Give us hope

IT’S not fashionable to say so but millions WILL enthusiastically welcome National Insurance being slashed in today’s Budget.

That and the previous 2p cut unveiled last year will give the average worker about £900 a year extra take-home pay. Not to be sneezed at.

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And while freezing fuel duty, thanks to The Sun’s Keep It Down campaign, won’t make anyone richer it WILL mean our pain at the pumps won’t get worse.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is making the right noises too about cutting waste, including vast sums blown on woke nonsense — and overpaying for agency workers in the NHS.

We hope too that he freezes booze duty and scraps, or at least kicks into the long grass, the “taxi tax” which would brainlessly slap VAT on cab fares.

This Budget is a last chance for the Tories, 27 points adrift in the polls. And Mr Hunt’s options are limited, with money tight and the economy flatlining.

Voters are desperate for better times, for more cash in their pockets AND a revival of our crumbling services.

Will either main party convincingly offer up that brighter future today?

We live in hope.

Left in lurch

SINCE the October 7 horror the United Nations has proven no friend of Israel.

Even before those atrocities it passed far more resolutions condemning that liberal democracy than the world’s most rancid dictatorships.

And its Gaza staff are so close to the Hamas terrorists that some actually ARE Hamas terrorists.

So it is eye-opening to hear the UN concede it now has “convincing information” that Jewish hostages in Gaza have been raped and sexually tortured and that on October 7 Hamas DID gang-rape ­victims, some already dead.

What now for the pro-Hamas Left?

To avoid siding with rapists they have always pretended these abhorrent crimes did not happen. We won’t hold our breath for any contrition.

Meanwhile the hate marchers of the “Palestine Solidarity Campaign”, beloved of some Labour MPs, invite a notorious plane hijacker and October 7 denier to speak at their next fund-raiser.

The sickness of the hard-Left: Apologists for racism, rape and terror.

Peers’ shame

HOW do peers still justify trying to thwart the Rwanda scheme?

Last Wednesday three small-boat migrants drowned. On Sunday it was a girl of seven. And on Monday 401 landed illegally to be fed, housed and clothed by the public.

Labour offers no serious solution. Nor do the Lords. These unelected fools would rather see this appalling, lethal scandal continue than back a deterrent.

They enjoy feeling “inclusive”, you see, and generous with the little people’s money.