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Robert Jenrick Accused Of ‘Playing Hero’ By Tackling Fare-Dodgers On The Tube

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Robert Jenrick has been accused of “playing hero” after he posted a video of himself tackling fare-dodgers on the Tube.

The shadow justice secretary is seen at one point being confronted by a man who claimed to be carrying a knife.

Jenrick said lawbreaking was now “out of control” in the capital, and accused London mayor Sadiq Khan of “driving a proud city into the ground”.

His minute-long video, posted on X, shows him following several Underground-users who had forced their way through the ticket barriers.

Jenrick is told to “fuck off” by one man after he tells him to go back and pay for his journey. The man then warns him that he has a knife.

The MP, who lost out to Kemi Badenoch in the race to be Tory leader last year, says one in 25 Tube-users do not pay for their journeys.

“It’s also just annoying watching so many people break the law and get away with it – at least most of the time,” Jenrick says.

He is then shown handing one of the alleged fare-dodgers over to security staff.

The Tory frontbencher says: “It’s the same with bike theft, phone theft, tool theft, shoplifting, drugs in town centres, weird Turkish barber shops. It’s all chipping away at society.

“The state needs to reassert itself and go after lawbreakers.”

But he was criticised by Maryam Eslamdoust, general secretary of the TSSA union, which represents Tube staff.

She said: “We’ve long said that fare evasion should be tackled through proper investment in staffing and enforcement and not by MPs playing hero on the commute.

“What we need is a fully funded British Transport Police, more London Underground revenue control teams, and a serious plan to tackle the causes of fare evasion.

“What we don’t need are performative interventions laced with bizarre and offensive commentary.”

Siwan Hayward, Transport for London’s (TfL) director of security, policing and enforcement, said: “The overwhelming majority of our customers pay the correct fare, however there is a minority who do attempt to travel without a valid ticket which is a criminal offence.

“Fare evasion is unacceptable. That is why we are strengthening our capability to deter and detect fare evaders, including expanding our team of professional investigators to target the most prolific fare evaders across the network.”

It also emerged that Jenrick had broken TfL rules by failing to get permission for filming on the Underground.

He said: “I’ll await my summons from TfL … unlike the fare dodgers.”

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Keir Starmer Warns Nigel Farage’s ‘Mad Experiment’ Would Ruin Economy Like Liz Truss

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Keir Starmer will warn that Nigel Farage’s “fantasy” economics would be just as damaging for the country as Liz Truss’s mini-Budget.

The prime minister is set to hit out at the Reform UK leader in a speech on Thursday, two days after Farage targeted traditional Labour voters.

He described the PM as “unpatriotic” and “out of touch”, while also promising to scrap two of Starmer’s most unpopular policies: the two-child benefit cap and the restrictions on winter fuel payments for pensioners.

Farage also pledged to make sure that no one earning less than £20,000 will have to pay any income tax, a policy that the Institute for Fiscal Studies said could cost up to £80 billion.

According to the latest YouGov poll, support for Reform UK is at 29%, eight points ahead of Labour and 10 in front of the Conservatives.

Delivering a speech at a manufacturing business in the North West, Starmer will say: “In opposition we said Liz Truss would crash the economy and leave you to pick the bill. We were right, and we were elected to fix that mess.

“Now in government, we are once again fighting the same fantasy – this time from Nigel Farage.

“Farage is making the exact same bet Liz Truss did – that you can spend tens of billions on tax cuts without a proper way of paying for it.

“And just like Truss, he is using your family finances, your mortgage, your bills as a gambling chip on his mad experiment. The result will be the same.

“Liz Truss bet the house and lost – £45 billion in unfunded tax cuts, with no means to pay for them.

“Markets reacted, the economy tanked and we’re all still paying the price for mortgages, rents and bills that spiralled out of control.”

Challenged by reporters on how he would pay for his policies, Farage said: “You can argue about numbers adding up. You can probably argue that at no point in the history of any form of government has anybody ever thought their numbers added up.”

He added: “We take a fresh approach to everything. I think what I’ve done today is to give you an idea of the direction of policy, of priorities, of what we think is important, what we think it is going to cost and how we think we’re going to pay for it.

“I don’t think anybody at this stage, with a general election some years away, could frankly do more than that. And I believe what I have presented today is credible.”

