Labour’s energy and decarbonisation plans are ludicrous, undeliverable, and difficult to take seriously.
Until the Gordian knot of the Human Rights Act, ECHR, et al is cut, the small boats crisis will continue.
As Jeremy Hunt pointed out yesterday, “every Labour government in history” has ended up hiking taxes, and Reeves “should have been honest about that before the election”.
It would be a test of principle. Can Labour backbenchers work with the Conservatives? The policy has had little success achieving its original aims.
Rachel Reeves’ big announcement centres around putting wind farms on par with solar farms and other energy projects. But in our planning system, not being banned is not the same as being built.
It would be wrong to say that this is a restoration of the pre-2010 regime, since plenty of ministers, and most of the Cabinet, have never been in government before. But executive experience and knowledge of policy briefs are at a premium.
Johnny Mercer and Fred Thomas – his Labour rival, and a former member of the Royal Marines – have been in a protracted public spat about the latter’s military record.
According to one outgoing councillor, “the Gaza issue” is losing Labour seats with Muslim voters.
Whatever the specific issues upon which the Bute House Agreement foundered, the two parties are suddenly competing for votes in Holyrood’s regional lists.
But to solve to solve the A&E crisis, modernisation will not be enough: we also need to return to the tradition of keeping spare beds
Is teacher-supervised brushing for three to five-year-olds any more absurd than banning anyone born after 2009 from ever legally buying a cigarette?
After Brexit and Covid, five Prime Ministers and a cost-of-living crisis, a war in Ukraine and a war in Gaza, the Labour leader wishes to appeal to a weary electorate with a vision of tedium.
Labour have found two ways of circumventing Hunt’s spending trap: first, to ignore it, and, second, to reduce pressure on the public finances through optimistic promises of economic growth.
A frontbench mutiny such as this is extraordinary for a party on the cusp of power. Yet the Government keeps managing to keep its own crises front and centre.
At least 13 members of his front bench are in open revolt. As I write, that’s sustainable. As matters develop, it may not be.