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…