Starmer’s growth plan is built on houses

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ir Keir Starmer gave a fascinating interview to The Economist a few days ago. No, wait, come back! For once it really is possible to pay that kind of compliment with a straight face. It took 4,926 words but the unthinkable has at last occurred: the Labour leader said something substantive about economic policy and his plan for growth.

Writing on these pages last week, Janice Turner offered some sound but blindingly obvious advice to the leader of the opposition. So obvious, Blairites with his ear complain, that it is all too frequently forgotten by his shadow cabinet and strategists: “Labour’s sole task is to convince us that its economic plans are ambitious enough to pull us out of this morass.”

And are they? Well,

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