The PM wants you to believe he's solving long-term problems, but insiders point to serious issues he's not touched.
The clock on the mantelpiece in the Cabinet Room ticks surprisingly loudly, marking every half-second. The moment prime ministers take their seat in the captain’s chair, time is running out.
He says he wants to crack down on the UK’s problems, and has a whopping majority to boot. But no government can do everything all at once. It was the Tories’ plan to cap social care costs, and Labour were going to stick to it. They’ve now ditched it. “It’s not at all good for the country, but it is good politics,” a very senior opposition politician told me, even giggling at how wrong-headed it was in their view.You’ll have heard Sir Keir saying repeatedly in the last few days that the winter fuel allowance cut will be offset because the triple lock, introduced by the Tories, is still in place.
But it’s no secret that many institutions are struggling for cash, some even said to be on the verge of going under. But also, what no politician wants to say out loud in public - but many in Westminster regularly say in private - is how wildly out of date the council tax system is, based as it is on property values from 1991.
One source claimed it was “wonkish” to believe reform was a priority, and it wouldn’t necessarily raise any extra cash that might be useful for the Treasury coffers.A tent city next to Mayfair: Why cutting homelessness might be harder than before Now, the new government has been pushed to do something unpalatable - early releases on a big scale - because the unsayable went unsaid.
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