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King Charles Shades Trump Over Threat To Canada: ‘The True North Is Indeed Strong And Free’

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King Charles appeared to show solidarity with Canada amid President Donald Trump’s threats to annex the United States’ northern neighbour.

The monarch signalled support for Canadian sovereignty on Tuesday as he delivered a historic speech to the country’s Parliament that made repeated references to the ongoing tensions with the Trump administration.

Charles, who serves as head of state of the former British colony, said Canada is facing “unprecedented” challenges and that “many Canadians are feeling anxious and worried about the drastically changing world around them.”

In a thinly-veiled rejection of Trump’s stated aspiration to turn Canada into the 51st US state, Charles earned an extended round of applause when he told lawmakers that “the True North is indeed strong and free” — a reference to a line in Canada’s national anthem.

The speech came during a two-day visit to Canada by the King and Queen Camilla. The trip is widely seen as a show of support in the face of Trump’s sabre-rattling, which has included levying sweeping tariffs on Canadian goods.

Trump’s grandstanding helped propel Prime Minister Mark Carney’s centre-left Liberal Party to an unexpected federal election win last month.

The King on Tuesday was delivering a “Speech from the Throne,” an address that marks the start of a new session of the Canadian Parliament.

It’s rare for the British monarch to make the speech, which is written by the prime minister’s office, and Charles outlined the Carney government’s priorities in the address.

Charles’ mother, Queen Elizabeth II, did it twice before, in 1957 and 1977. The 76-year-old king’s commitment to Canada was underlined by the fact he made the trip while undergoing cancer treatment.

The speech itself was littered with remarks about US-Canadian relations and wider global unrest.

“We must face reality: Since the Second World War, our world has never been more dangerous and unstable. Canada is facing challenges that, in our lifetimes, are unprecedented,” Charles said in French.

Noting that Canada faces a “critical moment,” Charles said “self-determination” is one of the values “Canadians hold dear,” a clear allusion to the annexation threat.

And the King explicitly acknowledged Carney and Trump “defining a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the United States, rooted in mutual respect and founded on common interests to deliver transformational benefits for both sovereign nations.”

It was his closing remarks that are likely to be seen as the most significant.

“I wish to express to you and to the people of Canada my heartfelt gratitude, and that of my wife, for the warmth of the welcome which we have received,” Charles said. “As the anthem reminds us: The True North is indeed strong and free.”

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Peter Mandelson Confronted By Sky News Reporter Over His Links To Jeffrey Epstein

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Peter Mandelson has been confronted by a Sky News reporter over his links to Jeffrey Epstein.

The Labour peer, who is the UK’s ambassador to the United States, was quizzed by James Matthews after delivering a speech in Washington.

Epstein, the convicted sex offender and financier who died in 2019, allegedly had a “close relationship” with both Mandelson and Prince Andrew, according to an internal JPMorgan report from six years ago.

Asked by Matthews if he had stayed at Epstein’s apartment in Manhattan in June, 2009, Mandelson said: “I’m not answering any questions about him.”

The reporter then said: “He was in jail at the time for soliciting prostitution from a minor.”

Mandelson said: “My knowledge of him is something I regret. I wish I’d never met him in the first place.”

Matthews then asked again: “Why did you have an association with him, because he was in jail at the time?”

Walking off, the Labour peer replied: “Why did many people meet him? He was a prolific networker and I wish I’d never met him in the first place.”

In February, Mandelson told Financial Times political editor George Parker to “fuck off” when he asked him about his links to Epstein.

“I regret ever meeting him or being introduced to him by his partner Ghislaine Maxwell,” Mandelson said.

She is currently in prison for recruiting and trafficking underaged girls for the financier.

Mandelson also said: “I regret even more the hurt he caused to many young women.”

However, according to the FT report, “an icy chill” then descended during their conversation, and Mandelson added: “I’m not going to go into this. It’s an FT obsession and frankly you can all fuck off. OK?”

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Russia Tries To Downplay Trump’s Claim Putin Has Gone ‘Absolutely Crazy’

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Russia downplays Donald Trump’s latest criticism of Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine war, describing the response as a sign of “emotional overload”.

The US president accused his Russian counterpart of going “absolutely CRAZY,” blaming Putin for “needlessly killing a lot of people” following yet another massive assault on Ukraine over the weekend.

He added: “I’ve always said that he wants ALL of Ukraine, not just a piece of it, and maybe that’s proving to be right, but if he does, it will lead to the downfall of Russia!”

