The Covid-19 crisis has shown the government needs to play a bigger role in the economy permanently, Labour's leader will argue on Thursday.
In a speech online, Sir Keir Starmer will say the pandemic has "shifted the axis" on the size of the state in a similar way to World War Two.
And he will add there cannot be a "return to business as usual" in the wake of the virus.
He will also call for business support to be extended at next month's Budget.
The government says it has spent £280bn to help the economy through the pandemic, including tax breaks, grants and wage support for workers.
Dodgy science, closed schools, closed businesses, house arrest, police informers, ludicrous intransigence and covert government agendas. This is how government works so let's have more of it - that seems to be Sir Keir's message. Is the man worse than Corbyn?
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Well, he's a lawyer, so probably worse than Blair too.
He lacks the anti-semitism and hatred for all things British that Comrade Corbyn brought to public life. But Starmer has a love for the state and nationalisation, never missing an opportunity to talk them up. So the danger in Starmer is less obvious. He's not a loon who comes from outside, talking like an angry undergraduate fixated upon Palestinians and the IRA. People have actually grown up with and even been helped by the state, and most think that, in essence, it's not such a bad thing.
Of course, the awful BBC are hailing his stuff everywhere, so presumably they have two reporters (or auto-cue readers as they are known nowadays), one on each side of the fence, to catch the great man's wisdom in stereo!
At least we always knew Corbyn was a loser, but as Ed says, lawyers are quite good at trying to make their failures into positives by spouting botox spelt with a double 'l'!
The commons is stuffed with lawyers of all colours, it is one of the few jobs you can leave to become a politician and then return to if outed, you can also fit in some nice briefs? during your spare time which does seem to be most days.
Yet I remember well the HIPS fiasco four years of lawyers in the commons trying to improve house conveyancing and failing badly, it appears only the dregs of the legal profession make it to the HoC.
Ed - as with Blair, he doesn't seem to fit as a Labour leader, as if he could just as easily have been a Tory.
Sam - you are right, people have grown up with the state and do think it's not such a bad thing. They look no deeper than that and even lost freedoms seem to be little more than abstract ideas.
Scrobs - yes the BBC feels safe with Starmer and reasonably confident that he wouldn't make drastic changes.
Wiggia - ah yes - HIPS. What a farce that was, but I can see it coming back in one form or another.
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