The PM
@BorisJohnson
spent 9 minutes in the Cabinet Room as colleagues wished him a happy birthday + has apologised.
@Keir_Starmer
refuses to apologise for drinking beer in a Durham constituency office with Labour workers despite lockdown rules banning indoor social gatherings.
I worked closely with
@BorisJohnson
for 8 years as leader of a London Borough and as his Deputy Mayor for Policing & Crime. Boris will deliver and is a proven winner.
#BackBoris
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As someone whose mother died of
#Covid
in the first wave in April 2020 just days before
#Boris
was admitted to hospital + put in intensive care on oxygen, I find the
@Twitter
exchange with
@campbellclaret
about
#Boris
below gratuitously malign. 👇
‘Give me the ocular proof!’Here is a particularly damning
#PartyGate
photo of
@BorisJohnson
pictured in front some jugs of apple + orange juice rather than the contents of a ‘booze fridge’.
#SueGrayGate
“He
@Keir_Starmer
should never have approached a senior civil servant with an offer of a post; and Sue Gray, if she wishes to maintain her reputation for integrity, should turn it down.” Prof Vernon Bogdanor
#SueGrayGate
👇
'Only 1 MP had a mandate from the party members + the British public — a mandate with an 80-seat majority. That was
@BorisJohnson
…It should never be up to 60 herd-like MPs to oust democratically elected PMs ever again…without permission from the members.’
After the
@metpoliceuk
investigation, the
#SueGray
Report, a 10 month investigation + these hours of cross questioning this afternoon by the
#PrivilegesCommittee
, any reasonable person would conclude that Boris did not knowingly mislead
@HouseofCommons
. Can we move on please?
More
#SueGrayGate
. Her
#Partygate
report principal adviser was Daniel Stilitz KC, a vocal Labour Party supporter who regularly tweeted in disparaging terms about Boris, Brexit + the
@Conservatives
, AND encouraged people to rejoin Labour after
@Keir_Starmer
took over.
"To be honest with you I think this does increasingly look like there are certainly some huge questions."
Lord Greenhalgh reacts to Sue Gray's appointment.
#Newsnight
Frankly,
@RobertJenrick
’s resignation as immigration minister is principled. Anyone who believes that the proposed
@GOVUK
immigration bill is too weak + won’t work should resign.
@SuellaBraveman
was forensic on this topic in her statement.
I agree with the headline + every every word in this excoriating review of
@SadiqKhan
’s record as Mayor. We need a Mayor who has imagination in London’s hour of need. We need
@ShaunBaileyUK
in City Hall.
I have been Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime under Mayor
@BorisJohnson
when crime in the capital was falling. London needs leadership from our Mayor now more than ever. London needs
@ShaunBaileyUK
!
I was a youth worker for over twenty years.
So I’ve seen London’s problems — and I’ve seen London’s potential.
I know that together we can make London safer, greener and more affordable.
That’s why I’m standing for Mayor.
Take a look at my video for more.
I’m honoured to have the support of Bernard Hogan-Howe, the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner. Together, we cut crime by 20%, cut knife crime by 17% and halved the murder rate. As Mayor I kept my promises and delivered for everyone. Now I want to do the same for our country
Convoy with largest ever single donation of fire + rescue equipment has set off for Ukraine: 22 vehicles, 18 fire engines + over 6000 items of equipment, incl. acid proof chemical suits + a mass decontamination Incident Response Unit!
@FIRE_AID_UK
@NFCC_FireChiefs
Insight into the feverish herd-like mentality within this
@luhc
ex ministerial
@WhatsApp
group. As
@EddieHughes4WN
+ I remained in post, we were removed. Both Eddie + I resigned AFTER
@BorisJohnson
announced his resignation. We were the counter herd! 👇
A tale of 2 Mayors: Under
@BorisJohnson
knife crime cut by a third + police officer numbers at 32k.
@SadiqKhan
knife crime at a 10 year high + police officer numbers under 30k. Under Boris: Police budgets shrank for 4 from 2012-16 whereas Khan has had a flat cash settlement.
We are at a 10 year high for violence + the murder rate in our capital city is higher than NYC. This has nothing to do with a lack of
@metpoliceuk
funding + everything to do with a complete absence of leadership from this
@MayorofLondon
@SadiqKhan
.
As Mayor I’m doing all I can to compensate for the failure of Government ministers, investing an extra £110m in the Met to keep police numbers as high as possible. We've also created the £45m Young Londoners Fund to help tackle the causes of violent crime.
