There is a reason why the line ‘Vote Labour, get Tory’ resonates. It’s true. One of the frustrations of British politics is the Labour Party’s supine willingness to accept the financial rules set by their Conservative counterparts.
Yes, there’s a change of tone, a shift in some priorities. But where it counts, there is little difference between the two main parties.
In the Home Office, Yvette Cooper is channelling her inner Theresa May. Britain was, is, and will remain a hostile environment to people fleeing persecution (often from conflicts the British were at the root of).
In the Foreign Office, David Lammy cannot wean himself off Britain’s insistence that it must shadow American foreign policy. For all his fine words, Britain remains supportive of Benjamin Netanyahu’s slaughter of innocents in Gaza and the West Bank.
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But it is in the Treasury where Labour feels it must kow-tow most to Conservative economic orthodoxy.
Labour ministers Yvette Cooper, David Lammy and Rachel Reeves at the party's annual conference last yearSince he won the general election, Keir Starmer and his Chancellor Rachel Reeves have been laying the ground for Austerity Mark Two. The decision to cut the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners, and the refusal to lift the two-child limit for families claiming universal credit, are the early markers for........