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DUMB & DUMBER
LABOUR was last night accused of ‘destroying school standards’ with yet another overhaul of the curriculum. Education Secretary Lucy Powell was told ‘children will be the losers’ after she announced ‘speaking skills’ will become just as important as...
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The ‘predator’ in sunglasses
JUST before 9.30am yesterday, Russell Brand was to be found standing in the reception area of Southwark Crown Court. The comedian, actor, podcaster, guru, presenter, preacher, yogi, holy roller, author, DJ, columnist, conspiracy theorist – and a man...
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4 out of 5 new jobs went to foreigners in the past decade
FOUR in five jobs created over the past decade have been taken by migrants. Of the 3.7million new roles recorded under the PAYE system since 2014, just 734,000 were taken by UK nationals, a think-tank has found. EU citizens accounted for 408,000...
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BURNHAM IN RETREAT OVER RUSSIA BREXIT ‘LIES’
THE Prime Minister was in retreat last night over his ‘lies’ about Russian interference in the Brexit referendum. In an embarrassing U-turn Andy Burnham admitted he has no evidence that the Kremlin meddled in the 2016 vote, a claim he made just 24...
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BORIS BLASTS ‘SICKENING’ TRUMP DEAL WITH PUTIN
BORIS Johnson yesterday declared Donald Trump’s diesel deal with Russia to be ‘sickening’. The once staunch supporter of the US President railed against the ‘outrageous’ agreement to lift sanctions on Kremlin fuel. And he accused Mr Trump of forcing...
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M&S boss tells Labour: Now take the handcuffs off business
THE boss of Marks & Spencer last night urged John Healey to reverse ‘the mistakes of the last two Budgets’ to get Britain growing again. In a landmark intervention, Stuart Machin branded Labour’s previous efforts ‘disasters’ and ‘a crushing...
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RUSH TO DIAGNOSE AUTISM CAN DAMAGE CHILDREN
BRITAIN risks harming a generation of children by overdiagnosing ADHD and autism, a major review warns today. Parents are incentivised to have their children diagnosed by misguided schools and welfare systems that reward such ‘labels’, the report...
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Kemi’s family home pledge
KEMI Badenoch vowed to protect the family home from Labour as she electrified the Conservative Party yesterday. Signalling a return to the Tories’ traditional focus on lower taxes and home ownership, the party leader pledged to scrap inheritance tax...
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TORIES TO SLASH JOBS TAX TO GET YOUNG BACK INTO WORK
KEMI Badenoch will offer a new ‘rescue package’ for jobless youngsters today. The Conservative leader will urge her party to focus on saving the economy from Labour by unveiling measures aimed at reversing the slide in entry-level jobs. These will...
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Tories vow to build ‘Iron Dome’ to stop drones and missiles
BRITAIN will be protected from air attack by its own ‘Iron Dome’ defences under a Tory government, Kemi Badenoch vowed last night. The Conservative leader announced plans for a £10billion system, dubbed Britannia Shield, to guard cities, power plants...
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KEMI’S COMMON SENSE BLUEPRINT
KEMI Badenoch last night launched a ‘reset’ of the Conservative Party to get it battle-ready for an election as soon as next year. In a direct echo of Margaret Thatcher’s approach in the 1970s, Mrs Badenoch published a major document setting out plans...
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Tories vow to slash foreign aid to fund 50,000 new jail cells
KEMI Badenoch last night unveiled plans for the biggest prison-building programme since the Victorian era. Vowing to reverse Labour’s soft-justice approach, the Conservative leader has signed off proposals to build 50,000 new prison places, increasing...
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LABOUR FREES FIRST OF TEN TIDAL WAVES OF CONVICTS
HUNDREDS of criminals let out of jail yesterday are just the first wave of Labour’s ‘prison breakout bonanza’, the public was warned last night. Up to 50,000 offenders a year are likely to be freed early under Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s...
