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: change.org/p/make-hospice-fu…

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. telegraph.co.uk/politics/202… 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.

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.

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 thetimes.com/article/90fc76f…?

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. dailymail.com/news/article-1… 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.

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The explosion in child disability benefits is a betrayal of my moral mission. There are now more seven-year-olds receiving disability benefits than 50-year-olds. That should stop us all in our tracks. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10… The welfare system was meant to support those in genuine need, not risk consigning another generation to a lifetime of dependency. Children with the most severe disabilities must get the support they deserve. But simply handing out benefits without tackling the underlying problems is a betrayal of those children and their future. Welfare reform was always a moral mission, not just about saving money, but transforming lives. We must be more ambitious for our children. We cannot afford to write off another generation.