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GOD HELP US!

KEIR Starmer is ‘unable’ to defend Britain, his own Defence Secretary said yesterday as he quit with a furious blast. John Healey accused the Prime Minister of being too weak to face down Rachel Reeves over the defence of the nation. Mr Healey...

PHONE ‘KILL SWITCH’ TO END TRADE IN STOLEN MOBILES

THE booming trade in stolen phones has been dealt a huge blow thanks to a high-tech advance. Apple has agreed to install a ‘kill switch’ that will make snatched devices worthless. The tech giant announced a change in the settings on its phones...

IS UNIVERSITY A WASTE OF MONEY?

HALF of graduates earn less than the average national wage five years after leaving university, a damning report has warned. It found that more than 150,000 students a year struggled to reach the median full-time worker’s salary of £35,000. Even more...

SPEND NOW ON DEFENCE OR WE WILL PAY A ‘COST IN BLOOD’

BRITAIN faces a ‘blood cost’ if Labour keeps dithering on defence, Keir Starmer was warned last night. Former Nato chief General Sir Richard Shirreff said the country could suffer ‘catastrophic costs’ unless the Government moves to shore up our...

ALL AT SEA!

BRITAIN’S flagship £3.5billion aircraft carrier has broken down again as ministers wrangle over boosting defence funding. HMS Prince of Wales, which has been plagued by problems since entering service, was forced into port in Norway for repairs,...

Beatrice and Eugenie have lived at Palaces RENT-FREE for years

PRINCESSES Beatrice and Eugenie have never personally paid a penny in rent, despite living in exclusive palace properties for nearly two decades. A report by the National Audit Office has laid bare some of the cosy deals that working – and non-working...

TORIES CALL FOR HENRY POLICE TO BE INVESTIGATED

THE police watchdog was under mounting pressure last night to investigate the officers who handcuffed stabbed student Henry Nowak as he lay dying. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp led calls for the officers who arrested the 18-year-old on bogus...

KEMI: THIS NEEDS TO BE A STEPHEN LAWRENCE MOMENT

THE murder of Henry Nowak is a ‘seminal moment’ in the fight against racism, Kemi Badenoch says today. The Tory leader compared the stabbing of the 18-year-old university student to the murder of Stephen Lawrence 33 years ago. Writing for this...

Labour’s poisonous puppet master and a £1million cover-up

THE Mandelson Files yesterday exposed the toxic infighting at the heart of Labour. Hundreds of documents showed ministers and officials sniping at each other over the fate of Keir Starmer’s ‘beleaguered’ Government. The chaos was compounded by...

YOU’VE NOT WON ANYTHING YET, ANDY!

ANDY Burnham was accused of behaving like a ‘Prime Minister in waiting’ last night. The self-styled ‘King of the North’ posed at the start line of the Great Manchester Run yesterday, before flexing his muscles for the waiting cameras. Mr Burnham, who...

AN AFFRONT TO JUSTICE

DITCHING efforts to prosecute two brothers who were filmed punching a policeman is ‘disgraceful’ and ‘completely wrong’, politicians said yesterday. After two juries were unable to reach verdicts on whether Mohammed Fahir Amaaz and Muhammad Amaad had...

DECISION THAT WILL ‘CONDEMN THOUSANDS TO DEATH’

THOUSANDS of men risk being ‘condemned to an avoidable death’ after government advisers yesterday rejected calls for a major prostate cancer screening programme. Only a few thousand men will be invited for the checks after health officials scaled back...

LABOUR RISKING A ‘LOST GENERATION’ OF JOBLESS YOUTH

LABOUR must reform welfare or condemn a ‘lost generation’ of young people to a life on the dole, the party will be warned today. Former Labour cabinet minister Alan Milburn is set to sound the alarm on youth unemployment, saying that without urgent...

NOW BLAIR SAVAGES LABOUR’S LURCH TO THE LEFT

LABOUR’S lurch to the Left is pushing Britain ‘towards relegation’, Tony Blair warns today. In a damning assessment, the former prime minister says the party has retreated into a Leftwing ‘comfort zone’ and looks more interested in increasing state...

HOW COULD STURGEON NOT KNOW?

NICOLA Sturgeon was last night facing tough questions after her husband admitted plundering political funds. Peter Murrell was led away from court in handcuffs yesterday and faces jail for embezzling £400,000 from the Scottish National Party. Yet...

