{"id":66214,"date":"2023-01-05T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T11:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=66214"},"modified":"2023-01-05T11:17:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T11:17:50","slug":"starmers-big-idea-is-to-deny-responsibility-for-labours-refusal-to-spend-whats-needed-to-provide-the-government-this-country-requires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/01\/05\/starmers-big-idea-is-to-deny-responsibility-for-labours-refusal-to-spend-whats-needed-to-provide-the-government-this-country-requires\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer’s big idea is to deny responsibility for Labour’s refusal to spend what’s needed to provide the government this country requires"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watched Keir Starmer give his 'vision speech' this morning.<\/p>\n

My initial reactions were tweeted as follows:<\/p>\n

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The sound quality throughout this broadcast was dire: Labour really has to get the basics right.<\/p>\n

That said: Starmer beat Sunak hands down on presentation.<\/p>\n

Content was another issue. On this I noted the following as the speech progressed:<\/p>\n

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Bluntly the speech was virtually devoid of content, excepting his one big idea, which was around devolution. The premise of this was however o0wrrying. As I noted before he got to the issue:<\/p>\n

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I should perhaps have added 'existing' before devolution in that second tweet.<\/p>\n

As I also noted:<\/p>\n

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I summarised this saying:<\/p>\n

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Indisputably this was a better speech than Sunak's, but there were massive issues, ;like these:<\/p>\n

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In summary, I posted this:<\/p>\n

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The presentation was vastly better than Sunak's.<\/p>\n

And maybe there was a little more substance.<\/p>\n

But was this a vision for a government? It fell very, very far short of that.<\/p>\n

I will have more to say on what that vision should be soon, I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I watched Keir Starmer give his ‘vision speech’ this morning. My initial reactions were tweeted as follows: The sound quality throughout this broadcast was dire:
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