Starmer stumbles over Reeves rumble

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : On the EU, this year's reset made some first steps, but there are limits to what can be achieved while sticking to the "red lines" on the customs union and single market.
53% : Workers - particularly young people walloped with a double stealth tax - may have a different view.
47% : As the dust settles from what is widely regarded as one of the most shambolic fiscal events in recent history (the mini-Budget of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng is in its own category), Starmer was out selling a package of measures that will see the tax burden on working people rise (thanks to threshold freezing) to pay for an increased benefits bill, with little to no prospect (according to the OBR, anyway) of obtaining that elusive growth.
45% : All they see is higher taxes with little hope on the horizon.
43% : Was Reeves dishonest in her gloomy pitch-rolling heavily hinting at tax rises, when she seemed to magically find extra cash down the back of the Treasury sofa at the last minute?
43% : But even if you believe, as Starmer put it, that "there was no misleading", then the chancellor still chose to increase taxes in order to fund extra headroom and benefits spending.
40% : On welfare, the government has already tried and failed once to get measures past Labour MPs.
9% : Starmer presented three optimistic ways forward: rethinking (cutting unnecessary) regulation, reforming welfare, and building closer ties with the EU to mitigate the damaging impact of Brexit.

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