All of Labour’s U-Turns So Far
Labour is charging through government so far. Downing Street is hilariously already embroiled in a bitter turf war between Sue Gray and the ‘McIavelli‘ Morgan McSweeney. You usually save this stuff for later in the cycle…
It’s not just internal battles coming thick and fast. Labour is deploying U-turns on pledges at a high rate. Guido has compiled a helpful rolling list:
- Cancelling hospital and railway line construction investment. Labour pledged in its manifesto to fulfil the 2019 New Hospital Programme…
- Reversing claims that Labour wouldn’t come into power and find a black hole in the public finances.
- Not raising tax on working people.
- U-turning on plans to repeal Starmer’s special DPP tax perk.
- Going back on suggestions that Labour would look at ID cards for citizens.
- Scrapping their pledge to immediately repeal Section 21 evictions.
- Scrapping £1.3 billion in tech and AI project funding.
- Lowering housebuilding targets in London by 20%.
- Leaving the door open to scrapping the two-child benefit cap by launching a delaying ‘taskforce’.
- Pulling the cash pledged to fill one million potholes. That filled a few days of Labour campaigning in the election…
More major U-turns are set to appear further down the line. Guido will provide live updates as they come…
