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I suppose Starmer does have form for saying made-up stuff, just to get elected (see the Labour leadership election). However, sometimes, if it walks and quacks like a Neo-Liberal duck, then perhaps it is.
Ste_S-
Were you of voting age in '92?
Anything Starmer says before the coming General Election will be twisted by our rightwing press.
Any sensible, progressive policies will be stolen by shameless Tory chancellors,
(most recently changes to NonDom status).I am willing to believe Starmer if he tells me the sky is green, if it leads to a Labour government.
mespilus
It's well known that the current government's fiscal plan is a fiction, and that Labour are playing along with it to get elected. They talk about operating within it, so as not to give the media a stick with which to beat them, see Labour always put up taxes attack lines by the Tories, even though they've increased taxes more than any government since WW2.
As soon as they take office they are going to have to say that the countries finances are in a fucking mess, and we need to do something about it, placing the blame squarely on the Tories for fucking us over. Taxes will go up for the rich, but the Labour leadership know, and the electorate know, that the country can't afford five more years of austerity as by the end of that period the country would be royally fucked.
Is it a sensible plan to play along with this fiction to get elected? I don't know, but it seems to be working for now.