The juxtaposition between Labour’s bid to ‘crack down’ on benefit cheats and the new revelations that Sir Keir Starmer accepted accommodation worth £20,000 to help his 16-year-old son study for his GCSE exams, is brutal…

Dr Jay Watts commented: “The idea that we should be suspicious of benefits claimants for ‘fleecing the system’ has been erroneously sold as fact for the past decades, with devastating effects on hearts, bodies, and minds. Ideas of moral worth get inside us. Starmer’s words are violent and dangerous.”

She’s absolutely right. Starmer has commandeered the narrative of the tabloid right.

Britain has become a country with such a narrow bandwidth of politics that the main political parties are virtually indistinguishable in policy terms and the public discourse of social policy is simply grotesque, shaped as it has been for decades by the right-wing press to the extent that this has been inculcated and normalised for millions of people.

The silence from Labour on the rise of fascism in the summer and the misdirection about the way to make real savings and strengthen the economy is a giveaway about a party hollowed-out, purged and totally captivated by their wealthy corporate supporters. Labour is as far away from its roots and origins as its ever been.