Iain Duncan Smith MP Chingford & Woodford Green✓

RT @TalkTV: 🚨"This man the Prime Minister, has done nothing since he came in but talk about hope for the future, but nothing in action" Iain Duncan Smith says the cost of Labour's standing charge axe will still be passed onto consumers. @MPIainDS | @jkyleofficial

Today in the House of Commons, I challenged the Government over the UAE’s appalling human rights record. British citizen Ryan Cornelius and his business partner have been detained in the UAE for nearly 19 years, denied the justice and due process they deserve. Meanwhile, the UAE faces serious allegations over its support for forces responsible for horrific atrocities and the devastating loss of life in Sudan. Yet Lana Nusseibeh, a senior UAE diplomat, has been put forward as a candidate for UN Secretary-General. I called on the Government to demand the release of Ryan Cornelius and his partner, unequivocally condemn the UAE’s involvement in Sudan, and oppose this nomination. The United Nations should stand for justice, human rights and international law. Those principles must mean something, and the UAE must be held to account.

RT @lukedepulford: Missed by pretty much everybody, but @GOVUK was defeated 195-155 in the House of Lords last night on a very significant China amendment to the Cyber Security Bill. Amendment would require Government to keep a list of foreign threat actors, based upon those who attack the UK.

Labour talks endlessly about strengthening our Armed Forces, yet serious questions are now being raised about the truth of their defence spending claims. At a time of growing threats to our national security, Britain needs real investment in our military, not creative accounting and misleading figures. Our Armed Forces deserve better. The Government must be held to account.

RT @lukedepulford: Every bill is a China bill! This one needed amendment because, without it, we’d have ended up sending sensitive data to the CCP. Huge congrats to @jayapathak_ and a long list of IPAC members who made this happen. 5th law change in the UK since founding.

‼️ IPAC UK secures legal protection for transnational repression victims. Following @DavidAltonHL's amendment to prevent data sharing with China, the government will prohibit data sharing outside the EEA & 5 Eyes. Unamended, the Bill risked sensitive data being shared with 🇨🇳

RT @Steven_Swinford: Sir Jeremy Hunt - a former Tory chancellor who campaigned for Remain - says returning to free movement would be a 'hammer-blow' to trying to get people off welfare and into work He says that there is a risk that it paralyses the government because the issue is so divisive, and that there is an unwritten rule that major constitutional issues should only be returned to once a generation He tells @bbclaurak: 'We have 1million people not in employment, education or training. The government says it is serious about getting them back into work. To suddenly say you are prepared to negotiate allowing people from all over Europe to come and take those jobs would be a hammer blow to those plans to get people off welfare and into work. 'Whatever your views are on the European issue - and I voted Remain - going back to that old model where employers were giving jobs to people from all over Europe and we were parking people on welfare here must be a step back. 'When you have to have these big, constitutional debates you have to have an unwritten agreement that you are only going to come back to them once in a generation. Otherwise it is so divisive. 'I was at the top of a government that was paralysed for several years while we were trying to wrestle with the implications of that vote. I think that having made a decision we should stick with it.'

RT @KemiBadenoch: This is yet another example of Burnham’s foot in mouth syndrome. He hasn’t thought this through or the implications. Most people who voted for Brexit did so because they didn’t want free movement. Too many politicians have failed to understand the significance and impact of immigration on communities. We have had more than enough experience of what happens when politicians (including previous Conservative governments) promise control but fail to deliver it. The answer is to learn from those mistakes, not reopen free movement.

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Andy Burnham has opened the door to Britain readopting the European Union’s free movement rules, arguing that an “honest discussion” is needed, reports @benrileysmith

In 2004, I was asked by Tony Blair to help investigate the rise of antisemitism in Britain. We made recommendations then, yet more than 20 years later, we are still confronting the same hatred. Every generation seems to rediscover the problem, make recommendations and then watch as antisemitism erupts again. The Green Party’s disgraceful conference motion is part of that problem. Isolate them, blame them, attack them, ban them. We have seen where this leads before. Every school should teach Pastor Niemöller’s warning: “Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me.” History has warned us of the consequences of silence. It is not enough to condemn antisemitism after it erupts. We must challenge it wherever it takes root, whoever is responsible, and ensure the next generation understands why. Silence is not an option.

