Rachel Reeves - the worst Chancellor this country has ever had Monday, 1 December, 2025 Rachel Reeves will go down as the worst Chancellor this country has ever had. Her position is now untenable and she knows it. Last year, she launched the biggest tax raid in history then swore she wouldn’t be back for more. Today she’s broken that promise. Labour are hiking taxes again to pay for more welfare. And why? To keep their backbenchers quiet. The Government has lost what little... Articles
NI Conservatives' President awarded CBE in New Year's Honours list 2nd January 2014 NI Conservatives’ president, Emma Pidding, has been awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours’ List. Local News
Ringland brands Executive parties 'pathetic' after Haass talks fail 24th December 2013 NI Conservatives’ co-chair, Trevor Ringland, has branded Northern Ireland’s executive parties “thoroughly pathetic”, after they failed to reach agreement in... Local News
Minister cannot be allowed to divert money into divisive projects 23rd December 2013 “Every penny” of EU Common Agricultural Policy funding should be “spent on supporting farmers and agri-food”, according to NI Conservatives’ prospective... Local News
What the 'Christmas Truce' can teach us 23rd December 2013 Next year sees the 100 th anniversary of the ‘Christmas Truce’. Over the 24 th and 25 th of December 2014, British and German troops famously climbed out of... Opinions
McBride welcomes zero hours consultation 20th December 2013 NI Conservatives’ spokesman, Brian McBride, has welcomed the government’s consultation into ‘zero hours contracts’. Local News
Business red tape review took too long to set up 20th December 2013 A review into red tape encountered by businesses is ‘seriously overdue’, according to NI Conservatives’ economy spokesman, Johnny Andrews. Local News
Executive should spell out the true cost of welfare - Brotherston 18th December 2013 The Stormont Executive should specify which public services it intends to cut, when it breaks ‘parity’ with the welfare system in the rest of the UK, next month... Local News
Council 'opt outs' on flags 'pointless' 17th December 2013 The NI Conservatives’ co-chair has described any suggestion that councils could ‘opt out’ of protocols around flags as ‘pretty pointless’. Trevor Ringland was... Local News
Deplorable attack targetting whole community 16th December 2013 The explosion in the Cathedral Quarter of Belfast on Friday evening was ‘a deplorable attack which targeted the whole community’, according to NI Conservatives’... Local News
The Prime Minister’s Update on One-Metre Plus and the fight against COVID-19 24th June 2020 The Prime Minister has set out further changes to lockdown measures in England to enable people to see more of their friends and family, help businesses get... National News
Your Questions Answered by: Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer 18th June 2020 Your questions answered by Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer. National News
Shop safely today: shops can reopen their doors in England 15th June 2020 From June 15th, shops are able to reopen their doors in England, in the next step in our careful easing of lockdown – provided they are meeting robust safety... National News
Let us work peacefully and lawfully to defeat racism and discrimination 9th June 2020 The Prime Minister has condemned the violence seen against police officers during protests over the weekend. National News
Boris Johnson: We will meet our obligations to Hong Kong, not walk away 3rd June 2020 Britain wants nothing more than for Hong Kong to succeed under “one country, two systems”. I hope that China wants the same. Let us work together to make it so. National News
How we're protecting jobs, businesses and livelihoods as we begin to kickstart our economy 3rd June 2020 Our top priority has always been to support people, protect jobs and businesses through this crisis. The furlough and self-employment schemes have been a... National News
