The Chancellor will deliver his first Budget on Wednesday. It is reported the minimum wage will increase by nearly 4%. This will mean so much to some of the lowest paid in our country. Under Labour work will pay. Labour is for working people. independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…

From Etihad Airways 60-page submission to John Kerry, US Department Secretary of State, Antony Foxx, US Department of Transportation Secretary and Penny Pritzker, US Department of Commerce Secretary on May 31, 2015

Does anyone remember before the election, when Labour promised they would be careful with our money? They promised us they had fiscal rules. They promised no return to huge borrowing. They promised our kids wouldn't inherit this huge debt. Let's see how that's going...

As stated last night for both Savinho and Marmoush - “Deal is very advanced.” 24hrs later - Savinho is now completed with Marmoush to follow. Spurs will then prioritise Gakpo after a green light from Liverpool - confidence from all parties it’ll happen.

The Andrew Neil Report Special: Keir Starmer’s failures — and none bigger than Rachel Reeves youtu.be/ipGTO85wKTA?is=2bFh… via @YouTube

I am a member of the Public Accounts Committee in Parliament and we have just released our findings on Britain’s broken asylum system. It is beyond damning. Some extracts from our report… “…Government departments still do not have a grip on how they will manage asylum as an end-to-end system, or a clear sense of what they are trying to achieve.” “Major policy risks and operational changes have been pursued without a realistic grip on delivery risks, costs or system-wide impacts.” “…no single point of accountability for outcomes or a governance structure for the end-to-end system.” “…absence of a clear strategy, decisions around planning and resource allocation have been reactive and disjointed.” “The Home Office was unable to show… that it has the commercial capabilities needed to manage asylum accommodation effectively.” “…weaknesses in its ability to prevent excess profits accruing for contractors…” “…no evidence that lessons from past mistakes are being used to clearly inform current actions.” “Poor data quality and weak management information continue to prevent effective management…” “…current data sharing limitations make it impossible to directly track individual cases through the entire asylum process.” “The Home Office does not yet have a credible long-term strategy for asylum accommodation…” “… there is little evidence the Home Office fully understands the impact of its approach on local services.” “The government is at considerable risk of repeating past failures.” But don’t worry, the government says it has a plan... It says it has “learned a lot of lessons”. And that it’s going to put 10,000 civil servants into what they call an “Asylum Group”. Funded by us, of course. How about improving data-linking systems? The Ministry of Justice says it simply needs more of our money. And what about ending the use of hotels and transferring to larger, “purpose-driven” sites? “The Home Office’s own analysis suggests that large sites will cost more than hotels, as seen in previously costly attempts such as Wethersfield.” The numbers… £4.9 billion spent on the system each year, including: £2.7 billion on asylum accommodation £700 million on cash support £600 million on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children Nearly £1 billion on casework, appeals, detention, and removal All spent to produce between 50,000 or so refugees each year. And of course, these costs don’t include what is then paid by us, the taxpayer, in Local Authority housing, welfare, childcare assistance, and advice and translation services once once they receive their refugee status and are no longer in the asylum system. Want more? At the time of the NAO report (December 2025), Home Office reported there were roughly 224,000 individuals still waiting in the system, excluding those awaiting an initial asylum decision. Further, since April 2024, MoJ say the number of asylum seekers waiting for an appeal decision alone has trebled, from 27,000 to 70,000, with appeals taking nearly 60 weeks to be heard. Who pays for them while they wait over a year for a decision? Us. And the tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers each year - what happens to them? The Home Office isn’t sure. It says it knows “where some of them are”, but the rest are “elsewhere in the country”, and that it is possible they “remain in the UK without detection”. Don’t fear though, because the Home Office won’t guarantee that it will find them, only that it would “seek to find them”. Whatever the hell that means… And to deal with the backlog of cases and appeals? “Home Office relaxed its recruitment arrangements, resulting in newly recruited staff being ill-suited to making complex decisions on asylum cases, which in turn affected decision quality.” The result? “In a rolling twelve months to May 2025, 42% of sampled decisions had significant or fail errors.” Astounding incompetence. But there’s more good news... The MoJ is recruiting even more over-paid salaried and fee-paid judges, as well as recruiting judges from other chambers to sit in asylum cases. In other words, MoJ’s response is to spend more of our money and remove judges from other work. This is because more asylum seekers “are now representing themselves and that this requires additional support from tribunal staff.” “The system of monitoring failed asylum seekers needs a complete overhaul,” says the report. I have a better idea. My own view? Scrap the entire system altogether, and deport every single illegal migrant living in Britain. And to those of you say that it’s impossible - to any MPs, public servants, or commentators who think I’m cherry-picking information, I implore you to read every word of the PAC report, every word of the NAO report, and to watch every minute of the 2.5 hour PAC meeting from earlier this year… And then tell me that the system is working, and that’s it’s delivering value for money, and that it’s sustainable. It isn’t. And it never will be. It is an intentional, monumental catastrophe designed to cripple the nation economically, socially, and culturally. A Restore Britain government will crush the entire asylum system as its first duty to the British people. Deport them all.

It’s called corruption. Council leaders are lining their pockets with backhanders from private companies. They’re paying over the odds for unnecessary work. For example, Bodmin town centre, a town near me, spent money on a cycle-friendly town. In the past five years, I’ve only seen about four bikes using it.

Here @LiamHalligan absolutely nails everything that’s wrong with the UK economy now. Worth 10 minutes of your time.

Hands up if you’ve had your council tax bill for the next year and it’s going up! 🙌🏼 Mine wasn’t frozen, it’s gone up. Labour lied to get into power. “Labour would freeze your council tax” “Not a penny more on your council tax” “No ifs, no buts” Lies, lies, and more lies.

Spurs fans have struggled to move on from the Pochettino era but his move to Chelsea should give them closure, albeit in the grimmest possible way. It also increases the heat on Levy to get the next boss right after ignoring pleas for Poch. Piece: standard.co.uk/sport/footbal…

You might remember Jese Rodriguez as a misfiring Stoke striker with a penchant for awful sunglasses. But his off-field antics are worthy of a soap opera. From exploding apartments to getting run over by his fiancée, here's the story of his truly ludicrous life...

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