On BBC Newsnight on Monday night, I predicted Rachel Reeves would be gone by Christmas. Following her disastrous Budget, which is a betrayal of everything she promised not to do, I expect she will be gone much sooner. Not because she’s a woman, but because she’s hopeless.

Yet more evidence, as if we needed it, that the Chancellor must be sacked. For months Reeves has lied to the public to justify record tax hikes to pay for more welfare. Her Budget wasn’t about stability. It was about politics: bribing Labour MPs to save her own skin. Shameful.

Wow this is extraordinary. An Aussie hero tackles one of the terrorists in the middle of the Bondi Beach attack and wrestles away his gun. He clearly saved many lives. There is always hope. The fightback begins. 🇦🇺 🙏

Labour’s addiction to debt continues. The government borrowed another £11 billion in November taking the budget deficit (financial year to date) to £132 billion — the highest borrowing since records began outside the pandemic. Borrowing continues to rise to finance record public

Starmer can cancel as many elections as he likes — he's still on a one-way ticket to the knacker's yard in 2026 mol.im/a/15400387

It’s his song. And no one has ever sung it better than him.

Andrew Neil: Starmer's irrecoverable authority is 'shot to hell' youtu.be/zGHKfVD0rIs?si… via YouTube

One of the all-time great morning TV correspondents, and as you can see from his sign-off, an incredibly classy guy too. Loved working with him for 5yrs. Congrats on an amazing run, Richard. 👏👏

“Maybe heading to the pub {this Christmas}”. - Keir Starmer 8 pubs a week are closing. And he has hammered the pub industry with huge tax rises.

BREAKING 🚨 I understand that Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has turned *down* Keir Starmer's offer of asylum Saying he prefers to live in a country with more basic freedoms The PM is said to be inconsolable and sobbing quietly in a corner Updates as it happens!

Keir Starmer expected to accept an offer to sit on President Trump-led board that will temporarily run Gaza and make decisions on its reconstruction. Well, he’s made such a wonderful job of rebuilding Britain it’s only natural they’d want him to rebuild Gaza.

‼️ BREAKING NEWS ‼️ 1. Tripped on small step. 2. In a London hotel restaurant. (🙄) 3. Fractured femur. 4. So badly I needed new hip. 5. Recovering in hospital. 6. Crutches for 6wks 7. No long-haul for 12 wks. 8. New Year off to a cracking start! 9. I blame Donald Trump.

This is the nub of it for the PM. He confirms here that he DID know of Mandelson's ongoing friendship with Epstein. Badenoch: Can the Prime Minister tell us, did the official security vetting he received mention Mandelson's ongoing relationship with the paedophile Jeffrey

If McSweeney has to resign because he advised Starmer to appoint Mandelson why does Starmer not have to resign for actually taking the decision to appoint Mandelson?

ANDREW NEIL: While the country is mesmerised by the soap operas surrounding Keir Starmer and Andrew Windsor, on prices, jobs, growth, living standards, housing and defence Labour is failing the nation mol.im/a/15578675

Whenever there’s criticism of Andrew daughters it’s always said in defence that Eugenie,35, is co- founder of the Anti-Slavery Collective which supports sex trafficking victims. Thanks to good work by Times columnist Janice Turner it’s not clear what “support” if any she’s done.

Stop blaming Queen Elizabeth for what Andrew has become. He was a grown man who shouldn’t have needed his Mother to tell him mixing with paedos was wrong and doing business with dodgy people would end badly. What happens to him is on HIM not his Mother express.co.uk/news/royal/217…

Starmer nods through another £18billion on benefits but not a penny on defence leading to the global embarrassment of Greece, France and now Spain having sent warships to defend Cyprus ( we have two bases there) and yet ours won’t turn up until next week. Labour will always

Good for you, Rowan