Starmer's priorities have changed. He needs to be honest about why

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : It all looks like political expediency, which is the central charge to the extraordinary press conference on November 4 given by Ms Reeves in which she signalled that a downgrade in the public finances by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) meant that taxes would have to rise.
52% : But Ms Reeves herself said in her Budget last year that freezing the thresholds where people start to pay income tax rates would indeed break the manifesto commitment.
47% : That is now exactly what Labour has done - and it will hurt millions who will pay more tax as a result.
44% : In a second point of note, Sir Keir repeated the claim that the Budget did not break Labour's manifesto commitment not to raise income tax, VAT or national insurance.
38% : The welfare rebellion before the summer marked the end to his personal authority - while the briefing by Downing Street sources that health secretary Wes Streeting is planning a coup underlined that they think he is in real trouble.

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