Now that isn’t the case, and so it is naive to think a politician on a soapbox can convince the country the last lot - who cut deeply - have left things needing more cuts. There’s nothing to tap into. (And patience is gone)

And yet until they had to bail out the entire banking system Labour managed to build up public services from the poor state they were in in 1997 while reducing public debt. If Labour mismanaged the economy it was that they weren’t Keynesian enough. Economies do not function like a household