🚀 Ben Houchen won (once again) because of his clear record of delivery and doing what he promised: green jobs, reindustrialisation with an active state.

Just what Nick Timothy Gavin Rice 🇬🇧 called for in Onward's Future of Conservatism project
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Worth a look

Understand this if you understand nothing else. Hamas would commit genocide on Israeli Jews if it could. But it doesn’t have the capability to do so. Israel does have the capability to commit genocide in Gaza. But it does not. Otherwise there would be nobody left in Gaza.

So they want women to be equal to men but also don't think women actually exist (since anyone can be one). 🤡

Digging into the Muslim vote numbers a little more at @jlpartnerspolls

In the 5 wards called so far with the highest Muslim populations with comparable data, Labour's average vote share went from 70% in 2021 to just 28% yesterday

Speaking purely for myself, I believe in privatisation where it works and nationalisation where it works.

People on the right don't want to privatise state schools or the health service or the army. So we are just arguing about the merits of each case, not ideology.

Further evidence against the myth of the 'Buccaneering British', or - dare I say it - Uber riding, Deliveroo ordering, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.

As Tolkien spotted, doubtless referring to the English: 'Where our hearts truly lie is in peace, and quiet.'

Congrats to Ben Houchen - Ben spoke last year at our first Future of Conservatism @UKonward event on industrial strategy, levelling up & regional economies.

This is how the future Conservative Party should think and sound.

Congratulations to Ben Houchen - a Mayor who has delivered for his area. And a reminder that a Toryism of a big tent, Levelling Up, industrial strategy and big bold infrastructure plan can be enduringly popular. Hope that the national party is taking note from his success.

Luke Tryl Nick Timothy Gavin Rice 🇬🇧 Absolutely. They’re spot on and the Onward work is hugely important. Similarly I made the case for reindustrialisation and a more active state in Little Platoons and New Snobbery. The success of Ben, against national trend, shows electoral potency of this Toryism.

Suggests work being done by Nick Timothy and Gavin Rice 🇬🇧 on the future of Conservatism could be a blueprint for others to replicate Houchen's appeal.

But anyone can apply for an emergency proxy vote in the event of lost or stolen ID. The law is the same for everyone.

Quick thread 🧵 on Harry Truman talking about the creation of Israel. 1/5 🇮🇱🇵🇸

This isn’t a post about who is right and wrong, but a historical information post. Make your own judgments.

“It is difficult to move 6 million people out of a country and 6 million people into a…

The claim that the grad visa has been a great 'boost to AI research' runs counter to the evidence collected by the Migration Advisory Committee - main growth has been in low tariff / non-research universities

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This is the sort of chart that leads you to fail a basic statistics class in college. Because Ireland is so small you need to adjust for relative population. Here is what that looks like. Bad data analysis spreads yet more paranoia and disinformation in Ireland. 🇮🇪

The phrase 'world leading university sector' is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Many of our universities are world leading and they should be backed to the hilt.

But we have quite a lot of poorly performing institutions offering low-quality courses which are visa markets.

Just 1 in 10 secondary schools has an effective phone ban (Policy Exchange). With Neil O'Brien MP & 60 Conservative MPs & Peers I‘ve written to the Prime Minister asking government to fund phone lockers in all schools so our children can be free to learn. mol.im/a/13373405

They called you a ‘bigot’ if you questioned whether women had a penis.

Then, a ‘flat-earther’ if you want to stop ULEZ.

Now you’re a ‘racist’ if you vote for Susan Hall.

Welcome to a society run by Labour. They’ll shame you until you do as you’re told.

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