Sir Keir Starmer has taken on the hard-Left and seen off the Tory Right. But now the Prime Minister faces his biggest battle yet: a head-on collision with the undisputed heavyweight champions of British politics — the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Today, his Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, was set to stand up at the despatch box with the aim of establishing a new rhetorical baseline for the next five years. One that frames the economic inheritance as even worse than expected, with dumpster fires raging everywhere from prisons to public sector pay, with the inescapable conclusion that — contrary to the campaign just fought — taxes must rise.
