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Labour’s lingering insecurit Labour lack of credibility as a governing party in the eyes of Keir Starmer’s arest in how it handles, or is believed to handle, the public finances.
Since its founding, the party has been torn between seeking financial respectability and using government to create a more Labour society.
The party's painfully protracted shrinking of its plan to invest 28bn a year less than 2.5% of total state spending reveals much about current politics.
When Miliband was party leader, George Osborne deliberately turned politics into a game of shrink the deficit.
Osborne had defined the rules of the game, the terms of the debate.
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