Reform should enter into a coalition, but with the mainstream Right not the hard Right Daily Telegraph 03/08/26 Regardless of their recent slip in the polls, it’s been clear for some time Reform can only take power at the next election as part of a Right-leaning coalition . But Nigel Farage will be making a huge mistake if he pursues any pact with Rupert Lowe’s Restore. This risks sending Reform tumbling further in the polls and drastically reducing the prospect of victory. Speaking today at a press conference on illegal immigration, Farage said he was open to an informal chat with Lowe’s party . This came after Lowe’s prior offer of a closer relationship and Farage’s comment at the weekend that he wanted to create a broad coalition on the Right to rescue Britain Farage needs to walk back this offer of a chat. A relationship that ended so appallingly between the two men is irreparable. The characters of the two men are such that a sensible working relationship could never happen. And a...
Prime Minister says ‘hard hats as important as graduate caps’ as he vows to get young people working Daily Telegraph 28/07/26 Andy Burnham has argued that Sir Tony Blair’s drive to get half of school leavers to attend university “let down” a generation of young people. Unveiling his plan to tackle youth unemployment on Tuesday, the Prime Minister said that under his leadership Britain would “value the hard hat every bit as much as the graduation cap”. Mr Burnham’s intervention, a rejection of three decades of policy, came amid a surge in spending on youth sickness benefits and concerns that students were being saddled with thousands of pounds of debt after studying poor-quality courses. The Prime Minister said: “For too long in this country, students have been told that you must take the academic path to do well and to be respected. “The whole school system has been built around it and that has let down young people seeking technical qualifications. “I want an education system based ...