Public ownership of rail, water, energy, buses, Royal Mail, broadband and the NHS would save the UK nearly £13billion every year, a study has found. And the money saved could be ploughed into improving public services, creating jobs, boosting local economies and delivering green policies, according the anti-privatisation group We …
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This is beginning to look like an election the Conservatives should not lose. The party has gradually squeezed the life out of Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party. As many as two-thirds of those who voted Leave are now backing Boris Johnson and his Brexit deal. That has given the party a …
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Jeremy Corbyn would increase spending more than three times faster than Gordon Brown did, with Labour’s pledges amounting to an additional splurge of £1.2 trillion over five years, according to the Chancellor. The Conservatives will on Sunday publish a dossier setting out calculations that Sajid Javid said showed the “true cost of …
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SIR – Sherelle Jacobs (Comment, November 7) is quite right to say that Boris Johnson and the Conservatives need to gain a better understanding of working-class voters. Many are, or were, tribal Labour supporters, but that does not mean that they espouse the far-Left policies of today’s party. I spent the …
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Postal workers are plotting to disrupt the election by going on strike in the weeks before the vote, the Telegraph has learned. The Royal Mail has written to trade union bosses pleading with them not to “threaten the integrity of our democracy” by refusing to deliver millions of postal votes, …
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SIR – There has never been a greater opportunity to achieve a stonking Conservative majority. The Prime Minister has strained every sinew to get Brexit done and is rightly popular because of it. Add to that the people’s desire to rid those green benches of MPs who have done everything …
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With Brexit likely hard and painful now looming large on the horizon, and what appears to be a mess of galactic proportions taking place in Westminster, now seems the most opportune time for the 18,000 EU citizens living in Cornwall to apply for the EU Settled Status. Considering the mess …
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