News Round-Up

• “What does Reform need to overtake the Tories? Less than 340,000 voters” – Nigel Farage’s party may only have five MPs to its name but, for them, this is only the beginning, says the Telegraph.
• “What did the Tories do with power?” – Fourteen years of Tory-led Government is over, and for many on the Right there is a sense of frustration that time in power has been squandered, says John Oxley in the Spectator.
• “Labour’s Potemkin landslide” – Something pretty big is missing from Labour’s historic landslide: the voters, says Fraser Nelson in the Spectator. Starmer won 63% of the seats on just 33.8% of the votes, with a vote total half a million lower than Corbyn in 2019.
• “Final triumph of the New Establishment: Now with a Leftie lawyer in Downing Street, they’ve seized the last piece of the jigsaw” – Andrew Neil in the Mail sees the return of Labour to Government as the sealing of a long march of Leftism.
• “We deserve this result – we had 14 years in office and did not deliver” – “Complacent Tory MPs must see the only way to persuade the public is with trust, hope and credibility,” writes Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
• “I voted Reform because I want my country back” – Charlie Bentely-Astor in the Telegraph explains why as a young woman she backed the start-up party.
• “Class war is back – but this time the revolt against elites is from the Right” – The public has had enough of oligarchic power, says Janet Daley. “This is what is behind electoral protest in France, the United States and Britain.”
• “Reform to set up branches nationwide” – Reform will set up branches around the country to build on election success, Richard Tice has said, according to the Telegraph.
• “Defeated Tory quits party saying it has ‘no chance of ever being electable again’” – Former “Brexit Spartan” Tory MP Marcus Fysh, who lost his seat at the General Election, has quit the party, saying it has “no chance of ever being electable again”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Don’t be misled, Britain did not flock to Labour” – Sir Keir may have won the election, but he was scarcely more successful than Jeremy Corbyn in 2019, says Sir John Curtice in the Telegraph.
• “Miracle survivor: how freak circumstances conspired to save ‘doomed’ Iain Duncan Smith” – The former Tory party leader was given just a 1% chance of winning by the exit poll – but the poll had failed to take into account that the Labour vote was split by its deselected candidate, says the Telegraph.
• “How do you solve a problem like Farage? Without a solution, Tories are fated to opposition” – If the Right is split, it will keep losing, but the parties are only divided by personalities, not policies, says Daniel Hannan.
• “The Tories must strike a deal with Farage” – The Conservative party is now the political equivalent of Monty Python’s Norwegian Blue parrot, writes Dan Hodges in the Mail. “There is no unification of the Right without Farage.”
• “Panicking Tories say Nigel Farage must be ‘invited to join’ party” – The Mail looks at the lively discussions going on among the Tories about the future as they lick their wounds.
• “Control Britain’s borders to counter Reform, warns Blair” – Starmer must learn from Italy and France and control Britain’s borders to see off the threat of Reform U.K., Sir Tony Blair has said, reports the Telegraph.
• “The really interesting 2024 election numbers” – Alex Kriel crunches the election results.
• “Labour Government working with Germany on moving closer to EU, says Berlin” – The Government is working with Germany to see how Britain “can move closer to the EU”, Berlin’s Foreign Ministry said, the Telegraph reports.
• “Labour only made one promise: here’s why it could be dead on arrival” – The Telegraph looks at the new Prime Minister’s promise of 1.5 million new homes and the Nimbyism that could sink it.
• “Keir Starmer: The World’s Most Typical Pol” – In Compact, James A. Smith says you won’t find a more stereotypical politician that Britain’s new PM.
• “The Net Zero-obsessed millionaire scientist, a bullied Byker Grove actress, the pro-Palestine human rights lawyer and the cobbler who employs ex-offenders who is now Prison’s Minister: Meet Keir’s Cabinet as new Prime Minister gets to work on first day” – The Mail looks at whom Starmer has appointed to run his Government, including “Net Zero-obsessed millionaire scientist” Sir Patrick Vallance of Covid infamy.
• “Ed Miliband will be a liability as Energy Secretary” – Ed Miliband as Energy Secretary raises a clear source of trouble, says Ross Clark in the Spectator: Labour’s hugely ambitious plan to decarbonise the national grid by 2030.
• “The climate scaremongers: How the Met Office fiddles the temperature figures” – in TCW, Paul Homewood looks at some of the Met Office’s hopelessly corrupted weather stations in the U.K. where solar farms and airports artificially inflate readings.
• “Europe’s Green Energy Plans Stall as Leading Companies Reduce Expansion Plans” – Green energy is in turmoil as projects are postponed and scaled back across Europe, says Pierre Gosselin in WUWT.
• “Joe Biden: Only ‘Lord Almighty’ can tell me to stand down, says President” – Doesn’t sound like Biden is in any mood to heed the calls from his erstwhile backers to stand aside as he makes an appeal to heaven, reports the Telegraph.
• “A Parkinson’s disease specialist has visited the White House residence medical clinic at least nine times since July 2023” – Alex Berenson reports on suggestive revelations from the White House visitor logs.

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