The policy menu is right but there's a constraint the next leader has to clear before any of it is achievable: the gilt market. UK 10-year yields hit their highest since 2008 this morning. That will become a filter through which every item on this list has to pass. Tax reform and student loans cost money before they raise it. EU alignment takes years to show in growth.
The next leader will likely have about six months to convince bond markets they're fiscally serious before the window closes. Burnham would struggle to do that. Streeting might be able to. The challenge is doing that while actually delivering the change voters are demanding - those two things don't sit easily together right now.
Absolutely agree with this diagnosis. It's bold and what has been lacking hitherto. I would add a strong reaffirmation of the environmental cause - challenging Reform where they are vulnerable and winning back Green votes
Why ignore the massive elephant in the room: Labour's attachment to Israel: Refusal to recognise the genocide in Gaza; arms and other military support even including F-35 parts for use in the West Bank in defiance of the International Court of Justice's call for no support for apartheid; misuse of terrorism laws and attacks on British civil rights of assembly and protest to block opposition to Israel; deliberate malicious conflation of anti-Israel and antisemitic, a leader named by Francesca Albanese last year as one of two individuals (with Biden) with responsibility for Israel's genocide in Gaza; a Leader in receipt of £50,000 from the arch-Zionist, Sir Trevor Chinn; more than a quarter of the Parliamentary Labour Party members of Labour Friends of Israel, including self-proclaimed, 'unapologetic Zionist' Rachel Reeves (another beneficiary of Chinn) , and Keir Starmer. More and more voters are sickened by a Party that seems bought and paid for by a foreign government, and a Prime Minister who appears to feel his greatest duty is to the citizens of Israel, not the UK. None of the contenders for his position seems capable of fixing this.
The policy menu is right but there's a constraint the next leader has to clear before any of it is achievable: the gilt market. UK 10-year yields hit their highest since 2008 this morning. That will become a filter through which every item on this list has to pass. Tax reform and student loans cost money before they raise it. EU alignment takes years to show in growth.
The next leader will likely have about six months to convince bond markets they're fiscally serious before the window closes. Burnham would struggle to do that. Streeting might be able to. The challenge is doing that while actually delivering the change voters are demanding - those two things don't sit easily together right now.
Absolutely agree with this diagnosis. It's bold and what has been lacking hitherto. I would add a strong reaffirmation of the environmental cause - challenging Reform where they are vulnerable and winning back Green votes
Fix the bloody voting system
Why ignore the massive elephant in the room: Labour's attachment to Israel: Refusal to recognise the genocide in Gaza; arms and other military support even including F-35 parts for use in the West Bank in defiance of the International Court of Justice's call for no support for apartheid; misuse of terrorism laws and attacks on British civil rights of assembly and protest to block opposition to Israel; deliberate malicious conflation of anti-Israel and antisemitic, a leader named by Francesca Albanese last year as one of two individuals (with Biden) with responsibility for Israel's genocide in Gaza; a Leader in receipt of £50,000 from the arch-Zionist, Sir Trevor Chinn; more than a quarter of the Parliamentary Labour Party members of Labour Friends of Israel, including self-proclaimed, 'unapologetic Zionist' Rachel Reeves (another beneficiary of Chinn) , and Keir Starmer. More and more voters are sickened by a Party that seems bought and paid for by a foreign government, and a Prime Minister who appears to feel his greatest duty is to the citizens of Israel, not the UK. None of the contenders for his position seems capable of fixing this.
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