Sunak's Little Local Difficulties and Starmer's Big Local Victories
Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
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The Challenges of a Leader of the Opposition
I think his biggest challenge is the single thing that's hardest for a leader of the opposition to really change which is how he's perceived in the country. He makes speeches he does have an argument he does has an account of what he wants to do I think it's very difficult because having committed to broadly speaking the fiscal envelope that Labour would inherit from the Conservatives. The immediate follow up question is where you would spend the money to make a difference and then you need to have a revenue raising plan. If they have one of those they're not going to tell us what it is not now for the obvious reason that then the Tories would attack it and it might unravel. In all honesty I think
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