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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...

The Prime Minister’s looming surrender on welfare guarantees a kamikaze Budget this autumn 25 June 2025  Daily Telegraph  Link Don’t believe the denials, the hubristic promises to fight on, the chest-thumping from deep down in the Number Ten bunker. It’s all over for Sir Keir Starmer, a hollow husk of a Prime Minister stripped of his last vestiges of authority and credibility. His final, doomed showdown with his MPs over his plan to trim incapacity benefits will only expose his impotence and lack of strategic nous. His premiership, not even a year old, is already on borrowed time. He will have to surrender again, or suffer total humiliation. He is now beholden to Labour MPs, and survives only on their say-so. There are, for the first time, whispers that he could be ousted as early as after the May local elections. I’m not so sure: I suspect that Rachel Reeves, his beleaguered Chancellor, is likely to be sacrificed first. She has certainly failed disastrously. She convinced her...

Barrow-in-Furness is a perfect microcosm of events taking place up and down the country 24 June 2025  Daily Telegraph  Link When property developers applied for permission to turn a former hotel into a “house in multiple occupation”, they claimed it was to accommodate nurses. According to the planning application, the occupants would “predominantly” be NHS staff who would “contribute to the local economy”. But instead of being filled with hard-working staff from the nearest hospital, the 17-bedroom property was swiftly packed with new arrivals. Far from breathing new life into a downtrodden area, it became yet another blight – and a new source of anxiety for local women. Mothers and daughters in Barrow-in-Furness have every reason to be fearful. Such is the concern for the safety of female staff working in other migrant hotels in the town that they are said to have been issued with rape alarms. When a concerned resident used freedom of information legislation to find out what ...

Trump hails pause in fighting after Tehran targets American base in Qatar Daily Telegraph  24 June 2025  Link Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Iran and Israel hours after Tehran launched a retaliatory attack on an overseas US air base. The US president said the truce would take effect around 5am BST (midnight EDT) and congratulated both countries on “having the Stamina, Courage, and Intelligence” to end their war after more than a week of conflict. Earlier on Monday Iran fired missiles at America’s largest and most fortified military base in the Middle East in retaliation for attacks on its nuclear programme. Al Udeid, which also hosts RAF planes, came under fire from a barrage of ballistic missiles in an attack that forced the airspace to close abruptly across the Gulf. Explosions were heard over the financial hub of Doha, Qatar’s capital, as defence systems worked to intercept the missiles close to the American military base. Iran also said it had attacked the smal...

In backing ‘assisted dying’, MPs have given the state a licence to kill. 20th June 2025 Spiked Link Politicians twist words and abuse language to ‘make lies sound truthful and murder respectable’, said George Orwell. That has never rang more true than it does today. In the House of Commons this afternoon, MPs spoke in deceitful tongues to make suicide sound attractive and death sound liberal. They voted to legalise what they call ‘assisted dying’, but which I think we should call state-sanctioned suicide. For strip away all the linguistic trickery about a ‘right to die’ and what we are left with is a new regime of state-appointed death merchants who will have the power not only to propose self-destruction to the ill, but to facilitate it, too. Make no mistake, this is a dark day for Britain. MPs voted by 314 to 291 to pass the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. This is the private members’ bill, spearheaded by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, that will empower the state to aid and abet...

By attacking Tehran’s nuclear sites, the US president has taken a huge risk but sent an important message to America’s enemies Daily Telegraph  22 June 2025  Link Donald Trump was elected on a promise to avoid foreign wars and international entanglements. On Saturday night, he sent B-2 bombers into action to obliterate what was left of Iran’s nuclear programme, using the sort of deep-penetrating weapons that Israel lacks. Insiders said this was not a departure from his campaign pledge but a reminder that American power is based on the idea of “peace through strength”. He is still a leader who puts deals ahead of military action, said one former official speaking before the strikes, but one who recognises that the best deals come when adversaries are negotiating from a weakened position. He had sent a signal of his intent on Thursday. “Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my ...