Soft justice makes police ‘caretakers for criminals’

POLICE will be ‘caretakers in the community for criminals’ under Labour’s soft justice reforms, a policing leader has warned. Brian Booth, deputy national chairman of the Police Federation, said crime will become rife with dangerous offenders...

BURNHAM PLOTS NEW TAX RAID ON MIDDLE ENGLAND

ANDY Burnham yesterday paved the way for a new tax grab on Middle England. Millions of families could face soaring bills as the Labour leadership hopeful vowed to overhaul the council tax system and introduce a land value levy. Painting next month’s...

Brain drain as young people f lee Labour’s broken Britain

THE UK is facing an escalating ‘brain drain’ as young people turn their backs on Labour’s broken Britain. Data shows 75,000 more 16 to 34-year-olds left the country last year than returned home. Across all age groups, 136,000 more Britons left than...

PUTIN JETS MENACE RAF PLANE WITH ‘CRAZY IVAN’ STUNT

RUSSIAN jets brazenly imperilled an RAF spy plane in the closest confrontation yet between the two countries’ air forces. Vladimir Putin’s pilots flew reckless passes at more than 500mph in the terrifying incident over the Black Sea. One of the...

As Meghan & Harry release dozens of unseen wedding photos, Jan Moir can’t get enough!

WHAT should the world’s most private celebrity couple do to mark their eighth wedding anniversary? Hide under a rock, silently toast each other with fine champagne while snuggled under a blanket – or under a blanket media blackout, at the very...

SLIPPERY BURNHAM’S TWO U-TURNS IN ONE DAY

ANDY Burnham did two major U-turns within hours yesterday, amid growing concern his Leftwing agenda will wreck the economy. In a major climbdown, Mr Burnham said he was no longer pushing for Britain to go back into the EU, just months after declaring:...

Meghan wears Armani for Geneva speech

IT is perhaps her most candid social media snap since she resurrected her Instagram feed post-megxit – what appears to be a peek inside her own wardrobe in Montecito! Clad in a lilac coat, the Duchess of Sussex strikes a full-length mirror selfie pose...

STARMER FACES HIS WATERLOO

KEIR Starmer is facing his Waterloo after Andy Burnham was given the green light to fight a by-election on the anniversary of the famous battle. Labour’s National Executive Committee yesterday waved through permission for the Mayor of Greater...

LABOUR’S GREAT PRETENDERS

KEIR Starmer’s Government was frozen in the headlights last night as the plots to topple him finally burst into the open. On another dramatic day at Westminster, Andy Burnham announced plans for a return to Parliament, where the self-styled ‘King of...

STREETING TO IGNITE LABOUR DAY OF ANARCHY

WES Streeting will plunge Labour into civil war today by quitting the Cabinet to mount a leadership challenge against Keir Starmer. The Health Secretary is ready to fire the starting gun this morning following yesterday’s face-to-face showdown with...

PARALYSED BY LABOUR CHAOS

LABOUR’S civil war triggered a markets meltdown yesterday – and left the Government ‘paralysed’. Keir Starmer was locked in an extraordinary standoff with his MPS last night after he brushed aside calls to quit and told rivals Wes Streeting and Angela...

Starmer on the brink as Cabinet ministers tell him it’s time to go

KEIR Starmer’s premiership was in freefall last night as Cabinet ministers urged him to quit. Dozens of Labour MPS called for the Prime Minister to resign after a last-ditch fightback speech failed to quell a growing mutiny. Last night, Labour sources...

STREETING AND RAYNER READY FOR STARMER’S FALL

KEIR Starmer was on the brink last night as his rivals for the top job prepared to strike. In an explosive intervention, Angela Rayner broke cover with an extraordinary statement eviscerating the Prime Minister’s record in office. She also unveiled...

STARMER TOLD: IT’S TIME TO GO

KEIR Starmer was fighting for his political survival last night after Labour was thrashed in the local elections. MPS, ministers and unions lined up to call on Sir Keir to set out a timetable for his departure following humiliating defeats across...

HOME OFFICE IMMIGRATION OFFICIAL EXPOSED AS CHINESE SPY He’s one of two men guilty of surveilling dissidents for Beijing after landmark trial

A CHINESE spy ring has been convicted of running ‘shadow policing’ operations on British soil. In an unprecedented case that goes to the heart of the civil service, UK Border Force officer Peter Wai and retired Hong Kong police officer Bill Yuen spied...

