Nick Timothy

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Camilla Tominey |Gordon Rayner |Nick Timothy

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2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Camilla Tominey |Gordon Rayner |Nick Timothy

Rachel Reeves finally confirmed Labour's rumoured U-turn on the winter fuel cut for pensioners this lunchtime, completing a humiliating climb down for the Government and reinstating the payments for around nine million elderly people. Nigel Farage was quick to take credit for the reversal in a speech in Wales, where he also called for domestic coal mines to be reopened and said Reform chairman Zia Yusuf "lost his rag" when he resigned late last week - only to return on Saturday.

1 month ago | spectator.com.au | Nick Timothy

As a parable that sums up the dysfunction of the modern state and the over-regulation of industry, this has it all: government by unaccountable quango, ministers whose actions are the opposite of their words, puritanical campaigners given the power to dictate how people spend their money, a refusal to recognise glaring trade-offs and the cost of regulation, and the complacency with which a great British success story might be killed off.

1 month ago | spectator.co.uk | Nick Timothy

As a parable that sums up the dysfunction of the modern state and the over-regulation of industry, this has it all: government by unaccountable quango, ministers whose actions are the opposite of their words, puritanical campaigners given the power to dictate how people spend their money, a refusal to recognise glaring trade-offs and the cost of regulation, and the complacency with which a great British success story might be killed off. The success story in question is horse racing.

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tony Diver |Joe Barnes |Nick Timothy

Sir Keir Starmer is to join a European Union net zero scheme as soon as next month in a move that risks driving up energy bills for millions of households. The Prime Minister is planning to use a summit in May to align the UK and EU emissions trading schemes as part of his "reset" with Brussels.