Officially, Corbyn and McDonnell plan to soak the rich. In practice, they’d be left squeezing the rest of the workforce for an extra £30 billion.
Corbyn isn’t some misguided but well-meaning old man, but a deeply committed socialist intent on crashing our economy.
There is no point in any party piling up votes in its safer seats – assuming that voters vital to it, such as younger people in Labour’s case, turn out in large numbers in any event.
As we write, the Conservatives are still set for a win on Thursday, but there is risk of further slippage – unless key voters can be persuaded that Corbyn will crash the car.
“Do you want to comment on that?” Dimbleby asks the Labour leader, as the latter’s stance is criticised. “No.”
Remember when Tory strategists fretted about getting the public to believe Labour were a real risk? Problem solved.
The tenacity of his public image as a well-meaning grandfather figure doesn’t change his shameful record.
Abolishing higher education fees and writing off existing debt is not only less than fully costed in monetary terms, it’s regressive and would have negative human consequences too.
Some voters have gone off Theresa May over the course of the campaign – but many won’t switch to Labour because of Brexit.
Her new administration would be on the right side on the big issues – Brexit, immigration, Islamism; and would likely feel its way towards the right answer on the economy and trade.
Marxism, that failed social science, leads him to focus on terrorists’ circumstances, not the beliefs which really drive them to kill.
From the IRA through to today’s Islamist extremist threat, the Labour leader has misidentified the causes and proposed the wrong solutions.
Live on BBC Woman’s Hour, the Labour leader searches his iPad and manifesto before saying “I’ll give you the figure in a moment.”
A studio audience and Jeremy Paxman quizzed both party leaders for Sky News and Channel Four.
According to the originators of the Labour policy, the owner of a £300,000 house would be liable for tax of £4,950 a year.