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Starmer has suggested that the rise in fuel duty could be reversed before it is defrosted in September. In PMQs he said:
“We will keep the situation under review in light of what’s happening in Iran.”
Reeves told the Treasury Committee about 20 minutes before that she was ‘loath’ to climb down from the tax hike and blamed rising prices on the market and “price-gouging.” Which doesn’t exist here…
In the meantime the PM is accusing Badenoch (and Farage) of supporting “the mother of all U-turns” by “supporting a war without thinking through the consequences” and then changing their minds. He knows a thing or two about U-turns when it comes to Iran…
Ross Kempsell is joined by Ameer Kotecha, who recently resigned as a diplomat in the Foreign Office, to discuss where British foreign policy is going wrong and why he left Whitehall. Find out what he really thinks of David Lammy and Yvette Cooper…
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During Reeves’ Treasury Committee appearance this morning in which the Chancellor said she supports releasing strategic oil reserves, she also said there is a ‘valid’ argument to be made that she shouldn’t have raised National Insurance:
“Yeah, we did make the decision to increase national insurance in my first Budget and that’s because we needed to properly fund public services including the NHS which got a £29 billion a year uplift and so I do recognise and it’s a valid argument to say that should not have happened but if that didn’t happen we wouldn’t have been able to put the money into the NHS and reduce waiting list and reducing waiting list in the NHS is also good for business because it means that more people are available for work and the workforce is is is healthier. Um, but I do recognize there are particular issues around youth unemployment.”
UK unemployment is now higher than Italy’s…
Extraordinary polling from Merlin Strategy. More than half of Labour voters and nearly two-thirds of Green voters would prefer to ‘reduce inequality’ (punish wealth) than make everyone better off. If the rich benefit, it’s no good. They’d rather the poor stay poor if the alternative is to give another penny to a millionaire...
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”