Keir Starmer would not repeat to Parliament Rachel Reeves's promise to the CBI not to increase taxes in the Parliament, but Kemi Badenoch, whose party is now three points ahead in the polls, would not promise the CBI that she would reverse Reeves's increase in employers' National Insurance contributions. It is not a real disagreement.
Meanwhile, Andrea Jenkyns was, and presumably still is, an undying fangirl of Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of Net Zero. Johnson was a very big spender long before Covid-19. He even lifted the requirement that jobs in Britain be advertised first in Britain, making him the most pro-immigration Prime Minister in living memory, if not ever, although admittedly only because Liz Truss never got into her stride. Johnson was closer to Stonewall than any Prime Minister before or since. The lockdowns were Johnson's. The Northern Ireland Protocol was Johnson's. The war in Ukraine was Johnson's. If Reform UK is now the party of Jenkyns, then it is the party of all of that.
Reform are scraping the bottom of the barrel with her.
ReplyDeleteOh, it will go lower yet.
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