The Wrong Side of the Blunkett

Say what you like about Suella Braverman, but David Blunkett resigned as Home Secretary because he had fast-tracked a visa application for the nanny to his secret child by another man's wife.

Blunkett took the payoff, as Braverman has presumably also done, but he continued to attend Cabinet throughout the five months until he was officially brought back into it as a typically vicious Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. He lasted only another five months.

Braverman's terrifying agenda are straight out of the playbook of Blunkett and all the rest of New Labour's bestial Home Secretaries, which is why New New Labour is not opposing them, but only her. The Shadow Home Secretary is Yvette Cooper, one of Blunkett's successors at Work and Pensions, where her legacy continues to be measured in the ever-rising body count from her Work Capability Assessment.

Thankfully, Cooper's once commanding majority is now 1,276, having been 14,499 at the unmentionable General Election of 2017. Thank you, Keir Starmer, for having made it so easy to remove her, as must now be given the very highest priority.

In answer to the question of who would make the better Prime Minister, YouGov now has Neither on 36 per cent to Starmer's 34 and Rishi Sunak's 30, with Starmer's poll rating 17 per cent lower than his party's. Another poll today has Sunak on 39, to Starmer's 38. The Labour vote has undeniably collapsed every time that real votes have been cast during Starmer's Leadership. We are only days into Sunak's Premiership, with two years until the next General Election, which is going to result in a hung Parliament.

To strengthen families and communities by securing economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty, we need to hold the balance of power. Owing nothing to either main party, we must be open to the better offer. There does, however, need to be a better offer. Not a lesser evil, which in any case the Labour Party is not.