News Round-Up

• “Rosie Duffield: Sleaze, nepotism and greed — why I’m quitting Labour” – Rosie Duffield becomes the first MP to resign the Labour whip in this parliament, reports the Times. In her resignation letter, she lambasts Sir Keir for the “staggering hypocrisy” of accepting gifts worth tens of thousands of pounds while scrapping winter fuel payments.
• “There’s more to Sir Keir than meets the eye – and it’s not looking good” – Luxury penthouse apartments; designer clothes; VIP seats in football stadiums – evidently he’s been living quite the high life, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
• “Keir Starmer hits new low in personal popularity ratings” – the latest Opinium poll for the Observer shows the Labour leader got the opposite of a ‘bounce’ from Liverpool party conference.
• “Labour’s staggering incompetence is no surprise after years of performative Opposition” – The party can’t move on from an adversarial mindset, feeding the country pleasant lies when we need a dose of reality, says Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s private school raid ‘risks forcing out ethnic minority families’” – Black and brown parents fear Government’s tax raid on private school could hamper social mobility and diversity, according to the Telegraph.
• “Compass, the Left-wing campaign group you’ve never heard of” – On her Substack, Charlotte Gill looks under the bonnet of Compass, a radical Left-wing campaign group with close ties to Labour MPs.
• “Good riddance to Baroness Warsi – the Tories are better off without her” – Conservatives should be pleased that Baroness Warsi has left the Party, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Robert Jenrick: Do not mess around, let’s pick a leader who can be Prime Minister” – Inspired by David Cameron’s leadership speech at the Tory Party conference in 2005, Jenrick is determined to be the candidate to lead the party to success, reports the Telegraph.
• “Not all cultures are equal, Kemi Badenoch says” – The Tory leadership hopeful says it’s “naive” to think all migrants will abandon their “ethnic hostilities” when they set foot on British soil, according to the Telegraph.
• “Conservative Party conference: beauty parade turns into The Hunger Games” – Toxic briefings, public clashes and soul-searching will be the order of the day as the four leadership candidates set out their stalls at the Tory Party conference, reports the Sunday Times.
• “Almost a quarter of Tory voters who backed Boris turned to Reform U.K.” – Nearly a quarter of voters who backed Boris in 2019 abandoned the Conservatives in July’s General Election for the Reform Party, according to the Mail.
• “I found it hard not to laugh when Mordaunt said trans was issue of our times” – In an extract from his memoirs in the Mail, Boris takes aim at Penny Mordaunt who laughably claimed “trans” was the biggest issue of our times.
• “I’m now convinced that Covid WAS made in a Chinese lab” – In another extract from his memoirs, Boris opines that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. No, really?
• “The astronomical cost of Ed Miliband’s net zero property crusade” – Landlords brace to fork out thousands to meet Labour’s flawed Net Zero targets, says the Telegraph.
• “Forget Great British Energy, by 2030 the country will be powered by Ed’s hot air” – Ed Miliband’s Great British Energy initiative is a chimera that creates the illusion of state control, but actually does nothing much at all, says Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times.
• “Falklands tensions erupt as islands snub U.K. by going ahead with oil project” – Ed Miliband imposed a ban on all new oil and gas licences in July, but the Falkland Islanders aren’t minded to respect it, reports the Express.
• “Just Stop Oil protesters target Van Gogh’s Sunflowers with soup again” – Three activists protesting against the jailing of two of their comrades for throwing soup over a Van Gogh’s Sunflowers have done it again, reports the Times.
• “Brighton reverses war on cars that drove away visitors” – The Labour-run council is reversing policies introduced by its Green predecessors who wanted a “car-free city”, says the Telegraph.
• “Labour council taken to court over ‘flawed’ LTN plan” – Campaigners in West Dulwich have accused their council of “riding roughshod over wishes of majority of residents” with plans to roll out LTNs, reports the Telegraph.
• “Fluoride in drinking water poses enough risk to merit new EPA action, judge says” – A federal judge in California says fluoride in drinking water poses a risk to the intellectual development of children and U.S. environmental regulators need to address it, according to the Independent.
• “NHS wants to sedate Down’s Syndrome patient for Covid jab against mother’s will” – The mother of an NHS patient with Down’s Syndrome says the hospital is resorting to spiking his drink so it can give him the Covid vaccine, says the Telegraph.
• “Are we heading for Death on Demand to please Leftists?” – In an attack on euthanasia in the Mail, Peter Hitchens asks: “Why is it that so many in our liberal elite are so keen to make it so easy for the old and ill to die?”
• “Trans rapist referred to as ‘she’ by judge… but is sent to male prison” – Lexi Secker, who raped a woman on a night out in 2023 while living as a man (because he is a man), has been sentenced to six years, but in a male prison, according to the Telegraph.
• “Seventy per cent of Jewish students feel ‘uncomfortable’ revealing their faith” – Those who “support Israel’s right to exist” are made to feel unwelcome and attacked by university peers, according to a new poll says the Telegraph.
• “EU deal allowing Channel migrants to be sent back to France ‘not on the table’” – European officials have poured cold water on the U.K.’s hopes of a post-Brexit migration deal, says the Telegraph.
• “Progressives have destroyed the great cities of coastal America” – Crime, shoplifting, drug taking and homelessness have now consumed the once-dynamic centers of the U.S., according to Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “Labour to end BBC licence fee prosecutions in the name of women” – The Labour Government is planning to tell the BBC to stop prosecuting licence fee dodgers because 70% of them are women, reports the Times.
• “Hassan Nasrallah is dead and Hezbollah is broken” – Information that Nasrallah was at Hezbollah’s main headquarters in Beirut arrived while Israel’s prime minister was addressing the UN, reports the Spectator. He knew just what to do.
• “Because I’m dead I’m dead” – Amusing parody of a Michael Jackson hit featuring Hassan Nasrallah.

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