Tory minister's teenage daughter received sinister death threat birthday card from NI after Brexit
Former Tory cabinet minister Michael Gove was notified of a threat from Derry in the wake of Brexit.
His ex-wife Sarah Vine has told how a warning daubed on a wall was followed by hate mail targeting their teenage daughter sent to their London home.
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Metro
44 minutes ago
- Metro
When can we make a true comparison between Conservative and Labour governments
In MetroTalk: Readers debate governments track records, the cost of medical aid and weight-loss drugs(Picture:) Do you agree with our readers? Have your say on these MetroTalk topics and more in the comments. 'Brexit has shown that Europe and the EU were never the problem with the UK' says reader In response to Gary, we do not need to wait and see. All the things listed didn't happen in the (barely one year) since Labour has been in power versus the 14 years the Conservatives were at the helm. It's, therefore, wrong to think you can now lay it all at Keir Starmer's feet, whatever his shortcomings. And as for the worsening uncontrolled immigration situation? Well, you can lay that squarely on Brexit. Europe has no reason to want to aid the UK anymore on this issue – it was hard enough when we were part of the EU! So yes, it's worse now. But Starmer is doing the right things to hopefully ensure we can once again control immigration to this country. It will take time. If there's one good thing to say about Brexit it is that it has shown that Europe and the EU were never the problem with the UK. So let's please stop this wilful ignorance about why things are the way they are now in this country. Agatha, Surrey Does a lack of strikes equal a 'sleight of hand'? I'm not sure why Gary from Essex (MetroTalk, Wed) chooses to characterise hospitals now meeting appointments due to lack of strikes as a government 'sleight of hand'. Does he perhaps feel that the previous lot's abysmal performance was in fact the norm and that any improvement must be some kind of trick?Martin, London 'Labour havent 'given in', doctors have been underpaid despite doing God's work', reader defends Labour parties performance This reader defends the Labour party and NHS doctors (Picture: Jack Hill –) Gary is right in that we will have to wait five years for a true comparison between Labour and Conservative performances. But I would like to address some of the points he made. Unemployment going up has nothing to do with Labour and, with regards to small businesses closing at their highest rate in more than ten years, file that under Brexit – which was under the Conservatives' watch. Government borrowing? Well that's squarely down to the Tory black hole, and Brexit again. Got a question about UK politics? Send in yours and Metro's Senior Politics Reporter Craig Munro will answer it in an upcoming edition of our weekly politics newsletter. Email alrightgov@ or submit your question here. As for waiting list times, they have improved. And, as the partner of a doctor, Labour haven't 'given in'. Doctors have been underpaid in relative terms for ten or so years – despite the fact they're doing God's work. As to his final point regarding illegal immigration being up, that's down to Brexit, which was voted for by every district in Essex – and I'm assuming that includes Greg by the sounds of things. Greg, Highgate Reader comments on the cost on providing medical aid to children from Gaza Adrian Appleby (MetroTalk, Wed) is worrying about how the UK is going to be able to afford treatment for children wounded because of the war in Gaza (MetroTalk, Wed). He needn't fret so much, the profits we've made from the sale of the bombs and the bullets and the various aircraft parts will more than make up for the damage wrought upon their tiny bodies from the blasts that killed their families…P Guy, Liverpool 'the lost art of queuing at bus stops' Further to your letter about the lost art of queuing at bus stops (MetroTalk, Wed), I once worked with a very experienced TV presenter and she had a saying to describe certain people who were slightly pushy in personality as 'last at the bus stop, first on the bus'. I always to this day smile at bus stops as I think of those extremely wise words. Jan, London Bring back the queue! Reader knows how to crack a smile on public transport (Picture: Getty Images) 'Nothing is perfect', reader expresses support for the NHS I find the words 'shames the NHS' on the front page of Monday's Metro unfortunate. Of course what this patient experienced with a rat found in her drawers was very unpleasant, but 'shame' is too strong a word and smacks of over-generalisation. This happens all too often, be it about the NHS or other issues. We have found the NHS to be wonderful in dealing with my husband's ill-health, in particular over the last few months. The staff have treated him with nothing but kindness, professionalism and patience, all while under enormous pressure. They could even have been forgiven for any mistakes made – within reason of course. Nothing is perfect and the NHS should not be castigated in this way. Pat Horitz, Dorking Reader asks, 'why should my taxes pay for other peoples weight-loss drugs'? Why should my taxes pay for other people's weight-loss drugs and follow-up support on the NHS (Metro, Tue)? It's not an illness. It's over-eating, bad diet and lack of willpower to stop. I don't mind paying for treatment of illness, but not this. KT, Edin 'Start treating people the same and help everybody' says reader Are school uniform prices getting out of hand? (Picture: Getty Images) Once again the government are being called upon to help pay for school uniforms for people on benefits, with debt adviser Money Wellness looking for grants to be made available across the UK for low-income households. What about