Keir Starmer might be gone but Labour is still counting the cost of his legacy. Party membership figures published this week showed that the number of card-carrying activists plunged 20 per cent during the ex-PM’s first year in office, falling from 333,235 at the end of 2024 to
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- All across the UK, there are communities in the exact same position – they feel forgotten by society and belittled by the country their ancestors built. Being blunt, let’s call it what it is; the white working class has been let down – and Thetford is the perfect case study. ✍️
- During this scandal, it is not just Infantino’s venality that has been laid bare. Rather, it is Fifa’s. Because Fifa isn’t the bureaucratic, rules-obsessed international body that we might think it is. In reality, it’s closer to the court intrigue of mediaeval popes. ✍️ Sam
- Why did people love to hate Rod Liddle? Michael Gove explains his theory. Watch The Edition here | youtu.be/HP9kMZb1IgA @michaelgove
- You can’t get oral Wegovy on the NHS, at least not yet, but demand in the private sector has been huge. Boots reported thousands of completed online consultations even in advance of the 6 July launch. Chemist4U said its waiting list ran into the tens of thousands. Private Britain

