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they do occupy the centre ground which blair held or whether some at the top of the leadership is to the left of that and they can really count on continued public support. yes, good morning. the economic situation has dominated a lot of the conversation here. there have been some hastily rewritten speeches, looking at what has happened since friday and trying to say labour has a better plan. that is a message labour has been trying to hammer. sir keir starmer will hammer it in his big speech today because he will make the argument that labour has moved to the centre from the left. yes, it still has some left wing policies, like when it comes to public utilities and things like that. but ultimately what sir keir starmer wants to say is we will be responsible, we will fund everything. he will try and contrast that with the government s plan, saying that is unfunded borrowing and that is a bad idea. there are
it s notjust about policy. it was interesting you use the word conviction because he now faces a police investigation into a so called lockdown event exactly what he criticised the prime minister for. i mean, that doesn t help, henry, does it? it will be a distraction, whatever message labour was hoping to get out this week and. and it will defame some of that argument they would make - and it will defang . some of that argument they would make - about partygate, how this and isjust gripped by sleaze now, as well. but in terms of the costi of living, if it s a durable issue as we have seen in the us and britain - and in all democracies - when it hits the pocketbook, that s what really matters. and partygate, if that can be weathered, if in a couple - of years time when the general election rolls around, that will be almost - a nothing if people can find that they cannot heat their homes or are unable to put food on the table i as they had been before. the food on the t