Labour got a landslide, but did not win the UK election – the Tories lost it. The result is not what it appears to be…. The real winner was Reform, and that could have massive future consequences for Markets and the UK economy.

The UK election is the most important in decades, but the debate on policy and the future is trapped in the minutiae of the financial orthodoxy of costed and funded policy tweaks. The malign ghost of Liz Truss and the Trusterf*ck haunts markets like a bad smell. It must be exorcised!

For the past 14 years UK Railways have been in decline – more costly, less reliable, more fraught. They are evidence of Broken Britain. The Labour Party has announced plans that amount to re-Nationalisation. They are prudent, sound and address the problems of failed railway privatisation in a reasonable manner… Can they do the same with the whole broken economy?

The UK faces multiple economic problems – all of which may be individually solved with considerable effort, but collectively look a clusterf*ck of monumental proportions. When it takes office, Labour will be given 100 days to solve them all. Who would want to be an MP?

The multiple problems facing the UK will not be solved by Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party trying to be better Tories than the Tories. We don’t need better Tories. We need a better UK.