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We are the New Conservative MPs, elected since the Brexit referendum. In 2019 the country put its trust in the Conservative Party. We need to honour that trust.

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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
6 months
The Conservative Party is walking away from the coalition of voters who brought us into power with a large majority in 2019. We remain committed to working for a Conservative victory at the next election by making the case for the realignment. Common sense for the Common Good.…
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
3 months
A statement from @danny__kruger & @miriam_cates : "Anyone who arrives in the UK illegally and is subsequently convicted of a criminal offence should not be allowed to claim asylum here, since they present a clear risk to the safety of the population as a whole. This tragic case…
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
6 months
In a statement, the New Conservatives said: "At the last election, every Conservative MP was elected on a solemn promise to reduce net migration, which in 2019 stood at 229,000 per year. Since then, in poll after poll, the public have made clear that they are prepared to support…
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The New Conservatives
5 months
“As MPs elected on a mandate to ‘Take Back Control’ we can’t vote for a Bill that fails to establish the superiority of our democratically-elected UK parliament over foreign courts” Read our co-Chairs @danny__kruger and @miriam_cates in the Telegraph:
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
3 months
💬 @danny__kruger & @miriam_cates on Thursday’s by-election results: “The results in yesterday’s by-elections are unequivocal: Labour are winning because many of the people who backed us in 2019 are staying at home or voting Reform. Voters are not flocking to Labour. They want a…
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
6 months
Statement from the New Conservatives’ co-Chairs @danny__kruger and @miriam_cates Glad PM is bringing forward emergency legislation. But it will need more than a declaration that Rwanda is safe. We can’t wait for ECHR to intervene: we must move now to ensure that this time,…
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
10 months
Low skilled immigration has asserted downward pressure on wages and living standards and upward pressure on housing and public services. Breaking our addiction to mass immigration is the key to long term growth. We need to cut immigration. ⁦ @miriam_cates
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The New Conservatives
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
7 months
‘I am afraid that that is another instance where, under the noble and honourable impulse to stop outrageous and unacceptable practices going on, we are proposing a piece of performative legislation in response to a vocal and activist lobby group that will put into law an…
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
2 months
A Statement from New Conservatives Co-Chairs @danny__kruger and @miriam_cates on Lee Anderson's defection
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The New Conservatives
6 months
‘This feels absolutely existential for our party. We promised to stop the boats, we promised to take back control of our borders. What we have seen today is the court has overridden that sovereign decision of the British people.’ @danny__kruger - Co-Chair, The New Conservatives…
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
6 months
We have no time left. This Bill - which must come to Parliament within weeks - must have everything in it to ensure that flights are in the air within months. Ends/
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
6 months
The Bill must disapply the Human Rights Act and give effect to the policy *notwithstanding* the ECHR and Refugee Convention. It must restate the power of Govt to disregard interim rulings from Strasbourg. 2/
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
6 months
‘A strong society is one that protects women, that allows women to have their own spaces, that doesn't let men claim to be women when that's, you know, not a material fact’ - @miriam_cates Co-Chair of the #newcons .
