Good leaders don’t turn around and start blaming their emotional state and their speechwriters for reading something off a script. They move on. Never explain yourself. Starmer is really coming unstu… (View Post)

She’s not politically deft enough. A new government is the chance for a Chancellor to do some radical things. Brown had his BoE independence, Osborne had his OBR and austerity budget. Reeves took som… (View Post)

Won’t work. Now any tax rises will be presented as hitting pensioners/workers to protect benefits claimants. The only thing he can probably get away with is lowering the threshold for the top rate of… (View Post)

I still firmly believe that a politician with the strength of their convictions, who can speak frankly and convincingly, and knows what they stand for, would do exceptionally well in the current clim… (View Post)

I genuinely can’t see how that survives a court challenge. (View Post)