Neil O'Brien
@NeilDotObrien
Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby & Wigston. Local news: http://facebook.com/neil4harborough Blog: https://www.neilobrien.co.uk/
Local news is mainly on my Facebook page: m.facebook.com/neil4harboroug…
If I gave you a pound every second it would take me 656 years to give you £20.7bn
Labour’s immoral family farm tax is destroying livelihoods and will wipe out generations of hard work. When the @Conservatives return to government, we will reverse it. No ifs, no buts. Standing up for our farmers is standing up for Britain.
There are 1.3 million people on social housing waiting lists in England alone. But Keir Starmer believes there’s ‘lots of housing’ spare we should be giving to illegal migrants That’s madness. What is he going on about?
An important element of the new @ESRC strategy we are working on is to make the promotion of economic growth an explicit goal of our work. I've written a short piece about why we're doing this, and what that might involve.
The opening sentence of this BBC News story states: 'A woman killed her husband with a samurai sword stabbing and slicing him more than 50 times'. The 'woman' is actually a man bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Not clear why Ministers won't guarantee that *existing* special needs support will continue for all children.
I first asked this question about apprenticeships funding last autumn. Nearly a year on, there is STILL no answer. Farce!
Don’t let Labour gaslight you. They haven't stabilised the economy, they’ve derailed it.
Seek asylum from Iran Get rejected Use appeals to stay for 10 years Suddenly "remember" you are from Afghanistan Mad UK judges let you stay
Mental
Today at @ukonward we published Generation Extreme, a new briefing based on @StrategyMerlin polling. It reveals striking support among young people for authoritarian ideologies and modes of governance, from net positive views of communism to backing military rule. 🧵/
They made it real
We’ve launched the Civil Society Covenant - a new partnership between government and civil society. Together, we’ll deliver real change through respect, shared ambition, and collaboration. This is what doing government differently looks like.
Sex & relationship education is a total mess in too many schools - government are doing nowt about it.
A primary school in London has launched a project in which it highlights well known men to boys to give them role models to aspire to be like so they can grow up to be successful men. The first 'man' selected was Elliot Page telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/1…
For the first time since records began, more small businesses now expect to shrink or shut down than grow. Business confidence is at rock bottom under Labour. Here’s why 🧵👇
With a name like "Great British Energy" you'd think they were doing something cool like building a Thorium reactor, but they're just putting slave-made Chinese solar panels on a school roof, where they will generate bugger all energy when we need it (in the Great British Winter)
Britain feels more polarised than before. My new piece looks at one reason why: we are sorting ourselves by age, migration and education. Is Britain Balkanising? ONS data shows how people are moving around the country. This map shows which areas are losing and gaining people:
Dresden. Every building pictured dates from the last twenty years, the result of a 2002 municipal referendum in which the city decisively voted in favour of reconstructing its historic centre.
Yet Bridget Phillipson says it's a "gimmick" and Starmer says it is "unnecessary".
📱School leaders say banning phones has been 'transformational', with a drop in suspension rates, safeguarding concerns and even staff turnover schoolsweek.co.uk/transformation…
Judges have decided the word "family" doesn't mean what any normal person thinks it does - but instead includes *anyone* you want to bring to the UK. Yet another reminder why we must leave ECHR.
