Latest Home Office stats reveal a staggering 11,074 migrants have cross the Channel so far this year after 767 more arrived on Monday and Wednesday alone. That’s after the milestone of 10,000 was hit earlier this week, more than a 40% increase on the same period last year…
Last year it took 14 days to go from 10,000 to 11,000 (May 25 to June 7). This year, just four days. Yvette Cooper is still blaming “good weather” for not yet ‘smashing the gangs’ along with the ‘mini heatwave’, though that line doesn’t seem to be washing with voters. The Runcorn result can attest to that…
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.”