PM must use ideas to fight Farage
SIR KEIR Starmer has told Labour MPs they have a “moral responsibility”;; to keep Nigel Farage out of Number Ten.
You will be hearing much more of this sort of talk as continue to surge ahead in polls.
But the Prime Minister is making a mistake if he plans to characterise his battle against a right-wing party as some sort of moral crusade.
Firstly it is an insult to the concerns of voters, many of whom are themselves turning away from Labour to back .
Secondly it is not the right political approach to take with .
If Labour are to gain ground on this new party they must beat them in the battle of ideas and attack their inconsistent economic policies.
Above all, must grasp exactly what the concerns are that drive his own supporters to back Reform.
These voters are worried about spiralling migration, ruinous Net Zero policies and the crippling .
They are fed up about being cut while £17billion is given to public service workers.
And there is nothing immoral about that, Prime Minister.
Law system in chaos
A NEW crackdown on drug smuggling sheds light on the creaking state of our justice system.
Foreign crooks will have their seized and be immediately deported.
If successful the pilot scheme, which began last Monday, could be rolled out in every UK airport.
Supporters will rightly point out that it keeps foreign crooks out of our justice system.
They don’t become a burden on the taxpayer and are sent back on the next available plane.
Their home country is then expected to deal with them.
The flipside of the argument is that foreign drug smugglers are effectively being decriminalised.
They are breaking our laws and under any normal hardline justice system they would be looking at a potential jail term.
But, as we’ve seen this week, these are not normal times.
Our jails are packed to the brim. Violent and sexual offenders are being released early. Our are clogged with backlogs of cases.
Rather than getting tough on drug smuggling, this new policy really reflects a system in crisis.
