Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones had a difficult time on this morning’s Today Programme pinning down what exactly Labour’s economic policies are. When pushed by presenter Mishal Husain to name one policy since the party canned the £28 billion-a-year for green investment, Jones could only point to the wishy-washy slogan “stability, investment and reform”.
It’s not the first time Jones has proudly admitted he doesn’t know what Labour’s plans are. Meanwhile, Reeves is gearing up to talk all things economy in the City later this morning…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”