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The New Conservatives
7 months
‘Parents should have an absolute right to know what is being taught to their children – and no child should be socially transitioned behind their parents’ back. That is why I introduced a Private Member’s Bill’ - #newcons Co-Chair @miriam_cates
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
7 months
We are the New Conservatives. Join us at conference on Monday for the Rally for the Manifesto and Tuesday for the launch of the New Conservative tax plan for families and small businesses. #Newcons
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
5 months
‘Let me finish by saying Mr Deputy Speaker that we’ve got an unsatisfactory bill. I can’t undertake to support it tonight. I’d hoped the govt would agree to pull the bill and allow us to work with them and with colleagues across the House to produce a better bill’ @danny__kruger
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
3 months
❌ Abolishing the IR35 reforms would benefit the many hardworking self-employed families. It's important that we encourage entrepreneurship and not let bureaucracy block growth. #ABudgetForFamilies
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The New Conservatives
6 months
The Met’s approach to protesters is not equal or balanced. @SuellaBraverman is right to call it out. @miriam_cates on @BBCr4today #newcons
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
6 months
The composition of the Government is a matter for the Prime Minister. We welcome the new ministers to their posts and we have every confidence in the abilities of each of them. We also take this opportunity to reaffirm our support for the Prime Minister himself. Like all…
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The New Conservatives
7 months
Our final policy announcement of today’s event, led on by @pritipatel and @NickFletcherMP - greeted with another round of applause in the room! #newcons
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
6 months
‘The economic arguments against mass immigration are compelling. Increasing the number of people in the labour market has boosted overall GDP, but it has failed to increase GDP per capita, a good proxy for the standard of living.’ @miriam_cates , Co-Chair
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The New Conservatives
5 months
‘Does the Home Sec agree that in order to permanently bring down immigration numbers, the @OBR_UK must instead turn its attention to the kind of growth that really matters - skills growth, wage growth, housing growth, industry growth - real growth!’ @miriam_cates , Co-Chair
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
6 months
‘The New Conservatives group of 35 right-wing Tory MPs said Thursday’s figures were “existential” for the party and called for urgent action.’
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The New Conservatives
10 months
"If we are to prove that we believe in democracy, that we are committed to governing for the British people, not in spite of the British people..." @miriam_cates 👉Sign up: 👉Full article: #newconskeepingourpromise
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
10 months
Listen to ⁦ @danny__kruger ⁩ introducing the New Conservatives👇 We stand for the realignment in our politics that Brexit and our victory in 2019 ushered in. We made a promise at that election to govern for the people, not the establishment. We need to honour that promise.
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
7 months
Join us tomorrow at our Rally for the Manifesto, as we campaign for the policies that will WIN us the next General Election! #newcons @JakeBerry @paulbristow79 @BillCashMP @miriam_cates @NickFletcherMP @tomhunt1988 @danny__kruger @lia_nici @pritipatel @johnredwood
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
6 months
"We cannot blame exceptional circumstances, this is a constant trend. It has been caused directly by the policy decisions of this Government. And it has gone on for far too long."
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
8 months
‘We should not be subscribed to any international convention if it undermines our ability to be a sovereign country and control our borders’ @tomhunt1988 #Newcons
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The New Conservatives
10 months
Today we set out our plan to cut migration as we promised when we were elected in 2019. Read more and sign up to the New Conservatives here: #newconservativeskeepingourpromise
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The New Conservatives
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‘Does my Rt.Hon friend agree with me that this new legislation promised by the PM must be clear and unambiguous in establishing the Sovereign Will of this Parliament, taking legal precedence over the interpretation of international treaties?’ @miriam_cates - Co-Chair
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
9 months
Sign up to our newsletter for regular updates, receive invites for upcoming events and get first access to our newest policy proposals. We want to see policies that honour the values and interests of the British people. 👉Sign up: #newconskeepingourpromise
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The New Conservatives
10 months
The New Conservatives Plan to Cut Migration
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The New Conservatives
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‘When MPs own migration numbers, they will know that there is no one else to blame, because they know that although we are now free from Brussels, you have the power to hand them their P45s.’
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The New Conservatives
2 months
A Statement from New Conservatives Co-Chairs @danny__kruger and @miriam_cates on Lee Anderson's defection (1/7)
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The New Conservatives
6 months
‘The New Conservatives have been lobbying for a big increase to the VAT threshold. Lots of business, lots of sole traders, people in trade almost have to stop working as they approach the £80,000 turnover mark’ - @miriam_cates , Co-Chair More details of our tax plan can be found…
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The New Conservatives
5 months
‘The Court of Appeal cited human rights; the Supreme Court cited refoulemont. What will it be next time, in the absence of Parliament expressly asserting the will of this House? - @SimonClarkeMP
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Simon Clarke MP
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In the Commons this afternoon, I told the Home Secretary directly that we should disapply the relevant sections of the European Convention on Human Rights and the refugee conventions so that we can ensure the success of the Rwanda policy. The time for words is over.
