Today’s guidance on gender questioning children in schools is a helpful step forward in protecting children from damaging gender ideology which has infiltrated many schools in recent years.

The well-being, health and safety of children must be the non-negotiable priority. 1/7 We’re seeing more and more young adults who transitioned as children; who now regret what happened & feel let down by the advice from professionals at the time.

Irreversible harm is done to children if teachers & schools get this wrong.

Clarity & precision are vital. 2/7

The British people are compassionate. We will always support those who are genuinely homeless. But we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice. 1/4

https://twitter.com/los_fisher/status/1720721913419386959

Unless we step in now to stop this, British cities will go the way of places in the US like San Francisco and Los Angeles, where weak policies have led to an explosion of crime, drug taking, and squalor. 2/4

Delighted to speak at the @PoliceChiefs & @AssocPCCs Partnership Summit, which has focused on the police’s key priorities of cutting crime and building confidence.

Here’s a thread on the key points I covered: 1/6 I have asked @CollegeofPolice to consider options for a new non-degree entry route, to deliver officers of the highest calibre and ensure that forces are open to those who do not have a degree or want one. 2/6

The public rightly expects the highest standards of behaviour from police officers and the vast majority meet this expectation.

But recently too many high-profile incidents and reports, especially in London, have damaged trust.

This cannot continue.
1/4 It’s unfair on the public and lets down other serving officers.

Culture and standards in the police must improve.

And where an officer has fallen seriously short of these expectations, demonstrable, public action must be taken.
2/4

Thank you @Telegraph for correcting the record. No, I haven’t banned government lawyers from doing anything. Instead, I instigated the first major review of the quality of government legal advice. The conclusions were overwhelming: 1/5 government lawyers are too cautious in their advice and this has hampered ministerial policy objectives needlessly. Whilst the government wins the majority of its cases in court, there is a clear trend of lawyers advising negatively, only to be proven wrong in court. 2/5