Getting rid of the Marxists in the Labour party won’t be easy… it will be like trying to rid a creaking old mansion of dry rot, writes SIMON WALTERS By Simon Walters for the Daily Mail Published: 02:21 GMT, 13 December 2019 | Updated: 02:21 GMT, 13 December 2019 Jeremy Corbyn is under pressure to … Read more
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell was a whiter shade of pale. Or at the very least grey. Ashen. I believe the la-di-da folk at posh paint firm Farrow and Ball term such a deathly pallor ‘Elephant Breath’. When the exit polls were announced shortly after 10pm, McDonnell was the one who’d drawn the short straw to … Read more
Has any leading politician in modern times been the subject of so much vitriol as Boris Johnson? He has been written off as a liar, lazy and unreliable. Political commentators and comedians have feasted on his alleged weaknesses. But if last night’s exit poll and early results can be trusted, Mr Johnson has pulled off … Read more
To make matters worse, the model Emily Ratajkowski was so outraged by this week’s settlement that she wrote ‘F*** Harvey’ on her arm and paraded it on the red carpet for the premiere of her husband’s new film So yes, it might be seasonal — but what a dispiriting pantomime the Harvey Weinstein affair has … Read more
When I see Christmas gift guides for men — all those tool sets and rucksacks and brogues and corkscrews — I start wondering whether I really qualify as a man. ‘The Ultimate Gift Guide For Him’ ran a headline in one newspaper last week. Beneath it was a list of 25 items that, once the … Read more
When I go out to vote later today in what is surely the most momentous election in a hundred years, I will still be puzzling over a baffling question. How it is possible, in a supposedly sane and civilised country, that millions of decent people are intending to cast their vote for a Marxist prime … Read more
Whatever else the experts have predicted for today, one thing is certain: It’s going to be cold, windy, damp and dark by mid-afternoon. For many disheartened by the prospect of trudging to the ballot box, the temptation will be to stay at home, keep warm and pour a nice cup of tea (or maybe something … Read more
There was no grandeur to Boris Johnson as he stepped on stage at Olympic Park last night. No strut, no swagger, no cocky air of triumphalism. There were certainly no deranged yowls of ‘all right, all right’ like Neil Kinnock at that notorious Sheffield rally in 1992 when he wrongly assumed the election was in … Read more
Like a weary long-distance runner gasping and staggering into the final straight, this third election campaign inside five years finally draws towards its conclusion. Officially it has lasted six weeks. To many of us, it feels like years. For the most part it has been an unedifying Punch and Judy show, leaving voters even more cross … Read more
For many Mail readers, the choice at this election may seem obvious. In the red corner stands Jeremy Corbyn, a friend to Britain’s enemies, who has harboured racists in his own party and whose hard-Left prospectus would lay waste to Britain’s economy — while promising only the paralysis and pain of a second Brexit referendum. … Read more
We are are told that if we love the NHS, if we really care about the health service and want to protect it, we must not vote Conservative. It’s a message we can’t escape on social media, particularly after Boris Johnson’s cack-handed and belated apology to the family of a four-year-old boy with suspected pneumonia … Read more
What is a woman? If you say it in a French accent it sounds a bit like the start of one of those silly perfume ads one sees too much of this time of year. Expect Nicole Kidman or Emilia Fox to waft past in a gold bikini, flanked by leopards, or similar. But it’s … Read more
Bam! Amid a cacophony of squealing tyres and groaning hydraulics, Boris Johnson burst into JCB’s Staffordshire plant yesterday. He’d commandeered one of the world-famous digger firm’s beasts bearing the slogan ‘Get Brexit Done’ and dramatically bulldozed through a polystyrene wall emblazoned with the word GRIDLOCK. Craaassshhh! As he gingerly stepped from the glass cab, the … Read more