Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

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It’s almost as if the party in power between 2020-2024 hugely increased the national debt and oversaw a flatlining economy, thus rendering previous plans null and void. (I see the OBR said today that the holes in the spending plans put forward by the Conservatives before they left office may well have crossed into areas of illegality.)

I’d imagine from a simple vote-winning perspective Starmer would love to get rid of tution fees, but with the universities being another area left in an absolute mess by the last government, with many on the verge of bankruptcy, reality unfortunately bites.

The OBR didn't say that at all. They said that The Treasury (not ministers or MPs) have a legal obligation to disclose all known spending pressures that would impact the OBR's analysis of the budget. The Treasury failed to disclose c. £9.5 billion of spending pressures that would have materially altered the OBR's analysis.

I'm not sure if serious about your finger pointing in relation to national debt increasing and the economy flat lining between 2020 and 2024 - as if that wouldn't have happened if anyone was in power in those years....