Year: 2025

‘The council staff as useless as Starmer – £200k a year and your town probably has one’

Express columnist Mieka Smiles says Keir Starmer needs to get a grip on council bosses’ pay (Image: Getty) I was so naive. When I became a councillor, I was convinced that it would be the start of a brave new world…

Labour poses a ‘triple threat’ which could kill off our national dish

Rachel Reeves has been accused of putting chippies on the brink of closure (Image: Getty) Britain’s fish and chip industry is warning that Labour’s plans for the economy run the risk of driving the country’s national dish off the menu for…

Left-wing MP faces cries of ‘shame’ after sparking row over comments on Israeli fan ban

Zarah Sultana made hugely controversial comments in the Commons (Image: Parliament TV) A hard-Left MP faced cries of “shame” as she claimed Maccabi Tel Aviv fans had taken part in “Israel’s genocide”. Coventry South MP Zarah Sultana claimed the “racist fan hooliganism…

Zack Polanski is misunderstood – every way people get Green Party leader wrong

Zack Polanski is being misunderstood (Image: PA ) Right-wing critics of Zack Polanski reckon his Green Party is plotting to overthrow civilisation as we know it. I think they need a lie down. Some of the bloviations about Polanski I’ve seen…

POLL: Is Rachel Reeves wrecking the UK economy?

Is Rachel Reeves wrecking the economy? (Image: Getty) Rachel Reeves’ ambition to turn around Britain’s ailing economy received yet another blow today. Official figures showed UK Government borrowing in September hit the highest level for the month in five years. Public sector net…

PMQs LIVE: Kemi Badenoch to skewer Keir Starmer in Commons clash

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (Image: PA) Sir Keir Starmer will face Kemi Badenoch for Prime Minister’s Questions at midday today. The Prime Minister will receive a grilling from the Conservative leader at the weekly session in the House of Commons. Mrs…

Rachel Reeves savaged over ‘inflation spiral’ with Britain on the brink

Rachel Reeves under pressure to lower inflation (Image: Getty) Sir Mel Stride has blasted Rachel Reeves’s “inflation spiral” as the figure hit 3.8% for the third month in a row. The Shadow Chancellor warned Ms Reeves’s tax, spend and borrow “doom…

Prince Andrew crisis as Coronation sword-bearer Penny Mordaunt gives brutal 3-word verdict

Daily Expresso host JJ Anisiobi with Penny Mordaunt, former Conservative politician who serv (Image: Adam Gerrard/Daily Express) The British public feel “very let down” by the Prince Andrew scandal, Dame Penny Mordaunt has warned. But she said King Charles has handled the situation…

POLL: Is Rachel Reeves wrecking the UK economy?

Is Rachel Reeves wrecking the economy? (Image: Getty) Rachel Reeves’ ambition to turn around Britain’s ailing economy received yet another blow today. Official figures showed UK Government borrowing in September hit the highest level for the month in five years. Public sector net…

Labour MPs vote to release rapists and paedophiles early in blow to thousands of victims

Sir Keir Starmer’s sentencing policies are under fire (Image: Getty) Labour voted to release rapists and paedophiles from jail early as Sir Keir Starmer was accused of not having “the backbone to fix Britain’s prisons”. The Government pressed ahead with plans to release…