Grant Shapps must not prioritise his loyalty to Rishi Sunak over MoD funding needs
Bravo, Ben
BEN Wallace was a superb Defence Secretary and is a very tough act for Grant Shapps to follow.
He is a sad loss to Ukraine too. His commitment to its fight against tyranny was rightly unwavering.
Wallace would have made a terrific Nato head had Presidents Biden and Macron not brainlessly blocked him.
We don’t doubt Mr Shapps’ commitment to our defence, or Ukraine’s.
But he must not prioritise his loyalty to Rishi Sunak over MoD funding needs.
We wish him luck — as we do new Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho, a rising star from the 2019 Tory intake.
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The PM desperately needs more new Cabinet talent like her.
An election is perhaps only a year away, and he has a huge poll deficit to make up.
Migrant sense
WHERE will a new influx of migrants from India live if we open the door to them to land a bumper new trade deal?
Rishi Sunak cannot ignore that in his zeal for this glittering post-Brexit prize.
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Our population’s staggering rise through migration is unsustainable.
Ask young people nearly bankrupted trying to rent or buy property.
Ask students booted out of their uni accommodation so asylum seekers can have it.
It is not “racist” to say this. Our creaking infrastructure is increasingly just overwhelmed by numbers.
What is the plan, PM? We need one.
Deadly docs
“FIRST, do no harm” . . . the fundamental principle doctors swear to uphold.
Yet 60 per cent of all deaths last year in England were patients on rising NHS waiting lists.
Lists made immeasurably worse by the mind-boggling intransigence of doctors’ union militants waging political war on the Government.
The BMA’s Corbynites condemned more people to die by announcing a junior doctors’ strike on the same day the consultants walk out.
They have been given a final rise averaging nearly nine per cent. A fair bung. Yet they demand an absurd 35 per cent — and will let sick people suffer until they get it. It is, quite simply, obscene.
These union agitators are doctors too. How do they live with themselves?
Cops clamp
THE crackdown on corrupt or useless cops cannot happen soon enough.
Trust in many forces, London’s Met above all, is at rock bottom — especially after the crimes of murderer Wayne Couzens and rapist David Carrick.
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Chief constables will have new powers to instantly sack officers found guilty of gross misconduct or ineptitude.
The fed-up public will cheer that — and wonder why it wasn’t always the case.