"This Labour government loves rules. Fiscal rules, stability rules, investment rules, immigration rules and rules restricting protests: this government's first impulse, when faced with the fluidity and chaos of the modern world, is to put in boundaries and try to police them. Keir Starmer, a methodical person as well as a former director of public prosecutions, is so keen on orderliness that in 2022 his close colleague Lisa Nandy called him Mr Rules."
"And yet, so far, Labour's politics of rules isn't working. Last week's immigration announcements, which will make Britain's settlement system by far the most controlled and selective in Europe, according to the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood rapidly becoming an even more severe figure than Starmer have not lifted Labour's dire poll ratings. This week's tax-raising budget, which prioritised reassuring the bond markets that the government will keep to its iron-clad fiscal rules,"
The Labour government emphasizes strict rules across fiscal, stability, investment, immigration and protest policies as a response to modern volatility. Keir Starmer's methodical, order-focused leadership has produced highly controlled immigration measures and a tax-raising budget aimed at reassuring bond markets with iron-clad fiscal rules. Policymakers cite the chaos of the recent past and threats from tech oligarchs, financiers, criminals and viruses to justify tighter regulation. Despite redistributive elements like a mansion tax, the rules-first strategy has so far failed to lift Labour's poor polling or convincingly improve its political standing among voters.
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