Earlier this month, the Prime Minister announced that the Government is creating the first smokefree generation, by bringing forward legislation so that children turning 14 this year or younger will never be legally sold tobacco products.
Earlier this month I attended the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester and in my capacity as Secretary of State for Transport, I had the honour of delivering an address to the main conference hall.
The debate on climate change is stuck between two extremes. On the one hand, there are those who want to abandon Net Zero altogether – because the costs on households are too high, or they don’t accept the evidence for climate change at all.
The latest figures have confirmed that the rate of inflation has fallen to 6.8 per cent, down from 7.9 per cent in June and over 10 per cent at the beginning of the year.
New figures show the Government continues to make progress on the Prime Minister’s plan to stop the boats: crossings remain down on last year, the legacy asylum backlog has been reduced by a third since December 2022, and enforced returns of people with no right to be in the UK are at their highe
Last week the Government’s Brexit Pubs Guarantee came into force, cutting taxes for 38,000 pubs and bars and supporting local businesses and communities as we work to grow the economy.