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Kemi to stop school leavers going straight on the dole
SCHOOL leavers will be banned from going straight on to the dole under Tory plans to ‘put the fair back in welfare’. Kemi Badenoch has drawn up proposals to require jobless teenagers to undergo intensive work coaching instead of signing on immediately...
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BURNHAM’S TRIPLE SHOCK
ANDY BURNHAM gambled with Labour’s electoral prospects yesterday. The Prime Minister vowed to scrap the pension triple lock, unpick Brexit and tear up Britain’s voting system. In a seismic first speech to Labour’s annual conference, Mr Burnham said...
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PM to vow public control of energy, water and housing
ANDY Burnham will today set out plans for greater state control of water, energy and housing, saying: ‘We can’t go on as we are.’ In the most Left-wing speech delivered by a modern British prime minister, Mr Burnham will tell Labour’s party conference...
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‘IRAN BOMB PLOT’ AT RAF BASE FOILED BY FARMER’S 999 CALL
A MAJOR terror attack on an RAF base was foiled at the last minute by a suspicious farmer. In a suspected Iranian plot, five men in three vans packed with explosives were stopped 350 yards from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire early yesterday. American...
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BURNHAM BOTTLES IT!
ANDY Burnham was last night accused of ‘bottling’ plans for an early election after polls showed he would lose Labour’s majority. The Prime Minister yesterday moved to kill off speculation about a snap poll to prevent it overshadowing Labour’s annual...
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LABOUR’S ARMY OF MIGRANTS
THE number of smallboat migrants who have reached Britain under Labour is larger than the entire British Army. The deepening crisis in the Channel saw 781 migrants arrive on Wednesday – the highest daily tally this year. It pushed the total since the...
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KEMI’S RUTHLESS CRACKDOWN ON BENEFITS STREET
KEMI Badenoch last night launched plans for a tough crackdown on Britain’s ballooning benefits bill. The jobless who have paid little in taxes will see their handouts docked and be banned from spending them on vices such as drinking, smoking or...
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BURNHAM WOBBLES ON CHAGOS AS TRUMP HITS OUT
ANDY Burnham triggered Donald Trump’s wrath during their first meeting last night. The Prime Minister was forced to look on stony-faced as the US President rounded on Labour’s ‘terrible deal’ to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to...
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NEW SMALL BOAT FARCE
LABOUR was last night accused of losing control of the border after an unescorted migrant boat reached British shores. A dinghy carrying up to seven migrants evaded French and Home Office patrols in the Channel and landed on a rocky shoreline near...
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KEMI: I’LL DITCH TOURIST TAX TO BOOST BRITAIN
KEMI Badenoch last night vowed to ditch the hated tourist tax to get Britain’s ailing economy firing again. The Tory leader pledged to bring back tax-free shopping to attract millions of overseas tourists and deliver a £4billion boost to the high...
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I’M TELLING THE TRUTH. HIS WORDS WERE MONSTROUS
EARL Spencer last night hit back in his bitter war of words with King Charles and declared: ‘I’m telling the truth.’ In an escalation of the feud sending shockwaves through the Royal Family, Princess Diana’s brother claimed he told friends and family...
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Queen offered to restore Diana’s HRH... after she died
THE late Queen dramatically offered to restore Princess Diana’s royal title on the day of her funeral, a bombshell book claims. Earl Spencer describes in his explosive memoir – being exclusively serialised by the Daily Mail – how Queen Elizabeth...
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‘Rest assured, we will forget her soon enough’
A FURIOUS Prince Charles told Earl Spen- cer days after Princess Diana’s death, ‘rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough’, according to a devastating memoir. In allegations that prompted an extraordinary response from Buckingham Palace, Charles...
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EARL SPENCER’S BOMBSHELL NEW BOOK IS STOLEN
COPIES of Earl Spencer’s sensational book about Princess Diana have been stolen from a lorry – just before its exclusive serialisation in the Daily Mail. The memoir – Swan Song: Diana, My Sister – includes revelations about Diana’s deeply unhappy...
