After Labour’s dour start, there’s still hope for sunshine from Starmer and Reeves

And yet, there is a way it could all work out, one that might make Labour’s dour start seem less like a mistake than the first stage of a cunning plan. This, admittedly hopeful, view arises from a series of conversations – not, I stress, with people in politics, but rather with those rooted in the economy and finance. If they’re right, this plan will not bear fruit immediately; there will need to be a strategy to tide Labour over in the interim. But there might just be a solution to that too.