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Nick Timothy MP
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Conservative MP for West Suffolk • Promoted by Nick Timothy, Conservative Office, Moulton Road, CB8 8DY
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Jun 12 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
The Public Order Act has become Britain’s backdoor Islamic blasphemy law.

The Bill I introduced this week would restore our free speech.

Here is the Bill and this is how it works. 🧵 Image The misuse of Sections 4A and 5 of that Act is the problem.

They make it a crime to use “threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour” that cause somebody else “harassment, alarm or distress.” legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/64
May 23 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Labour say aligning with the EU carbon price will save £800 million a year but the costs - £1.2 billion - outweigh the savings.

Our carbon price has already gone up since their decision - and it will increase further.

It’s complicated but this explains what’s going on (1/n). At the start of the year, UK allowances (UKAs) traded at £36 per tonne while the EU allowances (EUAs) traded at double the price.

But now UKAs are trading at £53 and EUAs are only £18 higher. ice.com/products/80216…
May 9 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Time and again, Labour have refused to be open about their engagement with organisations and individuals linked to Islamism.

I have challenged them repeatedly, but they refuse to be straight with the public. (1/n) LIE: Answering a parliamentary question, the Communities Minister said “the department does not engage with the European Islamic Centre.”

The EIC is associated with the Islamist idealogues Jamaat-e-Islami and Abul A’la al-Maududi. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi…
May 7 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Labour tried to announce its India trade deal without even mentioning immigration until Conservative MPs dragged the truth out of him.

Some are now claiming that the NICs exemption will not impact immigration at all.

But this is not the case (1/n). The reason why this deal is so far-reaching compared with previous FTAs is because Labour surrendered to India’s demands on service workers.

You can see how pleased Indian officials were with Starmer’s concessions yesterday in my previous thread.
May 6 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
The British government says the new India trade agreement does not change immigration policy.

But that’s not what the Indian government says.

A quick thread (1/n). India’s Prime Minister has boasted that this new deal will deliver a Double Contribution Convention - meaning Indian workers in Britain pay less tax than Brits.

The consequences for our labour market could be huge.
Apr 9 • 25 tweets • 9 min read
Almost every business and public service I meet in my constituency faces serious problems with regulation and regulators.

Wonks often very smugly say nobody can point to regulations that should go, so this is a rolling thread listing the examples I find every week (1/n). Image Nyobolt in Haverhill has designed high-power batteries with ultra-fast charging times.

Yet last year the Environment Agency refused to issue it with a permit to use its furnace, even though everybody knew it would not release anything noxious... nyobolt.com
Mar 29 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Jim McMahon, a Communities Minister, has attended an iftar event organised by the European Islamic Centre - a group with very disturbing connections (1/6). jimmcmahon.co.uk/2025/03/24/com… As its own publications make clear, the European Islamic Centre "is a part of the UKIM". That is, the UK Islamic Mission. eic.org.ukImage
Mar 23 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Knife crime and youth violence have been a problem for years, long before smart phones and Andrew Tate.

The latest discourse - following Adolescence - is as predictable as it's depressing, as many choose to ignore the facts and head to where they're comfortable (1/n). Tate is clearly a monster, and smart phones are obviously a problem with kids accessing inappropriate material and missing out on other experiences as they spend hours online.

I would ban smartphones in schools, and block children from using social media altogether.
Mar 22 • 26 tweets • 11 min read
In PMQs on Wednesday I was so shocked by Keir Starmer’s lies and obfuscation I went through the record and found he told 25 porkies in only 30 minutes.

A thread below, starting with the most glaring example.
hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025-0… 1. “What did the Conservatives leave? Interest rates were at 11%”
IN FACT the base rate was below 1% for 12 of the 14 Conservative years in power, and the peak was less than half what Starmer claimed – 5.25%. bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/databa…Image
Feb 18 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
A rushed new defence policy raises five risks:
1 Rearming without reindustrialising
2 Spending more on the wrong military strategy
3 Making commitments we may regret
4 Adopting a Russia strategy forgetting wider threats
5 Getting caught between the US and EU.
Long thread… Rearming without reindustrialising would mean dependence on foreign suppliers.

The US can afford to spend 5% of GDP on defence because its contractors are overwhelmingly American.

We have some big players, eg Rolls Royce, but lack the same industrial base.
Feb 15 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
There is undeniably a perception among some members of the public that there is two-tier policing and justice in this country.

The Home Secretary refutes this, so I asked her what statistical analysis had been conducted to justify her denial.

