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I am an optimist about Keir Starmer. His achievement in masterminding Labour’s recovery from its worst defeat since 1935 has so far been remarkable. His leadership of the party is secure: his potential premiership is still a work in progress. But he is well on the way to what would be an astonishing turnaround in Labour’s electoral fortunes: to take the party in a single Parliament from the edge of the electoral abyss at the end of 2019 into government by 2024.

For the previous instalment in this series on ‘Covid-19 and Brexit’, click here. A new strategy for growth Higher taxes will not be enough in themselves to bring down debt and finance an expanded state. Britain will need a strategy for the revival of UK economic growth. If it proves impossible to cut the numerator of public spending, the only strategy is to raise the denominator of national output with a comprehensive growth strategy.