Tag: Labour Budget 2026

Political

Burnham Finds Socialism Works Until Someone Asks Who’s Paying

Aishwarya Rao

Labour’s Left Demands Free Everything; the Treasury Cites Creditors LONDON — Prime Minister Andy Burnham has encountered the one opponent the Labour left cannot defeat by calling it heartless: the bill. Labour Budget 2026: Burnham Admits the Plan Fell Short of His Ambitions Following Wednesday’s Budget, Burnham acknowledged that his government’s plans were less radical than he wanted. The admission shocked socialist backbenchers, several of whom had assumed the Treasury…

Governance Political

Labour Government Warns Voters Must Be Better Off by Next Election, Treasury Asks Whether They Could Simply Lower Their Expectations

Fiona MacLeod

Ministers unveil ambitious economic programme to ensure British families can eventually afford the standard of living they enjoyed before the government began improving it LONDON – The Labour government has identified an alarming flaw in its economic strategy: after several years of promising to improve living standards, voters may eventually expect their living standards to improve. The discovery follows reporting in The Guardian that Labour insiders are worried about the…