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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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

BURNHAM TO DRAG US BACK TO THE 1970S

ANDY Burnham vowed to steer Britain back to the 1970s yesterday. Immediately after taking over as Labour leader, the next Prime Minister signalled a lurch to the Left, saying Britain had taken a ‘series of wrong turns’ under Margaret Thatcher that...

FOREIGN AID FARCE OVER ROCHDALE GROOMING GANG BOSS

MINISTERS last night signed off £153million in aid for Pakistan – despite the country refusing to take back grooming gang boss Shabir Ahmed. The Foreign Office slipped out figures revealing the bumper package for the next three years, despite Downing...

Night our dream finally died

Widdecombe suspect probed over Left-wing extremism

POLICE investigating Ann Widdecombe’s murder are probing whether the suspect planned to kill other politicians. Detectives are examining if Leftwing extremism fuelled the brutal attack on the 78-year-old who was bludgeoned to death in her remote Devon...

Widdecombe murder WAS political, terror police believe

THE brutal murder of Ann Widdecombe was last night being treated as a suspected politically motivated terrorist attack. In a dramatic escalation, counter terrorism officers yesterday took over the investigation into the killing of the former Tory...

‘Loner left his house with a pole’ on day of Widdecombe murder

THE man suspected of Ann Widdecombe’s murder is a ‘loner’ believed to have driven 270 miles to her Devon home armed with a ‘foot-long pole’. He was arrested on suspicion of killing the former Tory MP after a dozen armed officers descended on his...

‘ABJECT TERROR’ OF MURDERED WIDDECOMBE

THE family of Ann Widdecombe last night spoke of their shock at her brutal murder. They feared the 78-year-old former Tory minister spent her last moments in ‘abject terror’ when an intruder broke into her home. Ms Widdecombe was found covered in...

WHAT A SHAMELESS STITCH-UP!

THE ‘coronation’ of Andy Burnham was almost complete last night as hundreds of Labour MPS scrambled to nominate their new ‘king’. Despite not knowing what he will do in power, backbenchers and ministers stampeded to pledge their loyalty to the...

FARAGE: BINFACE BY-ELECTION IS DEADLY SERIOUS

NIGEL Farage last night insisted he is fighting a ‘real election’. He spoke out after his by-election gamble left him facing off against a man dressed as a bin. Voters in Clacton face the prospect of a ‘farcical’ ballot, featuring none of the main...

This was nothing less than a conspiracy to destroy the Daily Mail STEPHEN GLOVER VINDICATED

In a 46-day High Court case costing over £50m, seven claimants including Prince Harry, Baroness Lawrence and Elton John accused the Mail of 57 counts of illegal information gathering. Over 40 of our journalists defended themselves in the witness box....

BEND IT LIKE TRUMP: FURY OVER RED CARD FOUL PLAY

FOOTBALL was in crisis last night after Fifa reversed the suspension of US star Folarin Balogun following pressure from Donald Trump. Critics warned that the integrity of the beautiful game was at stake after the US President admitted asking Fifa boss...

NHS TREATS DEMENTIA PATIENTS ‘AS SECOND-CLASS CITIZENS’

DEMENTIA patients are being ‘cast aside’ by the NHS and treated like second-class citizens, the head of Alzheimer’s Society has warned. Michelle Dyson accused ministers of ignoring Britain’s biggest killer and said patients were too often diagnosed,...

Royal exclusive: My passionate five-year love affair with Prince Edward

IHAD been performing for just two months in the musical Cats when a rumour went flying round backstage: a certain Edward Windsor was joining the West End production company. ‘Who is Edward Windsor?’ I asked innocently. I met Prince Edward for the...

ENGLAND ’ S BIG ALL NIGHTER

PUBS will be allowed to stay open until 5am on Monday after a late U-turn by the Prime Minister. Football fans in England and Wales will get hours of extra drinking as England take on Mexico in a last-16 match kicking off at 1am UK time. Ministers...

Thank heavens for King Harry!

HERO Harry Kane’s dramatic late double rescued England from one of the worst results in their World Cup history. England were heading for a humiliating exit in Atlanta, but Kane struck twice in 11 minutes against DR Congo to set up a last-16 showdown...

INDEFENSIBLE

SIR KEIR Starmer passed the buck to Andy Burnham on defence yesterday after short-changing Britain’s military. After months of delays, the Prime Minister published the Defence Investment Plan (DIP), only to be told it was not enough to protect the...

