News Round-Up

• “OBR chief Richard Hughes resigns after budget leak investigation” – The Chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility has resigned after an investigation into the leak of last week’s Budget criticised the watchdog’s leadership, reports Sky News.
• “This Budget and OBR train wreck cannot simply be allowed to pass” – Misleading the nation to justify breaking a manifesto promise is an action that cannot be allowed to stand, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Why, in my judgement, Reeves was misleading on one specific point” – BBC Political Editor Chris Mason accuses Rachel Reeves of keeping voters in the dark while quietly paving the way for tax rises.
• “Never, ever trust the Tories” – Breaking promises is the only thing that this failed party of the past knows how to do, says Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer and Reeves are running out of road” – The Prime Minister is trying to save his Chancellor – and his own skin, writes Andrew Lilico in CapX.
• “Eyes on Miliband as Cabinet enters briefing conflict with Starmer” – Labour insiders suspect Ed Miliband is stirring up trouble against Starmer, says Guido.
• “Reeves spares council houses worth more than £2 million from mansion tax” – Renters living in taxpayer-subsidised London social housing properties worth millions will be spared Rachel Reeves’s so-called “mansion tax”, reports GB News.
• “Tulip Siddiq sentenced to two years in prison over corruption in Bangladesh” – Ex-Labour minister Tulip Siddiq has been convicted in absentia of “manipulating and influencing” Sheikh Hasina, her aunt and the former Bangladeshi Prime Minister, to secure plots of land for her family, says Sky News.
• “Police used ‘fictitious’ game in report that led to ban on Israeli fans” – West Midlands Police’s Chief Constable has been slated by MPs over a contentious ‘dossier’ used to justify banning Israeli fans, which included a “fictitious” football match and relied on “an unrecorded conversation”, reports Birmingham Live.
• “Pakistani drug dealer avoids deportation because he was ‘star pupil’ in school” – An immigration tribunal has ruled that Muhammad Izhan, who was jailed for dealing Class A and B drugs, should stay in the UK because his removal to Pakistan would “have a negative impact on his mental health”, according to the European Conservative.
• “Deported Albanians paying up to £20,000 to sneak back into UK” – Court records show Albanian criminals are returning to Britain, where they re-offend and are then sentenced for committing further offences, reports GB News.
• “BP abandons UK green energy plant in blow to Miliband” – BP has shelved plans to build a major hydrogen project in Teesside in a fresh blow to Ed Miliband’s Net Zero plans, says the FT.
• “The day Net Zero died” – BP has abandoned its plan to develop a ‘blue’ hydrogen plant on Teesside, dashing the Government’s last remaining hope of reaching Net Zero by 2050, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Climate crisis? The French are uprooting vines to reduce production” – France blames climate change for its “deteriorating” wine industry, yet is uprooting vines to tackle overproduction, reports Eric Worrall in WUWT?
• “Thankful for President Trump’s climate report card” – On Daily Caller, Steve Milloy credits President Trump with dismantling the climate hoax through moves like leaving the Paris Accord and cutting “Green New Scam” spending.
• “Carney abandons Net Zero CO₂, advances controversial Alberta oil pipeline” – In Climate Change Dispatch, Ron Barmby exposes Mark Carney’s pivot from Net Zero zealot to oil pipeline promoter.
• “More evidence NE China is not cooperating with the alarmist global warming narrative” – On NoTricksZone, Kenneth Richard highlights that northeastern China was significantly warmer with more extreme droughts during the Little Ice Age than today.
• “Missing in action: King’s College ethics committee” – It’s almost inconceivable that NHS England (the ‘H’, incredibly, stands for ‘health’) would commission a randomised controlled trial of puberty-blockers, says Dr Roger Watson in the New Conservative. Yet it is.
• “The FDA may add a strict ‘black box’ warning on mRNA Covid shots for kids and teens” – The US Food and Drug Administration may soon place a so-called “black box” warning on mRNA Covid vaccines to alert physicians and parents to their link to childhood deaths, reports Alex Berenson on his Unreported Truths Substack.
• “Achtung! Vaccinated – dead” – On Substack, the Covid Physician’s review of Vaccinated – Dead reveals grim autopsy details ignored by officials.
• “Sudanese army accused of massacring civilians in Nuba mountains” – The Sudanese army has allegedly killed dozens of women and children in a “double-tap” drone strike on civilians in the Nuba Mountains on Sunday, reports the Telegraph.
• “Trans row nurse Sandi Peggie launches fresh legal action against NHS Fife” – NHS Fife is bracing for more legal action from gender-critical nurse Sandie Peggie, who’s pushing ahead with her employment tribunal claims against the health board, says the Scottish Sun.
• “Nurse suspended for calling trans paedophile ‘Mr’ left in legal limbo” – An NHS nurse suspended for calling a trans paedophile “Mr” is stuck in legal limbo as the Government drags its feet on publishing equalities guidance, according to the Telegraph.
• “Trans child molester claims jury was hypnotised into guilty verdict” – The Mail reports that a child molester who abused a teenage girl before becoming “Natalie” has bizarrely claimed the jury only found him guilty because they were hypnotised.
• “Academics challenge ruling that gender-critical film could be ‘transphobic’” – Filmmakers are gearing up for a legal fight after a judge ruled that their, film Adult Human Female, could be transphobic, according to the Telegraph.
• “Great Britain loses a great Briton – RIP Peter Whittle” – In TCW, Peter Whittle is remembered by Paul Collits as a passionate defender of Britain’s culture and values who died too soon at 64.
• “Wait for it” – Zack Polanski reveals the three world-renowned economists who’ve shaped his thinking when it comes to the Green Party’s economic policy.

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