Starmer is facing fright of his life
SIR KEIR Starmer’s nightmare summer is rolling into a winter of discontent.
Hot on the heels of Labour’s catastrophic by-election annihilation in an area they held for more than a century comes a new horror for the PM.
Yesterday, one of the few people he has actually sacked returned to haunt him as Labour’s new deputy leader.
Left-winger Lucy Powell didn’t waste any time trouncing his record at No10.
Warning Sir Keir he was in “the fight of our lives”, she said: “People feel this Government is not being bold enough.”
She also warned that “we have let Farage and his ilk run away with it”.
The irony is that she is a perfect gift to Nigel Farage.
She is the MP who had to apologise after saying that calls for a grooming gang inquiry were “dogwhistle” tactics.
Her calls for “bolder” left-wing policies will only drive the Government in the wrong direction.
The last thing the country needs is more taxes and more public spending.
But Lucy Powell, along with Manchester mayor Andy Burnham and the newly backbenched Angela Rayner, are like sharks circling the boat.
Sir Keir knows a local election wipeout next May would sink his leadership.
To stand any chance, he must drive through cuts to the grotesque £300billion welfare bill and immediately scrap the ruinous Net Zero targets which are due to cost £803billion by 2050.
Perhaps then he can put money back in workers’ pockets rather than battering them with more tax rises.
Now that’s a bold idea.
Blob must be beaten
SUCCESSIVE governments have dismally failed to defeat the self-serving foot draggers in the Civil Service.
Last week’s report that The Blob is still alive and well in the Home Office made damning reading.
It painted a grim picture of incompetent Whitehall staff wasting time on “listening circles” rather than driving through key government policies.
Even worse, left-wing mandarins have been “bringing their whole selves to work” — code for blocking plans they don’t like.
Officials even kept the report locked in a cabinet to stop ministers acting on it.
It is worth remembering this as Reform deputy leader Richard Tice sets out his party’s proposals for slashing rampant spending if it wins the next election.
Because if The Blob is sabotaging Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, what chance would Reform UK have?
