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Yahoo
12-08-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Reform Mayor Andrea Jenkyns Cornered As Journalist Expertly Unpicks Migration Plans
Channel 4′s anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy tore into Reform UK's Andrea Jenkyns on Wednesday over her party's confusing policies. During a press conference, several representatives from the party blamed illegal migration for increasing violence against women and girls – although it's well-known that a third of such abuse comes from an intimate partner. Still, when Guru-Murthy asked Jenkyns how Reform actually planned on cutting down on the number of small boat crossings coming from the English Channel, Jenkyns did not seem to see the connection at all. She replied: 'This conference is about women, so why are we talking about this?' After a pause, he replied: 'Because you're talking about them aren't you? As a safety question. So you believe they are a threat to women's safety.' Admitting she believes migration is 'one aspect' of the issue, she insisted she would simply return anyone who arrives via British shores illegally. So Guru-Murthy asked: 'What about the people who come from countries you can't send back? You can't send someone back to Iran because there's no route.' She said: 'That's why we're looking at the host country isn't it? But what you're also missing is what about on a daily basis the crimes committed by British people as well.' He pointed out: 'The vast majority of sexual crimes are committed by British-born people.' She said: 'Well, I think the issue there is... I'll correct you there...' 'That's a fact,' he cut in. 'I get from your press conference you are saying we stand with [women]. What I'm not getting is what your actual policy ideas are.' The Greater Lincolnshire mayor replied: 'We will put more resources into our police, make sure it's targeted to areas like this, we will put more more resources into our justice system so we process claims a lot more, there will be more support for women out there.' He then pointed out that more than a third of rape incidents or sexual assault is carried out by a partner. 'What do we as a society do about that? Because that's got nothing to do with migrants,' the anchor said. 'Some have!' Jenkyns replied. He said: 'Some have, but it's to do with society.' She said: 'Some is cultural! We need better talking between social services, the police. It's got to be a lot tighter than it is.' He pointed out that former Reform MP James McMurdoch had a conviction of violence against his own partner before he was elected, although he has since left the party of his own accord over Covid loan allegations. 'Parliament is a microcosm of society. Of course you're going to get this,' Jenkyns said. 'I also believe in restorative justice. If he's a great husband, I understand he is a father now, that was a thing he did when he was young and drunk, he's done his time, it's got to be a balance between punishment and restorative justice.' Related... Reform Tells Men To Use Female Toilets Despite Advocating For Single-Sex Spaces Ex-Reform MP Tried To Sound Alarm Over A Migrant Dinghy – But Got The Wrong End Of The Stick Entirely Nicola Sturgeon Does Not Hold Back As She Takes Down 'Odious' Nigel Farage's Character
Telegraph
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Congratulations, Liz Truss – you're no longer Britain's worst prime minister
The grown-ups are back in the room. That was the breezy consensus among liberal observers, this time last year, as they looked forward to Sir Keir Starmer ushering in a glorious new era of political stability, integrity and competence. 'No more psychodramas and scandals,' chirped the former MP Anna Soubry, who quit the Tories in 2019 over her loathing of Brexit. Jon Sopel, of the centrist dad podcast The News Agents, felt it apt that 'as Starmer drives to Downing Street the sun comes out'. Ian Dunt, of the anti-Tory podcast Oh God, What Now?, was pleased to report: 'Power suits Starmer, as expected. Looks comfortable, relaxed, in charge.' Meanwhile, Krishnan Guru-Murthy of Channel 4 News warned his fellow journalists that from now on, they would have to focus on policy rather than in-fighting and chaos – because 'we now have a Government with a massive majority, widespread agreement and no likelihood of massive instability any time soon'. Perhaps the giddiest response to last July's election, however, came in the Metro, which dubbed Sir Keir 'the new Downing Street Daddy' – because, apparently, everyone on TikTok was excitedly discussing whether he was 'our hottest prime minister in history'. Arguments in support of this thesis included, 'He's objectively handsome', 'He cares', and, believe it or not, 'His personality'. Ah, what heady days those were. And how tragically, gibberingly delusional they seem today. Let's look at the state of play, one year into the Starmer disasterclass. This week, to avert a humiliating rebellion over his Welfare Bill by Labour MPs who were talking openly about removing him as their leader, Sir Keir has had to perform a U-turn so farcical that, instead of cutting spending on benefits, he's going to end up increasing it by £300 million. Yes, despite having a