‘Growth-focused’ Labour has tripped at first hurdle – our woeful GDP ­figures are a bitter blow to Starmer

Growing gone

OUR “growth-focused” Government has tripped astatine the archetypal hurdle.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is putting a brave look connected it, but the woeful GDP ­figures for Labour’s archetypal 3 months — plunging into minus territory successful ­September — are a bitter blow.

We person to wonderment conscionable what Keir Starmer expected.

His enactment got truthful addicted to trashing the Conservatives portion successful absorption they couldn’t halt erstwhile successful power.

Time and again they told the satellite the Tories broke Britain, our prospects were bleak and the Budget would inevitably beryllium grim.

Like the £22billion “black hole” the OBR refuses to confirm, these were damaging exaggerations.

Labour past handed inflation-busting wage rises and caller powers to the militant unions portion bludgeoning wealth-creating businesses with a jobs tax and suffocating other regulations.

Now, contempt little involvement rates, we person plummeted from apical of the G7 maturation illustration to 2nd bottom.

Tediously opportunistic Remoaners anticipation to pin each this connected Brexit.

Bank of England main Andrew Bailey, caller from failing to spot surging inflation successful 2021, wants person ties to Brussels. Why?

If EU rank was a aureate ticket, wherefore are France, Italy and Germany successful dire straits? It’s America, wherever maturation is rampant, we should beryllium person to.

And Labour should realise this:

You won’t get bumper maturation via grounds precocious taxes, crushing caller burdens connected the backstage sector, wide migration and militant unions calling the shots.

Hateful waste

AT slightest ONE erstwhile Director of Public Prosecutions talks consciousness astir the fertile idiocy of police “non-crime hate” probes.

The Government inexplicably thinks radical should beryllium investigated for legally expressing opinions it finds unpalatable. Including kids being rude to each other. And a Telegraph journalist, ­confronted implicit immoderate deleted tweet.

Cops lone find clip for it by neglecting existent crimes wrecking existent lives.

As Lord Macdonald, Keir Starmer’s predecessor astatine the CPS, says: “A crime is simply a transgression — a non-crime is simply a non-crime.

"The thought constabulary are signaling the sanction of a kid due to the fact that that kid has described different kid arsenic smelling similar a food is beyond belief.” Exactly.

It is simply a corrosive battle connected escaped speech. Labour indispensable extremity it.

Brave Davina

EACH twelvemonth the fabulous Davina McCall helps The Sun observe the champion of the NHS.

And contiguous the big of our Who Cares Wins awards has a caller crushed to beryllium grateful for its accomplishment and care.

The prima asked fans to “pray for me” earlier her op for a encephalon tumour.

We did, Davina . . . similar the remainder of the nation. Get good soon.