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The New Conservatives
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Our Budget for Families is a six point plan to back families and small family-run businesses in Britain 👇 ✂️ 1p cut to the basic rate of income tax. 🔼 Increase the 40p tax threshold to £60k. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Scrap the High Income Child Benefit Charge, supporting parents with the cost of…
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The New Conservatives
6 months
The police have not arrested those committing obvious crimes on recent Palestinian Solidarity "protests". Why? @danny__kruger explains why @suellabraverman is right to ask @metpoliceuk to do their job and enforce the law without fear or favour. #newcons
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The New Conservatives
10 months
. @miriam_cates declared her thoughts on the New Conservatives manifesto pledge to cut Migration on @BBCRadio4 this morning. 👉Read more here 👉Sign up to hear from the New Conservatives: #newconskeepingourpromise
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The New Conservatives
6 months
@GBNEWS has spoken to multiple sources who warned that there are a significant number of MPs - many of whom come from the New Conservatives Group of MPs - who believe Braverman was right to intervene.’
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The New Conservatives
5 months
@LeeAndersonMP_ demanded to know, excluding foreign offenders and Albanians: “How many people travelling on small boats and have been refused asylum have been sent to a third country, or back to their own country?’ The reply:‘I don’t think we have those’
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The New Conservatives
2 months
But the responsibility for Lee's defection sits with the Conservative Party. We have failed to hold together the coalition of voters who gave us an 80 seat majority in 2019. Those voters - in our traditional heartlands and in the Red Wall seats like Ashfield - backed us because…
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The New Conservatives
5 months
One after another, New Conservative MPs stood up and told the Government that we must meet our promises to our electorate. Migration needs to come down.
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The New Conservatives
8 months
WATCH. @danny__kruger says we need to respond to the demands of the public by reorienting government towards the values and interests of the British people.
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GB News
8 months
'I think the public are still crying out for the change they demanded last time around.' Danny Kruger details his new book 'Covenant: The New Politics of Home, Neighbourhood and Nation’ and the changes he would like to implement within society.
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The New Conservatives
7 months
‘The idea that people could be criminalised for telling their child 'you are a girl and it is not good to go on puberty blockers' is very dangerous.' - #newcons Co-Chair @miriam_cates
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The New Conservatives
7 months
Our fourth policy announcement of #CPC23 , introduced by Iain Duncan Smith and @paulbristow79 to a very full Exchange 9! #newcons
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The New Conservatives
6 months
‘This is not a trivial issue in the eyes of millions of British Citizens’ @SimonClarkeMP on why we must stop the boats now. #newcons
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The New Conservatives
4 months
Many thanks to all those who joined us for our New Cons action day in Penistone and Stocksbridge! @miriam_cates
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The New Conservatives
5 months
‘Will @KemiBadenoch also meet with concerned colleagues across this House to change this law to protect our children at school? Because this is a must.’ @NickFletcherMP today in the Commons
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The New Conservatives
7 months
Who are we? Miriam Cates spoke to Sophie Ridge about who the New Conservatives are and what we're up to. #newcons
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The New Conservatives
8 months
A fantastic evening for the New Conservatives, supporting our co-chair @danny__kruger as he launches his new book ‘Covenant’ in Portcullis House #newcons
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The New Conservatives
5 months
‘Does @KemiBadenoch agree with me that there is no place for a ‘Gender Bred’ person in schools at all? And does she also agree with me that in primary schools we should be incredibly careful about promoting anything to do with gender ideology?’ @tomhunt1988
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The New Conservatives
5 months
‘Will he ensure we put in place all the necessary legal exemption, so that we can get on with those flights as soon as possible to give the deference that we need to illegal migration?’ - Jack Brereton
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The New Conservatives
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‘Which is why the New Conservatives have helpfully got a twelve point plan that the Minister for Immigration could copy and paste just order to ensure that we get those figures down’ - @GullisJonathan in the House of Commons today
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The New Conservatives
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Sign up to our newsletter for regular updates, receive invites for upcoming events and get first access to our newest policy proposals. 🗣️ @miriam_cates MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge 👉Sign up to receive the latest news: #newconskeepingourpromise
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The New Conservatives
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'It's clear the migration system is operating very far short of what our constituents expect,' said @miriam_cates of the New Conservatives group of backbench MPs. 'The Government needs to close loopholes like this as a matter of urgency.'
