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Hypocrite Nicola Sturgeon’s mask slipped when she said ‘I detest the Tories’ after saying she could be a ‘friend’ to PM
Nasty Nic
EXPOSING the rabid hypocrisy at the heart of her politics, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon yesterday claimed she was capable of being a “friend” to Liz Truss who would act in the interests of the greater good.
The mask slipped with her answer to the very next question: “I detest the Tories and everything they stand for.”
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Could the spectre of this professional grievance-nurser teaming up with Labour to hand Keir Starmer the keys to No10 be enough to wake up squabbling Tories to the real threat they face?
As for Sir Keir, he is riding high in the polls on the back of Government blunders rather than any talent of his own.
Even yesterday, despite railing against the “kamikaze” mini Budget, Labour was forced to admit the bulk of Ms Truss’s tax cuts would actually be kept.
Cabinet Minister Nadhim Zahawi — who proved his crisis credentials with the vaccine rollout — is right to alert his Tory colleagues to the need for unity if they are to deliver their growth agenda and avoid electoral oblivion.
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If they don’t heed him now, they will only have themselves to blame for lumbering the country with the grim double act of Sturgeon and Starmer.
Heated debate
THE energy deal ministers are hoping to strike with Norwegian gas firm Equinor is a precarious balancing act.
True, cutting a 20-year deal when supplies are scarce and prices are high risks locking us into overpayment.
But it also makes us shudder even to contemplate the alternative risk of returning to the blackouts of the 1970s — with extra damage now our economy is so reliant on computers and the internet.
Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg must drive down the price and avoid a destabilising market backlash.
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Most crucially, any deal MUST be allied with a long-term strategy to make the UK more self-sufficient, through a mix of nuclear, renewables and fracking.
We can never again allow ourselves to be put in this weak bargaining position by the whims of a monster like Vladimir Putin.
Tube boob
WE would be astonished if the number of complaints to Tube bosses from customers outraged at being called “youngsters” or “ladies and gentlemen” was not of needle-in-haystack proportions.
But that hasn’t stopped Transport for London warning staff not to use the words, along with bizarrely banning the word “accident” in favour of “collision”.
By far the majority of the public DON’T want this pointless, infantilising claptrap forced down their throats.
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Just ask nannying council chiefs who The Sun helped to shame into reversing a ban on “Mum” and “Dad”.
Let’s hope TfL do the same.
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