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New Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has been gifted a big opportunity with Labour’s dire start
A new era
THERE are plenty of reasons to celebrate Kemi Badenoch becoming Tory leader.
Fierce intelligence. Courage. Firm principles rarely seen since Maggie Thatcher. A preference for levelling with voters over spin.
Not to mention her own calm bemusement at the reaction to her becoming the first black leader of a major UK party.
“It shows my country and party are places where it doesn’t matter who you are, what you look like . . . it’s about what the offer is,” she says.
“The best thing will be when the colour of your skin is no more remarkable than the colour of your eyes.” Well said.
Meanwhile Labour (exclusively led by middle-aged white men) has gifted her a big opportunity with its dire start.
And it is still plagued by extremist MPs such as Dawn Butler, who shared a Twitter troll’s rant that Kemi represents “white supremacy in blackface” and, incredibly, is a “victory for racism”.
Why does Keir Starmer still tolerate these hate-spewing halfwits?
A new error
IMAGINE if your car was twice as costly to run as the dealer advertised and, when challenged, they just said: We were wrong.
Before the election Rachel Reeves said Labour’s plans were fully funded and costed.
She said there could be no nasty surprises left by the Tories, since Government books are now open to all. She said no big tax rises would be needed.
Now, to justify exactly such increases, she claims £22billion of liabilities WERE hidden. Except that’s not what the OBR, on whose analysis she relies, says.
And a huge chunk of that “black hole” is to fund Labour’s own ideological choices, not inevitabilities.
Ms Reeves deserves credit for sparing working people a fuel duty rise.
But manifestos should be a genuine prospectus for Government. Voters are unlikely to forget Labour winning power then glibly confessing they were “wrong”.
We are now promised there will be no need for more tax rises. We trust the Chancellor will not want to get it wrong a second time.
Dislodge him
WHY is disgraced Prince Andrew being allowed to remain in the Royal Lodge as it crumbles into disrepair?
His long lease has strict conditions about regular renovations, rebuilding and painting inside and out.
From our pictures it is impossible to imagine he is not in breach of it. And it is hard to fathom how he could afford the upkeep, in enforced retirement, if the King has cut off his allowance.
Only the man’s monstrous vanity prevents him from taking up the offer of Harry and Meghan’s refurbished and secure former gaff Frogmore Cottage.
For the sake of the historic Lodge, it’s time the Crown Estate evicted him.
Shock pictures show Prince Andrew’s Royal Lodge in disrepair with cracks & black mould amid King axing £1m allowance
THE Duke of York looks to have let his Windsor mansion go to ruin as his money problems pile up.
The 31-bed Royal Lodge appears in disrepair with cracks and black mould over the exterior walls.
Shocking pictures of the property emerged days after it was revealed King Charles has cut off his brother’s £1million-a-year allowance.
Prince Andrew, 64, spent an estimated £7million on repairs when he took on the Royal Lodge lease in 2003 following the death of the Queen Mother.
But now crumbling paintwork can be seen on outbuildings and the gatehouse.
The outside walls are also mouldy and falling away amid Andrew’s continuing financial woes.
It comes as King Charles prepares to make millions from a controversial mining operation, putting him at odds with environmental charities.
We previously revealed how 19th-century Grade-II listed Royal Lodge needs extensive repairs, costing £400,000 a year.
However, Charles, 75, has allegedly instructed the Keeper of the Privy Purse to completely remove financial ties with his scandal-hit brother.
A source told royal writer Robert Hardman: “The Duke is no longer a financial burden on the King.”
Andrew was stripped of his roles by Queen Elizabeth II after forking out millions of pounds to settle Virginia Giuffre’s sex claims case.
He denies any wrongdoing.
Hardman claims the late Queen would have reluctantly booted Andrew out of Royal Lodge and into the smaller Frogmore Cottage nearby if she were still alive.
As part of his Royal Lodge lease, Andrew must maintain the upkeep of the mansion – valued on the open market at £30million — which he shares with ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.
It boasts 40 hectares of woods and manicured lawns.
Sentry posts guard the grounds which include eight cottages and accommodation for police and security.
Andrew has so far resisted eviction efforts, citing his lease agreement, and rejected downsizing at Frogmore Cottage.
The Sun previously revealed a National Audit Office report confirmed Andrew paid £1million for a 75-year lease.
However, if he left in the first 25 years — before 2028 — he would receive compensation for his original payment on repairs, with that amount shrinking each year.
The report states: “The maximum compensation of just under £7million is subject to annual reductions over the first 25 years of the term of the lease, so that at the end of that period, there is nil compensation payable.”
The grounds also cover the All Saints Chapel where Queen Camilla attends Sunday services.
Prince William and wife Kate do not want to move into Royal Lodge with their family and Camilla is also not keen.
Inside bloody battle for White House as America goes to polls and Trump & Kamala Harris blitz through swing states
DONALD TRUMP and Kamala Harris made frantic final pushes for votes in swing states yesterday – as the US election remained too close to call.
With less than 24 hours until America decides on its next President, polls indicate the race for the White House is on a knife edge.
Of the seven battleground states likely to decide the outcome, Trump is edging ahead in Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and Georgia, according to the latest from the FiveThirtyEight polling aggregator.
Meanwhile, Harris is hanging on to slim one-point leads in Michigan and Wisconsin, but the candidates are virtually tied in Pennsylvania.
There was an upset in Iowa, where a typically rock-solid Republican stronghold saw Harris pull ahead in a shock poll from the typically reliable Des Moines Register.
