Starmer is facing a wave of outrage over plans to scrap parts of the Tories’ 2023 Northern Ireland Troubles Act that banned Gerry Adams and 400 other IRA suspects detained in the 1970s from claiming compensation. Meaning taxpayers’ money could end up in the pockets of the former Sinn Fein leader and hundreds of IRA-linked figures…
Last night Policy Exchange published a damning report from 16 peers including former Labour security minister Lord West, and former DPP Lord MacDonald pushing for Labour to reconsider its decision. Unsurprisingly IRA victims have slammed the move as “unacceptable”, pointing out that “considering the IRA victims have not received any compensation, how could Gerry Adams get compensation?” Eyebrows have also been raised over the fact that Labour’s Attorney General Lord Hermer represented Gerry Adams in a damages claim back in 2023. Meanwhile ‘human rights lawyer’ Starmer still refuses to hold a public inquiry into rape gangs…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”