The non-dom U-turn may be the most pointlessly self-defeating errors of this government 17 June 2025 7:57pm BST Daily Telegraph  Link Against some stiff competition, the decision to target non-doms for an inheritance tax raid on their global assets could go down as one of the most pointlessly self-defeating errors of this Labour Government. Scrapping non-doms status in favour of a residence-based regime brought all assets into the scope of inheritance tax after a four-year grace period, with HMRC’s claim lasting for up to 10 years after someone leaves Britain. Perhaps unsurprisingly, these reforms have triggered a wave of high-profile departures, with Bloomberg noting a surge in company directors moving abroad concurrent with the changes and advisors claiming a record exodus of millionaires. Having killed the goose that laid the golden egg, Chancellor Rachel Reeves now appears to be developing an interest in resuscitation, with speculation that the Government may now U-turn on the ...

 US president calls for unconditional surrender in ultimatum on nuclear enrichment 17 June 2025 daily telegraph  Link Donald Trump was on Tuesday night poised to enter the war between Israel and Iran. The US president met his senior national security advisers shortly after sending a series of social media posts in which he warned Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, that the US knew where he was hiding. JD Vance, the vice-president, and other Trump loyalists also appeared to be preparing supporters for a new phase in the conflict, with Mr Vance posting on X that the president “may decide he needs to take further action to end Iranian enrichment”. Five days after Israel launched strikes on Iran, it puts the Middle East on the brink of a significant new escalation. Former Trump administration officials said the president was shifting to a more warlike posture after warnings of devastating Iranian reprisals against Israel had failed to materialise. Mr Trump is consideri...

The Establishment has been in “denial” over the ethnicity of grooming gangs, a report has found. Daily Telegraph 16/5/25 Link Baroness Casey of Blackstock found that flawed data were used by public bodies to dismiss claims about Asian grooming gangs as “sensationalised, biased or untrue”. She also found that in too many cases, police forces and other organisations avoided pursuing perpetrators for fear of being viewed as racist. Shockingly, Lady Casey found that information on the ethnicity of abusers was not recorded in two thirds of cases. Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, told MPs that the Government would accept all the recommendations, including setting up a national inquiry into grooming gangs. She said that rape laws should be tightened up and many girls convicted of child prostitution would be cleared. Ms Cooper added: “This will mark the biggest programme of work ever pursued to root out the grooming gangs. “Those vile perpetrators who have grown used to the authorities looki...

 Starmer’s attempt to level the playing field will only hurt those who are already struggling 10 June 2025  Daily Telegraph  Link Labour had a cunning plan. It was to recruit 6,500 new teachers with the money Sir Keir Starmer’s government would raise by slapping private schools with VAT and business rates. The state education sector would receive an injection of £1.5bn, which, along with the newly trained teachers, would also include career advice and mental health support for pupils. The nation was to be taught a lesson in equality. Resources would be diverted from private schools to state schools in an attempt to level the playing field. But the flagship policy appears to be falling apart spectacularly. Instead of extracting £1.5bn from private schools, Treasury analysis has suggested that the new tax policy could cost the Government an extra £650m per year. Data published by the Department for Education last week revealed an exodus of over 11,000 pupils from private sc...

This war-mongering, genocidal rogue state has terrorised the Middle East and its own people for too long. Spiked 13th June 2025 Link For decades, an aggressive, quasi-imperial state has been at the centre of conflict in the Middle East. It has consistently antagonised its neighbours and in some cases threatened their very existence. And through its shadowy military operatives, it has sought to impose its will on allies and enemies alike. That state is the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is everything the West’s bourgeois leftists imagine Israel to be. It has a genuinely ‘rogue’ and far-right government. A regime that, through its infamous Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and heavily armed regional proxies, has sought to project its power and influence throughout the Middle East. Unlike Israel, it even has a genuinely genocidal objective – namely, the eradication of the Jewish State, or the ‘Zionist entity’ to use its leaders’ own patois. As its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, put...