Union flags line The Mall leading to Buckingham Palace
THE Tory government is facing widespread ridicule over its plans to fly more Union Jack flags in a bid to “unite” the nation and discourage Scottish independence.
New guidance published this week requires that the flag be flown outside all UK government buildings every day.
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said that the gesture would be a “proud reminder of our history and the ties that bind us,” spuriously claiming that “people rightly expect it to be flown above UK government buildings.”
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
Millions of ordinary English people of all backgrounds consider the cross their own — abandoning it, and its left-wing history that includes the peasants’ revolt, concedes vital ground to the right, argues SIMON BRIGNELL
