Annabel Denham

This is how the public sector in Britain operates. Obfuscate, stall, close ranks, hope the latest scandal quickly blows over. Heads never roll, doors revolve. Wearingly predictable.

Another quasi-legal attempt to shake down the West, like the reparations scam.

It isn't 'racist' to object to migrant hotels, not least when there is no consultation or forewarning. This is not a race issue, but one of politicians imposing an insane policy which brazenly exploits the generosity of the British public, and people deciding they've had enough.

So, they’re not majority children, babies and women?

Does Rayner realise the hospitality sector accounted for 45% of job losses in the most recent data?

It might be an idea for the govt to get its own house in order first. Excessively generous, defined benefit public sector pensions are placing an intolerable burden on taxpayers.

I’m no ‘human rights’ fanatic but we cannot seriously send prisoners to El Salvador. And a prison building programme is another uncosted spending pledge. Reform making it up on the hoof at a time when they should be trying to persuade the public they can form a capable govt.

Why would a new regulator be any different from Ofwat? Would be the same sort of people working in it. Overcharging is not the obvious problem. Ofwat has kept prices down for too long, at the cost of investment, which companies will only undertake if they can get a return.

Labour are so blind to their own unpopularity that they fail to grasp how likely this is to backfire. Many young people will vote for Corbyn, the Greens or Farage before they back useless Starmer.

Ignore the basic rules of economics, and it won’t be long before you have egg on your face.

Standing up for working people... by increasing unemployment.

Based on his response to Southport, what exactly would Starmer have done differently?

“Working people” becomes “those on modest incomes”. Labour will admit they mean “working class” eventually.

If the govt stopped hiking the minimum wage and over-regulating our labour market, it wouldn’t need to consider such terrible ideas as dragging more young people into the employ of the state.

This isn’t acceptable. Britain has enough water. We just need to invest in capturing it, storing it, moving it around to where it is needed. Advanced countries don’t ration, or try to gaslight people into believing they don’t need that water (or energy) anyway. They adapt.

This is Streeting’s best idea yet. Unions are awfully quiet about the fact that public sector employer pension contributions are triple those in the private sector. We should ask doctors to decide if they want higher pay now at the expense of a gold-plated pension in future.

“Unexpectedly.” When the govt bans oil exploration/fracking, refuses to reform welfare/the NHS, hikes taxes, nationalises industries, imposes more employment regulations, is it any wonder it fails to “kickstart growth”?

Each of the 50 'deportees' will appeal, supported by Lord Hermer. They'll never get this to work, but Britain will be bound to dutifully accept 50 from France.

A taskforce with a ‘majority of disabled members’ is never in a million years going to recommend cuts in benefits.