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Party is now supported by 17 per cent of voters putting them second behind only Reform, survey says Daily Telegraph 31/10/25 link The Green Party has overtaken Labour in an opinion poll for the first time. The group, led by the recently elected Zack Polanski, is second behind Reform UK in the survey of voters’ intentions by Find Out Now. The Greens are on 17 per cent, up two points on the firm’s last study, and ahead of Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour and the Conservatives, who are tied on 16 per cent. The Tories dropped one point and the Liberal Democrats remained on 12 per cent. Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party is leading in the poll on 32 per cent. The survey of 3,065 adults was carried out on Oct 29. Reacting to the survey Mr Polanski posted a message on social media saying: “We’re just getting started. Time to lower bills. And tax billionaires.” He included a link to join the party, adding: “If you want to see the Green Party take on Reform, this is the moment.” This week, ...

Chancellor faces potential £38,400 bill after failing to obtain licence from council for property she rents out Daily Telegraph 30/10/25 link Rachel Reeves faces accusations of a “cover-up” after wrongly claiming she and her husband did not know that they needed a licence to rent out their home. The Chancellor is facing a potential bill of £38,400 after she failed to obtain a licence from Southwark council for a property she rents out in Dulwich, south-east London. In a letter to the Prime Minister on Wednesday evening, she wrote: “We were not aware that a licence was necessary.” But on Thursday evening, emails released by Downing Street showed detailed discussions about a licence between her husband Nicholas Joicey, a senior civil servant, and estate agent Harvey Wheeler. On Thursday night, the owner of the agency apologised for an “oversight” and said an employee who had offered to apply for a licence had resigned before the tenancy began and the company did not pick it u...

In opposition, Reeves pledged that she would not raise the basic rate or introduce wealth levies. Yet that is exactly what she is plotting Daily Telegraph 29/10/25 Link You have been taken for fools, dear reader. This Government, the smuggest, most insolent, most supercilious in living memory, keeps lying to you. I’m sorry to use such hard language, but it is the most precise way to describe Labour’s gaslighting of the Great British public. The Government swore it wouldn’t put up national insurance, and then changed its mind. It promised it wouldn’t put up income tax, and now the Prime Minister is opening the door to doing exactly that, refusing to recommit to his manifesto. The Chancellor pledged she wouldn’t impose a wealth or mansion tax, and is now considering such plans. What gives Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves the right to break their promises with such insouciance? Who do they think they are? Don’t they see that another round of tax rises next month will be seen as i...

Despite what the BBC would have you believe, people are right to be fearful of the consequences of our open borders daily Telegraph 29/10/25 link How could any decent human being possibly object to mass immigration? That, it would seem, is the mystery puzzling the BBC. Yes, even after all these years. Because earlier this week it sent reporters to Buxton in Derbyshire to ask residents the following question: why are you people all saying you’ll vote Reform, when practically everyone in your town is white British? Buxton, noted the BBC’s reporters, has experienced “very little” immigration, is a good 250 miles from Dover (“where the small boats arrive”), and has “no hotels housing asylum seekers”. Yet almost everyone they spoke to, apart from some wonderfully compassionate teenagers at a local school, viewed the small boats, and mass immigration in general, as a major source of concern. How baffling. If you work for the BBC, anyway. Well, since our friends in W1A seem to be str...

link Chancellor suggests she will place burden of balancing books on those with the ‘broadest shoulders’ Daily Telegraph 16/10/25 Rachel Reeves has signalled she will target tax rises on assets rather than earnings in the Budget as she ramps up her war on wealth. Just weeks before she delivers her second Budget, the Chancellor said those with the “broadest shoulders” should contribute more to balancing the books. She also suggested higher earners would not be the main target of her tax raid. Her latest comments will raise fears that Ms Reeves is preparing to target pension wealth or family homes to plug a black hole left by about-turns on welfare reform and higher borrowing costs. Households with the most wealth tend to have residents that are at or above retirement age. In households where the head of the family is aged between 65 and 74, wealth averages more than £500,000, according to official data. By contrast, it is just under £302,000 for households aged 45 to 54, and ...

