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Keir Starmer has spent much of his first year in office trying to prepare the public for pain.
But as our recent Independent Ask Me Anything Q&A revealed, it’s the government now feeling the heat – politically bruised, economically cornered, and increasingly exposed on its central promise: stability in exchange for tax rises.