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The New Conservatives
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Tomorrow, the Chancellor needs to focus tax cuts where they’re needed: working people. He should: 1️⃣Scrap the High Income Child Benefit Charge 2️⃣Raise the VAT registration threshold to £250,000 3️⃣Abolish the IR35 reforms. Read our full plan here: https://…
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The New Conservatives
10 months
As @miriam_cates pointed out, when we needed HGV drivers during the pandemic, we filled the vacancies through supply side reforms - not migration. Here’s Keir Starmer calling for 100,000 visas at the time…
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The New Conservatives
10 months
. @miriam_cates declared her thoughts on the New Conservatives manifesto pledge to cut Migration on @BBCRadio4 this morning. 👉Read more here 👉Sign up to hear from the New Conservatives: #newconskeepingourpromise
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The New Conservatives
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‘The level of population change in recent years is just unsustainable. Those ultra liberals who chant empty slogans like ‘diversity is our strength’ downplay or deliberately ignore the challenges that mass migration is having’ - @ALewerMBE
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The New Conservatives
2 months
A statement from @danny__kruger & @miriam_cates on today's Budget👇 "We welcome the budget. The New Conservatives called for freezing fuel duty, raising the VAT threshold and scrapping the Higher Income Child Benefit Charge, and we're pleased the Chancellor has announced…
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The New Conservatives
6 months
‘I think we have to get the economic fundamentals right, but we have to go further and I think today was the first stage in that process’ - @danny__kruger , Co-Chair of the New Conservatives discussing the tax announcements today.
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The New Conservatives
6 months
Great to see @GullisJonathan championing The New Conservatives Tax Plan in the Commons. Full details can be found here:
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The New Conservatives
7 months
Today is the day! Join us alongside our Co-Chair @miriam_cates for our Rally for the Manifesto! 3PM - 4:30 PM at Exchange 9, see you there! #newcons
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The New Conservatives
5 months
‘This is an existential threat to the Conservative Party, if we don’t get this right’ - @tomhunt1988
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Talk
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MPs have told the PM that the Rwanda bill is a “belt and braces affair” that can resist future legal challenges. Tory MP Tom Hunt: "There were pretty shocking stats on net migration... we have a massive disconnect where most of the public are at with it and reality!" @iromg
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The New Conservatives
8 months
Listen to our co-chair @miriam_cates defend the PM @RishiSunak ’s plans to delay a ban on new petrol car sales. #newcons
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Miriam Cates
8 months
I spoke to @TimesRadio about why we should delay a ban on new petrol car sales. Reducing emissions is important, but since UK produces 1% of global CO2 to China’s 28%, pushing up the cost of living for ordinary families just to get more (Chinese) EVs on the road makes no sense.
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The New Conservatives
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🗣️ @tomhunt1988 - We should promote base jobs like bricklayers and carpenters in our skills system, they offer a good pathway to good wages❗️ 👉Sign up to hear how the New Conservatives plan to cut migration: #newconskeepingourpromise
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The New Conservatives
7 months
Polling shows that the public support our policy platform: from immigration to tax cuts, the British people want common sense solutions l. Come and learn more today at our Rally for the Manifesto - 3-4:30 PM at Exchange 9! #newcons
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The New Conservatives
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‘Policies that are based on biological reality and not extreme ideology, conflating sex and gender. Does @KemiBadenoch agree that today’s statements will help stop people finding loopholes around these?’ @Bren4Bassetlaw
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The New Conservatives
8 months
For too long we’ve been allowing ourselves to incentivise people being able to go to University, studying on poor quality courses with low aspiration, low outcomes for young people. #newcons @lia_nici
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
8 months
@UKLabour have shown time and time again that they have learnt nothing and that they will never change. @Keir_Starmer will abandon control of our borders and send migration numbers skyrocketing. #newcons
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The New Conservatives
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For immigration to be successful, it has to be controlled and limited. Mass immigration harms local communities. Brexit allowed us to take control of our borders. Let’s use this opportunity to cut immigration and invest in British workers. ⁦ @JamesDalyMP
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The New Conservatives
10 months
"No job should be seen as beneath anyone" – @tomhunt1988 It's time we stopped relying on cheap migration for low-skilled labour.
