So far, these include, in no particular order:
Ending the winter fuel allowance; pausing free speech protection in academia; legislating against Academy schools; imposing inheritance tax on farms and family businesses; the higher rate and lower starting threshold for employers’ National Insurance; greatly extended day-one employment rights; legislation which may compensate Gerry Adams for having been interned; imposing a state football regulator; giving away the Chagos Islands and paying Mauritius a bounty of £9 billion for taking them; cancelling new North Sea oil and gas exploration; bringing forward the death of petrol and diesel cars; more than doubling the fee for a shotgun licence; renationalising the railways; taxing the inheritance of private pensions; restricting council house right to buy; VAT on independent school fees; abolishing hereditary peers without any other reform of the Lords; axing the listed places of worship grant scheme; restricting arms exports to Israel; trying to kill the secondary market in tickets for sports and pop concerts; a renters’ Bill which will frighten off landlords; large pay increases to striking railway workers and striking junior doctors; steeply increasing the minimum wage; and remedying the Tory “black hole” in the public finances by creating an even bigger one.
On the basis of the above socialist, pressure-group based agenda, we are bound to conclude that employing anyone or seeking better education for one’s children or passing anything on to them or letting property are things of which Labour deeply disapproves, as are achieving food or energy security.
We also know, however, that Sir Keir and Rachel Reeves are mad keen on finding what he calls “the growth lever”. It is genuinely puzzling how they imagine that any measure detailed above could possibly contribute to that end.
