Tristan Honeyborne 🇺🇦

Labour: losses everywhere. Reform: good gains made by burning thru ~£8mn (10x what you usually spend on locals) yet did worse than last year. Conservatives: progress on last year, losses in counties set to be abolished but best London results since 2006. Read more below👇 in my Telegraph article where I explain why, despite the setbacks, I'm encouraged with our results this week. The Conservative Party is rebuilding steadily, seriously and with purpose. We are not asking people to forget the past but to judge us by what we do next.

Strong Team 💪 (Not a One Man Band)

This is a huge u-turn by the government and a big win for the Conservative Party's campaign against Labour's Family Farm Tax. Earlier this year, I was told to drop our campaign, that there weren’t many votes in it, there weren't many farmers, and people assumed they were wealthy enough to cope anyway. I ignored the advice and kept campaigning. The Family Farm Tax is cruel, immoral and will not raise any money because farmers will stop farming. It would have pushed farms to the brink, damaged our food supply, and hurt the people who work long hours to feed the country. Family farms aren’t big corporations. They are often small businesses passed down through generations, run by parents and children together, rooted in their local communities. If they fail, they are gone for good. @Conservatives have always understood this. Similar ideas were put forward in the past and we said “NO!” because you don’t punish people who do the right thing, work the land, and keep the country going. Labour, by contrast, came into office with no real plan and chose to target people they assumed wouldn’t vote for them anyway. Farmers have paid the price. We refused to accept this. We kept campaigning, week after week. Thousands of people signed our petition and contacted their MPs in Labour seats. Their voices mattered and today’s u-turn shows they were heard. Farmers are exactly the kind of people Conservatives stand up for: hard-working, responsible, family-focused, and committed to passing something on to the next generation. That feels especially important at Christmas, a time when family, care for others, and responsibility are at the heart of what we celebrate. This fight isn’t finished. Other family businesses are still affected by Labour's tax raid, and we will keep pushing until the tax is lifted from them too. But today is an important win, and proof that standing up for what’s fair, even when the odds are against us can make a real difference.