Burnham wants to ‘rewire’ Britain from Manchester base

ANDY Burnham wants to run Britain part-time from Manchester. The would-be prime minister yesterday said a new ‘No 10 North’ outpost would be the ‘nerve centre’ of his government. And friends of the ex-manchester mayor say he plans to spend a day or...

TAX RAIDS ON MIDDLE CLASSES IN BURNHAM’S 10-YEAR PLAN

ANDY Burnham will today set out his Left- wing plan for a decade in power, as he plots a tax raid on middleclass Southerners. The would-be prime minister will begin to reveal his plan for when Sir Keir Starmer is shoved aside next month. He is set to...

Terms of Harry’s new Megxit deal that will see the King reunited with his grandchildren

AS IS often the way with any long-running family drama, outright exasperation has passed, leaving behind an air of wary anticipation. Reaction to the news last week that Prince Harry, Meghan and their children Archie and Lilibet are planning to visit...

Labour to free waves of killers and rapists early

LABOUR is to start releasing waves of killers, rapists and violent criminals from jail under its controversial soft-justice plan. As part of a scheme to free up prison space, even those jailed for more than a decade will get out early. The plan will...

ARROGANCE OF THE MEN WHO WOULDN’T LISTEN

HUNDREDS of babies and mothers died or were left seriously injured at a ‘toxic’ hospital trust where women were ignored and mistakes covered up, a report found yesterday. The damning review that exposed the biggest maternity scandal in NHS history...

DON’T PUT ECONOMY AT MERCY OF ‘RED ED’

ANDY Burnham was last night facing demands to rule out appointing Ed Miliband as Chancellor. Senior figures from the world of business joined forces with even Burnham-backing Labour MPS to warn that the Energy Secretary would wreak havoc if he was put...

‘MESSIAH’ WITHOUT A MANDATE

ANDY Burnham is set to be installed as Prime Minister in just three weeks – despite having the feeblest mandate in British political history. The self-styled ‘King of the North’ is on course for a ‘coronation’ next month after Keir Starmer...

NOW RIP UP TAX PLEDGES, LABOUR LEFT TELL BURNHAM

ANDY Burnham is being urged to tear up Labour’s tax pledges to fund his costly spending plans. The challenger to Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership made a series of expensive commitments during his by-election campaign – but is yet to set out how he will...

RESIGN IN DAYS OR FACE A COUP

KEIR Starmer was last night warned he faces a coup within days unless he steps aside for Andy Burnham. Labour grandees, including some Cabinet ministers, told the Prime Minister that his time was up following Mr Burnham’s thumping victory in the...

Man held for attempted murder of 3-year-old in Cambridgeshire Toddler critical after being ‘thrown’ into crocodile pit at zoo

A BOY of three was seriously injured after being thrown into a crocodile pit at a zoo yesterday. The traumatised youngster was taken to hospital after he was dramatically pulled from the enclosure. Last night witnesses said the little boy’s rescuer...

ROARSOME!

THREE Lions fans on both sides of the Atlantic were roaring last night as England won a thrilling clash against Croatia in their opening World Cup match in Dallas. Thomas Tuchel’s side were too good for the world No11 team, with talismanic striker...

PUTIN OPENS FIRE IN THE CHANNEL

A RUSSIAN warship fired warning shots at a yacht in the English Channel yesterday. The British-flagged Bright Future was shot at after it came within just 150 yards of the Admiral Grigorovich in heavy fog. The heavily armed Krivak V-class frigate...

The eight missed chances to save baby Preston from evil adoptive fathers

OFFICIALS missed a string of chances to save a baby sexually abused and murdered by the teacher adopting him. Serious questions were being asked last night about the scrutiny faced by Jamie Varley, 37, and his boyfriend, John Mcgowan-fazakerley, 32,...

RESTORE IS THE ‘NEW HOME FOR NEO-NAZIS’

RUPERT Lowe faced a furious backlash last night after he said Tommy Robinson was welcome to join his party. The Restore Britain leader said that if the far-right rabble-rouser and convicted thug wanted to sign up, that was ‘up to him’. Britain’s main...

You’ll call me Sir or The Duke – until they send a vampire to suck out every drop of blood in my royal veins

AS perfectly timed arrivals go, the one staged by Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie at Peter Phillips’ Gloucestershire wedding last Saturday appeared to be as carefully choreographed as that of his bride. Instead of being dropped off by car directly...

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,...