No-grow zone
LABOUR cannot shirk the blame for our dismal economic figures.
In the first half of 2024, under Rishi Sunak, UK growth led the G7.
ReutersChancellor Rachel Reeves says she has rolled the pitch for bumper long-term growth[/caption]
Under the new “growth-focused” Government, we have shrunk for two straight months.
On taking power Labour chose not to talk Britain’s prospects up but to trash the Tories, exaggerate our problems and conjure up a “£22billion black hole”.
How did they imagine investors would react to a Government saying the country was on its knees?
They fled. And our firms froze with fear about the Budget.
The crippling tax rises that they unleashed, including the job-wrecking National Insurance hike, are likely to trigger more woe in November’s figures.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves says she has rolled the pitch for bumper long-term growth. The OBR is more pessimistic.
We must hope she’s right and the economists are wrong.
Wrecker Ed
IT is arguable that Russia might never have invaded Ukraine were it not for Ed Miliband’s political parlour games.
In 2013 he whipped Labour to defeat Tory plans to join the US in bombing Syria to stop it using chemical weapons.
Without us, President Obama backed off. Assad continued his savagery, his ally Putin saw the West had lost its nerve and months later he attacked Crimea.
So Health Secretary Wes Streeting is right to call out our “hesitation”, meaning his Cabinet colleague’s opportunism.
These days Miliband’s unbending ignorance is driving us off a Net Zero cliff.
High time Keir Starmer stopped him inflicting the same carnage on our energy supply as he may have done on all those lives in Syria and Ukraine.
Name them
NO ONE failed Sara Sharif as egregiously as the family court which handed her over to her monstrous father and stepmother.
A judge and social workers made that ruling in 2019 despite knowing Urfan Sharif’s appalling record of abuse.
Now, incredibly, another judge has ordered they must remain anonymous to dodge criticism. But they SHOULD be accountable for the error which proved a death sentence for little Sara.
How else to stop them making another?
Andy sums
WHERE is disgraced, jobless Prince Andrew getting his money?
Cut off by the King after the Epstein paedo scandal, he can still afford the huge bills on the vast Royal Lodge.
His top business advisor is an alleged Chinese spy — and people are snuck into and out of his mansion “unnoticed”.
Are these murky dealings remotely in the national interest? Or just Andrew’s?
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