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The former Tory treasury minister hotly tipped to be Andy Burnham’s Chief Economic Adviser has turned down the role and called for a ‘sensible, realistic approach to welfare spending’.With the new PM hoping Lord Jim O’Neill would step in to help Labour tackle the UK’s larger than expected July deficit of £1.8billion announced yesterday, he confirmed that he would not be joining Mr Burnham’s inner circle.And while he denied he had had any policy disagreement with Mr Burnham, he said the UK must tackle welfare spending to bring down debt.Current estimates suggest the government is spending around £1billion a day…

Well, Michael Carrick did say it was ridiculous to suggest Manchester United had been given an easy start to the season away at Hull City.Even in his worst nightmares, however, Carrick couldn’t have foreseen this: an opening-day humiliation at the hands of a team that sneaked through the Championship play-offs in May and have been prepped for their return to the top-flight after a nine-year absence with a summer spend of just £70million on 12 players – the same as it costing United to sign Carlos Baleba from Brighton.What a day this was for Hull; their players and their fans.…

Prince Harry has contacted the Home Secretary and appealed for an answer on whether he is getting security for his family which could cost the taxpayer at least £5million a year.The Duke of Sussex, who in a shock move is coming back to the UK with his family within weeks, has reportedly ‘privately pleaded’ with Shabana Mahmood for a decision on whether his security will be provided and funded.A review of his security which he controversially insists must be funded by the taxpayer even though he is a non-working Royal, was apparently carried out on the orders of the Royal…

An ‘aggressive’ paramedic who told a stroke patient that ‘Jesus and Jehovah are not coming to help you’ while responding to a 999 call has been struck off.   Rachel Lemonofides also told the patient, who was later diagnosed with a brain bleed and abdominal aortic aneurysm, to stop acting ‘like a baby’ and forced her to crawl down the stairs.Lemonofides was dismissed by North West Ambulance Service in July 2024 after being accused of making dozens of allegedly ‘discriminatory’ or ‘racially motivated’ comments about or to the woman in January the same year.A tribunal has now ruled that the British Army…

This is the moment trespassing daredevils defied police to ‘tombstone’ into the sea from the top of a charity-owned holiday home.Police warned the youngsters in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, that they were risking their lives by ‘tombstoning’, where thrill-seekers jump vertically into water from a high cliff or ledge.However, groups of brazen youths continued to clamber onto the roof of the building, used to provide holidays for the families of disabled or poorly children, even after warnings from police officers at the scene. Footage of groups leaping into the sea has been widely shared on social media captioned: ‘Got to keep the Tenby…

The tone of the call that came out of the blue seemed entirely at odds with its subject matter. Brian Jameson was being contacted about his own creation – Balamory, the wildly successful TV show for pre-schoolchildren.But the coded language of the ‘messenger’ who reached out to him seemed closer to a spy thriller. The caller even said the conversation may have been easier if the two had met on a park bench.Mr Jameson says he ‘froze’ at the news that the era-defining children’s programme of its day was being revamped for a 2026 return – more than 20 years…

The families of two murder victims have erupted in fury after the office of a progressive Minneapolis prosecutor struck a deal allowing the man who admitted killing both of their loved ones to serve his sentences at the same time.Marquez Hill-Turnipseed, 24, confessed to pulling the trigger in two separate killings committed three years apart – the 2022 drive-by shooting of Eloe Lomax and the 2025 killing of innocent bystander Stageina Whiting.But instead of serving consecutive sentences for taking two lives, Hill-Turnipseed was handed concurrent sentences totalling 40 years under a plea agreement negotiated by Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty’s…

An Alaska senator desperately trying to hold onto his congressional seat has been living large outside of the Last Frontier as he barrels toward a very tight general election. In June, the Daily Mail exclusively exposed Senator Dan Sullivan’s lavish and flashy campaign spending, including a trip to a luxury California resort where The Bachelorette filmed and spending thousands of dollars on DC restaurants. And it seems the Republican senator hasn’t lost his appetite due to primary stress, where he pulled miles ahead of the long-shot candidate that carried the same name, as his Federal Election Commission (FEC) receipts are stacking up. Since March 1,…

A backwards parking etiquette at a ritzy mountain range in the US is forcing groggy hikers to get up at the crack of dawn so they can be the first to secure coveted spots.The Lupine Meadows Trailhead, located in northwestern Wyoming, sees eager visitors spill their cars out onto grassy shoulders by 7.30am – blocking one-lane roads for up to a mile in either direction.But the issue is widespread throughout Grand Teton National Park and the towns of Jackson, Wilson and Teton Village in Teton County, which has a per-capita income of about $533,000 that makes it the wealthiest county,…

The US national debt reached a historic, unprecedented $40trillion on Tuesday, a sum so enormous even folks who know about such matters struggle to grasp its scale or import.So let me put it this way: it’s 124 per cent (using IMF stats) of America’s gargantuan GDP, which is by far the world’s biggest.It follows that even if the US used every cent of this year’s GDP to pay off its accumulated borrowings, it would still remain many trillions in the red. Put another way, it’s ten times the UK’s annual GDP, which is quite the staggering statistic, since we’re still…