Big disappointment for me is that
@Jeremy_Hunt
confirmed the
#CorporationTax
rise from 19% to 25% from April. The move puts the UK above the OECD average headline
#CorporationTax
rate for the first time for yonks. 3 former chancellors advised against.👇
As Mayor of London, we kept our promises and delivered for everyone. We cut crime, cut taxes, invested in infrastructure, expanded the Living Wage, improved air quality, and built more affordable housing.
I want to do the same for our country 👉
London used to be one of the safest global cities but under
@SadiqKhan
our capital has become like Dodge City: Why are the guns back on the streets in such large numbers?
#LawlessLondon
via
@MailOnline
Come on
@Nigel_Farage
.
#Boris
did NOT say PARTIES were essential. He said that work place gatherings at short notice were sometimes necessary in pressing circumstances. That was allowed under the rules and guidance. 👇
People could not visit their dying relatives or socialise at all, yet
@BorisJohnson
says No 10 leaving parties were “absolutely essential”. Surely his career must be over?
This
#reshuffle
is a total disaster. See
@AndreaJenkyns
response. Sacking
@greghands
as Party Chairman is also a low blow. Greg was the ideal party chairman and a campaigner through and through. I feel sorry for him + our party. 👇
Enough is enough, I have submitted my vote of no confidence letter to the Chairman of the 1922. It is time for Rishi Sunak to go and replace him with a 'real' Conservative party leader.
Some RSLs have treated
#leaseholders
like cash machines. So why did
@optivohomes
win an award for customer service at
#HousingUK
awards given recent headlines that a family of 6 risks losing their home after being hit with £85,000
#cladding
bill.
So burglary is now UP 10% in London + DOWN in the rest of the country because this hopeless Mayor has not made it a priority in his Police & Crime Plan.
After a 10 month investigation by the
#PrivilegesCommittee
in preparation for today’s 4 hours of cross questioning of
#Boris
, I do think
@BorisJohnson
did rather well. And finally, there is nothing in the evidence that shows that senior officials advised rules were broken.👇
“I think he did rather well”
Conservative Peer & friend of Boris Johnson Lord Greenhalgh tells
@vicderbyshire
that he performed well under 4 hours of questioning from the Privileges Committee, who'd ‘been thinking about this for 10 months’
#Newsnight
|
Under
@BorisJohnson
London was the safest global city on earth. Crime fell like a stone + police numbers stayed at or around 32000 despite the Met having £400 million less to spend over 4 years. This Mayor has ruined that golden legacy.
@PippaCrerar
‘All is rotten in the state of Denmark’. Until yesterday Sue Gray was a permanent secretary in
@UKCivilService
in the engine room of
@GOVUK
. There must have been informal briefings between her +
@Keir_Starmer
before he offered her a job.
#SueGrayGate
As Faith Minister + a Londoner I would like to join the chorus of disapproval that Mayor
@SadiqKhan
plans to extend the
#congestioncharge
7 days a week including SUNDAY + hike the charge to £15. This is the Mayor’s decision to do this + not a stipulation of the
@TfL
bailout.
WRONG.
@SadiqKhan
has more money to spend each year on policing whereas
@BorisJohnson
had £100 million less to spend each year in his 2nd term. The huge drop in
@metpoliceuk
officer numbers is because this
@MayorofLondon
does not have a budget plan.
Government cuts to policing mean police numbers are now the lowest they've been for 20 years. We're doing all we can to protect frontline officers by investing a record £138 million in the
@metpoliceuk
. It's time the Govt stepped up and reversed its cuts.
Today I announced plans to increase police numbers by 20,000. As Mayor of London, I backed the police and gave them the powers they needed, including stop and search. We cut crime by 20% and halved the murder rate. I’ll do the same as Prime Minister.
Will the vital question Conservative MP Marcus Fysh (
@MarcusFysh
) attempted to ask yesterday, concerning the high role of Labour’s Sue Gray in the Northern Ireland Protocol and ‘Union considerations’, be followed up? Disappointingly, he was shut down.
This is unacceptable intimidation (in Waterloo Station apparently). Where is the
@BTP
? My old
@LBHF
borough Lucy D’Orsi is the Chief Constable + is no shrinking violet when it comes to maintaining order.
@Connorfield56
If Sue Gray’s name was ‘always going to be on the list’, as Labour claim, then her name was there for 5 months at the very least. The Guardian reported that Sir Keir Starmer had finally sacked her predecessor, left-wing Sam White, back on 11 October 2022
As faith minister I would like to make clear to everyone that
@GOVUK
is NOT going to make being double-jabbed a condition of entry to a place of worship.
@talkRADIO
has got this wrong!
