Hard work should pay Unlock quality journalism that champions free enterprise One year for £29. |  | Charles Hymas Home Affairs Editor | It has become a feature of Monday morning in Westminster for Nigel Farage to drop a political grenade into the national discourse, most often on immigration. This week, his target was the “Boriswave” and the impact it will have on Britain’s growing benefits budget.
Our analysis explains how Boris Johnson’s liberal immigration policies have contributed to a growing number of foreign nationals claiming Universal Credit. The figure has risen by 40 per cent to 1.23 million in just three years.
Most of the migrants receiving the benefits are EU nationals granted settled status under the Brexit withdrawal agreement.
• EU nationals: 770,379 (up 19.7 per cent from 2022)
• Non-EU nationals: 492,502 (up 87.6 per cent from 2022)
From Mr Farage’s perspective, it is an astute way of reminding the public that the Tories lost control of immigration, with net migration hitting a peak of 906,000 by the middle of 2023 after Mr Johnson eased restrictions on foreign workers and backed steady increases in overseas students.
However, it also raises questions for the Reform leader as to how he will deliver his proposal that “welfare will be for UK citizens only, not foreign nationals”.
Zia Yusuf, Reform’s head of policy, clarified yesterday that the party was not scrapping European settled status, but given that the largest tranche of these claimants are EU citizens, and will therefore be exempt from the policy, a Eurosceptic Reform government will still need to secure an agreement on the policy from the EU.
Mr Farage says the target is not solely those already claiming, but more importantly, the 800,000 migrants from the “Boriswave” who are expected to be granted indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the next decade or so and thus the right to claim benefits.
Research based on Home Office data shows that 78 per cent of the 800,000 projected to get ILR are earning below, or significantly below, average UK earnings. This means many are likely to receive Universal Credit. While Mr Farage’s estimates of £234bn for the welfare bill were disputed on Monday, there is no doubt, say experts, that the actual figure will still be tens of billions of pounds, if not hundreds.
Continue reading ➤ |  | Emily Craig Senior Health Writer | Why can’t I lose weight? It’s a question many of us ask ourselves continually, with 64 per cent of adults in England either overweight or obese. One physicist, Dr Kevin Hall, may have the answer, having approached the problem from a different angle than biologists and chemists.
“He sees things very clearly,” says Julia Belluz, the health journalist with whom he wrote his forthcoming book Food Intelligence. “His training in physics meant he asked very foundational, fundamental questions.”
One of those is: does exercise really lead to weight loss? Dr Hall’s work tracking participants in the US TV show The Biggest Loser, where people competed to lose the greatest percentage of their body weight, suggests not. “There was no correlation between the folks who did the most exercise and [those who] lost the most weight,” he says.
Dr Hall has also investigated what may be contributing to our ballooning waistlines. While we can’t blame a slow metabolism (this idea is “a myth”, he says), another factor outside our control is important: the food environment. Simply put, it’s the food that is available to us, how it is advertised and how much we’re eating. Here, the pair cut through five common weight-loss myths and reveal what will really shift the scales.
Continue reading ➤ | | Charles Moore The US president’s remarks at Charlie Kirk’s memorial were un-Christian and are likely to foment violence Continue reading ➤ Suzanne Moore Zarah Sultana is right, Jeremy Corbyn does have a woman problem Continue reading ➤ Alan Tyers The ever-impartial BBC’s blatant partiality in sport is wearing thin Continue reading ➤ | Make your voice heard Join our journalists in conversation on today’s biggest topics One year for £29. | | Jessica Brady pictured with her mother Andrea | | GPs have been told they must stop dismissing patients following the death of a young woman who was turned away 20 times by the NHS. Jessica Brady died from cancer in 2020, after her concerns were repeatedly brushed off with online consultations and she was not sent for tests. In a case highlighted by The Telegraph, her parents Andrea and Simon Brady have since campaigned successfully for the introduction of new guidance, named Jess’s Rule. Here, we reveal how the new approach will work. Continue reading ➤ | |  | | If you’re running a pub in today’s financial environment, you’ve got to think outside the box. That is one reason why Nigel Smith, the landlord of the Fleece Inn at Bretforton in Worcestershire, decided to start hosting occasional Nigel Nights, where those saddled with the famously unfashionable name can bond over their shared lifelong affliction. We sent our own Nigel (Richardson) to investigate and see if either Farage or Mansell would show up. Continue reading ➤ | | | When the multi-billion-pound Thames Tideway “super sewer” began operating earlier this year, it was that rare beast: a major British infrastructure project completed without soaring costs or missed deadlines. Tideway’s outgoing CEO tells Ben East why he thinks this project worked while HS2 failed. Continue reading ➤ | | | In our Katie Morley Investigates column last week, readers were outraged by the appalling treatment of a grieving widow who was unfairly denied a £159k death-in-service payment after her husband died suddenly, aged 61. Katie fought against the two companies involved for weeks, resorting to persistent badgering and even shouting at people down the phone during her family holiday. This is what happened when she got to the truth at last. Continue reading ➤ | | | Hourly wages have flatlined over two decades | It used to be the case that workers’ wages grew over their careers, but the 2008 crash broke that link in Britain. Now 50-year-olds earn roughly as much as they did when they were 30. Sam Ashworth-Hayes shows how wage progression after the financial crisis has stagnated, and reveals just how much better off we could have been.
