The worst fall in living standards since the 1950s is turning the cost of living crisis into an absolute calamity for most people and businesses in Britain.
With Boris Johnson and the Conservative Government raising taxes and prices while squeezing wages and social security payments, opposition will grow to the Tories.
Stagflation – high inflation in a recession – is a serious threat that is deepened by reckless Johnson endangering a trade war with the European Union by getting Brexit undone by tearing up rules over Northern Ireland.
Ahead of the TUC’s mass march in London on Saturday to demand better, the Daily Mirror will this week report from communities where people deserve better.
Workers and families should not pay a heavy price for Conservative incompetence.
Flight of fancy
Branded “appalling” by the Prince of Wales, deportations to Rwanda are designed to incite political fury – not solve the problem of Channel crossings.
Today’s flight, if it goes ahead, will carry only a handful of passengers, further evidence the £120million deal with the African country will barely dent numbers.
The Home Office is expecting only a few hundred to be sent there this year.
Yet almost 30,000 refugees and migrants may risk the dangerous Channel crossing.
Stopping sailings and giving a legal route to the seven-in-10 found to have legitimate claims to stay in Britain is the answer, not shameful dumping in Rwanda.
Andy capped
When the next two heirs to the throne believe there’s no way back into public life for shamed Prince Andrew, the Duke of York looks set to stay in the shadows.
With brother Charles and nephew William united in opposition to a man who paid £12million to keep a sex case out of court, the pariah prince should accept his banishment in the interests of the Royal Family.
