Labour Must Prepare for the Fallout of Its Failed Effort to Strip 4.6 Million Voters of Their Rights

PM’s poll-axed

LABOUR has performed so many U-turns that ministers must be suffering from daily motion sickness.

Yesterday’s — the 15th in 19 months — was arguably the biggest yet.

Labour’s attempt to cancel 30 local elections affecting 4.6 million voters collapsed after a legal challenge from Reform UK, leaving May’s polls set to deliver a humiliating hammering for Keir StarmerCredit: PA:Press Association

In a desperate bid to avoid a kicking from the public, Labour acted like tinpot dictators by trying to cancel 30 local elections affecting more than 4.6 million people.

Polling had shown 10 Labour authorities would be wiped out if the elections went ahead.

But after the Electoral Commission said there was no justification for it — and .

Humiliation complete, the May elections are likely to turn into a hammering for Keir Starmer and Co.

Local Government Secretary Steve Reed — who likes to complain about the media focusing only on bad news — might now be reading much more of it, amid calls for his resignation yesterday over the shambles.

It’s yet another unforced error by a Government which, on this occasion, shattered faith in democracy — only to hand a giant electoral gift to Reform.

Labour better now brace itself for the painful consequences of its botched attempt to deny voters their rights.

Project smear

FOR a Government elected on a promise to end scandal, Labour seemingly cannot get through a week without being engulfed by one.

into a Labour think tank waging a smear campaign against journalists.

The smell of this one won’t go away any time soon.

Ministers insist .

You can add this latest outrage to the nonsensical decision by the Ministry of Justice to scrap a publicly-available digital archive of millions of court records — including historic crimes by the rape gangs.

Suddenly, information under Labour looks a lot less free.

Show us money

THE Prime Minister is talking tough on defence — but will he now back up his words with action?

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But that means around an extra £17 billion for the Chancellor to find.

What Rachel Reeves must NOT do is fund this by raising taxes again. Family incomes have already been crushed and businesses driven to the wall.

Instead, Starmer and Reeves must persuade deluded left-wing Labour MPs that welfare must be slashed if they are to defend Britain properly.