We don’t downplay Partygate but Boris Johnson has a point – all perspective has been lost
Boris bashing
WE don’t downplay the No10 parties. They shouldn’t have happened. Our readers followed the Covid rules and are still angry at those in power who didn’t.
But yesterday’s furious attempted prosecution of Boris Johnson by Labour, the confected rage, the frothing abuse and the sanctimonious moralising are hard to stomach.
The PM apologised to the Commons and sought to contrast his “mistakes” with the gravity of the war in Ukraine and his global leadership over it.
Yes, it was a tactic — but he has a point: All perspective has been lost.
Imagine Putin’s mirth if President Zelensky’s No1 international ally is ousted over Partygate.
Keir Starmer didn’t mention Ukraine. To Labour’s leader, himself pictured chugging beer with workmates during lockdown, Boris’s parties are the crime of the century.
The same Starmer who in 2019 enthusiastically backed a Putin apologist to run Britain now criticises the “nodding dogs” supporting Boris.
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The same man who promised to respect the Brexit vote, then tried to reverse it, speaks piously of “honesty and integrity”.
Voters will ultimately decide Boris’s fate, assuming Tory MPs stand by him.
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Starmer is going to need some policies. Not just hammy, performative anger.
Channel change
HOW much more vacuous rubbish must we endure from the enemies of Priti Patel’s Rwanda plan to deter illegal migrants and end the lethal people-smuggling trade?
Even former Tory Brexit Secretary David Davis virtue-signals his disapproval of its “moral delinquency”.
First he alleges the small-boat cheats are “legitimate refugees so desperate that they risk drowning in the Channel”. Really? A few may have a case. But they have all paid criminals thousands to help them flee the safety of France.
Mr Davis even worries that, once in Rwanda, they might escape and become terrorists. That’s right, the same young men he wants to integrate into Britain.
One by one MPs trashed the scheme yesterday. None had a viable alternative to destroy this deadly, tragic racket.
The Rwanda solution might just work.
That’s more than can be said for the unthinking waffle put up by Mr Davis or Labour’s endlessly carping rabble.
Duty calls
SINCE Rishi Sunak got no political credit for slashing fuel duty he’ll be sorely tempted never to do it again. But he must.
True, his 5p cut made next to no difference at the pumps, but it was a start. The Chancellor must keep bringing duty down.
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While you’re at it, Rishi, axe Ed Miliband’s green levies on energy.
With bills soaring they cannot be justified.