Taxpayers should no longer have to fund Harry and Meghan’s security bill as they gallivant around the world – The Sun

HARRY and Meghan wanted it all.

Just 18 months after billing taxpayers up to £32million for their wedding, they declared like teenagers in a huff that they wanted to quit their duties. With a vague vow to become more financially independent, they flounced off to Canada . . . to stay at the home of a mystery billionaire.

Yesterday’s statement by the Queen after a week’s intense negotiations was a reality check for the privileged pair, who were told they can go their own way — but at a cost.

We welcome them being made to repay the £2.4million of public money lavished on doing up their Windsor home, Frogmore Cottage.

And we applaud the fact they will no longer enjoy HRH status. You cannot be both in and out of the Royal Family.

But it seems we will still be forced to spend millions on their security as they gallivant around the world.

This cannot be right at a time when so many of our communities a lot closer to home are desperate for more police on their streets.

We cannot continue to write Harry and Meghan a blank cheque, and the vague new arrangements still leave many questions unanswered.

We need to know where every penny of taxpayers’ money is going.

Keir and present danger

A TROUBLING lack of judgment.

Not our words, but the damning indictment of Labour leadership contender Sir Keir Starmer by victims of made-up allegations in the VIP child sex witch hunt.

They accuse the smarmy lawyer of causing needless suffering during the botched investigation when he was Director of Public Prosecutions.

The millionaire Jeremy Corbyn loyalist was on the wrong side of history over Brexit, while rival Jess Phillips yesterday criticised him, among others, for failing to tackle the party’s anti-Semitism crisis.

However dreadful the other candidates, the overwhelming evidence is that Sir Keir would be a liability as Labour leader.

Ghost train's scarily daft

HEARD about the train station with a daily service but no passengers?

Newhaven Marine station in East Sussex has been effectively shut for 14 years but a train has made the trip from there to Brighton more than 3,000 times.

Only now is the station to close officially, with Network Rail explaining it did not want to make a hasty decision before an “alternative railway use” could be found.

Alternative? Like actually picking up passengers, perhaps?

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