@Jonatha135113
@DBmetalline
Developers don’t seem that keen to be held responsible. Both
@michaelgove
+ I have accepted that there has been total regulatory system failure with regard to building safety. That puts the
@luhc
in the dock but also local authorities. All layers of government are culpable.
A victory but these
#leaseholders
cannot do enfranchisement to buy the freehold cos over 25% of the estate is designated as commercial premises. They are locked in. We need full blown
#leasehold
reform + widespread adoption of
#commonhold
this Parliament! 👇
Leaseholders did buy their homes in good faith + are victims in this
#CladdingCrisis
. Many developers + building owners have done the right thing + paid for the removal of
#Grenfell
-style flammable cladding. More need to do so +we are keeping tabs.👇
When Daniel Stilitz KC was identified as Gray’s principal adviser following a forensic investigation by
@ConsPost
of his
@Twitter
account, Stilitz immediately deleted his Twitter account.
#SueGrayGate
More
#SueGrayGate
. Her
#Partygate
report principal adviser was Daniel Stilitz KC, a vocal Labour Party supporter who regularly tweeted in disparaging terms about Boris, Brexit + the
@Conservatives
, AND encouraged people to rejoin Labour after
@Keir_Starmer
took over.
Great visit to the Hackney Chinese Community Services. I learned so much about the challenges faced by
#HongKongers
coming to this country. It was great to meet so many Hong Kong BN(O)s from Sutton, Lewisham, Bristol + Brighton! Thanks 🙏 to Jabez Lam, Benjamin Lee + Chaplin Mui!
Boris Johnson reveals how the Tories will beat "Crasheroonie-snoozefest Keir Starmer" at the next election.
Don't miss his exclusive interview with Nadine Dorries this Friday at 8pm on TalkTV.
🔊THE SHAMEFULL HISTORY OF LEASEHOLD REFORM🔊
Previous battles have been fought and lost by leaseholders looking for justice. We are not involved in a fair fight but in fact it is a ‘David and Goliath’ battle.
@LouiePBurns
@RobertJenrick
@MikeAmesburyMP
#BSE
takes on new meaning but
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
has a serious point. Some communication I have received bears this out sadly. No other British politician evokes such strong feelings. But for every
#BSE
loon, there are 10 who want to see
@BorisJohnson
back where he rightly belongs.
There needs to be a more proportionate approach to building safety risk. Leaseholders are the victims of this crisis + must be protected. Finally, the
#PolluterMustPay
.
.
@UKLabour
have 400,000+ members + 50% live in London. Their members get a real say. We,
@Conservatives
, have barely 150,000 members nationally. We need our democracy back so the party is closer to the one that I joined as an 18 year old in 1986. Join
@ConservativeDOr
today!👇
Brilliant OpEd by
@pritipatel
that is worth a very close read. As
@Telegraph
editorial puts it: “A global tax cartel will strangle growth”.
@Jeremy_Hunt
should reverse the planned corporation tax increases.
It is outrageous that developers, who have profited so considerably over the last few years, should leave leaseholders to shoulder the burden of industry failures. Building owners + developers should meet the costs of making homes safe without passing them on to leaseholders.
Just signed this petition from
@ShaunBaileyUK
. Shaun wants London to become more affordable for ordinary Londoners. We need lower taxes, less waste + better services from our Mayor. We need Shaun in City Hall next year. 👇
.
@SadiqKhan
racked up £9.56bn of waste at TfL.
Now he wants you to pay the price — with a 21% rise in council tax.
As Mayor, I’ll allow corporate sponsorship of the tube, raising £500m and protecting the services we rely on.
Without raising taxes.
The first duty of
@MayorofLondon
is to keep
#Londoners
safe. Mayor
#Khant
clearly cannot. All
@MOPACLdn
neighbourhood crimes are up year on year. Theft is up 50% + robbery is up 21%. We need to see more police on our streets to stop these crimes from happening. 👇
As we listen to
@Keir_Starmer
drone on drearily in response to
@Jeremy_Hunt
’s
#Budget2023
, it is time to remember this about his abject record on keeping control of our borders. 👇
Sir Keir Starmer QC enjoyed key role in blocking Tony Blair’s regime to restrict asylum seekers' rights, causing Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett to fume he was ‘fed up [with] the situation where Parliament debates issues and the judges overturn them’
Today’s
@Telegraph
is worth a close read. The decision on the future of
@DominicRaab
is down to PM
@RishiSunak
+ him alone. As a former minister, I know how easy it is for a few wet + work shy civil servants to accuse ministers of ‘bullying’ + misogyny. 👇
Privileges Committee can’t get their facts right PLUS are they now trying to silence the press?
