{"id":70785,"date":"2023-07-09T09:27:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T08:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=70785"},"modified":"2023-07-09T09:27:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T08:27:09","slug":"reeves-and-starmer-maintainers-of-the-status-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/07\/09\/reeves-and-starmer-maintainers-of-the-status-quo\/","title":{"rendered":"Reeves and Starmer: maintainers of the status quo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Times posted this on Twitter overnight:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ed Miliband gave a Powerpoint presentation to the shadow cabinet on his revolutionary energy policies, speaking excitedly of the hope and change he believed they would bring<\/p>\n<p>His reception from Sir Keir Starmer, however, was decidedly lukewarm <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7pwaoPaEID\">https:\/\/t.co\/7pwaoPaEID<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thetimes\/status\/1677932051792625664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>My sources suggest that this is likely to be true. There seems to be \u00a0rift a mile wide between Miliband and his successor but one right now. That is not personal - although if Starmer feels overshadowed by Miliband he should be as Ed now seems to have all the gravitas and skill he needed when leader, but lacked back then. Instead it is ideological. As someone close to the scene put it to me, Ed Miliband is now the most left wing member of the shadow cabinet, by some way.<\/p>\n<p>I stress, I do not think Ed Miliband that left wing.<\/p>\n<p>I do think Ed Miliband is doing something Labour as a whole should be engaged in, which is the creation of new economic and policy thinking about the issues we now face as a country.<\/p>\n<p>Doing so he will come up against Starmer and Reeves. I noted this not long ago on Twitter, having noted what Reeves said on the Sophy Ridge programme:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rachel Reeves has just said \u201cWe have to respect economic institutions\u201d. The comment was about the Bank of England. What she\u2019s saying is that even though it is ruining people\u2019s lives and driving us towards recession we must respect it. That\u2019s absurd.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardJMurphy\/status\/1677948689912823808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Reeves is telling us to toe the line. We must accept the \u2018wisdom\u2019 of the powers that be. Ours is not to protest. Instead, we must suffer our fates. And we should do so, unquestioningly. We are plebs, after all.<\/p>\n<p>And this is the attitude of a prospective Labour Chancellor who \u00a0questions whether we can afford to save the planet because it is instead better to crush the well-being of millions with unnecessary interest rate rises.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves says she and Starmer are as one on issues. I suspect that for now that is true. It is deeply dangerous that such a reactionary pair are in that position and are described as the Opposition when it is so apparent that their goal is perpetuation of the status quo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Times posted this on Twitter overnight: Ed Miliband gave a Powerpoint presentation to the shadow cabinet on his revolutionary energy policies, speaking excitedly<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/07\/09\/reeves-and-starmer-maintainers-of-the-status-quo\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70789,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70785\/revisions\/70789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}