I just how he can spout obvious garbage on the immigration side and have spurious ideas about what to do about small boats but beyond telling us people don't like feeling poor, he has precisely zero idea what the state ought to do about it. Not a single interviewer even bothers to probe him on it.

She's calling the Corbynite/Bennite/SCG left the "centre-left" in a counter-factional and ahistorical attempt to suggest it represented the mainstream of the Parliamentary Labour Party, when it is, and has always been (for good or ill) at its (left) fringe

Always a fringe group of the Parliamentary Party. The Socialist Campaign Group has never had more than 50 members. Even when Corbyn had the leadership you could scarcely describe his front bench as being majority Corbynite. In managing this PLP, they are just as irrelevant as they were under Blair

When?

Absolutely stonking column

I always thought Nigel was opposed to foreign politicians having a veto over the policy decided by British democratic institutions. I seem to remember there was a bit of a ruckus over it about time years ago.

A good moderator should simply say "No thank you. I asked for questions. let's move on"

Well, original forecast were low 20%s of graduates who would repay the loan in full over the term. Threshold freezes mean the current thresholds are 32%. People feel bad about payment not making a dent, but for most people, paying for 30 years was how the system was designed.

That's a threshold problem not an interest rate problem

And the reasons for that are not hard to find - Starmer’s unpopularity among left-liberals is the logical, arguably even intended consequence of 18 months of comms and policy which alienates and angers left-liberals while winning over no one on right. This is the cake his team have baked themselves.

16s for a bake pan? Was it gold plated?

How can you look at the period 2000-2010 and then 2010-2025 and conclude it's not that bad?That's real wages where they were FIFTEEN YEARS ago.

Guilty as charged