‘Mirror ballot places Keir Starmer heading in the right direction for greater landslide than Tony Blair’

Our exclusive poll today puts Keir Starmer on course for a landslide that could dwarf Tony Blair’s triumph in 1997.

The survey also found the public are sick and tired of Rishi Sunak clinging on to power, and want a general election now. The more desperate the plight of the Tories becomes, the more they will resort to smears, falsehoods and gutter politics. This was on display yesterday when Jeremy Hunt published a series of figures on Labour’s spending plans.

They were based on fantasy assumptions and the Chancellor is insulting the public’s intelligence with such nonsense. He’s also taking them for fools, telling scare stories about Labour raising taxes when his own Government has imposed the highest tax burden since the Second World War.

Before taking unfounded pot shots at the Opposition, Mr Hunt needs to explain how he plans to pay the £46billion cost of scrapping National Insurance, as he plans. It is the Tories, not Labour, who are playing fast and loose with the country’s finances.

Care failures

In his first speech as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson pledged to fix the crisis in social care “once and for all”. He was not the first Conservative Prime Minister to make this promise. The Tories first vowed to reform the system in 2017, so fewer elderly people would have to sell their homes to pay for care.

Since then more than 200,000 have died while waiting for support, another broken promise from the Conservatives. Because of this government’s dithering and incompetence, hundreds of thousands of people are being denied the right to spend their final years in dignity and comfort.

Ty hard, son

For once, the boxing hype is justified. Fights don’t come any bigger than Tyson Fury’s showdown with Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday. But this is one battle British fans hope Ukraine does not win. Good luck, Tyson.