The tactic of defeating your enemies by copying and even becoming them is beyond bizarre.
Shabana Mahmood is trying to appear strong and to neutralise the issue of immigration. Instead, she and Starmer are only fuelling it. And they're driving progressive voters away.

Housebuilders like schemes to support first time buyers as they directly help keep house prices, and profits, high, which is always their priority.
Vested interests always say house price increases are good for the economy, based on very selective thinking and with no sense of public good.

In the mid 70s, Britain was the sick man of Europe, economically, had terrible industrial relations, saw the rise of the National Front, had old buildings and felt, in retrospect, very post-war still. University was free but only about 8% could go.
Emigration was a big issue as people fled.