Steve Barclay
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Steve Barclay
@SteveBarclay
MP for NE Cambridgeshire Promoted by Steve Barclay of MJS House, Wisbech Road, PE15 0BA
As we approach two years of this Labour government. The first in my series on the promises they made which have since been broken. 👇
00:00- Labour promised 6,500 extra teachers. The reality is almost 2,000 fewer🥀👇
00:00 - Within 24 hours the King’s Speech had unravelled. Even Labour voices say “where we need vision, we have a vacuum”. No welfare plan, no defence plan, no energy realism. But Labour already had a bill for you - meaning day to day costs have been rising.
- 🥀Set alongside record long waits in A&E, growing waiting lists for community services, and rising waiting times for vital scans, Labour ministers are showing an increasing gap between the big promises they made and their performance in office 👇🔴 NHS England has advertised more than 1,200 jobs since Sir Keir Starmer said it would be abolished Find out how the wage bill for bureaucrats rises despite promise to move spending to the front line 🔗 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/2…
- There is a huge gap between what Labour say on defence and what they do. I found that Labour will take 13 years to meet its own modest pledge on boosting the reserves 👇
- Steve Barclay reposted
“When was Jonathan Powell appointed as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the British Indian Ocean Territory, and what security clearance did he have upon that appointment?” An answer came there none from the Prime Minister at #PMQs. Keir Starmer has been playing fast and
00:00 - The PMs statement today to Parliament, I asked him whether either the Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee or the National Security Advisor were aware that the person he appointed as our most senior diplomat was a security risk.👇 tinyurl.com/2crc3tea
00:00 - ⚠️ I’ve previously warned about the significant rise in community waiting lists under Labour. These latest figures show there are around 80,000 more people - around half of which are children - waiting for these vital services.
- Steve Barclay reposted
The Government has not released the *actual* box returns on Mandelson Why? I’ve worked in No10 - Spads and Private Secretary provide comments AND we’d expect the PM to write in his view All that has been left out - why?
- 🖊️ I recently wrote for @UKDefJournal on why the upcoming Defence Investment Plan needs to include a major boost to Britain's reserve forces. Read the full piece here 👇
- 🗣️ Today the Chancellor delivered the Spring Forecast, and sadly it revealed that Labour’s anti-business tax and spend policies are continuing to damage our economy. Read about three key things we’ve learnt from what was said 👇
