A little sneak preview to the May Holyrood elections as Reform comes second to the SNP in the Glenrothes ward of a Fife Council by-election. The Ming Campbell heartlands…
Labour has been pushed far down into third place. Is Sarwar’s ‘Labour revival’ in the room with us right now?
That’s the third Fife SNP win in a year. Scottish Labour politicians had better tell Starmer to keep even quieter. The SNP stumbles into another term in government…
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.”