Labour doesn't understand what Britain is missing

Keir Starmer is under pressure from Labour MPs to protect welfare spending.

Britain does not suffer from too much ambition, but from too little encouragement – and that taxing aspiration will only make that worse, says Brandon Lewis

It’s difficult to remember a time when a sitting British government decided to trail a new Budget in the press for over 11 weeks. Yet here we are, with just under a month before the Autumn Budget arrives and the Treasury has blown innumerable tidbits of economic policy down the streets of Westminster like leaves floating in the autumn wind.

While admittedly a time-honored trick, Labour’s lead time here belies an absence of strategy and a lack of any preparatory groundwork. It reveals a party in perpetual response, leading with rhetoric rather than policy, an