Significant tax cuts & crackdown on immigration needed for Rishi Sunak to have any chance of success at next election

Cut taxes now

RISHI Sunak’s warning of a hung parliament might seem fanciful.

After months of dire opinion polls for the Tories, and a predictable drubbing in the local elections, there will be many who doubt they can stop a Labour landslide.

But analysis of voting figures makes it clear Sir Keir Starmer is yet to convince significant chunks of the electorate.

Last week’s results were more a protest kick in the ballots for the Tories, and increased votes for minor parties.

This scenario could all too easily be repeated in the general election.

Which would mean a minority Labour government propped up by the SNP, the Lib Dems and the Greens — locked in constant horse-trading, and pushed into potentially ever more hardline positions on issues such as net zero and trans ideology.

The Tories hope this prospect will focus the minds of instinctive Conservatives who stayed at home last week, or voted Reform, and will win them back later this year.

Considering the hole he’s currently in, it’s no surprise that the Prime Minister is giving this strategy a try.

What is certain is that — if it’s to have any chance of success — it will need to go hand in hand with some significant tax cuts and real progress in cracking down on immigration, both legal and illegal.

Taboo buster

WHAT an inspirational force of nature we have lost with the sad passing of CoppaFeel founder Kris Hallenga.

Sun columnist Kris was the wildly creative and fearlessly fun twenty-something who persuaded an entire generation that breast cancer was not something that only affects older women and that they should check their breasts and pecs.

Her death at 38, 15 years after her first diagnosis, is a tragedy for those who loved her.

But she would never see it as such for herself, fulfilled by the knowledge she had done for breast cancer what Bowel Babe Dame Deborah James later did for bowel cancer.

Her championing of #Check’Em Tuesdays increased self-examinations by 2,000 per cent and saved countless lives — a remarkable legacy for an heroic campaigner.

Hamas Green?

IS the Green party about being eco-friendly or Hamas-friendly?

It needs to decide, and if there is evidence of anti-Jewish hatred from its new councillors it must act decisively.

Launching an investigation into the Green councillor who campaigned on the single issue of Gaza and who welcomed his election by crying “Allahu Akbar” is a good start.

But the Greens must not stop there.

Lord Mann, the Government’s anti-semitism adviser, is right to say they must take “a robust approach”.

There is no room for racism in our politics.