DAY THAT WILL DECIDE STARMER’S FATE... AND BRITAIN’S

KEIR Starmer’s political future is on the line today in a historic round of local elections. Millions of voters across England, Scotland and Wales will head to the polls for what opposition leaders have branded a referendum on the Prime Minister’s...

THIRTY GREEN CANDIDATES PROBED OVER ANTI-SEMITISM

Kemi: Britain needs zero tolerance on crimes that make our lives a misery

KEMI Badenoch last night vowed to ‘bring toughness back’ to Britain. Pledging crackdowns on welfare, asylum and low-level crime, the Tory leader said voters were ‘crying out’ for a tougher approach that would deliver ‘consequences’ for those ripping...

LABOUR’S PLAN TO DOUBLE PARKING FINE FEE

PARKING fines could double under ‘crazy’ proposals being considered by Labour. Ministers admitted they were ‘carefully considering’ the findings of a trial in which a council hiked parking tickets to an eye-watering £160. At present, tickets issued by...

POLANSKI’S GREENS ARE A ‘PARTY OF POISON’

ZACK Polanski was last night under intense pressure to ‘get a grip’ on the anti-semitic ‘poison’ infecting the Green Party. In a humiliating climbdown, the Greens’ leader was forced to apologise for sharing a ‘disgraceful’ social media post which...

WHY WAS HE FREE TO ROAM THE STREETS WITH A KNIFE?

THE Golders Green terror suspect was previously jailed for stabbing a police officer and his dog, it emerged last night. Essa Suleiman, 45, was arrested on Wednesday after two men were stabbed in broad daylight in the Jewish area. Now it can be...

ANTI-SEMITISM IS OUT OF CONTROL IN UK, WARNS ISRAEL

KEIR Starmer was warned anti-semitism is a ‘national emergency’ after another terror attack in the heart of Britain’s Jewish community. Israel told the Prime Minister he can ‘no longer claim this is under control’ after a knifeman stabbed two Jewish...

LABOUR REVOLT OVER STARMER’S SLEAZE COVER-UP

KEIR Starmer was rocked by a Labour rebellion last night over his ‘cowardly’ bid to block a sleaze probe into the Mandelson scandal. The Prime Minister ordered his MPS to vote down an inquiry into claims he lied to Parliament over his disastrous...

STARMER’S STITCH-UP TO SAVE HIS OWN SKIN

KEMI Badenoch today urges Labour MPS to put country before party and back a sleaze probe into Keir Starmer’s Mandelson ‘lies’. MPS will vote this evening on opposition calls for an inquiry into whether the Prime Minister has lied to Parliament about...

KING KEEPS CALM AND CARRIES ON

KING Charles has vowed to persevere with his State Visit to the US today despite an apparent assassination attempt on the President. Sources told the Daily Mail the monarch is determined to ‘keep calm and carry on’ – and that if the Government wants...

KING FLIES INTO A U.S. STORM OVER FALKLANDS

THE King will fly into a Falklands storm on his state visit to America next week. As Charles prepared for his transatlantic trip, the US threatened to back Argentina’s claim to the South Atlantic islands. Donald Trump is considering withdrawing...

FARAGE: I’LL WAGE ‘WAR’ ON BENEFITS CULTURE

NIGEL Farage has vowed to wage ‘war’ on Britain’s benefits culture. In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, the Reform UK leader said he was ready to face down protests, strikes and even riots to cut the bloated benefits bill, should his party...

IT’S,MY LIFE MY CHOICE

THE sky is a glorious blue. The cherry trees are in full bloom. It is the sort of day that makes you feel glad to be alive. Isn’t it, Wendy? Wendy Duffy gives a little half smile. ‘I won’t change my mind,’ she says. ‘I know it’s hard for you,...

Starmer’s support starts to crack

CRACKS are appearing in Keir Starmer’s Cabinet as he comes under mounting pressure over the Peter Mandelson affair. In an extraordinary parliamentary hearing yesterday, a mandarin sacked by the Prime Minister revealed the ‘atmosphere of pressure’...

IT’S EVERYONE’S FAULT BUT HIS

Starmer finally admits he WAS wrong to appoint Mandelson – but still WON’T resign Instead he blames civil service, accusing officials of ‘deliberate’ cover-up on vetting As PM’S ‘incredible’ story is jeered, Kemi skewers him for failing to take...

