The Shadow Chancellor's Vision for Economic Policy

I thought I was going to watch it feeling frustrated at the degree to which ground was being conceded. We have already had the £28 billion commitment watered down a bit. Since then, there have been briefings that the original briefing about North Sea oil, not being extracted any longer, had been watered down. All, by the way, perfectly reasonable positions to take but were watering down of previous statements in some respect or another. And watering down and conceding ground can sometimes be necessary and worthwhile, but can also be risky because it can give the impression of a party unsure of itself. When Labour has so much political space at the moment, with the implosion of the SNP and the never-