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Jun 22, 2024 · Tom Pridham is the Conservative candidate in the Battersea constituency for the UK Parliamentary election on Thursday 4 July 2024. To provide more information about the main candidates, we have partnered with the Lavender-Hill.uk community website and invited them to answer our questions.
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Jun 22, 2024 · Tom Pridham is the Conservatives candidate in the Battersea constituency for the 2024 General Election. Some of our readers may recognise Tom, as he's currently also a very active and enthusiastic ward Councillor for the Lavender ward (covering the south of the street, between Lavender Hill and Clapham Common).
- Defence
- Tech & Cyber
- Allies – Indo-Pacific Tilt
- Adversaries – China & Russia
- Trade
- Development
- Concluding Points
Although detail about the UK armed forces’ defence footprint will have to wait until next week’s command paper, the IR contained some noteworthy announcements. Perhaps the most eye-catching was that the UK will increase its nuclear arsenal from 180 to 260 warheads, a reversal in policy after generations of declining stockpiles. The move has been pa...
This increased focus on emergent technology will see enhanced efforts in cyber and space with science and technology now treated as a matter for national security with an ambition to become a ‘Science and Tech Superpower’. In an effort to link this with the levelling up agenda, there will be a new cyber corridor across the North West of England tha...
In a sense, today’s commitment to be “the European partner with the broadest and most integrated presence in the Indo-Pacific” is as much about the UK’s relationship with the USA (described as the UK’s “most important strategic ally and partner”) as the region itself. Whilst the language on China is – in general – more nuanced and less hostile than...
Unsurprisingly, given the hostility since the 2018 Salisbury chemical weapons attack, Russia is identified as “the most acute direct threat to the UK” that will be “more active around the wider European neighbourhood”. There is a commitment to “actively deter and defend against the full spectrum of threats emanating from Russia”. However, much more...
The IR re-emphasises the UK’s ambitions as an “independent trading nation” and commitment to open, competitive, liberal markets. The UK will aim to reinvigorate the WTO and reduce trade barriers whilst negotiating bilateral and regional free trade agreements. Nevertheless, there is a recognition that this may be challenging with a number of countri...
The decision in November to reduce aid spending to 0.5% of GDP was controversial with figures from across the political spectrum criticising the decision as both unhumanitarian and counterproductive to UK interests. While the IR promises to return spending to 0.7% “when the fiscal situation allows” it also continues the trend of submerging developm...
Whilst the IR represents a significant departure for UK foreign policy it also seeks to return the UK to a prominent global role, but with an updated and modernised remit. If it can be properly funded and delivered, this is a framework that offers a revitalising context for British policy across defence, security, diplomacy, aid and trade for decad...
Tom Pridham, a public affairs professional, has been selected as Conservative PPC at Battersea where Labour MP Marsha De Cordova had a majority of 5668 in 2019. He was elected to Richmond and Wandsworth in 2022.
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May 24, 2021 · A senior lobbyist with an international consulting company volunteered to help a Facebook group running anti-SNP adverts during the Scottish election campaign, it has emerged.
