The business rates pub relief U-turn is Labour’s 12th significant reversal since coming to power. Twelve you say…
That figure happens to be Starmer’s threshold for “serial incompetence.” He must get teary-eyed when he thinks back to the halcyon opposition days…

Starmer said of Boris’ government: “When they’ve notched up 12 U-turns and rising, the only conclusion is serial incompetence.” Labour says of their own 12 U-turns: ‘It proves that we are a confident government’…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”