WITH each passing opinion poll, the famous Ming vase Keir Starmer metaphorically clings to on his way electoral victory, has been transformed into a material so unbreakable, through the political alchemy of the Tory collapse, that it could be bounced off the brass neck of Tony Blair without any damage. 

The certainty of a Labour government means that the left needs to grasp not just the neoliberal general direction of the next Labour government, but the specific policies that it intends to introduce, the better to address this new period, for good, or more likely, for ill.

This is no easy task, for as frustrated media presenters tell Labour spokespeople on an almost daily basis on our screens and radios, the detailed policies of the next Labour government remain veiled in secrecy. All the more reason then, why we should pay attention to those aspects of their programme that Labour have chosen to reveal.