Trump has tried to force both Ukraine and Russia to negotiate an end to the war even though the conflict was triggered by Putin’s land grab in 2022.

The US president has often expressed sympathy towards Russia’s aggression and suggested Ukraine will have to concede land in the name of peace.

However, four months after Trump formally took office, Putin is yet to agree to even a 30-day ceasefire.

Many international peace efforts have faltered and temporary truces have been quickly broken by new Russian attacks.

Even so, after Trump’s sudden rant against Putin on his social media platform Truth Social, the Kremlin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov clearly tried to strike a more conciliatory tone in his response.

He said: “Of course, the start of the negotiation process, for which the American side made a lot of effort, is a very important achievement and we are truly grateful to the Americans and personally to President Trump for their help in organising and launching this negotiation process.

“It’s a very important achievement. Of course, at the same time this is a very important moment which is connected to an emotional overload of everyone involved and emotional reactions.

“We carefully monitor all the reactions. However, President Putin takes those decisions which are necessary for the security of our country.

“We all witnessed how the Kyiv regime threatened foreign leaders before they came to Moscow to commemorate Victory Day. Everyone heard these threats by the Kyiv regime.

“And many leaders who were here witnessed attempts by the Kyiv regime to strike Russian territory with drones, large cities, even the capital, on the eve of such an important day. These attempts continue. We are forced to take measures and President Putin does what is necessary to provide security for Russia.”

The response completely overlooked the US president’s renewed threat of imposing fresh sanctions on Russia.

Trump told reporters on Sunday night he was “absolutely” considering new

He continued: “I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin. I’ve known him a long time. Always gotten along with him.

“But he’s sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don’t like it at all.”

Meanwhile, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch appears to have been praised by the Russian Embassy in London, after she said on Sunday that Ukraine was fighting “a proxy war” against Russia on western Europe’s behalf.

Her remarks were then quoted approvingly by the Embassy, which said Badenoch had “finally called a spade a spade”.

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Kamala Harris Takes Subtle Swipe At Elon Musk In Rare Appearance

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Former US Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday took an apparent swipe at billionaire Elon Musk over his stance on empathy, while conceding that she is deeply concerned about the current state of the world, in one of the few public appearances she’s made since leaving office.

Speaking at the Australian Real Estate Conference, Harris alluded to recent remarks by Musk, who has now significantly scaled back his role in the Trump administration — a stark contrast to his constant presence by President Donald Trump’s side in the early days of his second term.

“There was someone that is very popular these days, at least in the press, who suggested that it is a sign of the weakness of Western civilisations to have empathy,” Harris said, according to The Guardian, without naming Musk.

“Imagine. No, it’s a sign of strength to have some level of curiosity and concern and care about the well-being of others,” she continued.

During an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience in March, Musk suggested that while caring for others is important, it’s a double-edged sword.

“The fundamental weakness of Western civilisation is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilisation, which is the empathy response.”

Musk has limited his role in the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, the cost-cutting initiative he repeatedly touted, amid polls showing that the public was souring on him and signs of trouble for his electric car company Tesla, seeming to stem in part from his involvement in the Trump administration. But what appears to have been a “turning point” for Musk was the defeat of the conservative candidate he backed in the race for a seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, according to The New York Times. Musk privately acknowledges his involvement was counterproductive, the Times added.

The tech billionaire, a major donor in Trump’s 2024 campaign, has also said he will scale back his political donations going forward.

“In terms of political spending, I’m gonna do a lot less in the future,” he told an economic forum in Qatar last week.

“I think I’ve done enough,” he added.

Harris, who is reportedly mulling a run for California governor following her defeat in the 2024 presidential race, also expressed profound concern about the current state of the world amid Trump’s pursuit of his America First agenda.

“I do worry that it is important that we remember history,” Harris told the audience, according to The Guardian, without referencing Trump. “It’s important that we remember the 1930s. It’s important that we remember that history has taught us that isolation does not equal insulation.”

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Trump Marks Memorial Day With All-Caps Rant At ‘Scum’ And ‘Monsters’

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US President Donald Trump marked Memorial Day by posting an all-caps rant on social media that attacked Democrats as “scum” and condemned federal judges as “monsters.”

Trump’s grievance-filled message on Truth Social on Monday, posted on a day of sombre reflection for most Americans, saw the president also smear immigrants as “criminals” and “mentally insane.”

