Rachel Reeves in biggest U-turn of the lot – it may ultimately backfire on pensioners
Rachel Reeves is Queen of the U-turn. She was forced to backtrack on her first big decision, to scrap the winter fuel payment, and the precedent was set. After last year’s Budget she U-turned on efforts to cut the ballooning sickness…
Shabana Mahmood celebrates sending 100 migrants back to France – but 8,000 more arrive
Shabana Mahmood said the latest returns figures should send a message to potential Channel migrants as 113 are sent back, while 8,000 have illegally crossed. The Home Secretary has celebrated the “milestone” victory under Sir Keir Starmer’s one in, one out…
The 7 Labour MP puppet masters running the country – and 1 of them’s Angela Rayner
At PMQs this week Kemi Badenoch rightly pronounced that Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are ‘in office but not in power’. It’s a somewhat cliché line rolled out when it’s finally clear the political leadership of the country has completely lost control…
Rachel Reeves makes sudden income tax U-turn in desperate bid not to break manifesto
Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have reportedly scrapped their previously controversial plans for a manifesto-breaking rise in income tax. The surprise decision was disclosed to the Office for Budget Responsibility on Wednesday afternoon, as reported by the Financial Times. Instead of…
Brexit betrayal as Labour prepared to give EU cash under new Keir Starmer agreement
Ursula von der Leyen and Sir Keir Starmer. (Image: Getty) Labour is prepared to pay the European Union as the price of Sir Keir Starmer’s Brexit reset, Downing Street has said. Brussels has demanded that Britain pay billions of pounds ahead of talks which kick…
Labour chaos as Wes Streeting celebrates Rachel Reeves’s humiliating U-turn
Health Secretary Wes Streeting (Image: LBC) Wes Streeting has welcomed Rachel Reeves’s apparent U-turn on plans to hike income tax at the Budget. The Chancellor had been expected to break Labour’s manifesto pledge not to raise income tax as she scrambles to fill…
Panic in France as seaside towns ‘terrorised’ by asylum seekers ‘chanting Allahu Akbar’
Residents in seaside towns along France’s northern coast say that they are being “terrorised” by groups of migrants as law enforcement struggles to maintain control. Residents in places such as Gravelines, Dunkirk and Calais have reported growing disorder and law-breaking as migrants wait on the…
New Sadiq Khan grooming gangs bombshell as Boris Johnson’s ‘intervention’ revealed
Sadiq Khan has been hit with new revelations about a group in Hillingdon (Image: Express) Boris Johnson contacted a West London council about an alleged grooming gang linked to Levi Bellfield by a council report, according to its author. Just days before he…
BBC only has itself to blame for crisis – 6 celebs who damned Auntie into oblivion
Some years ago a propaganda film showcasing all that was good about Britain’s state broadcaster ended with the words “all because of the unique way the BBC is funded”. The corporation was, of course, referring to the licence fee – the TV…
Keir Starmer is finished – who’s really running Labour today is terrifying
Keir Starmer has no ideas, no conviction, no fight. He’s a cypher, a void, a political black hole. Starmer became Labour leader by being a blank canvas – the man Labour members could project their hopes onto. He pulled the…