Steve Reed has warned that Britain will not become richer by making London poorer, in a striking intervention from a Labour MP who until recently sat in government. His criticism matters because it sharpens the central question hanging over Andy Burnham’s devolution agenda: whether it will create new growth across the country, or simply redistribute pressure and cost.
Vicky Richter · 12 September 2026Labour’s sanctions on settlement-linked businesses are being sold as a defence of the two-state solution after Israel’s E1 plans in the West Bank. But with Israeli retaliation already under way, Britain now faces a harder question: what will these measures actually achieve, and what could they cost in trade, diplomacy, security cooperation and influence?
Vicky Richter · 9 September 2026St Paul's insists the concerts will be entirely seated, and a canon will open each one by reminding ticket-holders to stay in their places. Nelson refused to leave the quarterdeck at Trafalgar. He will now be expected to sit through four years of Fabric.
Vicky Richter · 8 September 2026The Ministry of Defence has reportedly halted major war-fighting training for 3 (UK) Division until 2027 to save £30 million, around 0.01 per cent of the annual welfare budget. Deterrence depends on an adversary believing that you can and will fight. Britain appears determined to learn Russia's lesson from a spreadsheet.
Vicky Richter · 7 September 2026Andy Burnham has vowed to keep Britain's wealth creators on home soil, ruled out taxing the rich into exile and signalled fresh North Sea drilling, as the Prime Minister seeks to calm business nerves ahead of October's Budget. We at the Great British PAC welcome his recognition that those who build, hire and invest deserve encouragement, not punishment.
Vicky Richter · 27 August 2026Britain likes to see itself as a land of liberty, but it has quietly become one of the most watched societies on earth. From more than 420,000 CCTV cameras in London to live facial recognition vans on high streets and biometric systems in supermarkets, surveillance has become a normal part of daily life. Politicians promise greater safety and control. Yet the results are often meagre, the legal safeguards remain weak, and the costs, to privacy, anonymity and public trust, are mounting. This piece asks whether Britain’s surveillance boom is solving crime, or simply changing the country into somewhere less free.
Vicky Richter · 24 August 2026New polling commissioned by the civil rights organisation Liberty has found that 51 per cent of Britons believe their right to free speech has been eroded in the two years since Labour took office, with only 10 per cent saying their rights have improved. From Home Office travel bans on political speakers to the mass arrests of protesters, the survey points to a deepening public anxiety about the state of free expression in Britain. Great British PAC examines the findings, the record behind them, and what the incoming Prime Minister must do to restore confidence in this most fundamental of freedoms.
Vicky Richter · 24 August 2026A landmark study backed by Kemi Badenoch finds that abandoning Labour's wind-led decarbonisation drive in favour of gas and nuclear power could save Britain £320bn by 2050, cutting the typical household's costs by £540 a year.
Vicky Richter · 21 August 2026The United Kingdom produces 60 percent of the food it eats, down from 65 percent in a single year. While Beijing marshals the full weight of the state to dominate global protein supply chains, British farmers from Cumbria to County Antrim are warning they cannot hold the line. The Great British PAC says food sovereignty is being surrendered, farm by farm, and it will be felt at every dinner table in the country.
Vicky Richter · 19 August 2026Andy Burnham became Prime Minister without a single vote cast for him in that role. Now polling shows a majority of voters believe he should seek his own mandate, insiders are urging him to go to the country, and the ghost of Gordon Brown's "election that never was" looms large. But with the Right still divided, calling an election would be an enormous gamble.
Vicky Richter · 19 August 2026Britain's immigration debate has collapsed into a shouting match between two falsehoods, the conspiracy theorists who blame a hidden Jewish hand, and an establishment that brands all concern as extremism. Yet the official record tells its own story. Census data from the ONS shows White Britons down from 87.5 per cent in 2001 to 74.4 per cent in 2021, London's White British population at 36.8 per cent, and net migration peaking at 906,000 in a single year. This analysis separates documented fact from antisemitic poison, examines the moral distinction between opposing people and questioning policy, and asks why the establishment polices conservative vocabulary while record antisemitic incidents from other constituencies receive a fraction of the scrutiny.
Vicky Richter · 17 August 2026A £400 million flagship jail near York is running with almost 350 cells empty because it cannot recruit enough prison officers, at the very moment the government is preparing to free 470 convicted manslaughter offenders, including two of Pc Andrew Harper's killers, under its controversial early release scheme. As police chiefs, campaigners and former governors demand action, the empty beds at HMP Millsike have become the most damning symbol of a prison system that has space it cannot use and prisoners it chooses to release.
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