Amid the (mostly) trivia freebiegate stories, the real story of Labour conference was largely missed. The clearest signs yet the govt is going to shift fiscal and political approach and start talking about borrowing to invest. My piece for NS. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...
The Chancellor’s shift in position is Labour’s best hope of avoiding political and economic decline.
The implications are huge.
Just discovered pressing & holding your link lets my iPhone “Read Body of Article Out Loud” to me, admittedly in a female voice, but a game-changer for multi-taskers Lewis nevertheless 🤓
our government, and particularly the prime minister, taking bribes, with multiple separate examples, is not trivial. at least not to those of us outside the westminster bubble.
Which if it was always the intention (I'm assuming it was), could maybe explain the otherwise appalling optics around WFP - 'Okay, you don't want those tough choices, here's how we mitigate them'. Not capital investment, but part of wider 'Well, if you want us to actually do things...'.