What has Mark Harper been up to today?
Mark Harper is MP for Forest of Dean and a member of the Conservative party.
Mark Harper has 48880 followers on Twitter.
Inflation hurts the poorest in society most.
That’s why @HMTreasury needs to do what it can to avoid fuelling an inflationary spiral.
Glad that @RishiSunak understands this 👇
Only 14% of women are represented in the construction industry 👷♀️
@NicolaB_AccXel the CEO of @AccXel_UK shares her experience of being a leader in a male dominated industry, and shares how funding from @LloydsBank is enabling her to inspire women into construction.
#MSMEDAY
👉 Out & about on Primrose Hill - indeed up & down it as well! 🗻
📭 Delivering latest newsletter from local @Conservatives led by Cllr Harry Ives
🙋♂️ Great conversations with local residents
👉 We campaign all year round in #ForestofDean
Today is #ArmedForcesDay: a day to show support for the men and women who make up the Armed Forces community, from currently serving troops to Service families, veterans and cadets. Find out more at: http://www.armedforcesday.org.uk https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/1540620067649593344
Today on #ArmedForcesDay, William and I would like to pay tribute to the brave men and women, past & present, serving in all of our armed forces, at sea, on land & in the air, here in the UK and around the world.
Thank you for all you and your families sacrifice to keep us safe.
Honoured to be formally re-adopted as the @Conservatives candidate for the #ForestofDean, my home community that I’m proud to represent.
Grateful for the continued support of my local Conservative Association and my constituents.
I will always stand up for what’s right.
Here’s why @RishiSunak & @SimonClarkeMP are so right to be keeping a hawkish eye on our finances.
We cannot afford to keep paying spiralling debt interest.
That’s why the public finances must continue to be run prudently & Govt cannot say ‘yes’ to calls for even more spending.
Interest payments on the national debt rose 70% in May to £7.6bn (compared with a year earlier) - largely because of the impact of rising inflation on income paid to holders of index-linked gilts (inflation-protected government bonds). More worryingly, this was 49%…
🗳 Good to be out with @TivHonTories again ahead of tomorrow’s by-election
🇬🇧 Helen Hurford has what it takes to be a great local Member of Parliament
🤝 Enjoying more conversations with residents about the local issues that matter
☀️ More good conversations on doorsteps with @TivHonTories in beautiful Beer
🗳 On Thursday, voters in Tiverton & Honiton will be choosing their next MP to deal with the local issues that matter
🇬🇧 Local @Conservatives candidate Helen Hurford is the best person for that job!
🗳 Great speaking to residents on behalf of @TivHonTories today ahead of an important by-election on Thursday.
🇬🇧 Spreading the word about the fab local @Conservatives candidate Helen Hurford with @JustinTomlinson, @LukeHall, @KellyTolhurst, @simonjamesjupp & team👇
📺 Politics West, BBC One at 1000 this morning, lots to discuss…see you there! #politicswest
👉 Out & about in Dymock this morning delivering a residents’ survey
🙋♂️ Great to listen to what local residents think about local & national issues
🌧 A slightly damp morning after a very ☀️ week but a keen team led by @EliHeathfield campaigns all year round
Delighted to welcome @mencap_charity to Parliament to mark #ldweek2022 and support their report on loneliness
Thank you to the inspirational learning disability campaigners who shared their experiences with MPs
The report is important reading 👉 https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-04/LONELINESS%20ENGAGEMENT%20FUND%20REPORT%20EASY%20READ%20MARCH%202022.pdf
I am supporting the @WesternGateway_ campaign to bring the UK’s first prototype fusion plant to the Severn Estuary
This ready-to-go bid for a flagship clean energy project will #STEPUpForSevern - £billions in investment and thousands of jobs for the West and the #ForestofDean
#Construction has a big skills shortage on its hands. So, I'm proud of our support for #Cinderford's @AccXel_UK, which are investing in novel ways to attract and develop the sector's future talent 🏗️. Great to see 👇
https://www.punchline-gloucester.com/articles/aanews/gloucestershire-construction-school-accxel-cinderford-offers-apprenticeships-with-vr-tech
👍 Thanks to @sajidjavid for meeting earlier to discuss this - glad he’s taken immediate action to address our concerns.