The answer is none (1/5). Image
Image There are certainly questions about lots of cases. The rape gangs. The policing of speech online. The anti-Israel marches. The prosecution of the man who burned the Quran. The treatment of the boy in Wakefield. Allison Pearson. The approaches to disorder we saw last summer:
Feb 3 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
While it is clearly offensive to burn a text revered as holy by many, Parliament has not determined that it should be illegal. Blasphemy laws were repealed fully in 2008 (1/4). That a protest against an idea - even a religious one - should be covered by Section 4a of the Public Order Act 1986 (intentional harassment, alam or distress), or the Criminal Justice Act 1998, which extended such offences when racially or religiously aggravated, is ridiculous.
Jan 28 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Ed Miliband’s plan to decarbonise the grid by 2030 is based on increasing the carbon price to £147 per tonne of carbon dioxide emitted.

As I said in my speech last night, that would mean the destruction of industry in this country (1/4). Yesterday Britain's energy intensive industries told the Industry Minister that they "will not be able to bear" the carbon price assumptions in the NESO report on decarbonising the grid by 2030. eiug.co.uk/wp-content/upl…
Jan 22 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Behold the socialist logic that drives our suicidal energy policies.

Chris Stark, put in charge of decarbonising the Grid by Ed Miliband, says data centres vital for AI must be located not where it suits business, or where tech workers are, but where it suits the Grid (1/6). This is a Soviet mentality for an industry in which Britain has a starting advantage, thanks in particular to DeepMind. Yet it’s being jeopardised by recklessly ideological Milibandism.

And that is not more from Mr Stark’s answer.
Jan 21 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
Today’s statement from the PM on the Southport murders is a cynical masterclass in obfuscation.

He knew last summer the murders were being treated as an act of terrorism, yet told the country otherwise. A thread below establishing the truth (1/n). bbc.com/news/live/c9q7… I was prevented from asking when the PM and Home Secretary were informed that Rudakubana possessed ricin and an al-Qaeda training manual before the trial, but I have tabled written questions now due to be answered on Friday.
Jan 16 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
There are several serious problems Yvette Cooper’s statements on the rape gangs:

1. The repeat references to the Anglican and Catholic churches when supposedly responding to the failure to tackle the mostly Muslim rapists *because* of their racial and religious identity. (Did anybody in government bring up, unprompted, Muslim abusers when the Archbishop of Canterbury resigned?)

2. The complete failure to recognise that the crimes of the rape gangs were racially and religiously aggravated, with victims dismissed as “kuffar” and so on.
Nov 14, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Yvette Cooper cannot hide in the Home Office forever.

In July she used bogus statistics to justify her asylum policies. I have asked her repeatedly to justify herself but she cannot answer.

More detail follows but this was my challenge to the Leader of the Commons today. 1/n Cooper made the claim on 22 July. To justify not deporting illegal immigrants and granting them asylum instead, she overstated the costs of the Tory policy she dropped - claiming she was saving £7 billion.

There’s more detail in this speech, but misleading the House is serious.
Nov 6, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I’m not into America-brained punditry but the US election poses questions of our government.

1. Trump has made clear America will not subsidise European defence any longer. The Govt has refused to put a timeline on an increase in defence spending. What’s it’s plan? (1/n). 2. American subsidies and the enormity of its equity market have drawn British talent and businesses across the Atlantic, even under Joe Biden. What is the response?

3. Trump will adopt a more confrontational approach to trade with China. How will we handle that?
Oct 21, 2024 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Today I challenged @YvetteCooperMP, Home Secretary, about bogus statistics she used in Parliament to justify her decision to stop deporting illegal immigrants.

An explanation follows, but it was clear from her answer she had no justification to use those bogus numbers (1/7). She made the claim in Parliament on 22 July, when she said by ending the retrospective element of the Duty to Remove in the Illegal Migration Act she would save £7 billion - with a stroke of her pen. But this, as her own department told me, was nonsense. hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024-0…Image
Sep 28, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
If your case for the “centre ground” includes denying the significance of our failure to control immigration, it’s clear by centre ground you mean your ideological commitment to double liberalism, not where mainstream opinion lies (1/4). And if your takeaway from the election is we shouldn’t worry about Reform defectors - who caused us to lose many seats to Labour and the Lib Dems - instead of working out how to appeal to the country as a whole, you’re guilty of motivated reasoning.
Jul 30, 2024 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Yesterday the Chancellor broke her election promises, paving the way to cuts for pensioners, lower infrastructure spending, and tax rises for all of us. Here are ten things we learned (1/n). 1. The so-called fiscal hole she claims to have found was no such thing. It’s a mix of in-year funding pressures and the Chancellor’s own decision to throw money at the public sector unions.