The campaign leaflets Labour canvassers are handing out on the doorstep in Holborn and St Pancras make no mention of the man who served as as the local MP for eleven years. Starmer has been erased from history…
Instead, the party boasts of “our record“, with the first ‘achievement’ being “cutting VAT on electricity bills“. Which is a Burnham policy…
Former Treasury minister and adviser to Burnham in the Makerfield campaign Lord Jim O’Neill, who has turned down a role in his government, said Burnham’s first statement Commons was:
“The last thing investors wanted to hear… gilt yields have risen by a 0.25% in one day, which is a lot. We’ve not had that since Liz Truss days… If your country is under the focus of ‘can they come up with a sensible fiscal strategy’ on a day when the markets think ‘well no, you’re not showing any sign of it’ you’re going to have a tough day…if it stays like this your mortgage rate is going up.”
