BlUE VIEW

WITH STEPHEN CRABB

has a legislative carte blanche to do what it wants?

The public sector needs major reform. The NHS is unsustainable as it is. The social care sector needs major reform. The care sector is unsustainable as it is. The tax and welfare systems need major overhauls. Housebuilding and the planning systems are in pieces, with the former unlikely to turn around while prices for materials spiral upwards.

Imagine Keir Starmer with a one-hundred-seat majority. The economy is in trouble, but there are things to be done.

If the plan is to do what Messrs Sunak and Hunt would do, but with better comms and a thin veneer of social democracy, you have to wonder: what is the point of Labour?