Labour policy adopted

[JohnD]

Good to see Hunt is not too proud to make a start.

Press Releases – The Labour Party

labour.org.uk

Labour’s plan for GB Energy – The Labour Party

The Labour Party will create Great British Energy, a new, publicly-owned clean energy company. We will harness Britain’s sun, wind and wave energy to: Find out more about our five missions below.

labour.org.uk

 

[Notch7]

They’ve also copied Labours plan on childcare support.

 

[JohnD]

Hooray.

 

[JohnD]

And the Prepayment Meter Penalty

Labour would stop energy price cap rise and forced installation of prepayment meters, says Rachel Reeves

The shadow chancellor says it is a "scandal" that those with the least are forced to pay the most for their energy, while also promising plans that could save households £500 a year.

news.sky.com

 

[Justin Passing]

Their comments on "the Boats" make more sense than Rwanda too, though that's not a high bar. Growth also - rather missing from this budget, I thought. Even Steve Bannon was going on about how we should be making hi-tech stuff to flog.
Current shadow chancellor has head screwed on. Especially compared with Nadia Whittome, say.

 

[Odds]

Good to see Hunt is not too proud to make a start.

Press Releases – The Labour Party

labour.org.uk

Labour’s plan for GB Energy – The Labour Party

The Labour Party will create Great British Energy, a new, publicly-owned clean energy company. We will harness Britain’s sun, wind and wave energy to: Find out more about our five missions below.

labour.org.uk

They've been doing that for years.
This is why the UK has a 'Uniparty'.

 

[JohnD]

They’ve also copied Labours plan on childcare support.

the funding for three- and four-year-olds, which is going up from £5.29 to £5.50 an hour - that's about 4%, not 30%.

 

[JohnD]

Have surgeons really reduced their hours? Who knows.

"The questions were sent out to the almost 30,000 members of the Royal College of Surgeons in England and 1,890 of them responded.
There is a danger that the only people who replied were those particularly concerned about the tax policy the survey was asking about.
Those less worried about the tax treatment of their pension may have been less likely to respond, which means the results may not have been representative of the membership."

And this was in 2019. So not representative, and not up to date.

Of the membership, about 3% said they had reduced their hours. Nobody knows about the rest.