CAN we challenge the “inevitability” of the “hard times” that Rishi Sunak — ex Winchester public-school Head Boy, millionaire 10 times over, $700 million hedge-funder, speaking from his £7m home — tells us are “now here,” reassuring us that, despite this, “no-one will be left without hope and opportunity?”

Of course, he means none of his class will be left without opportunity.

We know from long bitter experience that crises and recessions such as those building throughout 2019 are inevitable features of the “failed free market” (as Unite’s Steve Turner called it in his challenging Star article over the weekend) and the anti-working-class politics that go with it. And we know from such experience too that no narrow or sectarian campaign can substitute for such a broadly led movement based in our workplaces, towns and villages.