I joined Every Hospice Matters at @10DowningStreet to deliver their petition calling on the Government to make hospice funding a national priority. Sir Nic Dakin MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, received the petition on the Prime Minister’s behalf. As Patron of @HavenHouseCH Children’s Hospice, I know just how vital the care and support hospices provide is to patients and their families. Hospices are an essential part of our healthcare system, yet too many face serious financial pressures. They cannot be left struggling to survive. The Government must recognise their importance and ensure they have the sustainable funding they desperately need. Every hospice matters. Support the petition:

This Labour Government has got its priorities dangerously wrong. While welfare spending rockets out of control, they are cutting £2 BILLION from the Army's frontline equipment. An absolute disgrace. At a time when the threats to Britain are greater than they have been for decades, Labour is stripping away vital military capability. The first duty of any government is the defence of the nation. Yet Labour refuses to get a grip on runaway spending while finding cuts to our Armed Forces. What sort of government thinks that is acceptable? This is a government that has lost control of spending and is now putting Britain's security at risk. Our Armed Forces deserve far better than this dangerously incompetent Labour Government.

Andy Burnham @10DowningStreet is losing control of his government. Labour is a rabble, fighting amongst themselves, and the Prime Minister is too weak to do anything about it. This is a government without leadership, without unity and without the courage to take the difficult decisions. Unless that changes, I believe this Labour government will fall, and very soon. Cabinet collective responsibility is not optional. Ministers who deliberately attack the Home Secretary should be sacked. End of story. You simply cannot run a government if you haven't the strength to deal with your own Cabinet. Meanwhile, welfare spending is rocketing, the public finances are in deep trouble and Labour won't face up to the need to reduce spending. Instead, we have a government arguing amongst itself, unable to agree on the most basic decisions.

“This Government will FALL.” Sir Iain Duncan Smith HITS OUT at the Government, accusing Andy Burnham of being too weak to be Prime Minister. @jkyleofficial @MPIainDS

RT @TalkTV: “Immigration is EXPLODING.” Iain Duncan Smith reacts to a Labour Cabinet row after the Energy Secretary SLAMS Shabana Mahmood’s plans to make foreigners wait longer for permanent residency. @jkyleofficial @MPIainDS

The IRA were terrorists, not soldiers. Their campaign of murder and bombing was not a war of equals, and no amount of historical revisionism will ever make it so. Labour’s Northern Ireland Troubles Bill risks allowing the IRA to rewrite history while British veterans face the prospect of being dragged through investigations decades after serving their country. Where is the accountability for the IRA? Where are the answers from the Irish Government about those who fled across the border, the support they received and the supply of weapons? I served in the British Army. My friend, Captain Robert Nairac, was murdered by the IRA. His body has never been recovered. His family still deserves to know what happened to him and where he lies. The IRA cannot be allowed to portray its campaign of terror as justified by the Good Friday Agreement. Peace does not retrospectively legitimise murder. There is no moral equivalence between terrorists and those who served to uphold the law. This Bill is a betrayal of our veterans and of families still waiting for the truth.

“This is a terrible bill and a terrible act.” Iain Duncan Smith SLAMS the Troubles legacy bill, following the Northern Ireland Secretary’s insistence that it is not an amnesty for soldiers. @jkyleofficial @MPIainDS

RT @afneil: France is in flames (yet he wants to rejoin the EU). Trump is selling out Ukraine, cosying up to Putin again A cost-of-living crunch is looming this winter, especially fuel bills. He still hasn’t told us how or when defence spending will reach 3% GDP. Inflation is rising once more, as are interest rates. Russian forces are threatening our infrastructure, especially undersea data and energy links. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed, our Gulf allies are under attack. And PM Burnham drivels about this!! It’s like the opening sketch from Saturday Night Live.

TikTok star Andy Burnham is back on TikTok displaying all his talents as an overblown local councillor, addressing the serious situation in Europe and how to stop the boats. Only kidding. He's talking about how to be good boys and girls on public transport. On TikTok 🤓👍

Universal Credit was designed to make work pay, simplify the benefits system and help people escape dependency. That principle remains as important today as it was when I introduced it. But successive governments have allowed policy decisions to undermine its purpose. During Covid, warnings were ignored, money was handed out with insufficient checks and we are now living with the consequences. We have created a system where millions are trapped on benefits, too many young people are written off before their working lives have even begun, and the welfare bill continues to spiral. The answer is not simply to spend more money. It is to restore the moral purpose of work. Work is about far more than a wage. It brings independence, dignity, self-respect and the opportunity to build a better life. That must once again be at the heart of welfare reform. My interview with @thetimes

Britain is now living with levels of worklessness that would once have been treated as a national emergency. Yet because so much of it is now recorded as incapacity rather than unemployment, we have gradually come to accept it as a fact of life. That cannot continue. We need a new generation of welfare reform that restores opportunity, breaks the cycle of dependency and helps people back into work.

RT @DailyMail: Andy Burnham accused of 'committing daylight robbery on Middle England' by allegedly taking cash from Tory-run rural councils while boosting funding for Labour town halls