It will be interesting to see where they go as they haven't broken cover on any policy yet. As they say don't disturb your enemy whilst he's making a mistake.
I can imagine the problem they'll have is the red wall type seats which are highly migration skeptical and any pro-migration policy could put Labour on a similar ground that Corbyn put them on in the 2019 election with Brexit. It is a big risk for them to go against the grain and suddenly be heavily pro-migration.
I think everyone will be for a change on increasing spending but we'll see have to see where that leaves us on tax. The Tories are promising tax increases AND spending cuts. I just cannot see how Labour cannot restrain spending unless they're going to propose tax increases across the board. These so called windfall taxes and wealth taxes are just not going to raise enough money.
Unfortunately COVID didn't end in 2021 and now suddenly we're back in the economy of 2019. This is 2022 where we've just spent hundreds of billions on propping the country up, the economic situation is pretty dire and high spending/borrowing at a time of high interest rates will be catastrophic. We also can't print money because that devalues the £ even more and inflation will spike even higher than it is now.
Personally I think Starmer will be measured and careful rather than radical, if he does that then he'll win. For many in Labour though measured means Tory-lite and he's going to have a big issue tempering that within the party.