DAY STARMER HAS TO STAND UP AND TAKE THE BLAME

KEIR Starmer will today be told to finally take responsibility for the Mandelson scandal and stop blaming everyone else. The Prime Minister will begin a makeor-break week for his faltering premiership by facing angry MPS over his involvement in the...

STARMER’S TWO TOP AIDES KNEW ABOUT MANDY WEEKS AGO

TWO of Keir Starmer’s top aides knew about the latest Peter Mandelson scandal for weeks, it emerged last night. Amid fresh accusations that Sir Keir has lost control of his Government, it was revealed the country’s top civil servant, Dame Antonia...

STARMER ON BRINK AS HIS MANDELSON ‘LIES’ ARE EXPOSED

KEIR Starmer was facing mounting calls to quit last night after it emerged that Peter Mandelson was made US ambassador despite failing security vetting. Foreign Office officials pushed the controversial appointment through regardless, it was revealed,...

LABOUR’S SHAMEFUL BETRAYAL OF WOMEN

HUNDREDS of public bodies are still defying the Supreme Court victory for women on the first anniversary of the landmark ruling. The judgment specified that ‘woman’ in the Equality Act referred to biological sex, but a Daily Mail audit has found that...

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Southport killer’s parents ‘should have stopped him’

THE Southport attack would not have happened if the killer’s parents had done their ‘moral’ duty and reported him to police, a damning report revealed yesterday. Axel Rudakubana’s parents knew their son was hoarding an arsenal of weapons, including...

LABOUR PLOTS TO DENY MPS VOTE ON NEW EU SELL-OUT

LABOUR was accused of another Brexit betrayal last night amid plans to sign the UK up to EU rules without giving MPS a proper say. Ministers are set to introduce legislation to align Britain with future single-market regulations without normal...

WE’RE SITTING ON A GOLDMINE!

NORTH Sea oil prices have surged to a record high – piling pressure on Labour to abandon Ed Miliband’s ‘mad ideology’ and allow lucrative drilling. The jump in prices caused by the Iran conflict means the UK is sitting on increasingly valuable...

NOW RED ED'S GREEN IDIOCY HALTS A.I. DEAL WORTH BILLIONS

ED Miliband’s ‘mad dash’ to Net Zero has been blamed for an AI giant shelving a multibillion-pound investment in Britain. Openai, the company behind CHATGPT, said soaring energy prices as well as red tape were behind the decision to pause its Stargate...

A BIZARRE KIND OF VICTORY

DONALD Trump’s peace deal with Iran was hanging by a thread last night as Tehran halted tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. It warned that unauthorised ships would be ‘targeted and destroyed’. As the White House declared a dramatic and decisive...

NIGHT THE WORLD HELD ITS BREATH AND PRAYED

DONALD Trump threatened to wipe out the ‘whole civilisation’ of Iran as peace talks went down to the wire last night. The US bombed Kharg Island and Israel pounded bridges, railways and roads across the Islamic republic as the two allies appeared to...

£3 BILLION COST OF DOCTORS’ STRIKES

STRIKES by junior doctors have cost hospitals £3billion – as they walk out again today. Union members will take to the picket lines in their 15th round of industrial action since 2023. Health chiefs burn through £50million a day when medics walk out,...

TRUMP DROPS F-BOMB ON IRAN

DONALD Trump ordered Tehran to re-open the Strait of Hormuz in an expletive-laden ultimatum yesterday. Emboldened after the rescue of a second downed US airman, the President posted: ‘Open the f***in’ Strait, you crazy b ***** ds, or you’ll be living...

U.S. rescues one of F-15 aircrew, but second is still missing RACE TO FIND PILOT SHOT DOWN BY IRAN

AMERICA and Iran were last night locked in a tense race to find a US pilot downed by Tehran. The war in the Middle East took a dramatic turn yesterday when an F-15E jet on operations over southern Iran was shot out of the sky. One of the two-person...

Fears of ‘thousands’ hit by Britain’s worst funeral home scandal

THOUSANDS of families may have fallen victim to Britain’s most evil funeral director, it was feared last night. Robert Bush is facing jail after he stockpiled the bodies of loved ones, stole from the bereaved and handed over the wrong ashes to...

NOW TRUMP GOES TO WAR ON NATO

DONALD Trump threatened to ditch Nato last night after European allies turned their backs on his war in the Middle East. The US President was expected to use an overnight address to the United States to register his ‘disgust’ for the historic alliance...

