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Social media post allegedly by candidate for Clapham Town claimed synagogue attacks ‘were revenge’ Daily Telegraph 30/04/26 Two Green Party candidates have been arrested on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred for allegedly posting anti-Semitic comments online. Saiqa Ali, who is standing in Streatham, in the borough of Lambeth, and Sabine Mairey, the candidate for Clapham Town, also in Lambeth, were detained by Metropolitan Police officers on Thursday morning. One of the social media posts by Ms Ali shows an image of an armed man in a Hamas headband under the slogan “resistance is freedom”. The militant group is a proscribed terrorist organisation. A post by Ms Mairey includes a picture of a man holding a placard that reads “ramming a synagogue isn’t anti-Semitism, it’s revenge” above a picture of two children that it says have been “murdered by Israel”. She also suggested that Israel was worse than Nazi Germany with a photo of Auschwitz which said the Nazis “had to hide what...

The sewers of Jew hatred have burst. Time for action. Spiked 29/04/26 Jews have been stabbed in Golders Green. Are you sickened, horrified, appalled? I should hope so. The more troubling question is: are you surprised? To our eternal shame, I don’t think anyone can claim to be. Just after 11am this morning, British Jews had their worst fears realised. Again. A little more than six months after Jihad al-Shamie slashed at worshippers at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, an attack of savagery that left two dead, Jewish blood has now been spilled on the streets of Jewish north London. The suspect reportedly slashed at someone outside the synagogue on Highfield Avenue, before turning down Golders Green Road and stabbing a ‘visibly Jewish man’. A man in his 70s and another in his 30s are in hospital. The alleged knifeman, 45, was tasered and arrested. It’s now been declared a ‘terrorist incident’. The usual caveats, legal backcovering and journalistic restraint apply...

Daily Telegraph 28/04/28 Labour MPs have demanded Sir Keir Starmer refer himself to the privileges committee over the Mandelson scandal. Backbenchers have said that despite pressure from No 10, they will not vote to protect the Prime Minister from an ethics inquiry over claims he misled MPs. The crunch vote is seen as a vote of confidence in Sir Keir’s leadership, after the Prime Minister held a meeting with MPs on Monday urging them to back him. John McDonnell, the former shadow chancellor under Jeremy Corbyn, said Sir Keir should refer himself to the committee to clear his name. “When you’re under attack like this you don’t run from the attack, you run to face it,” he told the Commons. Andy McDonald agreed, adding that the Prime Minister had made it clear “he has not misled this House. So in those circumstances, would it not be the right thing to do to embrace this process and wipe the floor with the critics that put these things to him?” Nadia Whittome, the Labour MP for Sou...

Peter Dowd refuses to deny reports that he would step aside for Greater Manchester mayor, seen as a front-runner to replace PM Daily Telegraph 27/04/26 A veteran Labour MP has opened the door to giving up his safe seat to help Andy Burnham return to Parliament. Peter Dowd, who has represented Bootle, on Merseyside, since 2015, refused to deny reports that he was prepared to stand down for the Mayor of Greater Manchester. Mr Burnham’s previous attempt to return to Westminster by standing in Gorton and Denton by-election was blocked by Sir Keir Starmer and his allies on Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee. Sir Keir is widely expected to face a challenge in the aftermath of next week’s local elections as a backlash continues to grow over his handling of the Mandelson vetting scandal. Mr Burnham is seen as a front-runner to replace Sir Keir but is ineligible for any Labour leadership contest because he is not an MP. Reports surfaced at the weekend that Mr Dowd was one of ...

Labour’s hold on my homeland began with a Keir and will end with a Keir Daily Telegraph 24/04/26 Nigel Farage moves closer to Keir Starmer and reaches out to touch him. Keir feels the hand of history on his shoulder. No, not that Keir, but let me explain. It is a glorious spring morning in Aberdare, and the leader of Reform UK is standing on an overgrown patch of dewy grass next to a handsome bronze bust of Keir Hardie. In 1900, the former Scottish miner became MP for the seat of Merthyr Tydfil, which encompassed Aberdare, and was the heart of Welsh coal production. In the same year, Hardie helped to form the union-based Labour Representation Committee, soon to be called the Labour Party. After the 1906 general election, Hardie was elected as the first parliamentary leader of the Labour Party. He remains a giant in its mythology. With a keen sense of political symbolism, Farage has come here today, to the birthplace of Labour, in the belief that he is about to read its last rites...