But the former US President yesterday blasted the poll as “wrong” during a fiery rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania.
“They told me I’m down in Iowa – I don’t think so”, Republican Trump declared, before riling up the crowd with his trademark lines on immigration, election fraud claims and the economy.
Rural areas
Appearing on our Never Mind The Ballots US election special in New York, James Johnson, co-founder of JL Partners, highlighted the unpredictability of the race.
He said: “Our model has gone from a 68-per-cent chance of a Trump win last week to 60 per cent. So we are getting into that too-close-to-call territory.
“One of the big reasons for that is the poll that came out in Iowa by a very respected pollster. Is there a hidden Harris voter out there?”
But Mr Johnson still called Trump the “favourite” due to his strength in rural areas among white men.
Trump packed in rallies across North Carolina and Georgia on Sunday, while Harris zeroed in on Michigan, a key state that is viewed as a must-win for the Democrats.
Cheeky gag
It was the first day since last Tuesday that the two candidates did not campaign in the same state.
On Saturday, their planes shared a stretch of tarmac in Charlotte, North Carolina, where both held rallies.
Rock star Jon Bon Jovi gave his endorsement for Harris as he performed two songs at the city’s PNC Music Pavilion.
The Vice President then flew to New York City for a surprise appearance on TV’s Saturday Night Live comedy show.
Harris joined actress Maya Rudolph, who was dressed identically to the presidential candidate, for a sketch at a dressing room mirror.
Giving each other a pep talk, the pair said in unison: “Keep Kamala and carry on-a-la”.
They also took aim at Trump’s recent rally speeches, including wearing an orange and yellow safety jacket and a cheeky mic gag.
But the SNL appearance was accused of violating “equal time” rules governing political programmes, by the Federal Communications Commission.
Brendan Carr, a commissioner at the FCC and Trump appointee, said: “The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct — a broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election, unless the broadcaster offered equal time to other qualifying campaigns.”
Meanwhile, Hollywood’s big guns continued to line up for Harris over the weekend.
Actor Harrison Ford, 82, said in a dramatic black-and-white video: “I’ve been voting for 64 years, never really wanted to talk about it, but when dozens of former members of the Trump administration sound alarms, saying, ‘For God sake — don’t do this again’, you have to pay attention.”
Ford joined A-list Harris fans Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Eminem, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Comeback or historic win?
AS my plane taxied in to land at New York’s JFK Airport last month, my hunch was that Kamala Harris was on the brink of a historic victory.
After all, her only obstacle to becoming the first woman in the White House is sexist felon Donald Trump, who was labelled a “fascist” by his own former chief of staff.
Ex-prosecutor Harris had earlier trounced Trump in their only head-to-head television debate.
Two weeks and 3,000 miles later on America’s Pacific Coast, I have come to believe Trump is set to pull off the biggest recovery since Lazarus.
Why? Because every voter I spoke to already knows exactly the type of man Trump is – and what he will do if elected.
Like cable workman Herbert McKingley, 42, from Scranton, Pennsylvania, who told me his biggest worry is the US’s chaotic southern border.
The son of immigrants himself, Herbert trusts Trump on the economy and to slam shut a crossing where a record 2.2million people were apprehended in 2022.
Herbert is far from alone. One survey saw a record 26 per cent of black men say they’d vote for Republican Trump.
Down in another swing state, Arizona, rancher John Ladd, 70, says he knows where the former president stands on the economy and the border.
Harris has made her pitch to the US voters more on upbeat “vibes”.
But after flip-flopping with her views on fracking and the border, voters aren’t sure who she is and what she would do if elected to the Oval Office.
In the privacy of the polling booth, I believe enough undecideds will vote Trump to get him over the line.
Inside Hollyoaks legend’s holiday from hell at luxury Mexican hotel with NAILS in baby pool and wild racoons
HOLLYOAKS legend Kieron Richardson has endured a holiday from hell at a luxury Mexican hotel this week.
Kieron, 38, shocked fans as he claimed to have discovered nails in the baby pool, as well as wild racoons in the corridors.
Taking to Instagram with videos of construction work, with one crew hammering away close to swimming guests, the soap star blasted the establishment but refused to reveal its name.
He wrote in his caption: “I’ve been to Mexico and not stopped banging on about it,” followed by laughing emojis.
The actor continued: “I won’t name the hotel but if you recognise it I feel you!!!! ….. ps there were nails yes nails as in hammer and nails in the baby pool!
“Also the raccoon was what you had to pass in the corridor to get to your room like a bush tucker trial! Follow for more recommendations.”
Kieron also shared a photo of a damp ceiling, along with an image of a pool covered by a tarpaulin net and a sectioned-off area where a wall was being repainted.
The screen star, best known for playing Ste Hay on the Channel 4 soap, is dad to twins Chase and Phoebe in 2017.
However, he’s careful to keep his family life private and it’s unconfirmed whether they, along with his husband Carl, were with him on the trip.
In an interview with The Sun in 2021, Kieron insisted wouldn’t do a reality show featuring his children.
He had previously starred in a documentary about surrogacy alongside Carl but said he believed a family reality show would be “too exposing”.
The British Soap Award winner explained: “I put pictures online but that is probably all we would do.
“We did the surrogacy thing to help people because when we started, not many people had done it before so there were loads of questions I wanted answered.
“I feel like we did that and that is covered now.”
Asked if he would do a family reality show, he said: “No, I don’t think I would be up for that because I do like to have my private life. It’s too exposing.”