I've just been told by @sajidjavid that the job advert has been pulled. Yipee! https://twitter.com/DesmondSwayne/status/1534525159763214338
Looking forward to speaking to @sajidjavid about this later…
The Department of Health is advertising for a 'Deputy Director, Delivery Lead - Covid Pass.' I think Sajid was taken by surprise when I asked for an explanation…
🎥 Enjoyed taking part in @danwootton’s lockdown inquiry last night.
😱 Ministers must never be allowed to be panicked by duff modelling or bypass Parliamentary scrutiny ever again.
👊🏻 The work of the Covid Recovery Group goes on…behind the scenes though… 👀
‘We’re going to be living with the impact on the health service for a very long time.’
Chair of the Covid Recovery Group, Mark Harper MP, discusses Boris Johnson’s lockdown policy.
📺 Freeview 236, Sky 515, Virgin 626
💻 GB News YouTube: https://bit.ly/3vAYaw0
Fantastic to see @Siobhan_Baillie raising the #SevernEdgeSTEP bid's unique strengths in Parliament today with @GeorgeFreemanMP
With strong cross party support, the ideal location and unparalleled expertise on our door step - we are ready to deliver #STEP for the UK.
🗽 Great to talk to the @ASI!
🇬🇧 A room fizzing with ideas & reminders that a Conservative Govt must actually be…Conservative.
👍 PM *promised* my colleagues some new stuff yesterday: properly seizing Brexit benefits, cutting taxes & regaining trust.
⏳Not long to deliver!..
The Conservative Party I love, that I have been a member of since I was 17, still has so much to offer to our country.
I backed Boris Johnson in the last leadership election & wanted him to succeed.
This hasn’t been reached lightly, but now I think we must change to win. 🧵 👇
Another busy #PlatinumJubilee day today.
Kick off at Littledean Community Centre’s Summer Fayre.
After coffee & cake it was off to the Ruardean Carnival.
Great turnout at both with the weather staying dry!
Great day celebrating the #PlatinumJubilee in #forestofdean
Today I attended The Pludds and planted a tree 🌲 in honour of The Queen, then joined residents for games and cake 🍰 in the village hall.
Afterwards, I went to @speechhouse for their wonderful Jubilee event.
🇬🇧 Great pleasure to spend the day celebrating The Queen’s #PlatinumJubilee across the Forest of Dean.
👑 I attended the reading of the Jubilee proclamation in #Newent and #Coleford then on to #Cinderford for the town’s celebration of culture & community.
God Save The Queen 🇬🇧
No. The UK voted to leave the EU.
That meant leaving the Single Market and putting an end to freedom of movement. The end.
Yes, there are issues with the Protocol, but @trussliz, @BrandonLewis & @ConorBurnsUK are working to deal with those issues.
Pretty extraordinary article here from Tobias Ellwood, where he argues we should rejoin the single market to ease the cost of living crisis, even if it means accepting EU regs and freedom of movement.
Is anyone else in his party going to back this idea? https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/we-can-upgrade-brexit-and-ease-the-cost-of-living-by-going-back-to-the-single-market
👑 Over the coming days, I’ll be joining many across the #ForestofDean at various events and festivities to celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s #PlatinumJubilee
🙏🏻 We are very lucky to have Her Majesty. She is the perfect example of selfless leadership.
🇬🇧 God Save The Queen 🇬🇧
My colleagues, the decent men and women of the Conservative Party, are being asked to go out and defend the indefensible.
A proper leader wouldn’t ask their own team to do this.
"I'm fed up with my colleagues... who are being asked to go out on the television day after day and saying things that are frankly ridiculous and defending the indefensible"
Tory MP Mark Harper says PM has "not been straight" with people
#PoliticsLive https://bbc.in/3yV1jIv
@BorisJohnson @sajidjavid 👇@sajidjavid has replied on the proposed "WHO treaty”
He’s clear the UK won't sign up to anything that comprises our sovereignty or could implement lockdowns out of our control
👉The text won’t please all, but I know @sajidjavid will ensure the WHO does not decide our freedoms
👷 Following our successful Levelling Up Fund bid, the £20 million of extra Government funding has arrived in the #ForestofDean and is already being put to good use!
