratulations to the Rt Hon the Lord Forsyth of Drumlean on his election as the new Lord Speaker. I am really looking forward to working together.
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The regime in Iran brutalises women, persecutes gay people, and spreads terror around the world. If the regime falls, the UK cannot be a sanctuary for enforcers of repression. My letter to @Keir_Starmer.
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Last night we saw the police stand by as protestors called for ‘armed resistance…by any means’ outside an Israeli restaurant in Notting Hill. Yet another example of harassment and incitement to violence against Jews and law abiding people on our streets. In Birmingham, we
This intimidation by a gang of bigots is frightening ordinary people, abusing the law, wasting police time, trying to ruin a small business and using the privileges of British freedom of speech to protect a mob of bullying brownshirts. It must be banned now. @metpoliceuk
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Meanwhile, even UAE concerned about extreme Islamist radicalisation at British University campuses. Would be good to know views of @UniversitiesUK
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Just last year Defra Ministers confirmed in Parliament scientific innovation on precision breeding would be protected. It unlocks higher crop yields with fewer pesticides. Would be another U-turn, and damaging for food security, nature & UK science👇 https://t.co/y1uiu6RXFX
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A huge amount of stress and anxiety caused to farmers and their families because Labour refused time and again to listen to clear evidence. It is welcome that a partial u-turn has belated been made. It does not however fully address the problems of this tax for rural communities.
🚨 BREAKING: The Government has watered down the farm inheritance tax The threshold has increased from £1 million to £2.5 million before being taxed
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In the same week as both the Chief of the Defence Staff and the Head of MI6 give speeches on the need to step up on defence, the Labour Government does the opposite.
Labour have failed to publish their Defence Investment Plan, leaving industry starved of cash and confidence. Why? 🧵
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"Labour will get Britain building again"... LATEST S&P Global UK Construction PMI for November reports steepest downturn in construction activity for five-and-a-half years... 🙄 Housing activity index just 35.4. (1/2) https://t.co/np7wwSq6j4
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📘 This has been recognised as a problem by NHS leaders. The latest NHS England Integrated performance report said patients waiting over 52-week waits for community services ‘continues to be challenged having increased by circa 37,000 since June 2024’. https://t.co/WyuW2Zbv3a
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🕰️ And it is not just the number of people waiting for community health services that is going up under Labour. The number facing long waits are also increasing.
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❗ The steepest rise among children and young people. The number of children on the waiting list increased from 283,369 in July 2024 to 304,716 in September 2025.
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📈 Since Labour came to power, the waiting list for these services has grown. The list now stands at 1,154,912 people. That means almost 90,000 more people were waiting in September 2025 than there were in July 2024. https://t.co/sOWdylCFU7
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🧑⚕️ Community services cover a range of things, including support for long term conditions like Diabetes and Heart Failure as well as physiotherapy and occupational therapy. They help people live independently and prevent unnecessary hospital visits. https://t.co/TKedQGPJSu
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🏠 The Health Sec has said moving care from ‘hospital to community’ is a priority, and this has been mentioned in budget commentary. Stats on community health services don’t often get the same scrutiny as hospital waiting lists. But they show things are going backwards. A 🧵
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Today I asked the Chief Secretary to Treasury why didn't the Chancellor just be upfront with the public and admit that they were putting up taxes to pay for higher welfare.
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Last words from me for today on the gaslighting by the Treasury and No.10... The prolonged uncertainty ahead of the Budget had clearly harmed the economy. But confirmation that the markets and the public have been misled throughout the process will do more permanent damage to
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivered her scene setter speech on Tuesday 4 November 2025.
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Here is what the OBR actually said 👇🏻 - their review of the economy gave the Chancellor MORE money, not less. The impact of lower productivity was more than offset by other changes. Taxes are going up because Labour chose to spend more on welfare. Pure and simple.
The OBR say in black and white that the productivity downgrade knocked £16 billion off tax revenues and was nothing to do with this government's policies. Their forecasts aren't our destiny, but this government took the responsible decisions in light of them.
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