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Britain is now just one blunder away from an IMF bailout and becoming a failed state 02 July 2025 Daily Telegraph 02/07/25 Link A tearful, broken Chancellor; a selfish, buck-passing Prime Minister who cannot even pluck up the courage to sack her; fanatical MPs determined to veto even the most modest of spending cuts: welcome to Labour Britain, a failing, unserious, ungovernable country. Sir Keir Starmer is our Potemkin PM, a widely despised figurehead. Rachel Reeves remains, for now, our Chancellor in name only, her raison d’etre obliterated, her final mission to serve as Starmer’s human shield. Morgan McSweeney, Starmer’s chief of staff, is finished. The real power lies with an economically illiterate, fiscally irresponsible mob on the Labour backbenches, and their Cabinet allies, Angela Rayner and Ed Miliband. The Parliamentary party is now little more than a mismatched coalition at war with itself; factionalism rules, guaranteeing stasis and drift. It has taken just a year for this ...

Late concession to rebels wipes out most of the £4.6bn savings PM had pledged to deliver 01 July 2025 Daily Telegraph  Link Sir Keir Starmer has rendered his flagship welfare cuts legislation “pointless” in a farcical climbdown to win the support of Labour rebels. A planned crackdown on the personal independence payment (Pip), which helps disabled people with extra costs, was dropped just 90 minutes before the crunch vote. The late concession came when it appeared dozens of rebels were still willing to vote down the package, even though it had already been gutted last week to appease critics. Even with the change, 49 Labour MPs voted against the Bill – the biggest rebellion of the Starmer premiership, which marks its one-year anniversary this week. Government ministers faced ridicule from Labour critics, who dubbed the handling of the changes “shambolic”, “unedifying” and a “total clusterf--- of Godzilla proportions”. The U-turn means that almost all of the £4.6 billion of annual s...

The new movement could be every bit as disastrous for Labour as Reform has been for the Tories Link Daily telegraph  28 June 2025  For some, this coming week sees an alignment of the stars. For others, it’s a perfect storm. Not only is the Government facing division and humiliation over two key crunch votes – the first on its already defenestrated welfare proposals and the other on the proscription of Palestine Action – but it’s widely reported that a new Left-wing party, led by none other than Labour’s former leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is set to launch. Early polling suggests the new party could enjoy the support of ten per cent of the electorate, damaging both Labour and the Greens. It’s hardly a mould-breaking moment, but any high-profile Left alternative is the last thing our beleaguered prime minister needs right now. Despite Labour’s 170-seat majority secured a year ago, the party still feels bruised over the loss of four formerly “safe” seats to independent pro-Gaza candida...

The Prime Minister’s socialist leanings are rendered even more offensive by his endless vacillations Daily Telegraph  27 June 2025  Link It’s the spinelessness of it all that gets me. We knew Keir Starmer was weak. We knew it when he recorded a leadership pitch in 2020 that could have been directed by Ken Loach – only to emerge as some sort of budget Tony Blair impersonator in office. Deep down, we knew what we were getting; no one could have seriously believed the Prime Minister, a self-professed socialist who served so willingly under Jeremy Corbyn wouldn’t do exactly this to the country. But did we think the capitulation would happen this quickly and under so little pressure? After 14 years of Conservative calamity, which left a trail of broken promises in its wake, people could have been forgiven for hoping this self-styled beacon of “stability and moderation” would at least try to fulfil his pledge of a “government unburdened by doctrine, guided only by a determination to...

Public confidence in the Prime Minister has plummeted amid scandals and policy failures, with Labour’s future looking increasingly uncertain 28 June 2025  Daily Telegraph  Link Sir Keir Starmer’s personal polling ratings are so awful that some Labour backbenchers are beginning to question whether he can survive until the next election. His first year in office – which he’ll mark next week with a major climbdown on welfare reform – has been catastrophic. Of the prime ministers since Thatcher, only Gordon Brown had a worse net approval rating at the same stage in his premiership. On current polling, Labour is heading for a single term and a devastating defeat. It is only the split on the Right – with Right-leaning voters currently torn between Reform and the Tories – that is keeping Starmer even vaguely in contention with Nigel Farage’s Reform, which comfortably tops the polls today. Those who work in politics have become blasé about the rise of Reform, as if their standing on 3...

Deserters blame Sir Keir Starmer’s broken and undelivered promises for move to Nigel Farage’s party 25 June 2025  Daily Telegraph  Link Working-class voters are abandoning Labour for Reform UK, a major poll has shown. More than half of 2024 Labour voters (52 per cent) who would now back Reform live in working-class households, it found. The YouGov survey found of more than 10,000 people found broken or undelivered promises were the main reason for people deserting Sir Keir Starmer’s party. It comes as Reform continues to enjoy a consistent lead over Labour. Nigel Farage’s party is polling at 27 per cent across all voters while Labour is on 23 per cent and the Conservatives 17 per cent. At the general election last July, 35 per cent of Labour supporters were in working-class households – manual workers, the unemployed and those in the lowest-paid jobs. Just over two in five (41 per cent) who would now support another party are working-class, while the same is true of 28 per cen...