[Abernathy]

No. It’s bollocks.

[The Weeping Angel]

Thanks, could you elaborate on that a little bit?

[Abernathy]

Okay. Obsessed with winning the next election? Bollocks. If that were really the case, would the government be implementing unpopular policies on the means testing of the winter fuel allowance and the restrictions on welfare benefits ? If the next (general) election had been last Thursday, Labour would theoretically have lost to Farage. So the government clearly isn’t “obsessed” with the next election. There is a recognition that the totality of what Starmer needs to achieve will take more than a single term, so there must of necessity always be one eye on re-election, but that is true of any government. But it isn’t true of a government that is just 9 months old.

[The Weeping Angel]

Thanks.