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Harry and Meghan pull children out of their new school after just two days
PRINCE Harry and Meghan have pulled their children from their new British school after just two days. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex removed Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, from their prep school for security reasons. The children...
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Did Putin drone target Boris and top security officials?
TRAINS carrying Boris Johnson and foreign dignitaries were the intended targets of a Russian drone attack in Ukraine yesterday, experts fear. The former Prime Minister was on a charter train from Kyiv when it received a drone alert as it approached the...
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BURNHAM BOWS TO THE GREEN MENACE
ANDY Burnham was last night accused of ‘run- ning scared’ of the Green Party after delaying new North Sea drilling. The Prime Minister has postponed approving drilling the Jackdaw gas field until after the Holborn by-election, where Labour faces...
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BURNHAM’S HOLIDAY TAX TO HAMMER FAMILIES ON UK BREAKS
ANDY Burnham was accused of launching another raid on struggling families last night after he approved a new holiday tax. The Prime Minister gave his favoured regional mayors the power to impose an unlimited ‘overnight visitor levy’ on stays in...
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Burnham: National security can’t come at the expense of social security
LABOUR was branded the ‘Welfare Party’ last night after Andy Burnham said he would never prioritise defence spending over benefits. In an extraordinary intervention, the Prime Minister said he was serious about national security, but it ‘cannot come...
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MILIBAND ACCUSED OF PUTTING JEWS IN UK IN DANGER
LABOUR was accused of putting British Jews at risk last night after caving in to Left-wing activists demanding sanctions on Israel. Britain’s Chief Rabbi said a trade ban on Israeli settlements in the West Bank was ‘truly a dark day for British...
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KING PUTS HARRY AND MEGHAN IN THEIR PLACE
THE King last night made absolutely clear that Harry and Meghan will not be taking up royal duties, despite their shock return to the UK. In an unprecedented letter to senior royal representatives, government and military officials, Charles appeared...
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LABOUR ‘CHICKENS OUT’ ON CURBING MIGRANT RIGHTS
SHABANA Mahmood was last night accused of kowtowing to the Labour Left-wing after failing to bring forward ‘urgent’ immigration reforms. The Home Secretary promised tough new measures aimed at tightening immigration laws almost a year ago. Critics...
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Tory leader blasts: Is it any wonder they’re coming for the Falklands?
ANDY Burnham was last night accused of being ‘too weak’ to stand up to Argentina over its latest threat to ‘recover’ the Falklands. The Prime Minister failed to Sam Merriman respond after Buenos Aires escalated tensions to their highest level since...
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Alison Boshoff
Editor-at-large in FIRST, Kim Kardashian tried to break free from reality TV with roles in several films and a (panned) lawyer TV drama. Then her sister Kylie Jenner turned her talents to Tinseltown, appearing in a mockumentary movie with singer...
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KEMI: I’LL SLASH BENEFITS BILL TO BOOST DEFENCE
KEMI Badenoch piled pressure on Andy Burnham over defence last night as she pledged to slash welfare to fund military spending. In a major intervention, the Conservative leader set out plans to raise defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP by the end of...
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Britain’s problems? I blame Thatcher and Brexit, says Burnham
ANDY Burnham was last night accused of ‘living in the past’ after blaming Margaret Thatcher and Brexit for Britain’s problems. The new Prime Minister used his first statement to Parliament to set out a Leftwing vision for the country involving greater...
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Kemi gets Tories battle ready with ruthless reshuffle
KEMI Badenoch has launched a bold overhaul of her top team as the Tories get battle-ready for a general election. As Andy Burnham returns to Westminster today to face MPS for the first time since he became Prime Minister, the Conservative leader...
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MORE DANGEROUS CRIMINALS SET TO BE FREED EARLY
ANDY Burnham was last night accused of endangering the public over his latest change to the prison early-release scheme. The Prime Minister is facing a new backlash after changing the policy to keep PC Andrew Harper’s killers behind bars, but at the...
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SURRENDER!