vast working majority of 165, he was incapable of winning a crucial vote on a flagship Bill without junking practically everything except its title. The man now has about as much authority over the Commons as the dust bunnies beneath the Speaker's chair. Meanwhile, we learn that, in the first half of this year, 20,000 migrants arrived in Britain via small boats – beating all previous records. Quite an achievement for a man elected on a promise to 'smash the gangs', and who, only last month, was boasting to the prime minister of Italy about 'the UK's world-leading work on people-smuggling sanctions'. Did he seriously mean that? Frankly, it's hard to be sure what he means about anything. Certainly not grooming gangs (one minute, dismissing calls for a national inquiry as a 'far-Right bandwagon' – the next, sheepishly clambering aboard it himself). Or the winter fuel allowance (one minute, totally unsustainable; the next, comfortably affordable). Or, perhaps most pathetically, mass immigration. Mere weeks ago, he sternly warned us that it risks turning Britain into 'an island of strangers'. Now he confesses that he 'deeply regrets' saying so. Remarkable. He's even U-turned on the one thing he actually managed to get right. Meanwhile, no one can still believe his pledge to be responsible with the public finances, after his mind-boggling decision to pay Mauritius £30 billion of our money to take the key strategic asset of the Chagos Islands off our hands. Soon enough, though, Sir Keir will be even less trusted than he is now. Because, having failed to cut welfare spending, he will inevitably have to break his solemn vow not to raise taxes for the dwindling number of people in this country who pay more into the system than they pay out. Which will mean any faint hopes he may harbour of reviving his fortunes will die with the next Budget. Still, let's be fair. Despite all the doom and gloom, there is one person who is unmistakably benefiting from Sir Keir's actions in office. Congratulations, Liz Truss – you're no longer Britain's worst prime minister. Yes, her spell in No 10 was a screaming catastrophe. But at least it was all over nice and quickly. Sir Keir's waking nightmare, by contrast, has dragged on for a whole year. And, unless his MPs have the decency to put him out of both his and our misery, it could drag on for another four. It's almost enough to make me feel sorry for the man. Mind you, I suppose he can console himself with one small, comforting thought.
Telegraph
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Stewart Lee will not perform in US over fears Trump joke would lead to prison
Stewart Lee has claimed he will not perform in Donald Trump's America because he fears being locked up for his jokes. The comedian said he had recently been offered the chance to perform for a week in a Chicago comedy club, but turned it down. He told Krishnan Guru-Murthy's podcast, Ways to Change the World: 'I wouldn't work in the States at the moment. I'd worry about them going through my jokes and ending up spending two days locked up without my heart medication. I just would worry about it.' In his 2018 stand-up show, Stewart made several jokes criticising Trump. 'Because I've got a Trump bit [in the routine] I have to check at half time every night that he's not been assassinated or fallen into a barrel of porn actresses or something,' he told an audience in Southend. 'I don't know if you can make massive generalisations about Americans who voted for Trump. Because Americans voted for Trump for all sorts of different reasons. And it wasn't just racists who voted for Trump. C---- did as well.' He also said: 'Not all Americans that voted for Trump wanted to see America immediately descend into being an unaccountable single party state exploiting people's worst prejudices to maintain power indefinitely. Some Americans just wanted to be allowed to wear their Ku Klux Klan outfits to church.' Jokes on his latest routine are currently unknown, but Lee claimed the US is embracing fascism. 'I don't see a way out of where we're going. Let's call it what it is. People are pussyfooting around this idea. People are being deported, wrongly, from the United States to an El Savador jail without due process. What's that? 'Trump is doing deals for resources with dictators. It absolutely is that and we have to call it that, and we have to act in the way that we should have done more quickly in the Thirties,' he said. In a wide-ranging discussion about comedy, Lee said people may be surprised to learn that the audience at his shows is not entirely made up of Guardian-reading liberals. 'They're not exactly who you think they are,' he said. 'There's a lot of people that would fit the Guardian reader stereotype, but when I go to Southend or Carlisle or Derby there simply aren't that many people like that living there. 'People come out[to his shows] that like comedy. They don't have to agree with you. The assumption is everyone goes to laugh at things they agree with, and while I am happy to provide crumbs of comfort towards an ideologically disenfranchised liberal middle class who've been made to leave Europe and whatever, I also like the fact that people come who don't agree with you but like the skill of the humour.'
