John Penrose (@johnpenrosenews) 's Twitter Profile
John Penrose

@johnpenrosenews

Former MP, Anti-Corruption Tsar & serial Government Minister. Chair of Conservative Policy Forum. Founder & Director of Centre for Small-State Conservatives

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Conservative Policy Forum (@conservativepf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Come and join us on 16th June for "Journeys to Work", a policy workshop with Helen Whately MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. What are the barriers to success in this policy area, when did they start, and why are they there? Join us to feed in your thoughts šŸ’¼

Come and join us on 16th June for "Journeys to Work", a policy workshop with <a href="/Helen_Whately/">Helen Whately MP</a>, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. What are the barriers to success in this policy area, when did they start, and why are they there? Join us to feed in your thoughts šŸ’¼
Andrew Neil (@afneil) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Classic lesson in how to lie your way out of a U-turn. Why not just be honest: we made a mistake with the winter fuel allowance, we’ve listened and we’re reversing, which means a bit more tax or more borrowing or cuts elsewhere. As for ā€˜fixing the foundations’, if that was true

CapX (@capx) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'Labour’s new industrial strategy represents just the latest attempt to solve our long-term malaise. 'The inconvenient truth is that – no matter who is in government – few have made a positive impact. If this systemic problem is not fixed, long-term mediocrity beckons for our

Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So Zelensky did everything Trump asked him to do, signed away mineral rights, agreed to an unconditional ceasefire, and the U.S. still cut off previously funded weapons supplies, leaving Ukrainian cities defenseless against Russian missile strikes. A lesson to all here.

Robert Colvile (@rcolvile) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you're interested in more on this, here is John Penrose for Centre for Policy Studies on the case for local pricing, along with a load of other ideas for fixing energy cps.org.uk/research/a-che…

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We've got a Hotel California benefits system, where too many people check in but never leave. Here's how to dynamite the biggest obstacles stopping claimants from living proudly independent lives.

Conservative Policy Forum (@conservativepf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A brilliant evening at our summer party earlier this week with some of our fantastic volunteers, friends from think tanks, affiliate groups. Our party and country needs us, the members. We're hard at work on policy formation - and we'll be doing much more. Come and join us.

A brilliant evening at our summer party earlier this week with some of our fantastic volunteers, friends from think tanks, affiliate groups. 

Our party and country needs us, the members. We're hard at work on policy formation - and we'll be doing much more. Come and join us.
Andrew Neil (@afneil) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Untruth piled upon untruth. The so-called green energy strategy is NOT cutting bills Very few new jobs are being created, more are being destroyed by high energy costs — and the few new jobs are NOT ā€˜across the country.’ This morning wind accounts for only 15% of electricity

CapX (@capx) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The reforms assume the answer to the old regime’s slow, ultra-detailed, ponderous and expensive regulatory failures is just for a bright-eyed new team of regulators to tweak a few detailed rules here and there, in an even bigger and more complicated combined organisation, and

The reforms assume the answer to the old regime’s slow, ultra-detailed, ponderous and expensive regulatory failures is just for a bright-eyed new team of regulators to tweak a few detailed rules here and there, in an even bigger and more complicated combined organisation, and
Fraser Nelson (@frasernelson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Farage isn’t fighting with me. He’s fighting with 25 years of crime data, hospital A&E admissions data and more. But perhaps it’s a test: can he get this Lawless Britain narrative going - in spite of the facts?

Mark Wallace (@wallaceme) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Online Safety Act is the first of many clashes with votes at 16 - it isn’t consistent to have citizens empowered to vote who simultaneously aren’t trusted with free access to information and content. Either they’re adults or they aren’t.