• Big P@feddit.uk
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      7 months ago

      Easier to introduce actual policy when you’ve already gotten in

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      7 months ago

      Must less stringent than the incoming Blair government, which actually committed to kep to the outgoing Tory government’s spending limits during the election.

      It’s a way of defusing attacks from the Tory press about untrammelled spending. There’s still a lot that an income Labour government can do that will be different