I wonder what it will be like? The RWPress have already trashed every possibility so she can’t win, whatever. The last budget was to clean up the mess left by the incompetent tories, however it did seem to create a new mess! Taxes take money out of the economy, borrowing just feeds the fat bankers and Labour cannot go down the austerity path. The Tories have sold off our assets so there is basically little room to manoeuvre. Taxing the very rich and actually stopping offshore investments to avoid tax, and multinatinal companies using Luxembourg or Ireland to avoid tax would be a start. Traditional tax grabs like petrol, tobacco and alcohol are no longer cash cows. The international situation offers little scope for growth of the economy. A rent freeze would enable more spending and may result in more properties on the market and thus lower prices?
Oil companies are still exploiting fossil fuel reserves and making massive profits so a windfall tax would be good and decoupling energy prices from gas would help.
Although disappointed with Starmer, the last government were awful, alternatives at present are also potentially a whole lot worse. Reform have screwed just about every council they have won, and seem to led by a racist bigot (however that is an attraction to many!). Sorry for being pessimistic – not my normal attitude.
The clamour for growth of the economy is in my view stupid. Basic fact – we live on a finite planet, despite tech mega rich idiots going to Mars!! – fuckwits). What is needed is not growth but a cleverer, smarter and more sustainable economy. However under our present democracy with a 5 year cycle this is difficult. PR would probably lead to greater co-ordination after elections as many parties would remain (albeit with changes of emphasis). But no MP is likely to vote for PR – turkeys voting for Xmas! With PR about 50% would become unemployed!