Wes Streeting has launched his own TikTok account and is posting increasingly frequently. A sure sign of ambition…
Streeting’s short-form video account suddenly started posting at the end of October this year. Is that what made Downing Street suspicious?
Streeting posted his third video on the same day that No10 decided to brief against him. An operation equivalent to climbing into a barrel and then shooting themselves…
The Health Secretary first posted on 21 October and has become more active since. Labour sources note that this is not translating to likes or views…
Only Streeting’s latest video, posted a day ago, has broken the 10,000 views barrier. We’re with Wes…
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.”