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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...