Everyone is depressed and nothing’s getting done, say Labour insiders as Sir Keir clings on in No 10 Daily Telegraph 24 April 2026 If you stood anywhere inside the Palace of Westminster and chucked a paper dart right now, you could be pretty sure you would hit someone discussing one of three questions: will Sir Keir Starmer go, when will he go, and who will replace him? It is self-evident that if people are talking about the Prime Minister’s future, they are not discussing how this Government is going to make the country better, and the problem for Britain is that the same is true in No 10. Instead of finding solutions to the cost-of-living crisis, energy prices, illegal immigration or defence spending, the collective brainpower of Downing Street is preoccupied with fighting one crisis after another just to keep Sir Keir in a job. Forget having a five-year plan. Whitehall sources say there isn’t even a five-day plan right now, as each day’s main target is simply surviving unt...

The age of the Centrist Dad is over. Now the Right must gear up for a real battle of ideas with the extremist Left Daily Telegraph 22/04/26 Goodbye, Centrist Dads: you shall never be forgiven for ruining our country, splintering our society, trashing our economy and eviscerating our Armed Forces. Adios, Blairites, technocrat-kings and aficionados of the Third Way: you claimed to be driven by a commitment to social mobility and justice, but you turned Britain into a land of indolence and welfarism, rationing and penury, ignorance and alienation, sectarianism and rising anti-Semitism. It is not just Sir Keir Starmer, our worst-ever Prime Minister, who is finished, a spent force waiting to be ejected from the office he disgraces. The entire managerialist ancien régime that spawned his idiocracy will also be swept away, terminating a catastrophic 30-year experiment in centre-Leftist, “expert-led” rule. Every election from now on, starting with May 7, will be a disaster for the “extrem...

Attorney General dismissed warnings that Iraqi claims of murder were false as he worked on case against soldiers Daily Telegraph 22/04/26 Lord Hermer pursued a notorious “witch hunt” against British troops despite being warned that the allegations were lies, The Telegraph can disclose. An investigation by this newspaper can reveal the Attorney General’s leading role in the Al-Sweady scandal, which left decorated war heroes facing false accusations of murder and torture for more than a decade. Emails and legal documents show that Sir Keir Starmer’s closest Cabinet ally acted as lead counsel in civil claims against the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and pressed for lucrative compensation despite mounting evidence that his eight Iraqi clients were “on the make”. The Attorney General later insisted that it made no difference whether his clients were “a saint or a member of al-Qaeda” while suing British troops under human rights laws. One leading lawyer has now called for Lord Hermer to...

Former top civil servant tells MPs there was ‘atmosphere of constant chasing’ for peer’s vetting clearance Daily Telegraph 21/04/26 Sir Olly Robbins has accused Downing Street of putting the Foreign Office under “constant pressure” to clear Lord Mandelson’s vetting to become US ambassador. The former Foreign Office chief claimed No 10 took a “dismissive approach” to the security checks, revealing that officials had even queried whether they were needed at all. In testimony to MPs, Sir Olly, who was sacked last week for failing to tell Sir Keir Starmer that Lord Mandelson had failed Developed Vetting (DV), argued that the peer’s appointment as ambassador to the US was being treated as a fait accompli by the time he arrived at the department in January last year. His intervention will heap further pressure on the Prime Minister, who on Monday defended his handling of the scandal by telling Parliament that Sir Olly had taken a “deliberate decision” not to tell him of the security c...

Prime Minister’s critics see parallels with his position over Lord Mandelson’s vetting to that during ‘partygate’ scandal Daily Telegraph 20/04/26 Sir Keir Starmer once condemned Boris Johnson for “taking the British public for fools” by claiming he did not know what was going on in Downing Street during the “partygate” scandal. While he was leader of the opposition, the Labour leader suggested that the former prime minister was “trashing the ministerial code” by misleading Parliament. Standing at the Dispatch Box in 2022, he rejected Mr Johnson’s claim that he did not know that civil servants were partying in Downing Street during lockdown. The Prime Minister’s critics have seized on footage of him criticising Mr Johnson in one of their exchanges during Prime Minister’s Questions, claiming there are parallels with Sir Keir’s position over the Mandelson vetting scandal. Sir Keir said at the time: “Look, there are only two possible explanations. Either he’s trashing the ministeria...

