ANDREW NEIL: Trump in. Reform rising. And humiliation for Macron, Scholz and Trudeau. Why 2025 will see the collapse of the Left... and nowhere more than Britain

There are, alas, precious few signs that 2025 will be a great year for any of us, which is a pity given 2024 was hardly one to write home about. Indeed there's every chance she'll make matters worse by resorting to even more tax rises in 2025, either in her Spring Statement scheduled for March 26 or her second Budget next November. Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves' government has already developed a reputation for making everything it touches worse, Andrew Neil writes It's a promise she has refused to repeat. If we manage to avoid recession in 2025 the best we can hope for is another year of stagnation, with less than 1 per cent growth, or more likely stagflation since inflation could hit 3% by Spring, 50 per cent above the Bank of England's 2 per cent target, just when public-sector unions will be demanding further inflation-busting pay rises, which risks baking inflation into the system. In America, the defeated Democrats will fail to come to terms with the magnitude of what happened to them last month, giving Donald Trump a pretty clear run Perhaps in 2025 Labour politicians — and even the BBC — will realise that their rosy view of the EU is nothing but nostalgia.