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LABOUR faced mounting pressure to offer a progressive alternative to “Thatcherite” Ukip yesterday and back an EU membership referendum amid uproar at an unexpected £1.7 billion bill from Brussels.
City wideboy Ukip leader Nigel Farage gloated yesterday as PM David Cameron faced backbench pressure to reject the EU commission invoice drawn up after a reassessment of Britain’s economic performance over the past four years — taking this year’s bill for membership of the bloc to £10 billion.
Other member states will get bumper payouts, including £614 million for Germany and £788.7m for France.
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
In the run-up to the Communist Party congress in November ROB GRIFFITHS outlines a few ideas regarding its participation in the elections of May 2026
