I really hope you’re right but, when Reeves talks about the ‘credit card’ and says ‘we’ll follow the fiscal rules’ which, incidentally, are completely made up by the incumbent Chancellor, I have my doubts.
When Streeting endlessly parrots on about the NHS being more open to the private sector, I have my doubts.
When Starmer rows back on everything he seemed to once believe in, I have my doubts.
When Kendall doubles down on the young unemployed and suggests loads of people are ‘choosing a life on benefits’, who really aren’t the problem anyway, whatever the Mail and their ilk says, I have my doubts.
I hope my doubts are entirely baseless and things do get better, but they should surely be offering a bit more than ‘we’re not the Tories’ and ‘even if we’ve got a policy we really believe in, we’ll trash it if a focus group from Somerset doesn’t like it’?