Laurence Fredricks🧢 @LRFredricks

Energy, Housing, and the Social Contract at Onward. All views my own. London, England Joined July 2023

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Gavin Rice @gavinantonyrice

5 days ago

🚨Britain is losing £120 billion of investment - due to *bat surveys* Labs & data centres are being blocked by mountains of paperwork One fusion demonstration plant in Oxfordshire had to submit 4,000 pages of planning docs! A new @ukonward report reveals this & more...👇

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Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke

5 days ago

Britain is more regionally unequal than the former West and East Germany. To revitalise industry, and to prepare the UK for the technologies of the future, we need Industrial Growth Zones. And today @ukonward sets out what these should like.

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Home Builders Federation @HomeBuildersFed

3 weeks ago

🔴 221,900 homes were permissioned in the year to June 2025 ▪️Lowest 12-month rate in 12 years. An estimated 370,000 permissions a year are required to meet 1.5 million homes by 2029… …the current approval rate is less than 60% of this target.

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Phoebe Arslanagić-Little @PMArslanagic

3 weeks ago

TfL has the power to require continued minimum service (40% of normal services) during a tube strike. But the Government has told public bodies not to use these powers and actually says it plans to get rid of them.

Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes

3 weeks ago

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Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke

4 weeks ago

Welcome to The Great British Breakdown. Where trust is crumbling, especially among Reform voters – and everyone still wants cake. But if you want to restore trust, you need the right ingredients.

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Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes

4 weeks ago

Over the last three years, housebuilding in London has collapsed. Molior recorded just 2,158 private starts in the first half of 2025, around 5% of London’s (low) targets, and still falling. What is going on? I have posed this question to numerous specialists, most of whom…

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ConservativeHome @ConHome

4 weeks ago

From @EllieCraven__ : The quiet collapse of Welsh education conservativehome.com/2025/09/04/ell…

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Ben Hopkinson @Ben_A_Hopkinson

4 weeks ago

The Government has proposed a seemingly innocuous tax tweak on landfills that could ruin housebuilding, the 1.5 million home target, and large infrastructure projects. The alarm bells are ringing on 'rubbish' landfill tax changes 🧵

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Ellie Craven @EllieCraven__

4 weeks ago

Great to be on @BBCRadioWales to talk about @ukonward's new paper Devolved to Fail. But disappointed to see the @WelshGovernment is still shirking responsibility for failing Welsh children👇(1/3). ukonward.com/reports/devolv…

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Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke

a month ago

🇫🇷 Vindication for Nicolas, trente ans👇 This is why @ukonward published The Anti-Social Contract this summer ukonward.com/reports/the-an… We have to build homes We have to cut immigration We have to reform pensions We have to make raising kids more affordable We need growth

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Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke

a month ago

This Watermelon is crushing Britain. What you’re about to see should terrify every taxpayer...

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Ellie Craven @EllieCraven__

a month ago

🚨 NEW: What is really happening to Welsh education and why are Welsh children severely underperforming? And where will Wales be by 2040? Our new report at @ukonward reveals all 👇 ukonward.com/reports/devolv… (1/11)

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Jack Airey @aireyj

a month ago

What if the public is a lot more pro-building than generally thought? That's what new Public First research finds - young people, Labour supporters and Londoners are most likely to be YIMBY. They're just not making their views heard to local councils. publicfirst.co.uk/wp-content/upl…

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Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke

a month ago

This is precisely the kind of person who should be banned from driving for life, as per our recent @ukonward report - Cleared to Kill. Instead, she will be free to kill again.

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Phoebe Arslanagić-Little @PMArslanagic

2 months ago

Dangerous drivers who kill or seriously injure others are routinely let back on the road in England & Wales. Lifetime bans are VERY rare. Even the most deadly repeat offenders who kill while driving *more than once* avoid lifetime bans. Stats and case studies below. 1/10

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Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke

2 months ago

🚨Loophole Nation lands today from @ukonward. Our temporary visa system is meant to ensure migrants are able to support themselves. But creeping judicial activism under the ECHR has created loopholes that allow the path to settlement to be fully-funded by the taxpayer. A 🧵

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Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien

2 months ago

Our video on pro-parent policies is being blocked for some people by the Online Safety Act (because it features a very cute baby and her mum, @PMArslanagic) If you don't have a VPN you may be able to view it here: youtube.com/watch?v=l21qif…

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Conservative YIMBY 🧢 @consyimby

2 months ago

Bang on from @KemiBadenoch 💥 We need: 1. More Homes 2. Tougher Borders 3. A Growing Economy The #buildbabybuild 🧢 movement is here...

CCHQ Press @CCHQPress

2 months ago

Bang on from @KemiBadenoch 💥 We need: 1. More Homes 2. Tougher Borders 3. A Growing Economy The #buildbabybuild 🧢 movement is here... https://t.co/47dC8LHusn

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Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke

2 months ago

The name's Clarke. Simon Clarke. @consyimby presents 'A Licence to Build'

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James Yucel 🧢 @JLYucel

2 months ago

Another welcome key shift in language here from @JamesCleverly: It's no longer "build homes where people *want* them" It's now "build homes where people *need* them" Suggests prioritising building where demand is high - as opposed to listening to a vocal minority of blockers!