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Now the posh party for London’s middle class and elite, it has turned its back on its core voters – and the numbers prove it 27 September 2025 6:00am BST Daily Telegraph  Link In the 1990s, when the New Labour project was taking off and its middle-class politicians were coming to prominence, there was a commonly heard joke at political events, which eventually spread to the country at large. Peter Mandelson – then a middle-class poster boy for New Labour – had supposedly visited a northern chippy and asked for guacamole with his fish and chips, not realising that he was in fact pointing at a tray of mushy peas. This made-up story always got a good laugh because of the clash between Mandelson’s very middle-class background and his working-class party. Mandelson – Labour’s new MP for the historic working-class town of Hartlepool at the time – was still viewed as an anomaly who stood out in a party still entwined with the industrial trade union movement. A variation of that joke would...

 US president promises to bring ‘eternal peace to Middle East’ as head of governing board alongside former prime minister 29 September 2025 10:51pm BST Daily Telegraph  Link Donald Trump will run Gaza with the assistance of Sir Tony Blair as part of the US president’s 20-point plan for “eternal peace in the Middle East”. Mr Trump said on Monday that he would oversee a transitional government in the Strip as the head of a new body called the Board of Peace, which Sir Tony would also sit on. He said the “leaders of the Arab world” had asked him to be chairman of the body. “It’d be headed by a gentleman known as President Donald J Trump of the United States. That’s what I want, this is some extra work to do, but it’s so important that I’m willing to do it.” Outlining the plan, which would include the IDF withdrawing from Gaza as the remaining hostages are released by Hamas, Mr Trump said: “Today is a historic day for peace. Let’s call it eternal peace in the Middle East.” Shortly...

 Guys, Here is an update from Reform UK Another tumultuous week for Reform UK!    Every single day this week, we have been making headlines and setting the political agenda.    As I write this, the Labour Party conference - which resembles a funeral wake - has limped into existence. First out of the traps this morning was the Prime Minister, doing the morning media round and - I can hardly believe I am writing this - claiming that Reform UK’s policy of putting British people first and scrapping Indefinite Leave to Remain is ‘racist’ and ‘immoral’.    Resorting to such dog whistle soundbites shows just how low Labour has sunk, quite how worried the Labour backbenchers are, and how Keir Starmer’s leadership is on borrowed time.   Now, let’s rewind to Monday morning, when we kicked off the week with another major press conference – this time to unveil our new immigration policy plan, Prioritising UK Citizens . Nigel Farage, alongside our newly appoin...

 When Keir Starmer gave a field to his parents, he used a “life interest trust”. This meant that, as its value grew from £20k to £300k, it was outside his parents’ inheritance tax estate. Tax Policy Associates 28 September 2025 Link UPDATE: 10am Sunday 28 September. Mr Starmer just told Laura Kuenssberg that he didn’t create a trust. That is hard to understand when The Sunday Times has been asking Mr Starmer about a trust for a month, and he at no point denied there was a trust. It also makes it hard to explain the form of words Mr Starmer used in his letter to the Parliamentary Commissioner: “I immediately gifted the land to my parents for so long as they should live”. To a lawyer, that means a trust. In 1996, Keir Starmer bought a seven-acre field behind his parents’ house so they could keep rescue donkeys. But the arrangement wasn’t quite as simple as a gift. The wording he later used suggests he created a life-interest trust: his parents could use the field for the rest of thei...

  Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour should be at the height of its powers. Instead, it faces extinction. Sir Keir does not understand who he is trying to appeal to, and is producing mixed messages that fail to satisfy unhappy voters. Even if a strong performance at the upcoming Labour conference buys him a little time, he is beyond saving.   Allister Heath, Sunday Telegraph Editor Labour is staring political oblivion in the face   If word salads and muddled thinking could win elections, Sir Keir Starmer would be in with a chance. In the nasty, brutish and short world of British politics, however, his singular inability to communicate and shocking failure to deliver are proving predictably catastrophic. The PM’s polling is calamitous, with even YouGov’s MRP suggesting a Reform-Tory coalition after the election. Humiliation and even extinction loom for a Labour Party that ought to be at the height of its powers. Starmer’s latest relaunch, intended to allow him to survive his party ...