the couples who are working hard to provide for their family but don't come into the government's bracket when it comes to extortionate prices for school uniforms that have to be bought from specific outlets? This includes state schools, not only private. Come on, if you care, start treating people the same and help everybody. Den, Dartford Is there something wrong with our electoral system? Further to Rory O'Kelly's summations (MetroTalk, Wed), there must be something terribly wrong with our electoral system when a party can win an election with 3million fewer votes than it received when it lost the election some years earlier. Roger Smith, Witham How quickly can you solve our crossword? I just wanted to give you guys a pat on the back for publishing my letter today light-heartedly taking the rise out of your inadvertent double entendre headline about rat droppings found in a lady's drawers. We all slip up now and then, and you could so easily have ignored my letter but you saw the funny side and didn't mind bringing attention to your slip up. I am impressed! Incidentally, thank you for a really good, free paper which I enjoy every day, especially the quick crossword. This morning, I achieved a personal best, solving it within four minutes. My chest will be puffed out all day. William Buckley, Reading Arrow MORE: The Metro daily cartoon by Guy Venables Arrow MORE: Dr. Sam's Clarity Kit hailed 'the best skincare' by customers to treat acne breakouts Arrow MORE: We've found Molly-Mae Hague's exact chunky pearl earrings – and they're gorgeous
Daily Mirror
2 hours ago
- Daily Mirror
GORDON BROWN: 'Taxing the betting industry to support our children won't be a gamble'
Gordon Brown says 'with the public finances tight and children hungry, there is an obvious fix: use the massively undertaxed profits of the gambling industry to lift 500,000 children out of poverty' A poor bookie is hard to find. A child living in poverty is difficult to miss. But right now more than 4.5 million children in the UK are living in poverty and the numbers are rising by up to 100,000 every year. I saw extreme poverty when I was growing up in an industrial town in Scotland hit by unemployment and I am sad I am seeing such deep poverty again stalk our country's children. By 2030 the first experiences of 5 million of our kids will be to be ill-fed, poorly clothed and badly housed. That's why today, in an exclusive article in the Mirror, the leaders of 15 anti poverty charities from the Save the Children to the food bank charity The Trussell Trust have called for an end to the Tory two child rule that keeps hundreds of thousands of children in poverty There is one other thing that is rising on a similar trajectory in this country – the soaring profits of the gambling industry. The gambling and betting industry is worth £11.5 billion a year and that sum rises year after year – almost as quickly as child poverty rises. Yet in Britain, they operates in one of the lowest tax regimes in the West. They pay less tax than our oil and gas companies. Less tax than our car manufacturers. Less tax than our cutting edge tech companies. So with the public finances tight and children hungry, there is an obvious fix: use the massively undertaxed profits of the gambling industry to lift 500,000 children out of poverty. The tax on online casino profits in the Netherlands stands at 40%. In Austria it is 54% per cent. Even in the US state of Delaware - seen as an international tax haven – the tax rate is 57%. Yet in the UK the tax rate is almost a third of that American level - just 21%. Half of that in liberal Amsterdam. In the last ten years remote gambling yields have risen by more than 40% – and that's after inflation but remote gambling operators pay a fraction of their profits in tax . Under the Tories they were allowed to take the government for a ride as much as they do their punters. The customers of these gambling giants are in the UK but many owners locate themselves in places where they can dodge tax and avoid paying the corporation tax your employer pays which limits your wages. Neither do they pay the VAT you pay on what you buy. Matching the tax rate on remote gambling here to that of low-tax Delaware on would raise not far off £2 billion a year. Matching it on in-person slot machines would bring in almost another £1 billion. And we can apply this levy without touching bingo or any lotteries or the horse racing industry. And the extra cash raised would mean the government could start to lift half a million children out of poverty. A third of the cost of a pint is tax. Two thirds of the cost of whisky is tax. Three quarters of the cost of a pack of cigarettes is tax. Yet online gambling giants get away with paying just over 20% in tax on their profits. It is unequal, unfair and unjust. Gambling will not build a brighter future for our children. But taxing it properly might just get them properly nourished. Decent clothes. A warm bed. And the full stomachs that let them fill their brains in school. Taxing the betting industry to support our children won't be a gamble. It will be an investment in their future. One where everyone wins.
Evening Standard
2 hours ago
- Evening Standard
It's time to admit it: Zillennials are the only normal Gen Zers
Then there's the politics. The first time a British Zillennial would have been able to exercise their democratic right would have been during Brexit referendum in 2016, where both sides were accused of distributing 'misleading' figures and making 'implausible assumptions'. Less than six months later, Donald Trump would go on to win the US election under similarly murky circumstances, ushering in the era of 'fake news' (a phrase he first tweeted that December). The world entered an era of post-truth, and the majority of Gen Z have never had active political ability in any other circumstances.
