One of the hardest things to get as Leader of the Opposition is a hearing. Who cares what you have to say when even the parliamentary under-secretary at the department for not much has more executive power than you? But things change when you are 20+ points ahead in the polls.
A day after Rishi Sunak addressed the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), where he dismissed the idea of substantially closer ties with the EU and business’s pleas for more low-skill immigration, it was the turn of Keir Starmer.
