
Strategic Advisory and Communications Consultancy. Academic Director @ThatcherCentre. Former MEP, Cllr etc.
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Dr Tim Aker retweeted
Some proper policies here. Suspect many on the Tory benches would quietly agree with most of this:
Britain is broke. And to fix it, we need to start growing again.
That’s why Reform’s Economic Rescue Plan includes these 64 pro-growth measures I’d take if I were Chancellor:
𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗮
1. Approve Rosebank
2. Restart oil and gas licensing
3. Legalise onshore exploration
4. Abolish the Energy Profits Levy
5. Restore maximum economic extraction as the North Sea regulator's objective
𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻
6. Abolish the Emissions Trading Scheme
7. Halt the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
8. Repudiate AR7 contracts for difference and scrap AR8
9. Implement the Fingleton Review on nuclear in full
10. Automatically approve French and South Korean nuclear designs
𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀
11. Cut affordable housing requirements on brownfield sites
12. Permitted Development Right for brownfield housing
13. Repeal Biodiversity Net Gain
14. Exit the Aarhus Convention
15. Repeal and reform the Habitats Regulations, including Nutrient Neutrality
16. End the boiler ban
17. Legalise air conditioning to meet overheating rules
18. Remove mandatory EPC improvements
19. Revoke the Future Homes Standard
20. Repeal the Renters' Rights Act
𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲
21. Legislate approval for new runways at Heathrow and Gatwick
22. Auction airport landing slots
23. End 'target-consistent' carbon pricing in project evaluation
24. Ban carbon emissions considerations in planning applications
25. Fast-track all water reservoirs as nationally significant projects
26. Make Development Consent Orders a true one-stop shop
27. Restrict judicial review of ministerial planning decisions
28. Scrap Net Zero construction rules
29. Scrap the social value test in procurement
30. Lift launch limits at SaxaVord Spaceport
31. Open completed sections of East-West Rail
𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
32. Review regulatory barriers to AI adoption
33. Permit on-site gas generation for data centres and industry
𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀
34. Cut Employer NI back to 13.8%
35. Introduce a migrant worker levy
36. Repeal the Employment Rights Act
37. Clarify that workplace rights don't require mandatory training courses
38. Let experienced tradesmen work on government contracts without CSCS qualifications
𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆
39. Review bank capital requirements to boost lending
40. Rule out Net Zero in financial regulators' remits
41. Repeal climate-related financial disclosure rules
𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴
42. Scrap airport 'surface access strategies'
43. Abolish the electric vehicle mandates
44. Apply domestic GB hours to all UK HGV trips
45. Ban Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods
46. Back the M4 Relief Road
47. Move a new car's first MOT to four years
48. Abolish the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation
𝗨𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺𝘀
49. Replace GDPR with a New Zealand-style Privacy Act
50. Fully re-legalise Imperial units
51. Review all unchanged EU law
52. Automatically repeal remaining EU law in 5 years unless retained
𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀
53. Make quarterly Making Tax Digital reporting voluntary
54. Reduce legal obligations on SME Non-Executive Directors
55. Double permission-free event days from 28 to 56
56. Make pavement dining licences automatic and permanent
57. Let shops open until 10pm, except Sundays
58. Repeal board diversity and inclusion rules
59. Remove the Sustainable Aviation Fuel mandate
60. Abolish the packaging tax
61. Scrap BBC and Channel 4 priority on streaming platforms
62. Remove the Public Sector Equality Duty
63. Five-year sunset on all QUANGOs
64. Five-year sunset clause on all new regulations
And there are more to come!
Britain’s full potential is waiting to be unleashed 🚀
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
Reactionary colonels in the Home Counties who wrote to the newspapers half a century ago warning that the Labour Party were a bunch of lunatic Communists who would ruin the country are some of the most vindicated people in history.
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
This argument is like telling a starving man he can’t have bread, because he needs a balanced diet.
Replying to @RogerHelmerMEP
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
Paging @itvnews
I missed this on the news?
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
Today MPs will vote on Labour's Northern Ireland Troubles Bill.
It tears up the 2023 Legacy Act and opens the door to fresh investigations and civil claims against our brave veterans, decades after they served Queen and Country, fighting against IRA terrorists.
How can this country ever ask people to serve their country if the government refuses to protect them?
I voted against this proposal in November and will do so again. We have a duty to stand by our veterans! 🇬🇧
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
If you instigate a wealth tax at 9.01am tomorrow, you won’t collect a penny in revenue before 2030.
The revenues are fragile, it’s anti-growth, and would take years to implement.
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
Hey @andyburnham @Heidi_Labour can you introduce fines and have a national campaign to end this next?
Today’s slight drop in unemployment masks the real problems in education and training. Further Education providers were taking on 32,000 unfunded students last year. The system is creaking at the seams with extreme short term fixes.
Excellent info and analysis of the diesel price spike.
"The UK's crazy diesel prices are a problem of our own making"
Average UK forecourt prices are now above £2 per litre, some 40pc up on a year ago.
Diesel is the "workhorse" fuel of any modern economy, powering transport, manufacturing, agriculture, its high price now feeding into multiple supply chains – and likely to send headline inflation much higher.
But what we are living through is less an oil supply crisis than a refining crisis – a crisis of our own making.
My latest weekly @Telegraph "Economic Agenda" column.
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telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
Burnham to call snap local elections.
Burnham vows end to 'rip-off parking charges' under new rules bbc.in/3TQJwPT
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
Bigger pay increases for the people who are paid for by the people with lower pay increases.
What rich people?
🚨 NEW: John Healey has ruled out raising capital gains tax in the Budget over fears that rich people will leave the UK
[@thetimes]
Quality evening and a quality book. Thoroughly recommended.
Great to be at the launch of @LeeDavidEvansUK “Coronations and Defenestrations” - the definitive modern guide to Tory leadership election
There’s no vacancy currently but would be plotters ought to pick up a copy…
It’s as if the government hasn’t properly thought this one through.
Yes and ho!
Let me get this straight. Work all your life building a business. Sell that business to a rando - charged at 24%. Try to pass it on to your family - charged at 45%. Genuinely insane telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
Consultations like this, although cleared by Ministers, normally result from civil service initiatives. Which means that in the Treasury there are permanent officials who want to shut down the entire family business sector of the economy. (1/2) telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
🚨BREAKING🚨
New polling conducted for City AM, published in the last hour, shows that two thirds of Brits would OPPOSE rejoining the EU if it meant a commitment to adopt the Euro at any point in the future. Which it would.
This is terminal for the Rejoin campaign. Terminal.
🤖 Made with AI
Several Tory MPs Fail to Vote for Party's Own Proposal to Leave ECHR order-order.com/2026/10/14/s…
Dropping ‘C’ bombs and handing in petitions doesn’t take balls.
Standing for election does.
Will he?
Danny Dyer has delivered a petition to Downing Street calling for the water industry to be nationalised.
@HenryRiley1 wants to know why...
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
Reform isn’t The Truman Show. Political parties deserve some privacy behind closed doors.
When newspapers hacked private voicemails, it was a national scandal. Why is spying celebrated when the target is Nigel Farage?stevenedginton.com/p/the-med…
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
It’s very clear that the threat to Nigel Farage and other Reformers is off the scale, recent events speak for themselves.
And it’s also very clear that some ‘journalists’ are no more than activists.



































