Liz Truss has done the right thing, given her tragic inability to create a Government that could secure the confidence of her Cabinet, the markets or the country.

The Conservative Party MUST now choose a Leader who as PM can lead a *team* who can deliver vital unity & stability.

Great to join Robert Jenrick Department of Health and Social Care NIHR Research to discuss why DHSC NICE NHS England isn’t moving more quickly to establish #AcceleratedAccess Trials for the AstraZenecaUK #Eversheld therapy for immunocompromised patients.

The answer to our energy needs isn’t to go *back* to planet-heating fossil fuels + fracking.

It’s in new technologies like Hydrogen, Tidal, SMR, Fusion.

Which are also huge investment & #greengrowth opportunities for the UK 🇬🇧

#cleantech #innovation businessgreen.com/news/4058473/s…

To be clear on fracking. I remain:

🔹100% committed to our 2019 Manifesto on which I was elected
🔹100% committed to AONB protections
🔹reassured by clear Minister commitment that fracking will only happen w local consent and a vote in House

So no need to lose the Whip tonight.

The Home Secretary ‘resigns’ attacking the PM & Government program she had supported?

The Chancellor ‘resigns’ for implementing the policies he & PM & Cabinet had agreed?

Enough is enough. The Cabinet need to get a grip, fast, to restore collective responsibility & confidence.

Abortion should not be weaponised as a partisan political football.

Its a traumatic but often essential medical procedure (that no woman *wants* to go through).

V pleased that Ministers agreed to a FreeVote so we could all vote to protect women from intimidation & harassment.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Jeremy Hunt HM Treasury statement UK Prime Minister yesterday did a lot to ensure stability & reduce U.K. borrowing costs - which will benefit us all by reducing the costs of:

🔹Debt interest for HMG
🔹Mortgage rates
🔹Pension losses on gilts

Excellent to see Jeremy Hunt moving so fast to reassure the markets that the Conservative Party has NOT abandoned fiscal discipline or CompassionateConservatism.

My Q urging him to restore Science, Technology & Innovation back at the heart of our Growth Plan:

The Royal Society

Watch the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s statement outlining the measures being brought forward from the Medium-Term Fiscal Plan that will support fiscal sustainability.

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Given:

⚠️healthcare costs spiralling & driving UK structural deficit

⚡️the huge economic opportunity in UK #Medtech + #LifeScience

we need to revise the way we think of the NHS: not as a “drain” on public finances but as a testbed / investment in UK Medtech to help efficiency:

The country needs calm, steady government in the national interest.

The new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt needs some time to reassure the markets.

Penny Mordaunt spot on: Britain needs economic & Government stability, not a Conservative soap opera of panicked infighting👇

Biologist John Boyd Orr emerged in the inter-war years as one of Britain's leading experts on nutrition. Food and prosperity for all people on earth led to peace, Boyd Orr argued. In 1949 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

#WorldFoodDay

Amid all the politics at the moment, this won't get the attention it deserves. An incredibly important intervention from the Chief Scientific Advisor. He is right. newscientist.com/article/234170…

UK plc must focus more on science, technology, engineering & innovation.

⚡️Science + technology need to be embedded in the heart of every government department

⚡️8 of worlds top 10 fastest growing companies are S+T co’s

Spot on ⁦Sir Patrick Vallance⁩✔️ newscientist.com/article/234170…

Excellent. Next stage of Norfolk's A47 upgrade + A11 junction scheme is approved.

Now the key is to get a clear strong vision & Plan for the Norwich-Cambridge Tech Corridor based on:

🛤infrastructure
🚉integrated transport links
🏡NetZero
👨‍💻innovation
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