LABOUR Peer Charles Falconer has explained why Labour now has an increased chance of securing the next general election.
Speaking to GB News, Charles Falconer said: “The Labour opposition have been clear that you can’t spend your way out of lots of these problems and accept the responsibility of fiscal discipline.
“But it’s quite hard to imagine two political parties in different places in dealing with the problems that confront the nation.
“The sense I get with the Government is that they fear that they are at the end of a cycle. So the way that they are dealing with all of these problems is a Government desperately hoping that they might survive in power, therefore doing everything in a very, very political way.”
On the ongoing crisis sweeping through the NHS he continued: “It’s quite distressing to see the Secretary of State for Health scuttling in and out of television studios refusing to engage on the issue, which is paying for nurses. Not just with the interviewers, but with the nurses themselves.
“So you are seeing two political parties in very, very different places. And I mean, I don’t say what the answer is. But if you ask people who’s going to produce a better medium and long term solution to for example, the question of the health service.
“Is it going to be the party desperately trying to cling on to power, or a party that has an opportunity is responsible and wants to appear responsible?
“The effect of the Truss Government was, and I don’t remember it for decades, the consequences of what the Government doing had an immediate effect on the value of the pound mortgage rates, which then almost immediately had a knock on effect into people’s lives.
“Irresponsibility in government is therefore now an impossibility because mortgage rates go up, etc.
“But it doesn’t just affect the standing of the Conservatives as economic managers, that’s gone straight down the floor. But it also means the idea of unfunded expenditure is now an impossibility.
“So there are constraints on both political parties, but the fact that there are constraints does not mean you cannot address the issues and your personal and political confidence as a leader of the nation determines how willing you are to deal with those problems.”
