We are seeing a core belief that the Government can and should be directing events
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and former prime Minister Rishi Sunak talk as they walk towards the House of Lords during during the State Opening of Parliament : interventionism is a means to grow the economy, rather than an obstacle to it. In short: big government is back.
With a pledge to build 1.5 million homes, Starmer must reform the planning system as quickly as possible. He needs bricks and mortar to prove his plan is working come the next election, but he also needs to avoidHe is also borrowing from the playbook of former Tory chancellor George Osborne, who in 2010 spun an “emergency” budget to rein in public spending. Labour is now performatively doing the same.
Other bills were introduced on Tuesday to satisfy demands from within the Labour movement. A measure within the Crime Bill to make assaulting a shop worker a specific offence had been pushed by the USDAW union. However,Most Labour MPs were happy with the bulky bundle of bills, though there was inevitably some grumbling. But the grousing was about messaging not substance.
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