Guido first raised Starmer’s potential multiple electoral law breach last month over his living in an address in a constituency other than the one put on his nomination paper. Starmer himself said he and his family moved into Lord Alli’s £18 million penthouse before the deadline for submitting nomination papers – in the Cities of London and Westminster…
Starmer admitted about his son:
“I promised him we would move somewhere, get out of the house and go somewhere where he could be peacefully studying”
UKIP’s Paul Nuttall was investigated by police in 2017 for claiming on his nomination paper that he lived at a house hadn’t yet moved into. He was forced to prove to them that he used his house regularly as a “base” in the campaign for the Stoke By-Election. Guido understands that the City of London Police are in the process of referring the matter to the Met in response to a submitted inquiry. The Met will be formally required to consider it. An equal application of the law would see the matter investigated, seeing as Nuttall was officially probed for the exact same reason…
Starmer told parliament he was living at Lord Alli’s in Covent Garden (Westminster and Camden) before and after the election, declared as the sworn truth that at the time he was was living in Kentish Town (Holbron & St Pancras) on his nomination form. The law is clear, must be current address or you are committing a criminal offence.
Those who contact the Chief Executives Office of Camden Council with regard to Starmer’s potential breach of electoral law have been contacted by Camden’s Borough Solicitor, who advises them to contact the police “immediately.” Translation: ‘We do not want to deal with this one’…
SpAd School is back in session, and all eyes are on the 6 p.m. meeting today. New Chief of Staff McSweeney is expected to make an appearance, likely accompanied by his freshly minted deputies. McIavelli will no doubt be cracking the whip among advisers, promising change with the new regime…
McSweeney has inherited quite the mess from his predecessor, Gray. Insiders are grumbling about the systemic issues plaguing the government machinery, with many complaining that a revamp of Number 10 won’t help. To add to the chaos, long-term contracts for SpAds still remain unsigned. Gray had placed them on a four-month probation period and SpAds are still considering unionisation due to pay cuts and work overloads…
With just weeks to go before those probationary contracts expire, it would be a surprise if McSweeney could whip the chaos into shape. Meanwhile, Morgan has wasted no time in jumping into his new role, already attending Cabinet today. He’s trying make ‘change’ begin…
YouGov‘s latest poll shows more people have a favourable opinion of Nigel Farage than other party leaders, at 28%. 25% of Britons have a favourable view of Ed Davey, 24% for Sunak, and 27% for Starmer. For the Prime Minister that’s the lowest since September 2021 – while 63% have a negative opinion, the highest to date…
Starmer’s net popularity has plummeted to the lowest level since he took over as Labour leader in 2020, with a net score of -36%. And 60% of the public have a negative opinion of the Labour party itself. Meanwhile, More in Common‘s survey poll Labour’s lead at just one point, as the Tories poll at 28% and Reform at 19%. Things are only getting worse for Labour…
Sky News aired a revealing report today, featuring an interview with a 24-year-old migrant who had been staying at a Hull hotel that was targeted during the summer riots. The man, who arrived in the UK from Yemen a few months before via a small boat across the Channel, praised the Labour government for granting him the right to “remain to live” in the UK, securing his residency status. He said he was “happy” that Labour is in power:
“The previous government, they wanted to deport us but now they are making the procedure easier for us.”
Meanwhile, latest ONS figures show that the UK’s population has increased by 1% – the largest increase on record since 1971 – as 662,400 more people are now living in Britain thanks to net migration. Labour’s pledge to cut migration and crack down on Channel crossings was always an empty promise…
High-tax extremists at CenTax have now come up with the bright idea of imposing an exit tax on anyone who leaves the country. The claim is that £500 million every year could be raised by calculating how much the value of any asset has appreciated while its owner was based in the UK, and taxing it when they leave. CenTax director Andy Summers justifies the proposal: “Charging CGT on people who leave the UK is not about punishing them for leaving, it’s simply saying, ‘You need to pay your bill on the way out.’” A fiscal Berlin Wall…
Summers and fellow exit tax proponent Arun Advani as “Wealth Tax Commisioners” have spent years pushing for a massive hike in capital gains tax while arguing that such a rise would have a minimal effect on the movement of wealth out of the country. Their latest proposal is a tacit admission that this is completely false…
Advani said two weeks ago to a cosy meeting of activists that the Labour government is actively and “genuinely listening” to his tax proposals as the Treasury wrestles with the reality that the rich and mobile are leaving the country in massive numbers ahead of Reeves’ tax raids. Daniel Herring of the CPS says “Any talk of so-called ‘exit taxes’ has only arisen because the government seems determined to drive wealth creators out of the country” while the ASI’s Maxwell Marlow points out that “the bigger problem is future deterrance for entrepreneurs and founders, who will avoid the UK for new businesses in case the taxman disagrees with their living arrangements.” An assault on property rights that signals: ‘don’t invest here’…
Boris has done a long interview with Wilfred Frost on Sky News. Apart from pointing out that the public ‘craved’ lockdown rules, Boris had a few words about his old chum Sue Gray:
“I appointed Sue Gray, who then turned out to be the Chief of Staff leader of the Labour Party – RIP… “
Boris issued his analysis of the current Downing Street implosion:
“At the time that I asked her to do that particular job, she had presented to me as a model of political impartiality and propriety, and I’m not certain about either of those things…. I thought it was always looking a bit dodgy – her position was probably going to be untenable ever since it emerged that her son had taken money from Waheed Alli, and that she’d then given Waheed Alli a pass to No 10. I thought that was probably going to end in the way that it has.”
Cronies gonna crony…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”
