Julia Lopez MP
@JuliaLopezMP
Conservative MP for Hornchurch & Upminster. Shadow SoS for Science, Innovation & Technology. Promoted by Julia Lopez of 23 Butts Green Rd, Hornchurch, RM11 2JS
More delay tactics. This won’t do enough to protect children from social media & smartphones. It’s simple: get phones out of the classroom & children off social media. There are amendments going through Parliament now which make this happen. Labour are choosing not to act.
NEW Screen time crackdown for under-16s to tackle "compulsive" scrolling is on the way, tech sec @peterkyle tells me. Two-hour curfews are being considered, with announcement expected later this year. In interview, he says: *Parents shouldn't feel they have to be "ripping…
Julia Lopez, Tory MP for Hornchurch and Upminster, says Labour setting up migrant hotels at 'such short order', is a sign Keir Starmer has "lost control of the borders". "Small boat arrivals have gone up 40% in the time that Labour have been in office." @GullisJonathan
Thanks @kemibadenoch for appointing me Shadow Science, Tech & Innovation SoS. We face so many challenges as a country but hope has always been found in scientific and technological innovation. It’s where Brits have excelled for centuries. Access to fantastically talented…
Today in parliament we hosted Harold Wood Primary for a debating competition. Encouraging public speaking and the open debate of ideas in young people is something I care deeply about. It was a real joy to see such bright children making their voices heard with confidence,…
Yesterday, I gave the Home Secretary the chance to rule out the UK joining the EU Pact on Migration & Asylum next year. She didn't take it. Instead I got another Yvette waffle bomb. The Labour benches were full of self-congratulation on the UK-French deal to stop small boat…
We’re saddened to share that Donald Rose, the UK’s oldest WWII veteran, has passed away at 110. A sniper with the Queen’s Royal Regiment, he served in North Africa, survived D-Day, and helped liberate Bergen-Belsen. His legacy and sacrifice will not be forgotten ❤️
Labour can’t fix welfare. Can’t stop the boats. Can’t save a single pound. At this rate in 4 years we’ll be bankrupt, borderless, and broken. The country will need a reset so big it makes 1979 look tame. Only the Conservatives are planning for that reckoning. We will be ready👇
WATCH LIVE: Welfare is totally broken. Only Conservatives have the guts to fix it 👇 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Trying to work out if this is a joke ⬇️...Labour folds at every negotiation and calls it a triumph. Same with doctors' pay. They always told us it was as simple as 'getting round the table'. And lo, after a 28.9% pay increase, the doctors want 29% this time and a 5 day strike…
Keir Starmer set to agree 17-in, 1-out migrant deal with France in huge negotiating flop express.co.uk/news/politics/…
Labour are making our economy dangerously weak — and dodging all responsibility. Taxing, borrowing & spending like there’s no tomorrow. Question it? They just shout “Liz Truss.” But here’s the truth 👇 Borrowing costs are higher now than Sept 2022. This doom loop is real: 📉…
Today we mark 20 years since the 7/7 bombings, which killed 52 Londoners as they went about their daily lives. We also remember the people who have carried injury and trauma with them every day since, as well as those who served that day - some of whom are Havering residents in…
Happy Anniversary...
It's one year of Labour in government - and what a year it's been! Congratulations to @Keir_Starmer and the team for all these achievements 👇
Where to begin with this week in Parliament?! 🤯 Since the General Election, an extra 1,000 people every day have gone onto sickness benefits—3,000 in total. 📈 That’s on top of an already unsustainable system. We had started to bring those numbers down post-Covid, but now…
This Labour government has no idea what it’s doing.
A brilliant night at Ilford South Conservatives’ curry social - always a pleasure to catch up with old friends & meet new members. We talked about this week's welfare chaos from Labour, the importance of backing business & the road to the next GE. A highlight was honouring…
Your reminder that these people are total hypocrites
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Unbelievable Only a Labour Government could try to spend less and end up spending more. But I take no pleasure in their incompetence. The country still has to pay for it.
What do the changes to the UC & PIP bill do? Until an hour ago, it contained 3 major reforms: ❌Tighten PIP eligibility - saves £2.6bn in 2029-30 ✅Cut health element of UC - saves £1.7bn ✅Raise basic UC - costs £1.8bn If the first goes, the bill COSTS £0.1bn in 2029-30
It was wonderful to celebrate Armed Forces Day this morning at the Town Hall. It’s a day when we say thank you to all those who serve or who have previously served our country in the military, and the families who support them. There was an especially big showing this year…
Winter fuel U-turn + abandoning welfare reform + defence spending increase (+other welfare changes?) - lower growth = higher taxes and higher borrowing
🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨 Keir Starmer has caved to welfare rebels and agreed existing disability claimants will **keep** their benefits. Huge concession. Agreed in talks with Labour rebel leaders today. Under original plan, 800,000 people who currently get the Personal Independence…
Labour is hell bent on crippling business 🔴 Their so-called Employment Bill is set to cost UK business £5b EVERY year 🔴 Their Budget added over £25b in taxes to UK business EVERY year 🔴 The result? fewer jobs, higher prices
As a politician, I’ve watched in recent years with some irritation as the Church leadership has pronounced on complex & difficult government decisions with moral surety. I ask in today's Spectator - where is the equivalent enthusiasm to get stuck in on the tricky life & death…
There was a near total absence of any discussion of morality in relation to the unborn child. ✍️ Julia Lopez spectator.co.uk/article/the-ch…