Conservative Post is NOT the online magazine of CDO as claimed in their First Special Report which was released this morning....
Noticed this
@Telegraph
poll is running. Please vote for
@BorisJohnson
. He is the Harold Wilson of the
@Conservatives
+ will serve 2 distinct terms as
#PM
. Here is the result after 12805 votes 👇
We move to Report Stage of the Building Safety Bill this month in
@UKHouseofLords
when
@luhc
will table more amendments to protect leaseholders who are victims in this
#BuildingSafetyCrisis
+ above all, to get the polluter rather than the taxpayer to pay.
I voiced my growing concerns to
@adamboultonTABB
on
@TimesRadio
about the
#PrivilegesCommittee
+ that
#Boris
could face a parliamentary ‘witch hunt’. My fervent hope as a parliamentarian is that the process will be fair. We will find out soon.
The eyes of the world are on the members of the
@HouseofCommons
Privileges Committee. Any verdict on the conduct of
@BorisJohnson
needs to withstand the scrutiny of the court of public opinion. This is telling.👇
Here is
@RishiSunak
telling the HoC that he did not attend any parties
Yes he was asked about a specific event but that doesn’t matter to the
#privilegescommittee
hearing for
@BorisJohnson
One rule for one and another for another??
That sounds fair 🙄
More leasehold reform is coming +
@RobertJenrick
will make announcements with regard to enfranchisement + commonhold shortly. Finally I acknowledged at the despatch box that being a co-owner or commonholder is a better form of tenure than being a leaseholder.👇
Leasehold Minister
@team_greenhalgh
confirms he is taking Fleecehold practices very seriously. Baronness Jones asks for clarification that leasehold reforms mean moving to Commonhold and Lord Bourne doesn't want existing leaseholders forgotten.
#leaseholdscandal
@LKPleasehold
Leaseholders who have had had to move out of their flat and rent due to family circumstances will be given protections under the government’s building safety proposals
#ukhousing
This report of the
@HoCPrivileges
report needs to be corrected:
@ConsPost
is not the online magazine of
@ConservativeDOr
. I did not email the Conservative members of the Committee using the
@ConsPost
template email as stated in the report.
EXCL: Assistant Commissioner of London Fire Brigade
@pauljennings19
tells me hundreds of buildings are still being built *today* with some of the building safety issues which are plaguing leaseholders- that in many cases there hasn’t been a change in developer culture.
I’m building my personal library on the
#GrenfellTower
tragedy with the help of
@gillkernick
+
@PeteApps
who have had the courage to set out why Grenfell happened (Apps) and what needs to be done after the catastrophic event (Kernick).
“Let
@LibDems
dream their dreams, let
@UKLabour
scheme their schemes, but we
@Conservatives
have a serious job of work to do.” Iain Mcleod’s words are timeless in their accuracy on the difference between the main political parties. 👇
Thank you
@McrCladiators
+
@lvplcladiators
for this opportunity to listen to your concerns. I learned a lot tonight + will do my best to look into those questions that I was unable to answer. 👇
I spent 20 years as a youth worker helping give young Londoners a fresh start in life.
And right now, London needs a fresh start too.
Safe streets. Affordable homes. A bigger, better (not bankrupt) transport network. Lower taxes.
I have a plan.
Watch here to find out more 👇🏿
Leaseholders are victims + a levy on developers should be part of the solution to fund multi billion pound bill to make their homes safe homes after
#Grenfell
tragedy.👇
via
I hope that this story of a
#CCHQ
plan to axe
@Conservatives
associations as ‘punishment’ for election of
@trussliz
is just the Westminster bubble at work. If there is such a plan,
@greghands
should put it in the bin.
@SadiqKhan
This Mayor’s obsession is to spend other people’s money. I know it’s hard to grasp but universal entitlement to a
#taxpayer
funded benefit isn’t always the answer.
#SadiqKhant
govern
Key findings of the
@EOCS_Official
Dereliction of Duty report on a single page. The charge sheet includes:
1/ Poor communication with leaseholders
2/ Lack of transparency on remediation costs 3/ Lack of consistency on what costs HAs will fund.
This third rate Mayor has presided over huge spike in murder + violence, innumerable Tube strikes and a Crossrail project that is way overdue + over budget but he still manages get
#Brexit
rather than
#MerryChristmasAll
into this tweet.
I’m proud London is one of the most creative, diverse and international cities in the world. Retweet to spread the message that
#LondonIsOpen
and Brexit will never change this.