What change?
ON the anniversary of his first year in power, Sir Keir Starmer shouldn’t expect too many cards from a grateful public.
What he does have piling up on his desk are nasty looking bills.
PAOne year into Labour’s leadership and Sir Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves have failed to deliver on any actual change[/caption]
Tuesday’s capitulation to left-wing Labour rebels over benefits cost him and his Chancellor £5billion.
This was on top of the £1billion cost of the screeching winter fuel U-turn.
The total size of the black hole they face is now around £20billion.
Indeed, it speaks volumes that the markets went into a frenzy at live coverage of Rachel Reeves crying in the House of Commons.
Our national debt is so cripplingly high that — if Reeves is replaced by somebody less keen on sticking to the Government’s fiscal rules — it could trigger a full-blown borrowing crisis.
Both the PM and Chancellor insist she was just having a tough day on Wednesday, and is going nowhere.
So what’s the next move?
A wealth tax or more taxes on earnings or savings would hammer growth.
Heaping more misery on voters by breaking manifesto commitments on income tax or VAT would spell both electoral and economic disaster.
So No10’s only chance is to face down their deluded MPs — and make cuts to the bloated, hopelessly inefficient and unreformed State.
A year ago — on the steps of Downing Street — Sir Keir promised real change.
The only change so far has been very much for the worse.
Secret culture
THE more we learn about the Bob Vylan Glastonbury scandal, the worse it gets.
BBC bosses now admit they had ranked the antisemitic pop punk act as “high risk”.
Yet, incredibly, they still decided to screen live their sick chant about killing Israeli soldiers.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy had demanded answers on why the live broadcast was not immediately shut down — and who was responsible.
Yesterday, she told MPs the reply she received from the BBC had provided none whatsoever.
It’s always the same with Auntie’s top brass.
Hunker down, try to make sure nobody gets the sack — then move swiftly on to the next debacle.
Our joy in Jota
DIOGO Jota’s sudden passing is a sad reminder that life can be random in its cruelty.
That we will never again see his wonderful talents on the pitch is a shocking loss.
But Jota will forever be remembered as a player whose verve, skill and sheer joy in the game made even neutral fans smile.
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