Continue reading ➤ | | South Pacific island idylls, underwater hotels, private jet flights and superyacht charters: all require an oligarch’s bank balance, right? Not necessarily. Cut a few corners, forgo a few luxuries, and your Instagram feed can still look like that of a Kardashian. From £29-a-night beach bungalows in Fiji to £168-a-night palace hotels in India, we explain how. Continue reading ➤ Below are two more helpful articles for you this morning: - Here are five lesser-known quirks of Britain’s most valuable inheritance tax loophole.
- Finally, the soufflé can be adapted in countless ways and is much less complicated to make than you might think. This is how to do it.
| | The start of a new academic year has brought with it higher private-school fees for many parents, and this cohort will be the first for whom VAT will be applied to the full year’s fees.
Three years ago, about 60 per cent of schools charged parents annual fees of less than £20,000. Now, just a quarter are below that threshold. This makes it all the more important to make sure your investment is worth it.
Our exclusive tool – now updated with this year’s GCSE and A-level results – assigns a “value for money” score for around 1,200 private schools across Britain, comparing fees to grades.
Of course, many parents seek a well-rounded extra-curricular experience when choosing a private school, not just exam results, so our tool also considers a school’s facilities. Is your local private school good value? Simply put in your postcode and find out. Continue reading ➤ | Too much on our plates Every weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal Reader Correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes...
Over the weekend, William Sitwell took aim at a growing trend. There was a time when personalised number plates were largely a punchline – the preserve of footballers, drug kingpins, and Alan Sugar – but demand has risen in recent years. This, William concluded, signalled modern Britain’s ignominious slide into vulgarity.
A poll of Telegraph readers indicated that a majority concurred with him. Since then, however, several dissenting voices have made themselves heard.
“May I make a practical case for these number plates?” asked Chris Youngman. “A few years ago I parked my wife’s car in Hove, en route to the cricket ground, and had to walk some way to find a ticket machine that would accept a debit card. I was asked to input the car’s registration details, and realised I had forgotten them. I therefore had to walk back to the car, then back to the machine, in order to stay on the right side of Brighton and Hove council’s draconian parking rules.
“The next day I purchased a number plate that included my wife’s initials, and gave it to her as a birthday present. This earned me brownie points while ensuring that I never again forgot the registration number. For the record, I paid a modest three-figure sum.”
Also on the defence team was Harriet Robinson: “Here on the Isle of Wight, number plates with 10W are very popular. A local pub owner has PUB10W, and many people have their initials before the 10W. Some personalised plates mean more to the family than the public. My late husband, Michael, was upset when the island lost its DL plates and was lumped in with Hampshire, so for his 60th birthday we bought him M60ADL, which he was very pleased with. I am still using it with fond memories.” Do you have a personalised plate? Let me know here, or head to our Your Say page, exclusively on The Telegraph app. | Plan your day with the telegraph | Set your alarm to catch up with journalists on the Your Say page and listen to their analysis on our latest podcasts.
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The solution to yesterday’s clue was AERODROME. Come back tomorrow for the answer to today’s puzzle. | | Thank you for reading. Have a fulfilling day and I hope to see you tomorrow. Chris Evans, Editor
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