Thanks for saying this. I hope more of your colleagues in the PLP join you.

Not surprising, really. The job of a government is to set out the case for why an income tax increase is needed and the consequent benefits for public services. Sadly, this government is too weak to make the case.

Most Labour members make an informal trade-off: we accept that the party leader is well to the right of the members, in exchange for competent leadership and actually winning. If I wanted weak leadership and no plan I could have done that myself.

Fantastic journalism-well done. As a Tribune subscriber, I totally support your decision to make the story freely available. People need to know about this scandal.