We congratulate all Sun Military Awards winners — you put the Great in Great Britain
IT is The Sun’s proudest moment each year to lead the nation’s salute to our troops.
What an honour to do so again last night at our 12th Millies spectacular.
And how welcome it was to hear Boris reaffirm his pledge to end the “vexatious” legal cases against our veterans.
We congratulate all the winners.
You put the Great in Britain.
Had our Phil
IT is madness for Downing Street to make failed Chancellor Philip Hammond a peer.
We can barely think of a faster way to finally destroy the Lords’ reputation — aside, of course, from sending the odious ex-Speaker Bercow there.
Brexit derangement turned Hammond from grey bean-counter into Remoaner fruitcake, spouting bogus internet conspiracy theories about Boris Johnson.
Before that he wrecked our negotiating position by holding back No Deal funding, then tried to drive us towards a meaningless, supersoft Brexit.
In the end the Tories had to fire him.
We can just about understand why Boris, hoping to reunite his party, would make Ken Clarke a Lord. He was a good Chancellor — and never hid or wavered from his europhile fanaticism, much as we disliked it. Hammond is remembered only for his disloyalty and sacking.
Why are so many career failures rewarded with a peerage?
As for Bercow’s, proposed by the moron Corbyn, it must be dead in the water.
If the bullying allegations and his blatant anti-Brexit bias as Speaker hadn’t sealed his fate then his nasty, vindictive, score-settling little book surely has.
It has even moved House of Commons chiefs to condemn him for criticising their staff by name — and to invite bullying victims to come forward.
We can only hope it marks the shameful end Bercow richly deserves.
A grand plan
THE new “First Homes” plan could be a game-changer for young people priced out of owning property.
We wouldn’t normally back a state scheme to carve off developers’ profits to subsidise homes. But the market has failed a generation, rapid action is needed and builders’ takings are vast.
most read in opinion
Soaring prices and Help To Buy sent their margins into orbit. The giants have squeezed out small rivals and release new builds slowly to keep prices up. Their bosses make mind-boggling salaries.
It’s payback time. Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick’s imaginative plan will cut prices for local first-time buyers by a third — a huge difference. But the Government must ensure hundreds of thousands of affordable homes get built this way. Previous over-hyped initiatives have produced derisory numbers.
Long-term we need a bonfire of planning restrictions, more developers able to compete and far more houses built.
- GOT a news story? RING us on 0207 782 4104 or WHATSAPP on 07423720250 or EMAIL [email protected]