Migrant black market work crackdown is a welcome start but ministers cannot afford to take their eyes off the ball
ONE of the biggest draws for Channel migrants — along with the chance later to claim benefits — is the ability to work in Britain on the black market.
Voters were furious at the sight of some blatantly operating illegally as delivery riders while being housed for free in taxpayer-funded hotels.
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So it's good news the Government has followed a Sun investigation by now agreeing to share locations of those hotels with food delivery companies like Deliveroo and Just Eat.
It means riders can have their accounts frozen if they are found to be living there.
Bitter experience tells us that if there's one takeaway from the migrant crisis, it's that criminal gangs will always find a way round the rules.
Ministers cannot afford to take their eyes off the ball on this one.
In the red
WHAT a sad and sorry mess Britain's economy is currently in.
Borrowing costs are the highest since 1998 — with more borrowed in June than at any time since records began, except during Covid.
Our national debt interest is now so huge that it's annually twice what is spent on defence.
Shamefully, it also out-strips money allocated for our kids' education.
Such an unsustainable debt mountain is likely to spark an avalanche of chaos.
Undercover delivery driver investigation
Meanwhile, Angela Rayner wants to kill growth — the key to getting us out of this debt nightmare — by whacking taxes on everything.
That apparently now includes suggesting punishing levies on tourism despite fears it will drive away overseas visitors.
Nevermind that it's one of the UK's soaring success stories.
Why do the Left see success and immediately want to stamp it out?
RIP, prince
HEAVY metal never felt heavier in our hearts than it does today.
Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of Darkness, has left us.
It's no exaggeration to say that the Brummie hell-raiser was one of the most iconic rock frontmen of all time.
Ozzy's wasn't a carefully crafted image — he lived and breathed every moment of wild excess.
But the working class hero was also a music pioneer who went from playing Birmingham pub The Crown to becoming one of Britain's best-loved sons.
One final hurrah on stage this month gave him the most fitting ending of all.
Belting out Paranoid in front of 40,000 adoring fans in his home city.
It really was the last song ever.
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