Sir Tony Blair has sounded the alarm: Sir Keir Starmer will have no choice but to slap the public with a tax hike of £53 billion, according to a report from the Tony Blair Institute today. Labour’s tax-and-spend tendencies are laid bare, with forecasts predicting taxes must rise by 1.9% of GDP by the end of the Parliament just to keep debt in check. Meanwhile, Starmer has appointed two Blair-era cabinet ministers into his government. This latest move only makes Blair’s involvement more evident…
Tony himself doesn’t think Keir’s growth agenda will cut it against future challenges. Even speeding up house-building, reforming infrastructure planning, and cosying up to the EU won’t spare taxpayers from the inevitable raid. Blair letting the cat out of the bag…
Douglas Alexander – a friend of Starmer’s – was asked on Sky News if the PM will be in post at the next election. He wasn’t so sure himself:
“I think he will. There are no certainties but of course I think he will lead and I think he should because, frankly, on the biggest call in this parliament he’s exercised the right judgment, which is to keep us out of someone else’s war.”