📰 Here's your daily briefing on Tuesday, September 8th:
As Kemi Badenoch sets out in The Daily Express, Andy Burnham said ‘change begins with honesty’ but after 4,000 small boat arrivals on his watch, he isn’t being honest with the public.
Labour have spent two weeks blowing their own trumpet about asylum hotel numbers falling, but the truth is rather different. Almost 20,000 illegal immigrants have arrived on boats this year including 4,000 under Andy Burnham, with 95% allowed to stay. It's no wonder the boats keep coming.
Only the Conservatives have a serious plan and a serious deterrent through our Borders plan to take back control of our borders by leaving the ECHR, banning asylum claims for illegal immigrants, and deporting all illegal arrivals within a week.
Labour’s shameless attempt to gerrymander local councils has been halted after the government was found to be breaking the law, making a mockery of Burnham’s promise to empower local communities.
After being found to breaking the law, Labour have suffered their second humiliating U-turn on their shameless attempts to gerrymander local elections through top-down council reorganisation. This proves that Labour’s promise to empower communities are empty words whilst they dictate downwards.
Whilst this second U-turn is welcome, it has only come about because the Conservatives strong team opposed this gerrymandering every step of the way as we protect the interests of local areas.
John Healey sounds just like continuity Rachel Reeves - a Chancellor without a plan who ignores the big issues whilst failing to rule out more taxes or more borrowing.
John Healey sounds increasingly like continuity Rachel Reeves. By failing to rule out more tax rises he has created uncertainty whilst also failing to set out a serious plan to reform welfare or to fund defence properly - the very issue he resigned over as Defence Secretary.
The Conservatives are the only party with a fully funded plan to spend 3% of GDP on defence, cut the welfare bill, cut energy bills with our Cheap Power Plan and deliver an economic revolution that will get Britain working again.
After facing a rising tax burden, Britain’s third largest taxpayer is leaving, meaning less money for public services and fewer opportunities for young people.
Chris Rokos, Britain’s third largest taxpayer, has announced he is leaving Britain for Greece. Last year, he paid £330 million in tax, equivalent to 11,000 nurses, but also made huge contributions to charities, educational causes and in creating well-paid jobs.
This is the inevitable consequence of a government that hikes taxes; our best and brightest choosing to move abroad meaning less money for public services and fewer opportunities for young people.