Starmer must stop the soft Left hijacking his seriously damaged Government — or we'll all be much poorer
JUBILANT left wing MPs yesterday gloried in the humiliation of their own Prime Minister after smashing his welfare reforms.
Emboldened by their victory, they queued up on the airwaves to demand skint Britain be hit with big tax rises and more spending.
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Socialist darling Angela Rayner - credited with forcing Keir Starmer to duck the vital challenge of slashing Britain's soaring benefits bill - insists Labour is now 'in a better place.'
Hardly.
In a warning of the new reality facing voters, the cover of Lefty bible the New Statesman screams: 'Just Raise Tax!'
And one Labour MP, hailing a 16 per cent increase in Universal Credit handouts, tweeted: 'That'll put money in people's pockets.'
Yes, but only by taxing people who worked hard to earn it so you can hand it over to those who don't!
Such is the new soft Left fantasy which suddenly holds such a grip on a weakened Prime Minister.
Inevitably, their overwhelming new demand is for a punishing wealth tax to soak the rich.
The fact it never works - nine of 12 countries which tried to impose one later scrapped it - simply doesn't compute with their rotten, class-obsessed, wishful thinking.
Millionaires are already leaving Britain in droves believing Labour hates them for making money.
Sky high taxes always kills growth which only a few months ago Starmer and his Chancellor insisted was their number one priority.
Keir Starmer 'to BACK DOWN' on benefits cuts as he faces major revolt from MPs
Sir Keir must find it within himself to stop the soft Left hijacking his seriously damaged Government.
Their toxic mix of more taxes, bigger Government, massive spending and weaker borders is a recipe for disaster.
If the PM bows to their economic illiteracy, we'll all be much poorer.
Trim the fat
AFTER Labour's abject failure to curb welfare spending, what hope of them successfully delivering a massive overhaul of the NHS?
The good news is that Health Secretary Wes Streeting is up for the fight.
Fat jabs have given him a real chance of ending the obesity crisis - and saving billions.
Streeting's main mission must be to ensure every penny of tax-payers money goes into patient care.
That means Downing Street backing him in facing down ludicrous pay demands from the Marxist medics threatening strikes.
But he also needs to resist easy Nanny State solutions to health issues which threaten to take over people's lives or remove freedom and choice.
Instead, Wes should make fixing falling productivity in our bloated heath service his top priority.
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