American Observer.
Sep 07, 2025
Headline: Reeves can keep her pledges, or break them and save the economy
Sub-headline: Labour is trying to get large sums from small taxes. That concentrates the pain in ways people notice
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/rachel-reeves-pledges-tax-economy-5kjvxkzhb
Sunday September 07 2025, 12.01am BST, The Times
Editor: The Reader has to wonder at Mr. Robert Colvile political address of the Angela Rayner problem that closes his essay.
It not just Reeves that is trouble! In the final paragraphs of his essay Colevile mentions But for all Reform’s focus on migration — indeed, for all the wider farragos and fiascos that have assailed this government, Angela Rayner’s failure to get decent tax advice very much included — it is issues of the economy and cost of living upon which governments live and die. That is why, amid the extraordinary game of musical chairs played over the past week, both within No 10 and around the cabinet table, it is the woman who didn’t move who remains by far the most important to Starmer’s future.
The economy may be able to cling on until the budget. But if Reeves can’t square the circle on the public finances, things for this government — and for the country — will get even worse. No wonder Nigel is smiling quite so broadly.
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Editor: let me share with the reader just a portion, of the whole of the problems that definee the Starmer leadership! It’s like a political pastiche, in miniature, of David Cameron,Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak !
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