Deadly intent
FOR all the talk of Trump demanding $500billion of minerals from Volodymyr Zelensky, while Keir Starmer tries to broker a ceasefire, there is one question being repeatedly overlooked.
What is Russia prepared to give up for peace?
EPAThe PM deserves credit for defying his own moaning backbenchers and slashing bloated foreign aid to bolster Britain’s defences[/caption]
The chilling answer came yesterday in a brutal signal of Putin’s continuous murderous intent.
A massive Russian missile strike on a training base near Dnipro wiped out 30 Ukrainian soldiers and left over 100 wounded.
Ordinary Ukrainians continue to cower under threat of bombardment in cities across the country.
It is clear not only that Putin has no intention of surrendering gains won during his illegal invasion.
But also that he remains keener than ever to exploit any division or weakness in the West’s resolve.
That is why the PM deserves credit for defying his own moaning backbenchers and slashing bloated foreign aid to bolster Britain’s defences.
The world is at a highly dangerous crossroads.
We cannot indulge the head-in-the sand brigade in their deluded Left-wing fantasies for one moment longer.
End the flow
FOLLOWING another record day for illegal migrant crossings, it’s revealed Britain is to sign a two-year extension to its deal with France to stop the small boats.
We’ve already forked out £500million to the French in return for sweet FA.
Last year 36,816 migrants crossed the Channel — up 25 per cent on the year before.
A mega detention centre promised by Emmanuel Macron two years ago also has yet to be built.
So if it’s clear that we can’t rely on the French then Labour has to do much more to protect our wide open borders.
It could start with exercising control over abuse in the visa system by properly tracking asylum seekers.
But the key remains stopping illegal migration at its source.
Without a proper deterrent in place to stop arrivals, all the Government is doing is pointlessly hurling hundreds of millions of pounds down Le Plughole.
Crime floppers
THE exorbitant cost of decades of going soft on crime is laid bare today.
An eye-watering £250billion — five times the current defence budget — is the price of failing to crackdown on shoplifters, burglars and street robbers.
The obvious answer is longer jail terms, more prisons and an urgent deportation of foreign criminals.
Yet the Government has just published a report that suggests it does the opposite.
How would leaving more crooks on our streets make us safer?
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