Tories have taken an almighty ballot box battering – but ALL is not lost
A last chance
We applaud Foreign Secretary David Cameron for bluntly disagreeing.Moscow is destroying Ukraine’s key infrastructure.

RISHI Sunak’s Tories have taken an almighty ballot box battering . . . but clearly not ALL is lost.The victory for their Mayor in the Tees Valley, another likely in the West Midlands — and the council in Harlow, Essex, staying blue despite everything Labour threw at it — are crumbs of comfort for No10. These are juvenile fake “liberals” who romanticise racist, misogynist, rapist murderers as noble freedom fighters.Here’s a tip from us: The Tories may not be flavour of the month.
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Make no mistake, Labour are still overwhelming favourites to win power this year and — thanks mainly to the Reform Party splitting the right-wing vote — with a comfortable majority too.Meanwhile genuinely conservative policies remain surprisingly popular.The US edict to avoid oil refineries, a self-serving attempt to keep prices down as Joe Biden faces re-election, was disgraceful. UKRAINE has every right to destroy whatever it can reach deep inside Russia using UK-made long-range weapons.
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Even the sick leftists who used to back the IRA weren’t quite this deranged.ISRAELI teen Noga Weiss was held hostage in Gaza by a Hamas cut-throat who told her: “You will stay here and have my children.”
Gloves off
But Keir Starmer inspires no enthusiasm among much of the electorate.But each harrowing account from Jewish women abused by the terrorists makes it more depressing that trendy students in the West style themselves as Team Hamas.Despite the council losses and by-election defeat, there are enough glimmers of hope to quell hysteria about leadership challenges and early elections.Payback is long overdue.He’s Prof Shintaro Sato from Japan.And, if we may add a note of caution, not an England football fan.
Hamas horror
But Mr Sunak will not now be hurried into that election. The story the BBC and other Labour activists wanted, of the Tories tearing themselves to shreds, is dead. He can give himself six months to try to revive his fortunes.So is the apparently strong showing in parts of London.Let’s see some more of them, PM.This warped psychopath had earlier helped butcher terrified Noga’s father.
Cheery lot
Biden cannot expect Kyiv to fight with one arm tied behind its back.
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