PM's voice of doom will damage UK plc

REMEMBER those two words we heard constantly during the General Election campaign from each and every senior Labour politician when pushed on how they would pay for their latest attractive offering?

- NICK FERRARI

Everything, we were told time after time after time, was “fully costed.”

From breakfast clubs for our children to improved access to the NHS for our elderly, every promise was guaranteed thanks to fingertip fiscal control. Well, at least it was – until the night of July 4.

Since then the wheels have well and truly come off Labour’s budgeting bandwagon, as was confirmed in an extraordinarily downbeat address from Sir Keir Starmer.

It was in the inappropriately named “Rose Garden” at Number 10, as everything is coming up anything but roses now.