TRUMP’S TAUNT EXPOSES A PM WITHOUT A PLAN

DONALD Trump told Britain to ‘go get your own oil’ yesterday, sparking questions about how the Government plans to deal with the global fuel crisis. MPS accused Keir Starmer of being a ‘rabbit caught in the headlights’ with no clear blueprint for the...

BBC CRISIS AS ANOTHER SCANDAL-HIT PRESENTER IS SACKED

THE BBC was plunged into fresh scandal yesterday as one of its most high-profile radio stars was sensationally axed. Radio 2 Breakfast Show host Scott Mills was hauled off air last Tuesday and his contract has now been terminated over his ‘personal...

BETRAYAL OF THE STRIVERS

MPS and benefit claimants are to receive bumper payments this week to help cushion them from the cost-of-living crisis. Rachel Reeves last week ruled out blanket measures to help families cope with the energy emergency triggered by the war in...

MINISTERS HAVE ‘ZERO CREDIBILITY’ ON PETROL CRISIS

THE boss of one of Britain’s biggest supermar- kets yesterday hit out at Labour ministers’ claims of profiteering at the petrol pump. Wading into the industry’s war with Whitehall, Asda chairman Allan Leighton said ministers had ‘zero credibility’,...

REEVES IS THE REAL PETROL PROFITEER

RACHEL Reeves was last night accused of profiteering from rising fuel prices. The claim came amid a furious row with petrol bosses. Kemi Badenoch was joined by some of Britain’s top business chiefs in attacking the Chancellor who is raking in soaring...

A.I. bot told teen to use a hammer to kill his mother

A TEENAGE boy with a hatred of women was advised how to kill his mother by an AI chatbot. The disturbing details behind the murder of teaching assistant Angela Shellis came as her son Tristan Roberts, 18, was jailed for life yesterday for bludgeoning...

MIDDLE CLASS ‘TO FOOT BILL’ FOR REEVES’ BENEFITS ST FUEL BAILOUT

MIDDLE-CLASS families were last night warned they face subsidising an energy bailout for those on benefits. Rachel Reeves has pledged support for ‘those who need it most’, amid fears the Iran conflict will trigger a crippling hike in energy bills this...

TRUMP BLINKS FIRST

DONALD Trump yesterday dramati- cally pulled back from the brink on his threat to ‘obliterate’ Iran’s power plants. As the hours ticked down to a deadline for the mullahs to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the US President suddenly claimed Tehran was on...

WHY DID PM KEEP PUBLIC IN DARK FOR 3O HOURS AFTER CHAGOS STRIKE?

KEIR Starmer was last night accused of a cover-up after failing to tell the public about an Iranian missile attack on a British overseas territory. The Government finally admitted that missiles had been fired at Diego Garcia more than 30 hours after...

IRA victims ‘devastated’ as Gerry Adams trial collapses amid chaos

VICTIMS of IRA atrocities were left devastated last night after a landmark civil trial against Gerry Adams collapsed at the 11th hour. Three survivors of IRA bomb attacks in England dramatically withdrew their case after two weeks of evidence when it...

Anya wears Beckham in the Big Apple

THE Queen’s Gambit star Anya Taylor-joy nailed her colours firmly to Team Posh as she stepped out in New York wearing a dress from Victoria Beckham’s eponymous line. In a chic show of support for Victoria and David Beckham amid their very public feud...

IRAN WAGES ‘FULL SCALE ECONOMIC WAR’ ON THE WEST

IRAN last night threatened to cripple the global energy market in a ‘full-scale economic war’ by ramping up missile attacks on oil and gas plants. In a major escalation of the Middle East crisis, facilities in neighbouring Gulf countries were...

DAVID AND BROOKLYN SPOTTED IN SAME L.A. HOTEL

SINCE their heartbreaking fall out with son Brooklyn last year, there is nothing that Sir David and Victoria Beckham want more than to be in the same room as their oldest offspring. And on Monday, Sir David’s dream almost became a reality as he and...

THOUSANDS TOLD: GET HELP NOW FOR MENINGITIS RISK

HEALTH officials are racing to curb a deadly meningitis outbreak, tracing and treating thousands of potential contacts as reports of suspected cases spread. The unprecedented emergency response saw 2,000 worried students receive preventative...

TWO DEAD IN UNIVERSITY MENINGITIS OUTBREAK

A MENINGITIS outbreak has killed two young people and left 11 others seriously ill. The victims, who have not been named, are thought to be aged between 17 and 21. One was confirmed as a student at the University of Kent in Canterbury, while the...