Even the Prime Minister cannot claim to be ignorant of the sorry state of our Armed Forces Daily Telegraph 18/04/26 Even before No 10 was thrown into chaos by the latest developments in the Mandelson saga, Sir Keir Starmer was unable to make up his mind on one of the most important dilemmas of the age. His spokesman was asked last week for the Government’s view on whether welfare should be cut to increase spending on defence. “It’s not a zero-sum game when it comes to defence and welfare and you have [the Prime Minister’s] words on that,” he said. With respect to the Prime Minister, when the economy is barely growing, defence versus welfare clearly does amount to a zero-sum game. Perhaps Sir Keir needs to be reminded of some basic facts. There is not an unlimited supply of tax revenue to pay for everything the country wants or needs. The Treasury is heavily constrained in how much it can borrow, in part because it has already taken on so much debt and the UK is already spending ...

As Prime Minister refuses to quit over Mandelson, here are the occasions he has demanded others step down Daily Telegraph 17/04/26 Sir Keir Starmer has repeatedly called for ministers to resign for breaching the ministerial code. Unfortunately for the Prime Minister, he now stands accused of committing the same offence. The Prime Minister has been accused of misleading Parliament after it emerged Lord Mandelson failed security vetting before his appointment as Britain’s ambassador to the US, despite Sir Keir telling MPs “full due process” was followed. On Thursday night, Downing Street blamed “officials” in the Foreign Office for the decision to override recommendations by the security services and said Sir Keir only became aware of the decision on Tuesday night. Sir Olly Robbins, the Foreign Office permanent under-secretary, was fired over the vetting process. However, this may fail to absolve the embattled Prime Minister. The ministerial code states that “it is of paramount im...

It is time for the ‘operational independence’ of individual forces to be subjected to scrutiny and ministerial oversight Daily Telegraph 16/04/26 There is an old saying that heaven is where the chefs are French, the lovers are Italian, the mechanics are German, the organisers are Swiss and the British are the police. But British policing is not what it once was. Our police were traditionally marvelled at by other nations everywhere thanks to the model created by Sir Robert Peel. This was based on trust and mutual compliance, an understanding that our police could be trusted and their actions were based on the consent of the people and not by fear or the arbitrary use of state force. This model was an outstanding success. For generations it created the most extraordinary levels of trust and respect and was admired globally. But the model is breaking down – and in part this is happening because of political correctness. Trust is bound to be lost when, after a series of heinous cr...

What the Southport Inquiry reveals Matt Goodwin - newsletter Apr 15 Like most British people, I’m not sure I will ever forget the moment I heard about the Southport atrocity. The murder of those poor little girls. The senseless violence. The ridiculous attempt by the state to convince us that the monster responsible, Axel Rudakubana, was just as “British” as the children he murdered. And the entirely understandable wave of rage that swept across the country. Which is why the judgement of the Southport inquiry - that this atrocity “could and should have been prevented” - doesn’t just stick in the throat but makes me, no doubt like many of you, feel sick. Axel Rudakubana was not some unknown figure slipping through the cracks. He was well known — to police, to social services, to mental health professionals. In fact, he was known to two separate police forces, two mental health services in the National Health Service, the local council, social services, and his family. Yet nobod...

Today, I am writing to you from the Shetland Islands, where Nigel Farage is on the campaign trail as Reform attempts to make headway in Scotland. With the Holyrood elections fast approaching, a fascinating story is unfolding. After reaching its nadir only a couple of years ago, the SNP could be about to regain their majority. Annabel Denham, Senior Political Commentator Daily Telegraph 14/04/26 Two years ago, the SNP was in the doldrums. It had lost 38 Westminster seats, a chastening result and its worst since 2010. A contrite John Swinney, the Party’s third leader in two years, described the result as “very, very difficult and damaging”. The party was being interrogated over finance irregularities, and its CEO investigated for embezzlement. For all Nicola Sturgeon’s electoral success, her policy objectives had been a disaster, resulting in a stagnant education attainment gap, record-high drug deaths, worsening health outcomes, deteriorating public services and a large fiscal defi...