Guido has long-tracked the insights in Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s Substack blog. Unfortunately he’s completely abandoned it…
Lammy launched the blog in September and produced two pieces in quick succession. One of which caused a diplomatic incident…
Perhaps with civil servants breathing down his neck Lammy’s next post was not until January when he simply copy and pasted a speech he had given. Now, over six months later, there is no more content on the Substack. Lammy had promised “an in-depth look at my approach to the UK’s foreign policy, and how it is shaped by the principle of progressive realism.” Unless, there is no approach…
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.”