EV Day
GIVING drivers tax breaks for buying electric vehicles makes more sense than fining car-makers for failing to sell enough of them.
It’s a small but welcome step in Keir Starmer’s latest plan to boost growth.
But the PM can go much further and much faster.
Even though Donald Trump’s brainless tariffs threaten to gridlock global trade, they also present our Government with a golden opportunity.
As China, Canada and the failing EU prepare to retaliate with tariffs of their own, Starmer should ignore the tit-for-tat madness.
By keeping out of the circular firing squad, the UK can become a haven for investment, slash taxes at home and strike deals with other nations and blocs abroad.
Genuine growth won’t magically appear under a record tax burden or by hitting business.
But it can come from turning Brexit Britain into a true beacon of free trade.
Left and wrong
LABOUR’s left wing has an appalling past record of support for jihadists, hate preachers and terrorist sympathisers.
So perhaps newly elected MPs Abtisam Mohamed and Yuan Yang thought it would be perfectly fine to repeatedly call for boycotts and sanctions against Israel and, in Mohamed’s case, accuse it of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians before flying to the West Bank.
Both claim to be “astounded” that “two Parliamentarians” should be denied entry by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
But why should Israel be compelled to tolerate their toxic interventions?
Yang was born in China and Mohamed in Yemen. In both countries human rights abuses and torture are rife and democracy non-existent.
Yet for some reason it is the Jewish state which provokes their ire.
Could the real reason for Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s outrage yesterday be that so many of his fellow Labour MPs are in hock to the pro-Hamas lobby in their constituencies?
Bridal shower
ONCE again our immigration system proves it is hopeless at keeping the British people safe.
Despite security chiefs deeming a Brit-born jihadi bride a grave risk, judges say a Home Office decision to block her return to the UK is unlawful.
But like Shamima Begum she must have NO right to return to Britain.
Bleeding-heart liberals will argue she was brainwashed and merely naive to quit her home to join Islamic State.
Common sense dictates that she chose her terrorists’ bed — and must lie in it.