JOHN Healey was branded a ‘hypocrite’ last night as critics said his plans to shelve his own defence spending target were ‘akin to surrender’. Andy Burnham’s new Chancellor was called a ‘sell-out’ and accused of putting ‘welfare over warfare’ as it...
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FACES OF BRITONS MISSING IN NEPAL
BRITISH families were last night desperately trying to contact loved ones missing in Nepal’s deadly ‘tsunami from the sky’. As rescuers battled to reach villages wiped out by Wednesday’s 600ft surging wall of mud, rock and ice, dozens of Britons...
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OVER 30 BRITONS MISSING IN NEPAL FLASH FLOODING
A DESPERATE hunt was on last night for 33 Britons, including a schoolgirl, missing after an apocalyptic mudslide in Nepal. More than 400 tourists were among thousands caught in the monster flash flood that swept away whole villages. A 13-year-old...
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Record 1 in 7 on antidepressants as pill use rockets
ONE in seven people in England were prescribed antidepressants last year, worrying figures show. It comes amid a sharp rise in mental health problems such as depression and anxiety since the pandemic. A record 9.1million patients were given the drugs...
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CHILDREN ARE ‘NOT SAFE’ ON THE INTERNET
IT IS ‘not safe’ for children to go online, the head of the National Crime Agency has warned. Graeme Biggar issued a stark message to parents amid rocketing reports of child abuse on social media and gaming platforms. The head of Britain’s FBI has...
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Ministers forced to tell asylum seekers: Don’t rape women
ASYLUM seekers have been warned in an official government guidebook not to rape women. The disturbing Home Office document setting out the ‘rules and expectations’ of living in Britain comes in the wake of a series of horrific rapes and sex...
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So who was White House hoaxer who duped PM?
ANDY Burnham was left red-faced yesterday after he was fooled by an imposter posing as Donald Trump’s chief of staff. An international hunt is under way for the hoaxer who targeted the Prime Minister as he took office last month. Mr Burnham thought...
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Day small boats crisis became a BIG boats crisis
LABOUR’S attempts to tackle the Channel crisis were branded a ‘complete laughing stock’ last night after a record 230 migrants arrived on one dinghy. The huge number – more than the capacity of a Boeing 737 jet – crossed from France yesterday,...
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LABOUR JAIL PLAN TO SPARK 89,000 MORE CRIMES
THOUSANDS of Britons will become victims of crime as a result of Andy Burnham’s early prison release scheme. Sex offenders, robbers, arsonists and violent criminals will commit nearly 90,000 extra offences after being freed early, according to...
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TUBE MONSTER BAILED TO RAPE AND MURDER
A CONVICTED sex offender was free to kill two women and rape another despite warnings he was a danger to women. And incredibly, Simon Levy, 40, committed the second murder while on bail suspected of carrying out the first. Kemi Badenoch last night...
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FOREIGN NATIONALS FACE SOCIAL HOUSING BAN UNDER TORIES
FOREIGN nationals will be barred from living in social housing under Conservative plans revealed today. In a bold move, the Tories have vowed to scrap tenancies for non-eu nationals already living in social housing – and to block all foreign citizens...
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‘PLAGIARISM PROFESSOR’ RESIGNS AS CAMBRIDGE INVESTIGATE
A CAMBRIDGE professor accused of plagia- rism quit last night after the university launched an investigation into him. Professor Jason Arday had been at the centre of a growing row over allegations that he had copied parts of his PHD from another...
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9,300 DOMESTIC ABUSERS SET TO BE RELEASED
MORE than 9,000 domestic abusers are set to walk Britain’s streets within three years under Labour’s early prison release scheme. In plans set to terrify survivors, 3,000 perpetrators will be freed annually before serving full sentences, the Daily...
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ATHENS SUITCASE MURDER SUSPECT
AN AFGHAN boxer who arrived in Greece on a small boat has been arrested over the murder of a British missionary. Sharif Ahmadzai, 26, is suspected of killing Elisabeth-jane Ross, 38, before putting her body in a suitcase and dumping it in a derelict...
