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Team GB athletes showed the true face of Great Britain at the Olympics in Paris
Like our athletes, working class communities need Government help and support to transform their fortunes
Olympic spirit
AS the sun set on a glorious Olympic Games for Team GB last night, our athletes showed the true face of Great Britain.
While thugs and morons rioted at home, Brit sportsmen and women took on the world showing bravery, skill, dedication and graft.
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They proved you get nothing without hard work and commitment.
Back home Sir Keir Starmer deserves credit for his handling of his first crisis, especially getting courts and prosecutors to crack down hard on the violence and stop its spread.
Now comes the PM’s real test, coming up with answers to the social problems behind the riots — mass immigration, unemployment, housing and a sense that some are being left behind.
Like our athletes, working class communities need Government help and support to transform their fortunes.
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United in grief
THE pain being endured by the families of three little girls killed in Southport is unimaginable.
That last image of Alice da Silva Aguiar, posing next to a cardboard cutout of Taylor Swift at the dance event where she died, will break the hearts of parents everywhere.
At her funeral yesterday, hundreds lined the streets for her.
The town of Southport is rightly desperate to show its dignity and respect after their mourning was hijacked.
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Alice’s mum and dad asked one simple question: “How will we get answers?”
At this stage, it’s impossible to know.
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One thing is for sure.
In their darkest hour the families should know the whole country stands with them in their grief.
Electric shock
THERE are an increasing number of warnings that the UK cannot possibly hit its target of banning the sale of combustion engine cars in just over a decade.
Rishi Sunak sensibly pushed back the original target by five years to a still-ambitious 2035.
But Labour has immediately reversed it back again.
Now a senior car industry boss says we will be lucky to get to half of all vehicles being electric by 2040.
There are nowhere near enough charging points and plug-in cars are still way too expensive.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan will also slap them with his daily £15 congestion charge next year, removing a further incentive for drivers.
So how does Energy Secretary Ed Miliband plan to do it — along with taking the whole National Grid to Net Zero, too.
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We are still waiting to hear.
Now amended, this article originally referred to a 'target of getting all petrol and diesel cars off the road in just over a decade'. Government policy is in fact to ban the sale of new combustion engine cars; second hand ones are unaffected.
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