Huge congratulations to my friend Ben Houchen.

Tees Valley want us to stick with the plan that's working:

Jobs up.
Airport saved.
Steelmaking back.
Darlington Economic Campus.

Excited for Ben to keep delivering more jobs and opportunities for local people.

It should not be the responsibility of a mother to protect her child from a sex offending father, it should be the law’s. Thanks to Alex Chalk KC MP Laura Farris MP Maria_Miller Caroline Nokes MP Sanchia Berg this big step forward for child safety will now become law.

The House magazine ⬇️

Payday is here.

Our second National Insurance cut hits payslips today.

Taken together, they’re worth £900 to someone earning the UK average salary.

Robberies are down since before the pandemic by nearly a quarter!

We now have more police officers than ever before; I've doubled the number of officers in neighbourhood policing and neighbourhood crime is down.

#BackBarber on Thursday 2nd May.

Restoring dignity and respect to women in health services, this should never have been necessary, but it's very welcome.

'Chestfeeding' to be banned in NHS crackdown telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

Very good progress on reducing crime here. Murder down 7% since 2010 too. More to do on knife crime in London (where Sadiq Khan is failing) and shop theft, but overall crime is down a lot

Rayner at PMQs: 'We've had more strikes under this government's watch than any time before'.

Before:

This is an excellent speech by Rishi Sunak. I hope European leaders get the message and follow his lead: gov.uk/government/spe…

We’re taking defence spending to 2.5% of GDP.

The biggest strengthening of our national defence for a generation.

Labour have sniped about our childcare expansion for months, saying it wouldn't work.

We've now delivered the first stage of it, with 200,000 benefitting from 15 hrs a week childcare for their 2-yr-olds.

And Labour are once again exposed as having no plan, no policy and no idea

Last week we announced new laws to crack down on degrading sexually explicit deepfakes as part of our ongoing determination to end violence against against women and girls.

In response, two of the biggest deepfake sites have blocked access to UK users.👇

wired.com/story/the-bigg…

Delighted to have hosted Minister Laura Farris MP to discuss how we can #JoinForcesAgainstStalking this #NSAW2024 .

We welcome the government's announcement that the application threshold for Stalking Protection Orders will be lowered from the criminal to the civil threshold.

Stalking Protection Orders are a crucial part of the police’s public protection armoury and effective in the prevention & interruption of this crime.

We are making them easier for police to apply for, to give victims the strongest protection possible

thetimes.co.uk/article/e18def…

Very supportive of this brilliant campaign that recognises the environmental significance and rare beauty of the North Wessex Downs AONB & hope that Natural England will agree

Excellent

💥This is fantastic news!!

The week we announced the Government is clamping down on deepfakes, the scumbags behind the worlds largest deepfake website have suspended access to users in the U.K.

Good riddance!