Starmer is in Berlin tonight for a dinner with E3 leaders. He is on track to reach potential a milestone – 25 foreign visits in 2025…
Last year the PM only took 16 foreign trips – though that was since July. Starmer is now infamous among Labour MPs and the public for his inability to stay in the UK for any substantial period of time – he is heading to the G20 this month too…
Sky News’ Sam Coates suggested this morning that Starmer has “six foreign trips at the back end of this year.” Including Berlin that would bring his grand total to 25 in twelve months, and one per week for the rest of the year. #25in25…
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.”