The president reportedly deleted an earlier version of the post in favour of a simple “happy Memorial Day!” before publishing the attack again with the typographical errors corrected.

In the post, Trump wished a “happy Memorial Day to all,” including the “scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country through warped radical left minds, who allowed 21,000,000 million people to illegally enter our country, many of them being criminals and the mentally insane, through an open border that only an incompetent president would approve.”

He added that US judges were “on a mission to keep murderers, drug dealers, rapists, gang members, and released prisoners from all over the world, in our country so they can rob, murder, and rape again — all protected by these USA hating judges who suffer from an ideology that is sick, and very dangerous for our country.”

The president added that he hoped the Supreme Court “and other good and compassionate judges throughout the land” would save the country from “the decisions of the monsters who want our country to go to hell.”

Many of Trump’s policies have faced opposition from the lower courts, notably over his plans to crack down on immigration.

One federal judge has found that members of his administration may be liable for contempt after ignoring his order to turn around planes deporting people under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

In a spree of Memorial Day posts, Trump also praised his own tariffs policy, claimed that the “golden age” of America is coming, and let rip at Vladimir Putin of Russia.

Trump also said he wants to pull $3 billion in taxpayer cash from Harvard University in the ongoing fight with the Ivy League school.

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Labour’s First Renationalised Train Service Gets Off To A Hilarious Start

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The first train to be brought back into public ownership under Labour was (metaphorically) derailed today, turning the major moment into a bit of damp squib.

South Western Railway (SWR) officially came under public ownership at around 2am on Sunday morning as part of the government’s promise to create “better services”.

The first service of the day – normally be the 2.27am train from Guildford to Waterloo – was cancelled.

So that meant the pressure was on the 5.36am service from Woking to London Waterloo to mark the historic occasion.

But any jubilation from the occasion quickly evaporated when the journey had to rely on a rail replacement bus service between two stops, Surbiton and Clapham Junction.

It turns out that bank holiday engineering works had overrun meaning the train was no longer able to go down the intended track.

But Keir Starmer seemed to overlook the embarrassment this morning, claiming on social media that his new public ownership scheme was “just the start”.

“After decades of Tory failure, our Plan for Change will put passengers first, as promised. That will mean better services, with simpler ticketing, on more comfortable trains,” the prime minister wrote on X.

The Department for Transport also promoted the “historic” occasion, claiming it “kicks off a reset of the railways to improve performance and boost economic growth as part of the Plan for Change.”

Despite this government spin, many people were quick to complain – including Liberal Democrat MP Monica Harding.

“This is hardly the fresh start my constituents in Esher and Walton were promised,” she wrote on X. “Let’s hope SWR under government control gets better than this!”

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First day of SWR’s renationalisation and all trains from stations in Hersham, Hampton Court, Thames Ditton, Esher, Hinchley Wood, Claygate and Walton on Thames to London Waterloo are replaced by buses – a rail replacement service!

This is hardly the fresh start my constituents… pic.twitter.com/W43Z7XiAwO

— Monica Harding MP (@monicabeharding) May 25, 2025

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First day of SWR’s renationalisation and all trains from stations in Hersham, Hampton Court, Thames Ditton, Esher, Hinchley Wood, Claygate and Walton on Thames to London Waterloo are replaced by buses – a rail replacement service!

This is hardly the fresh start my constituents… pic.twitter.com/W43Z7XiAwO

— Monica Harding MP (@monicabeharding) May 25, 2025

Others, of course, wasted no time in finding the hilarity of the situation.

Obviously can’t get enough of this story and very symbolic as the first privatised rail service in 1994 was also a bus replacement service*. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article…*To quote a poet: “After wondering to myself whether or not it should actually be called a train replacement service….”

— Jim Waterson (@jim.londoncentric.media) 2025-05-23T09:53:52.431Z

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South Western Railway starts as it means to carry on in public ownership as very first service is a replacement bus, (We didn’t’ even need to make this up) pic.twitter.com/xuPYAslPJn

— The Rotherham Bugle (@Rotherhambugle) May 25, 2025

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South Western Railway starts as it means to carry on in public ownership as very first service is a replacement bus, (We didn’t’ even need to make this up) pic.twitter.com/xuPYAslPJn

— The Rotherham Bugle (@Rotherhambugle) May 25, 2025