Helen Whately MP (@Helen

Helen Whately MP

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Helen Whately MP

@Helen_Whately

MP for Faversham and Mid Kent. Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

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Joined April 2010

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Helen Whately MP
@Helen_Whately
Jun 9
"It's so hard to have hope...it was hard in October... it's devastating nine months later." Those are the words of Aryn, one of ten young people who joined me in Parliament last week. I wanted to hear about their experience of trying to find work. Read my reflections here 👇
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Helen Whately MP
@Helen_Whately
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Yesterday in #PMQs @KemiBadenoch told Keir Starmer to cut welfare spending to fund defence. He refused. Now the Defence Secretary has resigned 👇
John Healey
@JohnHealey_MP
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My letter to the Prime Minister
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Helen Whately MP
@Helen_Whately
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This warning from the UK’s biggest retailers is a wake-up call for the Government - not that they should need one with youth unemployment going up month after month, and NEETs now over 1 million. The retailers' message is simple: taking on young staff is more expensive, new
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Helen Whately MP
@Helen_Whately
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Not taxing something is not a subsidy. This is a fundamental problem with Labour’s world view. They think your money is a common good. If they leave you with some of it, you should thank them. They look at pensions in the same way.
BBC Politics
@BBCPolitics
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The taxpayer shouldn't be "subsidising private institutions and private schools" Labour MP Lola McEvoy defends the government's decision to add VAT to private school fees as figures show the number of pupils in private schools is falling bbc.in/4v31nQI
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Helen Whately MP
@Helen_Whately
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Bad luck to graduates struggling with massive student loan debts - delaying starting a family because you can’t afford it. Labour chose to lift the two child benefit cap and spend more on benefits rather than help you. @Conservatives will cap the interest on plan 2 student
GB News
@GBNEWS
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Rachel Reeves to fund soaring benefits bill with student loan interest rates, Labour MP admits gbnews.com/money/rachel-r…
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Helen Whately MP
@Helen_Whately
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Keir Starmer refused to rule out more tax rises in order to pay for defence. The answer is obvious (to everyone 👇). Cut the benefits bill and invest in our armed forces.
Kemi Badenoch
@KemiBadenoch
Jun 10
A more dangerous world demands serious leadership. But Keir Starmer is paralysed. We must cut welfare spending to fund our defence.
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Helen Whately MP
@Helen_Whately
Jun 10
We have nearly 2 million people unemployed in the UK. The Government is relentlessly taxing businesses - so they can’t afford to employ people. But now they are giving businesses £5k back per foreign worker they hire. It’s madness.
The Telegraph
@Telegraph
Jun 10
Rachel Reeves will reimburse British firms £5,000 per foreign worker in a bid to make the country more attractive despite the UK’s growing youth unemployment crisis 🖇️ telegraph.co.uk/money/jobs/wor…
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Helen Whately MP
@Helen_Whately
Jun 9
Excellent analysis from @LiamHalligan here👇 (& the whole thread in fact)
Liam Halligan
@LiamHalligan
Jun 9
Replying to @LiamHalligan
What’s undeniable is that Labour’s statist policies are seriously gumming up the jobs market – a disaster for those unable to find work, including hundreds of thousands of youngsters, but also for growth and related tax revenues, putting our stretched public finances under even
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Helen Whately MP
@Helen_Whately
Jun 9
Replying to @Helen_Whately
Ministers rule out cutting Britain's benefits budget to fund defence
From dailymail.com
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Helen Whately MP
@Helen_Whately
Jun 9
The Ministry of Defence needs an extra £28 billion by 2030. As it happens, benefits are set to go up by £40 billion between now and then. Yet still, Labour refuse to make ANY welfare savings.
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Helen Whately MP
@Helen_Whately
Jun 9
2 million people are set to be out of a job by the end of the year - latest CBI forecast. Labour's job-killing mission set to conitnue.
ITV News
@itvnews
Jun 9
UK unemployment to rise to two million as Iran conflict continues, says CBI itv.com/news/2026-06-0…
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Helen Whately MP
@Helen_Whately
Jun 9
Replying to @Helen_Whately
Listening to young people at the coal face of the jobs crisis
Listening to young people at the coal face of the jobs crisis
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Helen Whately MP
@Helen_Whately
Jun 8
1 million NEETs is an urgent problem. But where's Labour's urgency? After 6 months of inactivity, young people are far less likely to EVER work. Milburn *actually* said Labour's piecemeal programmes won't work. We need proper jobs which requires the government to back businesses
LBC
@LBC
Jun 8
'They're not delivering, minister!' @NickFerrariLBC pushes Baroness Jacqui Smith for concrete evidence that the government is helping young people find work, after the NEETs number rose to over 1 million.
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