Chairman of the Conservative Party Greg Hands holds up a pair of Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer ‘flip flops’ as he speaks during the Conservative Party annual conference at Manchester Central, October 1, 2023
THE new test for Labour’s policy-lite leadership lies in its response to Rishi Sunak’s potpourri of policies outlined today at the Tory conference in Manchester.
A sure-footed prime-minister-in-waiting would seize on the most regressive of Sunak’s schemes and simply say that if initiated they will be cancelled. And, if desirable, the scheme will be reinstated.
Let us see.
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