Every 6 hours in Scotland, someone dies of a preventable drug related death. We have the worst drug death rate in Europe & without action it will only get worse. That's why I have launched my Bill consultation in @ScotParl to establish Overdose Prevention Centres. Watch 👇👇

Losing Monzo is a big test for the UK's long term prosperity. We cannot keep letting our biggest firms fall into foreign ownership and control. It does matter. A UK listing must happen and the structural barriers to raising share capital in Britain need to be addressed urgently.

For example: on the West Coast Main Line, a diesel Class 66 slows down to 25mph over Shap summit, and a bi-mode Class 88 down to 48mph. Two fully electric Class 90 trains can run in tandem at 75mph. Only full electrification will deliver for both passengers and freight. 7/8

The Scottish universities should keep repeating this. They are capped in how many school leaver scottish students they can take, and they are not appropriately paid by scottish govt for that intake. This is the scottish government policy.

The Vice-Principal of St Andrews has literally just had to publish an article explaining that the Scottish Government dictates "precisely how many they can admit every year". If the university goes "even one student beyond our cap, they are fined". Trying to frame St Andrews as anti-Scottish when it is the SNP’s own funding model that restricts domestic student numbers is entirely dishonest.

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🇬🇧 RULE, BRITANNIA! HMS Agamemnon, the world's most advanced attack submarine, has sailed from BAE Systems' Barrow-in-Furness shipyard for the first time and is heading for her new home at HM Naval Base Clyde. The departure marks the first in a series of sea trials and training evolutions before she can join her five Astute-class sisters in the operational fleet. Named after the ancient Greek king who launched the Trojan War, the nuclear-powered powered boat - the sixth of seven Astute-class submarines being built - weighs in at 7,400 tonnes and is 97-metres long.

And the price of British energy is where globally?

Britain's first reservoir for 30 years has been delayed another five years. Now, Heathrow 3rd runway delayed until 2039 Why? The regulatory purgatory that imprisons UK growth - and will imprison Burnham unless he reforms. My Times column:- times-comment.com/hs2

Every year @BritishProgress asks Britain's top economists and policy researchers what the UK should do to increase growth. 🚨 As covered exclusively for @thetimes this morning, the 2026 growth survey results are now in! 🚨 This was our biggest survey yet with over 100 responses. 📉 The bad news: Britain's public finances, with inflation hit by external shocks, are in a bad state. 📈 The good news: the UK is not without options. There is much that can be done on the supply side reforms, & smarter fiscal policy can raise revenue while supporting growth. Here are the 12 most interesting results 👇 *1. Where should the government prioritise spending political capital?* We asked "In what areas should the Government invest more (or less) political capital to achieve growth?" NB this was explicitly not a question about spending – that's the next one.

Expansion of Jobs Guarantee to put young disabled people at the front of the queue. This is the kind of change we need.

100% agree

I’ve spent a few weeks asking people if Britain is prepared for war, among other doom scenarios. The short answer is no and the condensed reason for why that happened is that we spent the last forty years stripping off and selling the most resilient systems in the country for parts.

John Swinney called for central government to help councils finance equal pay settlements from opposition in 2006, then reneged when he became Finance Secretary in 2007, leaving councils to expensively finance settlements by mortgaging assets with commercial banks, hamstringing them to this day, compounding it with austerity budgets. The legal dispute continued after the SNP became the administration of Glasgow City Council in May 2017, culminating in January 2018, when the Court of Session refused the Council's request for permission to appeal to the Supreme Court. Following this refusal, the Council *unanimously* voted to abandon any further avenues of appeal and begin negotiations. It was not possible for Councillors to unilaterally settle the legal dispute prior to this point because it would have defied officers' legal advice, and it would have been ruled ultra vires by the Chief Executive under Section 95 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 due to the massive financial liability it exposed the Council to. It's outrageous the way the SNP have misrepresented the history of this complex legal situation for self-serving political ends, and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

London is LOSING another listing. And we already sit below Mexico, Spain & Turkey. Stamp Duty on shares is BLOCKING INVESTMENT.  We need RADICAL ACTION to keep firms like Monzo in Britain. Two decades ago, companies raised £51 BILLION on the London Stock Exchange. In 2025, they managed just 0.49% of that figure. The Government must ACT. SCRAP STAMP DUTY ON SHARES.

I keep saying it, but allowing the sale of Arm in 2016 was such a crazily poor piece of decisionmaking that even by the standards of UK economic policy it’s something of an outlier.

i've banked with monzo since 2019. it's exactly what britain should be producing. built from nothing, forced every legacy bank to modernise, and now one of the biggest consumer banks in the country and we're about to sell it to brazil investors deserve a payout, fair enough. but the reason it's a sale and not an ipo is that our ipo market is dead. so our best companies get bought instead of listed deepmind to google. arm to softbank. our car makers, our steel, our water, our airlines. now monzo we build them and sell them. every. single. time.

It appears you did take some lectures from trade unions, Labour and your own mortified government. Thank goodness.

This is how dangerous the waste industry is fire today cleansing depot loft in Glasgow The problem is rised so many times The sprinkler system does not work. To much money to fix they said health and safety first money should not come into it.

They were "fully committed" to firing them 24 hours ago.