Cuts at last
THE battle lines are drawn. A Tory Party promising tax cuts versus a Labour Party which refuses to do the same.
Labour claim Rishi Sunak’s figures don’t add up. Neither do theirs.
GettyRishi Sunak was commendably honest about Tories’ patchy record at manifesto launch[/caption]
What is indisputable is the Tories have already lopped four per cent off workers’ National Insurance in seven months and would keep going. Better still, they would abolish it for the self-employed.
As he launched their manifesto, Mr Sunak was commendably honest about the Tories’ patchy record.
For all his critics — and his D-Day blunder — he remains a decent, diligent and intelligent man with mountainous odds now stacked against him.
Among them are his party’s divisions, starkly illustrated by the manifesto’s fudge on quitting the ECHR . . . which the PM cannot openly promise without a revolt from his “wets”, even if it would free us to stop the small boats.
His greater problems are that Labour has a 20-point poll lead and voters may just have switched off, assuming the result is a foregone conclusion.
Reform is eating so badly into the Tory vote, the gap now down to one point, that Keir Starmer is on course for a historic landslide.
Which, ironically, would give Labour almost unfettered power to enact policies on Brexit, immigration and wokery which Reform voters detest.
For his part, Sir Keir claimed the Tory document was so vacuous and fanciful Jeremy Corbyn could have written it.
He must have forgotten he TWICE tried to put Corbyn in No10 — and once hailed the Marxist dud’s manifesto as the “foundational document” of his own era as Labour leader.
Name them
THE 12-year-old murderers of innocent teen Shawn Seesahai must be identified.
Child criminals have been named in rare high-profile cases — including this year with the killers of Brianna Ghey.
The judge then said this: “The public will wish to know the identities as they seek to understand how children could do something so dreadful. Continuing restrictions inhibits informed debate.”
The same argument applies now.
To prevent repeats of such horrors, society must understand why pre-teen children would arm themselves with a machete and randomly butcher a young man to death. What was their background and motivation?
Naming them is the first step . . . and squarely in the public interest.
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Lager flop
KEEPING England fans on shandies won’t quell violence at our first Euros game.
The real problem is 500 Putin-backing Serbian thugs descending on a stadium where most of the seating is mixed.
Diluting the beer is surely the least of the worries for Uefa and German cops.
We pray it goes without a hiccup.