Lenny Henry wants the British people to bankrupt themselves, paying reparations they don’t owe. Low Status Opinions 21/10/25 Lenny Henry is a curious figure. A leading member of that chapter of rich, entitled showbiz elites who never tire of guilt tripping non celebrities like us, into opening our wallets to finance their ever growing check list of pet causes.Often extorting sack loads of cash from the simultaneously big hearted and bigoted British public, on the tenuous grounds that one of the BBC’s, yet-to-be-revealed-as-a-pedophile newsreaders has gamely sat in a bath of beans, on live television.I was approached, many years ago, to work on one of these telethons, which is how I had my first indirect brush, withDawn French’s one time otherthirdhalf.I’ll tell you about it if you like.One day I received a call asking if I would be available to do some work for Sir Lenny Henry.Sure I said. Just talk to my agent, and you can discuss dates and rates etc.At the mention of money the ...

On the spy trial scandal and Jewish football fans ban, ministers shrugged and went all Basil Fawlty Daily Telegraph 20/10/25 link How long can a pair of ministers keep rising in the Commons to give the same answer: that they dislike a contentious situation as much as anyone but there is nothing they can do? For Dan Jarvis, answering an urgent question on the non-prosecution of alleged spies for China, and Lisa Nandy, who had one on Jewish football fans being banned from Villa Park, the answer was about an hour each. The “don’t blame us, we’re only the Government” strategy was a good work-out for the Jarvis-Nandy knees but a touch of tetchiness crept in as they discovered that MPs wouldn’t take “I agree, it’s rubbish” for an answer. It was like Basil Fawlty receiving a complaint about Manuel’s service. “You only have to eat here, we have to live with it.” Jarvis wanted everyone to know how gutted he was that the trial of two men suspected of spying had collapsed. “Extremely dis...

Disaster for Starmer after party surrenders 100-year hold on Welsh heartland with Reform in second Daily Telegraph link Labour has lost its 100-year hold on a key heartland in a historic shift in Welsh politics. In a disastrous result for Sir Keir Starmer, the party was beaten at a pivotal Senedd by-election by Welsh nationalists Plaid Cymru. It is the first time Labour has lost a parliamentary vote in the former mining town of Caerphilly in more than a century, signalling a collapse in support that will fray nerves in Downing Street. It will also be seen as a disappointing result for Reform UK, who were polling slightly ahead and would have hailed a victory as a sign they were on track to unseat Labour at the Welsh elections next year. Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, did not appear at the count, despite joining the campaign trail on the day. The party is expected to blame tactical voting for the defeat. However, it will doubtless be buoyed by a clear surge in support havin...

Former deputy prime minister suggests others could be caught out by same ‘complex’ rules she broke daily Telegraph - Link Angela Rayner has said she hopes other families will learn from the “honestly made mistake” that allowed her to avoid a £40,000 tax bill. The former deputy prime minister, who was forced to resign over the scandal, suggested others could be caught out by the same “complex” rules that she broke when purchasing her second home. Ms Rayner quit her government roles last month after The Telegraph revealed she underpaid stamp duty on her new £800,000 seaside flat in Hove, East Sussex. At first, her team was adamant that she had done nothing wrong, insisting she had paid all tax due. However, following sustained pressure from the media, she later admitted that she had made a “mistake” and had not paid the full amount of tax. Ms Rayner bought the Hove flat after selling a 25 per cent share of the family home in her Ashton-under-Lyne constituency for £162,500. The bu...

The London Mayor appeared to dismiss the suggestion that grooming gangs had been operating in the capital during a fiery City Hall exchange earlier this year GB News 20/10/25 link Sir Sadiq Khan has been accused of "turning a blind eye" to rape gangs in London after a new investigation claimed to find evidence of a "cover-up" in the capital. The investigation, conducted by The Daily Express and My London, revealed young girls had been raped in hotels by groups of men. However, Sir Sadiq was accused of ignoring concerns about grooming gangs operating in London following a spat with City Hall Conservative Susan Hall. The details of at least six potential victims were documented in the pages of four different His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services reports from 2016 to 2025. The cases ranged from a 15-year-old girl being raped by "numerous men" after going missing for four days to a 17-year-old being given alcoho...

Twenty-eight people have pleaded not guilty after being charged under anti-terrorism laws with allegedly supporting the banned group Palestine Action. BBC News 15/10/25 link In the first of a series of complex hearings on Wednesday, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard about 2,000 people are likely to be charged with showing support in demonstrations for the group proscribed as a terrorist organisation in July. Judges face trying to find time and courtrooms to hold 400 trials of those accused of taking part in protests. While the judge began setting provisional trial dates for March, there is no certainty they can take place before the end of 2026 because of the ongoing legal battle over the group's proscription. The government proscribed Palestine Action under anti-terrorism legislation in July, after activists broke into an RAF base and damaged two military aircraft earlier in the year. Since that ban more than 2,100 people have been arrested at demonstrations in ...

