Is it “sleepy” Keir or “desperate” Rishi? Take your pick of insults in week one of the campaign, because there is plenty more invective to pep up the weeks up to the election on July 4. The respective camps, however, will be based more on real dividing lines than slingshots.
Rishi Sunak has moved swiftly to draw one of these in an “age-related” tax break meaning a £100-a-year boost to pensioners’ income. The amount is small, but the message is that the Tories are more likely to look after pensioner interests — and Labour does not have a policy on pensions to offset this gambit.
