Robert Jenrick

🚨NEW: Reform will increase the tax-free personal allowance to £15,000 pounds in our first budget.

A £500 tax cut for the average worker, £1000 off for a working couple.

Thank you to all our Armed Forces personnel – regulars, reserves, veterans and their families – who go above and beyond in their service to this country.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them.

It was an honour to lay a wreath in Newark this morning.

Today we honour the memory of those who gave their lives in the service of our country.

Each life honoured on every memorial in every city, town or village was once full of the ordinary moments and quiet dreams, of good days and bad days, of celebrations and disappointments. Of family and of community. They didn’t stand apart from us, but among us, ordinary men and women who chose or were asked to shoulder an impossible burden.

They laid down their lives for Britons they would never meet, for generations yet unborn, for a nation that would not exist as we know it absent their incredible courage.

We remember their gallantry. We revere their legacy. We salute them in their eternal glory, and we recommit to building a nation that is stronger, prouder, kinder and freer than ever before.

On Remembrance Sunday Lisa Nandy has claimed that no one in Britain has had to fight a war since WW2.

What about the 7,193 British soldiers who have sacrificed their lives in conflicts ranging from the Korean War to Afghanistan?

While she erases their service, the country will never forget their bravery.

Remembrance Sunday is a sacred day, not to be cynically used by Labour to justify closer ties to the EU. Whatever the merits of their argument - and I believe reopening the Brexit wars is both a colossal waste of energy and a strategic disaster when national sovereignty is more important than ever - this is not the day for it.

It’s disappointing that Nandy and Andy Burnham, who presumably agreed to this, have failed so badly to meet the moment.