Good morning. This week has exposed the moral weakness of Sir Keir Starmer. Our virtue-signalling Prime Minister has raised the white flag to the enemies of Britain both within and outside our borders. Surely even he can’t be proud of the nation he is building? Allister Heath, Sunday Telegraph Editor 18/10/25 Did Sir Keir go into politics to suck up to China? Is this really why Sir Keir Starmer went into politics? To suck up to the Chinese Communist Party, and to preside over a country defiled by rampant anti-Semitism and sectarianism? A virtue-signaller extraordinaire, a holier-than-thou human rights lawyer, the PM has always seen himself as a social justice warrior. Yet after just 14 months in office, how does Starmer reconcile his erstwhile sanctimony and supposed commitment to anti-racist and humanist principles with the grubby reality of what Labour Britain is turning into? Our country has crossed the Rubicon with the ban on supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending ...

West Midlands Police’s stance is a shaming moment for the UK and exposes sorry state of public order in this country link Daily Telegraph 16 October 2025 9:59pm BST So now we have it spelt out in black and white: an admission by a British police force that it is effectively unable to protect visiting Jewish football fans on British soil. This is, however you slice it, a shaming moment. Only last weekend, within hours of the Gaza ceasefire coming into effect, huge amounts of police resources were diverted to protecting pro-Palestine marches in the heart of London, attended by tens of thousands. But as for ensuring the safety of a few hundred Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters on the streets of Birmingham? All too much bother. It is a level of inconsistency that makes your head spin. On learning of the extraordinary move by West Midlands Police to advise the shutting out of Maccabi fans from next month’s Europa League match at Aston Villa, Baroness Fox lamented how she had “sat for hou...

It seems highly likely that Labour allowed a major trial to collapse for political reasons. Spiked 16/10/25 Link Keir Starmer’s Labour Party used to love to give lectures about respecting the rule of law. Quite literally, in the case of UK attorney general Lord Hermer. In October 2024, Hermer delivered a widely publicised Bingham Lecture, entitled ‘The Rule of Law in an Age of Populism’, in which he criticised calls to abandon institutions such as the European Convention on Human Rights. He argued that the rule of law ‘is not the preserve of arid constitutional theory’ and is the ‘bedrock’ on which democracy rests. Earlier this year, Hermer claimed that anyone who publicly criticises a judge or objects to a court decision is a ‘threat to the rule of law’. It’s not just Lord Hermer, of course. During the Brexit years, whenever Conservatives objected to legal decisions that seemed to favour the Remainers, Labour and its supporters reacted with outrage, slamming Brexiteers as enem...

Brussels’ big bet on monetary union has brought little benefit and nearly ended in disaster 13 October 2025 Daily Telegraph  Link Back in January, many commentators believed that this would be the year the EU outshone the United States in economic performance. After all, America was apparently going to be governed by a madman who was going to implement all sorts of destructive policies with dire effects, not only on the world, but especially on the US economy. Meanwhile, in Europe, Germany was finally going to abandon its ultra-tough fiscal policy, enabling it to expand its borrowing to finance much increased spending, including on defence. To many, it seemed as though the EU was finally coming of age. But events have not exactly followed this script. For a start, the American economy has done remarkably well. Inflation has not shot up in response to Donald Trump’s tariffs. Admittedly, stiff increases in goods prices may be yet to come through. But a slowdown in services inflation ...

Michael Deacon If a Reform councillor can get reported to police just for saying she was ‘born and bred here’, we’re all in trouble 14 October 2025  Daily Telegraph  Link About 10 years ago, the Left-wing comedian Stewart Lee performed a stand-up routine about a London taxi driver who’d said to him: “These days, you get arrested and thrown in jail if you say you’re English, don’t you?” Naturally, this quote gave Mr Lee’s audience a good chuckle. Stupid cabbie. Clearly he was one of those frightful, Sun-reading, lower-class gammon who are always moaning about “PC gone mad”. In hindsight, though, perhaps that taxi driver was simply ahead of his time. Last week a Reform councillor named Claire Mackie-Brown gave a TV interview in which she said that unrest over asylum hotels was “scary” for her, as “somebody who was born and bred here”. And, believe it or not, these words got her reported to the police for alleged “hate crime”. If you’re wondering why, here’s what the anonymous pe...