IF ever there was a Government that needed a robust opposition to hold its floundering feet to the fire, it is surely Sir Keir Starmer’s sleazy shower of freebie- loving socialists. But where are the Tories when you need them? In Birmingham — for their party conference, beginning today, where the blues will spend more time talking about their new leader than what this Labour Government is now inflicting upon the country. The Conservative Party is hardly worthy of being called His Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition.
As self-obsessed as ever, the Tories are taking so long to decide upon their new leader that the winner will not even be announced until November 2 — three days after Chancellor Rachel Reeves unleashes her Government-defining Budget . But the Tories are not talking about Labour taxing the British people dry. The Tories are talking about themselves.
read more on labour Yet there is real opposition to this unloved, unlovely Labour Government, and the resistance is coming from some unlikely quarters. It is not the Tories who are shouting loudest about Labour robbing ten million pensioners of their fuel allowance — it is the Labour Party members who, at the party conference in Liverpool, voted against this mugging. And it is not the Tories who are protesting about Labour’s Cloud Cuckoo Land drive to net zero.
It is the unions — and especially Gary Smith of the GMB — who have called Labour’s job-shredding, lemming-like charge to net zero by 2030 “bonker.