Pact, Nige?
DEFECTING to Reform yesterday, Robert Jenrick gave a detailed list of Britain’s many serious problems.
Massive uncontrolled immigration, illegal small boat migrants, a ballooning benefits bill paid for by grafting families and a broken NHS.
The Sun has warned about them for years and Jenrick’s emotional speech will strike a chord with many fed-up readers.
Nigel Farage, too, couldn’t hide his delight at adding talent and experience to a team still sorely lacking in both.
But while she must now wait to see if others follow Jenrick out of the door, Kemi Badenoch also came out of yesterday’s extraordinary events with significant credit.
Faced with a leaked copy of Jenrick’s resignation speech — and in contrast to Keir Starmer’s dithering over scandal-hit Labour ministers — Kemi showed genuine leadership by sacking him.
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Replacing him with Nick Timothy — responsible for exposing lying West Midlands Chief Constable Craig Guildford and challenging Labour’s dangerous Islamophobia definition — is also a good move.
The repercussions of yesterday’s drama will only become clear over time.
But what Tories and Reform CAN agree on is Britain can’t afford another five years of Labour’s high tax, high welfare, open borders chaos.
Which means that — while both parties insist they won’t entertain it — questions about a pact before the next General Election aren’t going away any time soon.
Rover and out
IS our economy really so weak that growth depends on whether one car manufacturer is up and running or not?
Jaguar Land Rover’s return to near full production after a cyber hack helped the economy grow by a miserly 0.3 per cent in November.
But the three month trend showed GDP at just 0.1 per cent up.
Effectively, it has flatlined since Rachel Reeves’s first giant tax-raising Budget.
There are two alarming trends.
A collapse in construction means Labour’s dream of 1.5 million new homes by 2030 is all but dead.
Worse, the evidence is that the economy is being propped up not by thriving businesses but by massive Government spending.
That’s a road to economic oblivion.
Grace’s law
WHY has the State been paying benefits for decades to killers already being pampered in secure hospitals?
Thanks to a tireless campaign by the families of the victims of Valdo Calocane’s murder spree in Nottingham, Keir Starmer has agreed to end it.
Brave Grace O’Malley-Kumar died fighting off Calocane.
As her parents say, some good has come from that appalling tragedy.
