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Starmer offers a heavy dose of the big state

5 December 2023

2:08 AM

5 December 2023

2:08 AM

Keir Starmer wants to set expectations early. Speaking at the Resolution Foundation’s economy conference later today, the opposition leader used his speech to emphasise just how little scope he’d have at the start of any Labour government to splash the cash. His party will not ‘turn on the spending taps’, he told an audience of economists and policy analysts.

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