With the Budget looking to be one helluva political set piece drama, it's time for C@W to predict the content. She's gonna do something big, but what? Over to you all. Compo question: which levers will Reeves pull?
(I have always reckoned that simply adding more bands at the upper end of the Council Tax meets all the political and technical tests: it's fast, 'progressive', virtually impossible to dodge. If that isn't one of her measures, she's even madder than previously thought.)
AND of course it all leads to heightened leadership speculation. AND as you all know, I have long championed the notion that Miliband's prospects are a great deal better than most people say - in that Doomsday aspect, if not for keeping his job under Starmer. Right on cue, here's Guido:
The Times picks up on rumours that Ed Miliband is a viable replacement for Starmer come the PM’s defenestration. As Guido reported back in September the Energy Secretary went on major manoeuvres after the PM tried and failed to remove him from post at the Phase 2 reshuffle. He is blamed by senior figures in Labour for a series of inflammatory briefings whose aim is to undermine Starmer. No surprise then that with Keir’s possible end on the horizon someone has decided to start whispering Miliband’s name in hacks’ ears…
I agree.
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I do hope you're not encouraging Rasherless Rachel to compete with Weird Ed by adopting even loonier Green policies? Say it ain't so! Double Council Tax if you don't have a heat pump, that sort of thing. A tax on any roof that doesn't have solar panels on it.
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