For all the chatter about the Customs Union, leaving the EU in full is still on course. But May’s bungled election has raised the chances of a disorderly outcome.
Buying out this single industry would cost more than a quarter of Labour’s unfunded ‘Transformation Fund’, according to Ofwat estimates.
The Prime Minister has shown determination and boldness – and the alternative is enormous tax increases under Corbyn.
My local experience as a constituency MP has been a reminder of how nationalisation failed and privatisation works.
Previous Labour voters wondered whether the party’s pledges were credible or affordable.
The Labour manifesto isn’t just full of bad ideas, it’s based on dubious or non-existent costings. At least it makes their grassroots happy.
The Labour leader received a rapturous welcome from his fans.
He can’t manage an ordered manifesto launch, but wants voters to give him direct control of vast swathes of industry.
Corbyn’s Michael Foot tribute act gives the Conservatives the potential to secure a landslide by winning over the patriotic working-class vote.
In the last year he has lost much of his grassroots support and a powerful patron, leaving him without political armour.
Javid should be bold, and push for a British steel reserve modelled on America’s oil reserve.
Labour are launching petitions and making absurd attacks on Javid rather than presenting a viable solution.
Introduce tariffs? Nationalise Tata Steel? Cut green taxes?
Public accountability, not public ownership, is the key.
Labour’s handouts must be exposed as a self-defeating deception – as must the danger of what happens when “there is no money left”.