Keir Starmer's latest U-turn on benefits is the worst of all worlds and leaves PM at a major crossroads
Country first?
KEIR Starmer's capitulation to his own party is the worst of all worlds.
No meaningful reform of the out-of-control benefits system will happen and most of Labour's planned £5billion savings won't be made.
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Whacking tax rises to fill the black hole now look inevitable.
It has also sent a signal that the PM — despite his huge majority — can't deliver any serious public spending cuts.
After this debacle, how will he reform the NHS or slash the civil service Blob?
His rebels will now demand an end to the two-child benefit cap, too.
As for taking on ludicrous wage demands from doctors and other public sector workers — forget it.
The PM has now made major U-turns on winter fuel payments, grooming gangs and benefits.
Presumably under pressure from his leftie comrades, Sir Keir yesterday also said he now deeply regrets his previous claim on mass immigration that it risked Britain becoming 'an island of strangers'.
Except that it was probably one of the few occasions where most ordinary folk AGREED with him.
After just 12 months, the PM is at a major crossroads.
Elected on his promise to put country before party, he has this week done the complete opposite.
Appeasing his virtue-signalling MPs may get him through difficult days in Westminster.
But for the rest of us it spells very bad news indeed.
Petty crime
JUST last month chief constables begged for more cash.
Without it, they warned, the country would be overwhelmed by criminals.
Really?
As we reveal today, they have plenty of time and money to investigate absurd 'hate crimes' — from singing Flower of Scotland at an English railway station, to questioning if a person's designer clothes are fake.
Can we suggest senior cops and the Government stop hitting up the taxpayer, and instead save cash by scrapping inquiries into so-called non-crime hate incidents.
It might even free them up to catch a shoplifter or two.
Booze & cheers
That would have dealt a savage blow to struggling horse-racing venues and lower league football clubs — and punished punters.
Ditch the Nanny-state plan to outlaw booze adverts, too.
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