Kemi have a go
BRITAIN is crying out for strong leadership.
After a week in which she dished out another brutal bashing to Labour’s floundering leadership, Kemi Badenoch’s latest eye-catching policy shows she understands the challenge.
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Kemi Badenoch aims to attract more part-time soldiers by offering tax exemptions for 30 days per year Credit: EPA
Tory leader Kemi’s strong leadership is taking the weak Labour government to task Credit: Getty
For years, military reservists have been penalised by the Treasury for doing the right thing.
The Tory leader says she will attract more part-time soldiers by instead making the first 30 days of service per financial year completely tax free.
Crucially, Kemi recognises that this spending commitment should be funded by bringing back the two-child benefits cap.
Who could argue against a nurse serving part-time as an Army reservist having more money in her pocket, instead of the cash going to workless large families?
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Just as she faced down wailing Labour ministers furious at her portrayal of them as class-war zealots, so Kemi must keep banging the drum for the strivers over the skivers.
There are no easy answers to Britain’s deep-rooted problems — none of which are likely to be fixed by Andy Burnham.
The more honest Kemi is about making tough choices, the greater her chances of persuading people to vote Tory again.
Spinless Tapp
THE dysfunction at the top of Labour would be laughable were it not so serious.
Treacherous ministers who queued up to knife Sir Keir Starmer are now fighting like rats in a sack for a job from PM-in-waiting Andy Burnham.
While their ludicrous squabbles play out, voters’ concerns are forgotten.
People want the boats stopped and illegal migration tackled.
Yet the Home Office is in a bizarre standoff between Shabana Mahmood and her immigration minister Mike Tapp.
The Home Secretary wants Tapp fired for making public the secret asylum plan in a bid to suck up to Burnham.
Starmer won’t act because Tapp has been loyal, while Mahmood told the PM to quit. Who, actually, is in charge?
Labour pledged to end the chaos.
If anything, Burnham’s bid for power has made it even worse.
Red Ed alert
THE mayhem is unlikely to end if Ed Miliband becomes Chancellor.
It’s rare that businesses and the unions sing from the same hymn sheet.
But heavy industry union chiefs at the GMB and the likes of Iceland supermarket boss Richard Walker are united against Miliband taking charge of the Treasury.
Miliband has already sacrificed thousands of jobs on the altar of Net Zero.
Burnham must know that handing his chum the keys to Number 11 would inflict similar damage on the nation’s finances.
