With hindsight, and not very much of it at that, it might have been better for the Labour government if its general election manifesto hadn’t been quite so unequivocal about fiscal policy.
The relevant passage may well have helped a record 411 Labour candidates be returned to the House of Commons, but it has blighted the government so badly that, in current polling trends, most of Sir Keir Starmer’s parliamentary army could lose their seats if an election were held now, and Sir Keir would find himself replaced as prime minister by Nigel Farage.