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BURNHAM MUST SCRAP ‘DISASTROUS’ PRO-UNION STRIKE LAWS
ANDY Burnham must ditch Labour’s hard-left workers’ rights reforms or risk sending Britain back to the 1970s, the Tories warned last night. The swingeing changes will make it easier for unions to ballot for strikes, which could leave the country in a...
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Ministers MUST stop the Spanish border invaders reaching UK
MINISTERS were under pressure last night to stop thousands of Africans who stormed a Spanish territory from reaching the UK. Spanish troops struggled to restore order yesterday after 60,000 migrants surged into Ceuta – a Spanish city on Morocco’s...
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BURNHAM ADMITS OIL DRILLING CAN EASE COST OF LIVING
ANDY Burnham was urged last night to ‘get Britain drilling’ after he admitted that North Sea oil revenues could ease the cost of living. The Prime Minister hinted at a shift in Labour’s ideological ban on new drilling, saying that at a time of tight...
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STILL SAY YOUR BOATS PLAN IS WORKING, ANDY?
HUNDREDS of migrants headed for Britain yesterday just 24 hours after Andy Burnham claimed the plan to stop small boats ‘is working’. More than 700 migrants are thought to have attempted to cross the Channel on one of the busiest days so far this...
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Burnham benefits ‘bribe’ for parents of apprentices
THOUSANDS of families will be paid up to £4,500 to compensate them for benefits lost when a teenager takes up an apprenticeship. Critics say the plan, unveiled by the Prime Minister yesterday, underlines the madness of the welfare system – and raises...
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BURNHAM’S £18 BILLION ‘DEATH TAX’ NIGHTMARE
ANDY Burnham was last night warned against reviving his ‘nightmare’ plan for a ‘death tax’ to pay for social care. The Prime Minister has long favoured a 10 per cent levy on all inheritances and yesterday said he wants cross-party agreement on...
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STREETING: I WILL QUIT IF DEFENCE PLAN FALLS SHORT
WES Streeting vowed yesterday to follow his predecessor and quit as Defence Secretary if Labour does not increase military spending. He said he would leave the job he has held for just days ‘as a matter of principle’. John Healey resigned from the...
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Fathers driven to suicide by child support scandal Special Investigation
PARENTS are being ‘financially crippled’ and driven to suicide after being hit with ‘fictitious’ child maintenance charges, a Daily Mail investigation shows. Computer glitches are suspected to be partly to blame for more than 24,000 cases of...
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EVERY SINGLE ADVANCED A.I. MODEL ‘GOES ROGUE’ IN TESTING
AI was branded a ‘clear and present danger’ yesterday as tests showed every advanced model is trying to beat security safeguards. In a wake-up call to ministers, Britain’s artificial intelligence security experts revealed that all five models they had...
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BURNHAM FORCED TO REVIEW EARLY PRISON RELEASE
THE widow of hero PC Andrew Harper last night blasted Labour’s soft justice prisoner release scheme as ‘deplorable’. Lissie Harper spoke out after it emerged that two of her husband’s killers are due to be freed early. She accused politicians of...
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Who’s going to pay the bill for Andy’s largesse?
ANDY Burnham was last night asked to explain how he will pay for his Left-wing spending spree. In an early warning sign, the new Prime Minister’s first cost-of-living pledge unravelled within hours yesterday as a sacked minister revealed it was...
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Burnham’s brutal purge as Labour lurches to the Left
ANDY Burnham carried out a brutal purge of Keir Starmer’s allies yesterday as he signalled he will lead the most Left-wing government since the 1970s. The new Prime Minister showed a glint of steel as he sacked Rachel Reeves, David Lammy, Lord Hermer...
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Burnham doesn’t speak for us, say voters in South
ANDY Burnham faces an extraordinary crisis of legitimacy when he enters Downing Street today. Exclusive polling for the Daily Mail reveals that, outside of his Manchester stronghold, many question his right to be Prime Minister after he seized power...
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