👉 I fought hard for the Forest to get this funding. Here’s where this story started https://twitter.com/mark_j_harper/status/1453347939292680192
The #LevellingUp fund is giving Forest of Dean a major boost 📈
The area will benefit from:
🎓new education and career opportunities
💻business development
↗️repurposed sports facilities
Find out more about the LU Fund ➡️https://levellingup.campaign.gov.uk/?utm_source=GCSL_SW&utm_medium=GCSL_SW&utm_campaign=Levelling_Up&utm_id=LU_SW&utm_term=Levelling+and+Up&utm_content=Levelling_Up
@FoDDC @Hartpury @cinderfordtc
The Metropolitan Police has completed Operation Hillman, so Sue Gray’s report must be published - in full - before the Whitsun recess.
The Prime Minister also committed to providing a full account once the inquiries were complete - it’s important this takes place in the Commons.
🎥 A classic example of the usual hot air from Labour with no idea of how to pay for things.
🤦🏻♂️ Their unfunded promises show that they think the British people are mugs who won’t notice their policies would cost us tens of billions extra in debt interest.
🤡 Same. Old. Labour.
👉 Great to be out campaigning in Newnham this morning on a beautiful day in the #ForestofDean
🙋♂️Lots of opportunities to talk with local residents as we delivered leaflets led by Newnham’s Carol Thomas
👍 Carol and I took the chance for a short break at the fab wood carving 👏
👍 Pleased to see that the @covidinquiryuk terms of reference have been sharpened, which reflects the suggestions made by @SteveBakerHW & I.
✍️ You can read the original letter Steve & I sent to the Inquiry Chair, Baroness Hallett, here: https://twitter.com/mark_j_harper/status/1509544651409268741
The Inquiry Chair, Baroness Heather Hallett, has written to the Prime Minister with her recommendations for the draft Terms of Reference, following a four week consultation with bereaved families, sector representatives and the public.
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https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/2022/05/baroness-hallett-makes-recommendations-to-the-prime-minister-on-the-inquirys-terms-of-reference/
Excellent maiden speech by @Anna_Firth!
The House of Commons sorely misses Sir David Amess and we are proud to have Anna succeed him.
💥BIG NEWS!💥
Today I made my maiden speech in the House of Commons! 🗣️
I spoke on Sir David's legacy in @theendofound & @DogsTrust, my passion for healthcare @SouthendCCG, education @WHSG1920, our charities like @MusicManProject & @prost8uk + local businesses eg.@tappdcocktails
Keir Starmer was the Prime Minister’s nodding dog on Covid laws
Starmer & Labour approved draconian laws without asking difficult questions, leaving that to my Conservative backbench colleagues & me
He made the rules. He can’t get away with it if he’s found to have broken them
This is v tricky for Labour.
In the week after the Met police announced their partygate investigation both Rayner and Starmer called for Boris Johnson to resign.
So what do they say now?
(HT @DominicPenna for uncovering)
It’s clear that @DurhamPolice are doing exactly the right thing in investigating @UKLabour and Sir @Keir_Starmer
It’s vital that the man who wants to be Prime Minister is held to the same standard as the Prime Minister and everybody else.
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EXCLUSIVE: Durham Police will investigate Sir Keir Starmer over beergate allegations, the Daily Telegraph understands
🏴🇬🇧 Getting out the vote in Monmouthshire this morning
🌳 Local @Conservatives do a fab job running @MonmouthshireCC
❌ Labour keeps taking Welsh voters for granted, it’s only local Conservatives who’ll keep your council taxes as low as possible
🗳 #VoteConservative
I agree with @NadineDorries on this one.
Keir Starmer and Labour still have questions to answer.
The man who wants to one day be Prime Minister cannot behave like this. He has a responsibility to be open, honest and transparent with the public. #Beergate
🏴 🇬🇧 Enjoyed being on the doors today with @WelshConserv Leader in @SeneddWales, @AndrewRTDavies, ahead of the local elections on Thursday
💪 Supporting local Conservatives who do a great job running @MonmouthshireCC
🗳 #VoteConservative5May
👉 Great to help @MrGRHughes & @musthangsally again this morning in #MagorEastWithUndy
👉 Enjoyed listening to local residents on a beautiful morning in 🏴
#VoteConservativeOn5thMay 🗳
I cannot forgive the Prime Minister for breaking the Covid laws he set. Why?
