Keir’s lessons
CREDIT where it’s due.
With so many potential flashpoint issues, yesterday’s press conference could have been yet another disaster for Sir Keir Starmer.
Yet — on everything from the PM’s hugely contentious decision to recognise Palestine, to the suppression of free speech in the UK — President Donald Trump largely held back.
This owes much to the effort which No10 — and Sir Keir in particular — has put into building a strong relationship with the White House, culminating in an unprecedented second State visit.
Where Trump did offer advice yesterday, the PM should listen.
Not least because, after two dismal weeks which cost Sir Keir his deputy and his US Ambassador, serious change is needed.
The President rightly described wind farms as an “expensive joke”.
Exploiting gas and oil has allowed the US to tame wider inflation by keeping energy costs down.
By contrast, Net Zero-strangled Britain has some of the most expensive electricity in the world — and families are suffering soaring food and other consumer prices as a result.
Describing North Sea oil as a massive asset to the UK, Trump once again urged Britain to “drill baby, drill”.
If the PM is to have any hope of turning around the polls, he MUST put money back in people’s pockets.
There was a lesson from the President on borders, too, as he urged No10 to call in the military before illegal migration destroys Britain “from within”.
Yesterday, Sir Keir managed to get the first failed asylum seeker back to France under his “one-in, one-out” deal.
About 10,000 have arrived since it was announced.
Trump, on the other hand, said the number entering the US illegally was now ZERO.
What voters here wouldn’t give for a single month when no dinghies rolled in.
Waste of time
THE public inquiry into killings by SAS soldiers in Afghanistan has descended into bitter farce.
Even lawyers hired by the Government have advised the special forces troops not to give evidence.
Legal experts have been warning servicemen that they are in the middle of a witch hunt and any evidence given may later lead to serious criminal charges.
That means not only are brave men who were prepared to die fighting for their country being hounded by the State which asked them to do their dangerous and dirty job.
But taxpayers are also forking out tens of millions for the whole circus AND footing the bill for lawyers to tell soldiers not to appear anyway.
It’s yet another public inquiry putting the wrong people through the wringer as well as wasting colossal amounts of time and money.
