Angela Rayner ramps up Labour party in-fighting with another thinly-veiled attack on Rachel Reeves
Rein in Rayner
WITH friends like Angela Rayner, who needs enemies?
The Deputy Prime Minister has ramped up Labour party in-fighting with another thinly-veiled attack on Chancellor Rachel Reeves.
Yesterday she was forced to deny she ever wants to be party leader, after the leak of a memo showing her apparently backing more tax hikes rather than the spending cuts proposed by The PM and his floundering Chancellor.
But she used a TV interview to undermine Ms Reeves further by suggesting early answers on the reinstatement of winter fuel payments for pensioners.
She also hit out at stagnant wages, job insecurity, the soaring cost of living and rising housing costs, which she blamed on the last Tory government but which she well knows are all worsening under the current Chancellor’s stewardship.
The memo, which Ms Rayner denies leaking, has been seen as a move to boost her standing with Labour left-wingers threatening to revolt against welfare cuts, though insiders have told The Sun she actually supported the cuts in Cabinet.
With Labour panicked by the surge in support for Reform, and Nigel Farage set to promise he would restore the winter fuel allowance and end the two-child benefit cap, the sense of a Government in crisis is growing rapidly.
Le fish fingers
THE French navy routinely fails to stop boats overloaded with migrants from setting off from its waters — and often ushers them on their way to the UK in breach of international obligations.
And yet, at the merest suggestion that a British trawler might have strayed on to the French side of The Channel, they move rapidly to seize the boats.
Two British trawlers have now been impounded within a week, one either side of Sir Keir Starmer’s craven surrender to the EU which allows French fishermen to continue to plunder British fish stocks for another 12 years.
While the UK government falls over itself to help our “friends”, especially if to our own detriment, the French authorities nakedly act only in their own best interests, and brazenly give two fingers to supposed allies.
So much for a “reset”.
British Snail
COMMUTERS will have looked on with a wry grimace as the first renationalised rail service included a bus replacement.
They have grown used to over-priced, cancelled or non-existent trains.
But if they think it’s all going to magically change under government control they are likely to be sorely disappointed.
“Great British Railways: coming soon,” the new train livery boasted.
Expect a “late arrival” announcement.