What’s the Big Idea?

medicine is nowhere to be found.

The bread and butter issues: the economy, education, healthcare, housing, public services, tackling failing privatised utilities. Labour’s plans are more aspirational than concrete.

Maybe things can only get better, but Labour can’t tell the voters how.

Whatever happens, there will be no quick fix. The economy is in the tank and shows no signs of a recovery that will benefit ordinary taxpayers. Inflation above the levels of the last decade and a half is likely to become the norm.

Labour can do a few things on tax: closing the non-dom loophole, rationalising taxes on business and cracking down on tax avoidance and evasion, and potentially taxing wealth rather than incomes.

All of those measures have different degrees of merit. None will bridge the yawning hole in Britain’s public finances.

As for welfare, Keir Starmer’s main contribution has been that Labour will stick to the Child Benefit twochild maximum. The measure, which Labour has consistently criticised since its introduction, saves virtually nothing on the welfare bill. His announcement has provoked an internal party row. It suggests that for all Labour’s words in years of opposition about acting on poverty, it’s decided a little bit more for a little bit longer is fine.

Unlikely though it is, imagine if Jeremy Hunt announced the Government was to abandon the two-child maximum in his Autumn Statement. Would Keir Starmer stand across the Dispatch Box and argue against that decision? Of course not. It’s not a policy. It’s a pose.

And now we’re getting very close to Labour’s main problem.

How many of his sincerely held ideals has Keir Starmer forgotten or given up on to pose as a PM in waiting? And the answer is a lot. He’s the instantly poseable Keirdoll. Inaction Man without a kung-fu grip.

Name one thingone thing - that Keir Starmer has spelt out Labour will do better than the Conservatives and explained how it will happen.

What is Labour’s immediate agenda if it gets a large majority and