There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES

CAN you believe what this government is like? We are in the biggest cost-of-living crisis for decades with inflation at a 40-year high. Public services need massive investment and workers need decent wages to keep up with the cost of living, heat their homes and put food on the table.
Yet Defence Secretary Ben Wallace is busy bargaining with Rishi Sunak to get a bigger slice of the national cake to spend on weapons. He’s been demanding a massive increase in military spending, from 2 per cent to 3 per cent of GDP.
He has even threatened to resign if he doesn’t get it. But Britain is already the world’s fourth-biggest military spender, behind only the US, China and India. Why on earth would we want to spend more?



