Expect to hear lots more on the '£46bn Tory black hole'
‘Labour has been attacking on national insurance in particular ever since Boris Johnson’s government put that tax up to fund the NHS and social care’ s party has spent much of the week attacking the Conservatives’ long-term ambition to get rid of what the Prime Minister now calls a “double taxation”.
It’s a striking attack line for the Labour Party, and one in a series of assaults on traditionally Tory issues that underlines the confidence of the opposition’s operation. In previous years, Labour frontbenchers would not have dared go near tax policy, for instance, for fear they might be branded the party of high taxes. That crown now surely rests on Conservative heads, given
It used to be the case that the Tories were the better political astronomers: they would identify Labour spending black holes whether the party was in opposition or government. They even thought that the national insurance abolition would make life difficult for Starmer’s party, which has instead seen the idea as an opportunity.Similarly, Labour used to run away from immigration as a topic.
It is a stark contrast from the way Labour leaders would previously attack the Tories on issues that were a comfort blanket for the left, such as the NHS. I have sat through countless PMQs over the past 14 years where a Labour leader has complained about NHS funding, and the two leaders have then spent the ensuing questions trading meaningless statistics about the number of nurses here and the increase in medical school places there.
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