Because he, and his Ministers, told us that flexing the rules could be fatal, and his Govt briefed out that those who asked any questions wanted to kill tens of thousands of people👇
“If you did challenge the status quo… you were met with the idea that you were trying to kill people”
On the latest #PlanetNormal podcast, Tory MP @Mark_J_Harper tells @LiamHalligan about the backlash he received for scrutinising lockdown measures.
🎧👉 http://playpodca.st/planetnormal
Proud to be on this list with many of my colleagues in the House of Commons.
Russia really hates being called out for their illegal invasion of Ukraine and disgraceful war crimes.
The United Kingdom stands with Ukraine.
🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦
#StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini
READ IN FULL: List of 287* MPs Sanctioned by Russia https://order-order.com/2022/04/27/read-in-full-list-of-287-mps-sanctioned-by-russia
🙌 Great to be back in Cheltenham supporting our brilliant local Conservative team of council candidates
🧏♂️ Always good to listen to local residents & discuss local issues
🗳 Big team of activists ably led by @Reed4Park
NEW Terrific fun to chat to @Mark_J_Harper @Mike_Fabricant and @hbaldwin for today's Chopper's Politics podcast. Tune in now on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts.
Pics taken in the Red Lion pub by the legendary @eddiemulh. @ChoppersPodcast @redlionSW1
Proud to call @SteveBakerHW a friend and a colleague.
The thoughtful remarks of a decent man 👇
"I have to acknowledge that if the prime minister occupied any other office of senior responsibility... he would be long gone"
Conservative MP Steve Baker says Boris Johnson "should know the gig's up"
https://bbc.in/3vryEYo
Joining many in the #ForestofDean and across the country in wishing Her Majesty a very happy birthday.
God Save The Queen
Ahead of The Queen’s 96th Birthday tomorrow, @windsorhorse have released a new photograph of Her Majesty.
Taken last month in the grounds of Windsor Castle, The Queen is pictured with two of her fell ponies, Bybeck Katie and Bybeck Nightingale.
Happy Birthday Your Majesty!
My letter to @SirGrahamBrady.
👉 Great to help @MrGRHughes & @musthangsally this morning in #MagorEastWithUndy
👉 Enjoyed listening to local residents on a beautiful morning in 🏴
#VoteConservativeOn5thMay 🗳
Great morning session with @MrGRHughes and his team for #MagorEastWithUndy @WelshConserv @Jane4MCC @Benjami08727110 @Mark_J_Harper #VoteConservativeOn5thMay 🗳
👇On the latest job figures day this month,I met some fab young people who are part of the 30+ cohort here who’ve thrived because of #Kickstart & the work of @DWP We couldn’t have done it without employers stepping forward to give young people a chance to get on the jobs ladder🪜 https://twitter.com/dwppressoffice/status/1513908333400543237
"160,000 young people have started their careers because of the DWP Kickstart programme"
Minister for Employment @mimsdavies met some of the young people learning the ropes of journalism via their #Kickstart Scheme placements with @TheSun
☀️ Good to be back in Cheltenham on another sunny morning with my great Gloucestershire colleague @AlexChalkChelt
🗳 There are important local elections in Cheltenham on 5 May, so good to be out on doorsteps listening to voters with our @Conservatives team led by @Reed4Park
This morning we visited Park Ward to support @Reed4Park
It was a positive session followed by a scrumptious lunch at the Over Farm Cafe.
Margaret Thatcher would’ve been great to have around for Covid. She would have hoovered up her red boxes to know the info she needed to:
👉 challenge the modelling
👉 ask the right questions
👉 avoid being being bounced into decisions by advisers/ministers with narrow agendas
Boris Johnson compares himself to Margaret Thatcher: 'She would have dealt with Covid in same way' https://www.gbnews.uk/news/boris-johnson-compares-himself-to-margaret-thatcher-she-would-have-dealt-with-covid-in-same-way/267876