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Charles Hymas Home Affairs Editor |
The rivalry between Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe has now spilled over into the Makerfield by-election.
Farage has warned Elon Musk that he is playing into the hands of Labour by backing Restore Britain, Lowe’s party and a Right-wing rival to Reform, in the by-election.
The Reform leader accused the tech billionaire of trying to divide the Right by posting his support for Lowe’s party on X.
Elon Musk’s X post supporting Restore Britain |
Farage fell out with Lowe last year after the Great Yarmouth MP described Reform as a “protest party led by the Messiah”. He was promptly suspended, after which he set up his own party.
Now, the first poll of the by-election campaign has shown Reform on 40 per cent – just behind Labour’s Andy Burnham on 43 per cent – in a knife-edge battle for the seat.
Restore Britain was in third place on seven per cent, potentially scooping up votes that could have helped secure the constituency for Farage’s party.
“Elon Musk has decided he will try to split the Right of British politics as best he can,” Farage told me.
“This is supporting a party made of one man with a social media account. Quite what he’s trying to achieve, I have no idea, but I’m sure Burnham is delighted.”
With Burnham looking to Makerfield as a platform from which to launch a potential bid for Sir Keir Starmer’s job, the stakes could not be higher.
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Legislation to lower the voting age is currently going through Parliament, but there are major reservations among some teenagers |
Labour’s plan to give 16 and 17-year-olds the vote is moving through Parliament, yet many teenagers are unconvinced. In focus groups for The Telegraph, young people in Yorkshire admitted that they felt ill-informed, mistrustful of politicians and vulnerable to misinformation on social media. Some warned that their peers would treat voting as “a joke”. However, their political instincts may still surprise you: alongside concern about the cost of living and jobs came strong support for tougher immigration policies and insurgent Right-wing parties. For subscribers only ➤ |
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Felicity Kendal returns to the stage after a period marked by grief and reflection |
Half a century after she stole the nation’s hearts as welly-booted Barbara Good in The Good Life, Felicity Kendal is putting on her dancing shoes for Cole Porter’s High Society. Backstage at the Barbican, she tells Claire Allfree about still doing the splits at 79, her “rather racy” new role, and why she once risked her life for Ken Russell “while wearing barely anything”. Continue reading ➤ |
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Ivor Novello was Britain’s first superstar: wealthy, celebrated and wildly successful. Rob Fitzpatrick looks back on a glittering yet scandalous career, filled with name-changes, A-list affairs and a stint in Wormwood Scrubs. Continue reading ➤ |
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Revolutions in healthcare, lifestyle habits and medicine mean that there is a near one-in-five chance that a girl (or one-in-10 for a boy) born today will live to 100, but what are your own odds? The Office for National Statistics has modelled the likelihood of individuals alive today reaching 100. Use our tool to find out if you could be one of them. Continue reading ➤ Here is one more article that I hope you will find useful this morning:
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Hello! This week we have this lovely couple at the beach for you to caption. Submit your entry here. Below is this week’s winner, by James Lycett, who amused us with his caption for the narrowboat. A special shout-out to Terry Neale, who was on a very similar wavelength with dinghy hypnosis – sometimes the wording just pips it. Congratulations, James and Terry!
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Breakfast of championsEvery 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...
I rarely have the chance (or perhaps, the discipline) to eat a proper breakfast at the moment. For me, the most important meal of the day tends to be one part my daughter’s rejected porridge, three parts coffee.
It’s a shame, because a leisurely breakfast can be one of the great, civilising joys of life. What kind, though? There was a time when I would never have turned down a full English, but I rarely have the stamina for them these days.
Were I ever compelled to select my last breakfast, it would probably involve eggs, salmon and, with luck, a drop of champagne. However, your responses to our article on the countries with the best breakfasts have given me other ideas, too.
Sam Graham writes: “Living in Spain, my favourite breakfast is tostada con tomate. Cut a French stick in half, toast it, and add olive oil, crushed tomatoes and a little salt. It’s amazing how something so simple can be so delicious.”
Quite right. Dean Courtney, meanwhile, recalls: “I once stopped at a rural Turkish restaurant by chance one afternoon in search of a drink and a snack. The waiter suggested we came back for a proper Turkish breakfast the next morning, where everything we ate would be locally sourced.
“We arrived at 10am and left at about 12.30pm. It was a magnificent spread of food, taken at a leisurely pace in ideal surroundings.”
Another reader commends “Thai chicken rice soup sprinkled with fried garlic. The best for a hangover”.
I can see the logic there. For Connor Doherty, “the best I’ve had was an Ulster fry, surprisingly from a cafe in a concrete cabin on the A5 near Omagh. It definitely constituted a heart attack on a plate”. Ross McInnes has “always liked grits with my breakfast in New Orleans, and Crystal hot sauce, naturally”.
Finally, Ian Barr is in a nostalgic mood: “Little Chef used to do a good one.” What a treat that was. Tell me about the best breakfast you’ve ever eaten. Send us your favourite recipes here and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of this newsletter.
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1842 | Christian Doppler presents his idea, now known as the Doppler Effect
1961 | John F Kennedy says he wants to put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade (this story featured on our front page, below, the following day)
2020 | George Floyd dies while being arrested in Minneapolis, igniting worldwide protests
Birthdays: Cillian Murphy (50), Jonny Wilkinson (47), Sir Ian McKellen (87)
Plus, in the news today, a teenage student is funding her university degree by selling artworks created by her pet rats. What is the highest sum fetched by one of the paintings?
The student created the rats’ artworks by dragging a trail of food for them |
1. £100
2. £300
3. £50
4. £80
Click one of the options to reveal the answer... |
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Find as many words as you can in today’s Panagram, including the nine-letter solution. Visit Telegraph Puzzles to play a range of head-scratching games, including The 1% Club, Cogs, and Quick, Mini or Cryptic Crosswords.
Yesterday’s Panagram was RETARDANT. Come back tomorrow for the solution to today’s puzzle. |
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Thank you for reading. Have a fulfilling day and I hope to see you tomorrow. Chris Evans, Editor |
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