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Mail Online columnist Dan Hodges delivers a blistering verdict: while Peter Mandelson may have betrayed Britain, it was Sir Keir Starmer who recklessly ignored multiple security warnings, Epstein links, Russia and China ties to rush the appointment – putting national security at grave risk.
Nearly 600 illegal migrants crossed the Channel on Saturday, with over 250 launching from Belgian beaches in the biggest tactical shift by smugglers this year, taking the 2026 total past 6,000 as Labour’s border controls collapse.
GB News host Camilla Tominey destroyed Labour MP Tom Hayes in a fiery interview, forcing him to choose whether Starmer is “a crook who lied” or “an idiot who didn’t know” about Mandelson’s failed vetting. When Hayes tried to derail the interview by bringing up Richard Tice’s tax story, Tominey shut him down: “Let’s just reconstitute this before frankly, you really embarrass yourself.”
Lord Mandelson’s lobbying firm Global Counsel received £2.24 million from WuXi AppTec – a Chinese biotech giant flagged by the US as a “company of concern” with ties to the Chinese military and Xinjiang human rights abuses – making it his single largest client and the real reason UK security vetting failed.
Nigel Farage has announced that under a Reform UK government, army bases and barracks used to house illegal migrants would immediately become secure detention camps, with asylum seekers banned from freely roaming into local towns to protect the British public.
Reform UK Deputy Leader Richard Tice has hit back hard at The Sunday Times, accusing the paper of running a politically motivated smear campaign over old technical tax issues from his business career and working with a senior Labour activist.
Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of “skulking” around Scotland and deliberately avoiding Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar during a brief visit to the Faslane nuclear base — his first trip north of the border since Sarwar called for him to resign in February.
The UK handed over £1.3 billion to the European Union in 2025 — years after Brexit — according to official Treasury figures, as Frank Furedi warns the Withdrawal Agreement has left Britain locked into long-term liabilities with limited transparency.
Veteran Brexiteers are mobilising to block Sir Keir Starmer’s reset with the EU, warning new legislation using Henry VIII powers is a “backdoor attempt to drag Britain back under EU control”.
The number of Home Office staff failing to meet performance standards has more than doubled, with 820 now on improvement plans amid ongoing asylum scandals and small boat crossings.
The Green Party has revealed plans to spend 2.5 per cent of national income on overseas development assistance and climate finance by 2030 — more than Britain currently spends on defending itself — drawing fierce criticism from rivals who brand it a "complete fantasy".
Taxpayers could be required to fund a compensation package worth more than £100,000 for Sir Olly Robbins, the former Foreign Office permanent secretary sacked by Sir Keir Starmer over the Lord Mandelson security vetting scandal.