Daily Express - 30.07.2019

Frail Mugabe, 95, pictured in wheelchair

IMAGES have emerged on social

media of a frail Robert Mugabe

in a wheelchair, alongside his

favourite son.

The former Zimbabwean

dictator, 95, who dressed

impeccably during his 27 years

in power, seems to have dropped

his sharp suits for tracksuits.

The ex-hardman who ruled

what used to be Rhodesia with a

rod of iron has been receiving

medical treatment in Singapore,

where this photograph is

believed to have been taken.

Son Robert Junior, 27, who

plays basketball for Zimbabwe

posted it on social media.

His father was ousted as

president in 2017 by protégé

Emmerson Mnangagwa who

took his place. The pair were at

loggerheads for a while

although relations have now

thawed. Mnangagwa recently

reported that his predecessor

“can no longer walk”, vowing,

“We will take care of him”.

The ex-president, inset,

and in the snap with his

son Robert Junior, 27

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By Christopher Bucktin

Corbyn’s new low as

Welsh desert Labour

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By Martyn Brown and Macer Hall

‘Presiding over

destruction’...

Mr Corbyn

LABOUR’S dwindling support under

Jeremy Corbyn was laid bare yester-

day, as a new poll showed the party

had sunk to a new low in its historic

Welsh heartland.

Support for Labour is just 22 per

cent, placing it behind the Tories on 24

per cent and only four points above

the Brexit Party, the YouGov poll says.

It is a further boost to Boris Johnson

who is due to visit Wales for the first

time as Prime Minister today.

The poll results are being blamed on

Labour’s woeful Brexit strategy and a

“Boris bounce” in the country that

voted to leave the EU in 2016.

Aberavon Labour MP Stephen

Kinnock said: “Labour’s strategy on

Brexit has been disastrous. Anuerin

Bevan said if you stand in the middle

of the road, you will get run down.

“We should have stuck to our guns

and said we are the party that wants

to leave the EU, but we must leave

with a deal. Or you could go full-

throated for a second referendum,

which personally I wouldn’t agree

with. But it’s a strategy and it’s clear.

What you can’t be is all things to all

people. The fall-out of that is what

we’re seeing now.”

Mr Kinnock said support for Labour

in Wales would return if an election

took place after Brexit, when the

party could once again dominate

“bread and butter” political issues.

Labour has ruled Welsh politics for

decades. Party founder Keir Hardie

and ex-premiers Ramsay MacDonald

and James Callaghan represented

Welsh seats and, since 1998, all

four Welsh Assembly first

ministers have hailed from

the party.

Mr Kinnock said Labour

had also been squeezed by

the popularity of Mr

Johnson, who has promised

to take Britain out of the EU

with no deal if necessary.

The Brexit Party has also mopped up

Labour Leave backers.

Academics have described the

results of the poll as unprecedented

for Labour.

Professor Roger Awan-Scully said

Mr Corbyn and First Minister Mark

Drakeford “appear to be well on

course to presiding over the destruc-

tion of their party’s near century-long

hegemony in Welsh politics”.

A Labour source said: “Before the

2017 election, Welsh polls put us way

behind the Tories, but under

Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership

we won the majority of

Welsh seats and achieved

our highest share of the

vote for 20 years.”

The scene is set for a

knife-edge by-election in

Brecon and Radnorshire

on Thursday, that will give

Mr Johnson a parliamentary

majority of just one if anyone

but the Tories win. The

Liberal Democrats

are favourites.

THE alleged mastermind of

9/11 has said he might be

willing to help victims of the

terrorist attacks in their

lawsuit against Saudi Arabia

• if America does not seek
  the death penalty.
  Khalid Sheikh
  Mohammed’s offer was
  revealed in legal papers.
  Lawyers for relatives of
  those killed in the 2001
  atrocities have contacted
  three of the five detainees
  Al-Qaeda’s Mohammed held at Guantanamo Bay

9/11 ‘mastermind’ offers to help US victims

suspected of organising them.

The families accuse the

Saudis of helping coordinate

the suicide attacks that killed

nearly 3,000. Riyadh has

denied complicity.

Mohammed, 53, was seized

in his native Pakistan in 2003

and taken to CIA sites in

Afghanistan, then Poland and

finally the detention camp at

Guantanamo Bay.

In March 2007, the

al-Qaeda kingpin confessed

to masterminding 9/11, the

attempt to blow up a plane

by British shoe bomber

Richard Reid, the 2002 Bali

nightclub bombing in

Indonesia, the 1993 World

Trade Center bombing, the

murder of US journalist

Daniel Pearl, and various

foiled attacks, as well as

numerous other crimes.

He could face the death

penalty after being charged

with war crimes and murder.