Member of Parliament for Braintree. Promoted by James Cleverly at Office 302, Lakes Industrial Park, Braintree, Essex CM7 3AN
North Essex
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On Sunday I said that when Reform wins elections they let people down.
I didn’t expect to be proven right only 24hrs later.
Essex voters won’t be fooled again. Reform is not a serious party of government, at any level.
EXCL: Reform UK councillor has quit from the two councils he was elected on and been expelled from the party days after the local elections bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c152…
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Congratulations to Cllr Phil Eckersley on being selected as @Conservatives GM Mayoral Candidate. Looking forward to joining you on the campaign trail!
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JUST ANNOUNCED: Local businessman and councillor Phil Eckersley selected as Conservative candidate for Mayor of Greater Manchester.
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🔥 Kemi Badenoch:
“Bridget Phillipson represents everything that is wrong with the Labour Party, she is incompetent, and can dish it but can’t take it. She was extremely rude to my shadow Justice Secretary yesterday…calling him a racist, why doesn’t she apologise for that”.
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💰 I've watched Nigel Farage for 15 years and I've never seen him this rattled - or getting it so badly wrong.
The £5 million donation saga isn't going away and is causing Reform real electoral damage. The party is at a watershed
Latest @thetimes column thetimes.com/comment/columni…
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🚨 On The @CamillaTominey Show tomorrow from 9.30am:
🔴Housing Secretary @SteveReedMP
🔵Shadow Housing Secretary @JamesCleverly
➕Andy Burnham's former adviser @Sacha_Lord
➕Independent MP @RosieDuffield1
🗞️Editor of The Spectator @michaelgove
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She's a pathological liar. She promised 6500 more teachers. There are 2322 fewer.
She pretends she never meant to include primary schools - but they launched the policy in a primary school, and said it would help hit their school readiness targets. She lies and lies.
Despite what you've heard this week, we're delivering on our manifesto with over 4,600 teachers recruited into where we need them most – secondaries, special schools and colleges.
That's alongside more teachers in training, more rejoining and more staying in our schools.
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The Conservatives have proposed to use some of the money saved by reintroducing the two-child benefit cap to remove taxes on up to 30 days of reserve service per year.
The move is expected to help recruit an extra 18,000 reservists.
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…
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📢 Coming up on Sunday Morning with @TrevorPTweets...
🔵 Housing Secretary, @SteveReedMP
🔵 Shadow Housing Secretary, Sir @JamesCleverly MP
🔵 Economist, @PikettyWIL
#TrevorPhillips
⏰ 8:30am
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A great evening at the Greater Essex Mayoral Gala Dinner in support of the Conservative Campaign for our Mayoral Candidate for Essex, @LouiseMcKinlay. Great speeches from the guest of honour Sir @JamesCleverly MP, Louise and our member of Parliament for Brentwood & Ongar, @alexburghart
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The next Conservative government will create a 50,000-strong Armed Forces Reserve.
Here’s how ⬇️
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Reserve Forces make an invaluable contribution to our nation's security. 🇬🇧
They are a lever we can pull to surge support to our regular forces.
And a vital source of expertise in areas like cyber, medicine and intelligence. 👩⚕️
Today we thank them for balancing their civilian careers with serving their country.
Happy #ReservesDay.
#ArmedForcesWeek
ALT Two medical reservists take part in a training activity, with one soldier lying down as he is tended to.
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Almost no other country taxes children’s education. Many have a tax rebate for those that spend their own money on education for their children.
The UK is now a global outlier.
VAT on private education hasn’t even increased the number of teachers as Phillipson promised.
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The Labour Party is deeply misogynistic.
It is remarkable to watch Labour figures perform mental gymnastics to justify never having had a female leader and claiming it makes them MORE pro-women than a party that has had four female leaders.
Superb sophistry in this @ShippersUnbound piece from some senior Labour figure trying to justify why they aren’t allowed female leaders.
Also the gravely insulting and spectacularly patronising suggestion that “bombs and budgets” are not “female-orientated issues”
Dinosaurs
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The Labour government trying to sneak out a massive expansion of asylum camps on a Friday (when parliament isn’t sitting) to avoid parliamentary scrutiny.
The @CommonsSpeaker was rightly furious.
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Bridget Phillipson doesn’t get to call Nick Timothy a racist (!) & then charge round TV studios complaining about Kemi’s language.
The truth is Bridget doesn’t like it when we call out the impact of her policies. And she can complain all she wants about language but she promised 6,500 more teachers funded by the education tax, & there are 1900 fewer.
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Just before PMQs, at the despatch box, she called one of my MPs a racist. She’s just said it again on Radio 4.
The hordes of Labour MPs rushing to twitter to whine about me calling her “spiteful” are just exposing their own hypocrisy.
They love to dish it but they can’t take it.
Today Bridget Phillipson called me a racist for what I said about mass Muslim prayer on Trafalgar Square.
But religious belief and racial identity are different things.
That's what's wrong with the "Islamophobia" definition.
It's already being used to shut down free speech.
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These people want a medal for going to state schools and growing up working class.
Lots of us did.
But they're accountable for their policies - not what their parents did.
And their policies are devastating for social mobility.
Kemi Badenoch’s attack on Bridget Phillipson at PMQs today lays bare something deeper about the direction of their politics.
I’m proud that this Labour government has the most state-schooled Cabinet in the post-war era - people who didn’t grow up with privilege, but earned their place through hard work.
That’s the difference between us and them.
This Labour government believes background should never be a barrier to opportunity. Social mobility isn’t a slogan - it’s the whole point of a fair society. And yet too often it feels like there are those who want to sneer at it, undermine it, and drag us backwards.
We should be celebrating opportunity, not trying to hold it back.
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This @EdwardJDavey?
What a ridiculous hypocrite.
Very pointed from Lib Dem leader Ed Davey. “We are all human - and that’s something everyone should remember,” he says, before pausing and staring directly at Kemi Badenoch.
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