The Tories may look doomed now, but we shouldn’t write them off just yet, warn Bernie Evans and Martyn Taylor
Let’s hope that Polly Toynbee is correct, and that this really is a “changing Britain, kinder and fairer” (These Tories are heading for oblivion, and no amount of U-turns can change that, 3 October). It sounds good news for Labour, but sadly there will probably be plenty of time for voters to change their minds before the next election.
That is why Labour must ensure that it dictates the economic narrative about the responsibility for this crisis, as Jonathan Freedland recently said (Keir Starmer can lock the imploding Tories out for a decade – if he gets the message right, 30 September). It needs to guarantee, too, that enough attention is paid to the research by Resolution Foundation that the richest households will gain around 40 times as much as the poorest from the mini-budget, despite the government U-turn on its plans to abolish the 45% income tax rate for earnings over £150,000.
Bernie Evans
Liverpool
