That is a strong contender for Didn’t Happen of the Year
Tough choice but it’s the right move at this time in conjunction with increasing the private supply.
Angela doing well on housing so far.
I’d have loved Right to Buy if the social housing stock had been replenished rather than it just being a transference of public wealth/assets into private hands.
This sounds like a good move in the current context.
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Yes. I was trying to sum up my thoughts on right to buy and that’s exactly it.
Yes Keir, we get it… the Tories have left everything in a bad state. That’s all he’s done for the last couple months.
And it’s so transparent he’s using this rhetoric to justify the inevitable tax increases and the inevitable cost cutting measures everywhere else.
Keir’s Labour might look a lot like conservative austerity + some tax increases to boot.
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Darzi helped break it also, that PFI fetish guy.
Also you wanna stop PAs replacing doctors??!!
Keeping Charlie Massey head of the GMC, Amanda Pritchard, Stephen Powis, Navina Evans in charge of NHS workforce and training?
Not sacking them day one?
then you are just as responsible Keir!
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I’m sure it’s factual but I’m just bored of it. Tories did the same thing in 2010. No one going to problem solve anything or what?
British Politics.
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If after two years, nothing has changed and the narrative is still the same, I think you both have a point. At this stage, I think we all have to give them the chance and see what they do with it.
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It’s not mutually exclusive. You can try to fix things while at the same time pointing out how fucked up things had got under the Tories over 14 years.
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The issue for me is that they’re using the “Tories” ruined every narrative at every opportunity because it’ll eventually be the basis for income tax rises, probably a bump up in NIC again. These are things they promised they wouldn’t do but I’m 99% certain this is their play.
I’m not sure there’s any amount of briefing they can do that would lead to them being able to increase income tax and national insurance without enormous opposition. The public have been hit far too hard in their pockets over the last couple of years for that to fly.
Also, given how hard some people in the public sector especially have had to strike for pay rises, the government trying to claw that back through income tax rises would get very bitter very quickly I would think.
I think there’s a good chance this is a one term government.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said he removed a portrait of Margaret Thatcher from his Downing Street study because he doesn’t like “pictures of people staring down at me”.
Speaking to Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Sir Keir said he “didn’t want a picture of anyone” in his study and he preferred landscapes.
He added that he “might tolerate” a picture of former Arsenal striker Thierry Henry on his wall, but “that’s about as far as I go”.
Might be starting to warm to him now 
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I would have used a portrait of that cow for dart practice.
Winter Fuel Payment cuts going ahead, Tory motion to block it defeated 348-228
52 Labour MPs didn’t vote. 1 Voted with the Tory motion. Several suspended MP’s also voted for the motion.
At least big businesses aren’t being taxed more.
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It’s a big mistake for Keir to start his term with such a cruel cut of income for the poorest. I’m all for means-testing it because I do know some pensioners who really don’t need the payment, but others I know need every penny they can get to pay their bills.
Attacking the energy companies first would have been a far better political move. It’s situations like these that play into the hands of grifters and Russian assets like Farage.
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It’s poor politics and messaging for sure.
People are right to state a Labour government should never be associated with this kind of policy without any soft thresholds for OAPs just above the line.
I’m not sure the hits are worth the £1.5bn saving, prob not the best move to bend over for the union demands right out of the gate.
Yeah, not buying it’s just a tough decision that they have neen forced to make.
Does every Labour politician have to say: "it was because of the financial black hole left by the last government, after every sentence?
I can’t remember her name, but I saw a minister on Good Morning Britain, she repeated the “tough decisions” line so many times that Susanna Reid literally told her to stop saying it in every response 
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