The frightening thing is not that Tories are paraded as more fiscally competent. It's that even Labour believes it | Andy Beckett

Abandoning its £28bn green plan betrays a lack of self-belief that has long bedevilled the party - a flaw it must address In our punitive politics, the Labour party is almost always on probation. You can see it in Keir Starmer's sometimes jumpy public manner, in the party's dumping or scaling down of policies as a general election nears, and in its often cautious approach in power, even when it has a commanding majority. Labour's lingering insecurity and its related lack of credibility as a gov...