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Keir Starmer: Labour ‘won’t turn on spending taps’ if it wins election
(www.theguardian.com)
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What's the point of a Labour government if they don't change anything?
Easier to introduce actual policy when you've already gotten in
Must less stringent than the incoming Blair government, which actually committed to kep to the outgoing Tory government’s spending limits during the election.
It’s a way of defusing attacks from the Tory press about untrammelled spending. There’s still a lot that an income Labour government can do that will be different