Critics of Government blamed them for soaring inflation now give them no credit for it plummeting

The fall guys

CRITICS of the Government who blamed them for soaring inflation now give them no credit for it plummeting. That is ­incoherent and unfair.

The reality is inflation rocketed everywhere as a result of Covid, and then war in Ukraine hammering energy prices.

And Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt DID play their part in cutting it.

They kept a lid on spending and for many months refused to buckle over slashing taxes. We advised otherwise on that — but they prioritised inflation and at least stuck to their guns.

The result is the new 3.4 per cent figure, still on the high side, but on its way down to the Bank of England’s two per cent target, perhaps within weeks.

The Bank is notoriously slow to react. But it must waste no time in cutting interest rates and leaving more money in mortgage-holders’ pockets.

And the Chancellor must begin ­writing a post-summer mini-Budget containing more cuts to National Insurance or, better still, income tax.

He must hope it’s not his last chance.

Poppy payback

SOMETIMES the sound sense and generosity of the British people astounds even us.

When pro-Hamas hate marchers intimidated British Legion poppy sellers into staying away from stations we feared the charity’s coffers would take a hit.

Who wanted to stand there shaking a tin while Islamist thugs and hard-left halfwits accused them of glorifying imperialism and military aggression?

But many of those fantastic volunteers stood their ground. And, wonderfully, the appeal’s takings SOARED by £7million on the year before.

What a triumph for the Legion.

What a testament to the public.

The nation has not forgotten our veterans, nor our fallen heroes.

The silent majority watch extremists spread fear on our streets and see them for what they are: A small rabble of morons.

Leo the loser

ALONG with millions we shed no tears for Ireland’s departing premier Leo Varadkar.

The self-satisfied pipsqueak possessed a toxic combination of preening vanity and blinkered ignorance.

He sneered at Britain, detested Brexit and its voters and seemed at one point to have appointed himself to a one-man mission to thwart it.

This, he imagined, would play well with europhile Irish voters. And yet his abiding credo — wokery — proved ­ultimately too much even for them.

Given two referendums to back Varadkar’s drive to shape his country in his own image they overwhelmingly said No.

Unlike with Brexit, he now seems to have accepted such votes are binding . . . and says he no longer feels “the best person for that job”.

For once, we agree!

So long, Leo. Don’t hurry back.