Rachel Reeves needs to think twice about any EU deal when America is on the table
ONCE again the mantra from Downing Street is that the hunt for economic growth trumps all.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will this week unveil new rail and road links and a possible third runway at Heathrow.
It will require a huge effort to take on the nimbys and blockers who have delayed previous major infrastructure projects by years and blown budgets by billions.
But these projects will take decades to finish.
In the meantime, other policies are crippling business, such as workplace reforms and national insurance rises.
Worryingly, Reeves now says she is “absolutely happy to look” at joining an EU trade deal that would force us to permanently take rules from Brussels.
So-called dynamic alignment would be a significant step towards unpicking Brexit altogether – just when we should be securing a trade deal with Donald Trump.
In 1990, US GDP per capita was 16 percent bigger than the eurozone.
By 2023, it was more than 30 percent.
If Labour wants growth why tie the UK to failing EU economies as the Americans get richer?
By all means look, Chancellor. But don’t touch.
Rights & wrong
IT was only a matter of time before a dangerous foreign criminal used trans ideology to escape being booted out of this country.
A Jamaican drug dealer – literally a one-man crimewave who has been jailed five times – was able to stay in Britain by claiming one of his children thought she may be transgender and he was the only person she felt able to confide in.
Rather than throw out this obvious nonsense, TWO judges agreed.
One ruled the child could only get Jamaican cultural advice from her thug father because her mum was white British and insisted he had a right to a family life under EU laws.
A second judge said there were no legal grounds to overturn it.
What about the moral case? What about protecting the public?
Seemingly, that never seems to occur to these ludicrous judges when it comes to interpreting laws which are now entirely unfit for purpose.
WHOdunnit?
IN the five years since Covid-19 erupted in Wuhan before killing millions around the world, China has repeatedly obstructed inquiries into how it began.
Now that the CIA believes a lab leak is the likely source, there are serious questions being asked of the World Health Organisation which has fallen for China’s lies time and again.
Beijing simply can’t be trusted.