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The New Conservatives
7 months
Our second policy announcement of #CPC23 , greeted with cheers across the room! Introduced by @JakeBerry and @miriam_cates . #newcons
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
2 months
Our co-Chair @danny__kruger responds to the defection of Lee Anderson on Politics Live 👇
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The New Conservatives
5 months
Brilliant to see that common sense has prevailed and that the government will reduce legal migration as we proposed earlier this year, and as our party promised in 2019.
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Jack Elsom
5 months
Interesting that this was a flagship demand of the New Conservatives group of Tory MPs, who in their own migration plan said: "Raise the main skilled work visa salary threshold to £38,000 per annum. This could reduce LTIM by 54,000 migrants per year."
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The New Conservatives
7 months
Our first policy announcement of #CPC23 , introduced by @johnredwood and @lia_nici . Standing room only here in Exchange 9! #newcons
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The New Conservatives
6 months
Read the full report here:
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
7 months
Our next policy announcement focuses on immigration, introduced by @tomhunt1988 and @Jacob_Rees_Mogg . #newcons
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
2 months
The Conservative Party has long prided itself on being the party of law and order. However, British policing needs reform. That’s why today, we’ve launched our ten-point Plan to Cut Crime. 🔗
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The New Conservatives
5 months
Seems like @RachelReevesMP is not the only member of the @UKLabour Front Bench that likes to copy and paste - @YvetteCooperMP borrowing ideas from The New Conservatives Immigration Plan today!
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
7 months
Today’s event was absolutely brilliant - thank you to all who came! If you loved today, we’ve got even more for you tomorrow! @NickFletcherMP and @miriam_cates will be unveiling our Tax Plan and eagerly receiving a response from The Treasury, all in one event! Join us from…
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The New Conservatives
7 months
‘However, across the party there is a pervasive sense that Conservatism has lost its way… The “new Conservatives” of @miriam_cates and @danny__kruger have a much more socially conservative platform centred on lower immigration.’ #newcons
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The New Conservatives
2 months
Our poll numbers show what the public think of our record since 2019. We cannot pretend any longer that 'the plan is working'. We need to change course urgently.  A change of course does not mean fracturing our Parliamentary Party. (4/7)
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The New Conservatives
7 months
“We can only properly tackle the small boats crisis with a deterrent. If having a deterrent that works effectively is inconsistent with being in the ECHR, then it’s clear what we need to do.” - @tomhunt1988 #newcons
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The New Conservatives
5 months
‘Our citizens, who form the backbone of our democracy, are seeking concrete actions from the government to effectively manage this complex issue. This has been promised over years, but remains undelivered’ - @marcolonghi4dn
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
7 months
We’ve got a fantastic line up of speakers at our Rally for the Manifesto this afternoon, including the former Home Secretary @pritipatel ! Join us in Exchange 9 from 3PM to hear all about election winning policies. #Newcons
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
3 months
Our six-point Budget for Families will help unlock growth across the United Kingdom 📈 @GullisJonathan called on the Chancellor to back family run businesses & the self employed by 👇 🛍️ Increasing the VAT registration threshold to £250k ❌ Abolishing the IR35 reforms
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
5 months
‘We are trying to work in the interest of vulnerable young people in finding a legislative way forward which protects their interests, rather than see some signposted, often prematurely, in a direction which is irreversibly harmful to them’ - @SimonClarkeMP
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@thenewcons
The New Conservatives
2 months
We urge our colleagues to work with us to develop a bold new offer, consistent with the spirit of 2019, that will convince our lost voters that we present a genuine alternative to Labour and the best hope for Britain. (7/7)
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The New Conservatives
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