News Round-Up

• “Starmer faces calls to sack chief of staff over No 10 briefing war” – Cabinet ministers are calling for Morgan McSweeney to be sacked after briefings from No 10 targeted Wes Streeting, reports the Times.
• “Streeting goes to war with Number 10” – Wes Streeting has branded Downing Street “toxic” and “juvenile” amid a briefing war over threats to Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership, says the Telegraph.
• “Why No 10 thinks Starmer is finished” – Downing Street’s heavy-handed actions suggest many are not confident the PM can stay the course, according to the Telegraph.
• “This single stat explains why Starmer is doomed” – The large number of people claiming out-of-work benefits will cripple the British economy, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “This useless Government might not make it to 2029” – Labour’s chances of keeping its supermajority by the next election are shrinking, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “How could Starmer be ousted? 81 Labour MPs need to back a challenger” – Getting rid of the Labour leader isn’t as easy as getting rid of the Conservative leader, but if 81 Labour MPs back a challenger it would trigger a leadership election, explains the Mail.
• “Starmer must not give in to the opportunistic Waspi women” – Handing out £10.5 billion to boomer women – many of whom are well-off anyway – would not be a fair, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “There’s no less deserving group in Britain than the Waspis” – Nobody should get compensation because they failed to grasp changes to the benefit rules, says Matthew Lesh in the Telegraph.
• “Why young women are dropping out of work much faster than men” – The number of young women not in education, employment or training hit the highest level in a decade this summer, while the number of men in the same position fell, says the Telegraph.
• “French stopping even fewer small boats since deal with Starmer” – French police are preventing fewer migrants from crossing the Channel since Sir Keir Starmer struck a deal with President Emmanuel Macron to tackle small boats, according to the Telegraph.
• “The people of Epping have had enough” – Epping has suffered more than its fair share of asylum-related crimes in the past 12 months and the residents have had enough, writes David Shipley in the Spectator.
• “New Archbishop of Canterbury backs baptising asylum seekers” – Dame Sarah Mullally justified continuing to baptise asylum seekers on the grounds that they may wait until they reach Britain to declare faith due to the risk of persecution if they declare it back home, reports the Telegraph.
• “Mike Graham is sacked from Talk breakfast show after racist post” – Mike Graham, 65, was suspended from his show Morning Glory after a ‘racist’ post was published on his Facebook account. He claimed he’d been hacked, but his employer didn’t believe him and now he’s been sacked, says the Mail.
• “Dozens of babies and toddlers referred to anti-extremismt programme” – New data shows 45 infants under the age of one have been referred to the Provent programme in the last eight years, according to the Mail.
• “Trove of Epstein emails confirm ‘Andrew and Virginia’ photo is REAL” – A tranche of Epstein files released by the US Government contain proof that the picture of the then Prince Andrew with his arm round Virginia Giuffre is real, reports the Mail.
• “US attacks Starmer over nuclear reactor snub” – The US has launched an attack on Sir Keir Starmer after he snubbed an American power company’s plans to build a nuclear power station in Wales, says the Telegraph.
• “Indigenous protesters armed with batons storm Cop30 summit in Brazil” – Dozens of indigenous protesters brandishing batons stormed the Cop30 climate summit in Brazil, demanding greater protection for forests, according to the Telegraph.
• “Farmers claim Net Zero feed is killing their cows” – Farmers have claimed that a climate-friendly feed championed by Tesco and Morrisons is poisoning their cattle, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ed Miliband’s net zero quest has become a national security threat” – The discovery of secret ‘kill switches’ on Chinese electric buses has massive ramifications for Labour’s green energy drive, writes Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
• “Iceland ‘doomed’ if Atlantic Ocean current collapses” – A potential collapse of AMOC could trigger a modern-day ice age, with winter temperatures across Northern Europe plummeting to new cold extremes, bringing far more snow and ice, claims the Mail.
• “Revealed: The animal rights group sharing obscene anti-Jewish hate” – An animal rights group that claims to fight cruelty to pigs is spreading vile antisemitic conspiracy theories – blaming “Zionists” for the Holocaust, 9/11 and the war in Ukraine, says Jewish News.
• “The scandal that could bring down Volodymyr Zelensky” – A solid gold toilet and cupboards loaded with bagfuls of €200 bills are among the treasures linked to the prominent Ukrainian businessman Timur Mindich, a business partner of Zelensky’s embroiled in a corruption scandal, writes Owen Matthews in the Spectator.
• “DEI research soars in UK grant funding” – The resignation of two senior BBC executives over documented Left-wing bias at the broadcaster has exposed a progressive-industrial complex that is increasingly prevalent in public life, says Eric Kaufmann in UnHerd.
• “Even on Remembrance Sunday, the BBC insults our glorious dead” – On Remembrance Sunday, the BBC couldn’t resist distorting our treatment of the black and Asian fallen, writes Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
• “BBC ready to apologise to Trump” – The BBC’s lawyers are working on a statement to appease the US President over the Panorama programme that could cost the Corporation $1 billion, reports the Telegraph.
• “Calamity Lammy is the gift that keeps on giving” – Robert Jenrick has been accused of ‘racism’ and reported to the House of Commons standards watchdog for sharing a video of Lammy in a clown costume.

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