What is the Chancellor if not the Prime Minister’s economic adviser? We now know that she no longer performs that function, after the PM’s brutal move to bring economic policy into his office, rather than her’s.

After little more than a full year in office, Keir Starmer’s government appears to be circling the drain. Support has dripped away month after month, leaving Labour languishing in the polls and seemingly adrift amid a sea of policy errors and political missteps.

They entered government with two main objectives – to........

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