End product
LABOUR came into Government promising growth.
So naturally Chancellor Rachel Reeves yesterday seized gratefully on better than expected GDP figures.
But the truth is that growth has halved since her National Insurance rise hit business and cost jobs.
Any increase achieved in the second quarter of this year came off the back of massive Government spending.
Reeves now insists she will relentlessly focus on boosting Britain’s collapsing productivity in her Autumn Budget.
But — unlike current Government borrowing costs — talk is cheap.
We heard much of the same from the last five Tory Chancellors and precious little growth followed.
Ultimately, it will be on the delivery that she is judged.
The Chancellor’s first Budget damaged the private sector.
Given that the fault for our low productivity crisis lies almost entirely in the public sector, her hopes now lie in winning battles closer to home.
Tik a hike
AT first glance the gloating Tik Tok migrant exposed by The Sun appears to be like tens of thousands of other young men who have come to Britain illegally from a safe country in order to make money.
That alone should be enough to boot Afghan Parwiz Hanifyar out of Britain.
But now we have uncovered disturbing evidence that he is a clear and present danger to women, too.
In a message, he tells his followers in sickening detail how he would kill his wife if he ever caught her being unfaithful, and suggests they should do the same.
There can be no justification for him staying in Britain at our expense, at a four-star asylum hotel.
Get him out now.
Day of peace?
EIGHTY years ago today the suffering and sacrifice necessary to defeat evil in the Far East finally came to a close.
VJ Day marks more than the end of the Pacific war which eventually saw the US and its allies conquer Japan .
After the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this day in August 1945 represented a crossroads in human history.
Those dreadful weapons unleashed hell — but meant starving British PoWs in Japanese torture camps were given hope of survival.
This year the anniversary falls on the same day a US President tries to end a war in Europe.
The enormous sacrifices of the wartime generation are a timely reminder of what is at stake.
