Month: September 2024

POLL: Should Labour admit mistake and scrap cuts to winter fuel payment? Vote now_l

Labour’s controversial plans to axe winter fuel payments for millions came into force on Monday. But should Keir Starmer admit the mistake and scrap the cuts? Vote now Should Labour admit mistake and scrap cuts to winter fuel payment? (Image: GETTY)…

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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The rank hypocrisy of Sir Freeloader _ Hieuuk

There was a touch of Marie Antoinette hauteur about Lady Starmer’s appearance at London Fashion Week yesterday, sporting a flamboyant designer outfit. If she is remotely embarrassed about having accepted thousands of pounds worth of high-end clothes from a Labour donor, she…

Parents forced from small boat plead to join children taken to UK without them_P

Turkish parents, who want UK asylum, are still in France awaiting Home Office response while children are in Britain The family was separated when they and other passengers were attacked as their boat was launched from France. Photograph: Chris J Ratcliffe/Reuters…

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You do know Labour is in power now, Ed? Lib Dem leader Davey will vow to ‘finish the job’ on the Tories in conference speech TODAY – as party’s MPs ‘fear he is going easy on Keir Starmer’ _ Hieuuk

Ed Davey will vow to ‘finish the job’ on the Tories today as delivers his keynote speech to Lib Dem conference. After seizing a swathe of ‘Blue Wall’ seats at the election, Sir Ed will insisted the Conservatives are ‘out of touch with so many of…

EU fingerprint and facial recognition checks expected to be delayed again_P

Border checks system was due to go live in November but some countries say they are not ready amid worries about lack of testing Queues for ferries at the Port of Dover. France’s main concern with the new system is…

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Keir Starmer could rip up fiscal rule book to borrow an extra £20bn despite warnings his downbeat approach to dealing with the budget is damaging Britain’s economy _ Hieuuk

Keir Starmer last night insisted he will reject Budget proposals that damage growth – amid warnings his downbeat approach is damaging the economy. Speaking to reporters while travelling in Italy, the Prime Minister said economic growth was the ‘number one priority of…

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Keir Starmer reveals his ‘anger’ after releasing 1,700 prisoners and seeing inmates’ jubilation – as PM admits Britain came close to running out of jail cells after Labour’s riot crackdown _ Hieuuk

Britain came close to running out of prison places during the summer riots, Keir Starmer has revealed. Describing his ‘anger’ at the scenes of jubilant prisoners celebrating their early release last week, the Prime Minister said he had been left with no…

Ed Miliband: beating nimbys on green rollout a matter of ‘national security’_P

Energy secretary vows to take on the ‘blockers’ opposed to wind turbines, solar farms and pylons Ed Miliband said the government’s manifesto pledge to deliver a clean power system by 2030 is ‘the national security, energy security, economic justice fight…

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‘I don’t have an opinion’: Labour minister Angela Eagle flounders over whether Keir Starmer should pay for his own glasses as she blanks questions in car-crash interview _ Hieuuk

A Labour minister floundered today as she was grilled on whether Keir Starmer should be paying for his own spectacles. Border security minister Angela Eagle blanked questions over the row about donations to fund the wardrobe of the PM and wife Victoria,…

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Labour’s war on landords is finally driving me out: Tenants turned my house into a brothel, a drug den and a guinea pig farm but this is the last straw _ Hieuuk

She seemed like the perfect tenant: a lady in her 50s, very polite and well-spoken, who had paid me a deposit and her first month’s rent up front. A few weeks after she moved into my house, in a small…