Behind the scenes, Tory party insiders were privately delighted by Labour’s decision to move the political debate away from the stage, and turn it into a fist fight in the stalls ahead of the next election 🔎 Big read from HugoGye and RichardVaughan1
Labour stunned most of Fleet Street and Whitehall with the first of its
, who until recently enjoyed non-domiciled tax status, which asked the question: “Do you think it’s right to raise taxes for working people when your family benefited from a tax loophole? Rishi Sunak does.” Others have tried to keep to the moral high ground, and have also noted the internal problems Labour has experienced: Shadow Home Secretarydistanced herself from the adverts, prompting other front benchers to privately criticise Ms Cooper’s alleged reluctance to go harder on crime and immigration.
The Conservatives have already been focusing on the Labour leader’s “flip-flopping” on certain issues, with the party expected to start pumping out videos of Sir Keir giving contradictory messages on various policies.
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