I'm Launching A Daily Live Show. This Is Why.

The fight over Britain's future is happening right now, but young people are being left out. A New Dawn Show is for Britain's youth.

I believe Britain can be the greatest country on earth. After six months touring universities and meeting hundreds of young people, that belief has only grown.

Our country is full of ambitious, impressive young people, committed to excellence, to their country, and to building a greater future not just for themselves but for the generations to come.

But one thing became clear in my conversations: they feel exactly how I feel. Angry.

Angry at a political class presiding over decline. Angry that immigration has changed the country at a pace no one asked for. Angry at a housing crisis that has priced them out of ever owning a home. Angry at an economy that doesn’t work for them, and the near-certainty that they’ll end up poorer than their parents. Angry that the education system made promises it never kept. Angry that crime feels increasingly out of control.

I’m 25. I grew up watching the news show photographs of soldiers coming home from Afghanistan and Iraq in coffins, and asking myself why we were sending Britons to die in wars that served no clear British interest. I was seven during the 2008 financial crash, and almost twenty years on, most people I speak to feel Britain never really climbed out of the haze that settled in those years. Wages have stagnated. House prices and rents are at record highs. Secure, well-paid work is hard to find. Walk through most British towns, and the decline is visible.

Decades of mass immigration helped drive the 2016 vote to leave the European Union, and the years that followed exposed how far the political class would go to override a result they didn’t like. Then came the pandemic: lockdowns that confined people to their homes, and government spending now estimated at well over £350 billion, the bill for which we are still paying.

It is no wonder we are angry.

But beneath the anger, I found a drive to act. Britain’s youth don’t want to manage a declining country, and we shouldn’t have to.

I moved to London at 18, leaving Liverpool for university, because London is where you have to be if you want a say in your country’s future. My parents would have preferred finance to politics. I chose politics because I wanted to help reverse Britain’s decline, and I know there are hundreds of thousands of young people who feel the same.

Britain is not beyond saving. We are not lost. But the next few years demand focus, long-term dedication, and belief, belief that we can build a greater country.

That is why I am launching A New Dawn Show to give young people skin in the game in their own future, and a platform to elevate new ideas and new people.

I’ll be live Monday to Thursday, 7–8 pm, on every platform, covering the key stories of the day and taking your calls directly. I hope you’ll join me.