The scandal-hit Motability scheme has cost the taxpayer nearly £275 million more since Labour took office. According to a written parliamentary answer to Helen Whately, the total value of benefits transferred to Motability from the DWP in 2024–2025 was £3.074 billion. In the previous financial year, the scheme cost £2.8 billion. That’s a 9.8% increase…
While Reeves is exploring cuts to £1 billion worth of exemptions to VAT and insurance taxation granted to cars under the scheme, that figure is set to be even less impressive now that the overall spending has actually gone up under Labour. Reeves isn’t looking to restrict eligibility for those with ‘tennis elbow’ taking free luxury cars either…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”