Theresa May could end up handing the keys to Jeremy Corbyn - EXPRESS COMMENT
THERESA May really needs to get a grip on her government and reiterate her post-Brexit vision for the nation. Stopping people interpreting policy for their own ends would seem a good place to start for the Prime Minister.
It makes reports she has postponed a keynote speech on Brexit because of infighting all the more bewildering.
Surely that is all the more reason to be making it.
It would have enabled her to refocus her administration on the job in hand and remind people what they voted for in the landmark referendum.
As Jacob Rees-Mogg has told this paper, it was Mrs May who pledged to take Britain out of the single market and customs union on March 29 next year.
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So how much more evidence does she need that free-wheeling Chancellor Philip Hammond is not helping the Government achieve its aims and is instead actively undermining them?
It is surely time for him to get the elbow before it becomes a case of “he goes or you do” for the PM.
The ultimate goal for the Tories must not only be Brexit but also keeping Jeremy Corbyn out of Downing Street.
It is time for the PM to start delivering on her promises and capitalising on the opportunities ahead, or she could end up handing the keys to the Labour leader.
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Car parks clampdown
WE all recognise that sinking feeling of returning to the car and seeing a parking ticket slapped on the windscreen.
Everyone knows it is a money-spinning racket so any move to crack down on car-parking cowboys is only to be welcomed.
However, we have been here before.
Long-suffering motorists thought they had seen the back of these rogue operators with the ban on clamping five years ago.
Instead, it handed to private parking firms the power to fine the owners of vehicles rather than prove who was driving, leading to a slew of requests for DVLA records and a bonanza in fines.
Of course unscrupulous operators should be banned from accessing motorists’ data, that much is obvious.
But it raises wider concerns around privacy and commercial outfits being able to get hold of someone’s private details without their say so.
No one wants a parking free-for-all but too often the system is geared against the individual.
With motorists already taxed to the hilt, a good start would be a cap on extortionate fines and an end to the scandalous “cough up now or pay more later” appeals process.
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Monstrous challenge
COMING face-to-face with a Mongolian Death Worm or the Cornish Owlman now has an upside.
Grab yourself some (genuine) footage, escape the mythical creatures’ terrifying clutches and £50,000 could be yours.
That is the bounty being offered to finally prove the existence of these elusive monsters.
So don your pith helmet and grab your butterfly net – fortune does indeed favour the brave.