Families worse off than before Starmer came to power
Households are now worse off than they were before Sir Keir Starmer came to power, new figures show, breaking one of the Prime Minister's key pledges.
Families' disposable incomes fell by 0.5pc between July 2024 and March 2026, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), highlighting Labour's failure to tackle the cost of living crisis.
It serves as a blow to Sir Keir as he prepares to leave No 10.
After winning the 2024 election, the PM pledged to "deliver a milestone of higher living standards", with success determined in part by rising real disposable household incomes per person.
After winning the 2024 election, the PM pledged to "deliver a milestone of higher living standards", with success determined in part by rising real disposable household incomes per person.
Hardly a crisis, even if we assume 0.5% is measurable, but it doesn't seem likely that Andrew Murray Burnham will improve on this milestone.
Yet if Burnham has the imagination to tell us from the beginning that everything will be crap under his regime, then this will have an obvious advantage for him - it's what we are expecting anyway.
6 comments:
Half of one percent? More fantasy . . .
I am old enough to remember every Labour Government since Clement Attlee in 1946. I don't think that I have felt anything except a sense of relief after they have been removed from office. The real problem is that none of the succeeding Conservative governments really attempted to reverse the damage with the exception of Margaret Thatcher and she was battling her own party as well.
I am now in New Zealand and we have the same problem. The next election is in November and if Labour are elected together with the Greens I cannot see a good outcome.
Jannie - it is fantasy, may as well call it undetectable.
John - yes, that's a major part of the problem, apart from Thatcher the Conservatives don't make much attempt to put things right. It's a ratchet towards total control with deep roots in human nature.
-0.5% may be trivial and within the error bars but you can bet your socks that if the statistic had been a positive 0.5% then Starmer would have claimed it as one of his 'many achievements'.
We are heading towards being the northern European Cuba
Hailed as a great success by the elites while the plebs make do.
There will be no cigars or rum so it will be even better than Cuba, except for the weather!
DJ - and we are bound to wonder about the political pressure to produce a positive 0.5%. It is possible that -0.5% is a compromise and it could have been worse.
Mike - and we have started by keeping old cars on the road for longer and longer.
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