One answer to the question in red above is – I’m a conservative. I have been a conservative my whole life. I believe our taxes should be low, the interference of the state in our lives should be minimal and that people who are truly free are most likely to achieve their potential and fulfil their dreams. The job of the state is to provide a safe environment within which citizens can thrive, with secure borders and effective and efficient public services. 

I have been the Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire since 2010. For most of that time I was a representative of the Conservative and Unionist Party.  I am now Independent, and happy to be so. 

The Conservative and Unionist Party no longer seems to believe any of the things I do. They are, therefore, no longer conservatives. They have imposed the highest tax burden on you since the Second World War. They locked you up in your houses for months on end at the beginning of the 2020s on the say-so of bureaucrats and coerced many of you into medical interventions you did not want and that are not safe. They handed out billions of pounds of your money to other people. They have opened our borders to wave after wave of illegal migrants whose lifestyles they fund with your ever increasing taxes. 

There is a socialist stench about the Conservatives of 2024. They have become enslaved by a bizarre groupthink that would be comical if they weren’t using it as a basis to regulate and tax us out of existence. If you vote for them you might as well vote Labour.  

I have not changed. The Conservative and Unionist Party has.