Kemi has been chatting to staff in CCHQ. It’s been a ghost ship with a skeleton crew in the long period since the election…
They key points as briefed out by the Tories are:
Shadow Cabinet announcements are inbound. Ahead of an actually-combative PMQs on Wednesday…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”