Nigel Farage has criticized new Prime Minister Andy Burnham's government for pursuing a "leftward shift" without a voter mandate and called for an immediate General Election.
Nigel Farage has criticized new Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s government for pursuing a “leftward shift” without a voter mandate and called for an immediate General Election. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Nigel Farage has called for an immediate General Election now Andy Burnham has become Britain ‘s new Prime Minister, arguing that the new premier lacks a public mandate to pursue major political and economic reforms. Speaking to supporters in Norfolk, England, the Reform UK leader said Burnham’s administration would move the country “further to the left,” predicting higher taxes, increased government borrowing, and policies that would cost households the equivalent of thousands of pounds. DETAIL: Farage noted that Labour’s…Open
What a failed Biden-era effort to save American glove makers teaches us about tariffs. The post How Not to Do Industrial Policy appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics How Not to Do Industrial Policy What a failed Biden-era effort to save American glove makers teaches us about tariffs. Credit: Amanda Wayne via Shutterstock Earlier this month, Bloomberg published a brutal autopsy of industrial policy gone wrong. The article documented how, beginning in 2020, the U.S. government provided $850 million to six American companies to bolster domestic manufacturing of nitrile gloves, a critical component of the medical supply chain. Six years later, not one of those companies is making gloves. The company that received the most funding, Blue Star NBR out of Wytheville, Virginia, was supposed to use that money to build the first American plant in a generation capable of making nitrile butadiene rubber…Open
By James Zumwalt There’s no doubt that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is closely watching how the U.S. wages war in Iran, wondering what it means for his own future.
By Andrea Widburg The White House says it’s fast-tracking the deportation of criminal naturalized citizens, but it needs to scale up the process for it to be meaningful.
Ann Widdecombe, former Conservative Member of Parliament and minister turned Reform UK spokeswoman, was struck 21 times in the head with a hammer, according to prosecutors.
Reform UK immigration and justice spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe was killed after being struck over 20 times in the head with a hammer attack in her home , according to the Crown Prosecution Service. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Ann Widdecombe, the late Reform UK immigration and justice spokeswoman and former Conservative Member of Parliament and government minister, was struck 21 times in the head with a hammer, according to prosecutors. DETAIL: On Tuesday, prosecutors alleged that Joshua Kerry , a 28-year-old man from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, entered Widdecombe’s home in Haytor, Devon, while she was eating lunch on July 9. Kerry allegedly entered through the front door wearing black gloves. Widdecombe was then struck in the head 21 times…Open