The Conservatives are backing Britain’s high streets and the hardworking small business owners who keep our communities thriving. That’s why we’ll scrap business rates for 250,000 Retail, Hospitality and Leisure businesses - helping shops, pubs, cafés and local venues to grow and prosper. #StrongerEconomy #BusinessRates #Conservatives

You gave £2,000,000 to Michelle One for substandard goods! You are just a bunch of crooks!

No, the department sourced PPE and then (whilst run by a Conservative administration) sued the company when they were found to be non-compliant.

And do we have the money back? 🤔

She lost in court but hasn’t paid yet to my knowledge

You have a history of failing on your pledges

I know many small retailers and for more than a decade they've been crying out for business rate reform which you failed to deliver. Labour will in the next budget. Sit down.

Kev voted for the Liz Truss budget 👍

Tories who spent 14 years not giving a shit are now pretending they cared all along.

Kevin, mate it’s not going to happen - the @Conservatives had your chance and lied and lied and lied again….. it’s now up to @reformparty_uk to lead the charge for Conservative values and principles that you lot so spectacularly let us all down on. Suggest you fall in behind @Nigel_Farage and support him and the party to form the next Government.

After 14 years of crushing those same businesses with austerity and chaos, this last-minute conversion is as believable as a pint of warm beer

Couldn’t you have done that 15 years ago? As it is you’re at least four years away from all your recent tardy pledges. And let’s face it, the chances of you winning in 2029 are laughably low.

Kevin your party’s credability is shot. IR35 reforms and how you treated 3.8 million SMEs who were forced to shut their business due to your govt mandate and then afforded zero support revealed your party is anti business & never to be trusted again. #excludedUK

Your Brexit did enormous damage to many small businesses You didn’t care then and you don’t care now

You had 14 years to do something about the decline and the only difference in Hastings town centre was £150,000 given to Lubov Chernukhin (who had given the Tories £2m) and the collapse of her ill thought out enterprise a few months later.

Kevin, you had fourteen years. What happened ?

No you're not! Keep up Kev you lost the GE & ceded power. You're in the shadow cabinet now!

Good grief no stamp duty no business rates, how will you pay for it?

Conservatives 14 fucking years of misery, bloody scum, where is our money, you look well fed with a beer in your hand, it’s always, I’m alright fuck you, We Will Never Forgive, We Will Never Forget 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

We were crying out for this for 14 years, when our high streets were dying! How come you failed to act then?! More fake promises now you're out of government, get on your bike.

Still clutching at straws eh Kevin! My question to you sunshine, is why suggest it now, why did you not do it during the 14 yrs you were in office? Were you all just sat back on your arses taking the country for a ride? Your party is finshed matey, you're all a busted flush!

@CJAWorrall I think someone has drunk to much of that warm beer you’re holder, either that or you just like spouting bullshit 🤡

Did it take you 14 years to come up with this genius policy?

Tory's are dead in the water, don't waste your breath.

You won’t because you’ll never be in government again so all a bit pointless ….

Your circus has finished mate, I have got more chance of being in government than you pal.

Everyday, Badenoch rolls out another annoyance. Today it's you. All you do is remind us of all the things you should & could have done in 14 years. But failed totally! Instead we got mendacity, venality, treachery, authoritarianism & incompetence. We wont forget or forgive!

You’ll never be back in power mate.

14 years to sort things out, what taxes would rise to recoup the shortfall.

More giveaways... But it's OK because you'd have to be a complete moron to trust a Tory again.

Easy to say now.... Yep......you had 14 years to do that BUT it never happened!!

Why didn't you do this during your 14 years in power?

Why didn’t you do that ooh say 4 years ago, why didn’t you do anything pro-business in 14 years, why did you hike Corporation tax, why did you hike taxes to a 70 yr high, why Kevin, why the change in tone in opposition? You Did Precisely Nothing for 14 Years

Hopefully, if Conservative peer Baroness Mone, pays her fine and returns the huge amount money you gave her, you could help small businesses even more.

Another duplicitous politician with a pint in his hand 🤣

14 years of corruption and lies.

Another embarrassing hypocritical Tory. You had 14 bloody years.

@kevinhollinrake as your dear leader won’t respond, perhaps you could explain how LA’s are going to makeup the shortfall from the loss of their share of business rates? Why do the likes of Costa et al, need a reduction in rates, they currently cheat the system for corp tax etc?