”I don’t think that the elation or the appreciation for the moment diminishes,” Zito said. “I think perhaps the way it manifests itself, it’s just channeled differently. ... That level of respect and appreciation for where you are, in tandem with the hunger, you want to do it again. You want to do it again. What can we start doing now? Don’t stop. Don’t get content. And those guys, they woke up with 100 texts each from everyone telling them how great they are. Everyone did. And it’s not over.”
whose Reform UK party holds just five of the 650 seats in the House of Commons. Starmer’s Labour Party, elected last year in a landslide, has 403 seats, and the center-right Conservatives 121.In a shift from Labour’s longstanding policy of ignoring Farage as much as possible, Starmer said the Conservative Party “is faltering” and voters might face a choice between Labour and Reform. The next national election is due by 2029.
Starmer branded Farage’s economic plans “2.0,” evoking the Conservative former prime minister who rocked financial markets and sent borrowing costs soaring by announcing billions in tax cuts without saying how they would be funded.after six weeks in office in 2022.
“It’s Liz Truss all over again,” Starmer said. “The same bet in the same casino. …. Using your family finances, your mortgages, the bills, as the gambling chip on his mad experiment.”Reform got about 14% of the vote in
, but it has surged to the top of many opinion polls. Reform made
in local elections this month, winning several mayoralties and control of 10 local councils.“It seems to be targeted arrests that they could have done at other locations,” Saidi said, “but chose to do it at the court in order to — it appears — make people afraid to come to court.”
Speakers implored immigrants to keep their court dates, because missing a hearing would make them subject to a removal order and deportation. They said lawyers are available, as are volunteers, to accompany them to court.CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte rejected on Thursday the latest request for a sentence reduction hearing from
, who is serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student in 1990.Smart, 57, was a 22-year-old high school media coordinator when she began an affair with a 15-year-old boy who later fatally shot her husband, Gregory Smart, in Derry. The shooter was freed in 2015 after serving a 25-year sentence. Though Smart denied knowledge of the plot, she was convicted of being an accomplice to first-degree murder and other crimes and sentenced to life without parole.