Home Office staff have criticised ministers on an all-staff call over Labour plans to house 1,200 adult male asylum seekers in a North Yorkshire village with a population of 600. Why would the villagers be upset? They must be racist… The call was held yesterday. It was hosted by Home Office Permanent Secretaries and was open to all departmental staff. In a Q&A section, the following popular comment was posted anonymously by a staff member: Guido hears the senior staff chose not to answer that one… The illegal migrants would outnumber the residents of the village by two-to-one. The village also has 100 children… Immigration minister Anna Turley caused outrage when she said: “ We are not housing them in the community. They are being housed on a specific site that is self-contained and away from the community. All their needs are met on that site. Where they are not met, they are transported usually to larger places—cities or towns. That is certainly the situation at the two sit...
It was the economy, stupid Daily Telegraph The first thing you notice on election night is the live billboards. Screens broadcasting second-by-second changes in political betting markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are dotted throughout New York City, as “traders” wager money on the likely winners of races big and small, from Senate to the Texas railroad commission. It didn’t take long for the boards to turn a deep blue. There had been no Hail Mary for the Republicans, no miracle in the form of yet another significant underestimation of GOP support by pollsters. Axios’s Stef Kight captured the scale of the damage: “a year ago, North Carolina and Georgia were expected to be the toss-up Senate races of the cycle. Both were called for Democrats before 8:30pm.” This time around, what looked bad really was bad . And the Republicans only had themselves to blame. The signs of a blue wave were early and obvious. An initial set of results in Kentucky’s sixth district showed the Republica...