According to the Home Office 258 migrants crossed the Channel yesterday on four boats. The small boats are not so small any more…
GB News reports that about 230 people crossed on a single dinghy, breaking the record for the number to go across on a single vessel. 165 was the last record – and that was last month…
That is roughly the maximum capacity of a Boeing 737. Is there duty free at Dover?
The Times reports that Jim O’Neill, one of the economic advisers brought on by Team Burnham to calm the markets during the Makerfield by-election, is refusing to join No10 partly because he fears it will impose a wealth tax. Doesn’t fill you with confidence, does it?
O’Neill is a former economist for Goldman Sachs and Tory Treasury minister who has been offered big jobs in No10. That fact that Burnham’s close allies are strong supporters of a wealth tax is keeping him away…
Burnham has refused to rule out such a tax so far. Despite doing so for others, like stamp duty reform…
Now Burnham has finished with his holiday he is kicking off a ‘cost of living tour’ around the country, accompanied by policy announcements. Handily copied and pasted from Starmer’s notebook…
Burnham’s government is promising to bring forward tougher action on “subscription traps” – i.e. auto renewals – by a matter of months and a new consultation on discount advertising. The former was announced by Labour in 2023 and by Starmer’s government in 2024…
The PM’s ‘tour’ is due to begin early this week. Brace yourselves for more ‘Starmerism, but nice’…
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Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”
