Party politics
JUDGING by their deranged hysteria over Sue Gray’s neutered report into Downing Street parties, it was probably better for MPs’ sanity that it wasn’t more damning.
We don’t underestimate how grim it looks for a PM to be probed by cops over an alleged Abba-themed bash in his Downing Street flat during lockdown.
Sue Gray’s concluded that Boris’s No10 had an overly boozy culture which casually and recklessly ignored Covid rules[/caption]
But Labour, Lib Dem and SNP MPs became so demented by their rage that their attacks largely fell flat.
And it is unedifying to hear Keir Starmer, a former Director of Public Prosecutions who should know better, treat the Met’s probe as unassailable proof of Boris Johnson’s personal guilt.
It is not, no matter how much Boris-haters wish otherwise.
Boris, though, lost the plot too.
Admittedly, Starmer’s sanctimonious, po-faced moralising — rich from a man himself snapped swigging beer at a lockdown-breaking “work event” — would drive most opponents spare.
But it demeaned the PM to try to smear him with a false internet conspiracy theory.
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Gray’s conclusions, even censored by the police’s jackbooted intervention, are bad enough: That Boris’s No10 had an overly boozy culture which casually and recklessly ignored Covid rules.
That much is on the PM.
Only the cops, not prosecutor Starmer, will determine if he broke the law himself.
As for Boris’s claim that the public has bigger fish to fry, he may be proved right.
The jury is out.
Rishi’s rise
WITH Boris on the ropes and the Tories at war, is this really the moment for he and Chancellor Rishi Sunak to insist on inflicting economic harm on Britain?
Not only are they ploughing on with their April tax rise but they have even turned against scrapping VAT on energy bills.
Rishi Sunak is ploughing on with an April tax rise and has even turned against scrapping VAT on energy bills[/caption]
So how WILL they help?
If they think a few extra quid to the very worst-off will earn them a skint nation’s gratitude they have another think coming.
Rape justice
AT last a victory for the brave British teenager gang-raped in Cyprus, then betrayed by the country’s police and courts.
Thanks partly to a Sun campaign, her appeal, against a rogue verdict that she made up the attack, has been vindicated.
At last a victory for the brave British teenager gang-raped in Cyprus then betrayed by the country’s police and courts[/caption]
If she and her family now prosecute the gang privately, we’ll be right behind them.
£48m relief
WE are overjoyed that many more families of disabled kids are to get the respite care they desperately need.
The new £48million injection of funds being announced by Children’s Minister Will Quince is another win for our Give It Back campaign.
Keep it coming, Will.
