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Golden Girls: Leading Lionesses were paid as little as £20,000 last time England reached a Euros final. Now, modelling deals bring them earnings of up to £2mn… but they still use £2.40 physio’s tape to hold back their hair

Before England won the Euros in 2022, even leading female players were paid as little as £20,000 a year. Now they earn handsome sums – and more from commercial giants desperate to be associated with their game. Captain Leah Williamson,…

How one million white Europeans – many seized on the south coast of England – were sold to the Muslim world and brutally exploited in the slavery scandal the Left DON’T want to speak about

When Englishman Thomas Pellow was 27, he led a slave-hunting expedition to the West African coast. His orders were to plunder the villages, kill the adults and capture the children. But Pellow was not a mercenary employed in the transatlantic…

Giant tunnelling machine is lifted to the surface after finishing HS2 tunnels (no wonder it’s costing so much)

A giant tunnelling machine has been lifted to the surface after finishing work on a HS2 tunnel – and no wonder the project is costing so much. The huge metal device has spent more than a year underground working on…

Chancellor in new gaffe over £425bn pension reform

Rachel Reeves has been accused of a ‘shocking grasp of detail’ and ordered to correct the record after getting basic facts about one of her flagship pension reforms wrong, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The Chancellor, who has been…

Labour’s farm tax guru plots new raid on capital gains to plug £30bn black hole

Labour’s favourite tax guru has renewed calls for a raid on capital gains to help plug an estimated £30 billion hole in public finances. Arun Advani, who heads the Centre for the Analysis of Taxation think-tank and devised the hated…

British tourists put on alert as new Greece wildfires spread amid 44C heatwave – as blaze tears through capital Athens

British tourists have been put on alert as new Greece wildfires spread amid a 44C heatwave – as a blaze tears through the capital of Athens. The southern European country was first hit with the scorching temperatures on Monday and they have…

Home Secretary to make crowding more than 80 migrants into small boats a criminal offence – but critics say it’ll do nothing to stem the tide

Yvette Cooper will use new laws to prosecute migrants who dangerously overcrowd small boats and put women and children at risk. The Home Secretary has ordered officials to expand the ‘endangering lives at sea’ offence, currently going through Parliament, to specifically…

Starmer will have to U-turn as ‘real prime minister’ Angela Rayner backs recognition of a Palestinian state, say MPs

Sir Keir Starmer will be forced to bow to pressure from ‘the real Prime Minister’ Angela Rayner and agree to recognise Palestinian statehood within weeks, Labour MPs claimed last night. They predicted Sir Keir would have no choice but to make the historic move by autumn…

Fears of a ‘summer of riots’ over migrants grow: Warning of ‘real discontent’ amid claims small communities are being ‘taken advantage of’ as protests spread to Canary Wharf

A council leader in an area where a large anti-migrant protest broke out has warned that the ‘anger’ around the country is ‘real’ as he echoed fears there could be a second summer of riots. Protests have spread with Labour…

Protests at asylum hotels spread to Bournemouth, Norwich and Portsmouth

Protests against migrant hotels escalated this weekend with tense stand–offs in Norwich, Portsmouth, Bournemouth and Leeds. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside The Best Western Brook Hotel in Bowthorpe, Norwich, on Saturday chanting ‘we want our country back’ and ‘Keir Starmer‘s…