MP for Esher and Walton, father of two, boxing fan. Promoted by Suzi Coul on behalf of Dominic Raab, both of 326 Molesey Road, Walton-on-Thames, KT12 3PD.
🤝We welcomed Community Champions from the
#TescoStrongerStarts
programme,
@groundworkuk
and
@DominicRaab
MP for Esher & Walton, to share how the community grant from Tesco will help fund our bereavement services for children & young people.
A sincere thank you from us all💙
NEW
New
@OECD
figs show the amount of state aid (subsidies/tax breaks etc) offered to Chinese companies is NINE TIMES what OECD nations like UK provide.
We finally have the beginnings of an answer to one of the biggest questions in the global economy
This weekend, I’m abseiling off Anfield Stadium to raise money for
@PWCentre
, for the study of SYNGAP1, a genetic disorder that my granddaughter suffers from.
Please donate what you can here 👇🏻
Great to hear local business,
@fumbgames
, is receiving £150,000 gov investment to hire more staff, secure publishing deals and unlock more private investment - all part of the gov’s plan to grow the creative industries by £50 billion by 2030. More info 👇
Fantastic news that Chile 🇨🇱 has ratified UK 🇬🇧 accession to
#CPTPP
!
🇬🇧 🇨🇱 trade is worth almost £2bn and we hope to boost 📈 this even more.
Another sign of our important relationship - Chile was the first country to sign a continuity agreement with us after leaving the EU.
Two years on from his arrest on fabricated charges,
@vkaramurza
remains in prison in appalling conditions, at the hands of a regime determined to silence him and everything he stands for.
The UK will not rest in our efforts to secure his release.
2 years ago Vladimir Kara-Murza was arrested for opposing Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. The deliberately harmful prison conditions imposed by the Russian authorities are threatening his life.
Russia should release him immediately on humanitarian grounds.
#FreeKaraMurza
My Trade Secrets today. Australia’s defiance of Chinese trade coercion isn��t just about smart exporters.
It’s also a consensus among Aussie politicians and public about trade & preventing Beijing playing divide and rule. Brussels & Washington take note.
Gold is trading at another record high this morning, consistent with the market’s’ main takeaway from yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting — that is, the world’s most powerful central bank seems willing to tolerate higher inflation for longer.
#economy
#centralbanks
#markets
#gold
Plenty of negative comments on the
#Budget
in the papers today (incl. some from me!), so here are the positives...
1️⃣ right to focus on cutting NI and promise to do more here (overall tax burden still rising but at slower pace, and gradually rebalancing away from a tax on work)
ICYMI, final UK composite
#PMI
revised down a touch to 53.0 in February (flash 53.3) but this is still consistent with a return to growth 👍
Euro area index recovering too, albeit still relatively weak (held back by France, 48.1, and especially Germany, just 46.3).
Press…
Schroders Global Cities Index ranks London as the best City in Europe to invest in.
For the first time ever, Manchester moves into the Top 30 worldwide.
The whole of the
#EU
had 2 cities, the same as poor old
#Brexit
Britain. 😉
“Claims that Britain's trade deal with Australia would be damaging to the UK economy have been shattered after the first set of figures revealed huge gains in exports.”
Including my welcome for the big boost in trade with Australia. 🇦🇺
We’ll never achieve net zero if we don’t build a MASSIVE amount of green energy infrastructure.
Building that infrastructure means mining untold amounts of copper, lithium, iron etc. But mining is getting harder & harder, as
@TheEconomist
underlines: