OUR hearts go out to all those non-Tory voters apparently aghast that the Tories appear to have picked two actual Conservatives to lead them.
Hand-wringing pundits and staunch Labour or Lib Dem supporters have queued up to denounce the party’s alleged lurch into “far-right extremism” in the form of leadership wannabes Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick.
None ever vote Tory. It just discomforts them to think of Conservatives run by someone who believes in conservatism over, say, the Tony Blair fan worship the party has too often indulged.
They pretend the Tories cannot get elected away from the “sensible centre” where they like to see this party they don’t vote for.
They pretend most people share their concerns.
Except Margaret Thatcher was no soggy centrist, nor “far right”.
She won three elections easily via her reforming zeal, her courage to cut taxes and curb union power, her strength, competence and unswerving principles.
With respect to the five leaders the party has had since 2010, lost Tory voters don’t want more of the same.
They can be won back by Conservative values informing new Conservative policies.
By a strong leader with the energy to carry those forward in Government against a truculent civil service, lawfare campaigners and Left-wing social media.
A leader who, until then, can hold Keir Starmer’s feet firmly to the fire.
Jenrick and Badenoch must now convince Tories, not left-wing onlookers, they have what it takes.
BABIES are born male or female. It really is that simple.
To claim they are merely “assigned” a gender at birth is not progress. Just absurd, bewildering Orwellian new-speak of which the public is heartily sick.
No NHS trust should plead poverty then splurge on a guide to trendy LGBT terms, flags and banned “non-inclusive” words including, incredibly, “gay”.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting need look no further in his quest to refocus precious NHS funds on frontline care.
Hospitals indulging puerile wokery are crying out for their budgets to be slashed.
WE understand Rachel Reeves’ problem.
Her Treasury officials are warning that many of her tax-raising plans may produce little . . . or even cost money.
Hiking fuel duty, which The Sun’s Keep It Down campaign has kept frozen for 14 years, will be just as self-harming.
Pump prices appear to have bottomed out around 133.7p a litre. No one will welcome a Chancellor opportunistically raising that by 5p or more in the Budget.
Fuel duty is a tax on working people. It feeds inflation and crushes growth.
We hope officials point that out too.
