are in government in a year or 18 months�* time, what you are going to inherit where we have a tax burden where it is, generationally high, public spending where it is, generationally high. the room for manoeuvre in terms of what you guys or indeed if the conservatives win, what they can do, to do things and do things that are significantly different is really constrained? i mean in terms of what you can promise that would be substantially different given where taxing and spending is? it's absolutely true to say there are big constraints on what an incoming labour government will be able to do. we might not be able to do everything we want as quickly as we want. keir starmerand me have both said that. politics is about choices. let me give you a couple of examples of different choices that i would have made had it been a labour budget. i've already spoken about growth and the importance of those industries of the future, but if you look, for example, at what's happening with energy bills and the profits of energy companies, it was january 2022 that i first called for a windfall tax on the big profits that the energy giants were making. at the time rishi sunak