'You can't trust Labour - Starmer would raid pensions given the chance', says David Morris MP

This is proof that the Asylum measures are working and we are now seeing deportations starting to take flight.

The Prime Minister’s statement on the operational plans in place to deliver removals of asylum seekers who have entered the UK illegally to have their claims processed in Rwanda was clear –the focus is on ensuring that removal flights take off and that the partnership is implemented and operational.

Last week I attended the Nuclear Industry Association event accompanying the Nuclear Energy Minister Andrew Bowie MP.

We had previously had a meeting with Whitehall Officials regarding the future nuclear prospects in our community. The two nuclear power stations are our biggest employer and driver of our local economy.

We met with the hierarchy of the Nuclear lobby and naturally I was there promoting Heysham and our local industry and skills.

As you maybe aware I have been constantly supporting our local nuclear industry in Parliament since I was first elected back in 2010. In those days it was an uphill struggle to be taken seriously for a new nuclear build. I famously had a row with the then Energy Secretary who was a Liberal in coalition who said that nuclear was old technology, such was his lack of vision.

Since the government has committed to investing in new nuclear builds after Labour stopped the programme in the Blair /Brown era, Heysham is one of the 8 sites that will have a new build that I was successful in securing for my community in 2010.

Just a note, Ed Miliband was the Energy Secretary that ceased the new nuclear build programme when Labour were last in power. If they get in again, would you trust them to honour our new build?

Under the last Labour government, pensions rose by just 75 pence in 1999. In 1999, Gordon Brown announced a derisory increase of the Basic State Pension – from £66.75 per week to £67.50

The Conservatives are protecting the Triple Lock and uprating the State Pension by £900 from April 2024, protecting pensioners’ incomes.We have protected the Triple Lock we introduced in 2011 and uprated the State Pension by 8.5 per cent this April in line with average earnings growth, meaning pensioners are receiving up to £900 more a year

The next day I wrote a letter to the Secretary of State for Energy advising her to prioritise our Heysham site for a new build to carry on our prospects for future generations. Only a few weeks ago , Andrew Bowie MP came to Heysham 2 to see our apprentices work and training programme.

Labour would raid pensions again given the chance; they will never protect pensioners. Labour’s new tax adviser, Edward Troup, said today’s pensioners have ‘had it ridiculously good’, saying it was ‘complete disgrace’ pensioners weren’t paying national insurance and that ‘we are going to have to look at the more senior members of society’ for tax.

Troup said: "So where should we be looking? I’m told I can’t use the word codgers, but as I’m officially a codger I think I will. You should look to my generation, you know, I’m a baby boomer, I was born in 1955, we have had it ridiculously good.

"We’ve benefited from low interest rates, high inflation when we bought our houses, we’ve enjoyed good returns on whatever we’ve managed to put it into our pension funds, and we’re not paying national insurance if we’re still working after the age of 60, and it’s a complete disgrace.

"I am part of an under-taxed generation so I’m afraid we are going to have to look at the more senior members of society"

You can’t trust Labour.